Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 3 Waivers + Someone to Blame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/22

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

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Start your engines, folks. It's time to go for a ride. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Tuesday, September 22nd, Mike, the fantasy hitman, Jason Moore. I'm Andy Holloway. Welcome to the fantasy footballers. You do know the date?

I don't know. You just said it like you were telling me what date is. You knew the date already? You pay attention to that sort of thing? I know. I knew it was Tuesday. Yeah, I mean, we don't. We don't pay attention to the date. Nope.

We know it's waiver day. That's what we know. We're going to talk about waivers. We're going to talk about the fact that Jason and I were facing each other in the listener league. Oh, you did. And he needed, I'm going to write it. You dirty dog. Diving right in.

And Jason just needed 40 points, Al. Did you know this? He just needed 40 points. I did. And he had. I thought it was over. I genuinely. Before the game.

And it was. Yesterday morning. Yesterday morning. I was like, oh, I lost to you and listener. And you're like, no, not necessarily. I'm like, I need 40 points. Yeah. From two players.

Devante Adams. Devante Adams and Jackson Dart. And I'm like, okay, that's doable. If Jackson Dart gets 25 and Devonte Adams gets 15. Now Devante Adams got like, what, 35? Devonte Adams got 35 fantasy points. Did you win? No.

It's just unfair. Sometimes you just have to laugh at how things work out. I mean, laugh to stop from crying. I mean, we are losing quarterbacks by the second. Jackson Dart, oh, man. Goes down with an MCL spraying the report later in the game was that he was on the sidelines and he wanted to come back in the game. It doesn't seem like it's going to be some season.

He just saw what happened to Caleb yesterday. Right. He's like, I'm not doing that. He's like, tell them, I want it back in. Yeah, the other guy was like, do you want a towel? He's like, no, get that towel away from me. It's the full. hold me back.

Guys, hold me back. Hold me back. I'm going to fight that guy. Oh, his PR team was like calling the, let him know. Let him know. He wanted to go back in. Well, I mean, what do we? We have like 70 snaps all time with like neighbors and Dart on the field and we just

can't get these guys like neighbors got hurt. Shoulder injury popped out of place, pop back into place. That'll be a situation to monitor. The early report on Jackson Dart left MCL injury, MRI today. Going to miss some time. Giants need to some sort of. a cleansing. There is dark spirits in that room.

I mean, I felt so bad. Can you imagine? When was the last time? The finals? No, because it started last year. But here's the thing. I don't remember the last time that if I was a Giants fan, I would be as excited as I was

I would say five minutes before this game. Like, you had the hope. Well, the Eagles game. Last year, the Thursday night football, the upset of the Eagles was. was like, that's when everything, energy changed. Sure, but then, you know, when, when you lost neighbors and you lost Cam Scataboo, coming back this year, you're like, we have this trio of young, exciting players.

You got, you know, Brian Burns, you got, you've got a core. And but will it work out? Is Dart good? Is Scatabu healthy? Is Malik neighbors going to be back week one? And week one comes around and you're like, this is, it's happening. Yes. Oh, week two, we're in prime time.

Right off the bat, right to jail. I mean, your hope, your hope is gone. Yeah, 28 to 6. We didn't get Pooka Nakua. He was out. So, Devante Adams just went for eight for 195 and two. Apparently, he's still good. Yeah, that got settled.

The worries about week one, also a goal line opportunity. I did not think week one was prescriptive. Did you see Sean McVeigh come out and say what he said about their schedule plans? He's like, or maybe like in week one. you have a dumb something coach that just messes up your team's schedule. Terrence Ferguson filled in. That was the- Jason.

Yeah. Hey. Six for 54 and a touch day on. I had picked him up in, well, I drafted him all across the world. All across the nation. And then I dropped him after week one everywhere. And then I picked him back up everywhere. And in one league, I felt really dumb because I dropped Travis Kelsey to pick him up.

And I feel a little bit okay now. I mean, you know, one week, TVD, but. Yeah, no puka. The leading receiver in the NFL helps. It feels a little Jake Ferguson-esque. Kyron Williams and Blake Corum were almost identical. 12 carries each, 85 yards for Kyron, 79 for Corum, and both had a role in the receiving game.

Kiron caught a receiving touchdown. On the other side, it pretty much went haywire when Jackson Dart went out. James Winston was bad. 11 for 27 coming in. unable to move the football Malik neighbors one catch for one yard and that's cool hurt shoulder

yeah it was apparently it popped out he popped it back in and didn't want to leave the game because they had lost Jackson Dart already did seem like he left the game for the rest of the game nightmare remember you asked me if I wanted like neighbors or CD Lamb after week one

yeah and it was a very seemingly easy like ah seems like the neighbor's side might be Maybe neighbor, no. One week at a time, people. Yeah, one week at a time. I mean, you have to, the amount of injuries we underwent this week, you have to remember that this is normal. Yep.

And your team, if you survive, which the league median in our league of record was in all-time low. It was like 91 points this week. So most teams didn't score a lot of points. Yes. Well, that's very unfortunate for them. That is partially true. In our league, it was a little bit more... Top-heavy?

Yeah, I think it was accelerated by one team scoring 215 points, the all-time highest score ever in our league, without having a tight end, basically. That would be you and your disgusting face. Yeah, I mean, if I, boy, I'm winning week one and two, boys. You have. You won them both. I mean, I have 100 more points than Mike, and Mike is second in the league and is 4-0. In two weeks.

