Starts of the Week + Week 2 Preview, Thanks Khloe! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/17

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in, here's football time. We're already back. Did you almost forget? No, no, no, okay. I did not. It is super football time. I did not. Super duper football time. I woke up and I was like, "I was Thursday, baby." You know what we didn't even talk about on the incredible game that is happening tonight is the fact that this is the bill's home opener of their new state. Is that what it's called? It's the first game ever. That's going to be electric moving lines electric. I will be disappointed if this game is not 68 to 65. So this is the the no wind stadium, right? That's right. This is the we are still open, but we've prevented the blustery winds. Big dome accepts. Okay. Okay, accepts this compromise. We will we will inspect look. It's a big dome reserves the right to change our opinion. Thank you. Because you're inspecting. Yeah, but if this works out where it's like, hey, you all get your snow games, but we get that wind out of here. That absolute nonsense. The wind without wind would be really great. Yeah, and rain without wind is usually fine as well. Like it doesn't get in the way. It's right. Well, but that's the one I'm saying when when it sideways wind and it's like 15 mile an hour to 30 mile an hour. That's where you can't you can't do anything and that people. That's not fun football to watch. I don't I can't hear that that is fun football. You can make a great argument. The whole like, oh, I don't like watching defensive games. No, you can watch an awesome defensive game where two great defenses are just annihilating the other offense. You can have fun with that. You cannot have fun watching sideways rain football where no one can complete a pass. Everyone's slipping around. I want. I want to giggle at the weather three times a year. I want to go. I want to laugh a little bit because of what I'm watching. I want some. I want something kind of funky. Three times. The beauty of a snow game. Okay. And if we've the wind out of there. We've been working through this for years and years. And to hear that big dome is willing to go and inspect the situation. To consider what we've done with technological advancements and geometry and whatever physics is going on there to prevent the winds swirling. Cleveland better be paying attention. Well, Cleveland. He's the dome. Chicago and Cleveland. Those. Yeah. They're just you talk about Indiana. Oh, yeah, maybe they're new. I don't know what the wind up like Indiana. It's not the windy city in Hammond. Is it. We've got a great show. We've got a fun. Quick question. News and notes to talk about. Start to the week today. Fantasy forecast. And we had the funniest thing happen yesterday ever. And so this is I mean, I'm going to I'm going to apologize to the audio listeners already because you. I mean, you make you can go to YouTube and see you can go to our socials and see it. But lo and behold, we hired an influencer. We did. And you might not know her. But um, you know, we are great friends. Our partners at Series XM. They're like, hey, we're going to you know, it's football season. We're going to get you up on a billboard New York City. And what a cool thing that is pretty cool. It is. But then we needed somebody. Some random word. I mean, some random person to preferably an influencer to go and just show off the billboard. Yeah. And for lo and behold, where somebody is browsing. I think Mike found it first. Someone. Someone tagged us. I don't know. I think she's trying to show her own billboard off. If you look at this objectively, she is showing off our billboard. She's literally pointing it into us. She's covering her own face and winning at us. She's cheering for the fans. So I just want to say thank you, Chloe. Yes. Good work. Wait, wait, wait. I don't have a plus button. Oh, I got you. I got you. I think I love it. I think we really appreciate it. And you know, she was showing off some three new fragrances. And Jason pointed out. I mean, that's one way to refer to us. New smells are Andy Mike and Jason. So you can go to Sephora and pick up Chloe's three new sense. You want to smell like a dirty basement. Something pick up. Oh, did Mike. Some things are just too funny because you just can't believe you want to smell like a chef with garlic on his hands. I don't know what ice cream smells like, but that's my I would go with yours. Mike, my gosh. Have you not showered in like four days? No, that's that's a little garlicky. Yeah. You're catching a few grass clippings in there from the range. Yes. Unbelievable. All right. Our quick question of the day from Tony in North Carolina. He says in a buddy of mine's family league, there was a trade that got vetoed and people are really upset about it. The trade was B. John Robinson. Oh boy. For Luther burden and Chaba. Chaba. Chaba. Chaba. Chaba. Chaba. Haba. Chaba. Hubbard. So would you veto is the question. And you're really. Let me. You guys answer the question. I'm going to give that the opener. The opener is that our policy of which I am. I know we still hold to is that outside of open collusion. Let people be who they want to be. We have been around the game long enough to see trays that look lopsided in one person's favor, change in the blink of an eye and be lopsided for the other person. So in almost all circumstances, we would say you never veto. You certainly don't have, you know, a commission only veto situation. You know, if you have to have a veto, it should be some sort of like unanimous league veto. Even then we say pretty much just don't have it. This is not a good trade. It is not a good trade. B. John is worth much more than the hope of what Luther burden can become mixed with Chaba. Hubbard. However, there, there's a world. I mean, Chaba. Hubbard was running back one two years ago. He got all the work in week one and Luther. And so it's one of those things where unless you know that these managers are doing something nefarious one of these guys is giving in one of these guys is helping a buddy or whatever more than likely one of these guys is just bad at fantasy football. We have the clues are in the question in a buddy of mine's family league. Ah, y'all never been in a family league. Someone's dunking on kids. It's generally speaking. And maybe I'm way off base here, but I don't think I am. It's a family family league, which that means that there's going to be people in that league who aren't like a dialed in. Ravid fantasy football maniacs. Yeah, there's one that might be. It's funny because we played in a family league for several years with with our children one year with our wives. None of us ever won that league, right? Because we we didn't go. We didn't do this. We didn't do this. We didn't try to take advantage of people and be like, does it going to be so fun? It's not 100% guarantee that the B. John side will win this one. Pretty close, but it's pretty. I mean, it is pretty close, but I mean, literally, I mean, you could have injuries. You could have things that change the situation. We don't like what's going on in Atlanta blah, blah, blah, blah. It's probably a very lopsided trade in the B. John manager's favor. However, if the Chuba, the person getting Chuba has zero wide receivers at all. There's a world where the net effect of this trade is better for them. Look, this, this is the type of nuance and speculation that we don't want veto power to control. So crappy trade. That's okay. Crappy trades can happen. And here's the my advice. If you are in a family league and you are a cut throat fantasy football player. If you listen to this podcast, look, you want information. You want to be better. That's on you, man. You go make that trade. You, you know who to trade with. Yeah. Go get their players. Yep. All right. News time. News and notes from around the league. That escalated quickly. You guys were making fun of his sore thumb. I mean, to be fair, it's got a fracture. Kevin O'Connell did did say he has a sore thumb. And to be fair, I'll bet he did because he was broken. I bet his thumb was pretty darn sore. Jordan Mason's on IR with a small fraction in his