"What If?" Scenarios for 2020 + Fournette Fallout - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/31

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Where do they go, Mike? Underdog Fantasy.com. All right. Let's talk about the Eagles because we have to every single time we have news. Eagles wide receiver Jalen Rager suffered a shoulder injury. It turned out that that was a partially torn labor. He's out two to four weeks, but that is really a little bit up in the air too. It's just a matter of can he get back in that amount of time? So crappy. Because this was a domino effect of.

Carson Wentz's day to day with a soft tissue injury. Carson Wentz was not in. And hurts through an interception. And then Jalen Rager went to tackle somebody on an interception on just a play that is meaningless and it doesn't have to happen. And he tore his freaking shoulder. This stinks so much. There was really no business for that team not to call the playoff right then. I mean, you should not be trying to have your offensive players tackle.

defensive players in a transition drill there. But neither here nor there. They're hurting. Somebody's getting hurt every day. They lost their left tackle. Their wide receiver core is now decimated again. And here's Greg Ward. With targets and reception. Here's Greg Ward. And at a good camp. And yet Carson Wince is now hurt. Like I think I'm just kind of trying not to draft Eagles if I still have a draft to go. Miles Sanders. Eh.

I mean, are you taking him over the other guys in that tier? We just said on Friday that we wouldn't. I'm taking him at the back of that tier. I still believe in him, but it is worrisome when the offensive line is injured. The quarterback is currently just a little, you know, soft tissue issue. The running back is week to week. Your main starting wide receiver is, I still assume going to end up on the pup. Remember Alshan Jeffrey? Jalen Rager, superstar young guy. I mean, the team is certainly a mess on offense.

it's you know if you want to avoid that to avoid the injury dip i'm fine with it i am still a believer that carson wince is a great quarterback not a good quarterback in which case where are you moving to sean jackson he's already been one of our favorite values over the entire off season now where are you prioritizing i don't think you have to prioritize him i don't think he's moving up he's been a value in the

double-digit rounds in every league I've been in. I don't think this move this news. But that was before Rager was going to be gone for up to four weeks. I'd move him up a round or two. He's the weirdest player because you can draft him in the 10th round and you can start him week one. And that is not a lie. You could just put him right in your lineup. It's, it is really funny because I, you know, we've obviously gotten Deshaun Jackson in plenty of places. And after the draft, you go to set your week one and you go, hmm.

I think we should put Deshaun Jackson, who I drafted so much later into my starting roster over, you know, really high-end hopeful prospects. And I don't think you can really draft Jalen Rager. I mean, you don't know when he's going to be back and he's a rookie and he's still got to make an impact and it's going to take too much time. And it's disappointing because it is. I'm sure that there are plenty playing basketball that have Jalen Rager and, you know, that might be the one situation where you're okay. Yeah, I still believe Rager can make an impact on the season, but.

Are you going to draft a rookie to sit on your bench and be injured and then acclimate? I'm probably not doing that. We drafted Jalen Rager in the Sleeper Bowl, and we've already dropped him for somebody else. I can't wait to win a title there again. All right. In, no, that's not fair news. Ian Rappaport reporting Cooper Cup suffered a mercifully low ankle sprain in Saturday's scrimmage.

Rams say it's minor. Said had the game been this week, Cooper Cup would have been playing. So if you saw the headline, it seems like there's no reason to be alarmed. But it's, you know, the season's 10 days away nonetheless. DeAndre Swift returned to practice on a limited basis Monday after missing more than a week with a leg injury. Carry on will likely open the season in a starting role. Carry on is...

Carry on the draft value. He's the exact same thing as Deshaun Jackson. He's a player you can draft at the back of the draft and start week one probably. This is a situation. Don't look at the problem of Kerry on Johnson saying, well, I'm not getting. Don't look at it in your drafts going, well, he's not going to be the starter for the entire season.

So what? Who cares? Exactly. In our tips and tricks show, I was talking about breaking the season down into chunks. For the draft chunk, Carry on Johnson could be a tremendous value. And then, look, maybe three to four weeks into season, you trade Carry on Johnson. Or in the realm of possibilities, he finally shows out and he is the leader of the time share. You don't know what's going to happen in Detroit.

but people are still drafting D'Andre Swift in like the sixth, seventh round, and Caryon Johnson the 10th or later, don't ignore him because he won't be the start of the whole year. It's fine. You'd still take him. Carry on Johnson is a nice bridge to Jonathan Taylor, Cam Acres, J.K. Dobbins, whoever you're taking, even D'Andre Swift. I mean, we just saw Swift go in the fifth in the sleeper bowl and carry on in the 10th.

So it's just one of those weird late round values, almost like worst case taking the Peyton Barber last year, where you could start him for a few weeks. The fantasy burns that Kerry on Johnson has left upon. Jason's not speaking for a reason. Exactly. That's how bad Carrie Johnson has burned people. And that's why he's available in the 10th. I have recused myself from this conversation. And all future carry on. But let us, let Mike and I, who love nothing more than to bash carry on projections, be the voice of reason. Stay water.