But it doesn't matter because it's week two. You got to hope you can survive, and it was fun. I had no stress this week. I mean, it was a good time, but a long season. The game, you know, as we start to gather data sure looks like even worse for Dallas of their defense not being fixed. the Rams are going to be, they're perfectly fine. Their defense is going to be unbelievable. The problem, like, it was, it was in the trenches.

The Rams defensive line just would go right through. The Giants could not protect whoever was the quarterback. You can look at James and go, man, those numbers are horrible. James Winston was just under duress all the time. This was not, I mean, James is a backup quarterback. We love him because he's fun. He's a goofy guy. he generally comes in and just doesn't care and he gives you fantasy points.

But there was nothing he could do. And this team did not have Miles Garrett. I know. Week one was the holy crap. Maybe the Rams are the super team that fails. I think they're going to be just fine. Well, having the lockdown corners that they have and then adding Miles Garrett to the mix, it's unbelievable what they're going to be able to do.

It's going to be a dude. A nightmare for other teams. And for your fantasy team. teams. Yeah, I don't know what you're going to do. You're just going to see handoffs and screen games against the Rams? I don't know. They're going to have to figure it out. And then they protected Stafford. Like Stafford sat back in the pocket and just picked people apart. He was awesome. 327 and 4.

Yeah, it was a bounceback week for sure. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Well, the Falcons have named Michael Pennix Jr. as their starter for week three against the Packers. It'll be Thursday night. So we get to watch the Falcons in prime time. I can't believe that I'm genuinely so happy that Michael Pinnock's playing. Like, this is the way to do it. This is the way now Michael Pinnock's is riding in on, you know, on a white stallion. Yes, he is.

Just to rescue the Falcons. It is I. Sir Michael Pinnock's. Is it going to look very good in Green Bay on Thursday night football? It's going to look so much better than Cooper Rush. It can look bad and better, which is awesome. Well, in Drake London now, you can. you can look at as an option.

Yeah, Kyle Pitts and Drake London, now you're at the very least. Like, whatever you drafted, whatever you hoped or thought in your draft, now you get to find out. That's it. Now you get to at least have a chance of whatever you thought when you drafted them, then maybe it is. Because the first two weeks, we've said it, like, you have to throw that in the garbage. Cooper Rush was objectively not an NFL quarterback.

He was a third string. Yeah. I mean, objectively, he was. Well, okay. Because he played NFL quarterback. Objectively did not play starting NFL quarterback quality. Sure. Like his little name placard.

It says quarterback with a asterisk. It's not. It's not. Kyler Murray cleared concussion protocol will start in week three against the Buccaneers. Are you adding Kyler anywhere? I think so. I think he was almost my stream of the week. He would have been my number two to go with.

I know it's Kyler and he's not that great. Then change your stream, sir. I told you you could go with Kyler. No, the one that you have. Well, it's the best one. So I, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But Kyler this week, he's coming off a concussion, which is Larpin over here. Historically, you know, that's not going to impact production, you know, like coming off of an ankle injury or something like that.

No, his talent can impact that. For sure. But he's going on the road to Tampa Bay. And so, I mean, we just saw Deshawn Watson be okay against the Buccaneer. So, you know, you could do worse on the waiver wire. Ben Johnson said Caleb Williams would be considered week to week with the hamstring injury. He is month to month with the meme. Oh, man.

Mike McDonald said quarterback Sam Darnold is on track to practice this week. Whether he returns this week is yet to be determined. I had heard week four. This would be week three. We'll see what happens. Your boy, Tom Pelliserra reporting that J.K. Dobbins is good. Yeah, no, he's good. After week two's injury scare against the Jags, definitely good.

He's good. Zayflowers has a good shot to play in week three against the Cowboys, Mike. We'll take that. Welcome back, Zaymond. That sounded like. the plan from before is kind of like rest a week, give them some extra time and come back, but what a nice matchup. Because they're like,

guys, it's the Saints. No problem. Flowers rest up one week. We'll get this dub. We'll get you back. Whoops. Maybe you should have just gone snap count. You know, like have them active and be like, we're just going to put them out there for four or five. We're going to need 45 plays. Mike Evans will have to be managed this week,

said Kyle Shanahan. Andy Holloway hinted he'll have to be managed this year. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That is, I mean, unfortunately, Mike Evans is awesome and injury prone. So, you know, we, we expected this to be a bit of a bumpy ride. And when he's active, you should be happy about it. But didn't have a huge week and then hurt himself. He's made of older laughy-taffy now. You know, it's like, if you pull it, if you pull it, it's just, it's going to break. And that's unfortunate. You know meat. Alex Pierce will attempt to rehab his heel and ankle to avoid surgery.

I don't think it's going to go well. He had a hard time coming back from the surgery, likely to be placed on IR. They hope he can come back later in the season, but at any moment you can find out he underwent surgery. Correct. And I think that this is a player that I would drop. I mean, if I've got a completely empty IR spot. Landmine? If I've got a completely empty

IR spot, okay, throw him there. There's no reason to drop someone when you can hold on to him for free. If not, I would not roster him for the next month, hoping that he doesn't get surgery, hoping that he's back one month from now, then not knowing is he going to reagravate it when he's back. I'm not going to be able to play him right when he's back, for sure. There's no way.

I'm 100% with you. You don't have room on the bench to mess around with the what-ifs of later in the season for Alex Pierce. It really feels like this guy is going to not be himself until next year. The Raiders, Clint Kubiak said Brock Bowers will practice this week. I think there's an expectation. Or will he, Kubiak? Oh, you don't believe anything he says?

No. Because he's a liar, liar. He is an absolute liar. There's a pair of pants that are on fire. Yeah. And they're in Las Vegas. Colts. Probably more than one pair of pants on fire in Las Vegas.

Wait, sir, what are you saying? That is probably very true in a number of ways. We will defend the honor of Las Vegas. The Colts signed former Giants wide receiver Darius Slate. And this is actually a great fit for this team. A competent wide receiver with a history with Daniel Jones that can't and, you know, substitute and be Alec Pierce Light in this offense.

They needed somebody. They needed Adeline Mitchell. Lequan Treadwell heavy. Yeah. Also, Slaten probably gets to hang up on the Giants. Like if Malik neighbors is hurt, I would imagine they'd be like, Slate.

Oh, yeah. Sladen? He's like, I got a new team. You leave me alone. Charlie Kohler and David Najok who have been placed on IR for the Chargers who also lost an offensive linemen and defensive linemen.

that means that Arronday Gadsden Jr. will be the tight end one for this team starting in week three. Yep. We'll be talking about him on the waiver show today. And then why not? Dallas Goddard. He's going to miss a few weeks with a sprained MCL. They signed Zachary Ertz, Mike's favorite tight end of all time.

Wow. Because Eli Stowers couldn't possibly be expected to come in and play a role. Well, he's on the IR, so he can't be expected to come in and play yet. But that's a shame. That's a shame that they... We all know he's not on the IR for an injury. Correct. Correct. But just rules or rules, he's got to miss four games now.

I mean, he was second round? Second round, yeah. Highly drafted and highly disappointing. And these are the same guys that went, they passed on Justin Jefferson. Yes. Is that that for? Correct. Oh, for Rager. Jalen Rager. They did scoop up Mackay Lemhen, maybe. They did scoop up the guy with like, but they generally make good decisions. They do usually. They've got a couple.

whiffs and they could have a couple more here. All right. We'll take a break and we'll jump into the waiver wire. Let's do it. Waiverwire, presented by T-Mobile. Wasn't there a moment this week where, you know, when the games were going on and we were watching the players that we thought maybe it would be like a really good waiver wire week? I don't think this is a very bad waiver wire week. It's certainly better than week one. Well, let's start at the running back position, Jason. Who are your top names?

Mike, where are you guys looking? Yeah, I mean, I think that the hot name right now is going to be Jonah Coleman. I'm a little cautious about it. Here's why we love Jonah Coleman. First of all, we loved the three of us all love. Denver Broncos rookie running back, who was, at least Mike and I's number two running back

in rookie rankings prior to the draft. I think he's very talented. Then he got the opportunity in the fourth quarter. J.K. Dobbins gets injured late in the third. RJ Harvey was not in the game and Jonah Coleman went out there. The team was down when he basically got in there. They went and won in the fourth quarter with Jonah Coleman playing the majority of snaps, getting the majority of reps. He had a nice touchdown that was,

you know, on him. He had a great veteran move where he's, you know, he breaks to the outside, gets the first down and then slides in bounds. You know, Sean Peyton's going to be like hot and bothered by that. they win the game and so he really showed out he showed out in the the offseason program to the tune where in preseason they pulled them quickly and Peyton was like we've seen enough this guy's good so everything says this talented player who just did great things and is behind two injured running backs that's a good pickup the cold water I would throw on it is we just talked about jk. Dobbins apparently his hamstring is good according to Pellasaro so he's should be back. RJ Harvey might be back. And while RJ Harvey was missing this game, now,

Jonah Coleman earned more work. But when we went into this game, RJ Harvey wasn't there. And RJ Harvey or Jonah Coleman barely played the first three quarters. I mean, it was J.K. Dobbins. And I thought it would be like, I thought Coleman would at least play the RJ Harvey role. Tyler Badee. Yeah, he really didn't. Now, once J.K. Dobbins went down, Jonah Coleman very much out snapped bidet in the fourth quarter and was special. So I don't know. What are you guys bidding on a player like that in that situation? I'm not going overly hard in the paint, but this is a situation that could develop over the next couple weeks.

The offseason, I felt like the largest threat to J.K. Dobbins was not R.J. Harvey. It was Jonah Coleman. But he needs the door to open for him to show on an NFL Sunday that, he can be the guy. I didn't necessarily find myself convinced that he, I mean, he played well, but I don't think that there was something that I saw that was like, oh, gosh, this guy took over the entire back.

The thing for Coleman, though, is like he's a very versatile running. He's a three-down guy where, you know, J.K. Dobbins, for the Denver Broncos, not really used in the passing game. They know that when defenses know when Harvey's on the field, you're probably going to throw. So I don't know if Peyton desires to have. have that running back where you can put him on the field and the defense has to at least

take a split second to to really understand what type of offensive play is going to happen. If Dobbins is back, I think he goes right back into being the guy. This is a situation though of JK Dobbins hurt all the time, hurt last week. Yes, he's good to go now, but I'm not picking up Coleman to play him. I'm picking up Coleman right now of in the event maybe no. next week. Now it's like, oh, crap, Coleman's a full fab dump. Because Dobbins is out for the year or something? I want to get ahead of it.

Yeah, I'm more on Jason's side. I'm only spending a few bucks. No, I'm not going heavy. I'm only spending a few bucks of fab. Yeah. But if I had Dobbins, I would make it a priority. Yeah, that makes sense. Also, we have to be honest that, I mean,

Dobbins can't stay healthy. Yeah. I know, you know, the injury prone label gets, you know, talked about like, oh, that's not a real thing. He invented it. It kind of is a real thing. I'm actually, so I remember over the last couple years, all the online docs hating the injury prone label.