thumb. The fracture was certainly tied to the soreness. That's two thumbs down for that. Nice. Yeah. That's one thumb down. One's in a cast. Joe Burrow told reporters. On that note, though, before we move on to Joe Burrow, this matters for fantasy. Yes, it does. We'll talk about it later today. But there's going to be, you know, some waiver wire pickups. Do you pick up? You know, they're rookie who's got a lot of speed. Demon Claiborne. Demon Claiborne. There was some talk about when you listen to Kevin O'Connell talk, he was not bullish on the rookie. I'm hopeful on the road I liked the rookies tape. I he had a lot a lot of speed. The thing I liked with Jordan Mason coming into this year, kind of that outside vertical zone works really well for him. I think it works pretty well here for Clayborne as well. However, the quotes we're talking all about past protection and that they're excited for his future, but he's got a lot of work to do. So you kind of have to temper it a little bit. Can we just say just play Aaron Jones? Yes. It's like we're fine. We've been trying to find the non-Aaron Jones answer in Minnesota. Aaron Jones is part of the equation here. For the next month, he becomes an absolutely fantastic play. His legs are fresh, which we see all the time, a lot of times older players get off to a stronger start in the beginning of the year. Last year's Keenan Allen was great for about a month. If he's all alone for a month, that is fantastic. Yeah. I mean, this is going to be the Vikings. They're just an interesting case all the way around when it comes to fantasy. I mean, Aaron Jones played 46.2% of snaps. That was 2% higher than Jordan Mason and week one. Mason did have a lot of work, but I mean, it was pretty even. 12 carries for Aaron Jones, 15 for Jordan Mason. I even think they were similar efficiency-wise. So yeah, I mean, Aaron Jones is going to get a ton of work. It's, yeah, I don't know what their offensive philosophy becomes because you can't, they talked about, we really want to run more. You can't feed Aaron Jones, just carry after carry after carry. So I'll be interested to see if Clayborn can get thing, just get some opportunities. If you took them in your rookie draft, this is the kind of break they use your moment. Yeah, it's Jason's moment too. He just spent 29 in the chop league for him. Well, I for Jordan Mason was my running back to and my running back three was Isaiah Pacheco. So I have to have a start. There was no one out there. And also 29 fab in a, for context, we have a thousand fab in that league. It's 27 more than you needed. Sure. I just looked at that. Julia, Julia was talking about him and I was like, ah, and she needs them. Oh, there's the little, there's the chop league. The context of your league matters. Well, no, I just where we talk, talk up a name. I mean, just start saying rumors about people you love. Joe Burrow told reporters, this sucks, that he's dealing with a back with back tightness expects to play. You can go back and watch the clip. He got it. And what's crazy is we saw this play live. And when I saw it, I made a comment in the studio that, oh, you don't want to see that. Right. Because he, he was going to the sideline. And instead of going out of bounds, he just kind of like dove forward and in bounds and got absolutely annihilated. Like it was a hard hit. Then he gets up and you see him react, ah, oh, you know, like we do when we get up in the morning. Right. And now you have him dealing with back tightness. And then Jason and I yesterday, Mike on the footcast, yeah, you were, you were heading out to your son driving football games on the two son in the rain. But we started to speculate like, you know, why were we so frustrated with him not going down field? Why was it so many tight ends in the short area? Was he feeling a little bit of pain from this? That's fair. I don't like it. I don't want to have conversations about Joe Burrow being hurt guys. And what was going on with people's backs? What? Why aren't people wearing precautionary back brace? Yes, thank you. I mean, like to at least like the the thing you wear when you're doing, yeah, you're talking about the spasm. Yeah, epidemic going on seriously. I don't have a stretch for that one guys. There's no butterfly. I don't know what to do. No, I think you just do the old, the old twisty. You know what they need on the sideline? They did good old fashioned school desk. Oh, because it'll pop your back. You sit on that day. Oh, you just. Oh, that chair. Yeah. Lean back. Correct. The ultimate and chiropractic care. Elementary school desk. Do you see a chiropractic? No, I actually just bought a chair from a school. Uh, Nico Collins, this sucks limited hamstring injury availability in question for the upcoming week. We're going to talk about it probably on today's episode. Um, this is concerning because you started the practice fine. Then got injured. Then they say that they're going to get, uh, you know, imaging done, which you don't do that for no reason. Uh, it's a scary proposition, like right now, uh, if you have Nico, you have to make plans to have a different player, pick someone up off the waiver wire, um, maybe elevate booty in your mind or yeah, or whatever you're going to do. Done. Yeah. Look, this is not our fault. Yeah. Andy's the man's name. Andy hasn't really been a booty guy. But lately, especially after the Nico injury, he's really becoming a booty guy. I did sign Xavier Hutchinson in our dynasty league to play. Yeah. So because he was available. So that's something to pay attention to. But you know what sucks is that, you know, isolated hamstring injury. Sure. This ain't his first. This ain't his first radio with this. I mean, he missed, um, one, two, three, four weeks, five weeks in in 2024 with a hamstring injury. It's him and Evans are the two that if you talk hammies, I don't like it. It makes me think about how good Jordan Tyson's going to be because Nico's awesome. Right? Kevin's is on. There's some about these tall guys who have like, they run too fast for their hamstring. When they're healthy, they're going to be awesome. But they're Achilles heel. It's their hamstring. Well, it's their hamstring. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Um, Lad McConkey didn't practice on Wednesday. We'll monitor that. I think that is at Friday. Yeah. Wednesday doesn't matter to me on recovering from that injury. But I heard about the timeline. They were expecting him to not practice Wednesday to do a little bit Thursday to be full-go Friday. So we'll see if that pans out or not. I just acquired, uh, Mike's least favorite player in the NFL in our league of record. DK Mecca. Yeah. Nice. Just just in this moment. Did you just made it right? He has the lowest. He had the highest expected fantasy points contrasting with his performance, which might just be what DK is. Mm-hmm. But at the same time, what I ended up doing was I traded Dejan Stribling. Mm-hmm. And a small pick swat. I get it. I get it. To get Metcalf because Stribling, we just got the word that Stribling is out probably 10 weeks. 