Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, Elijah Missile! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/16

Stefan Diggs, though. I don't know if there's really certainty in any other wide receiver option in this entire matchup, Waddle, Parker, Fuller, Sanders, Davis, Beasley. Full PPR, I would still say that Beasley is a fine flex. He had 13 targets last week. And there's no way you can play Gassiki after the goose, right? No. No. No. Gisiki in your normal home leagues, you know, five, six bench normal.

roster construction should not be rostered. He should be on the waivers taking a shot at a different tight end. Yeah, he was in the draft process. We were talking about, yeah, Tua is going after the tight end position. But Gassiki's a part-time player. We still aren't even sure that he's going to be the predominant tight end. And he was smithed with snaps. A smith that was in there over 70% of the time. And he was involved in the preseason quite a bit.

Yeah, so I'm with Jason. I would cut Gassicki. Battle for the basement, the New England Patriots against the New York Jets in New York. Drafking Sportsbook has it as Patriots minus five and a half, over under 41 points. I guess that five and a half is more indicative of the low over under, one of the lower ones of the week. But I would have expected the Patriots to get a little bit more credit on the points here.

Bill Belichick hasn't lost to the Jets since 2015. I'm guessing that is Rex Ryan era defeat. I'm guessing it doesn't change this week. No, I mean the Patriots defense against the Jets or the Browns defense at home against Houston, which would you go with? I would go with the Patriots defense solely because rookie quarterback. Yeah, you're looking for turnovers. You're looking for sex.

I don't think, you know, that Tyrod Taylor is anything special, but he actually protects the ball. Yes, he can run away from sacks, and he doesn't throw a lot of interceptions. So while they, you know, you're not just looking for a defense that's going to stop the other team from scoring a lot. You're looking for a defense that's running up against someone that could make mistakes. Yes. And with the office of line troubles that the New York Jets had, certainly a rookie can make mistakes here. Stay away from all running backs.

on the jet side of the ball. Kevin Coleman, Ty Johnson, Michael Carter. No, no, no. Damien Harris, on the other hand, is a candidate for, like, I look to pick him up in leagues this week. Sure. He looked like the best back. It was a tough matchup against the Dolphins, a low-scoring game. I like what I saw from Mac Jones. I like what I saw from Damien Harris, but the output didn't have the touchdowns. So I would have been looking to pick him up, and I think he's going to be great this week.

I'll bet he is. He's a very good start. Happy to put him in my lineup. I will be watching for Remandre Stevenson, though, just because I was shocked how early he got in last week. And then he fumbled and then it was out. He was banished from the land. So I could see him just not even playing this week. Continual punishment. But if he happens to get in early again, it'll be indicative, I think, on a season long level. It's funny because all three of these running backs.

on the New England side are relevant for keeping an eye on while the three running backs on the other side are, well, man, just run, run away. That being said, the Jets probably have the most sure thing at wide receiver. Corey Davis is the number one, maybe the number two as well for Zach Wilson. He's looked great for his entire Jets tenure. And the one thing that Wilson can do is.

you know, escape the pocket a little bit. Hyper target, his number one. Elijah Moore was awful. I mean, he was really, really bad. He had the chance on a big play that I'm going to call it a drop. He had a drop in the screen game. It wasn't a nice debut for Elijah Moore. So Davis is my favorite wide receiver in this game. And then it's a decision for Jacobi Myers and Nelson Aguilar who had.

You know, okay, week ones, Adelar scored, nine targets for Myers. Which of the two do you prefer in this one? Corey Davis. Okay, all right. I'll take the safety of Jacoby Myers because this is, I mean, they're both like a wide receiver three flex at the best. Did you, did you have any takeaways from Johnny Smith, Hunter Henry in week one in terms of confidence levels or like neither of them put up games that were going to help your team?

No, not really. I mean, I think I was really wanting to see what would happen with Mack Jones, and he targeted the wide receivers and James White in a way that made me very, like I was starting to buy more and more in on Jonu hype late into the offseason because I had just killed him in my draft rankings forever. I never thought he had a chance, tight end splitting. And then I changed right up until kickoff and then kickoff was like, no, yeah, I don't want it.

I don't want to play with these tight ends. San Francisco 49ers travel to Philadelphia. Nice over under in this one. It's 50 and a half. Draft Kings has the line 49ers minus three. I don't know what's real or not from Philadelphia in week one. To be honest with you, Atlanta. Agreed. Atlanta beat themselves. You talked about the penalties. They also don't have an impressive defense or haven't in recent years. 49ers underwhelmed defensively against Detroit. Even before.

you know, the kind of comeback attempt from Jared Goff. Now, Jalen Hertz had a nice week one. So, I mean, what is your overall take in this game when you break it down in the tough decisions? So when I look at this game, I think that the Eagles are more for real than certainly than we thought starting the season. I would agree with you that.

You can't just go off of week one and say, oh, they dominated the box score, and so they are good. But also the San Francisco 49ers losing Jason Verrett. Their defense did not look good from the get-go. Their offense looked very good. Yes. So this is a game where I want pieces. I think it's going to hit the over-under. I think it's going to be competitive. I don't think either team blows either team out here, which is great for fantasy in racking up the score. So this is a game where I'm looking.

Debo Samuel is someone you have to start. Miles Sanders. Kenneth Gainwell, I think Kenneth Gainwell is someone. Are you confident on Sanders? On Miles Sanders? Yeah, I am confident on Miles Sanders. I would be perfectly happy to start him. Yeah, I'd be excited to start him this week. Yeah, I mean, what I saw from this offense and the wide receivers, certainly I would put DeVant to Smith first.

