Week 3 Waiver Wire Targets + Biggest Risers & Fallers | Fantasy Focus

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I'm a little bit discombobulated. Yeah, we had a long weekend. A lot of football going on. I wasn't here yesterday. I so appreciate you guys being able to do the show without me. Thank you for holding everything down, especially because you had to work with Mike. I know that's so difficult, guys. Honestly, we survived. You did. By the way, sorry. I was staring at my watch because I pressed a button, and all of a sudden my watch stopped. Oh, no. That's why I pressed, but I think I fixed it. Okay, good. I'm glad that that makes me feel better. By the way, I didn't see you yesterday. I wanted to say this. Shout out to you for Sunday. You looked so good on Fantasy Focus Countdown, Field. I realize that what you look like when you dress down is what I aspire to look like when I dress up. That's when we hit our equilibrium. Our powers combine. You look so good on Sunday, not in a suit for the first time, hosting the show. You look good in a suit as well. I'm just saying. I thought you looked nice. I don't know. Do you need something? No, no, no. I just wanted to tell you that. Thank you for that. I wanted to make Mike feel awkward as the only person wearing a suit. Wearing a suit? In my defense, I did tell Mike in advance, like, hey, I felt like after last week when a lot of the crew was dressing down and you and I were dressed in suits that maybe we were the oddballs, so I thought we could meet in the middle. Yeah. Mike was like. You did a great job. No. No. He said, he goes, Field, you can't hide money. Let me keep dressing. Dress it up. What have we got on today's show? Today, we're going to recap that Monday night football game, unfortunately. Dive into a couple of waiver targets. And then we also have some of the biggest risers and fallers after the first two weeks. We'll dive into a number of names that have been definitely on the move. But let's start with a little bit of news first. And most importantly, Caleb Williams. Guys, avoided a major hamstring injury. Expected to be weak to weak, quote unquote, is what we hear from this situation. Don't know if that's one week. Don't know if that's three weeks. Yeah, awesome, Claire. Don't know what that means there. But what it does mean to us in fantasy is that if you have Caleb Williams, one, you need to make a plan. You need to go out and find another quarterback. Curious, have you guys started to think about how this is going to impact your Chicago Bears rankings across the board, knowing that you will probably get Tyson Bajent under center here? I mean, guys, how much lower could these guys go? That's a great question. This is a double-edged sword, right? So on the one hand, Caleb Williams, Tyson Bajent is a legitimate downgrade. A significant downgrade. Huge. Tyson Bajent's a serviceable backup quarterback, but we thought Caleb Williams. And Caleb Williams was heading towards potential superstardom. He looked like one, certainly, in week one. But Caleb Williams was a superstar in week one without any of his notable contributors doing a thing for fantasy amongst the pass catchers, right? So we have the fact that these guys are just generally downgraded as a group and the fact that Caleb's not going to be out there. You're going to be hard-pressed to convince me that Roma Dunzay and Luther Burden belong in lineups in week three in a tough matchup. Yes, they're playing. They're playing at home. Hopefully, it won't be raining like it was on Sunday. But against the Eagles, you want a piece of that? That's certainly not an offense that I want a whole lot of right now, assuming Caleb Williams misses week three. Colston Loven will still be a top-ten-ish tight end for me. It's the tight end position. Right. But the two wide receivers, passing for week three. I'm with you. I think that's very accurate. I also think we have to take into account that Bajent doesn't have Caleb Williams' arm. So I think that hurts Roma Dunzay much more than it does Luther Burden. Who can create afterspace? Bajent's a decent mover, but there's going to be a lot of middle-of-the-field throws, which I think does, and I say this with a giant eye roll, salvage Colston Loveland's potential floor. Yeah. Let's hope we can get there. Sounds like DeAndre Swift will get a lot of work as well, just because he's been the one thing that keeps working right now in this Bears offense. Yeah, kind of interesting that Ben Johnson did not rule Caleb Williams out yet for Monday, but the signs certainly suggest this could be at least a one-week absence. We're the Bears QB. Guys, we had the internet just sort of took over here with a lot of Caleb Williams stuff. We figured we'd rifle through a couple of them just because it really did light the world on fire. You guys make me feel so welcome. Oh, this one was just slept on my neck funny. That one got me. That one's not too bad. Him definitely, that's a tough one. Next one, me accepting a Diet Pepsi if they don't serve Diet Coke. I mean, this one, it resonates deeply for me. Is that different? A Diet Coke aficionado. Is that different for you? Yes, yes. And it depends if it's fountain, but that's a whole other issue. Me after Googling my symptoms, finding out I only have a few more days to live. Yes, that happens. I don't Google my symptoms on the internet anymore because they all tell me that I am in major trouble. Oh, I thought because you have a work phone. There's nothing you can do. You shouldn't eat carbs or protein or like grains. All that's bad for you. Oh, my God. Stepped on a Lego this morning is my favorite, to be honest, as I was going to say, as a dad. This is the only one that I can relate to. I feel bad here. I don't know. I know. God. This is. Yeah, this was a big one. I'm not going to lie. I was on an uncomfortable couch in the hospital after my wife gives birth. Yeah. You know what? Yikes. By my third child, my wife, depending on what time of the day the baby is born might influence this a little bit, but our third, she was like, just a heads up, you are not sleeping. Go away. She was like, go home. Please go home. She was like, just go home. She was like, we have two kids at home already. You need to go back and help take care of them. Someone's got to do that. And like, you're going to wake up tomorrow morning with a sore neck and frustration Yeah. after our child was born hours before. So I do concede that for, you know, whatever it was, six hours, the night that our third baby was born, I was at home to help care for our two other children. And my wife, she definitely understood the assignment because those couches, no matter how hard they try, not comfortable. Yeah. You had it way worse feel, definitely. Yes. Yeah. Correct. That's the point of the meme here, Liz. Exactly. I understand. Yeah. Thank you, Liz. Thank you. Hey, all right. Let's keep on talking football. The fantasy gods have finally smiled upon us. We got news. Michael Pennix Jr. supposed to be the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Thank God. I mean, yes. And they play on Thursday nights. We'll get this view of Michael Pennix Jr. very soon. Another week of patience is what we have to say, right? Like, you have to say, yeah, that's it. You're allowed to have some optimism, but I do think it's wild that we're like, oh, thank God, Michael Pennix. I know. That's where we're at. This is where we're at. It's such an interesting barometer of the situation. They haven't made it to the red zone in two games. That's so bad. We all know. Like, there are other inept offenses around the NFL, but, like, they score, like, a touchdown or two a game. The Falcons don't even get to the red zone. That's how bad they have been. And meanwhile, the irony, Kirk Cousins has six touchdowns over two weeks. Dude. Yes. Cousins has been very functional for the Raiders so far. Pennix can spin the thing. Like, that much is for sure. And Drake London, you may recall, during the three starts that Michael Pennix Jr. had at the end of his rookie season, Drake London had 39 targets and was balling out with Michael Pennix Jr. I just think he's a way more talented, quarterback than Cooper Rush. Agreed. He gives his offense some upside. How much upside? We'll see. But he gives it some upside. And they literally had no upside with Cooper Rush. I understand this was not a decision the Falcons made because they thought that Cooper Rush gave them a better chance to win. This is a medical situation. But