10 weeks. Yeah. Ankle surgery. We were hoping, I mean, I think part of the show yesterday was like, hey, Stribling and Tyson will be out in the same amount of time. No. This is a nightmare. This is a my guy that got no chances to be a my guy. Been there, brother. Yeah. What was it? It was a Blake Darwin week one ACL and it's sort of Jason last year in the capacity where like kiddo just sucked the life out of the beginning of your season. I said it on yesterday show. I I will forever be a DK Meccaf hater. But the opportunity if if week one is the new trend of this Mike McCarthy offense and how they're going to use DK Meccaf. If he has to be a starter for me on by weeks and things like that or in a flex spot, I can live with it. It was funny. You had 10 targets. And these are like he's getting, I mean, he's running a lot of slants, but he's getting big boy A dot shots too. It was funny. You're talking about his expected fantasy points and he was, he had far fewer expected fantasy points than what he should have. He had real reals. Yeah. And then it was like, I was looking at the 19 expected or something like that. Yeah. And then it was like when I looked at all of the players that kind of, you know, there's a great stat to look at is what was their opportunity? And did they fail on that opportunity or not? And it was like, Oh, there were some players who really outperformed their opportunities. JSN, Almond Ross St Brown, Chris Olave, Jimmy or Gibbs. It's all the good players. Go figure. They do more with their opportunities. And then it's like the players who had great opportunity, but did last. It was DK Meccaf, Matthew Golden, Malik Washington, James and Williams. So it's like, Oh, well, yeah. See a trend. I've got one more thing I want to talk about here. We've got a couple of things in the news. And then I have another topic to bring up, but Brock Bowers didn't protect, didn't participate on Wednesday in practice with the knee. Sam Darnold is officially out against the Cardinals. That line keeps changing. It is now three and a half points. Last week when we were, I think it was, was it Monday? I think it was Monday, because I don't think that Monday night football is over. You were talking about. Yeah, you and I were trying to guess the line. Yeah. And you thought it would be, I think three and a half is what you guessed, but the line was five and a half. Then yesterday I moved to four and a half. And now it is where you guessed it at three and a half. And I think some, I think Arizona's going to win the game. RJ Harvey was listed as DNP on Wednesday. Pay attention to that. That is, you know, significant. I bet Jonah Coleman hit a lot of waivers this week. Yeah. No, that's a good point. And then the last thing going to talk about is a comment that came up on 95 seven, the game, they were interviewing Christian McCaffrey. Here's the quote from Christian McCaffrey. I look at some of the duos last year, like Bijan and Tyler Algier and Gibbs and Monty. It was such a good way to keep people fresh. He's good enough to do that. Speaking of Kalen Black, speaking of Kalen Black, and what he had to be offensive run game in 2026. Interesting. Wow. That would be awful. I don't know if it'll be awful. The be a down grade to the outcome. Yes. Yes. Like he won't be, if that was in any way, shape and form true, the McCaffrey healthy equals number one overall would change. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you look at him last week. He was great. Six point yards. A carry eight, eight targets. Did you not catch that? Six point yards. Six point. What? I thought I said six point eight yards of care. No. No. No, you just dropped off. I left the eight out. Yeah. It's two different words out there. Okay. Well, six point eight. eight yards per rush attempt, eight targets. - That's the fact if he's talking. - Really, you know, he was, you got that. You got that, you got that, man, wait a jump on it. My point is, he was gonna hit those, yeah. He was the running back 22 last week, like it, yeah. - Yes, yeah, I just, he'll still be, even in a time show, then he would, if you're like, Chris McCaffrey, healthy is number one. If he's in more of a time share and healthy, he's still top three to me. - Top three? - No, no, no, he's like a, - Well, I forgot about Kenbone Walker. Top four. - Oh, hey, rest of the season rankings. Where do you have Kenbone Walker right now? 'Cause I know where I've got it. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, too high. Let me pull it up. - He's number three. - RB three. - Yeah, he's number three. - RB three, right now. - I just say that's four. - McCaffrey will still be perfectly fine, 'cause he'll get a ton of reception. - B-john gets in JT. - Yeah, who's ahead of him? - I think I would actually. - Like, Stribbling Out means more receptions for Chris McCaffrey. - Yeah, I mean, that team, did you see how heavily favored they are this week? Do you know what the line is in that game? - I don't, I haven't looked. - They're playing the Dolphins, Jason. - Ooh. - Guess the line. - Man, okay, at home or on the, - Believe it's at home. - Okay, okay. - Line is, if you, they were, they opened the lane that given the chargers 10 1/2 versus the Cardinals. I want to say nine 1/2, but based on Andy, it was like, was it like 11? - It's gotta, it has to be double digits. - 13.5. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - 13 1/2. - And unlike the Cardinals? 'Cause generally speaking, - That's what won't be my almost upset this way. - When you see a, when you see a favor like that, you're like, just take, just give me the points. - No. - No, I will not be taking the points. - Also worth noting, 'cause you just brought up our rest of season rankings, Andy, where I've got Ken Bone, Walker, fourth, you guys have a third. Though we have those on the site, we have improved them drastically this, very recently. We are taking into account games left, strength of schedule per position, also. - Yeah, all the algos have been strengthened on this side of the, - Really, really cool stuff. So, and that goes into our trade analyzer. So everything that you, all the tools, they're getting massive upgrades and I'm excited. - That includes our dynasty trade analyzer. So if you're in the trade analyzer and you're in a dynasty league, you're gonna have a couple of options in there to look at short-term, long-term, differentials in the value of the trades. 'Cause people just wanna know is the trade good. And that's just not, I'd love to say yes or no, always. But in a dynasty league, we say this all the time on the mail back shows when these questions come in. Are you trying to win this year? Are you looking for long-term? There is a little bit of a tipping of the balance based on how, when, now, versus long-term, versus youth, versus, you know, all of those equations matter. So we're putting some upgrades into place. We're keeping startup dynasty rankings updated all in season, not just in the off season. All of that should hit the full clan this week. Just some more perks. - I would just say to be safe next week. - But soon. - Yeah, I don't know. - It's Thursday. - Yeah, okay. And for you to say that. - Yeah, I'm usually the one pushing the. - Yeah, the announcement's a little too early. - All right, we'll take a break and we'll jump into our starts. (upbeat music) - Starts of the week. Brought to you by Apple Card. - Starts of the week for week number two. Oh my goodness, here we go. Quarterback started the week for me. I'm going Brock Perty in that matchup against the Dolphins. - Nice. - Amazingly. And all the respect you've been wanting to throw his way. Since returning from injury last year in week 11, the quarterback three and fancy points per game. Their monster favorites. Let's go Brock Perty. - I'm gonna go with the guy that you guys have loved a lot more than I have in his career. Jordan Love, this week against the New York Jets. They don't have a very good running game without Josh Jacobs. And they let him throw the ball second neutral pass rate, sixth and pass rate over expectation. That was against a very good Minnesota defense. I think against the Jets, he will cook. He was top 10 last week. He'll keep throwing the ball and the Jets ain't gonna scare me. - And I'm going to Dak Prescott versus Washington. Last week wasn't what we wanted, 175 and two, plus some nasty George Pickens drops. But 18% of his passes were 20 or more ariards. That is delightful. CDLAM and George will be better in Washington's defense. 