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Starts of the Week + Week 1 Breakdown, Injury Panic - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

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Starts of the Week + Week 1 Breakdown, Injury Panic - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

The fantasy football podcast highlights key injuries and matchups from the opening week of the NFL season, focusing on the Seattle vs. Patriots game. Sam Darnold's early injury raises concerns about Seattle’s quarterback depth, while Drake May’s performance shows promise but is marred by turnovers and inconsistent play. A.J. Brown’s high ankle sprain is a major blow to fantasy rosters, with projections indicating a multi-week absence, prompting widespread trading and lineup adjustments. The discussion also covers rookie performances, notably Jadarian Price’s strong debut and Remondre Stevenson’s explosive impact despite limited targets. Injuries to Brock Bowers and George Kittle remain in flux, with experts emphasizing the importance of monitoring recovery timelines and injury reports. The hosts also provide detailed start-of-the-week recommendations, prioritizing matchups with high over/under totals and favorable defensive environments. They stress watching receiver pecking orders, running back workloads, and rookie utilization, particularly for players like Chris Bell and DeAndre Swift. The week’s key takeaways include the volatility of fantasy football in week one, where injuries, matchups, and rookie performances can drastically shift projections. With injuries like Brown’s and Bowers’ ongoing, fantasy managers are advised to remain flexible and focus on health, matchup, and depth charts to maximize success. The podcast concludes with a reminder of the Foot Clan’s injury blitz podcast and the importance of real-time injury updates in shaping fantasy strategies.