thank God we have reached the point where Michael Pennix Jr. feels comfortable enough to play on Thursday night. Agreed. I'm excited to see him. Me too. It doesn't seem like the Falcons are fully committed to Pennix as being their guy of the future. This is the eighth overall pick in the NFL. He was in the draft three years ago. Pennix does have a gigantic arm. He was throwing it all over the yard in college. He's had moments where he has thrown it all over the yard in the NFL. Accuracy has been a problem through the first two seasons of his career. But he's not afraid to push the football down the field. He's not afraid to take some risks in general. I'm excited about what this is going to look like. That's what I want when you've got Kyle Pitts and Drake London, two big guys that you can push the ball down the field and take some risks with. That's what I'm hoping. I know. Field, don't get me started. All right. Let's talk about the Vikings. Kyler. Kyler Murray has cleared concussion protocol. I actually don't know what to think of this yet because we didn't see enough of Kyler Murray and Justin Jefferson in week one before he got hurt, really. And then week two, with all Carson Wentz, that was just a deluge of rain. That was a weather game. So I don't even know what to think about it. So we're going into week three and the question still stands. I don't really know what Justin Jefferson and Kyler Murray are going to look like. Is this an upgrade over Carson Wentz? Is it not? I don't know. I don't think any of us do. And I also think, by the way, we're allowed to say we don't know instead of pretending like we have some, some, remember that character on Pee Wee's Playhouse? I'm like telling my millennials right now. We're going to open and be like, hi-ni-hi-ni-ho. Like, we're not that guy. Mecca-lecca-hi, mecca-hi-ni-hi-ni-ho. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Oh, okay. Oh, feel. None. How's it feel to have chemistry with apps? Never mind. No! What a callback to FFC. You didn't get that? Oh, yes. Thank you. Sorry. Anyway, we don't know and we're allowed not to know, but we are, I don't think anyone's starting Kyler Murray No. Well, maybe. You think so? With quarterback injuries? I don't think so. Yeah, I think so. I think it's possible. I think they're – well, this news to me was less about what it means for Justin Jefferson and more about what it means for a team potentially looking for a quarterback. This week alone, Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, and Jackson Dart, which we'll discuss in a few moments, all went down. So there's a world in which you're in a 12-team league and Kyler Murray was maybe your week one starting quarterback or he became your week two backup quarterback and you might need him now. So I think there's a world in which Kyler has started in some leagues and – That's a huge dart throw of faith, right, to be starting Kyler. I know. I understand. We'll talk about one later that is a very compelling option off of waivers right now. But given the fact that three of the top 12 quarterbacks in fantasy, if those guys were all healthy, I think that Jaden and Caleb and Jackson Dart are probably all top 12-ish options for us this week. The fact that 25% of them are not available most likely because of health. Yeah. Kyler Murray news moves the needle for me. I do think he's going to be somewhere in the 12-15 range for my week three rankings. 12-15. Is his Bucs defense scaring you? No. Deshaun Watson just completed 80% of his passes against them. Yeah. Many people's first serious relationship didn't start with a kiss. It started with a kickoff. Or perhaps it was love at first hike. But unfortunately, many of these football lovers don't live in the same city as their team, which is why Marriott Bonvoy has hotels close to nearly every NFL stadium. Bringing fans closer to the teams they love with over 30 different hotel brands. So, if you want to stay closer to your team, check in for game day with Marriott Bonvoy, the official sponsor of the NFL. We'll see you there. Getting out of high-interest credit card debt is hard by yourself, which is why SoFi thinks it should be a team sport. 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The rookie that they have there also on IR, unfortunately, Eli. Eli Stowers. So not going to be anything there. We'll continue to monitor that. And then, do you think Zach Ertz is going to be anything? Maybe. Dude, Zach Ertz was a panelist. He was doing, like, a day a week on Peter Schrager's new show. Yes, I saw him. Like, that was his job as of a week ago. And now he's going to be back with the Philadelphia Eagles. So it's obviously a very cool story from a reunion standpoint. They play on Monday night. It sounds like he's got a real shot to play on Monday night, does Zach Ertz. We always joke about how bad the depth is at tight end. Yeah. But even I'm not sure that Zach Ertz on Monday night in his first week back with Philadelphia in a new offense, which that's been definitely a common theme, is going to crack my top 10 tight end rankings. I think he is a speculative add. Maybe if you have Dallas Goddard, you think you can get a one-for-one replacement. Don't have a lot of great options to give you if you have Dallas Goddard. But Zach Ertz is not going to crack my top 12 tight ends in week three. Alec Pierce is going to be out several weeks, unfortunately, with a heel injury, guys. Liz and I were talking about this really quickly before the show, and this doesn't feel like a lot of upside in this passing game right now with Daniel Jones. Tyler Warren feels like you hope that he hits his floor at the tight end spot, but no one else really has stepped up to be someone in this receiving corps. Well, Josh Downs did get a theoretical promotion in terms of not just being tied to this. He's going to move around the formation, so there's an opportunity for more volume, obviously, when we talk about the targets vacated by Michael Pittman's departure and also in terms of deployment. But there isn't a real. field-stretching presence here on the Colts' offense, which just sort of caps the entire ceiling of its potential explosiveness. And frankly, while I think, obviously, Jonathan Taylor's volume remains super steady, his efficiency probably not going to be that great. It's just a very boring offense. Yeah, it doesn't feel like. We're not going to get back to QB7. Very boring offense on top of the fact that, you know, like Daniel Jones we thought could maybe be on the QB2 radar. Daniel Jones has, I think, 14 rushing yards or two games. Not a gigantic surprise. That is, rushing is down, coming off of an Achilles tear late last season. But Daniel Jones right now is nowhere near the fantasy radar. We thought maybe he could be on that fantasy radar as a good value at QB. A little bit of Chris Godwin being re-signed by Tampa Vibes right now for me. With Alec Pierce. Remember, Godwin gets this huge deal to stay with the Buccaneers coming off of a massive. I think it was an ankle. broken ankle two seasons ago. I think that at the time the reporting was the Patriots were hot on the trail of Chris Godwin. They ended up with Stephon Diggs. Alec Pierce got a bag, right? Four years, $112 million. Maybe the most surprising contract of free agency. People are like, wow, that guy really? He was going to have a red hot market if he reached the open market. He also was hurt. And like surgery got. was delayed. It was like a late surgery for Alec Pierce. And I don't know exactly whether this injury suffered on Sunday night is directly tied to what he dealt with this offseason. But he did not look himself in week one. He was playing a part-time role. So I think it's at least logical to wonder whether these two things could be tied. Hopefully he is back at midseason as the report suggested. But, you know, Pierce was one of those guys that had theoretical upside based off where he was being drafted. Now it feels like droppable. Yeah, it doesn't feel great. If you have to. if it's going to be half of the season with what we've seen already and you need to use your IR spot on someone else, I would understand feeling like you need to pivot from that situation, unfortunately. All right. Let's talk about Monday Night Football recap, my friends. There was some good and some bad in this one, unfortunately. Let's start at the beginning. Puka Nakua didn't even play. Before we even got into the game, Puka ruled out. Hopefully you had that pivot that we talked about heading into Sunday. excuse me, Monday Night Football field. This hip injury. How worried are you about this potentially lingering into. I don't have a lot of information. I don't know if you guys have heard anything different. The only thing that I'll note right now as far as Puka is concerned is they play again Sunday night this week. So you're going to have to make a decision. It's useful when you're a player that you're trying to make a decision on playing at 1 p.m., right? Because then you have so many ways in which you can go. Puka, you're going to have to potentially have an insurance plan once again going into Sunday night. The indication has been it's not something major. He was a pregame decision last night. But yeah, not great to not have your number one overall pick or probably a top five pick in your draft last night. But it did create plenty of opportunities for a certain throwback wide receiver. Oh, yes, it did. Would you want to do that now? Like, how do you want to do this? I just want to call out and give props to Tyler Fulgham, who on FFC Fantasy Football Countdown on Sunday mentioned the fact that if Puka were to sit the last time he did, Devontae Adams scored three touchdowns in week seven of 2025. Fell one short. Yeah. Yes, but he was amazing. He was 39 and a half fantasy points. Just one shot. I mean, my goodness. Let's just talk about the Rams really quickly. Fantasy Football Countdown? What did I call it? You said Fantasy Football Countdown. Fantasy Focus Countdown. I said Fantasy Focus Countdown. No, you said Fantasy Football Countdown. No, you said Football Countdown. It is Fantasy Focus Countdown. I said FFC, y'all. Yes. You got everything right. And I didn't. I said Countdown, not now. We're getting better. Alliteration is our friend. Money in the jar. It's okay. We'll start with the Rams and just talk about them really quickly, and then we'll pivot over here. Okay. But from the Rams side of the ball, Matthew Stafford rebounded in a major way. Devontae Adams literally is being drug tested right now for the Fountain of Youth syndrome. He looked like he was 24 years old out there. Resurgent. Last night was, to me, more important than what we saw last season from Devontae Adams in the sense that Devontae Adams last year, and you still get the fantasy points, right? It's not how, it's how many you get. Yep. But it was unsustainable for Devontae Adams to have all of these one-yard touchdowns. I mean, he was flying down the field last night. He had the 64-yard catch from Matthew Stafford. Just ridiculous plays where he's catching the football like both over and around defensive backs. Eight for 195 and two touchdowns. Yeah. So that's what, like 20, almost 25? Five yards per catch for Devontae Adams. It was a vintage performance. He clearly still has gas left in the tank. He didn't show it much in week one. And maybe when Puka is around, you're just not going to see that much volume from Devontae. But this hip injury for Puka, we don't know that much more about it. So if he's out in week three against the Denver Broncos, a tough matchup, but you can certainly have more confidence based off what you saw from Devontae last night. Absolutely. Being able to see him stand up without Puka makes me feel really good if Puka is out. But also, if you had to make a pivot, hopefully your pivot with Puka in the flex spot was Terrence Ferguson. I know, man. It's like, this is why this game is so week to week, right? Is the guy has a bagel in Australia week one. Mike Clay's favorite late round target at tight end, Terrence Ferguson. And then last night he has nine targets, good for six catches, 54 yards and a touchdown, 17.4 fantasy points, tight end eight for the week. No question. It was a week too early. That was all. He looks the part. He does. There's no two ways about that. That. very athletic player huge guy great in the red zone potentially Terrence Ferguson that was a really encouraging sign he's a hard guy to rank going into week three when you've got a dud and a stardom week it's hard to say like wow like this guy deserves to be on one side or the other of the coin but he has my attention well I he has my attention as well but also can we be sure that things won't shift because in week one it was Colby Parkinson who was running more routes and seeing more looks so is this a Sean McVay wild scientist situation on a week-to-week basis we we can't be sure but I do think that you're right he absolutely Terrence Ferguson does need to have attention we kind of know what Colby Parkinson is anyway there's obviously more receiving upside available in Ferguson there's definitely going to be another tight end that has 17 fantasy points for the Rams next week that's how it goes these two goes yeah that's how it works Davis Allen is my nominee uh running backs Kyron Williams looked fantastic found the end zone twice as a receiver in both cages yes yes looked great Blake Corum looked really good as a runner didn't do as much for us in fantasy football but it's clear that these two um have command of this backfield Kyron Williams though looking great sorry one time as a receiving touchdown last night for Kyron Williams but yes he is the guy in the backfield Blake Corum is going to play a real role if the Rams can kind of get back on track like they were last night this team is going to have a lot of opportunity to bludgeon you on the ground Corum though remains a guy that's elite elite insurance policy running back no standalone value right now yep all right for the Giants unfortunately the big storyline here is a couple big storylines uh Jackson Dart unfortunately goes down gets hurt halfway through this game kind of gets like sandwiched in between two defenders Jamison Winston comes at Jamis Winston comes in hi that's a problem uh we do not know yet about what's going to happen with Jackson Dart again just like we said with the other two guys you should make plans to be without Jackson Dart this week just to be safe it's a reported sprained MCL for Jackson Dart now he wanted to come back into the game last night I heard that probably like young brazen confidence from the 22 23 year old quarterback I think you could expect him to miss time this week I just thought he was emboldened by that Ole Miss win personally it could be it yes Jackson of course a proud Ole Miss grad uh but sounds like he is going to miss some time will Jackson Dart the Giants play the Titans in week three so a good matchup uh Jamis Winston is better than what he showed last night agreed by a lot he was 11 for the game for 27 but yeah you're going to see a downgrade in the two pass catchers that matter in this offense Malik neighbors and also Isaiah likely if Jamer not if with Jamis starting this upcoming week yeah Malik neighbors also left this game and had a shoulder thing that looked up ended up coming back but that was a scary moment because we weren't really sure what he was dealing with I uh yeah he said he said it popped out and it popped back in uh as somebody that's had to pop out it's just gonna say that every once in a while that stuff happens like I think for the rest of my life my shoulder will just be like a little bit compromised and I'll have these moments of soreness so not a total shock that Malik neighbors had that he had one catch for one yard last night though not totally all the way there yet certainly a week with Jamis Winston getting all the reps he probably will get will help this passing offense it feels like the guy that you have the most confidence in relative to where his position stands is Isaiah likely yes he had 10 targets last night not a big game for him but just that like Malik neighbors the the floor is lower right you saw it last night one catch for one yard if Isaiah like is going to get the kind of target share he's seen in back-to-back weeks even if he doesn't have a monster night like he didn't have last night 8.3 fantasy points you have to start him you have to because you're chasing volume at the tight end position yeah right that's totally this is one of those especially given this situation if there was one backup quarterback in the NFL from a fantasy perspective that we could say hey who do I want to be the quarterback of this squad it would be Jamis Winston yeah honestly because you know that he's not afraid to sling it I don't have to start Jamis I don't care if he throws three interceptions it's not I want all the other stuff exactly everyone else's yeah yeah so uh we'll continue to monitor both of these both with with Malik Willis and