31st and EPA per pass attempt last year. And I don't think that they fixed it. - Yeah, I had no signs that they have. My running back started the week. I'm going Bay Shaw Tutton, 16 opportunities last week, even though the snaps are pretty, even with Crod, 14 rush attempts. And look, one season or one week, a season does not make, but Denver, you got run on by Ken Bone Walker in that game. - Also, if you listen to the quotes from Liam Cohen, yeah, he was waxing poetic on Bay Shaw Tutton's performance. - Yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty good week. I want to give people confidence after kind of a, you know, everyone's looking at the snap counts and Crod on the field. I think Tutton, I still want to see what the goal line looks like. That's the concerning part, but I think the opportunities will be there. The Denver matchup, not scary against the run in week one. So I'm going to chase it. - I like it. You guys remember when Chuba Hubbard was able to be paired with Luther Burton to get vision on? - Yeah, yeah. That was because he played against Chicago Bears who were 29th and yards per carry allowed, 31st and rush success rate allowed in 30th and yards before contact. Per attempt, I am playing Aaron Jones. Without Jordan Mason, we just talked about him earlier. He's going to get all the work. He is a good back. His legs are fresh, the matchup is great. Throw him in there. - I love it. (upbeat music) - I'm going Bill Kroski Bay. - Bill Kroski, do something so we can make some more jokes. - He was the clear lead back. - He ran 13 routes for Bill, okay, okay, but 16 carries as well. And the matchup against Dallas, they allowed a 59% success rate in week one against the Giants, which is the second highest rate allowed by a Cowboys defense. Since 2018, they so far through week one, they have not fixed their defense. So I'll play Bill. - All right, wide receiver, start of the week. I'm going to go with a start of the week for tonight. It's DJ Moore against Detroit. High Mark Stadium debut. Huge over under 33% of Buffalo's first read targets. I'm all about the DJ Moore, Dalton King Cade combo to elevate Josh Allen into a stratosphere above the stratosphere he was already in. I don't even know what that is. I don't know what is up there. - There's more figures. - Is there a turt, some sort of-- - Eventually there's space. - Eventually. - Yeah. - Is he going outer space? - He might go to space. - Well, at least low orbit. - All right, I'm going to go with a guy that I didn't love in the off season and he was terrible in week one, but I believe Terra McClorn has-- - Whoa! - Yeah, I mean Terra McClorn's-- - This one's a really interesting one. - He is still a very good player. Last week was a very difficult matchup in this week. It's a very easy matchup. He's going into-- - He's going into-- I could have gone into fun digs, but I think that in this matchup against Dallas with the highest over under of the week, outside of tonight's game, of the weekend slate. Terry is a great bounce back candidate. I think he's got wide receiver two upside and probably and mostly should be started. - I got a couple nasty boys here for you. - Okay. - We're going huge against the Las Vegas Raiders. - So, I actually like it a lot. - Lad McConkey is beat up. Maybe he plays, maybe he doesn't, but if he, if Lad plays, he's going to be in a big puffy coat. So we'll see if that affects how he can play in six. - It was part of me that's like, man, if you have to wear a flag jacket for your ribs, it's got to be better for the bigger guys. Like it's a higher percentage of his body weight. - In six career games versus the Raiders, he has averaged six targets and over 11 fantasy points per game. The charges are big, almost a touchdown favorite. So I like him as a, if you're looking at your wide receiver room going, man, I don't, I just don't know how to play. I think huge is going to work this week. - I thought something that it was like 20% of his career production has come against the Raiders. It makes sense. - Yeah, yeah, that's wild. - All right, this is my, I mean, maybe this is that button over there. Mike, maybe I need to. - Oh, you want to. - Why don't you put something on for me? - Whoa, look at that point on red. - Put the shorts on. - Hold on, I got a, I just think that this guy's earned him. - Just steal. - No, I found it. - I just need steal. - Steal under pants. - I hate this. I mean, it feels like you have to wear him for this guy, Mark Andrews, start of the week against the Orleans. - I feel like this is just so that I don't drop him. You want to make me start him. - Raven's offense look good in week one. - This is a trick. - James, a trap. - We don't, I mean, lanes on IR, they flowers is banged up. We don't know 100% whether he'll be 100% and Mark Andrews still target on 26% of the routes, still a viable red zone target. I think we get a touchdown this week. Hey, touchdown guarantee. - Oh. - Inside. - My touchdown guarantee. - Okay. - Mark Andrews. - I guess. - First one of the year. - I guess I won't be dropping Mark Andrews. - Got him. - Got him. - However, I might start of the week as a guy who scored fewer than Mark Andrews did last week. Colston Loveland, which I hope this is like the only time this year we're allowed to make him a start of the week and it was just like a, well duh. Of course you're gonna start Colston Loveland. Goose last week. But he had the second highest route participation of any tight end in week one. There were 280 rushing yards or something that came from the bear. They did not need Colston Loveland. I think against Minnesota. They will. He's a great player. Obviously you drafted him You're not going to move off, but I think it's going to be a good you know what the the actual problem people are going to have with Loveland and which is why this is a great idea to bring him up again is that there's going to be people with Loveland and got it and they Played Loveland and got it was on the bench or got in was on waiver wires and they picked them up Yeah, now you're staring down a guy that had two touchdowns and 20 point week versus a goose star Loveland There you go. I'm going with Dr. Schultz aka Dalton Schultz of the Houston, Texans since an adi I mean that's Dancing that's actually two generous probably for what the doctor puts out on the field great start We talked about like Niko is hurt And we we just got some news that Niko not practicing today diagnosed with a grade one hamstring injury So we'll see if he's able to go or it even be a full-time player if he does play but The doctor man against the Cincinnati who they've been historically bad against the tight end and He just you got it why where else are you going to go with the football? I expect him to have a a decent target share Much better in a PPR situation, but the doctor when he when when you call on him and you really need him He tends to show up Niko not practicing today. Yep. Yep 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 issue by Goldman Sachs bank USA Salt Lake City branch Terms and more at apple card dot com You guys ready for the matchups. Yes, sir. Let's do it Fantasy forecast presented by prize pigs All right week two away we go we previewed the Thursday night football game, which we're so excited for on yesterday's show starting with Carolina oh and one it was an impressive week There there were a handful of teams that just had great week ones that ended up oh and one and you're like man That's where's the league median for you? Yeah, like my listener league team Carolina oh and one Atlanta oh and one Games in Atlanta Vegas line Carolina on the road minus two and a half the overruners 43 and a half We don't know Who's going to be the quarterback in fact Atlanta came out and said We're not ruling anybody out that means we're not ruling out Cooper rush We're not ruling out to a tongue of I low. We're not ruling out Michael Pinnock Jr And we're not ruling out Jack Strand. Yeah, you shouldn't have four that you can't rule out giant killer. Look it can't be Cooper rush I'm trusting Stephanski here to play someone else That's my that's what look I think Atlanta will win the game if they don't start Cooper rush That is what I actually believe I think if Michael Pinnock's holds out for three more games He might get a contract extension. Yeah, that's a great Michael Pinnock says he's four more games Arthur blanks put him in the ring of honor He's been 110% for months, but he knows with people ahead of him just getting better for him No, it's great. Tua is not practicing. I haven't seen today, but Tua did not practice yesterday Rush did practice. It's gonna be Cooper rush man. If it's Cooper rush Can you start Drake? No It's hard because maybe not maybe not is the right answer because you might not have another option, but look I'll put it this way If you have Drake London and Jaylen Coker And Cooper rush is the starting quarterback. I would play Jaylen Coker. Yeah, yeah, for sure I mean, let's I'll run through some names. Uh, it won't feel good Devon say we'll get nastier, but