I'm so convinced. I'm doing a study soon in the next couple months because I feel like it's absolutely a thing. There's, I'm just saying that there's a couple guys that you could say that about. Yeah, and maybe the data will say that it's wrong, but I feel like future injuries, one of the best predictors might be past injuries. Yeah, but it's just like.

It just depends on the type. I think there's a lot of nuance to it. Yeah, Matt 14 breaking your fibula or like constantly pulling your hamstring. I mean, those are, one's a like biological problem. Jordan Tyson absolutely has a hamstring problem. Mike Evans, hamstring problem. Nico. Nico has had repeated issues.

And Will Johnson, a cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals, fell in the draft, not because of how good he is, but because teams were worried about his medicals. Got hurt last year. Got hurt this year. It's like, but my counterpoint was like, Matt Forte was like, Matt Forte was injury prone until he wasn't. Frank Gore. Keenan Allen was injury prone and now he's going to go down in the Hall of Fame with some of the most receiver.

We're hoping players like Christian Watson changes in their training, establish them to be more healthy. To be honest, if I was, I don't think the running back names are pick up and start guys. No, they're not. Other than potentially Emmanuel Wilson because of the fact that, that I don't think that George Salami situation is ever going to happen. And I think Judarian Price's shoulder injury and fumble

could cause the team to say, hey, let's ride the hot hand. Emmanuel Wilson, 21 for 92, probably sees more snaps. Oh, the Halani hive is just wrecked right now. We're all four of them? There was a loud...

Yeah, there was a loud group. I just I was like, there's no way. Yeah, no, it was Emmanuel Wilson. Yes. I think Emmett Johnson is the best addition to hold. 100,000 percent. Because you, here's the thing is, like, Jonah Coleman is a great, like, player.

But you saw it this past weekend. He played 40% of snaps when there was no Dobbins and no Harvey. And then Tyler Badegh gets worked in, and I've been annoyed by Peyton's use of the running back rotation anyways. If the formerly injury prone, occasionally, I mean, he's going to be getting a big workload, if Kenneth Walker goes down, I think we've seen enough for Emmett Johnson already to say he would be, first of all,

he'd get all the work. Second of all, he looks really good. He looks great. And third, it's an offense I trust right now. So to me, like he's 36% rostered. So I'm bringing it up because it's like, okay, maybe he's rostered in some of your leagues. But if you have Ken Walker, he's a must add.

Like a must add now, not later when he's, you know, full fab dump because Ken Walker goes down for a week. Add him now. There's a chance. Andy Reid came out this morning and said, you know, we're going to give him more work. We don't want Ken Walker to have to have this level of a workload. So to me, he's kind of my number one of the list.

He has an absolute must be rostered in 100% of leagues. I think he could possibly develop into a player that you could start, you know, you know, is like in a double flex. Sure. For instance, this week, right? They're playing the Dolphins, I believe, is the matchup. So it's like, you're telling me when the chiefs are up, how much is Walker playing in the fourth quarter of that game, genuinely?

Like, how many touchdowns is, is Emmett going to get in the fourth quarter? Probably won. Yeah, Emmett should be rostered. And the Sequin Barclays injury, we still need more information. like he was we got the news two days ago he was going to get an MRI on his neck for the stinger

is everything okay with Seyquan Barker I know he went back in the game but if he has like if he has an injury to his neck that needs some time off then Tank Bigsby and Will Shipley will work themselves in as well

By the way real quick sidebar injury update I just want to mention this because it was it came out earlier this hour just that Sean McVeigh is not sure if Bukinakua is going to play in week three right now. Oh, really? It's definitely

up for grabs right now. It came out yesterday off air that Andy believes that there's a chance any minute we hear about a hernia surgery. I'm just worried about sports hernia when I start to hear like when I hear multiple reports. Well, here's the problem.

Hip is the big report, but then like Sean McVeigh says groin and you start getting into that sports hernia abdomen area where I just, look, it's not reporting. It's just It's just like what's going on. Like maybe it's the hip because he compensated for something in training camp. I do not know.

But there's another player that has had frequent injury problems. Apparently, Devante Adams is capable of being the number one. Yeah, he's okay. He's okay. And we said throw out that week one Australia game and turns out, yes, that was. They were just tired. Yeah, they were tired from flying a minute ago. Back to the Kenneth Walker, Emmett.

Okay. conversation. Oh, okay, go ahead. So I just was looking at this up because I know Kenneth Walker's been a absolute bell cow beast the first two weeks. He's on pace for 535 opportunities. That is, that is impossible. Not enough. Bone bros. Now to the Sequan Barkley backup situation because Sequin dealt with a stinger before and missed games and he's going to get more a second look at this. He came back at the game and so it's like, okay, maybe it's not a big deal. Or maybe he misses time. If he misses time. There's going to be a big debate. And I think right now there's going to be an over-mad rush to the waiver wire for Tank Bigsby and Will Shipley. Here's how it worked. Tank Biggsby did not

get all the work. I thought that if Sequin went down, Tank gets the role and will be a league winner. That was not the case. Basically what happened is Tank got the rushing work and Shipley got the passing work. They kind of were the exact inverse on routes versus snaps. Because Big Bigsby still got a couple targets. Yes. But the routes were going to ship. The routes and the snaps, they were sharing them. Obviously, I mean, it's so funny.

I was going to say, you don't expect over the last couple years the Eagles to be in these down situations where they're throwing a ball. To the Tennessee Titans? But then there's like, if they're down to the Titans, who. So anyways, I think it's a split. I don't have to pick. If I have to pick one of those two, it would be Bigsby because I don't expect them to be in that level of passing situation going forward. and the touchdown upside is going to be on with Bigsby. So, I mean, there was a lot of names that are not really startable assets.

Would you drop Jonathan Brooks or Kenny Gainwell right now to pick up any of those names? Kenny Gainwell, I would drop. Who, by the way, two fantasy points and three. Yeah, like Kenny Gainwell, that situation feels like it's shaking out. That Bucky Irving is just, he's going to be the man. 1A, 1B is nonsense. It's Bucky. What a pick, Jay.

And then. Thank you guys. Your clairvoyance there right right before your draft pick of knowing what was going to happen. I saw the future. He got one of those magic games on the clock. Brooks is hard because of, do we have any more injury update?

I think that he's going to rehab. It was week to week groin injury. I would, I would, it's just hard to see him going from. Yeah, I guess I'm willing to move on from him. I are spot, hopefully, tuck him in the out. That would be great if you've got it. But it's a tough situation.

I think he is not, certainly not a must drop and certainly a can drop. Because if he was on waivers, it just depends on my roster. I would be willing to pick them up. When does Chuba get respect? Never. Never. I mean, he should. A couple years ago, he got respect and he got a big payday.

Well, by them, but I don't think by the fantasy community ever. He got it from you. Do you realize that, yeah, from me? Yeah, Chuba Hubbard, RB10 and RB 11 through two weeks. Yes, he has played very well. He has a receiving touchdown in both weeks. and the Panthers are cooking. It's not just the like, oh, respect to.

It's the Panthers are, this is a team reborn. Bryce Young looks like an actual legit quarterback through two weeks. We're going to talk about him. Wide receivers, guys, to me, it's Denzel Boston. Cleveland wide receiver has looked the part through two weeks, 42% rostered, went five for 95 and a touchdown. He's my number one pickup. The week or a wide receiver?

That wide receiver. Okay. And actually, let me see. I think that might be, he might be my number one overall. Yeah, I think that unless you're the, like the Jacob Dobbins manager, then it's Coleman. But yeah, I think Denzel Boston's my number one pickup because he's got everything that you want. You know, he's got the snap counts. Not everything.

Maybe. Quarterback? He did this week. One of the highest rated passers in the game this week. Yeah, this week. Do you believe he has the quarterback you want? Just say it. quarterback I want.

You said he doesn't have everything you want. I'm just using your words. He's just trying to get a sound like. I just want you to say that you love the shot off. You got a quarterback I hate. Okay. There we go. Dinsale Boston, though, young, highly drafted, big physical touchdown

threat, which look, if you have a quarterback you don't love, you want somebody that's going to get into the end zone. I don't need, like, frankly, Concepcion right now is running around like Chimre D.K. in Tennessee did it in his rookie year. I want the guy that's got the big playability. that they take a shot to that can break a tackle. And he's in elite company right now. Rookie wide receivers since 2000 with 90 plus percent of snaps and a touchdown in their first two games.

He was a-abuka and Boston. That's it. He was a touchdown machine in college. That was like his, I feel like his superpower. And so far it's translated to the NFL. Do you guys disagree? Is there a better out of that? He's my number one wide receiver.

He's my number two wide receiver personally. I have Don Tavian Wicks above him simply because with the Dallas guys, Goddard injury. I mean, we've seen, I think, the better team, the better quarterback. He's on the field a lot. His yards per runner outrageous. Yeah, he can go deep downfield and get a bomb touchdown the way that Denzel Boston can. He can, you know, last week it was 5 for 74. He's playing the snaps, running the routes on a better offense for a better quarterback,

and the targets should be perhaps going up without Goddard. So I would put Wicks then Boston, but certainly those two are in a tier of their own from the other wide receivers to me. Wicks snaps did go down. I mean, the opportunities were still there. That's so it's interesting of what they did between week one and two. They had to get Cooper. Yeah. Why I'm in on the Boston side is because this isn't out of nowhere. He's a, he is a second round rookie. When rookies produce, we want to be aggressive, we want to go after them just in case, like, they're a star. Special guys just show up. And he had the preseason. And that's exactly that.

During the training camp of preseason period, his drum beat was very steady and very loud. Like you had some beat reporters saying, I think Denzel Boston might end up as the number one wide receiver on this team, which felt like just absolute blasphemy. Because they drafted KC Concepcion, who seemed like the better prospect, who was drafted in the first round.

So I'm on Andy's side here of the team environment. obviously much, much better for Don Tavian Wix, but young player breaking out after his breakout was predicted by their media, I would be decently aggressive going after Boston. I don't mind it at all. If you want to take Boston for the high upside, I certainly think Boston has a higher ceiling case than Dontavian Wix. Do you believe that there's any chance that Deshawn Watson

continues to ascend or approve? I do not. I would find that doubtful. Yeah, it's hard because he's a player that played at a level that was so outrageous at one point that you're like, like maybe the answer is like you get the Russell Wilson post Seattle version of Deshaun Watson. Which that's what Cleveland has received to this point. Other names, like, do you have interest in Keanu Coleman at all? Yeah, I mean, we don't know the DJ more interested.

injury for sure whether he'll be out there or not, but he looked. You mean just for this week? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I think he's back and he'll be back soon. Yes, this is not. I don't think Keon Coleman is a rest of season, great play. Rashad Bateman, these type of guys, Keon Coleman, Bateman is like, what are the starters? Is a Flowers playing?

