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♪ Fantasy you and the old sick someone old ♪ ♪ Focus, Fantasy, Fantasy, Focus ♪ - What's up friends, welcome to Fantasy Focus. Alongside Mike Clay, my name is Daniel Dot, because feel Jates is gone. It's just a duo today. - The whole field taken vacation. I would never. - Always taking vacation. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I know me, I'm here, I'm ready to grind. - You've never, never won. - I would never do that. - Ben accused. By the way, if you watch to the show every day, you probably know it's that every time we start, I immediately go like this. - Yes, yes. - Because you reach down. - Why it when we're talking in here, and then the show starts and you start talking louder. And I'm like, oh no, my volume is so loud. I have to turn it down. Daniel, I was up to like midnight last night. Come on man. - You and me both. - All right, we're gonna talk about that. We got a very fun show planned for you today. Obviously, we're gonna dive into all the things that were the Monday Night Football game. We're gonna talk about waivers as well, which is always big for us. A Raheem Sanders payoff. We've got the knockout league, which we're gonna talk about as well, and maybe a little overreaction. If we have some time, who knows? Mike and I are gonna dive into as much as we possibly can, exactly. - It's our first week, it's our first week recapping a week. So we're just kind of figuring it out on the fly here. - With that, we're not figuring it out on the fly. We did, in fact, have a show note and a meeting mic. Don't let Mike, you think we didn't? - I wasn't there. - But, for what it's worth, in case this is your first time tuning in, because maybe you don't have a fantasy show you've been listening to when you want to come back and hang out, let me tell you where you can find us really quickly as a podcast. We're available everywhere that you get your podcasts. And you can find us every single week, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. Eastern, on the NFL, on ESPN YouTube page. Go check us out there, as well as on the ESPN app, ESPN fantasy app, on the ESPN fantasy Facebook page. We're all over the place, Michael. And with that being said, why don't we dive into a quick recap? - Yeah, speaking of a team that's still sleeping, and maybe didn't get good rest going into the weekend. There's a joke here somewhere, but the Broncos, we're not ready. The chief's playing at Arrowhead. We're ready for this one. - Yeah, the Denver Broncos lost 10 to 31 to the Kenneth walkers. - Honestly, Kenneth walkers score. - That was the whole thing. - They had more, he had more yards, I think, than their almost had more yards. - Did he actually? - Yeah, I think he might have. He had 191 yards, it looks like Denver and 131 passing, and 50, 61 rushing, 190 to almost the same. - That's almost the same, that's incredible. - Wow, yeah. K9, that's a quick math. - That's a quick math. - Of all the things that happened in Monday Night Football, which honestly, the biggest thing that happened is fields not here. Mike and I, he asked us to house it the house last night, and it was really fun, Mike broke into fields, fancy liquor cabinet. And obviously, we had a bunch of the really expensive, clear stuff, and then when we filled it back up with water, so the fields won't know, the expensive glass waters that field keeps in the fridge that everyone knows about. But while we were doing that, Ken Walker, the third, absolutely just smashed. - I know, they were gone somewhere else with that. - I was waiting for you to decide. - I thought there was a hook somewhere, I just, you never got there. Anyway, let's move on to Ken Walker. - Wow. He was the only storyline. I mean, there were some negative story lines. He was the only positive storyline. The dude looked unbelievable. When you talk about first game with a new squad, this is what you're hoping happens. Ken Walker, the third was unbelievable, Mike. - Measure takeaways for you. - Yeah, let's talk about that. 23 carries, 173 yards in a touchdown, also involved in the passing game, 15 routes. And they didn't have to throw much, only 27 pass attempts, six targets, three catches, 18 yards, and another touchdown. And look, they didn't need to use them a lot in the fourth quarter. This game was pretty much in control for the chiefs or perhaps you might have done even more damage. We saw some Emma Johnson, the rookie looked fine, especially in the passing game. He had two catches for 44 yards, but probably going to get a smaller share in the future. Certainly, you know, if the game script is a little bit different, they're not always going to be up by two or three touchdowns. So obviously, Walker was I like, I would also say something else that, you know, a positive for the chiefs is Patrick Mahomes running the football at a rushing touchdown early. Seven for 23 in a touchdown. I believe he had three of his seven carries were scrambles, which is a good sign. So he looks good. That was our concern with him, right? We know he could throw the football. How much is he going to add with his legs? You look fine to me. Doesn't look like a guy tore his ACL late last year. Agreed. I'm with you on that. The one thing about Mahomes from a passing game perspective didn't disappoint, but he didn't really have to do a whole lot because there was a lot of running because of that. Yeah, his average depth of thought I believe was four and a half yards. I mean, it was clearly the game plan was, all right, we're not bothered with our wide receivers. I mean, we're sure he writes, if he isn't get, break that tackle and score touchdown, it's basically a zero for me. Two for two for 19 in a touchdown, but only had two targets, but that was clearly the game plan. Yes, snapped the ball to Mahomes, immediately throw it to Xavier Worthy, or Walker out of the backfield, or whoever's in the, the short area. That's not going to be the case most weeks, but they were protecting themselves against one of the best defenses in the NFL. They did an excellent job game planning, and they just ran it through Ken Walker. And as long as he's running well, which he was in this one, 101 yards over expectation in this one for Walker. Wow, just a surreal number. It was working and they just kept doing it. They did just keep doing it. Travis Kelsey is going to look like he had a nice day in this one, like 10.1 fantasy points. Most of that came on like one big catch, where he had almost 60 yards on one play. So how you feeling about the rest of this squad, when we're just like looking ahead, right? Ken Walker, the third definitely going to be a start for us next week. Is she right? Still going to be a start. Those are the tough matchup. Yeah, exactly. He'll be fine. They're worthy and rights for the one two punch. It received her pretty clearly. Do you think that Patrick Mahomes has worked his way up with the rushing that you've seen to potentially be in the starter conversation with week two when we talk Wednesday? Yeah, he's definitely a borderline QB one. We'll see where he falls in our rankings. I have to look at who they are playing, which I'm looking at right now. They're playing the whole. So yeah, he'll certainly be playable. Looks like I'm going to have him right around QB 8 through 10 right in that range. So he we definitely feel better. Now that we know he's not going to have like one carry for two yards. Yeah. We can feel better about him as a back end QB one didn't look limited looked like he was fine from that perspective. That really helps alleviate a lot of fears. Let's talk about the other side because it wasn't very fun. So we were a Broncos manager. What positives did you see from the Denver Broncos from a fantasy perspective? Mike. Well, Jalen Waddle and Portland Sutton were one two and pass her out. Okay. Okay. Maybe that's it. I guess that. Durham played more than he did last year had four for 43 and caught a touchdown that, you know, maybe he gets into the stream in conversation. I'm pessimistic because he went basically all of last year being fantasy irrelevant. So not super optimistic, but if you're in a tough spot at tight end, not the worst add in a 12 team league, Pat Bryant looked good, but again, he was well behind Sutton and Waddle and Routes. And those guys are not going to go two for 11 