Devon say Adams. Yeah, I would play Adams Rome Adunese I would play Rome Uh, okay, Chris Godwin against Cleveland That's where I go. Okay, bad man. Yeah, Godwin did look bad We didn't say it on yesterday's show takes you like takes you don't like that would have been in my shaky-take situation the Godwin performance Okay, yeah, I mean I like how Kyle organized these quarterbacks. He is the the Atlanta fan here and Kyle feel free to speak up But he said Tua didn't want to play Cooper rush did not play well Michael Panax Jr. Not allowed to play That's the way that it works right now. Yeah, uh, you start bjohn would you play mecca or Drake London? I play mecca If it's Cooper Reich Here's the thing here you can't make like I've said enough good things about DK mecca if you can't do that Here's what I how's the game going to go you have to trust a little bit the line right Atlanta wants to do this they want to get ahead By a few points and run bjohn and pass to bjohn and just live that way with the defense and the running game You think Caroline is getting up two three scores against Atlanta. I don't I don't think that's going to happen in Atlanta That would be your one scenario where Cooper rush has to fade back and throw a pick and then throw to London and then throw a pick Yeah, it probably doesn't happen. I also think that I don't want to play Kyle pits Well, we've seen for the last two years with the Carolina Panthers defenses that they have no ability to stop the run They are they are world class bad at stopping the run We saw that against Dehander Swift and common on guy last week bjohn has every opportunity to be the number one running back on the week this week He was 63% of Atlanta's receiving yards Yeah, that's just it's like you're great and it's broken there Yeah, so I would I would expect this to be a close game where Atlanta's focus is bjohn and try to play Kyle thinks it's going to be a rush I mean right now it almost has to be an unless two it gets healthy this week It doesn't seem like pinnix is going to name is perfect Cooper rush just rush when he's in there. Yeah Bryce young tuba Hubbard Tett Mcmillan and coaker Darren Waller. I waller is somebody. I'm keeping a close eye on because the snap count should arise over time He had a touchdown called back. I think he will be a red zone target. I just throwing that out there But where are we with these other options? I think it's I think the other options are are fine to play Jonathan Brooks I should say to you saw week one. I'm not playing Brooks. I would agree you can't play Brooks until I Brooks should be rostered. You should be excited. You should be watching him and hopefully it gets closer to a 50-50 time share since he was coming back from an injury But the utilization he had last week you can't rely on him getting a 40-year boot camp Reception so the wide receivers both Teterola Mcmillan and Jalen coaker. I think should be started as wide receiver twos The Falcons looked okay in week one on defense, but they shut down the Pittsburgh Steelers Yeah, but that could be I'm talking to the wide receivers. Oh sure for the wide receivers. They looked okay They they were terrible last year last year. They were like 30th this year. It was okay, but how much of that's Aaron Rodgers? So I I think I'm okay starting Mcmillan and coaker. Yeah, I'm too The Minnesota Vikings that want to know take on the one or no Chicago Bears in Chicago Vegas line Chicago minus four and a half over under 47 and a half Jason you you made Aaron Jones your start of the week. We just talked about it price picks his projection for him rushing receiving is 79 and a half yards They expect a lot of Aaron Jones involvement And this is why you know, it's really hard in a divisional matchup like this To say that they're going to put clay boi in there very much at all I just don't think he'll have a lot of opportunities and neither does price picks apparently that's yeah the the quotes The quotes this week from Kevin O'Connell were basically that DJ Dallas will have an increased role Um, and they just signed yeah more called up, so uh and that um and that Clay boi needs to work on his Pass protection Justin Jefferson 39.1 percent target sharing week one. What do we think of that? Sounds like it's fantastic. Yeah, I mean we saw this with Carson wins last year He played five games as the starter and Justin Jefferson was on pace for about 180 targets He's gonna soak it all up. That's partially why I don't think you can really play Jordan Addison Um granted we don't know for sure that Carson wins is starting But I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily I mean the the the matchup is really nice for the wide receivers So maybe you can throw Addison in there, but I think there's enough people around the league that I wouldn't start over him Chicago was the fourth team ever to allow 35 points and win by 20 or more They gave up so many points last week, but you know, that's the way the game went and now they're at home Minnesota the good matchup we expected to be Carson wins. We'll see Caleb. Yes swift. Uh-huh. My non guy sure Yeah, I mean the Vikings defense is stout against the run so when you look at a guy that's going to get limited touches You have to say what are your odds? It's a touchdown. I think they go down this week from a Nungai. Yeah, I'm I'm Not wanting to start Menungai personally in the first three quarters the split for between Swift and Menungai Were drastic they you know Menungai had like four carries. I think at that point going into the fourth quarter Um, it was like 13 or 14 for Swift. It was a it was a very wide gap then as the fourth quarter They pulled away one by 20 they just gave gave Menungai the end of the game now granted he was coming back off of an injury So maybe we will see more involvement, but Minnesota's a great defense So I I wouldn't want to start the backup running option not no more expectations of cleave Raymond getting a 34.6% target share After a week one, he better not pick them up a couple places. I will say this He's who you need to keep your eyes on snap percentage if Rome is healthy now and is fine and Rome played 48% of the snaps If he goes up and plays you know what what we would expect and he's up at 70% of the snaps and cleave Raymond has gone and you could see these three wide receivers Wide receivers being colson lovelin is one of them playing the majority of snaps. I think we'll see what we were hoping for. But if this week, Khalif Raymond goes out there and is playing 50 or 60% of the snaps 'cause he knows the system. He came over from Ben Johnson with the Detroit lines. He's just a good enough veteran player to mix in and they've got packages for him all the time. I think that's gonna prove to be really problematic for Luther Burden for Roma Dunezee and potentially for Colson Loveland if there's a fourth mouth to feed. - I think Raymond is your 10th for Raymond. I think you look at him a lot like Kendrick Born and Week 1 for Arizona where the involvement, it was high, the defensive packages accounted for a Dunezee in Burden and didn't account for Raymond to be able to have such a big role. - Yeah. - So it was impressive and what I love is I just like Khalif taking what's available. You're gonna be a better quarterback. By the way, 72% completion percentage in Week 1. That's a good start. Never had a game like that last year. That was the struggle. 