Is DJ Moore playing? If they're out, these are break glass in case of emergency, you can start them in your league. How about some respect for Trey Tucker? Yeah, Trey Tucker was the name I would bring up. He's my number two right now. Kirk Cousins is playing very good football. It's Kirk-O-Chains. I don't like that.

Yeah, it wasn't your best. It's like cooking and kirkin, but it sounds dirty. Sounds a little funny. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're moving on. Sounds kind of weird. But it's like Trey Tucker has actual staying power. He's flashed from time to time.

and if he gets really consistent quarterback play. Do you remember him in week three of last year? Yeah. Was that like the multi-touchdown game? Three. Three touchdowns on 145 yards. He has two or three of these games a year, but we have seen him for now four years. So chasing Trey Tucker, that's tough.

That is really tough. For a week-to-week, basically. When we had the fantasy time machine, it was like, I went team by team, and it was the Raiders. It was like this is an environment where a wide receiver can pop off. I ended up going Jack Bess, simply because Trey Tucker, we've seen him pop off and then disappear. I didn't know if he was reliable enough or, you know, Jalen Naylor. The matchup against New Orleans this week, I expect a fast pace of pay, a lot of fast play. Thank you.

Place of play. No. No. No. Hold on. I'm going to try this off. All right. Give me the camera. Give me the camera.

It's Kirkin. It's a fast pace of play in New Orleans. And so I expect a lot of points scored. I'm fine taking a shot on Trey Tucker. But if you told me after the game, it was Jalen Ehler or Jack Best. You know, it's like, okay. Yeah. Well, Bowers is returning. Yeah. Well, likely. Yeah. Sure. Sure. And then, you know, there's a chance that Caleb Douglas misses time for Miami. If you care about Malik Washington or Chris Bell. Sometimes you got to get good. gross. Chris Bell only had 41% of snaps. It's definitely Washington over him right now. Yes. See, by the

Denzel Boston argument, I would still probably rather roster Chris Bell just for the upside. Yeah, but if you had to start one this week. If I had to start one, yeah, Malik Washington. And then Darius Slayton, do you care about adding him after the... Honestly, the biggest

name of all the other names that I think is actually near the top of my list of ads. Can I guess it? Yeah. Adnanich. Yes, that's a good name. I like Adonai Mitchell. I've said this before. 12 target, 6 for 63, the passing volume in the offense that you talked about getting from Gino Smith,

a team that I think frequently will be playing from behind. He's on the jets. He's going to be playing on the road in Detroit, which is they lost more quarters. He gets the deep opportunities as well, and he's going to connect on some of those. So for me, Adonai Mitchell is actually one of the sneakier plays.

Like I'd put him outside of Boston. and Wix. I think he's my three. He's my four. Okay. Why don't we take a quick... Oh, some drop candidates. You ready for these?

Yeah. We talked about Alec Pierce. How about Wondale? Yeah, you can do you... What about Quentin Johnson? Yes. Probably. Cortland Sutton.

Yeah. That's disgusting, but I don't think he's very good. What about Marvin Harrison, Jr.? Jason. Jason. Let's go to Jason's game. See, you know what's going around right now? He's still hiding. What's going around right now is a lot of college film of Marvin Harrison Jr. It looks so good.

He has a slightly different level of energy. Maybe it's just because he's not running against professional dbs. I don't really know. It's not the DB. It's like the effort. I want to kind of like balance it a little bit because I went back and watched the film. this past week and there were like I don't know what to do here the team has been like okay they're asking McVeigh or LaFleur they're like hey

why can't you get him some easy touches and if you listen to his answer he's like well look it's easier said than done like Trey McBride is the best short area middle of the area receiver in the game you have so many offensive plays half of those are runs

it's like do you want to just script up a screen pass and waste it down on Marvin Harrison, Jr. He ran some downfield routes. No, he didn't. No, no, no. Those are you right. That was the insinuation, though, is like.

We have guys that do that well. Why do it with this guy who's supposed to, you know, threaten down the field? And it was logical. It's like Kendrick Bourne and. Entrainment bride should be in the shore area, middle of the field. You should be using Marv in a different way,

but Marv is not putting in the effort for the type of routes that he's been given. But he did on some place. He did on some, but there are so many from week two as well. Yeah. Where it's just like he looks like he is not giving a fart. I mean, he's not getting any targets. I don't.

It's not like he's failing on the targets. It's a bit of a like if you never get the ball. I'm not expecting wide receivers to not be divas in that regard. He runs, routes, fully not expecting to get the ball. He is not out there wanting. He's not a dog. No. No, there is a.

That's two. Through two weeks. We do have a leader for Cat of the Year. Yeah. Oh, which Mason Taylor was the winner of that last year. I don't remember what we called the actual award. What did we call it, Kyle? Or Brooks.

Player of the year, something stupid? Maybe Meow Man. Meow man. Yeah. Okay. We're pretty good about that. Marv. Miamen of the year right now.

Marv. Miaovin Harrison. You better get it together. Miaovin Harrison, Jr., for sure. Right now, yeah. We'll take a break. We'll talk tight-ins, quarterbacks, streams of the week. Back into the waiver wire, and maybe just maybe we found a position with a few diamonds in the rough,

I think it's interesting. Tight ends. You know, Terrence Ferguson with the potential Puka Nakua update and been missing another week. And just like,

there's a chance he has value that persists beyond Puka's return. Arande Gadsden taking over as the number one, you know, tight end in Los Angeles where, by the way,

the drops were outrageous from like Trey Harris and Brennan Thompson and even Najoku and those guys. Like, you could use another target beyond Ladd McConkey there. And then Darren Waller,

who just seems to have a nose for the end zone. Man. Nothing else in two weeks, but, you know, 17 yards, 33 yards, whatever it was the first two weeks. It's where a walrus belongs. Near the end zone. Near the end zone is that just his habitat. That's the habitat.

