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It's good to be here. It's great to be here. It's super fantastic. I'm Andy Holloway, joined as always by Mike, the fantasy hitman Wright. Hello. And the Marlboro man himself. Jason Moore. Howdy, partner? We're back again. It's Tuesday, September 17th. Thank you for listening to the podcast as we head into week three of the NFL season. Oh, so much has happened.

Injuries. Yeah. Injuries everywhere. We had the Monday night game last night. Not many jets remaining. Not many jets surviving right now. But we'll talk about that. Recap it a little bit. I did. I thought this might be fun. Through two weeks. Let's go through some of the leaders in football. Ready? Passing yards leader. Come on. I think we know that one, right?

Patrick Mahomes, 821 passing yards. That makes sense. Passing touchdown leader. Okay. There's three of them. Patrick Mahome. Oh, few, things make sense. Seven touchdowns. Excellent. But two other players with seven touchdowns. Lamar Jackson? Yep. Dak Prescott. Through two weeks. Who leads the league in interceptions? Any guesses? It's Patrick or Mayfield. It's actually. I was saying, like, I thought you were telling a joke about, like, who was catching them. Nope.

No, Matt Ryan, five interceptions so far through two weeks. He got a little loose on that Sunday night game. Had said some, uh, doesn't care balls. Uh, rushing yardage leader. We know this. Delvin Cook, 265 rushing yards, Sequin's second. Reception leader. Michael Thomas, 20 receptions. That was fun. He's also 26 targets. Yeah, that was fun. Uh, which is number one in the league. But here are the next four target leaders.

I thought this would be interesting. Keenan Allen, Sammy Watkins, Larry Fitzgerald, DJ Moore. If Cam Newton wasn't banged up, I would be telling people to buy DJ Moore because the targets, the receptions for him through a couple of weeks, very interesting with a shoulder recovering and maybe he'd be in a better position to grow with Cam's health. But right now you can't do that. Receiving yardage leader, John Ross, 270 yards.

receiving touchdowns, three players, or four players with three of them, John Ross, Sammy Watkins, Julio Jones, T.Y Hilton. And then I thought this was fascinating as well. The week one target leader was Jameson Crowder with the 17. Goodbye, Jameson. Farewell. That was fun too. Who led the league in week two targets, pass catcher? That was a hint, by the way. Pass catcher? Oh, it's got to be Zachary Ertz. It's Zachert. Yeah, he's back.

16 targets in week two. And Alshan is likely to miss the next two games. Like you saw the thing I've been saying about Zach Hertz, great tight end, but he does what he does what he's asked to do. And when the team has a surplus of pass catchers, his target volume goes down. But now that they're dropping like flies in Philadelphia, Zacherts sky rockets back up to being what he was last year.

Today's the waiver show, by the way. We're going to go through waiver wire pickups at every position. We'll talk a little bit about guys who are comfortable dropping because obviously you've got to make an exchange. I was teaching my children all about the waiver wire and how it works. They thought they could just add. You got to drop somebody. Thank you for that, by the way. What? For teaching us. Well, oh, no, no, you're not my children. I would never let my kids smoke, Jason.

It's a rough life over here. Are you feeling... Children don't smoke. Are you feeling better today? I'm feeling a little better and still terrible. Okay. All right. Well, a few more months. A few more months. I'll be on the other side. Do they still do the big metal lung thing? I remember how they used to... Oh, for when you had... Oh, no, that was polio. Polio, yeah. You don't have polio, do you? I hope not.

That's really bad. Yeah, I don't think that they have polo. I think that they got my vaccination. That was discontinued. Yes. They discontinued that. Polio. Yeah. We did. We discontinued polio. For the most part, we did. One of our great accomplishments. Yes. And Joseph Salk.

Really? I believe that's the man who created the vaccine. We are so smart, Mike. We are so smart. Oh, people come for the science and the medicinal facts on this show. Medicinal facts. You can find them on Twitter at the FF Ballers. It's a strange handle. Close, Mike. Jonas. Jonas Sulk. I was so proud. I should have just said Dr. Salk. Yeah. Yeah, that would have better call Sulk.

Very nice. Not bad. All right, quick question. It's just takeaways from Monday night football. The Browns win 23 to 3. Trevor Simeon went down with the most broken of ankles that wasn't broken. He went down. He had floppy foot. And then walked off the field. They call it medicinally. Yeah, medicinally, they call that floppy foot. They do not treat that with the iron lung. No. But my takeaway from Monday night is actually on the jet side of the football. And that is that.

Lev Bell is a horse. I mean, he's a top five PPR running back right now, and that is with, you know, one game with Luke Falk, you know, at quarterback. So, you know, 31 touches yesterday, 10 receptions, 21 carries. He's going, he's spry enough to do something with that kind of volume on a weekly basis, regardless of the quarterback situation. So.