we just mentioned that Cam Scadaboo also saw work in the receiving game he fought for all four of his targets and this was a game in which uh Najee Harris made a start and Devin Singletary played and Cam Scadaboo obviously still led the backfield I didn't love what he did in terms of efficiency but I think we can also talk about that in a little bit but I think we can talk about that in a little bit also attribute a lot of that to the change in quarterback and say pretty dicey start for two weeks for Cam Scadaboo I'm gonna hope that he gets better discouraged like you know the the volume not elite the passing game work was a little bit better last night but under 20 receiving yards in total have some concerns Scadaboo was seeing good volume last year but also absolutely dominating on his touches hasn't been the case through two weeks so kind of a slow start for Scadaboo still an RB2 but a guy that you hope finds a much more efficient path in weeks three and beyond as you know managing maintenance repair and operations is never easy but for the ones who always rise to the challenge Granger has your back from professional grade products you can count on to fast dependable delivery they're there to help you keep 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qb6 in total fantasy points he's second in the league in pass attempts he leads the nfl in passing yards back to back weeks with 22 or more fantasy points and he's also completed 69 of his passes he's got a real rhythm and connection with chris olave like they look dialed in with each other and devon valet to be on valet valet i always get this one wrong valet it is valet mike says it's like valet valet okay yeah okay mike said delay with a v okay like valet mignon though yeah yes okay all right love it that's what don't you think mike would ask for a filet mignon well done probably you guys are so mean to him with a1 can you butterfly my filet mignon so anyways i love tyler shuck i was in on him all off season and we've the way he started has been fantastic by the way against the lions who we knew they were gonna have to throw a lot we knew game script was gonna be that but for him to do this against the ravens even though that rushing touchdown was a little bit too much for him to do that was a little bit suspect still love that he got to where he did the big question i have for him this week or eventually is like at some point they're not gonna be down like 17 to nothing in the game you think right well i would hope yes for their purposes and that to me is where the rubber kind of meets the road for tyler shuck is he a guy that can play sort of like with the correct and appropriate game script and still be a top 10 or 12 quarterback or does his team need to be bad enough where this is better than blake board like it's better quarterback play than blake portals by far and the team is better than where the jaguars were during that blake bordling era but what you liked about blake portals wasn't what you saw in the first 30 minutes of the game it was the circumstances that drove you to greatness in the second 30 minutes of the game you were like it's sort of like jacoby brissett last year patience is a virtue you're going to eventually get there yeah and they draw vegas who they host the raiders i believe okay yep and then uh i mean they've they've shut down the raiders they've shut down the raiders they've shut down the raiders they've shut down justin herbert and malik willis so i don't really know what to think there and then atlanta on monday night football over the next two weeks that atlanta game if they get up that could be one of those games i mean both of them honestly could be games where he's been i mean i think field point is that he's been a second half savior so what happens if he's just consistent yeah we'll find out what do you guys think happened to the nfl schedule maker like late april early may great question like do we like like off-court injury maybe like play some was playing some golf and strained a calf i know a guy that maybe like uh maybe like uh a neighbor's yes he does sometimes no big deal christian watson um but yeah like did someone like egg his house i wonder because the reason i asked that is that the atlanta falcons are about to play three straight games on national tv yeah why do we do that thursday night football and then monday night football and then sunday night football yeah well somebody wanted to draft bijan robinson ahead of smear gibbs that was the plan it's a tough one but that could be fine like it looked fine in week one we'll see but we're going to have to wait and see what happens like really three straight falcons games on national tv really you guys like that plan No, but it's not my job. I'm saying that something happened to the person who made the schedule. I'm convinced like his house got egged or something. I don't know what it was, but three straight national TV games for the Falcons this early in the season is a tough, tough. Tyler needs to use his legs more. I'm just going to close out that conversation on Tyler Shuck. Tyler Shuck needs to use his legs more. If we can get him to run a little bit more and be like a little baby Bo Nix from last year kind of a quarterback, then I think we would be in a better spot. But he's got that swagger. Did you see his tweet after the game? I did not. He's got a little bit of, he's like, this is part of why I love Tyler Shuck. Like he's got it in him. Posting a, Lamar's favorite artist is Kodak Black, in case you didn't know. And that's who, that's the song he used for the post there. So it was a little bit of a shot at Lamar Jackson. Not bad for a 26 year old sophomore quarterback. Okay, Liz Loza. By the way, I actually bet those guys were close and it wasn't a shot. I know. They both went to Louisville. Like I bet that is coincidence, but I respect the internet doing what, what it does. I mean, it's got to do. The internet's undefeated. Another quarterback, Bryce Young. Yes. You'd be two in fantasy points, six passing touchdowns leading the NFL, second passing yards. This week draws the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Browns, two different defensive situations. Week one, they got decimated by Trevor Lawrence. He threw four passing touchdowns against them. Week two, Baker Mayfield pooed himself on the field. It was awful. I'm not sure which one of those. Is that why they did the delay of the game? I think that's what was the problem with that. That's why there was a delay. They cleaned it like a pool, right? Exactly. They had to do the whole thing. So that one's not great. I don't, you know, we'll see which, which Brown's defense shows up for Bryce Young, but he's been slinging it honestly for everything. The first two weeks of the season, and he draws the Detroit Lions in week four. Yeah. I like the matchup for the next, for over the next five weeks. I like four of his matchups. Yep. So those are the two quarterbacks. If you had to look to replace any of the three that unfortunately went down this week, those would be our top two priority guys. Liz, Jonah Coleman would be the running back for me. Replace JK Dobbins when he went down this one. RJ Harvey already was out with a hamstring injury. A little more of a speculative target because we didn't see a lot from Jonah Coleman, but we're assuming if there is a role, he will be one of the guys filling it in this Denver Bronco backfield. I really liked him and field can attest to this more. To me, he reminded, he ran similarly or played similarly to David Montgomery as he was coming out of college. I think that that's a decent comp for him just to give people an idea of his skillset. Certainly kind of in between what RJ Harvey and JK Dobbins do. So a more complete, a more complete back, if you will. He was the RB 19 in fantasy points, per touch, which doesn't sound that great until you realize he's only had 13 touches. Yeah. Yeah. How do you feel about Jonah Coleman just with everything you saw? For those of us that didn't see him in the. Like him a lot as a player, really talented runner, can certainly handle the receiving role as well. JK Dobbins, the early reporting suggests he's got a shot to play in week three. And if JK Dobbins is out there, hard for me to imagine having Jonah Coleman or JK Dobbins for that matter inside my top 25 of running backs. But if Dobbins is unavailable and it's all of a sudden, Jonah Coleman and Tyler Bidet, certainly some value. Definitely worth adding tonight, especially if you