10 carries 65 rushing yards last week for Khalif Williams. - Get ready for this week. I mean, Minnesota blitz on 74% of plays last week, the highest in the NFL, Flores is a master. I mean, Minnesota won. They didn't seem like a team after losing Kyle or two seconds into this game that were with the deficit they had against the Packers. They could win that game and it was the defense that stepped up. Philadelphia won a note taking on the own one Tennessee Titans. Now, what? Filly minus seven on the road. Over under 39.5. To me, that line is actually respectful. It is indicative of Filly's offense, not looking great. And in my opinion, this line would be bigger in a normal situation. Yeah, 39.5 is a low score though. - It's still a touchdown favorite on the road is, you should take that as the best. - But did you watch Tennessee? - No, it's so respectful of that. - That's so respectful of Tennessee. - Tennessee deserves to be minus 14.5. Based on what we've seen in Week 1 and most of last year, they scare the tarnation out of me and they need Kim Ward to take a step forward. I was really blown away when I looked at it. - You're gonna try to trade your my guy for a different my guy? - Ooh, they call that a Dante Pettis. - No, I've never had an in season before, that's true. No, I still believe in the talent of Karnel Tate. - Price fix says his projection at six and a half targets. Is that enough? - Probably not from Kim Ward. - Yeah. - Probably needs like 12 or 13 targets from Kim Ward to catch eight of them, but I'm hopeful going forward. This is not a good matchup against the Eagles. I expect the Eagles defense to completely shut down the Titans offense. And if I can bench Karnel Tate for another wide receiver two option, I would. - Karnel, wait and see. - Yeah. - Don't play him. - I'm not playing any Titan. You can't make me do it. - And now I'm sticking to it. - You can't make me do it. - If I was to start one, it would be Karnel Tate still. I think he has the ability to take any play to the house. The running backs is, you know, you thought the disgusting late round pick of Tony Pollard is like, well, at least we know he's a starter. I mean, they were a 50/50 split, the routes, the snaps, you know, it was, Tajay was on there just as much as Tony Pollard was. Dallas Goddard is the, he's got one player. Devante Adams has more receiving touchdowns since the beginning of 2025 than him. Do you realize this? This is, this is a long run here. I love Goddard as one of the breakout guys this year. I mean, I know you've talked about Kincaid. There's some other guys that may have staying power. I think Goddard does. Don't Tavy and Wicks spot start? - Yeah, they lay our Wicks. - Oh, between the two of them. - I'm gonna go Bayley. I think I'll get more targets. And I could see this turning into a rushing game for the Eagles. - Brian or Wicks? - Wicks. - Okay. - Yeah, Wicks is numbers of like routes and - Snap count. - In Snap count and everything. Like it's strong. It's, the targets weren't there. As much as you would like if you're a Don Tavy and Wicks truth or a player, but step one is, he's out there. - Yeah, 94% of route participation. - He is there too. - So that has a lot of value. We'll take a break, we'll talk for more matches. (upbeat music) Pittsburgh, one or no in New England, oh and one. Of course. New England minus five and a half, home opener for them. Overrunters 41 and a half. Last year it was 21, 14 and week three. Pittsburgh won that game. - God, this gracious. - The defense. - So the Patriots lost to the Raiders and Pittsburgh? - Yeah, I mean the defense is. - One of the divisions. - Yeah, they're good. - Yeah, but it's weird. I went in the hindsight, you were like, well that was the team that went to the Super Bowl for the AFC, that's gross. - Damn, that's scary. - Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. Well, oh no. - Oh no. - Oh no. - Andy's almost upset of the week. - Aye. - They almost lost to the Falcons. - Yeah, I don't know, man, aye. - With Cooper, right? - Look, the second I hit that button, the Falcons was nodding real quick. Are you on board with that one, Falcons? - I dig it. - Yeah, I mean, I, I don't like it. - You don't like that the Falcons on board? I get it. - No, I mean, I, I don't like that. I push that button, the overrunters very low. - Okay, that's, that's number one. It's a pretty big line. That's number two. You lose AJ Brown. And from the moment that he went down, I didn't see cohesion in the offense. I didn't, I think there's a lot of pressure on Drake May this week, a lot. - Yes, I would agree with that. - And you're at home. Pittsburgh is hard-nosed. They play tough. The defense is formidable in week one. I know it's just one week. I mean, they go up seven points to, I mean, that was Atlanta, right? Who's Drake London did nothing? You know, I don't want to say, you know, you have TJ White. He had the big defensive play. I just think it'll be a close game. They might not win it. That's why that button says almost in it. I get away with both. But look, this game is, it's an interesting one to me. And Drake May right now is an interesting start decision for people. - Yeah. - Because you lose the oomph, right? You lose the big AJ Brown upside situation. And you look at it now and it's like, my gosh, why did you get rid of K-Shan Booty? That's what I'm looking at with the Patriots. It's like K-Shan Booty was your big play. It worked great with McDaniels all the time. And instantaneously, you lose AJ Brown, you ship this guy off for nothing. And you need somebody else to step up and you're telling me, oh, it's got to be Romeo Dobs and Matt Collins and Demario Douglas. If there was ever a time Romeo. Romeo Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? You went out there last year, last week. The utilization of Romeo Dobs coming off of the contract was very head scratching of like that feels like there's information that we don't have access to because how do you pay a guy that much money that you're playing in like half of the snaps? And I was there were, there's some social media whispers of Kyle Williams getting more play this week. - Yeah, I don't, I think that's good for the Patriots. - They need electricity. - They need something that pops. - Yeah, the question with Drake May-- - You're not Bob Douglas because that's not electricity. - No. - Question with Drake May is like who would you start over? A couple of parties, for sure. - I would start Purdy, I would start Jackson Dark. I would start Jordan Love. - Golf tonight? - Yes, absolutely. Those four guys, I would start over May. I've got May as my quarterback 12, so he's still in there, but-- - And don't hear, don't hear us saying that Drake May sucks for the rest of the year. This is awesome, this is matchup. This is like low over under after losing your top receiver and not seeing anything good last week. - Just something to be cautious about. - They do get Travion Henderson back. He was a full participant in practice on Wednesday, so a Wednesday full participation means he's almost certainly playing this week, coming off of an ankle, I would expect that. I don't know if he'll have limited snaps based on coming off the injury or variables hatred for him, either one, but they need him. They need some, like you just said, they need juice, they need electricity, they need explosiveness in this offense. - If you had to play one, a wide receiver for the Patriots, has a spot start, what's the name? - Disgusting. - It-- - Let's put 'em in the flex and-- - It should be-- - You're allowed to say Hunter Henry too. - It should be Romeo Dobs, but-- - How do you not go Mac Owens? - That's the craziest part. - It should be Romeo Dobs, but I think it's Mac. - I think I go Mac as well, Farts. - Drake made completed three of eight attempts beyond 10 yards in a week one. - Win and three picks. - Win we ascertain who the number one wide receiver start would be, and it's a Mac Horns with Farts. I see you're almost upset. - Okay. - This offense does not look like they are primed right now. You're going to need a lot from Ramondra or you're gonna need something special from Traveon. They've got to do it in the running game, I think, and that's tough. Last year at least, the Steelers were the second, most difficult matchup for running backs. - And yeah, let's say in week one, B-john beat the crap out of the Steelers with receiving. So-- - We do generally see the running backs takeover for absences in the secondary. So Ramondra and Traveo might get targeted a lot. The one thing I'll say is that Ravel's team generally bounce back from defeat in a good way. so maybe they can. get it done. Are you starting Rico or jalen Warren? I'd pass on both this week. I would try to as well. You know, the worth noting Rico had more snaps, but less utilization for jalen Warren. That is such a confusing situation where I'm like, so who gets the work this way? And watching them, they were, they were both bad. Oh, yeah. Like Warren was 10 for 46. Rico was terrible. In