Fantasy Football 2017 - Preseason Week 2 Recap + Rising Stars

I would still personally put my interest in Denal Pumfrey because I believe he's a good player. We haven't seen him taking him that role. Right, exactly. We haven't seen him taking that role. But I mean, if there's no other running back there, that's just bad for the entire offense. I mean, he's the guy that's been getting some run. So keep him on your radar at least for preseason week three. I think he'll be an important watch. You know, you want to see what Clement does.

I expect Legerick Blunt will be there. I don't think they can lose them right now. Clements 510-2-20. That's beefy enough. That's a thick boy. Yes, yes, yes. That's like me. Right? We're brothers. You're basically the same person. We're built the same way. Weekly rewind. All right, we're going to walk through the preseason games. Our takeaways, things that you guys liked, didn't like. Let's start in the Thursday night matchups.

We had Baltimore and Miami. Baltimore won that game going away. What did you see out of that matchup? And we've talked a little bit about it already. The highlight for here is Devante Parker getting those smoke and Jake Cuddy locked on targets. It's good to see a Jai in the game to know he's fully back, cleared from everything and able to go. Once again, I want to remind everybody how bad Damien Williams is as a running back. He was horrific. And the only other note that I have.

from that game is Baltimore is going to be a huge catastrophe if Joe Flacco is not there. Their quarterback situation is a problem. And, I mean, they expect Flacco to be back by week one. Great, dandy. But if he's not there week one, that's, that's, I mean, you're not, you're not, I wouldn't start a single Baltimore Raven and I would play the defense against them. If you want to welcome yourself to my dynasty situation. I have Andrew Luck on my bench.

I have Joe Flacco on my bench, and I had to sign Tom Savage this morning as an emergency week one play. So there's a chance I don't have a starting quarterback at all in week one if things don't go the right way. Let's, Danny Woodhead was on the field. It was nice to see him on the field and playing. We kind of talked through these Thursday games, so I'll go through them quick. But Buffalo, Philly, the Philly office didn't look very good. Ligarra Blunt looked terrible.

The offensive line struggled a little bit. Lane Johnson at left tackle struggled, and Tyraud Taylor looked terrible. I just want to talk real quick because I've seen some concerns bubbling on Twitter of people having some now concerns in LaShawn McCoy with the team bailing. Now you have Bolden off the offense. You have a very unproven pass catchers. Tyrod Taylor may get benched.

There's also like these weird rumors of them actually trading Lashon McCoy. Do you have any hesitance going into your draft of taking him in that three to six range? You have to have some hesitation because if they're not in the red zone, if they're not in a position to score frequently, you've got a problem. And if Tyra can't move the offense, if somehow a controversy at the quarterback position happens three, four weeks into the year, which is very possible. It's going to. Because.

Tyra is not the future. This franchise has already decided that. Now, I'm not saying he can't be. He shouldn't be, but he isn't. They have really tried to make sure he is not the future of this franchise. Yes, they have. So essentially, you've got the potential of a rookie or a young, a different quarterback back there. That doesn't help Lishol McCoy. Trading your best wide receiver doesn't help Lashon McCoy, putting your offense in a position where maybe you're playing catch up more often because your defense has been.

damaged look it's not good now he's on the field and he catches passes so the opportunity is there but yeah i think you could have your your chances of having three or four dud games with lisham mccoy goes up yeah i would i would agree with every single thing you said it doesn't necessarily move him down my running back ranks but there are so many questions of you know okay i'm i'm at that three spot or that four spot or that five spot do i take lashan mccoy

ahead of Antonio Brown. That's what I mean. O'Dell Beckham and Julio. And I think this says, no, you, you need, if I'm there at least, I'm taking the big three wide receivers over shady because even in a standard. Yeah, even in a standard. All right. All right. So, uh, do we other news that I have, uh, from that game real quick. We barely mentioned it, but I, I have a note here. Charles Clay.

looked so necessary to that team. I mean that. I mean, it was like... Necessary? Is it necessary? The reality, though, is that Tyrod Taylor looked for him often. If Jordan Matthews isn't there with Anquan Bold and gone, Zay Jones is a rookie, I believe Charles Clay is going to be very involved. If his knees can withstand victory this year, then I would say Charles Clay has a chance to be

A low-end tight-in one this year. All right. The last Thursday game was Tampa and Jacksonville. Talked about the Yelden injury. Had a chance to see Deshaun Jackson on the field. Mike Evans is a monster. Really feel like his floor is super high. Even though he may not deserve to be in that upper echelon in my book, maybe he does. I mean, he's just a monster. And when you're that big, you've seen this with Brandon Marshall. Like the targets, they don't change.

Like you don't, even if you're double, it's not like it wasn't double covered at times last year. The targets are always going to be there. That's the most trusted weapon on that offense by James Winston. And so you have a very, and he can make plays. He wins the 50-50 ball. So very safe at the position. Anything from that game you want to mention before we go into the games we have not talked about yet. Yeah, I'm good. That offense looked really good as a whole for Tampa Bay. And I was very, I mean, I guess it goes hand in hand, but I was very disappointed with the, you know, the vaunted.