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welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway Jason Moore and Mike Wright oh welcome in yeah I knew that was gonna happen I told these guys before when we did like two shows yesterday and spitballers and it was coming back and it'll be a minute. Welcome into the fantasy footballers Thursday, September 10th. Well, I'm sure you lost a bit of your voice just with all the emotions and screaming and shouting it. What a what a just fun game. No, Jason, we are not doing that. I thought the game was fun. No, the game ended fun. Yes. Yes. But you can't have that end without it being tight. Yeah. This is part of football, man. Yeah. I mean, we have so much to get into this. This is going to be a lot of show. We have we have matchups today. Starts of the week today. NFL news galore. Injury news galore. And then a recap of the game, which we have to do. And so which includes injury news galore. Yeah. I mean, it's just it's absolutely wild. A reminder of the community over there. I joined the foot dot com. Hop in there. The season is starting. Get access to the ultimate dashboard and a million in season tools. And you can support the show that way. But we can jump right in because I know it's going to be a long show. I it was 13 to 10. Seattle beat the Patriots. The game started with Sam Darnold being injured almost instantaneously. First drive. The team has come out and been optimistic about the outlook for him. But we don't have a final report on the injury and duration of. Of. Absence. Drew Locke ended up 16 for 22. I thought he did a great job. I was actually impressed with after the jitters of, I think, the first two drives. I feel like he settled down and basically executed the only offense you needed to have. When you're at home in Seattle. I thought the play calling of McDonald was was kind of. Or like the decision making on fourth downs and stuff was very conservative. But I in the end, it just he executed. Exactly what they needed to do, which is don't take too many risks. Keep the game close. Let your defense come alive with the with the the 12. Right. The fans got on their feet. And then and then Drake may made the appropriate amount of mistakes to lose that game. Yeah. Or the Seahawks made the appropriate amount of amazing defensive plays either way. I mean, the the nice thing about Drew Locke is he said after the game, he's like, I know our team. I know the players that we have. My biggest like the only thing I needed to do was protect the ball. Yeah. I mean, I thought they were going to actually win the game there. They were moving the ball enough where, you know, as as somebody who thought Seattle would win it. And then and then seeing them, I did not think they were going to win it once Darnold went out. And then they come back and it seems like they had it. And the penalties, offensive snaps where they had a chance on the goal line. I mean, there are so many things to talk about in this. Yeah. A lot of takeaways. I mean, you had you had Drake May's performance, obviously, from a fantasy perspective, 178 yards and a touchdown, three picks. I believe in the last. Oh, seven games played. He has seven touchdowns, seven picks and seven fumbles. A.J. Brown, seven picks and seven and seven fumbles in the last seven. Oh, me. A.J. Brown goes down. Seven, seven, seven. Yeah, that's a jackpot. That's pretty lucky. That's normally good. Jack Pooh. Oh, no. Jack Pooh. But I mean, so. Like all respect to the Patriots for what they did last year, they had the easiest schedule since 1999. And it ended up that way. They won their games. They deserve. I mean. And and in the games, Drake May looked all 400 yards. What is it? I don't think Drake May is going to be like I'm not taking last night's performance as Drake May is not a good quarterback or he's not going to be a good fantasy quarterback. This was in Seattle. Your number one new wide receiver goes down. This was a this is the number one scoring fantasy defense last year in Seattle. I took it as. Actually, the opposite of what a lot. I watched that game and I thought Drake May. He didn't play that. I know he threw three picks. I do not think that sucks. But I don't think he played that bad. That drop from Romeo Dobbs. Oh, my gosh. Busted a drive. Are you talking about humiliating? You're talking about Romeo Dobbs who had fewer receptions than land. Larrison, Eli Raridon, Demario Douglas, A.J. Brown, Hunter Henry, Ramond Ray Stevenson and Matt Collins. How many guardian caps was he wearing? It was unbelievable. It was. I saw a clip on on Instagram just talking about. Yes. When it's after a mistake, it looks so stupid and it does. But yeah, A.J. Brown going down. But the thing is, is that because it implies a bigger brain? So a mistake means that you're dumb. It just it looks like you're a bobblehead. It just he had as were as bad of a debut as you could have had. Yeah. And the thing is, is for fantasy purposes, Drake May ran the ball seven times for 47 yards. It was like, oh, OK, the wheels are going to work. Now I expect him to be without A.J. Brown for a handful of weeks. Yeah. We can kind of cover the injuries in this game right now, which is A.J. Brown looks like a high ankle sprain. The x-rays were negative. There was some concern about a fibula fracture. That didn't happen. Romeo Dobbs, the one contribution he did provide last night was a locker room update about A.J. Brown, which said he looked really good and seems like he's he's going to be OK. Left in a walking boot. If it's a high ankle sprain from last year, we know it's usually three games. I mean, this is one of the risks I. You know, with, you know, A.J. Brown's been banged up before, but you're an older receiver. Recovery times might be a little bit. I mean, Jason's kind of sighing with the Jason was not in a good place because in part, like he's got A.J. Brown on a lot of teams. We all liked A.J. Brown. Yeah. There's nothing you can control about that. Yes. And fantasy MVPs are not won in weeks one through four either. So, you know, last year, this happened to George Kittle. I tell you, guillotine leagues are lost in week one. What is? Guillotine leagues. Well, that, that, yeah, that is true. Our chops, our chop league. Uh, my, my feature was the incredible stack of Drake. Oh, no, that's your team. Oh, I'm toast. Oh, I'm done. I'm done. Week one. I will be out. Uh, maybe. So there'll be, there'll be other injuries. You can always be surprised. Well, I can tell you this. Look at my projection. I think you would be happier to be in your case than my case because we play in very few important leagues. We try to keep it to a minimum. I'm out in league of record. I've made that, you know, from, from get go. You are not out. Stop it. No, no. In league of record. I mean. You're, you're, you're zero and zero right now, but yeah. But my point is in, you know, we've got this league of shadows. We've got our listener league. I've got the Megaloball. Those are like the rest of my leagues. Right. AJ Brown, AJ Brown, and AJ Brown. Oh, all three. You don't, you don't know something funny. I'm going to share a little story from our league of record really quickly yesterday. And we're going to talk about a Brock Bowers surprise surgery and ischius multi-week. We'll talk about it. So he goes down. People have been trying to trade for him in our league. And so I hear from the manager. Who's like, he's starting to kind of tongue in cheek, send some offers over to the Brock Bowers manager. Cause he had already been trying to get him. And now he's like, oh, I've got Kelsey. I can send you to help you out. And that was the AJ Brown manager. So, so during the middle of the day, he's kind of, you know, making light of the situation or maybe take, trying to take advantage by night. He didn't have AJ Brown. I mean, this is fantasy football at its best. I want to talk about both running backs for a moment. Yes. First, let's start with Jadarian Price. Jadarian Price. This was a rookie debut. If I've ever seen one in the sense that 10 for 52 looked very fast. Yeah. He looked good. When he had the, here's what my highlights were. And you share yours. When contact was made, he seemed to fall forward. He seemed to fight through the end of the tackle. I liked seeing that. He also made the historical Reggie Bush mistake, which is it works to bounce it outside in college. And then I try to bounce it outside in the NFL and whoops, I'm not faster. Yeah. I mean, that's obviously going to be a common and frequent rookie problem. The other part of the rookie issue here, I thought he looked great. I really did. I thought, you know, as a runner, he was fast. He had the juice. George Alani had eight carries to his 10 and George Alani did nothing with them. 29 yards. I think you mean George Salami. Yeah. Oh, I apologize. George Salami. Thank you. And you know, it's, it's a little frightening. You can make, it's just. Confirm your priors, right? He's a rookie week one. They're going to, they're obviously going to get him more work as it goes on. You're going to have it. Exactly. Or we love a committee. This is a committee. They had the MVP of the Superbowl, Ken Bone Walker, who was way more efficient. They said, no, come out. We've got Charbonnet. And this is a Wilson was in on the goal line. They are committed, committed to a true 50, 50 timeshare, which, you know, last year, the, the Seahawks. Seahawks were a great team, great defense, great run game, irrelevant running backs like Ken Bone Walker and Charbonnet both through the fantasy year. I mean, they were a lot of a coin flip situation. You weren't excited to start them. They were someone that you could throw in your lineup and get the running back 24 on a week. But like, that is a scary proposition going forward. I did like that. He had two catches just to see him involved in that facet of the game. I test. I agree. I thought price looked very good. And I, you cannot need, we, we, we need far more games than this yes you can't be top 12 though if this is the issue though is 10 for 52 for one running back and 8 for 29 that literal that's ken bone walker and charbonnet that that was that was the box score from last year that's what would happen so that will be dumb but it was dumb last year yes and charbonnet will return that that's the bigger story for me i think if this was i think salami just goes back in the freezer oh look at salami up there um here's the thing is that charbonnet is going to return they're going to try charbonnet more than helani he's going to perform better than helani even though he's not the most efficient back he is a more well-rounded back but again if you believe that price has the juice and the team is smart which they are the utilization should improve um i feel like i'm looking at a mirror right now yeah what you were saying all last year about about