the, in the second half, like Warren ripped off two decent runs about the majority, you know, six targets for jalen Warren, five for 27 versus two for six. But most of Warren's perception yards came on a trick play. Green Bay's, oh and one, they take on the New York Jets who are one and oh, that is a sentence. I wasn't sure we'd say ever. But there you have it. Vegas line, green bay on the road, three and a half point favorites over under 44 and a half. It's not a huge line. It's just not a huge line. It's, it's not this, this game is outstanding because like I won't work for us. He will not be here. The Jets, the Jets could be 2 and 0. I know. Which means the Packers are only two like this would be that's not happening. I'm going to give some credit while we can. This was our policy putting on the Cardinals gear. I'm going to give credit to the Jets in week one. I'm going to give credit to Geno Smith for completing 79% of his passes. That was old school Geno. I'm going to give credit to Frank Reich, who had the fifth highest play action rate in week one and did some things that actually seemed smart. Get some motion, bro. Put some players in positions to succeed. He had a play where he had five tight ends on the field. Yeah. I'm going to give credit to their offensive line. Yeah, they're offensive. They give up. No, absolutely hero. The time that Garrett Wilson had, or that that Geno Smith had to throw the ball was outstanding compared to what this offensive line was last year. They put a lot of investment in it. And there was a hope. You always have these teams that are like, ah, they had a bad offensive line. They tried to improve it. Hopefully it's a little better. One week only. And, you know, they were against the Titans. But the offensive line looked massively improved. Geno was what the most pressured most sat quarterback last year in Las Vegas. They must have been a relief fading back to pass and having a chance. Play breeze hall. He had a great week one. Garrett Wilson, yes. Keep your eye on Kenyan Cedeek. And that's it. And that's it. On the other side, Christian Watson, what a week. I think you can play him in math. You golden unquestionably. You know, golden led the team around to target share. Golden is such a good trade for target. I agree. I mean, you got what we saw in week one was the hope. And he did enough to where it's like, hey, he did stuff with the ball in his hands. Last year, he was a halftime player. He played around 50% of the snaps in his rookie season of targets. And this year, week one, 82% of the snaps, he led the receiving core in snaps. So bright days are ahead for Matthew golden. What about for March on Lloyd? Oh, man, you hope that he shows something here, right? Like last week, very difficult matchup looked outrageously bad. Jumped around behind the line, just looked indecisive, bad vision, nothing good. Like I didn't see anything from Chris Brooks or Lloyd to make me believe. However, they were going up against a really, really elite defense. And this week they get the jet. So I wouldn't be surprised if March on Lloyd rips off, you know, two or three 20 yard runs and looks outstanding. So I think we just got to pump the brakes on the judgment from week one. I think you could still probably start March on Lloyd because he's going to get carries in a decent matchup while they're favored. 44% snaps compared to 55% for Chris Brooks last week. Yes, but 13 carries compared to seven carries. So when loads on the air is out of minimum. Yeah, for sure. I'm not getting it, but the carries were from March on Lloyd. The routes were Chris Brooks. I don't believe ran around. Huh? I don't think you ran around, did he? Chris Brooks? Oh, I guess he had two percent target share last week. Yeah, no, he ran some routes. One target. Just saying, like it was, it was split. It's, if you drafted Lloyd, that's not how you wanted the season to start, but I think it improves for him. The Cleveland Browns on one taking on the on one Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay eight and a half point favorites over under 41 and a half. Gimme the bucks and the points here. Jason went on to tie raid, flushing the whole Browns team down the drain yesterday. It was a dirty bowl. It'll get better in week three with Shredor. It's going to be Watson again. Do you start? And let's make this one quick. No, there's no brown. No. Okay. Baker may feel probably not tempted to start him this week. I'm perfectly fine with it. Yeah. Would you play golf or Baker? Golf. Yeah, one. But I'll just say, like Baker is still, he still has high potential. Jacksonville beat the crap. Like Trevor Lawrence was awesome. They beat the crap out of the Browns. And if they get way up, it's because Baker was a part of it. Bucky Abuka log out. Are you, are you just like benching and watching gain well in Godwin? Um, it was more than the actual output for Godwin that concerned me. Yeah. He didn't look spry. Four for 40 last week on four targets. 86% of snap 6.3 fancy points. To me, I'd rather watch and get a little more upside somewhere else. But maybe I got to play Baylay over Godwin. Yeah. Wow. I agree. Yeah. You must hate Godwin. I was just trying to give you a win here, Mike. Trying to give you one. Well, my win was I started Baylay last week and one and it was awesome. Yeah. New Orleans. Oh, and one speaking of Baylay, taking on the one I don't know Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore minus eight and a half. So, you know, you have a situation here. Same line. These two games. Really? This one I saw this morning and I was eight and a half. I saw it this morning and I was like, wow, that is, um, respect what they did in week one. Geez. That's crazy. Eight and a half over the touchdown. They just wasn't whooping by Baltimore and week one in the Saints. The Saints had a nice comeback. It looked real bad for a while. I do think it's a pretty big. Well, it looked, they did have to have a comeback. But I mean, number one, like it's shocked was like I just horrifically bad for the, for the beginning on the first half, completed 46% of his passes, 85 passing yards. But like that game was very tight for a long time. Yeah. Seven, not 10, 14, nothing. The Saints defense for they were holding as long as they could before the line started to put up points and that's, I don't know, eight and a half. It's a tough environment to go to Baltimore and play this team, I think, for Tyler Schuck. There are certain situations I think that are maybe more conducive for him, but an outdoor game in Baltimore. I guess that's the view point. I don't know. Uh, the overrunners 46 and a half that puts Baltimore at the fourth highest implied point total of the week. It was an exciting week one for both of these teams and the players. Mm-hmm. Therein. I mean, the Lava and Bayley were great Schuck ended up great. The only, the main situation I think of kind of some concern was that Travis H and junior, you know, week one, had a lot of opportunities. It didn't turn into a ton of fantasy points, but, you know, kind of similar to maybe H and the real H and week, like H and junior and H and were very similar and like a lot of opportunities, but not a lot of production. Yeah, but the, it was only nine carries, but nine targets is that's his floor is okay. And there'll be bigger ceiling games. I'm not saying I'm a, I'm not a huge Travis H and junior fan or supporter. But when you're that utilized, things will improve. How worried are you about Zay flowers? He did not practice on Wednesday. He did not practice today. Uh, I have felt like practice at all non participation. Non participation. Yeah, we're seeing that come through. I had figured he'll sit at least a week. I get thankfully it's not a long-term thing, but I would expect to be out. So Andrew started the week. That's part of the, the, the why there. I mean, Mike and I started the weeks that tied in are exactly the same. Yeah. Nico and Zay flowers. Questionable and very opportunity. Exactly. Derek Henry, please do Lamar and Jackson. Uh-huh. Rashad Bateman, if you're in a pinch, that's a half-point home favorite. I mean, he's going to catch the ball. The wild thing about Zay flowers being out is you should be able to