and one for two. At all. I mean, that might be their both of their worst game of the season. They're going to have better games. Maybe this is a really good thing to make sure that everyone understands too, because when you look at the box score, what you see is Pat Bryant, four catches for 42 yards on six targets. Portland Sutton only two for 11 on five targets and Jalen Waddle only one for two on three targets. So Pat Bryant clearly was the biggest target getter and was the most, you know, productive from that perspective, but wasn't on the field. Wasn't running as many routes. Yeah. Don't expect this to be the thing we can week out. Clear cut number three receiver, but he played 57% of the snaps. Snaps compared to Sutton and Waddle were in the 70s. Numbers that may have been higher if they weren't just running out the clock. They actually kneeled out the game to end it because it was over. So that could change in the future. Similar in the back field as well. RJ Harvey actually led in snaps 25 to 19 over J. K. Dobbins, but it was Dobbins early on. He's still a primary ball carrier. Harvey, clearly the primary guy in passing situations, Jonah Coleman only played three snaps. So he is an insurance option at best. You know, you don't have to keep him on your roster. You can cut him. Over soon, you can cut him loose, but Harvey and Dobbins are the one two punch. And honestly, we've said this several times this week already, Dead Zoni. Yeah. You know, they are in the dead zone. There's nothing really appealing about starting either of those guys. Maybe when the matchups really good, like if they're going to be a heavy favorite, which I don't know if they can be in the short term after the way they played last night. That's when they have a, you know, it's going to look like a positive game script for them. Maybe J. K. Dobbins is a little more appealing, but mostly you're going to avoid. Yeah. All right. Good call on this one. Yeah. I think I took Denver in this one, which was a bad call by me. Yeah. That was a bad call. The Broncos major let down. I'm frankly on both sides. Yes. Not being, they still stopped the pass. Well, both teams have very added a similar game plan offensively, which is like we don't even have word wide receivers. We don't care about them. Maybe maybe two yards away from the line of scrimmage. That's it. Otherwise, they, for Denver, it was a disaster chief. So it was just running the football, but disappointing for Davis Web in his first game, calling plays. But this is a very talented football team, I suspect I'll bounce back quickly. All right. Let's dive into the waiver wire targets here, heading into week two, Mike. Week one is going to be a little bit of a more robust list than usual. We thought we'd be volume shooters here and make sure we mentioned just a handful of guys. They had some really good weeks when we have field back next week. We'll be a little bit tighter on the guys that we're going to talk about. But we got a little bit more space here. Yes. Yeah. I agreed. We got three caps where we mentioned as many names as we could, because you have to get that feel for where guys are. But, you know, I used Travis Hunter before the show we were talking about it. I used Travis Hunter as an example, like, yeah, he had three opportunities on offense. We don't need to give you a hunter update on offense every single week, right? If he's not an offensive factor, but now we know that we got that out of the way in week. One of something changes. We'll report back similar with waivers. We're going to roll through a bunch of names here. these guys might be. borderline waver ads every week, but you know, once we say, hey, don't bother, yes, we'll report back, we'll let you know when it's any news on some of these guys, but yeah, let's roll through them. Exactly. All right. Let's start with Bryce Young. Score 31.4 points, Michael. How much of this do you believe is Bryce Young and is it worth considering on the waver wire? And how much do you think it was because they played a team that scored 59 points? Yeah. It's definitely a big part of it. He, I guess, looked a little bit better at times in that one at a couple of good throws, but I'm not buying this one yet. This is not a guy I will be targeting on waivers this week, even though he's available in almost 90% of leagues that should probably stay about that way. Look, this guy is yet to finish the season better than 20th and passing arts, 10th and rushing yards or 24th and fantasy points per game. And here's the thing. He had a big game and maybe you think, okay, maybe he's turning the corner, but Daniel, it's not the first time. We've seen this before with him. Okay. I'll give you some examples. Okay. 18 of 2024, 36 fantasy points. He comes out in the season opener last year, 8.2, then a week two, a 21 points next week, 12, actually, a 12 or fewer each of the next three games week 11 last year, 31.8, very similar to what he did yesterday. Okay. Next week, 8.3. And then week 13 last year, 22 and a half. All right. We're going back to right direction. No, 15.4. The following week. He also had a rushing touchdown in this game. Yes. Three of them total all of last year. So that's a little bit fluky. They play a LAN of this week. I think he's still a mid to back in quarterback, too. No, thanks. Just not going to bother you. You're not going to start him every week. Agreed. I'm going to do it. I agree with you on that one. Unfortunately, if we start to see something and this materializes more consistently, but what you're, I feel like you're showing me peaks and valleys in his game. I love guys like that. And that's not who you, especially with the depth of quarterback, you don't need to bother with that. Exactly. So unless you're in super flex, I just don't see the appeal of spending much fab on this. What about Tyler Schuck? Tyler Schuck, another guy that had a positive game script unfortunately struggled in the first half of that game taken on the Detroit Lions, through for over 400 yards, three touchdowns clearly has a good relationship with Chris Olave worth maybe considering. Yeah. So Bryce shung's available on 89% of ESPN leagues. Schuck is about half of ESPN. Okay. There's a big difference in this one. He was drafted as a QB due quite a bit. If he is out there, yeah, I think he's a better QB two than Bryce shung. Yes. He lit it up. Most of it was in the second half an overtime, but a couple red flags here. First of all, he had 56 pass attempts and he averaged 7.3 yards per attempt. That's exactly where he was last year in yards per attempt. So keep in mind, this is very inflated, not by efficiency, but by volume because of game script and over time, something else that's concerning, eat rushing yards and four carries. Correct. You need a little bit more from Schuck if he's going to get into the quarterback one conversation. And we kind of called a shot on this one coming into the week. He was in your, wasn't your start of the week. I mean, they were playing the Lions beat up secondary. Actually, it was really concerning how bad he started. First half was tough because of that matchup, but eventually it turned on and he got rolling. So definitely some concerning things here, but some positives as well. This week's the big test. They go to Baltimore, obviously with the Ravens had a terrific week one defensively. So this is a big test for me. I think he's just leave him on your bench. Yep. We too. We'll see how it goes. If he looks good on me too, we might be having a different conversation. I think he's worth an ad. And I as well would leave him on the bench against Baltimore this week. But I do like a do like Tyler Schuck. Not often you can grab a guy off waivers that's leading the league and passing you off. So, you know, week one is always fun. Yeah. No doubt from that perspective. By the way, a little bit of positivity. I want to say on this. He had 23.2 fantasy points. That is with basically no rushing like you would talk about. And he had two interceptions and a fumble. So that's six points that he lost there because of turnovers. If he cleans up the turnovers, there's even more ceiling available there. So like him as well, what about one more guy, one more person at quarterback, Jordan love. And this part of this is like the narrative of that running game looked so awful, Mike. Are you, is