have a running back injury and there have been a few of them. There have been a few of them. I would also say one more to throw a dart on. Rashad White, first half this week, nine touches. Same as JCM. Both of them had nine touches while Jaden Daniels was out there. Rashad White, 63 yards compared to just 26 for JCM. Much more explosive. Looked better in the receiving game. And then once Jaden Daniels went down, you look at the second half, he was the only running back with, any receiving game work. Rashad White ran 22 routes. JCM had four. RB10 in routes run after two weeks. Yeah, it feels like if we're going to be in a spot where potentially, again, the commanders are going to be in negative game script with Marcus Mariota, that defense isn't super great. We just think they might be playing from behind. Could impact JCM. Rashad White could be a receiving game guy to look at. A couple of wide receivers really quickly. Field, Denzel Boston has looked really good through the first two weeks. Two for 59 and a touchdown in week one. Five for 99, five for 95 and a touchdown in week two. Had seven targets, which led the team. Yeah. Kind of looks like, the only guy that has a connection, you know, pseudo with Deshaun Watson. During the preseason, we were talking about how Casey Concepcion was the one that we were excited about. He was supposed to be the truth, yeah. Yeah, and now it feels like first two weeks of the season, it's kind of shifted over to the bigger Denzel Boston. Just again, as like the draft guy here, how do you feel about Denzel Boston with what you've seen from him the first two weeks? NFL probably overthought it there on Denzel Boston. Big question mark on him was the speed. Well, he's had two long touchdowns where speed was not an issue in the first two weeks, but he's a super, he's a big, smooth, catches everything that comes his way, wide receiver that can play in the slot as well. So there's some versatility there. He had an amazing training camp. He was the talk of Brown's training camp. And then on top of that, through the first two weeks, he's the only wide receiver that's not a part-time player. Yes. He's playing 93 plus percent of the snaps, whereas Casey Concepcion's about two thirds of the snaps. Sherry Judy, not far behind there as well. So he's on the field all the time. Talented guy. And as Mike pointed out, Deshaun Watson played much better in week two than expectation. And Mike feels as though it wasn't that bad in week one. I wasn't as bullish on what he did in week one, but there's at least some reason to believe in this matchup against Carolina on Sunday that Deshaun can piece together another solid effort. Yeah, and this is going to be one of those season-long things, I think, more than just a quick week thing where if it's going to work right now with Deshaun and we expect things potentially to maybe even unlock more under Shador Sanders in the future, there's just more for this. Unlocking of Denzel Boston. So I like him a lot now in this situation. I would add him for sure. A.D. Mitchell, I want to mention really quickly, three for 60 in week one, only had three targets, but six for 63 on 12 targets in week two. Taking on the Detroit Lions in week three. Yeah, I hear you. So this is more of a week three ad you're saying? I do not think that. I think that they think that A.D. Mitchell, I am more in on Mike and Geno Smith being a serviceable part of this offense. I think he's going to be the clear wide receiver too. When you look at this, 54 routes run for Garrett Wilson in the first two weeks. 55 routes run for A.D. Mitchell. 15 targets for Garrett Wilson, 15 targets for A.D. Mitchell. I'm not saying that he's going to be splitting this like we see with Garrett Wilson. I just think he's a bigger part of this offense. I'm a little less convinced here. I feel like we've seen this on just a couple too many occasions in his albeit brief NFL career. But A.D. Mitchell's had some moments and we're like, oh, the guy who was supposed to go in the first round slid to the second round because of maturity concerns. Maybe he's about ready to piece it all together. I have to see it for a few more weeks in a row before I personally believe in A.D. Mitchell being a thing. Understood. You also didn't believe in the offense really coming into the season as it is. So I understand that there'd be a lot of trepidation with that. I still think the ceiling is quite low for this Jets offense. I think the ceiling is low, but the fact that there was a drumbeat over the summer is evidence to me that there is something here. And everybody moves at their own velocity. Not everybody is in an immediate breakout. I mean, Michael Wilson is an example of that. So while different skill sets are at play here, I am more optimistic about A.D. Mitchell. But I was also more confident in the Jets being viable. Fantasy-wise this season. Last one I have, and probably the highest expectation from a short-term perspective, Rashad Bateman. As long as A. Flowers is going to be out, Rashad Bateman will be the wide receiver one in Baltimore. We've seen that. The problem is he's not going to be anything once A. Flowers comes back. So he is important to your. I just want to say here, Rashad Bateman was on my bench in our fantasy-focused show league, but I won my matchup anyway against Ryan, one of our PAs, or APs, whatever they're called. Anyway, I don't know. Important. Important person. Right. IPs. So he did blow up my bench. I think we look at the box score and we're like, oh my gosh, Rashad Bateman, 22 fantasy points, whatever. He could be something else. He also caused the interception at the end of the game because he underran a route that Lamar threw. It did happen. So I think we need to take the whole context of. the context of all of that into consideration while we're thinking about him. Because, I mean, yes, everyone's allowed to make mistakes, but if you didn't convert in week one on your lone target, and then in week two, you were serviceable, but you also caused a major upset, or at least a really horrible point in the game which led to an upset can be attributed to your actions, I don't know if you're holding the same amount of grace. Seven for 88 and a touchdown. I just don't know who they would turn to if not Rashad Bateman. They're so thin at wide receiver. And also, Liz. Oh. What you just did. Am I going to get attacked? No, no, it's okay. You're allowed to do it. It's just, it's an amazing humble brag right there by you. Why? I had Rashad Bateman on my bench in the fantasy focus. Oh, that part. I thought you were going to yell at me. The league in which we play, you know, we have, yeah, Liz, who's now 4-0 because we don't just do head-to-head. We do victory points as well. Not only are you 4-0, but you dropped, I was the second highest scoring team in the league in week one, and you smoked me by like 40 points. You have scored like 350 points through two weeks. You are absolutely just dominating this league. So, yeah, he was on your bench. It doesn't matter, Liz. You're absolutely destroying the rest of the league. The rest of us. I didn't even know that, Field. Okay, wow. I love that Field's tracking this. I'm just trying to win fantasy match-ups every week. So, Liz, yes. Liz, 4-0. You and Dave, our producer, are both 4-0. Through two weeks, you have scored 341 points, and I have scored the second most points at 312. So, you're 30 points better than me, 15 points per week better through two weeks. So, yeah, but because I played you in week one, Liz, I've also allowed 320 points by far the most in the league. Not that I'm mad about it. Sounds like you need to work on your defense. I do. My team plays defense like the Dolphins right now. Also, what a wonderful co-host, because he just basically shamed me and also elevated me at the same time. Yeah, put you on a pedestal. No, your team's dominating. Your team is sick. Last one really quickly, Dalton Schultz. I'm just going to say this. If there's no Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz, again, feels like he could be a target monster. 