just say that. Yeah. But I have, I have no idea. I don't know if it, if I don't know if it's going to be like Devon Tes Walker plays heavily in this game and get some targets. If the Elijah Sarat has felt buried. How is this an eight and a half point line? Derek Henry. Yeah. Yeah. And Lamar. Yeah. I mean, just, but it's wild. Rashad Bateman played so many snaps last week. So many snaps. And I believe he had a target. Let me confirm yet. He didn't. One target. No receptions play 78% snaps. He should be okay this week. He really should. I think he probably will be 27 and a half point implied point total. And you've got Mark Andrews running around. You've got no Jalen Lane anymore. I would love, I would love to be able to come in here and say Jalen Lane breakout week after flowers misses. But I think Bateman will be fine. I really did. That's what stinks is like what do I say Jalen? Jacobi Lane. Sorry. Is like Rashad Bateman. He's got to be up on the Mount Rushmore's of like it should work. Cardio King. Yes. I would never trust it. I thought I would. I agree with Andy's analysis of it should were for my teams. I'm not doing it. If you give me 97% of snaps with Omar and two guys missing, I think you're going to be fine. I really do. I told you I will be the guy attaching my names or shot. I totally think you should be right. Yeah, but Jay, are you going to start? No, I would not. I'm not either. You know, there was more snaps than he's played in any game last year. Baby, yeah, I just looked at it and no catches. No, but I mean, you got to trust some of those underlying the opportunities matter. Yeah, I don't know. The Rashad Bayman, I don't know he keeps doing it to us. Man, I just feel like this line is mind blowing to me. I the Saints, they've got to stop their Canary. Good luck. He faced, Derek Henry faced a stack box and 50% of his carries last week and ran for 144. And I had six a carry 50, 50% of the rest of the day, but I mean, the staff, Declan Doyle's doing good work. You got you got stack boxes against Henry that low. I mean, I feel like 50% is a lot. No, I don't think so. I can't imagine historically that's what he 50% is very. Is it okay? Very high. Okay. Yeah, Tyler Schock, you're probably not messing around this week. Are you playing him? I'm very curious about this. The Ravens, I mean, last week, they obviously dominated against the Colts, but were. I'm not sure how much of that was the Colt or not. I probably won't be playing Schock. But I'm very excited to see how, how he fares in this matchup. I do think Olawe is a must play. And Bayley is one of those, you know, break the glass in case of emergency. I would play Bayley over Rashad Bayman person Bayley or Caleb Douglas. I would play Bayley. I'd play Bayley. Bayley Bayley. Cincinnati one or no Houston, oh and one Vegas line Houston minus two and a half over under 46 and a half. Two guys that dominated the news and notes today, the burrow back injury, the Niko Collins injury, which we did have an update. He's not practicing on Thursday and it was a diagnosis. A grade one hamstring injury, which is it could be worse, there's worse grades. Yeah, I mean, like it can spell a few words. I get it. Thank you. Switch. What's sorry? No, I'm sorry. That's just the sound that came out. Yeah, it was natural. Okay, we didn't try to just feel like we got to get like our billboard back up on the back screen real quick or something to fix. That's a job. I need a shower. I retract. Okay. I retract my joke. That's not what got us on that billboard. Mike, I'm just saying that joke wasn't or maybe it was. All right, burrow, brown, chasing Higgins, start them all if they're active. Absolutely. Just understand that I think week one was a little bit of an anomaly for this Texans defense. So I would say that I won't be surprised if there's a bit of a tempered output from these guys again. It's in Houston. And that defense is very good and not as bad as it looked in week one where Josh Allen managed to carve them up. Yeah. So can burrow with a hurt back carve up the Houston defense? I don't know. That's the question to me is burrow's health matters a lot for this game because it is a tough defense. I mean, we went into last week talking about, you're going to start Josh Allen because he's Josh Allen. But reminder, the last time Josh Allen played against this team last year, he was terrible. I don't, I don't remember if you even scored 10 fantasy points. It was, it was hard sledding against his defense. Now, obviously goes in there with, you know, the new scheme and a healthy donkey Cade and DJ Moore and dominated. But if Joe burrow is hurt, that version of him, I don't know if you can carve up the Texans. That is just saying, it might be a little slow for week two. I would try to find a different option than burrow. I would definitely try to find it because you could get knocked out of the game. You could have ever reduced performance. You didn't love what you saw in week one, regardless. I have burrow outside my top 12, which feels weird, just feels so weird. Yeah, let me, let me see where I have them because I mean, Purdy, I would much rather play. Yeah, all those names we said we would play over Drake May. I would play over Joe burrow. I think the biggest, not that I'm not where you guys are, he's still, he's still a QBA for me. Okay. Yeah. Like Purdy is higher in my ranking. So I have that one. I have mine. I have mine. Would you play burrow or Herbert against Las Vegas, because that matchup is juicy. Potentially, I'd play burrow. We talked about Dalton Schultz already in this game, he started the week for Mike. We talked about the wide receiver pivots. I mean, it could be Keishan bootie. It could be Dalton Schultz. It could be Xavier Hutchinson. It could be Jalen Noll. Jalen Noll is a, I think Jalen Noll is in a, like a good weekend stash type of a player. Monty, three touchdowns last week. Can he repeat the, no, he can't. The madness and then Woody marks 50% of snaps and was very efficient on his touches. It wasn't like Monty took the headlines. He got the touchdowns, but just giving, you know, four point, what was he last week for Woody marks? He was nine for 42, four point seven, a carry, one target. It will be a committee situation. Yeah. It reminds me of change. Like situationally, it's like, it's very close to what happened in Jacksonville last week where it was like, okay, the snap for really split. Tutan got the work, but it was like, yeah, Woody was 51% and both were, and it's like Tutan was good on his, his opportunities. He just didn't score any touchdowns where so David Montgomery with a multitude of touchdowns is this, and this is not in a anti Montgomery, it's just a, he won't be what he was in week one. I don't think. Yeah. You care about Mike Gisic? He's five for 78 and week one. I mean, I looked at the, he is the wildest player. Box score last year, man. He played all the time and he just, he only had one good game last year. He, and he was barely on the field. Yeah. He just was, which is exactly what he was last year, by the way, his snap count percentage last year was 38% week one. It was 33%. I, I would not chase that. I wouldn't chase it right now. He just, he is the guy, Luke, when, when Jamar and T Higgins, like, when one of them misses, you're like, oh, Mike Gisic, he's going to see some targets. And apparently last week it was, when those two guys are deleted from their strapped, they, yeah, with their seat belted out there, then Mike Gisic, he's just going to eat. It's weird. Anything else from this game, Jason, you want to touch on? Are we good? Not really. I'm just hopeful that Joe Borough is healthy enough to take this fantasy star team and, yeah, and not just disappoint drastically this week against the Texans. Yeah. I'm skeptical, at least they have flacco. They do. That was fantasy forecast presented by price picks, guaranteed picks, drop in the app every Monday, price picks, run your game tomorrow. We'll recap the hopefully great game from tonight. We'll talk more matchups. We'll get into the fantasy face off and the first wheel of shame of the year. All right. It should be a good time. Thank you for tuning in. 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