this is me last year i want to talk oh go ahead jay i i'm on the side that i believe jadarian price will not become a bell cow for this team no i don't think bell cows in the cards i think um i think committee back with explosive place is in the card which is probably rb 17 to 25 peak unfortunately i mean is he as good as kenneth walker do you believe he's as good as kenneth walker last year i don't know i don't know that's way too early but my point is you look great though kenneth walker was the running back 22 last year and so yeah if he if he is as good as kenneth walker 25 yeah emmanuel wilson at the goal line even though that that was the uh delay game i believe it was but just seeing that alignment you thought you were going to get a grand salami right there i did yeah i did i was and i told you i was watching on the phone and i was like well i know that's not price no and uh but that's like that's devastating to see if you're saying it's not even going to be holani on the goal line it's going to be wilson i know that's one snap but you gotta you don't want to overreact but you do want to and i'm i'm gonna be your you want to alter yeah i know so that that was a huge story jsn had a huge game oh he's so good eight for 122 and a touchdown 45 hour lock yeah and his touchdown was it was awesome that was that was ridiculous just slippery like patriots what are you doing like new slippery fish in the secondary he is slippery there was there was just a little play as like dynamic as the obj or like exactly doesn't seem as explosive as jamar chase but you watch him with the ball in his hands he just goes gets extra yards all the time and i'm going to say something i know again this you could you can chalk it under confirming priors i'm just going to tell you facts and information and you can draw whatever you want the entire earth wanted to pile on to remondre stevenson last night i'm going to tell you the facts about remondre stevenson what i believe and you can do whatever you want with it there was never an argument this offseason that remondre stevenson was going to be a good pick because he's explosive like travion henderson last night remondre stevenson scored 13.8 fantasy points in our league of record that is more than drake may scored he was the second highest score or the highest score on the patriots it wasn't efficient but here's the facts i want to tell you number one remondre stevenson had 60 of 71 offensive staffs for the team number two 50 of his 51 rushing yards happened after contact number three five times he was hit in the backfield where their offensive line did nothing if you remove the five times he was met in the backfield because i on the rest of his carries he caught five passes in the offense and we'll be catching more without a.j brown the sure and the seattle seahawks were the number three rushing defense in the nfl last year giving up an average of 3.6 per carry to all running backs that they faced to me if you want to you know let me let me get the effect here if you want to go i want to give remondre the great plotting award of the year and you want to bury your head in the sand about how often he was used Only going to be better than this until Travion is back on this team. I still think the workload is going to be high. And by the way, he had a higher top speed than Jadarian Price last night. That's hilarious. It is hilarious because it's like, oh, Jadarian showed his speed. He was so fast. It's like, Romandre was faster. The argument for Romandre was always Belcal utilization. That's it. He's not a spectacular back. On talent, remember I said. On a good offense, too. On a good offense. Yeah. It's just like now if A.J. Brown's out, his passing work is going to be high. Yeah. And they're going to play defenses that are not in Seattle on the debut. So, to me, if you can have a game that people on Twitter think is the worst game of your life and you're the highest scoring fantasy player on your team and anybody who started him, I have him in a bunch of leagues, very satisfied with the output of a game where they didn't score a touchdown outside of Eli Raridon, never got on the goal line. I just think it was overblown. No. I mean, Romandre's going to be a phenomenal play. At the very least, the next month, he should be a. Like, honestly, he should be a running back one over the first month of the season. I really do think that he's going to be so involved in the passing game. You're going to have Travion Henderson still coming back. I will say that on the positive for Travion Henderson, I know is the Seahawks, but this looked like a team that needed another weapon, especially with as soon as A.J. Brown went out. It was like, my goodness, they they are lacking weapons. Big Mac is back, baby. Well, this was the expectation we had in our. Preview on Tuesday with it was that this would be a low scoring game where the defenses were out ahead of where the offenses were and that the Patriots were going to struggle dealing with new offensive pass catchers because they hadn't done it before. Now, it was alarming to me that Romeo Dobbs had zero catches and Mac Collins was targeted as much as he was. And if you go to the snap count, it's the three targets for Dobbs that is far more. And it was correlated to snaps. Dobbs was getting far fewer snaps than Mac Collins or to Mario Douglas. So that's concerning. Like, I think I mean, genuinely, I think Romeo Dobbs is a drop in fantasy. Probably. But it's hard to know because Mac Collins came into the A.J. Brown role. You know, A.J. Brown got injured right at the beginning of the second half. So you had Hollins playing a role that he wasn't usually. I think A.J. Brown was four in that game. Before A.J. Brown left. If you go watch the snap counts. If it was just first half. When A.J. Brown was alive and well, the snap counts for Romeo Dobbs was fourth in the pecking order of the wide receivers. It was very. Very strange. The only issue with dropping him is that I assume we're going to be without A.J. Brown for a couple of weeks. And no, I'm who is that's an over. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe, you know, it will be hard as a pickup. It will be hard not to drop him is the better. Oh, yeah. Because if you have zero production and you're getting low snaps and then you're going to have a swath of waiver wire pickups, we're excited about because Pat Bryant breaks out in week one. Hey, so I'm all for it. Major takeaways from this game. Call your shot on Darian Price, whether you think he's explosive and looks good and we'll get more work or whether. You confirm that he is going to be in a committee and can't be a top back. Drake May is much better than he performed yesterday. I think he's like an immediate trade for candidate because people are going to be very, very low. No, A.J. Brown. I think A.J. Brown will be great when he comes back. Romandre should be awesome. And then the latest news we have on Sam Darnold is waiting on an MRI. The biggest fears of like a season ending like hip fracture. Look. In the rear view, short-term IR is still not off the quote here. Dodged a bullet. Dodged a bullet, but it's still I would still could miss time. Yeah, still could miss time. Yeah, that's that's encouraging for the JSN is so good. He's very good. And Cooper Cup wouldn't give an opportunities last night. He had a touchdown called back. He made some plays. Yeah, he had a one-handed catch because just the the the outcome, you know, what is this with with with Darnold missing time for JSN? You know, I. Just to touch on it real quick of like this isn't say this doesn't feel like Joe Burrow last or I'm sorry, Jamar Chase. Oh, yeah. Last year where Brown came in and you're like this dude is completely incompetent and you're just you do have to fully panic on Jamar Chase. I don't you're out. You're your output's going to go down. Yeah. Volume of Drew Locke is at least Drew Locke. It's not a taxed back up. Right. I mean, personality wise, he might be. But. We'll take a quick break and talk all this news. News and notes from around the league. Well, the first thing I'm going to share real quick is that today was the day of Josh Jacobs in court and he pled no contest to the chargers that were brought against him, which included a no contest plea on five different conditions. He needs. Supervision and counseling and pay restitution to the victim and no contact with the victim. And oh, by the way, one of the conditions, no further criminal acts. Oh, one of the cool agreements you do when you've committed a criminal act. They're going Jim Carrey on him. So we're not breaking the law. Yes, yes, we are. So we might have more information about that's where we'll probably just be an immediate six games then. Probably. Yeah. So. We talked about A.J. Brown and Darnold. We don't need to talk about them again. George Kittle. Off the injury report. We'll play tonight against the Rams. Come on, George. It does not end that. Come on, George. Being off the injury report does not mean he is at 100 percent. So we've talked a lot about whether or not you play him and who you would play over him. But it's good to see. Oh, by the way, with all this injury news, I just want to remind people one of the extra perks of the Foot Clan is an injury blitz podcast that comes out tomorrow. And I can tell you right now. Matthew Betts is all over this stuff. And I'm going to give you the breakdown here because we got news yesterday. That Raiders tied in Brock Bowers. Who. Seven days. Was it? Is it? he's expected to miss just a curse a game or two after undergoing a meniscus trim nope stop it matthew batts i talked to him this morning our uh injury expert and i wanted to get his breakdown of the scenarios now i will say this from what i can i cannot find anybody and he has reached out to multiple raiders beat reporters and he cannot get anybody to confirm 100 it's the same knee but we all assume it is because he was in camp with a brace on the knee he ended up with a meniscus trim on tuesday here's the two scenarios that matthew betts outlaid for me number one it could be a fluky thing that happened in camp and if that's the case he could reasonably return in a few weeks and be the same guy this year or option two no i don't like if it's related to the pcl and bone bruise issue from last year which caused brock bowers to be um out you and ineffective it would be a red red flag to him he said if he suffered meniscus damage because of recurring instability in the knee because of the pcl strain it is a concern for all of the rest of season effectiveness vast majority of pcl sprains heal well but there is a subset that don't and the one he can point to ricky pierce all oh boy because you can have recurring lingering issues it like pierce all was another strain situation where it's like well if you're going to get surgery why didn't you