this one of those things where it's like we're just going to have to throw the ball at tonne until we get more clarity on the Josh shake of. I don't know. I mean, Matt LaFlore's history is we're going to have a balanced slow moving offense to protect our defense. Stay fresh. And I don't know if that's going to change necessarily. It might be by force if the defense really struggles. At some point, Micah Parsons will be back. Maybe the defense gets cleaned up, but I don't know. In the meantime, I just, it's hard for me to see love be getting into the quarterback one conversation. I mean, look, he was six in 2023. So he's dabble with it, but he's been 17th and 21st the past two years. He only had five top 15 fantasy weeks, all of last season. It's just hard for me to imagine a big change here, keep in mind, he didn't have an especially great week one. He had 19 and a half fantasy points. He averaged 17 and a half per game last year. So it wasn't that big of a difference. And again, he was not good in fantasy also non factor with his legs zero rushing arts on one carry in this game. They do have a good match up this week. They're playing the Jets who allowed second most fantasy points in week one to the opposing quarterback. So, wait, is that right? How do they play a week one? That doesn't sound right? They played Minnesota. No, the Jets, the Jets play the Titans in week one. Yeah, they, I don't think cam word of this was QB two. He was. That's wrong. I don't know why he said that. Yeah. I don't know. It's apparently my, my excel sheet is also in so no, I don't know what that's about. I don't care for it at all, but I will investigate and figure that out in the meantime though. Yeah. I mean against the Jets, which I view, I mean, let's just be frank, we don't have a lot of data on defense as yet. I think they're a mid range defense. They're a lot better than they were last year. So I'd consider this a neutral match up. He's probably, he's my early QB 20 for the week. Not buying it here. Yeah. And especially in a super flex league, I would want to add him just because I think that the running game is so bad. There's a chance for high volume, but I'm not, I don't think there's necessarily a lot of production. I don't know. It was why receivers looked really good. I got to give why, because I have been out on Watson. You know that they look good. I hear you, but again, if he's going to have, and he'll run a little more. Look, he's not going to have zero yards, but you know, it didn't, I'd feel better if you're like, all right, he had, you know, six carries for 27 yards or something. One carry for zero yards is a big difference. And again, he didn't even get to 20 points. So this one is not appealing to him. All right. Let's talk about some running backs. Then Mike. This will be quick. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. I know that reference. Nice. Good company man right there. That's right. That's right. That's right. We're going to start with Tyler Alger, because Tyler Alger, 17 carries Michael 61. All right. Right on the 17. Okay. Okay. Okay. 61 yards. Two carries, two catches for nine yards, only nine fantasy points, but this is just as much in my estimation, a conversation about maybe another week of having nice flex value with where Jeremiah love is at, as well as potential insurance back for the rest of the season. He's my early RB 50 for this week's, so no, look, he's, first of all, this guy is rostered about a little over 40% of leagues. He still doesn't have much stand alone value to me, still insurance back. They play Seattle this week, which first of all tough matchup is very tough. It's going to be hard to justify this guy. He did hold an engine carries by six over love, 17 to 11, but he was already behind in the passing game department, love 14 to 12 and routes, had that edge and four to two in targets. Yes. Alger, the, the engine carries and snaps, but they spent the third overall pick on Jeremiah love. And he looked. I knew you. Awesome. He looks awesome. If his role doesn't just progressively increase some, there's a problem with decision making I feel like I don't know why that wouldn't change. Malaflor did say that love is not on a pitch count necessarily, but it was kind of how the game is going. They were ahead in this game. Surprisingly. Yep. And that led to let's just lean on Alger down the stretch in a game that was not, oh, not really competitive once they got control of that game. I mean, the, the Chargers couldn't score like it just, the Cardinals had control of it. So I think as the games are more competitive, you're going to see more and more Jeremiah love. I'm projecting him with for a slight edge and carries this week and obviously to continue leading in the passing game department. But again, very tough matchup for both backs. Yes. Not going to be great either way. I would push back and just say that I think he needs to be rostered again as one of the most important insurance backs. If anything did happen or Jeremiah love were to retweet an ankle, he looks to me at least after week one. Yeah. I hear what you're saying. I think that there is a big huge pile of like borderline rosterable guys. Yeah. A lot of them are insurance running backs. They just have to say, there's five insurance running backs. I'm just going to pick one and it's a lottery ticket for the end of my bench. And I think he fits that bill. I think the. I think the problem with some of those guys too is like, yeah, Algier might week to weeks outscore like, I don't know, Braille and Alan or Caitlin Blacker or Ray Davis. But are you ever going to start him? And I don't think that you're going to. You know, I'm not happy. I'm not. Yeah, right. But that's what I'm saying. Yeah, he doesn't have stand alone value. Your bench is just for those guys who have someone else goes down. They become startable. But he just doesn't have, he just doesn't have stand alone value. Let's talk about Caitlin Black then because you mentioned him with the way that CMC looked and the split that they had, do you think the Caitlin Black is at least worth a dart throw here on the waiver wire? Yeah. So I think he's very much like Algier, he's fine for your bench. We did get new information when we react, we when we initially reacted to this game. Like why was CMC not, we would have two carries in the first half? He was dealing with cramps going into the game. So that's why killing black, black got more running for some carries just one target in the game. So he does not have stand alone value at this point. You're going to see more and more CMC as the year goes on. He's just not going to be limited like that as he was as a rusher. The good news is, you know, much like the bears and week one, you might have two fantasy rel in running backs on this one. They're playing Miami here at home. So they're both going to be busy. And if they're in control, you might see came along. black a little extra in the second half of this game, the reverse of last week. So I'm not going to start. Am I from a 43? So you'd have to be in a deep league determine your flex. I just think you have more reliable options. And I still feel better about. Back in San Francisco, nothing bold there by any means. But again, Adam to the near the front of the long list of insurance running backs, I have Kale on black in a handful of leagues because of my concern about CMC long term. I definitely think you should at least be rostered. And if he's not rostered, at least be on your Doppler radar as you move through these way. Doppler radar. Doppler radar. 15% too low. I would agree with that. You're we're at 15% rostered for black. We're at 42% for Algeria. They should be close to me much closer. Yeah. Yeah. Let's have it as a wide receiver. It's wide receiver is where it gets tricky. Michael because we had a lot of big guys in week one that we could consider. Let's start with Jalen Coker because Jalen Coker much like with Bryce Young had a massive game against the Chicago Bears eight catches 138 yards. Two touchdowns. 