He is a starting running back, especially if you go Christian McCaffrey at 101 and then take a bunch of other positions for a while. Look, this has been a fun episode, guys. I mean, you guys talking up Kerry on, I'm talking up AJ Green. This is just like a healing bonding, you know, welcome to the campfire. You know who's feeling the best of all? It's got to be Al Bournemouth. Because isn't Fournett one of the, your keepers in League of Record? He was. Well, did you release him?

Oh, no. Okay. You still have your first round pick, right? At least you can get a running back there. I gave that up to get Fournett. Oh, yeah. To who? To me? Right. We love you, Elle. Yeah, we do. Not enough not to bring it up, but we love you just right up to that line. All right. Devante Parker has missed the last few practices dealing with a minor undisclosed injury. Secret injury for Devante Parker. It's not great. Keep it secret. Keep it safe. We don't know.

We don't know any more details than that. Speaking of keep it secret, keep it safe, Matt Nagy, head coach from the Chicago Bears, look, he's not going to tell anybody who the starting quarterback is for week one. What are you doing? If you don't have a starting quarterback name for week one, guess who's scared of your team?

Nobody because you don't have a starting quarterback on your roster. Here's the truth. I listen to the press interview. And the way he's talking about it, he's like, obviously we have a week one starter. But to the press, we're not going to tell you guys who that is. It's one of those, you know, this is going to. This is exactly what Matt Nagy does every week in press conferences. He spends more time trying to confuse the media and the other team than coaching his own players. Is this your card?

No, hold on. We're going to spend all of the offseason holding a kicking competition. That's the real problem we have. So dumb. It's so dumb. If you're a defense, what's the difference between preparing between those two? That's my entire point. Or if it is in fact, like if Trubisky is the guy that you're going to go forward with and I.

I believe it's going to be Trabisky. They're still going to try it. It's easier to go from Trabisky to Foles than Foles to Trabisky, if that makes sense. I think it's going to be Foles. They might be Foles all year. Well, look, Matt Nagy is winning because we don't know the starting quarterback. Oh, we're perplexed. But my point for, is this your card? No, exactly. You'll never know what your card was. My point for if it's Trabisky, give the dudes some confidence, go out there and proclaim to the world. Our starting quarterback is Mitch Trabisky.

I think that goes a long way instead of this garbage where you think you're getting an advantage. Well, in that same press conference, Nagy was talking about, you know, both guys have done some good things. And both guys have, you know, they've had some plays they would want back. Basically, no one here is good enough to lead the Bears to where they want to go. Sorry Bears fans. This is just I.

I can't stand when the coaches do this. Who would have thought that this guy? Number two. Would be this far down in the storylines. But it's been a wild ride with Lev Bell in the backfield in New York. But it is, it's all over the map. People were surprised to hear us talk about Lev Bell so negatively a few days ago with where he is in our rankings. Now you have news out of Jets camp, a couple pieces of news.

While Michael P. Rhine, who had been flashing in camp, he's got an MRI coming on his ankle. He was carted off the field. That's not a good sign for the rookie. Kalin Belanche, who the Jets traded for. He failed his physical. After he was cut. Yeah. He was cut. Then he was traded for. What's the current status, Andy? He's now a dolphin again. He's been reverted back to the dolphins. Yeah. Busting out a slide whistle. Where? Where? Where?

Where have you been hiding that thing? It's Velcroed under the table, my friends. Is that for the Jets only? This is for anybody who deserves a slide. How did you not bust it up for Matt Nagy? I thought about it, but I knew we were getting to Belage, so there you go. Now I can slide whistle anyone at any, this power. Who did this? Who did this? Who brought? Is this you owl? This was the judge. It's a combination. I'd say there's no way Jason went out and bought it himself. Oh, no. I did.

Tremendous work by the footballers team. The big shimmy slide whistle. Unbelievable. Oh, man. Okay. Aruga. I know. We have really stepped up our production levels. Here. I still think Lev Bell's okay. I think he's fine. I mean.

There's the Jets, you know, they know how to make Lev Bell happy. They tweeted a nice video of him making an incredible catch this weekend, and Lev Bell retweeted it. That's how we know he's fine, right? Tweets. It was a very impressive video. But Adam Gaze came out and he talked about the fact that him and Lev had more conversations. You know, look, you want to win. You want a shot at winning. Lev Bell's got to be on the field. It can't be a 37-year-old Frank Gore taking every carry. Now in the video, Lev Bell was on the field with Frank Gore.

as well. He was playing wide receiver. With their wide receiver core. Makes sense. It makes sense. Lev Bell's a great receiver. I'm still fine with Lev Bell. And if everybody's off of him and he's a fourth round pick, okay. I mean, let me have that opportunity at upside in a past catching league with the past catching. Yeah, I'll reiterate what I said at the end of that.

bust segment. I have him ranked higher in my running back rankings than where he is currently being drafted. The reason I think he's a bus is because of all the question marks with the offense, the team with Frank Gore, and the wide receivers that are right next to him. Guys like Cooper Cup and Tyler Lockett, who I believe in that range are far more assured. There's just less variables there to me. All right. We still have, we got the hype train for Brian Edwards. He's been the starting ex-receiver in Raiders camp.

Very talented player. He could have as much of a rookie impact as any rookie out there. He could very well just take Tyrol Williams job before week one. I will say this. Stay tuned this week for the Bold Predictions episode. Okay dokey. Yeah. Oh my. Oh, my. Mike. Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones.