Undrafted Gems + TNF Preview, Week 1 Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

Maybe you can mention Gallup is one of those players that should be on the back of your bench. But he's not in play for me in week one. But Cooper, C.D. Lamb, these are third round picks. Zeke is a first round pick. I'm going to temper my expectations for DAC. I mean, we haven't seen him play football in essentially a year. He's still, yes, he's a full go. But he was dealing with that, with his injury, didn't get a lot of training camp out there.

There's a reason to be concerned about this, and I think that's why the line, the DK sports line, is so high for Tampa Bay to win this game. But I'm still playing everybody. Week one is... You don't really have a choice. Week one is very tough to give it now. It's just like, who should I play? Play the starters that you drafted. Not to mention it's exceptionally fun to have players on Thursday night football with the season kicking off. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, I was going to bring that up. The reality is, like, I'm playing almost anybody I can in this game because...

We'll talk about this as the season goes along. The strategy, the advantage of playing Thursday night players knowing, you know, how you're, you know, did you get off to a strong start? Do you need a bigger, you know, swing for the fences type? But week one, opening.

kickoff like I want players in that game like this is for fun I've drafted these players and honestly I think that they're going to be fine I don't look at this I mean last year they were so good against quarterback so good against running back I think that Dallas is going to do enough here to actually you know this is a 52 point over under right so they're expecting a lot of points to be scored and I want pieces

So I'm not afraid of starting any of these Dallas Cowboys with the exception of Michael Gallup. We'll see if the Cowboys defense improves. Last year they were 30th against opposing fantasy quarterbacks, 31st against wide receivers, 25th against tight ends. You're obviously starting everybody from Tampa Bay that you invested draft capital on. I do wonder if you're going to see a great start to the season for Ronald Jones running back for Tampa Bay. Last year's RB 16.

that has been, I think, hesitantly drafted all offseason, maybe due to Fournette's playoff run due to Geo's addition to the roster. But Brady does so much and those weapons on the outside are so such a great concern for the defense that someone like Ronald Jones with wheels, big playability, can do a lot with a little in terms of opportunity. Yeah, seeing how the running back.

At least for week one, because we saw it change a lot throughout of last year. But the snap share is going to be extremely interesting, especially Giovanni Bernard, the new pass-catching running back edition for this team, who was dealing with his own ankle injury, but he practiced fully on Monday. So we expect to see him. Does he just become the de facto third down player, which he played every third down snap with the first team in the preseason? Right.

Not that Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette were catching a ton of passes, but that was still some supplementary work for them. So if that goes away, if those third down options go away for Ronald Jones and Fournett, it hurts the ceiling. It really wasn't much, though. No, no, I agree. 28 catches for 165 yards last year for Rojo. But, yeah, I mean, it helps. You still wonder what.

Have we seen the best of Ronald Jones at the NFL level, 24 years old on this offense? I wonder if there's more to Ronald. Yeah, I mean, he is the clear best running back on this team. At the end of the day, you know, the coach might not do what we want to have happened. Geo might be out there too much. Maybe they put Leonard Forna as the starter this game. That's why I've avoided this backfield is because I don't think.

that you can lock down who it's going to be. And once it looks like, okay, it's Ronald Jones, the next week it could very well, for no discernible reason, be Leonard Fournett. That being said, with a weak defense opening game, if I had to place a bet, I think Ronald Jones has a very good game. You know, it's crazy. He was a 42% snap player last year, right? He played on 42% of snaps for Tampa Bay.

He only scored seven total touchdowns. Running back 16 in 14. rushing. He had one receiving touchdown. Yeah. Running back 16 in 14 games. I mean, that's just kind of shocking. A 42% player ends up RB 6. It just shows the kind of opportunities that Tom Brady's offense will provide an explosive running back. Yes. And when you have a game of 23 carries for 192 yards, you kind of knocked out 15 games right there instead of the 14 you actually played.

All right, Mike Evans, you've got to be confident starting him in week one. Antonio Brown, take it for what you will, which is a bunch of Bruce Ariens smoke, but says he's playing like five years ago. Man, the smoke emanating from Arians, just his aura. Well, he's a very hot guy. It is opaque. Yeah, he's warm at all times. Smoke is emanating from him.

Just never seen. It's not steam, but it's actual smoke. Red human being in my life. He has converted. His skin color is the Tampa Bay. Yes. Team colors. Is he like a, like a chameleon? He went from the Cardinals to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is, that's it. This is all you can do. Or, or maybe like, maybe the, you know, the dye of the shirts is just like when he puts it on is just rubbing off. I don't know, but.

He just needs to take a deep breath. Yeah. Calm down, Bruce. Meditation, Bruce. You just won a Super Bowl. This would be the year where he could kind of be normal color again, right? No, he will never. He's always like Donald Duck about to explode. Yeah, he needs to go to the bills. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, he technically quit. Oh, the big, the blue? Yes. In the cold. Didn't he technically, I mean, he retired from the Cardinals. He left the Cardinals based on health.

wink, wink. It definitely had nothing to do with a depleted roster that anyone with NFL ability could see was heading for the dumpster. This team looks like they're about to get the number one pick. Ah, my heart. Rob Gronkowski is starting this one? Yes, I think so. We brought this up, but I would rather play Rob Grankowski this week over Noah Fant. Noah Fant dealing with, you know, whatever.

leg issue he's got going on. What if one of your friends signed Rob Gronkowski so you can't do that? Is that what you did? No, Mike did. I did. I think he's a sneaky start, but O.J. Howard being there, I mean, he's still a tight end on the roster for the bucks. And like Rob Grunkowski, it's hard to really track down. Like,

Was it that he was acclimating to the offense? He didn't really have, he had retired, and then he came out of retirement to go join the Buccaneers, slow start, or was that slow start because O.J. Howard was around? And then when Howard went down with the injury, that's when Gronk really started to flourish in this offense. So that remains to be seen for me. Yeah, I mean, you guys talked about how much Tom Brady likes Antonio Brown is one of the reasons why.

you like Antonio Brown this year. That is certainly true of Rob Gronkowski and that connection over the years. So that's something to consider. I am kind of taken aback by something Al Borland, our producer, has alerted me to. Wait, this isn't real, is it? Apparently, in July, Bruce Ariens said on Sirius XM that he had his stomach pump twice as a child for drinking paint.

Hmm. So that could have to do with... I wonder what color that paint was. Red? That was back in 2017. Yeah. But okay. But twice is the real question. Yeah, fool me once. Al is nodding like... He's got some mean brothers. That was my takeaway as well. What made you want to return to the paint can? Well, it's delicious. I guess so. It's a real Tommy boy situation here. Yeah, it is. Also, kids, don't drink paint.

If you didn't know it already, don't drink paint. Not good for you. In fact, that was back when paint had lead in it. It was really delicious. They took that out and the taste just went to the crapper. A good reminder here, our fantasy footballers DFS podcast. Yeah. If you play Daily Fantasy, definitely subscribe this year. Kyle, Betts, they're going to take care of you. They have...

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