33.8 fantasy. That seems good. This guy's been a sleeper. And he's been on the sleeper radar for a while. A name that has been on the, you know, we're waiting for him to potentially do more is week one, the coming out party. Are you still holding out hope? Is he at least worth adding? Let's start there. Is he at least worth adding off of waivers? He's available on half of ESPN league. Certainly a guy that scores almost 34 points. You want to add to your bench at the very minimum. Am I starting him yet? Maybe I have a 33 in my initial rankings. We'll dive into that more tomorrow. But borderline top 30 option. He was very impressive in this game and also cemented as I'm going to say the number two receiver. I know he outscored and out targeted. Teterol Mcmillan, Teterol Mcmillan was an early first round pick last year. The guy was, it was very impressive as a rookie. Agreed. They both were the, they were only two panthers to get to five targets in this game. So Mcmillan wasn't his day per se, but it might be his day next week. I think both guys are our fantasy. Starting caliber options. But Mcmillan's still the better play. I will say this though. Much like what we talked about earlier with Bryce Young. We've seen this from Jalen Koker. We have, if Young comes back to Earth, Koker may as well. I look back at his career so far. Koker 22 career, career games in which he played over 50% of the snaps. He said 14 fantasy points eight times, but has been held under eight points 12 times, even more so. But he's really, you know, since he's gotten healthy late last season, he's been good. He has 16 plus fantasy points and three straight games going back to last year. Lailanda this week. It's a secondary. I think you can get behind and make some plays against big divisional game for the Carolina Panthers. So yeah, when it comes down to it, I think he is very much now in the wide receiver three slash flex discussion. Super talented wide receiver that I agree once you get into the, if he's in the flex consideration now, once we get into bi weeks, that means he could bump up even a little bit higher as you're taking guys out of the player pool. I think he's one of the bigger ads based on what he did at the wide receiver spot this week. What about Devon Valey? We saw him also do really well seven for 69 and a touchdown on nine targets. 19.9 fantasy points. Again, some of this is the game script that we talked about with the Saints going into overtime, having to catch up with the Detroit lines until Jordan Tyson comes back, though, did you see enough from him as the wide receiver to that he might be worth it for fantasy managers? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, this is one of my weird ones where last week we were saying all the positive things about Valey, because we kind of saw a good game coming for him. And now you have to like kind of bring people back to earth. You know, I like to do that. If you're two, I'm going to bring you here for too long. I'm going to bring you here. Right. So that's what I'm going to do. Yes. He played 78 snaps in week one. Most teams that have 78 snaps, they had 86 did the same. It's because of the overtime situation. Nine targets. But that's important context here. Okay. Nine targets, 86 snaps. That's a 17% target share. Did he have that's not an especially good number. That's like that's maybe a flex, but 17% need some, you need that proper context there. Did fine. You had seven for 69 and a touchdown. Remember last year he had an eight for 93 and a touchdown. That was his only game of 12 plus fantasy points last year. It was. They only played basically six healthy games as the number two. But still, like we've seen this from him before to play in the Ravens this week, much tougher matchup as we noted earlier. So for me, going to be borderline top 50. I'm going to say in 12 team leagues, deep ones, maybe he's in your flex, but probably not. And I would say it would be tough. Once Jordan Tyson comes back, and as long as Jordan Tyson stays healthy, there's a big if with that statement. It would seem like he would probably fall back into the third or fourth pass catcher role. He's only going to have a short term value for you if you do pick him up. He won't, he won't be startable in that scenario. So now's the only time you can maybe take advantage. But yeah, he's available in about 87% of ESPM leagues. You can add him to your bench if you want. I think he's fine to add to your bench. But I don't think he's going to be usable much this season. So I'm not going to spend much there. Let's, let's put two guys together that led their teams in receiving just like we expected, we're going to the board. Now we're going to the good stuff. This is going to be fun. Kendrick born for the Cardinals, who smashed and obviously outperformed both Michael Wilson and Marvin Harris in junior had 15 and a half fantasy points and Khalif Raymond, who led the bears in receiving as well with eight catches in this one and week one are either of these two veterans, given the other mouth, the number of mouths to feed in their offenses worth putting a dart on in the waivers. I have a lot to say here. Why'd you combine them? We have a long time to bring plenty of time. No, no, all right. Then let's start with Kendrick born. Yeah, let's start with Kendrick born. I was half, half kidding here. First of all, born did play a lot in this game. You look at pass routes. McBride 33, Marvin Harrison, or excuse me, let's start with Wilson. Michael Wilson 35 from McBride 33, Marvin has 32 Kendrick born 28. So he was out there plenty when they were throwing the football, but okay, look, he had a 21% target chair in this game. It's the 13th highest he's had in a game. It is 134 game queries 31 years old. That's going to come down. Also, remember, he played a pretty big role for the 49ers in the first half of last season. He averaged four and a half targets and eight point eight fantasy points per game during that span. This guy has never been consistently fantasy relevant. You know, he said runs here or there during certain seasons, they're going to Seattle or they're hosting Seattle this week. It's hard for me to imagine that this guy is going to be a flex option, let alone worth adding. He's 0.1% rostered. I mean, I'm not putting claims in for Kendrick born. I'm with you on that one, especially with all the other options in this offense. It feels like they have. If when you just go through the pecking order of who does Arizona want to put the ball in the hands of Jeremiah love, Tramick bride, Michael Wilson, who they paid $75 million to Marvin Harrison, Jr., who they just want to be good at football, please. I'm with you. Unfortunately, this was more of a pass. If this continues and they just stop, they're just not going to throw it to Harris and at all, then they might as well trade them. Like, what are you doing? I mean, they're great question. There's no way the game plan is just not to use Marvin Harris. It's not going to go that way. That might be what Marvin Harrison needs is just like a change of scenery, new place. Let's try to get into a new dude. Maybe, but again, I mentioned this all off season in those four games last year with Michael Wilson, Tramick bride and Jacobi percent, the four games they played and Harrison was involved as well. He outscored Wilson in all of them and his fantasy production was pretty good. He averaged like around was at 14 fantasy points a game. So I'm not giving up on this one yet. I think, you know, Harrison's less of an appealing start this week, but I'm gonna, I think there's a chance he's back. All right, Michael Clay is not giving up on Marvin Harrison, Jr. Ben Johnson, not giving up on Khalif Raymond. Okay. I gave up on him in Detroit. So why would he not, but then he brought him to Chicago and of all the people that could lead the bears in receiving. It wasn't Luther Burton. It wasn't Roman Dunes. It wasn't Colston, Loveland. No, it was the safety blanket. Khalif Raymond, my yeah, again, let's talk a little bit about usage in this game. Let's talk about it. Olson Loveland led the team with 32 pass routes. He's going to be fine. Luther Burton was second with 25 Roman Dunes, who was limited a lot in the first half of this game. He was not playing a lot, which certainly helped Khalif Raymond. He was still fourth with 21 Khalif Raymond. Yes, 8384 and nine targets in this game. He is 32 years old in a career depth player. He's never had more than, I'm just going to be some numbers here. Please, I don't want people I don't want people to waste fab on this one. I don't feel my disagree. But he's never had more than 652 scrimmage yards in a season. He's been held under 300 yards. Each of the past two seasons, one of those was with Ben Johnson in Detroit. Yes. He might hit for the occasional big play, especially in this offense, but he's so far down. This guy is, he's played 10 seasons, Daniel. How many touchdowns do you think he has in 10 seasons? Offensive. I was going to say offensive touchdowns, maybe four. 10, which one per season. He's really bad. He is not a, I watched him a lot when he played from my Detroit lines. He is that guy that, when he needs to step in, the coach is loved because he'll be in the spot that he, you tell him to be in, he runs his routes. He's really good about that stuff. But no, he's not going to be like a consistent contributor where he will be a consistent contributor. He's usually on special teams. He's a really good returner. Yeah. And that's not going to do anything for us here in fantasy. More often than not. I've watched him return a number of kicks for touchdowns, but I am with you. Unfortunately, with all the other people in this offense, as much as I love Collie Freeman, and now we saw this in week one, if this happens again, it means things have gone terribly wrong in Chicago. Yeah. Exactly right. You just have too many mouse to be not, you know, you have the running backs. You have Caleb Williams running in addition to passing. And then you have Berden, O'Donesay and Lovelin. There's just no path here. There's no path for Raymond to be a consistent fantasy option. You're - Right, if you could. up flex numbers. There's a problem. Something's going on. So again, much like born. I'm not spending a penny on Kaleigh frame. And if I'm wrong, I'll take the L on it. And by the way, they play Minnesota this week, which, you know, they're outstanding against white receivers. I mean, it's going to be, I know they weren't in week one. The couple guys got behind them, but this is a very good defense. They shut them down last year. So what about someone younger than? All right. You know, like the old guys, let's talk about Caleb Douglas. We're talking Caleb Douglas was exciting. He was already like a low end sleeper. Who's going to be the guy that emerges in this Miami Dolphins receiving core five for 94 and seven targets, 14 and a half fantasy points in week one. Did you see enough to make him at least a waiver target for you? Yes. Maybe my favorite target other than Jalen Coker on this list. Wow. I love that. This guy I'm going after. The dolphins are looking for a number one wide receiver. And he had a 26% target share in this game. There's a clear one, two puncher receiver. It was Malik Washington, who he's not going to emerge as fantasy relevant. And then Caleb Douglas, who perhaps could he's looked the part and I did a little digging because I was like, man, first NFL game, not season, first NFL game for a third round receiver. When you came in, you looked like you'd been out digging. I happened. I've been out digging. I tell that's what I was doing lately. Okay. Even like Clay Frayman and Kendrick born just like digging up random stats about why these guys are there and waiver ads. Yes. But I looked at Caleb Douglas's production in this game. He had 94 receiving yards. How does that compare over the past decade to wide receivers in their first game? And look at this list on your screen. This is the most receiving yards by rookie wide receivers in week one over the past decade. Here's the list. Mark Eastbrown is one. Terri McClearn hook and Akua, Jamar Chase, AJ Brown, Caleb Douglas, DK MacHavs, a flowers Cooper Cup, Drake London. Find me one guy on there who's a bad fantasy option. Wow. Her voice been a bad. So he was, he had the sixth most receiving yards ever as a rookie wide receiver. That's incredible. 14 and a half fantasy points was really legit as well. I mean, imagine if this offense had found the end zone or was in more head more scoring opportunities available to them. What that could have meant as well. I know. But I mean, look at the guys around him. If that's, that's a good list, Mike. Exactly. All of these guys are weekly fantasy starters right now, except well, the weakest one is at the top. And yeah, Holly would brown one. But again, Holly would brown the next what, five years after that was a weekly fantasy starter. So very, if that's an indicator, that's a really good sign. If he doesn't turn out to be a good NFL player, then he's an exception to that rule. So that gives me a point in the right direction. As is the fact that he played 45 of 50 snaps in this game led the team. Uh, in, he was a, he was up there. He was second in targets to Malik, Washington, uh, in this game. But only two receivers from Miami play more than half the snaps. It was Washington and Douglas to my earlier point. Um, much tougher match up this week. Yes, playing the Niners. Remember, they held that staffer to 155 yards and no touchdowns in week one. So tempering expectations, Douglas stole a borderline top 50 play, not going on my flex yet, but Daniel, he's available in 84% of ESPN leagues. We talked about him as like a late round flyer during draft season. We already liked him. Yep. And so that remains the case. This guy should be on benches. All right. So let me ask you this question. Then because with it being week one, sometimes the hype really helps or hurts a player or managers when they're trying to make a decision, right? Because you kind of get emotional about what you think a player can be when we're talking about fab and not everyone uses fab. We're talking waivers, but give me fab and, and the order of that you would do it. We've seen Jalen cocker at times flash. We know what he can bring to the table. Would you prioritize him and spend a little bit more on him, knowing that he is also potentially the number two in that offense? Or would you go with the young flashy rookie and Caleb Douglas, who is a chance to be the wide receiver one of his squad? All right. You know what I don't like about this is we're in a lot of leaks together. Yes, I know. I know. Trust me, the people listening. So the people in our ear. So it's those field who's probably out there listening somewhere. This is great information for the people is what I want to tell you. Can I tell you tomorrow? No, you can't tell me tomorrow. Can I whisper? You don't listen? Yeah, look, cocker. I'm going to, as I just said, he's more of the priority, but I'm not going to get too carried away. I think he does cap out as a wide receiver three. So I'm probably looking in the 15% range, so $100, $15, Douglas, probably more like $5. Again, I'm still worried about this offense overall. I don't know. I don't know if Douglas is going to get to weekly flex or wide receiver three. It's possibly certainly the best bet right now from this group. Maybe in the $8 range for Caleb Douglas. It also depends on my situation. If it's in a 10 team league and my bench is like, I have a 10 team league, our FFC league, where Roma dunes is on my bench. I think I have like Debo. I have a lot of good guys. I don't have to spend a lot there. I need that capital for other positions, potentially. So I might not be as aggressive. But 12 team leagues, I might be a little more aggressive, especially if you start three receivers and a flex like we do in a lot of our meds. All right. Let's talk about a couple more rookie wide receivers really quickly. Antonio Williams found the end zone. Are you by? I mean, that was not a lot looked great, unfortunately, for the commanders in this one. You buy an Antonio Williams potentially. I like the four for 64 and a touch was nice. That was really good. The problem is, we talked about this yesterday. He ran 10 pass routes in this game. That was fourth, not third fourth. I receiver. Wait, doesn't that mean that he was targeted on 40% of his routes? That's why didn't you start with that stat? Yeah. Well, if he plays 40 snaps, then that's, then that's notable. But Terry McClarne's find a still the one, two punch ceremony. I had a dud game. That's, you know, he very well could bounce back in a big way and we two and Williams disappears, but also Diamond Brown was third in line. Now, if Williams is able to leap Diamond Brown, then you think, maybe, but then you're like, wait, but they still have Terry McClarne and Stefan digs and Jeb go conqual, miss some time in this game. He'll be healthy. Jane and Daniels is still going to add a lot with his legs. It's hard to see Williams getting to the flex conversation. So I agree. Like him in dynasty, not there in season long, I say to add him, I would need an injury to McClarne or digs. What about with David Boston? David Boston. Sorry, Denzel Boston. Apologies. Yeah, Denzel Boston. You're not the first person to do that. Casey Concepcion is there, Harold Fanon is there. He did have 13.9 fantasy points, but he only had two catches. And it was just because of that touchdown. You buying into it potentially. I'm not there yet. The touchdown was in clear garbage time. Yes. I mean, the game was added. And Sean Watson was horrendous until then. Maybe when Shador Sanders gets there, the good news for Boston is he was their number one receiver in this game. Easily in snaps. He ran in 24 routes, Judy ran 20, Concepcion, ran 15. So it was a clear edge for Boston is the number one perimeter option. I don't know if Watson's going to get him there. Watson's going to start on week two. It sounds like Todd Mockin said there were some good things on tape. I'd like to weigh in. Watson's not going to get him there. That's just I'll I'll put that out. Yeah, I don't, I I would agree with that. I think Shador Sanders if he plays a little yolo ball, maybe he can get it done for him. But Boston is available in 75% of ESPN leagues. I'm fine to leave him on my bench. I think he's I still think it's Concepcion is in terms of why prefer he was drafted earlier. But more importantly, they manufacture touches for me three carries in the game in addition to his target. So Concepcion still my preferred Browns receiver. But Boston, I think there's a good chance he's the real deal as a football player. So that's enough for me to just keep guys like that on my bench. What we need is for Cleveland to give the car keys obviously to Shador Sanders and let Shador play the yolo ball that you talk about. And we need to have like the Jamest Winston type season out of Shador Sanders. I hope so. Like that's what I if I could comp him, especially with what this Browns team is going to be, they're not going to be super competitive. He's going to have to throw the ball a ton. Unfortunately, it might cap some of the running back value that we have in Quinch on Juddkins. But that's what we need to happen for both of these wide receivers is just let Shador be a young kid slinging it because this offense doesn't have a whole lot else anyways. Yeah, and they go to Tampa Bay this week. It's going to be very similar to Jacksonville. I think the situation will be similar probably if the Tampa Bay jump ahead in this game, the Cleveland defense is not as good as it used to be. They're going to be playing for me. I maybe get some garbage time, but then maybe when they come back home, maybe you see a switching quarterbacks. If watch the struggles, but this is not the week to start a Cleveland pass catcher. Can you imagine maybe fanning, but probably not. You have Harold Fanon, who's unbelievable. You just drafted two first-round wide receivers and Quinch on Juddkins and the guy that you put out there to lead the entire thing is just not taking advantage of any of the weapons that you put in there. I mean, they're trying to make it work so bad. I, you know, we talked about this a couple weeks ago. I think the plan there was you can't really do it the opposite way. I know. If Sanders struggled, you got to start this way. And then you have to take a look at Watson. I think you just kind of get it out of the way with these two early road games. And if he, you know, if he surprises and does well, good, if he's, if he doesn't, everyone's been ready for should or Sanders for a while. So you make the switch. So I think it's coming pretty soon. Mike, this is a two-part two or false question. Part one, true or false? Don'tavian wicks, wide receiver one in Philly. Part two should be considered on waiver wires. False and maybe again, there's just so many names. It's like, how, you can only keep so many guys in your roster, right? Yeah. Again, I kind of stand by what I said in the off season. And maybe even more so now can the Eagles support a second wide receiver, especially with another good Dallas Godter game. That guy's not going anywhere. You barkly. You have Godter. Don't take Smith. We'll have many better days. I don't know if there's room for anyone else. And the reason I say even more so now, first of all, you'd four targets in this game. Yes, 73 in a touchdown. He's been boom, boom, buster at his career. That sounds like a stat line from Green Bay right there. He did run 24 of 28 pass routes. But Smith ran 25 and McKay Lemon missed a lot of the off season 23. So he's already a factor in this offense and use a first round pick. So at some point you would expect his role. to continue to increase in terms of targets or touches per snap, um, I'm pessimistic on this. When they go to Tennessee, maybe you can get behind a corner and get another long touchdown. But I have them, my early ranks have them at 60. So obviously I'm not prioritizing a guy that's available in 90% of ESPN leagues right now. I would agree. This feels like, uh, I've seen this movie before kind of a thing. And then if it becomes more consistent, he'll be one of the guys that's just on, on my radar as a part of it. But until I feel like there's something more there, it's just this feels like a classic Don Tevian wicks game. He would have to cement the number two job. And I, I think week one showed us that that's not going to happen. The lemons there. He's a factor. There's just too many mouse to feed in the Eagles offense isn't as good as OS a few years ago, either. Yep. You know, that's scoring three, three point three touchdowns a game. It's not as good. So nah, not buying it. Let's talk about a couple tight ends. He really quickly. Kenyan Cedeek found the end zone as a rush. Sure did. We've been waiting for rookie tight ends. And not maybe not waiting. But we've seen a lot of rookie tight ends be valuable. He wasn't really drafted because we didn't think he was going to be a guy. Didn't have a lot of time in the offseason here. Did you see enough in week one from a usage standpoint? Maybe consider adding him. Yeah. Definitely again, he, he, I would put him on my top five waiver ads here. If he's failed, I'm going to go through and we'll prioritize it. Yeah. I'll put a couple bucks toward him. Remember I talked about this in the offseason. The last, I think it's six tight ends drafted in the first round finished top 12 and fantasy points as a rookie. Kenyan Cedeek, of course, was the first round pick for the jets. And I was, I felt pretty good about his usage, considering he also missed a big chunk of the offseason. It looked like with Jeremy Rucker there and obviously Mason Taylor involved that Cedeek probably wouldn't be a factor at all in week one. And instead he plays over 41% of the snaps, 46% of the pass routes. Again, I thought for week one, that would be much lower. It was not three targets, 21 yards there had the three yard rushing touchdown, which is good. He did run four fewer routes. The Mason Taylor in this game. Keep a mind, a rare game for the jets in which game script very much was in their favor for them. Yeah. They're playing the Packers this week. You would expect them probably to be competitive or trailing in this one. And that's going to open up more and more for Cedeek as the year goes on. So yes, I got a player of this caliber that is massive receiving upside. That is what your bench was built for. Okay. This isn't by week, Daniel. No, you don't need, you don't need depth. You don't need like, I don't know, wide receiver 45 like because you need to plug them into your flex for the week. It's built for upside, especially this point of the season. He's available in about two thirds of ESPN league. So I would skip scoop up a city. All right. What about Micah Sikki? Obviously, the number one wide receiver. Okay, passing on Micah Sikki. I'm okay with you. Just saying that because we can move on. Honestly, just keep in mind, he played 33% of the snaps a lot of targets, but he had last year, he played more than this and average five and a half fantasy points, bringing him in the same offense. And he just doesn't, he scored exactly two touchdowns down three. No, yeah. Apparently Micah Sikki is not the new Jamar chase. No, he isn't. No unsubscribed to that. Here's the thing. Micah Sikki had more targets, more receptions, more receiving yards, more touchdowns and more fantasy points than Jamar chase. Anti-hegan's combined. Yeah. I doubt that happens again. Chase that and he locked to your fantasy season. Yeah. What about David and Joku? David and Joku in a new home. Now over in LA, Mike, did you see something there because we don't really have a number one tight end? Yeah, he, I mean, he was the leading pass catcher there. He initially was listed third on their depth chart, which is like, maybe actually is behind gas situations. That was not the case. As our colleague here, Michael, F Florio points out led the charges tight ends with 29 snaps. So it was 57% snap share, also led in routes and with targets around a gatson, just eight snaps. So gatsons a guy. If you took a late flyer on him, I mean, I could not have been more out on that guy in the offseason kind of, you know, cut him loose and Joku's the guy that you can keep as a tight end to, but not startable. Charlie Kohler is going to have a big role as a blocker as well. Ladma conkey. We have to keep an eye that we actually didn't mention that yet. We'll get into that this week. Ladma conkey is not fully healthy. He's considered day-to-day. Right now, I expect him to play this week. But if he's out, maybe and Joku sneaks into the top 15 to tight end, but I wouldn't prioritize in Joku on waivers. Yeah. What about that prime of that prime with family end zone being that nice blanket for anyone Rogers worth it at the tight end spot? Yeah. This one is definitely more interesting to me than Gassicky five for 46 and a touchdown in this one. It was his best fantasy game since he had 28 points in week seven last season. That was the only game of 12 points all of last year. So that might say. Wow. That might tell you to stay away. However, he was only on the field for 54% or as route participation, because sometimes your pass blocking is a tight end. As route participation was 54% last year, 72% in this game. That's a big number for a tight end. So when they're throwing them all over 70% of the time, he's running around. That is a good sign that maybe he can get back into that tight end one conversation. So for me, mid range tight end two for now, but he's going the right direction. Possibly could get into that top 12 conversation. So as far as week one goes, I just want to run through really quickly. Priority targets at each position. If we were at the quarterback spot, Mike, we would both agree. Tyler Shuck would be the guy that we would be going after there from the running back spot. Caleb Black or Tyler Algier, which one would you go in with or neither of them? I would lean toward Black, I guess, but it's really the answer is not for the wide receiver spot. Sounds like Jalen Koker and Caleb Douglas are the two obvious at the top. They're the top two overall as well. Those are the guys I'll be looking at. Agreed. And then at the tight end spot, Kenyan Sadiq, because of what we saw in the pedigree where they drafted him and what he could potentially be in an island position for us. Yes, agreed. Sound good? That's it. Love that. Not the strongest waiver. We've had post week one, but there's some okay names. There's some names, and there's enough names that we had to mention, given what they did in week one. Like we said, the waiver wire will be tighter in the following weeks. We just want to make sure we get to as many people who think if you forget to do waivers in week one, you're like, Oh, it's, you know, we're back here. It's the first week. Oh, no, I forgot to do waivers. You're not going to, it's not going to crush you. Correct. You'll be all right. Other years, it would be a problem. Not this year. Let's have it to the mail bag. Shout out to our buddy, Eric Moody. Always holding it down for us. This one comes in 5D. Mike, Mr. Dad joke. Wix ADP will sour with lemon. Oh, that's good. Oh, that is a good one. Should I have that one? You should have had that one. I'm not the best in the business. Yeah. Progress. You know, then Bengals boys, PTO doing fantasy football season. Yeah, you know, who would do that? Who would dare at least I say mine for preseason. Oh, is that okay? Yes. Like some people. Yes. Exactly. Eugene's 203. Should I be worried about having Devonta Smith in two leagues? No, he'll be okay. He's kind of a big target chair. They're going to feature him. They're going to move around the formation. Definitely will. He will not panicking on Devonta Smith's just yet. No. And they're scheduled. By the way, remember, the radio is outstanding. Yep. It does get very tough in the fantasy playoffs. So keep that in mind. After maybe a few good games, I mean, it's like your trade deadline and he's crushing it and he's wide receiver nine for the season or something. That's your time to maybe consider it if you're going for a title run. Agreed. Shout out to everybody in the chat. By the way, that joined us. Me and Eric Moody, mostly Eric Moody on Sunday fantasy focused Sunday kickoff was a ton of fun being able to hang out and answer questions from you guys in check. Go back and check it out again. As a part of the second screen experience, another one we have here from the mailbag birdmatic wants to know, do I panic on Drake London or his panics coming back stat? That is one guy we have not talked about yet really in Drake London. I mean, he was certainly clipped by the quarterback. This isn't Drake London's fault. Are you panicking going into week two if they don't have someone else under center? Week two. Yeah, probably a little. Okay. Yeah. The spirit that came across your face as you thought about it. Um, it depends who the quarterback is. If it's two, uh, I feel fine. Two, uh, do you want to mount him? He's at least able to get the ball in the hands of his basket. Agreed. Michael Penix. If he's back, which I thought he, if you look at the projections now for week two, I penics in there because initially it sounded like he might go this week. Now it's sounding a little more pessimistic. So we'll see, um, if it's, but again, if it's two or panics, I'm fine. If it's Cooper rush, I'm going to have to move them down a bit because that was, that was really bad. I was not, not great from Cooper rush last week. And again, he didn't even really try to get it to him. He was just like, Bajan, Bajan, Bajan of half the time, literally over half the time. So, not good. Uh, panic long term. No panic. Sure too. If rushes the quarterback yet, we're going to potentially. Yes. Yeah. With you on that. All right. One more question we have here from our chat. This one comes from carnivore lifestyle. Too many words. They didn't all put on the screen. I want my knockout league by point three points avoiding eliminations. They're worthy. Well, uh, I don't want to have you panic and ruin your day, but just keep in mind scoring, scoring adjustments come tomorrow morning. Oh no. Make sure you check tomorrow. Oh no. Although, how does that work? Wait, how does that work for knockout? That's a good question. All of your players were cut loose for the other team. So maybe scoring corrections are a non factor in knockout. Good question, Michael. Well, we'll have to look into it a little bit. That is interesting. But anyway, in other leagues, if you won by a couple of points, yeah, scoring corrections Wednesday morning. You know, one of the people that might have helped you win by a couple of points was one coal commit who was chosen as a Rahim Sanders fund of the week. Rahim Sanders monopoly fund. I took coal commit found his way into the end zone, rostered in less than one percent of leagues. We are already starting out on fire. Honestly, even with the rest of these picks, believe Raymond didn't find the end zone, but he was so heavily utilized. We talked him out of in the waiver wire section. Hudson said was the two for Houston as well. He played a ton of snaps as we thought, which is why I went that direction, but he did not get near the end zone in that one. No, unfortunately, not three great picks. Good call though. Yeah, coming out firing love that some reaction on social because people just get it like we just continue to hit these You know if we I'd say if we get one every other week on average That's a pretty darn good hit rate