Okay. All right. Other names to add to that? I don't think that there are. Whatever. I mean, T.J. Hawkinson has done, he's had a few plays this year. I don't think there's names you need to add beyond those three because those are three good pickups.

And the order of those three to me is like Gadsden, I think has the clearest path right now with the other two tight-ins injured. He had the talent. He showed in his rookie season and he's forced onto the field. If I knew that Puka was getting a hernia surgery, Terrence Ferguson would probably be my number one overall of all positions this week. I would take him over Boston and over over Jonah Coleman. He is, I believe, the fill in. So I would say this, the same way that you're saying, if you had J.K. Dobbins, you would go out and pay a little bit more for Jonah Coleman. If I am the Puka manager, I know it doesn't fill in my wide receiver slot, but when Puka is gone, or for that matter, if I'm the Devante Adams manager, I might, you know, he's older. If he were to miss time, I feel like you have a tight end who will put up wide receiver numbers in the situation where he is the number two option on that team.

Any other thoughts on tight-ins, Mike? It's disgusting, it's nasty, but the Muth, I mean... You can't trust the other players to catch the football there. Most drops, right? Most drops in football. Aaron Rogers is in the top five. Yeah. And the matchup... He's also in the top five of players I would drop if I had them on my team.

The next four weeks, you know, Cincinnati, Cleveland, the Colts, Tampa Bay. You know, it's... You don't really have a ceiling. case here like Darren Waller or Ferguson hitting and probably even Gadsden but if you're if you've just been getting no production out of your tight end then the Muth could help you

out. Defensively there are a couple of juggernauts available in a majority of rosters right or on the majority of leagues right now. The Vikings are playing great defense. They play Tampa Miami back to back and the chiefs are playing great defense and play Miami Las Vegas back to back. You're going to start

to there are teams I'm targeting right now like playing Miami is one of them playing Tennessee, playing Atlanta, playing Washington, I think, may turn into that. I'm still fine targeting Cleveland. Show me more than one week. Absolutely Cleveland. Yes, absolutely. So those are some targets, but, you know,

the Giants have Tennessee this week. Green Bay has Atlanta on Thursday night football. Michael Pennix may be better than Cooper Rush, but he has no problem turning the ball over. Right. So I think the Green Bay defense this week is a good one. And I think that's where I would probably leave. it in terms of... Green Bay is a really nice pickup to me because right now they've got Atlanta and then they've got Baker who the Tampa Bay Buccaneers used to look like, you know,

the first half of last year and the year prior, oh, I don't want to play against them. They have not been good. And then at that point, Micah Parsons will be able to come off of IR and that defense should get a boost. So they might have Chicago without Caleb. We'll see and then, you know, it gets a little tougher after that. And, you know, generally, we focus the waiver wire on the, you know, like your running backs and your wide receivers. My number three pickup for the week is a quarterback. So who's going to be talked about here? I was going to ask.

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Well, we'll just let Jason talk first. In terms of streaming quarterbacks, 48% rostered Tyler Shuck. Yeah, Tyler Shuck is out there. He's available in way more leagues than he should be. They are, the Saints are number one in pace of play, which is what we, this is real tough. You can't get that one to do it.

Pace of play is a tough one today. But that was what we expected with Kellan Moore. He's always done this. And they're three point home favorites. This is their home opener. Right now, he is. has been on fire. Is he leading the league in passing yards? Yeah, I mean, in NFL history, quarterbacks with 90 plus attempts, 600 plus passing yards, and a 68% completion percentage

through the first two weeks, 2015 Tom Brady and 2026 Tyler Shuck. He's also running the ball. I think this could be a rest of season fantasy option. And that is not what usually the full stream ahead. have my regrets. On dropping him? Yeah, because I dropped him when I did that trade last week. And so I lost, you know, I picked up Emmett Johnson and Tucker Kraft. But by extension, if you trade two for one, you got to drop somebody. And I regret it.

And I wish I had dropped Pat Bryant. And I picked up Tyler Shuck and I'm very happy about it. Like, two games on the road. He is currently the quarterback five. Yeah. I mean, it's been, and what's going to change? Like, he's already good. changes he's going to get Jordan Tyson back.

That's exactly why I think Tyler Shuck is such an important pickup right now. Yes, in single QB, you can waver your way through. Like, you can find guys off of the wire. But there is a chance with Jordan Tyson coming back that Tyler Shuck gives us a truly special season. I think it, like, I wish I could disagree if you're dropping. This was a player for the Fookland to be aware of that was on Mike's board. Yes. For a long time as a my guy. And then when some of the injuries happen, then it was like,

okay, he got moved to the fantasy MVP. He wasn't going to be a my guy, but he was going to be his fantasy MVP. And then Jordan Tyson re-agravated the hamstring. He's like, okay, I can't do that. But this is a, not just a, oh, the last two weeks have been good. We didn't see this coming. This path was there. So I actually have my worries about him this week against Las Vegas. I've talked about the Las Vegas pass rush. And I want to flag the fact that things are going to get harder for Tyler Shuck because Kelvin Banks Jr., their stellar tackle, who had a fantastic rookie season, he just went out for, and he's going to IR. It's going to be a long-term injury. Short-term? Or rest of season? I don't know if it's been determined yet, but it's going to be a long. Do you have to