do it three four months ago i think the same scenario we're sitting here with brock bowers you have these twitter videos that were like what do you believe and he's kind of limping and he's doing these runs and then he's kind of sitting to the side of practice oh no he's fine and then what clint kubiak came out and said everyone's going to suit up an hour before this was announced yeah thank you for revealing yourself to us yeah kubiak that was dirty i mean there's no way that kubiak did not know that his player had had that his star most important player oh i hope coaches surgery i hope coaches do that for the podium is they like they tell everyone don't tell me anything the medical staff but i i would say i'm very concerned with brock bowers um i don't think that there's much that you can do if you could trade him high for a whole someone's like oh i can get brock bowers maybe i'm gonna ask you horrible questions right now okay horrible questions would you trade brock bowers right now for tyler warren i told you i'm gonna ask you so i think i think i would and that's her craft no no colson loveland yeah i think i would i i had someone ask me today would i trade aj brown immediately right now for garrett wilson and i said yes because i think aj brown is going to be better than garrett wilson you just want the extra three games but you get a yeah you get a month of fantasy production like that still matters you still have to make the playoffs right in order to win the playoffs right in order to win the championship so that's a tough one if you add those extra games in and then you go i don't know how they'll come back after the injury maybe they're slow you know it play how you're gonna play in the playoffs i think aj brown will be better than garrett wilson i hope that brock bowers is way better than either loveland or warren but i think i would make we are so back i that's it mike we weren't one game in we are so back oh man we weren't even a game in before the brock bowers thing came out uh and then and a just another note season pass on the tilt machine baby we bought it we bought it definitely not here to you know call for panic in the street on brock bowers we just we don't know we do know that if it's if it is exactly what they say it is typical recovery timeline is closer to three to four weeks the one the one to two weeks is that's a very aggressive wolverine in your bra yeah oh ashton jenner two liar liar references that's what we're going for today jason you're up i'm up i'm i'm working on it and it can't be it can't be a goose okay because i already hit that yeah recently yeah ashton jenny full participant there's some good raiders news for you tucker craft not in the injury report ahead of week one there's some good injury news for you and we're back jcm limited with the groin injury groin index.com member lifetime member currently on this offseason but jcm rashad white practicing in full that could be something to watch in week one for the commanders rashad white practicing in full is very good news for you guys we're going to very similar to bill being limited okay that's that's funny uh malik neighbors practiced in full on wednesday seems like he's gonna come on baby and the news that i have been waiting for as a uh as an emphatic and excited chris bell fan the dolphins head coach jeff hayflee says there will be incredible there will be no pitch count for chris bell they also listed bell and douglas as starters just put that in the in the category of better off and then you think chris bell is a first round wide receiver talent talent talent wise and i believe i believe he is the an alpha talent on a team with no talent at wide receiver that we know of outside of these two rookies who are now the starters you talk about malik washington or you talk about tolbert or these other guys they brought in they just made two rookies the starters and that's what a team like this should 100 be doing they should throw them out there and be like okay if we lose we lose let's let's see what we have let's get them wrapped let's get them experience i didn't think because of the recovery timeline the fact that he's a rookie and the in the training camp and the you know being out there for reps would have a full snap allotment from week one which is why i was on the caleb douglas side if i knew for sure that both players and it sounds like we know for sure that both players are full-time starters from week one that's what we're being told then i would switch to certainly to the chris bell side the upside is higher i think with chris bell both are worth a shot but right now before this week is over games look at the worst player on your team on your roster your last round pick and maybe think about swapping that out for chris bell just to see if yeah this might be a chance to get him before he's a big pickup next week yeah and speaking of in our league of record i malik washington was one of my last picks for because i needed him for a double flex i'm like i just need a guy who's going to get five or so targets with this news i have pivoted to uh devon vele yeah as my nasty boy receiver too for the saints yeah would you if you could play vele or uh caleb douglas who would you play vele okay if you could play vele or romeo dobbs who would you have played yeah who i would have matt collins i would currently have a big fat zero on my right i do for the first time this year i would have done it it starts of the week all right starts of the week brought to you by apple card all right uh we've got the trio of start of the week picks at every position uh you want to give a quick overview on how we view starts of the week just like what does that represent for people because we we don't come in here and say like yeah i mean jameer gibbs is the start of the week honestly it's different in week one than the rest of the than the rest of the year usually we are looking for someone who is a questionable start you know it's not it's not always like this guy's going to be the best player of the week this is like hey if you've got a tough start decision this guy looks like someone that you should put in your lineup i would say that week one is slightly different right this is like you're going to start the guys you drafted more often than not in the order that you drafted them um but this is a you know this is confidence plays in those borderline we think that they've got a really good matchup something special about their situation where i want them in my lineup jared goff jared goff is going to he's going to be my start of the week all right all right new orleans great opportunity at home week one i think golf is like golf is i hate to say this he's the only person i actually look at on the waiver wire and i go man he's probably going to be way better than josh allen in week one and i should probably like if i had any you know like he's probably going to score more fancy points than josh allen in week one i know i'm not going to make the switch you won't no i'm not i know your bench you can easily make that move you think because it just doesn't matter i just won't play you know i'm not going to play you know i'm not going to play you know i just won't play a quarterback well i'm saying you've got guys to drop oh yeah i mean i could do it for sure i it's hard for me not to play josh allen in week one of the season i mean that seems i have amon raw that would be a stack situation yeah jared goff he's my start of the week i think he's a he must start this week uh yeah i like that this these are quick and simple for week one baker mayfield a guy that might be on your waivers or was you know a later round baker might be waivers a later round pick he's playing on the road against cincinnati in the highest over under of the week he just got paid 55 million dollars a year on a new contract i mean the bangles laser all those guys are on waivers in our league mayfield um you know i mean you pay the man his money and then play in cincinnati against you know an improved but still terrible bangles defense in the highest over under of the week you should be playing and just you you want to play against the bangles either the defense is bad or that offense is going to put up points exactly it'll be a great matchup i'm going with jackson darts against the dallas cowboys it is sunday night it's the third highest over under of the week the cowboys like the bangles will have a better defense but we all we have is last year's data and last year uh against the cowboys at home jackson dart 230 and two completed nearly 70 percent of his passes and five carries for 32 yards on the ground i think darts in a a good spot to start the season all right amari and hampton against arizona is my running back start of the week hot hampton get to going double digit home favorites cardinals suck and uh there you go yeah i'm gonna go i'm gonna go breese hall he's on the road against tennessee his groin intact he should see 18 to 20 touches in a winnable game the titans they rank 28th and points allowed to the running back position last year uh the jets offensive line has also been improved so he is a uh i think he's a great play this week and i and jason i got your guy your running back is my star of the week oh let's go bucky irving yeah he's a running back too but he is in a very good spot against the cincinnati bangles j it's the highest over under new bucks oc zach robinson ranks number one among all player play callers over the past five years for percentage of zone based runs last year cincinnati allowed near nearly five yards per carry on zone runs do we have a perfect match here also sean tucker should be out we don't know for sure that that will give the goal line to bucky but it definitely gives it a boost in probability davante smith a wide receiver is my start of the week against washington it's time to watch him take over as the alpha for jalen hurts commander's defense last year the past defense was pretty much the worst in the nfl easy start davante smith i'm gonna also go with the davante i'm gonna go davante adams so if you have a davante you should start him i love it tonight uh in australia so is it actually tomorrow um sort of yesterday kind of uh i i'm i'm like all in on davante adams i i have i believe he's a wide receiver one this year man i mean he was a wide receiver one last year with 14 touchdowns all 16 targets inside the field and he's a wide receiver one this year which is the most targets since targets have been a stat um so you know this is a great matchup against the 49ers he had 19 targets in two games against the 49ers last year and i'm going with tetero mcmillan like he's the number one for the team he will get the target share the highest target share of the team and he is playing against the bears where they're secondary last year 31st and schedule adjusted fantasy points allowed to the position 29th and yards per game 29th and pressure and he's playing against the bears where they're secondary last year 31st and schedule rate this should be a game that bryce young will surpass 200 yards should be and the benefactor will be t-mac last start of the week sam laporta the other side of that golf situation against new orleans i'm stacking them up um you obviously have a touchdown chance of sam laporta in this high over under the weakest part of the saints defense defending the tight end position sam laporta yeah you're not worried about the the coming back from the injury you're you're all in yeah i'm i'm feeling good uh i'm gonna go isaiah likely against dallas to stack with mike's for like jackson i mean if you drafted him late this is a great way to see what's gonna happen you know in his nine career games without mark andrews he's averaged 50 receiving yards 12 and a half ppr points and i promise mark andrews will not be on the field uh he's not on the roster i i was almost sad that i still had kyle pitts available to me in our league of record draft because my plan me and my son who run the team we're like we want isaiah likely but with him there we're like okay we got to take kyle pitts but i just wanted i wanted likely i think you could rely on him this year i think you made the right decision but especially week one that dallas matchup is very good for tight ends i think with with darius slayton going away is like there's a commitment and neighbors might be on a snap count start a little slower i do i my outlook for i likely has gone up but this will make you happy andy because kyle pitts at pitt is my start of the week pitts loves to throw it short it's just too oh that's his favorite thing man that low a dot that's how you get it done that's two as way as steelers last year a problem defending the tight end position 30th and scheduled adjusted points 29th and receptions allowed to the position kyle pitts while it's probably an a dot of three to five he should be good for five plus receptions getting you some volume all right that was starts of the week brought to you by apple card apply in the wallet app on your iphone today subject to credit approval apple card issued by goldman sachs bank usa salt lake city branch terms and more at apple card dot com fantasy forecast presented by prize picks here we go week one the full slate tampa bay stay healthy people yeah i mean that's probably worth saying the first game was so bad for injury and pre-game and post game uh tampa bay buccaneers traveled to cincinnati to take on the bengals vegas line cincinnati minus three and a half over under 50.5 we just talked about baker jason started the week just talked about bucky mike started the week high over under i can't help but think of every beginning of the season in the context of cincinnati failing yeah so you know losing as favorites at home against tampa would be a tough a tough start for super bowl favorites but um it's a different year nine and ten is the joe burrow excuse me read the read his entire nine ten and one thank you in september thank you the worst part for fantasy managers he averages 15.7 fantasy points per game in september and that jumps up to his normal range 2018 22 20 for the next four months he's kind of a yeti too joe burrow just seems to put up points when it gets colder um except for like henry is good in the beginning and then gets better burrow's bad in the beginning and then gets let me give you the week great week one fantasy points for burrow the last three years last year he scored 8.8 fantasy points the year prior was 8.1 fantasy points the year prior was 3.2 fantasy points so a big game big opportunity at home gotta get it done gotta get it done for jamar and t higgins chase brown lots of auto starts in this game i think i i will kind of on week one like we said there's a lot of games that we're going to see and we're going to see a lot of games that we're not allowed to start to sit decisions from the main players but there are situations on depth charts that are interesting to me the biggest story of this game is going to be the wide receiver room for tampa bay and what it looks like when the game is over high over under baker can get it done bad defense you should sit here and say hey i'm emeka abuka i think abuka godwin and one other mysterious name is going to have a game in this yeah is it jalen mcmillan or is it kate otten that gets the tes johnson yeah absolutely no and i would i would say yeah um i i would say that when we're when we're looking at these week one match matchups the most important thing is not really even who to start it's what to watch for like that's the most important thing we need to go into these games going what are we going to keep an eye on and to me it is both uh the wide receiver core and what's the pecking order the snap counts but also the running back core how much is kenny gainwell involved yeah how much does he siphon away i think that's going to be a very interesting watch and it's fun that it gets to be against the cincinnati defense yeah the bangles are also i want to see how different it actually is a lot has been talked up of this we're going to be under center more to help us get more explosive runs to help with the play action to really sell things chase brown remains a uh just a very strong like he finished incredible it started real bad because they didn't have a quarterback and they didn't have a quarterback and they didn't have a quarterback and they didn't have a quarterback uh but just multi-faceted in the game price picks has him at 23 and a half receiving yards does that seem low to you it seems low because vita vea just got a 30 million dollar contract extension after he was like i want to i want to be traded they're like no they paid the man his money it's hard to run against the the buccaneers when vita vea is healthy and motivated and playing well but the little dump offs to chase brown 23 and a half receiving yards that seems like easy to me new orleans travels to detroit so we have a couple of the games that were featured in our starts of the week the over under here a delicious 49 and a half detroit minus seven and i'm gonna be honest i feel like that's respectful of new orleans when you're at home and new orleans with what they were able to do last year detroit i i could have seen this being a bigger line maybe eight and a half or something like that uh detroit has the second highest implied point point in the league in detroit yeah has the second highest implied point point in the league in total detroit is going to be cooking this week which is they're one of the only teams where you can say you know golf this week gibbs amon raw jameson williams in laporta i think are all in play absolutely this this game environment is exactly what you want the pace of play uh you know from more on the saints is awesome the fact that detroit is going to score a kajillion points i'm i'm all about this game if there's and this is why you know you you talked about devon bailey as your kind of emergency play as a wide receiver too it's because of this game environment it's perfect for fantasy uh all right well then on the other side travis achan jr gets the opportunity to make his rumbalaya debut tyler shuck we'll see if he takes a step forward brother the the prize picks projection has shuck at 246 and i thought that was insane only joe burrow and dac are high well they're going to need to pass this ball in this game this is what we're talking about so juwan johnson olave they lay in a pinch um honestly travis achan jr is going to get a lot of work in the receiving game it's not it's not something that moore's offenses usually over the last couple years have have excelled at targeting the running back but that is one of uh you know travis achan jr's calling cards and And they're going to be passing once they're down anything else from this matchup that you think is a tough decision or or something you're watching for as you said i'm watching the jameson williams sam laporta situation where hopefully assuming sam laporta is healthy and plays his full allotment of snaps which it appears he is going to i want to know how does jameson williams do because jameson williams blew up at the end of last year it coincided with two different things the play calling changing but also sam laporta being off the field i want jameson williams to come out week one and dominate with laporta on the field i think that would say a lot yeah i think it would be tough i think for all those guys every week to get it done i think laporta and jameson could see more ping-ponging this year in terms of one of those guys being the next man up because gibbs and almond raw are so involved but this could be a good week for it with the over-under if you lost brock bowers and you are scrambling i i had tweeted out right when the news came but this shouldn't surprise you joan johnson would be pretty much my favorite replacement who is on a lot of waiver wires i know he's not on everyone but i think that he is a solid play all righty new york tennessee coming up next we'll take a quick break and get back into the week one matchups jason's new york jets take on the tennessee titans in a matchup of what's going on what's the opposite of a juggernaut i'd say get uh get the pepto ready hey someone gets a win that is probable but not guaranteed wait till you hear these numbers though tennessee minus one and a half at home that's fine over under 38 and a half lowest of week one what you're talking about the 29th and 30th ranked offenses last year in points per game and yards per game uh they were not good cam ward you know i i still hope that he's not a liar when he said in the preseason look we've got a lot of we've got a lot of stuff we're not doing yet and we'll do it when the game time happens so that's that's all fine and well but the stuff you were doing you were not doing very well so i hope the stuff that you haven't done you're really good at that's i mean that's a fair point robert sala echoed that you know after some of the preseason struggles he said you know when it came i would too no i know but i i believe it i believe that they were not focused on necessarily like i think there's going to be a lot of worry about starting carnell tate you haven't seen it yet looked bad in preseason do i start or as a rookie do i just like hold off and i would absolutely be starting them first of all i have a level of a star are you saying like a a wise receiver yeah why are you or no i would say a wise receiver is that i heard i see i see him as a as a top 24 play okay i mean it's you know the is not going to be very good um i do think that they're going to force him the ball and design plays for him brian dayball did this with malik neighbors in his rookie season i think there will be some design plays for him