for these because they're usually are like what 10 to 1 or 15 to 1 So a greedy lunch longer shots in that so we're gonna keep it all we'll do it again on Thursday I'm very excited about that by the way Thursday. We got a lions and bills It's gonna be a ton of fun Thursday night. Yeah, I can't wait. That's a good good good first That's a good season openers a little different, but this is the first like normal agreed We're in the regular season cadence Thursday night football game and usually it's like Browns and Jets or something. Yeah, not this time No, what about the knockout league? We're gonna do this real quickly and next segment Oh, no, you know what? This isn't I know it's named after fantasy focus, but oh, oh they'll be good. I was me. Oh, no. Oh good Alright feel Jets NFL knocked out with 56 points. I don't know why that's my name under there, too The team name is field eats NFL. I don't know who changed their field name or their team need to feel Jets NFL No one would have definitely changed that immediately after me Yes, you know what I don't care for the fact that I have to talk about one of my four knockout leagues The other three is so good, but this one Absolute week one disaster off. I don't know if we have my roster, but I think actually, you know what I think it's one CMC you had CMC taken on the Rams in Australia. He was my only. It's oh, it's on the screen now My only double digit point score was CMC and that was the first guy that played holy smoke got like okay Well my other my other guys will pick up the the scraps here, right? Nay that didn't happen. Let's start at the top. Yeah, it's the effort with the dud four points Quinchon Judkins Seven for she rice last night. He made the play to get me in the end zone I thought I was going to get that was it Tristan and agreed it's because but he only two targets It was really disappointing DK Medcalfe eight Sam Laporta 9.8 Quinten Johnson while we were hoping for that one long pass Everyone thought it was coming in this game or our buddy Joe Fortenbach called the the long That uh, you know the longest pass her herber will be over what 34 and a half yards That never came to fruition either yep, and he let me down. I thought he was a good week one flex That that was kind of the strategy going in but yeah, it's sometimes it just doesn't work out you've short starting lineup So if you're you you're guys let you down a little and week one. It's over in a hurry and I'm I I'm uh out I'm done. How many How many points did you lose by like one one and a half one something like that? I was put Tristan it was me or Tristan never going to get a k-doppins and he snuck by so if you had started Kalon Black over Quinten Johnston you would have survived obviously you would have never made that decision By the way if you check my bench to see you else I had oh, yeah, they were all bad too. That's what I was gonna I was looking to see if I could you have made a decision. Yeah, but not a real one. No, no, no, you wouldn't have done that I don't know one would have played both of the 49ers running. I did Rod Reed is over Johnson. I just you know what he did. I drafted poorly in this one That's what I did. You know what apparently drafting on air live on air is not my thing. It makes it tough, doesn't it? Yeah, it's because I lost in the regular focus league as well. I mean, I didn't win that one last year So difference between the league and the regular focus league Mike is that now unfortunately that you have lost as the first team out in a knockout league All of these players go out and hit the waiver wire for the rest of us in the league to be able to put in some bids on So we have CMC and Rashi rice and Quinten John Judkins available Oh my gosh. All right, that's rude. Keep going. Now I gotta we got we just threw this up on I got to say this for our audio listeners at home our production team threw up a quick tweet. I wait on either out This is from our YouTube chat actually at ball ball knowledge. My mom drafted a better team than Mike's knockout Keep minus is an 18 team league. So I thought coming out of this. You don't know how big of a team Not a big of a league that guys mom then. Yeah, you know what you're right. She could be an expert I don't I think this team would have been fine after week one to be on a CMC. I think so too after week one Stafford would have been much better. Uh, Steve came back. I've had a ton of targets in that game. It's just I mean this is that's a game This is the game we play. Yes one bad week one horrible week. It's over that Matthew Stafford will honestly You will never have another game close to four points one points this year and that was you had it in the wrong I didn't see these worst game. His rice is for worse game. Shotkins worst game. Maybe I could see But a lot of these guys staffered certainly Most that's a game most available players and I don't have the list in front of me. We'll we'll see it once it actually officially comes out Most available players in knockout leagues. You got to think the colston leveling is also going to be on that list Probably the other two leagues uh the other two um Leagues are like our our company leagues that were in in knockout Drake May and James Cook are both Drake May and James Cook. They were both good options on both of the teams that got knocked out One was richisans team actually um in the out almost Tristan. Yeah as well. They both had those two players So um this is a fun thing about knockout leagues is that you get these Superstars available on waivers and then you've got to decide how much do I want to go out and spend like that? I need waivers for 15. Okay. Okay, Michael. So jokes on you sir. Do you have any final words as you depart the fantasy focus knockout league Michael? I'm gonna get to bed five minutes earlier than you tonight because I've one less league to do waivers No, I'm mad about this team. I'm mad about this team. I thought it was fine I thought it was fine and would get me through week one. I'm mad at the cheese for not Calling up a few extra plays for her she raised the last night. I was watching that one closely. You know what though? You know what I will say about knockout leagues. It's fun. Tell me Usually the first month or two this season. I'm not sweating matchups too hard. Yeah, because you're like all right If I take it all this week. I'll got pounds back next week. I'll get rolling I felt like I had a playoff matchup last night against Tristan like I had the sweat of like a fantasy playoff matchup Because it's like you lose you're out It was the sweat of fantasy matchup and you don't get that. Yes, really in the season. That's what I had last night So that was one of the fun things about this format is as you get closer in and you start getting closer to the playoffs too You start you get these super teams that are forming and and it's a very fun format to be able to have a bunch of other ones so I will Continue to do my best and see if they go better. Um, I just want to ask you though You're in that league. How much are you bidding on CMC tonight? Bad question. I'm probably not going to bid a lot on CMC. The in that I might be expensive I will bid on Kaylen Black though because he was on your squad and I might even be able to get him for free to be honest in a league like this Maybe there's 17 teams so you're bidding against 16 others. That's what's so difficult and how how much do you want to do? How early do you want to do it? Do you want to like load up to make sure you're good in the middle rounds or you just trying to be We all think that we're going to be a little bit better than whoever the last place team is someone's unfortunately going to be last Someone will spend most of their money on CMC. I would bet well and this week against Miami. Yeah, I mean great matchup this week here in week two So all right, hey fun show Michael. Give me a fist bump. Yeah, that was awesome. All right. That's enough. Okay. Okay Thanks for hanging out with Mike and I feel gonna be back tomorrow. We'll talk week two Rankings a bunch of fun conversations as we try to figure out what was real and what wasn't real from week one Don't forget to let each other and be kind to yourself you guys you deserve it On behalf of Mike and I we will see you tomorrow field. We're sorry about the liquor in your cabinet (upbeat music)