do that still? I think, I thought post-COVID they got rid of that. Yeah. But then I saw a bunch of reporting that people were going on a short-term IR, well, before the season. He has ankle surgery. This is not going to be short. This is going to be a long. He's going to be out for a while. He's out indefinitely. This is a, it was a high ankle sprain, but he needs surgery for it. And so it's going to take some time. I'm just bringing it up because the one time that we saw Tyler Shuck, Tyler Shuck had a awful first half. Yes, he did. And the reason he did was because he was under constant pressure in the first half of that game by Aiden Hutchinson. So when you had Max Crosby in there,

look, he may overcome this week. I'm just saying the Raiders through two weeks. I've liked what I've seen on the defensive side of the football, and this week will be interesting. But Tyler Shuck, hopefully he can overcome the offensive line. He's got good matchups for the most part until the by week. So great pickup. Bryce Young, the other big name that's broken out so far.

42% rostered plays Cleveland this week. Carolina is very, I mean, the story is very similar to the Tyler Shuck story. they are throwing the ball a ton. He's second and pass rate over expectation, 8.9 yards per attempt, healthy Jalen Coker and Teterone McMillan and goal line weapon in Waller and Chuba Hubbard. Like they have some pieces. Legate down the field last week. And Cleveland's defense has struggled.

So we'll talk more about Carolina in general tomorrow, but that is my stream of the week. And my stream, I'm going with the Seattle quarterback. Yeah. I don't care who it is. If Sam Darnel is back from his butt injury, then fantastic. But Drew Locke is... He doesn't like that description.

He's but hurt. Okay. Nice. I mean, like, literally. It's a fact, Jack. By the way, Drew Locke, the highest rated pass for two weeks in the NFL. That's exactly the point is Drew Locke is playing well. Drew Locke knows where to butter the bread.

He's like, hey, in Arizona. That JSN guy, I'm going to throw him the ball. I mean, what's, what is Jackson's target share right now? Oh, it's got to be darn near 50. It's 100%. It is 44%. There is a wide receiver with a 44% target share. And it works.

If you get to 30%, which is an outrageously high number, if you get to 30%, you are almost guaranteed to be a fantasy wide receiver one. And 44%. And how does it change? It doesn't need to. And now he plays Washington. So that's good. It's going to be great.

Yeah, it's wild. Would you drop Drake May? Dude, man, that is tough. To pick up Tyler Schock. I know, I know, I know. That's really hard two weeks to let go of the preseason. Yeah, I mean, if I have to. I don't think I would do it. I don't think I'd do it.

If I've got one roster spot and I have no one else to drop and I either have to start Drake May or drop him to play Tyler Shuck, I would make that transaction. Outside of that, I don't know. I would roster two quarterbacks. Hopefully you've got another wide receiver, a backup running back or someone you could drop and roster both. Because I do think bright days are ahead for Drake May. It might be a long time.

It might be until AJ Brown is back, which I expect him to miss six weeks after the first. Drake May plays at Jacksonville this week. And then next week is at Buffalo. Does that alter your... I will say that I think, both this week and next week, there will be 12 other quarterbacks. I would rather start than Drake May.

They should trade for Kashan booty. Oh. By the way, just so the world knows how much the sentiment on a player changes with another week of validation, I tried to trade Tyler Shuck to people last week. I mean, you can go over to Deucer's Alley. Every person sitting in Deutzer's Alley got offers for Tyler Shuck. Any regrets over there? I do.

Oh, sure do. Matt said Brock Purdy's on the waivers. We don't need Tyler Shuck. Brad Purdy's good. He is. He is. But Shuck's better right now. The way you guys operate your team, I'm telling you right now.

You guys. It is just you do. Two brains, but no one's in charge. Someone to blame. That should be your team name. Someone to blame. Yeah, it wasn't me. Every trade that goes wrong, it's the other guy that did it.

And by the way, a $1. Fab offer is what I offered Chuck to Al over there. And he said, you offered it for five. I counted for two. That's right. you then declined, but then offered it back for a dollar later, and I declined that. Yeah, yeah, I forgot that was the interaction. But I mean, I offered him to Mike last week. But these offers were taking place midgame in week one. That's facts. Yeah. I will say to the

defense of the grumpy old trolls over there, I don't know that I would take Shuck over Brock Purdy. Yeah, it's understandable. They didn't get Purdy either, though. Losers! Oh, no! You missed that on. Whose fault was that? What's your quarterback? neither of them. Well, it was Jaden Daniels. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. So who is it now, though? Baker. Is there a TBD? Yeah, well, Baker? Yeah. Oh, you're totally fine. Yeah, what's to worry about? You're totally fine. Right. He just got paid. Yeah. It's great. You can't drop that at. Bucca. They're playing for next year anyway. Oh, you're doing good job. You and everyone else. All right. You and everyone else. I hate you. This is, this is brutal. Full Klan this year in the League of Record. It is. It is. brutal. Why is it brutal? Because you have the most super team we've ever seen before.

And it's, yeah, there's a couple of us with some stones and we're not going to give up. Good. Oh, look at you. Good. I love to hear it. You can't see the path, though, can you? It's fuzzy. But we're going to get there. It's a long season. It's a long season. It's a long season. It's a long season. Four or five significant injuries to Andy's team. And next thing you know, he's got a chance to lose. Um, this will be a fun ride. It's not, the odds I feel are still, you know, against me because things can go wrong. But, um, that's no one. The odds are against you.

Yeah. Shut the show down. Yeah. Push that button. It's disgusting. Just trying to hedge it a little bit. My team should, my team should win. What?

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