Jaguar defense that is coming in this year, they looked like they are not that special so far. And as the poo-poo are on the team, Doug Martin looked great. So, yeah, he looked fantastic. Mike, are you buying into Doug Martin? I am not buying into him at his draft price, but if you are, I'm, I'm not likely to draft Doug Martin, but if you're getting into that six, seven round, round range, then.

And you want and you want to hold him for those three weeks. He looks like two years. He did look good. He looked like the good version of Doug Martin. I've seen a lot. He had burst for sure. He was impressive to me. Cutter still came out and said, hey, there's no way I'm going to guarantee you he's the starter in week four. It just seems like him, Dirk Cutter being coaching. Yeah. And so, yeah, last thing you want to do is tell Jquiz he can't win the job. I mean, and not get performances from him.

The one thing I'll say is when I, a lot of people have drafted, they're sending us pictures of their draft, they've sent us a lot of their rosters. Every time I see Doug Martin as some of the depth on the bench when you're running back court isn't as strong as it could be. Maybe you went wide receiver first. Maybe you jumped on Grancowski or Reid. It makes me happy. I think you put yourself in a good position if you can survive those first few weeks. If you've got Doug Martin on your bench, I'm a big fan. Before we move on to the next game, I want to thank today's sponsor. You know who they are, Foot Clan.

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Russell Wilson. Did everything he could do. I was once again impressed but hesitant with Casson Williams. Some big plays. If you look back at week one, I mean, I think he's a sleeper candidate that people are going, okay, the stat lines are there. What is this guy doing? Now he's running with the starters. I think he's worth a dynasty pickup. I may or may not have done that myself over the weekend. He basically ran the same route four times in week one.

It literally was, and they were all the same pass from Boykin. It was basically... Run straight and catch the giant jump ball. Yeah, it was down the left sideline. Impressive catches, but if you don't have a refined route tree and you're sitting there at best fourth in this rotation, maybe you're ahead of Jermaine Curse, but you're not ahead of Lockett, you're not ahead of Baldwin, you're not ahead of Richardson, and you're not ahead of Graham in the past catching pecking order. So a fifth receiving option.

maybe a six behind pro size. That doesn't make me excited. So I would say that's one of those situations where you need to ignore the stat line and look at opportunity and say, look, it's just not there. He may be very talented, but you're going to need injury to find him snaps. I agree. A great dynasty stash. I will say, I mean, you want to talk about passing the eyeball test. I wrote down on my notes. I was like, look into number 18. Like who is number 18? I was, you know, and that's Casson Williams. He really did look special, but I agree he's.

He's not going to get in. So for your redraft leagues, someone to keep, you know, on the radar, but not drafting him right now. The guy that impressed me the most, easily Doug Baldwin. I mean, we threw a little bit of – He's nasty. Yeah, we threw a little bit of Shader I did, you know, just on Doug Baldwin's historical consistency when it comes to fantasy football, always finishing well at the end of the year, but most of that production coming in very few games.

Holy moly did he look good. I mean, one of his routes where he was, he faked outside goes inside and it looked like his hip should have came out of the socket the way he stopped and came back to the ball. I've always been a huge Doug Baldwin fan and he looked great. Russell Wilson looked great. The Seattle offense. I think they're, you know, I think they are ready to rebound from last year. Takeaways from the Minnesota side. Stefan Diggs looked good. Dalvin Cook was very involved. I wanted to talk about Dalvin Cook. Why don't you?

He looks fantastic. He is absolutely passing the eyeball test. He's passing the test of he's getting opportunity. Latavius Murray is back, though. Latavius Murray has been activated. Do you have any concerns with Dalvin Cook doing all this work between the 20s and getting you some points? And then when it comes time for the big payoff, they go, okay.

Put the big dude in. I have as much concern about that as I do, Jonathan Stewart and Christian McCaffrey. It's the same situation to me. Jonathan Stewart, Latavius Murray, they're going to get work. They're going to get some rotational work. And they'll probably – I'm saying touchdowns. That's the big thing. No, they'll probably score. But what you need is Dalvin Cook to be involved in that passing game, the way he's been involved. And so – Yeah, I have a note down that says Cook will catch 50 passes. That's what I wrote down watching this game. I think –

I think Dalvin Cook will catch 50 passes. And if he does, it's going to be very difficult for him to not be fantasy relevant this year. And then if they're using him in the running game, anything like what they're doing now. And I do might expect him to be taken out on most goal line situations and Latavius Murray to be in. But what Dalvin Cook has shown so far is that he might be able to score from outside the 10, you know, enough times to make him fantasy relevant in PPR leagues. Well, he better. I mean, people are taking Dalvin Cook in like the third and the fourth round. They're taking him as a.