i am very curious to see the wandale involvement he you know i brought up alec pierce as being one of the only receivers drafted that late where he had a thousand yards the year before wandale was the only other one like they paid him a ton of money he's a very good player and he played for brian dayball when brian dayball goes and gets you it means something to me so i am curious about the utilization there um on the other side we just want consolidation breeze hall garrett wilson i'm not watching for much else i honestly if i had to pick a sleeper surprise performance of this entire game to me it's adenai mitchell uh yeah people people talked about him during the off season maybe maybe this is the year yeah i mean i i liked what i saw in the i mean it was hard to watch the jets last year but in his limited time once he arrived i thought it was pretty good baltimore the ravens at indianapolis vegas line here baltimore minus three and a half over under 47 and a half you feeling good about this one much better than the last game i am very curious about this both of these teams are teams that i um i'm very like i'm not sure how it's going to go i know that baltimore is expected to win you know double digit games and they should be great their defense should be great they've got lamar they've got derrick henry but they've gotten much much worse on the offensive line they lost their star fullback i could see their offense potentially struggling and with the change in the long-term leadership that this organization was very used to you know a harbaugh run in the show and now it's a completely new system in here um with new coaches i'm just curious i want to see what we see for baltimore and then when it comes to the colts it's a tale of two halves last year with and without daniel jones they were daniel jones was an mvp candidate they were the number one seed in the nfl after eight weeks and everything looked good he got injured and then they were a putrid team and so it's like well are they are they going to be as good as they were to start last year this year now that daniel jones is back this is a great test for both teams i am absolutely fascinated to watch it yeah so you're gonna you're gonna start your studs in this one the health of alec pierce is something we're watching the distribution of the keenan allen uh you know what does daniel jones look like jacoby lane a rookie we're watching mostly to see what's the snaps like yeah snaps is everything for jacoby lane i mean which i'm not expecting i'm not either a lot i'm not either it even though he had one of the loudest drum beats of the entire offseason we we know the traditional path for rookies drafted in the range that he was flowers and rashad bateman as the the primary guys but maybe we're pleasantly surprised yeah when day two or day three picks get a bunch of buzz and lane was really excited right was he a fourth you get remember that right um no he was the third round you get really big baby yeah hey but even them they don't usually play enough snaps week one to be relevant so that's what to watch for and i'm of course you know i'm watching the josh down snaps yeah and it's always are you on the outside it's all it's important to know that these rookies while they don't get a lot of opportunities in week one that doesn't set the table for them to never correct themselves into an offense things evolve with effectiveness rashad bateman has the legal plus talent troubles and uh we'll see what happens for the offense as it goes and that you know the debut of jesse minner declan doyle offense is it's a big deal yeah i'm it's i think the ravens are extremely exciting for week one to because each like it should absolutely work out your concerns j are i think are very valid but you're like you have superstars on this team yeah so it should work and the whispers the they're very quiet but the whispers of derrick henry catching more passes this year we'll see atlanta at pittsburgh they can't all be winners vegas line here pittsburgh minus three and a half over under just 42 and a half is there a worse quarterback matchup on a single what's worse to watch rogers v tua or cam ward v gino cam ward v gino i think so we're getting a couple of the super combos this week the falcons have not had a winning season since 2017 the pittsburgh steelers were the slowest most plotting offense last year 28th in plays per game which it's one thing to just be like disappointed in the offensive output of your wide receivers in pittsburgh when kenny gainwell leads the team in receiving instead of dk mccaff their alpha but it's another thing to do it in such a way that makes me so bored and so sad and they were the worst to watch last like if we just watch a back and forth affair where tua is throwing four yard passes to kyle pitts and aaron rogers is throwing four yard passes to darnell washington yeah i mean that might be the game who has the lower a dot this week between those two guys gosh i think tua yeah man it that he is done soon he is done soon um two of the rogers we're hoping that mike mccarthy brings some new life to the steelers well and the same with kevin stefanski in atlanta sure and tommy reese but right now um play bijan robinson and drake london play kyle pitts for sure yeah mike start of the week and then on the offensive side for pittsburgh i think you you would probably concede jalen warren's going to be in lineups warren and doug will both be played metcalf was not in he was not drafted in a place that means you have to start this guy no but i would um you know this is a perfect matchup obviously last year um the falcons were the 30th against wide receivers giving up over 31 points a game with mccarthy in tow i i would say that this is a you know dk metcalf is going to be in one of those situations where until one of the two things are proven like he is really good or he is irrelevant on this offense you're going to be playing matchups and this is a matchup you you want to play uh so week one at home i would i would be starting dk metcalf the chicago bears travel to carolina to take on the panthers chicago three point road favorites the over under is 46 and a half okay implied point total puts the bears at 24 and a half carolina at 21 and a half what what is the man is that you're surprised they're yeah not favored by more or favored at all or what is it no it's i i think favored by three is strong that's kind of That's how I felt, too, actually. I mean, if you want to say the Bears are favorite, like, okay, a point, a point and a half, a full field goal is pretty surprising to me. Well, we'll see. It is, boy, I'm getting reminded of the Bryce Young when he was traded for what equated to, listen to this, DJ Moore, Darnell Wright, Tyreek Stevenson, Caleb Williams, and Luther Burden. That was the net. Wow. That was the net. We call that a whoops-a-doozles. That is, man. That's a franchise. That is a lot of players. Last year we had this Chicago bend-don't-break defense that got them pretty far. Oh, it bent, though. It did bend eventually, and, well, can Bryce Young bend it this week? He's got Tett McMillan, Jalen Coker healthy, Darren Waller. Don't forget, he plays football. Yeah. The Wallerist himself, boy, do we even have that anymore in the drops? Is he in the red jersey? I think we probably don't. We probably don't. We're going to have to get that fixed. He's probably in a Dolphins jersey. Just imagine it was Panther Blue. Is Bryce Young going to do enough this week? No. I will say that every week. He honestly— Will he do enough for Tett? Yes. Because he's Mike's star of the week. Yeah, no, he will. If there's any matchup where Bryce is going to do enough, this is one of them. I think one thing I'm watching, because we're kind of using that language in week one, I'm watching for— you know, Tett McMillan and where he's lining up in this offense. And if they start to move him around more. That's exciting. Yeah, he was in the slot a decent amount with preseason. Like, we saw it. So, that would be a huge boost if they're actually willing to move him around and not just be dumb. Odds that we are satisfied in any meaningful way by what happens in the running back room for Carolina this week? No. I think it's more of a— The odds are no, Jason. Yeah. The odds are no. Yeah. They are no. Okay. It's looking for rotation. Like, I guess, I mean, like, when we get done with the day, are we like, hey, we know what's going on? Or not really? I think the only way you know what's going on is if Jonathan Brooks takes control. Jonathan breakout? Yeah. Like, that's the only— that would be like, oh, holy crap. Off of, you know, he was released by General Soreness. Oh, yeah. From duty? Yeah. Where Chuba's— If Chuba's healthy, if they switched it in week one, that would feel like a big deal. That's an honorable distraction. Yeah, I really hope it's honorable. Yeah. Yes. DeAndre Swift is a must start. Absolutely. Great matchup. Carolina 31st in yards before contact allowed. And DeAndre Swift, if he knows anything, it's how to get yards before he gets hit. It is true. And we'll keep an eye on Roman Dunzay and the injury and whether he's 100%. We hope so. He was limited on Wednesday. I think they expect him out there. But, you know, right now it's Burden, Loveland, Dunzay, in terms of our priorities. Probably Loveland, Burden, Dunzay. Yeah, that's how I would do it. Jason, thoughts there? Loveland, Burden, Dunzay, for sure. I think you've got to, you know, make sure you see the practices that Roman Dunzay's practicing in full. Yeah, I mean, with that injury, it's got to be Burden ahead of him. And Loveland is obviously— there's no world where he's not starting because he was, you know, pretty much a third-round draft pick. Okay. We're ping-ponging in between. We're ping-ponging in games that we're excited about and games that are going to be interesting. Cleveland, the Browns, have an implied point total of 15.5 this week. 15.5. Taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. I did hit the Duval button. It didn't work. Do it, Mike. Duval. All right. Jacksonville, 24 points, implied point total. The game is only a 39.5 over under. Jacksonville minus 8.5 at home. Yeah, don't worry about that part for Jacksonville. For Jacksonville. Jacksonville, they won their last eight games last year. Cleveland, 31st in points per game. Deshaun Watson is playing quarterback in the NFL this week. So that's happening. Didn't he just get, like, pulled over or arrested again for speeding or something yesterday? He did? I think so. I didn't see it. Yeah, I didn't see it. I think Watson got pulled over or something. Well, careful on your reporting here. Cited going 86 miles an hour in a 60. Someone just saw it. He pled non-guilty to the citation. This happened 19 hours ago. You can do that? Yeah. Pro Football Talk has it, too. Cited for speeding. I mean. You can get pulled over going 86 in a 60. You'd be like, no, I didn't. Not guilty? Not guilty. Hmm. Well, I don't think accepting guilt has really been. Oh. Nice. Boston. Got him. What he should be saying in court is more along the lines of, I hold myself in contempt. You know what I mean? But he's Watson. Oh, man. Is that it? That was it. Was that it? That was the third. Okay. We made it. Quinch on Judkins, Bayshall, Tootin at the running back spot. Both guys probably in your lineup will get to watch Chris Rodriguez and maybe LaQuint Allen active and how that distribution goes. The Tootin and Rodriguez of listed co-starters. Yeah, they're co-starters. And if you get down on the eight-yard line and it's C-Rod every time. It's going to be bad. It's going to feel bad. It's going to feel really bad. It's a real – yeah, it would be bad. I'm excited to watch the rookie wide receivers. I don't know if their quarterback can get them the ball, but Concepcion, Denzel Boston, that'll be exciting. Oh, man. Harold Fannin, that's exciting. KC is going to be so open all the time. I can't wait for a couple weeks from now. I still wonder if Deshaun Watson is going to come in here and target Jerry Judy the most, which will just be tremendous. Jerry Judy was very excited that Watson. Yeah. Watson was named the starter. He was asked back a couple months ago who he wanted to start, and he threw up a four, and that's Watson's number. Let me tell you this. We have a segment tomorrow because the Wheel of Shame is returning, and Jerry Judy has a role in that segment tomorrow. Oh, yeah. I will tell you that. Oh, yeah. I will tell you that right now because there's nothing more shameful than the Wheel of Shame in week one and having Jerry Judy in a lineup. Which side is he going to go? So he is in a lineup. I don't know, but I think based on seeing the – I don't know what his projection is. I don't either, but I think he goes more. Is it a disservice to our listenership to not tell you what it is ahead of time? No, you're fine. Stay tuned until tomorrow. Because the game's not until Sunday, so there you go. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Tomorrow's show also – I mean, even with that going on, Andy, we're not putting Jerry Judy into our season-long lineups. That's it. Thank you, Mike. Thank you for letting me know. Let's be clear on that. We get to watch the Brian Thomas Jr., Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers situation. Yes. This one's a huge, huge one. One for gathering information. So much to learn about the Jags. And then Brenton Strange, you know, spot start if you need him. If you lost Brock Bowers, I mean, I'd start Brenton Strange over a lot of different lower-level tight ends probably. Yeah. Or some of them. If Joe Watson's not there, Brenton Strange, I think, is – he's an okay dart thrower. And play T-Law. Who's a better play, Kate Otten or Brenton Strange? Because I feel like that – I agree with you. Joe Watson is the best. He's the best of the probable waiver. The problem for Kate Otten is whenever people have been healthy, he just runs wind sprints. Like, he doesn't actually get targets. But, having said that, the matchup for Kate is so glorious in terms of the defense he's against, you know, where they ranked last year against the position. Oh, for years. And then his opponent. And then his opponent's pace of play, them moving faster, giving Tampa Bay more opportunities. It's a really good spot, but I don't – I feel like I would probably still play Brenton Strange. We're going to do one more. Buffalo taking on the Houston Texans in Houston. Buffalo minus one and a half on the road. I feel like that is – that's an interesting one, too. Sure. Houston's a good team. Yes. Over under 44 and a half. Dominant defense last year. Sixth against quarterbacks. Giving up just 12. 12.2 fantasy points per game. But they didn't play Josh Allen every week, obviously, although the one time they did, they held him in check. They're ninth against running backs, fourth against wide receivers as well. Buffalo was the Super Bowl pick for me yesterday over Detroit. And Jason had Detroit over Buffalo. Yep. Yep. So, Josh Allen one and four in his career against Houston. Houston's defense is going to put pressure on him. We'll get to see DJ Moore's debut. You're going to be starting Josh Allen 99.9%. 99.9% of the time. James Cook. Yep. DJ Moore, probably. And then, you know, I found myself, no matter what we said, we said a lot of things about Dalton Kincaid this offseason, which is ironic because him and Kyle Pitts just have this redundancy to the offseason hype train where it's like, we just know how talented they are in the right situation. Right. And Dalton Kincaid, I found myself when push came to shove in drafts, I couldn't do it. Yeah. I couldn't get myself to – like, I'm just like, part of me is expecting to have a good time. I'm going to have week one, and Dalton Kincaid is two for 21, and we're back in the same boat, and, you know, Khalil Shakir is active, and he gets a bunch of little targets, and then there's somebody else that just – I hope it's not the case. I hope Dalton Kincaid can utilize in proportion to the gifts he has. So, the reason that I love Dalton Kincaid late in drafts was certainly not a probability play of he's going to be good this year. It was more of a breakout hope that if he actually plays 75% of snaps, I think – I think he would be very good. case it was a ceiling case this game is actually a really really good i know it's a bad matchup in general there won't be a ton of points here scored but you can attack the texans a little bit more at the tight end position than a wide receiver they're going to need dalton kinkade if dalton kinkade is 50 of snaps in this game you you you can know right off the bat it's not this is not going to work so that's what i'm watching for more than anything is basically just snap count because he's hyper efficient in his routes run are they involving him and running more of those routes or not he's healthy hopefully he does i don't mind anybody even if they want to have a safer play and throw in juwan johnson while keeping dalton kinkade on on their bench that's fine it is dalton v dalton so dalton schultz on the other side or dalton kinkade in this one you've got the injuries at the wide receiver position for houston dalton dalton v dalton jason and talk about two different daltons i mean it's the exact inverse one drives one drives like recklessly drives sports cars the other ones afford tourist man yeah but but that thing is but that thing's been running oh yeah it will it will hit 400 dude every 146 000 miles on that bad dog every suggested service handled oh yeah we are preventing any problems yeah yeah i mean if i'm an underdog i would play kinkade okay i'm a uh a heavy favorite i would play schultz and if it's a 50 50 matchup i'm gonna go with dalton kinkade dalton schultz had a 19 target share last year which is like this that's a lot we've for a garbage type of a fantasy tight end you would 100 take that and when you lose higgins and you lose you know christian and tangdale's not active from last year he will be involved oh man so involved he had games of 10 targets here he comes guys and nine comes eight nine the issue is those you can have 10 targets with dalton schultz and have a bad game absolutely we'll see what david montgomery woody marks breakdown looks like buffalo has been the run funnel type of defense allow the highest yards per carry to running backs last year don't keep that uh you know don't just because their defense overall was pretty good against running backs 23.2 fancy points per game given up you could come out of week one saying a couple things you could say that uh david montgomery we should have seen how good he was going to be you can come out of it saying oh my gosh here's a perfect 50 50 timeshare and woody mark's going to be a good defense you can come out of it saying oh my gosh here's a perfect 50 50 timeshare and woody marks looks spicier right i mean montgomery's been the non-spicy choice in detroit but a good player um you know i what is the most likely outcome i think the most likely outcome is you're going to see david montgomery get a ton of work this is this is a joe mixon style a joe mixon style thing if you're the houston texans going up against josh allen and the buffalo bills you are going to want to control the clock you are going to want to keep your offense out on the field play slow run the ball as much as you can keep their offense off um and let your defense win and i think that that is david montgomery is going to have you know i would guess 65 utilization all right uh nico collins play him we'll see what kashon booty's involvement is as well that was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks guaranteed picks drop in the app every monday prize picks run your game tomorrow we will have more matchups we will have a thursday night football game recap for you we will have the fantasy face off for week one and hopefully no more injuriness unless it's positive like recovery type stuff not substation stuff you know what i mean mri came back everything's good yeah they're gonna play in week two yeah it's not gonna happen probably not gonna happen uh latest news on josh jacobs by the way um that i have is that it seems you know very likely that we'll have a two to six game suspension happening uh we don't know how long it'll take for the nfl to finish reviewing footage and meeting with him but i would guess that with the legal situation being wrapped up they will expedite the packers will try to expedite they will try and uh i mean i look if it comes back and there's a two-game suspension for josh jacobs that is going to be a pretty it will be a seismic shift it will be that thank you that is the way to put it a seismic shift and where the marshall and lloyd truthers will live and what jacobs implications will be now it you know two games seems unlikely to me but i i don't know what's going on we did get a report that ashen genti is likely to play or going to play sorry in week one against the dolphins awesome nice to get a what did i say some good injury yeah we need it let's get out of here shut it down the fantasy footballers.com join the foot clan 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Patriots in a tightly contested game, with Sam Darnold's injury early in the game creating uncertainty but not ending the game's competitiveness.
  2. Drake May had a strong performance with 178 yards and a touchdown, three picks, and a notable run game, though his overall fantasy value is questioned due to high turnovers and lack of consistency.
  3. A.J. Brown is expected to miss several weeks with a high ankle sprain, though X-rays were negative and recovery may take three weeks, prompting major fantasy shifts and trade activity.

Summary:

The fantasy football podcast highlights key injuries and matchups from the opening week of the NFL season, focusing on the Seattle vs. Patriots game. Sam Darnold's early injury raises concerns about Seattle’s quarterback depth, while Drake May’s performance shows promise but is marred by turnovers and inconsistent play.

J. Brown’s high ankle sprain is a major blow to fantasy rosters, with projections indicating a multi-week absence, prompting widespread trading and lineup adjustments. The discussion also covers rookie performances, notably Jadarian Price’s strong debut and Remondre Stevenson’s explosive impact despite limited targets.

Injuries to Brock Bowers and George Kittle remain in flux, with experts emphasizing the importance of monitoring recovery timelines and injury reports. The hosts also provide detailed start-of-the-week recommendations, prioritizing matchups with high over/under totals and favorable defensive environments. They stress watching receiver pecking orders, running back workloads, and rookie utilization, particularly for players like Chris Bell and DeAndre Swift.

The week’s key takeaways include the volatility of fantasy football in week one, where injuries, matchups, and rookie performances can drastically shift projections. With injuries like Brown’s and Bowers’ ongoing, fantasy managers are advised to remain flexible and focus on health, matchup, and depth charts to maximize success. The podcast concludes with a reminder of the Foot Clan’s injury blitz podcast and the importance of real-time injury updates in shaping fantasy strategies.

FAQs

The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Patriots 13-10. The game was tight, with key developments including Sam Darnold's early injury and Drew Locke's strong performance despite initial jitters.

Drake May had a solid game with 178 yards and a touchdown, three picks, and seven total touchdowns in the past seven games. His performance suggests he could be a trade candidate due to low expectations after the game.

A.J. Brown suffered a high ankle sprain, with X-rays showing no fracture. The team reports he is in a walking boot and expected to miss a few weeks, with recovery times typically around three games.

With A.J. Brown out, the Seahawks will rely more on wide receivers like Romeo Dobbs and Mac Collins. This shift may increase opportunities for these players, especially in fantasy matchups where passing volume rises.

Romandre Stevenson had 60 of 71 offensive snaps and scored 13.8 fantasy points, with 50 of his 51 rushing yards coming after contact. He is expected to be highly involved in the passing game, especially with A.J. Brown out.

Sam Darnold is still awaiting an MRI, with concerns about a season-ending hip fracture. While he’s not out, the short-term injury status remains uncertain, and he may miss time.

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