He looked like the primary target when they had to throw. On the Philly side. On the Philly side. Rookie wide receiver for the Eagles. He was the primary target when the game was still competitive and then it kind of got out of hand. Yeah, I don't have confidence to flex gain well in week two. I wouldn't do that. Are you saying you would flex him? I think I would. I'm curious. I might flex gain well over James White.

I view them very similarly in the sense that you're talking about a guy who can be a PPR back. Now, in this game, they blew the Falcons out. They didn't necessarily need to throw the ball a ton. But his usage and the fact that he was on the field so much and his talent said to me that I think I could flex Kenneth Gainwell without, you know, too much fear here. I'm going to go through the most popular.

Start, sit, questions coming through for Elijah Mitchell. Okay. Elijah Mitchell or Saquan Barkley. Oh, Mitchell. Fire the missile. Oh, well sad. I've gone back and forth on that so many times this week. At home. I believe your last answer was Edmonds. At home, favored. I'm going to go Edmonds. I will go Edmonds as well. And we can talk about it further at length in the Arizona game, but.

One of those week one things, let's see how it actually shakes out. James Connor was involved in this game. And when they got to the goal line and inside the five, James Connor was the guy who was taking those snaps and getting those attempts. Kyler got the rushing touchdown on a bootleg, but that was James Connor on the field. Yeah, one thing that doesn't show up in the box score there was there was a play at the one, and it was James Connor in there, but then it was a false start. So it never even goes to the box score. But they were lining up to run James Connor right up the middle.

Yeah, I think he's the goal line back. That being said, I think Edmonds was in a lot while the game was competitive. Yes. I didn't mean to derail the missile talk here, but I think I'd play chase over the missile. The missile or Tyson Williams. Another report from Greg Roman came out this morning. It said, quote, that the days of one running back, getting all the snaps are over in Baltimore. Yeah, he was asked about that report. Haven't they been over for years? Yes. And so that was the report of like.

Why wasn't Williams playing more in the second half? And they said we wanted to get more running backs involved. Personally, I take that as a positive that they didn't come out and say, no, Williams was punished for missing his pass protection. We had to get him out of there. We weren't comfortable playing him. All that being said, I'm firing up the missile in that one. Yes, I agree. Okay. Damien Harris or the missile? Harris. Darrell Henderson or the missile? Henderson. Henderson. Henderson.

Okay. Debo, we're playing him. We said that. Devonsa Smith. Kiddle, expect him to bounce back in this game, have a better performance. And then Dallas Goddard, Zachards, Philly tight ends. I guess we're going to talk about them momentarily. We are. Oh. Starts of the week.

Let's start at the tight-in position. Jason, why don't you start? Okay, let's talk about Dallas Goddard. He is my start of the week this week. Zachert suffered a hamstring injury in week one. The Eagles are resting him right now through practice. They're hoping he plays in week two. Either way.

Dallas Goddard should be a factor. Ertz played in week one, and Goddard was a top five tight end. And he was looked to in the red zone. Almost ended up with two touchdowns. It talked about I really like this game. I like the point total. I like taking the over. You like it more than Noah Fant with Judy leaving the field? That one is asking for a friend. That one is really, really close. Remind me, Denver is playing Jacksonville. Yeah.

Ooh, that's nice. I think that's, oh, oh, man. He had me at Jacksonville. Yeah, I think you are going to be happy with both of those players. I'd probably go fan. My tight-in start of the week is Kyle Pitts against Tampa Bay. Dalton Schultz, Blake Jarwin, they combined for 10 targets at, you know, at the tight-in position. Yeah. And last week against Tampa.

Pass rush is going to force targets underneath. He's good for eight or more. I mean, he had the same amount of targets last week as Calvin Ridley. I view both of their performances in the same light. I think he gets eight or more targets in this game. What he does with them, that's going to determine whether you're happy. But at the tight-in position, beyond the Waller Kelsey Kittle group, Pitts has as good an opportunity this week as anybody else to have a big game. And if you picked Jared Cookup off of the waiver wire.

I am putting him in immediately. Right into the lineup. Right, yeah, right in. I guess it's not the highest over under anymore. Kansas City has taken that away, but we highlighted the 55 point over under. Please. 55. Thank you. He saw eight targets last week. That's a 17% target share. And look, sure, it was probably a Brady Gronk thing, but the Thailand just torched this Cowboys team.

But Cook was on the field and almost as active in the receiving game as the primary wide receivers. Yeah, and I'll go right into my quarterback, Justin Herbert, start of the week. This game against Dallas is going to be awesome for fantasy. He looked great in week one. Justin Herbert didn't finish. He looked great, didn't.

perform for fantasy at all exactly which is why i'm making him the start of the week because you might have him and have hesitation look the washington football team he went up against last week was very very difficult and he did well there was some fluky plays like when they got down in the red zone they're about to score a touchdown there was a weird thrown fumble um that he just got the ball tipped and then you know it looked like oh they get another play and then it's like nope

That pass was a thrown fumble out of the back of the end zone, other teams ball. So the touchdowns didn't come. But in this game against Dallas defense, which if we're even allowed to say those two words together, oh man, I want all the pieces. You have to start Justin Herbert. And I'm going to go Russell Wilson against Tennessee. He's going to cook this defense. The defense that just gave up five total touchdowns to Kyla Murray.