Is he more of a pure volume play right now? Sure. Yes. But he's also a PPR volume play because you don't really have players to throw the ball to outside of, you know, Robbie Anderson, which has never been a really high volume guy. Jameson Crowder, only four receptions yesterday, I believe. And then Lev Bell. So, and he's a friend to young quarterbacks near the line of scrimmage because they're going to call run play, run play. And then, ooh, we're passing. No or not. We're running through the air with Love Bell. Yeah.

People who have them in PPR are far happier than people who have Levi-on-Bel and standard. And the ceiling is capped for Levi-on-Bel, especially while they're waiting for the Smooch Bandit Sam Darnold to return. I would say this, though. I am not looking to move Levi-on-Bel. I'm quite content with the volume until Sam Darnel comes back, which has been rumored might be after the week four by. So endure two more weeks with...

Luke Falk, who is 20 for 25, by the way, close to the line of scrimmage, and you'll be okay. Yeah, it doesn't feel great for... How do you... Go ahead, sorry. It just, it doesn't feel great for what you were hoping for with Levy on Bell. Week 1, 3.5 a carry, week 2, 3.2 a carry. I think I feel great about it. I feel fantastic. I mean, your worries all offseason was...

Ty Montgomery is going to steal work load from him and he won't. Adam Day's will be a B-hole. The biggest concern was efficiency, and that has happened, but the volume has been so tremendous that it has overcome the inefficiency. The inefficiency is excusable because you have to drive the ball, you have to put the ball in his hand 30 times a game just to have any form of an offense. Yeah, I mean, I've got Love Bell in the listener league. I've been thrilled with what we've,

seen so far this year. He gets so much utilization that you know he's always going to have a fine game. And that's not on the back of touchdowns, which is great because I don't expect him to be pouring in points. Sure. I'm just in a standard league, you, you aren't getting that 10 points from just the receptions. Like Lev Bell was scored 12 points compared to what the other running backs are doing with their touchdown ceilings. That's all I'm saying. I'm,

content with Levy on Bell on my teams. You're just, you're hoping for a little more. What do you think about Nick Chubb through two games? And this Brown's offense, which seems to be finding, still finding itself. The Brown's offense is bizarre. I didn't, like I wasn't charting anything. This was just my observations while watching the game. It felt like every passing attempt was like this.

20-step drop for Baker-Mayfield. I don't know if this was a design because of the offensive line problems, but go back and watch it, and Baker is, as soon as he snaps the ball, he was flying backwards. Like, why is every passing play revolving around that? Meanwhile, then you have the one big play was the quick three-step drop fire at the Beckham. Fair observation, because generally, if you have an offensive line that can protect you, you put people into...

multi-step drops. You don't three-step drops are four battle lines. So you should be seeing more of that. Yes. That's why it's strange. You know, they're underutilizing Jarvis Landry, in my opinion right now. And they're, you know, they look a little awkward. Now it was, it was fine. It was 19 for 35, 325 and 1. Beckham did most of the work on the one. And he threw an interception forcing the ball to Beckham. So Baker has not looked like a. The Brown's offense has not looked great. I'm trying to figure out what to do with Baker in.

our league of record. Maybe you guys can counsel me. Because you took him, I took him very late. But I also have like Kyla Murray, who has, for better or worse, like they're struggling around the red zone, but he's 300 plus a game. And so I'm sitting here going, do I really want to roster both of these players for a continued period of time when I think I want to play Carla more often than I do Baker? So, you know, what are you advising people to do in a two quarterback situation like that? In that situation, assuming it's a.

one quarterback league as ours is you can shop either guy. And if you can't find a suitor for them, I would hold on to both because the ceilings on both are still very, very high. I do think, in general, most people who drafted any Brown is disappointed. Obviously, Odell Beckham had just a monster game. He's great. But the Browns in general, like Chub got in the end zone, you're fine.

But he's been very inefficient. He was getting pulled off the field on third downs. Yeah, he has not looked like what a lot of people thought, just this superstar running back who's going to be a top five, top three type of guy. He's, you know, he's not utilized in the passing game the way that you would hope, especially considering you got rid of Duke Johnson. Then Dantrell Hilliard isn't active. This is like, okay, it's not going to happen. This is the perfect situation.

You're not happy with 4 for 36 for Nick Chow? The result is fine, but like the process of when you're watching the game, him coming out on third downs and not being in that role that you would hope he's in. I mean, I'm not saying like he's not used in the passing game. I'm just saying they take him out in situations that are passing downs, which I would hope. Yeah, for Ernest Johnson.