14 targets in this one, 12 catches. I mean, it feels similar to if there's no Nico Collins, then Dalton Schultz could kind of be what Jake Ferguson was last year for the Cowboys without CeeDee Lamb, right? That's that kind of a vibe. But once Nico Collins comes back, I think a lot of that is we're going to return to earth, as we did on our Sunday segment with Dalton Fultz. He had eight targets, I believe, in week one with Nico Collins on the field. I agree. I just think that offense from a passing game perspective is a— The other thing in play for Houston here is just that the first two games have been atypically high passing volume because the defense has not found its form yet. Josh Allen and Joe Burrow can do that to you. Yep. They played Dan Jones and the Colts this weekend. If this game is much more in the 17-10 range, it probably means less good things for Dalton Schultz. Those would be my priority ads in 10-team leagues. A quick look at some of our deeper league ads and just names to have on your radar as we go through these early weeks of the season. Emmanuel Wilson and Tank Bigsby as well, especially with what happened with Saquon Barkley getting that stinger. Just nice to make sure you have his name on your radar. Trey Tucker, Keon Coleman, and Jeremy Bernard. Jeremy Bernard looked nice because you can tell DK Metcalf, has zero chemistry with Aaron Rodgers. But you're allowed to have the Steelers receivers on your roster. I will opt against. Yes, yes. I agree with that. That was because Michael Pittman Jr. was not on the field. That would be why. Also have Ted Hurst, Dontavian Wicks as well with Kalief Raymond, the best pass catcher in Chicago. Still on the waiver wire, Kalief Raymond. And Darren Waller doing the Undertaker gif. Two touchdowns. Three catches and two touchdowns. It's crazy. Three for 33 and two touchdowns. Almost had a touchdown in week one, too. It was called back due to penalty. Yep. Any names? You guys good with that? That was a lot of names. Let's have it in the mailbag here with our buddy Eric Moody. Follow him on social media at Eric and Moody. This one comes from Justin Time. We love Justin. Gainwell worth a drop for someone like Emmanuel Wilson? I do believe we'll talk more about Kenneth Gainwell in a little bit. I agree. I will use this question as an opportunity to update people that Mike McDaniel was asked about Judarian Price yesterday. Price had that chest injury. Let me make sure I get the. Appropriate quote before I give out bad info. I also just said Mike McDaniel, and I meant Mike McDonald. Of course, the excellent head coach for the Seattle Seahawks. And Mike McDonald told yesterday, said yesterday on Seattle Radio, it's not a chest issue for Judarian Price. It's actually a shoulder issue. It's intact and nothing serious, it seems like. Now, is that a good thing or a bad thing when they clarify that it's intact? Well, I think that's the first question you're going to ask as a follow-up. Like, it's a shoulder injury. Is there structural damage? It was the AC point separated or something. This could be like a contusion, a bruise, right, versus mine, which had like basically fallen off of my body. It was not intact. Sure, yours, yes, yes. Yours was much more painful. That was bad. It was dumb. It was so stupid, and I'm still hurting today. I'm a moron. They had a lot. I mean, this was a lot of garbage time for them as well down the stretch as a part of this because they were up so much, too. They didn't need to throw the ball a lot. That could be the case for them, right? They're playing Marcus Mariota and the Commanders this upcoming weekend. So, I think that Emmanuel Wilson is a worthwhile add at the cost of Kenneth Gainwell if you are thin at running back and need something for this weekend. Okay. Now, if you're just trying to stack who has the most value as a reserve level back, I will maintain that Kenneth Gainwell is still far more valuable than Emmanuel Wilson. Yeah. I'm with you on that. You're in a pinch, though. I like that. Because I think the fact that it's not serious, it's intact, like that's all good, right? But it does not say that he's playing this upcoming weekend either. Also, it hasn't looked great through the first two weeks of the season. I've been disappointed with all of my Jadarian price shares. We're going to be doing risers and fallers today in just a few moments. We could probably do, like, I thought about doing this, like, you could almost do the top 50 players based off of ADP and do a stock watch for them because there are certainly some guys that have kind of held water, right? Yep. Like, Jameer Gibbs deservedly went first overall in most people's, you know, and Josh Allen was the first. He was the first overall quarterback, understandably, right? There have been some guys that have held, Trey McBride's held serve. You've had a couple of guys that have probably overachieved. We'll talk about them and some underachievers. Price would be a stock down guy relative to ADP. Yeah, I'm with you on that. All right. Another couple of questions here from our chat. Realtor Andrick wants to know, who do I start at tight end? Do I ride with Dalton Schultz till Nico comes back or do I start third and Jawan, Jawan Johnson? Elizabeth, you want this one? I have been impressed. I am impressed with Jawan Johnson, frankly, and I think until Jordan Tyson returns, and again, he will be a rookie coming off of these lingering hamstring issues, so we're not quite sure what level he will begin at. Jawan Johnson remains serviceable, and if, as we talked about earlier, Tyler Schuck remains the second half savior and just starts throwing the ball out of nowhere and is super pass heavy in a way we don't expect the Texans to be once, as Field pointed out, the defense does find its footing, Johnson remains my preferred option. I'm going to go with Schultz if Nico is out. Otherwise, Jawan Johnson. Yeah, if Nico is out, I might, I think I would also default to Schultz. Otherwise, I would go with Jawan Johnson. I'm sorry about that. No, that's okay. You're allowed to have. Also, we didn't mention this, not really news. Last year, we did see Oranda Gadsden have like a few weeks of like serviceable fantasy value. Oh, and David Njoku. There is no tight, Charlie Kohler and David Njoku are both on IR, so he is the only tight end right now. The problem is, nothing about that offense feels good right now. It would be cool if his offense could actually move the ball. Just a name. We should mention it just in case they do start to catch fire that that is a guy that's out there. All right. Side note, Charlie Kohler's absence is probably worse for the rest of the offense. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. All right. Another question here from our chat. This one comes from Sione, wants to know, I want to believe in Colson Loveland, but I'm losing games because of him. Do you think here in week three, he is benchable? I would need to know who the other options are on your roster right now. Because while he is absolutely tumbling in terms of value, how many tight ends have risen up the ranks? Obviously, if you snagged a Colst, excuse me, a Dalton Kincaid late in your drafts or on waivers, crank him up. Isaiah Likely, maybe? Isaiah Likely, another good one. There have been a few guys that have trended upwards, but if it's like, yeah, I'm choosing between Colston Loveland and Hunter Henry or K-Dot, hold serve there. I think so, too. Especially with them having a backup quarterback. I could see just, and I realize that he can play all of the roles, you know, as a field stretcher as well. I would like to see the tight end be like a really nice safety valve for Tyson Bajan here. So the other one I was thinking of, who was the other tight end that did? Terrence Ferguson? No, not Terrence Ferguson. Sam Laporta? No, not Sam Laporta. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Somebody's going up? Yeah, I thought someone was going up. Going up in value. I don't know. That's a good question. Not many of them. No, not enough, guys. Not enough. All right, let's move ahead and talk about our biggest risers and fallers here. We'll take a few more questions at the end. At the end, if we've got some time. But it's through two weeks. I mean, a little bit of this is, are we panicking? Are we having some patience? Guys that have gone up and down in our rankings field? Let's start with you. Who's the biggest riser for you so far? Are we starting with fallers? Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. We're starting with fallers. I'm going to use one player to capture several players, and it's fitting after that last question. Oh. My answer's Roma Dunze. Okay. Right, so Rome was maybe drafted as first amongst the Bears wide receivers. If not, he was very shortly. After people took Luther Bird in the third. Yes. And I know that Luther Bird in the third was the trendier player this offseason. It's worth noting that Roma Dunze was picked ninth overall. Not far behind Marvin Harrison Jr. Malik Nabors. Remember that class was heralded as like three can't miss wide receiver prospects. Yep. I don't feel differently about Rome as a player right now. I think he's still an absolute stud. But we just hope that this would be the ready for liftoff year for the Chicago offense. And it was in week one when they scored 59. But Roma Dunze, without Burden, without Colston Loveland. So through two games, Roma Dunze has 14.5 fantasy points. One of the big question marks surrounding Roma Dunze coming into the year was how is that foot, which bothered him for much of last season after a red hot start. Seems like Rome is still a little bit banged up, but not enough that you'd expect seven catches for 75 yards through two weeks. So for a while, I thought that all of those Bears would be lineup blocks. I would say that Roma Dunze, especially for week three, facing the Eagles. Eagles with Tyson Bajent finds himself a decent amount outside my top 25 of wide receivers. I'm looking at this list of where Roma Dunze was drafted because we have like where, you know, ADP was David Montgomery, Basial Tootin, Jameson Williams, Jadarian Price, Kyle Pitts, Roma Dunze. All of them have been terrible. All of them have just been awful. David Montgomery had the one game. Not great. But yeah, he was taken in the seventh round, late seventh round of your fantasy drafts just ahead of Luther Burden. Liz, what about you? For fallers, mine is the aforementioned Kenny Gainwell. And it really hurts because I, I, listen, when I'm wrong, I will admit I'm wrong. And I was very much wrong on Kenny Gainwell. Okay. That's good for you. I blame other things. I will. I, I am very confused as to how I'm wrong because I don't know how you let a player like Rashad White, who has a receiving skill set go, and then you pay Kenny Gainwell coming off of a career season in that regard. But regardless, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because the truth is, uh, over two weeks, Gainwell has managed seven rushing attempts and five targets. For context, Baker Mayfield has two more carries than Gainwell and Bucky Irving has 15 more routes run. Get out. It's kind of, it goes back to a little bit of what I was discussing with the Saints backfield yesterday. It's like, if you plan to bring Travis Achan aboard to be a gigantic part of a committee, like what's the point of paying him $12 million per year? Gainwell is not the same amount of money. It's two years, 14 million bucks. And maybe the Bucks response would be, we had so much ambiguity about Bucky Irving. Alki Irving after last year that we felt like we had to protect ourselves. Sure. But still, like, wouldn't you bring Kenny Gainwell on with the idea of being at least your primary safety valve for Baker Mayfield? Well, and if your complaint about your RB1 is that his running style consistently puts him in harm's way and you're trying to save him from himself in some ways. And play your RB2 more, right? Correct. It's very surprising because I thought. I think you guys solved football right there. It sounds like you just figured it out. But don't you feel like, at worst, you could hang your hat on, hey, Kenny Gainwell doesn't. He's not fifth in RB catches like he was last year, but he's 13th through two weeks. You're like, you know, he's got seven carries, but he also has 14 targets, so giddy up, Kenny Gainwell. No, not the case at all. No, don't love that. My guy is a running back I've been complaining about for a while. I think you guys talked about him on the show yesterday. We did, yeah. Devon Acheon. The projection this week is very high. For Devon Acheon. Is it? Yeah, 19 plus fantasy points. You think Mike's off in the forest doing drugs right now? No. That's where the projection came from? I mean, dude. Definitely not. I definitely don't think that's happening. Why on earth would he have Devon Acheon projected so high? Getting high and then like eating well-done steak? Mike, are you too high on Devon Acheon? Yes, you are. Listen. Microdosing steakhouse mushrooms. What? What are we doing? 10.6 fantasy points in week one. 12.3 fantasy points in week two. All of last season, his worst outing was 12.8 fantasy points. These two games were worse than every other game he had all of last season. Crazy. Girl. So, is he getting the volume? Yes. He is getting the volume. Check. Is he getting the game script? Yes. Absolutely. They were down 75% of the game in week one. They were down 81% of the game in week two. Yeah. There is no efficiency. Even though we are getting some receiving game work, there's no creativity to get the ball. There's no creativity to get the ball in the hands of your best playmaker in space and let him do what he freaking does. So, at this point, Devon Acheon, even though his skill set hasn't disappeared, they got to find better ways to manufacture touches for him. Period. End of story. Because even though you guys talked about it last week, he's still getting the receiving game work. I want him to have a little bit more. When you're down 81% of the game, that's part of what you do. But still, Devon Acheon, we got to figure this out. I see your frustration and may I validate it? Thank you. With a staff. Yes. Just so that I want to be there for you emotionally and I want you to know that you are not wrong. 6.5% of Acheon's runs have gone for 10 or more yards. That is the RB42 for long runs compared to last year when he was the RB1 in breakaway runs. What do you do? And I'll tell you what. The answer is nothing. I drafted him where I drafted him. I can't trade him. I mean, his value is too low. I got to keep rolling him out there and hope that things turn around. And that's it. This is just the support group for Devon Acheon managers. It does feel like a few of the trendy bust candidates before the season have played out exactly as those who were concerned expected them to, right? It's the offense is going to suck. There's not going to be nearly as much touchdown equity. To Liz's point, not going to have as many explosive runs. And it's like, yeah, for two weeks, that's the case. If you're a pass-catching running back, you want to be trailing by like 7 to 10 or 14 points. The reason I say that is it's still kind of a game when you're only. You're only down 7 or 10 or 14. But when you're down 28 or 35 to 7 in the fourth quarter against San Francisco, one of two things is going to happen when the Dolphins' offense is on the field. One is they're going to try to throw the ball 30 yards down the field to try to find a way to get back into that game in a hurry, which they did have a 77-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter when they were playing the 49ers' third stringers. Two is Devon Acheon is going to be off the field because the game is so far out of hand. Sitting on the sideline. Right. So, yeah, tough start here for Devon Acheon. I totally agree with you, Daniel. I have him outside my top 12 for running backs in week three, and I think there's going to be a healthy debate with Mike when he is back on the show tomorrow. Yep. All right. Let's talk about some risers. Let's end on a positive note with this. Talk about guys moving up the rankings. Who do you like first? I mean, it's pretty obvious. There's only two tight ends this year that have been a tight end, one in each of the first two weeks. Trey McBride. Duh. Duh. And Dalton Kincaid. Yeah. It's been amazing. You know, again, if we were just redrafting, tight ends for the rest of the season, based off what we have seen so far, tight end one's going to be Trey McBride. Brock Bowers, I still believe, will go tight end two, and justifiably. Yep. Tight end three is Dalton Kincaid. All right. He's been unlocked in this offense. He's actually playing a legitimate complement of snaps. Josh Allen is balling. Dalton Kincaid is a very talented guy. Guys like Colston Loveland and Tyler Warren. Warren, less so than Loveland, obviously. But Warren, there's just no – it's got to be touchdowns. Six for 21 in the touchdown. And for three for 13 in the touchdown. Obviously, those touchdowns count. But they're not going to happen every week. And if he's averaging four yards a catch, I mean, that's just not going to cut it to be a top three tight end. So, Kincaid, to me, feels like the tight end three in all of fantasy right now. Where was this in 2024 when I wrote a bunch of preseason articles about his upside? Every season, right? My goodness. Trust me. Post types. That's it. Wow. Yeah. Hey, sometimes, again, you're never wrong. Never wrong. Only wrong. Only wrong. Only early. That's it. Again, don't make excuses or do make excuses for when you're wrong. Yes, yes, yes. Do. Do make excuses. Do make excuses. Yes, yes. Don't admit error. Was so prescient. Was so prescient. Yes. Who's your riser through the first two weeks? It's Jalen Waddell. Speaking of being prescient, field, actually, in red zone on fantasy football countdown, fantasy focus countdown on FFC. You now owe $200 to the jar. I love that we locked eyes trying to figure it out. I thought he was going to mouth it. You almost got it. Just say FFC. Okay. FFC. FFC. Field on FFC mentioned that Sean Payton had told his wife to draft Jalen Waddell, which, you know, might hint to the fact that he planned on using him, but Sean Payton's a little bit tricky like a fox. Like, we can't always trust him. And finally, in week two, he was unlocked. He finished with 8 of 10 for 138, including a gorgeous 48-yard contested catch right at the goal line that put the Broncos in scoring position, obviously. This is what the Broncos spent so much to get. So, I cannot guarantee, obviously, that Sean Payton won't Payton, and Waddell will have, like, a dud, right? I think we also mentioned that 10 different pass catchers were targeted in that effort, but we saw Waddell being used the way we expected he would be used, and so I'm going to stay confident he is a locked-in wide receiver, too, for me. And sometimes, if the chips don't fall my way, I know that that's what I'm doing, but I'm also betting on the upside. There's got to be an obvious answer to this. Sean Payton must have been playing his wife in week one. Right? Like, he must be in the league, and he must have been playing against his wife in week one. Or, she said, what was that? Like, he came home from work, and she was like, I lost my league because of you, honey. And he was like, well, all right, I don't want to sleep on the sofa. Let's dial it up. Yeah. I don't know if he slept on the—never mind. Never mind. I was thinking about the Caleb Williams, like, sleeping on the sofa. Yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. That'd be tough for him. Yeah, it'd be tough. Who's your riser? I think mine is the easiest one in fantasy football. I mean, yours was up there as well. Yeah. But Jalen Coker's wide receiver five after the first two weeks of this season. Awesome, yeah. A guy that we thought, you know—and we've had him as a sleeper for a little bit. We've seen small breakouts here and there. Looking fantastic. Eight for 131 and two touchdowns against Chicago. And then eight for 66. Again, nine targets. 14.6 fantasy points against Atlanta. Good at the game. He looks so good. He looks like a locked-in wide receiver, too. Him and Tedderall McMillan. I don't know if we're—we are at the point where we can call him 1A and 1B, but he is clearly— Getting real close. Yeah, he is clearly an invested part of this offense, and I don't think that's going to change as well. So Jalen Coker, probably my biggest riser, and now is looking like a, you know, wide receiver two flex play, depending on where you're at, because of how good he has been and the volume that he's getting. I don't think if you have him, you cannot start him. It would be tough. You might have some really tough but fun flex options that you have to figure out, because you're like, boy, both of these guys are so good. What do I do here? Like, those are the best when you have those flex. And reasons for confidence include the way that Bryce Young is playing. Also, that this is not totally new. He had four top 25 finishes in his final seven games last season. The idea of him being a talented guy is not some newfound discovery for the Panthers. They know he's legit. They paid him this offseason. It's great to see. Our buddy, Eric Moody, unfortunately, is no longer with us in the Fantasy Focus Knockout League. Okay, whoa. He is still available everywhere on social media, at EricNMoody. Make sure that you follow him. Unfortunately, Eric got knocked out this week. We thought, why not bring our buddy, Eric? And here he is. Look at him. Eric, sorry, man. I mean, he looks good in that suit, by the way. That's a $1,500, $2,000 suit if I ever saw him on Field Jates. Why don't we welcome in our buddy, Eric Moody. Oh, he's got the glasses on. Trying to hide his crying eyes. The man who holds it down for us every single day. How you doing, bud? You know what? I have been bettered up. You know, I'm dressed. You know, for a funeral today because of my Knockout League team. And I just want to have some words. I guess this will be the eulogy, so to speak. I felt pretty good about this team going into the draft. The draft went well. You know, Jackson Dart. You know, I had Malik Neighbors, David Montgomery, A.J. Brown, you know, Chase Brown. So I was feeling pretty good. Felt great, you know, at week one. I'm like, hey, A.J. Brown, you know, he's injured. But hey, I've got pretty good depth here. I feel good going into week two. that optimism, Dopp. it dwindled especially on sunday yeah sunday night i'm sitting there okay i've got monday night football you know i've got neighbors i've got jackson dart pretty good matchup should be high scoring i think i'll be good and i'll tell you this i was sitting there watching the game i was sitting there on the sofa i saw dart go down uh so i just had this feeling of dread i felt like spider-man in avengers infinity war thanos has snapped the infinity gauntlet half of the universe is gone and i just felt like i felt like tom holland where i was like hey mr sark i don't feel so good that feeling of dread just carried me through that entire game and we all saw the outcome the league neighbors i'm like he he should be on a milk carton i'm like he didn't do anything and i'm eliminated so i'm gone it was a nice run but uh that's all i have to say about that and give it sunday right things happen first off liz this is a funeral have some respect seriously some grace so some grace here eric we love you so much i'm so bummed that you have lost you literally are the thing that keeps our chat together follow him like i said on social media at eric and moody anything you want to say to him before we get out of here i thought that was the most spectacular bow out i have ever seen well done he's the best eric we love you man so sorry that you're out i promise i'll pick up some of your good players though in order to keep you alive in my heart absolutely absolutely i've got tears of joy falling now tears of joy all right love you bro oh dang that's so frustrating um this is a league that has a one thousand dollar budget i'm just reminding myself yes yes yes right we have a separate league that we play in it's a fantasy staff league and james cook was amongst the players knocked out in week one and i bid a hundred dollars on james cook because i thought i was bidding about ten percent of my budget uh the other league it turned out the budget was one hundred dollars oh so people were very surprised that i spent all my money on james cook and i'm like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry james cook after week one also still didn't get him right we ended up rectifying that okay okay yeah love that read the rules as they say yeah all right we're gonna be back tomorrow liz loza you were gonna be gone although we'll be here to take facts versus feelings and i will be in the building on the show absolutely i heard that all flights to los angeles have been delayed for four months four months liz congratulations you get to live with a double tree how many cookies can i eat let's find out get this book a world record thanks for hanging out with me mike and i'll go into the woods and i'll let you know make sure that okay all right well that's gonna do it for us here on fantasy focus we gotta get off the show yes don't forget to love each other and be kind to yourself we'll see you tomorrow as you dive into week three rankings see you guys hey before you go if you're saturday setup involves a packed living room big reactions and maybe a celebration that goes too far your walls need to be ready bear ultra interior paint adds an extra durable stain blocking finish that holds up for the whole season and beyond it covers in fewer coats goes on smooth and helps walls stay looking new for longer for game time messes scuffs and everything in between get coverage that goes the distance bear ultra only at the home depot outdoers get more done