Week 3 Studs & Duds + Injury Reactions, Trade Talk - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/28

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Monday, September 28th, the fantasy footballers podcast. Mike Wright, Jason, Moore, Andy Holloway. I hate injuries. There are so many injuries. There are many. And I even hate them. I hate them extra. I extra hate.

Then when they happen at the top of a game and not the bottom. Yeah. You know what I mean? If you're going to get injured, at least respectfully, even if it happens early, score a touchdown first. Score a touchdown, then pull your hammy. You know, that's just the respectful way to do it. I mean, A-chan, beginning of the game. Terrence Ferguson, beginning of the game. Dude, he was going to be so good. Right after I tweeted. Oh, you and me both. Yeah, I've got to literally have him everywhere except our dynasty leagues.

But Jason, why didn't you recommend Tyler Higby? Oh. We have news happening. Don't hit the button. Breaking news. The Giants are trading for a quarterback. Okay. What this is. Is this a big boy quarterback from Minnesota? J.J. McCarthy? Oh, McCarthy. J.J. McCarthy. Did you see? What? Just paid James. Well, yeah, but then they watched him. Fair.

Did you see this thing yesterday? Joe, is it Schmo? Yes, yes, yes. Shmo. We call him your Schmo? They're GM. So did you see this thing? Yes. Holy. Did you see this, Mike? He tweeted what looked to be a private list. Joe Shone? I don't know how to say his name. I feel like that's something we should know. Joe Schmo. Joe Schmo for sure.

So he tweeted a private list. I assumed it was fake. When I saw that post, I think there's what it said. It said James Winston Current. J.J. McCarthy, need. Then it was a bunch of other names, Richardson, Flacco, Rush, Scataboo. Why is Scataboo? I know. That was the, that was why I thought was fake. And then Drew Brees said no. Russell Wilson, last resort. You sure this isn't fake?

I think that was fake. Regardless. But the guy that they said need on the fake list is the guy they traded for. The 27th rounder is all it took. Yeah. It's just. Yeah. That is. Wow. It's bad news for DART. That's where my brain immediately goes. Why is it bad news for DART? Well, you just traded for a question. It's not a question. No, no, no, no. No, DART is bad. I'm saying how, like, how bad is his knee?

Well, he's out for the year, Mike. Yes. No, I know that. They want a chance to win this year. They're two and one, right? It's surprising. This just makes sense. Winston's not the solution. I agree with that. But to go to a developmental quarterback. Exactly. If you're like, if you're saying we're trying to win right now, we're going to go get a guy who got nothing. They traded a fifth round pick for a chance to win this year. This is just.

This is like, hey, we want some upside. We don't want to go out there and get like a garbage backup, nothing burger quarterback to come in and be the same as Winston. We want some chance at going to the playoffs. I'm surprised. On that list. And it's hardball. I mean, this is a guy that played with his brother. So this is a bit of a, this one makes perfect sense to me. Yeah, it does. I don't think it's a dumb thing to do. It is surprising because the fact that you have a young.

future, you know, you just drafted him. He is the future of the franchise in Jackson Dart. Trading for a young prospect who was also supposed to be the future of a franchise, a recent, you know, first round draft pick is just surprising. I think it's smart. I think it's smart to go get someone that gives you a chance and it will probably fail. We've seen McCarthy fail enough to know like, eh, it's probably not going to be good enough.

James has looked terrible. He'll be better than James, and he'll execute an offense. I would have rather gone and got Anthony Richardson and just trying to, like, create a running game. Yeah, not me. No, this is the best player you could have acquired in terms of, this is a third stringer now on Minnesota. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, this was not, this is a guy that's left for dead, which made him available. And now, and you're two and one. We're actually not talking about the biggest impact of this.

how good the Vikings are going to be. Their locker room is now freed of nine. And so I think this is a real good morale boost for the Vikings. Because their quarterback looked awesome on Sunday. Oh, gosh, terrible. Terrible Kyler Murray. The prior Sunday he did. It's funny because when the game started, it's like, why do they refuse to just use Wins who's good? Yeah, I mean, it is a wild trade. No question about it. I don't.

connected to Jackson Darden anyway but I I will say that like that list was apparently very fake yeah it was apparently very accurate the fake list from Joe shown sometimes you tell a joke and it becomes the truth and the joke ends up being right and I mean look here here's what you didn't want to come in on Monday and talk about that Malik neighbors has no future this year for your fantasy team that you don't have Isaiah likely who seemed like a great draft pick having any relevance Isaiah likely who is

Number nine. Yeah. Which means J.J. McCarthy. It's super good. He needs to get rid of his alter identity of nine. I hope it's not like 37. He has to pick the just most disgusting number. The most aesthetically unpleasing number you can find J.J. McCarthy. I will say that I don't think J.J. McCarthy will start this week. I know. Oh, no, no. I think there'll be some time to acclimate. But I guarantee you this was a little bit of the hardball. Hey, this guy. Brooks, you a double zero. This guy can run.

Double zero. That's what we're talking about. I don't think it's allowed, but that would be awesome. I had a friend who wore double zeros for a basketball team. Everyone called him boobs. Makes sense. He didn't like that at all. No. He was he did not like that nickname. Players are not allowed. All right. There you go. Some breaking news to start to show. And I was complaining about injuries. Wow, man. You know who likes that's wild. Is that a slight resurrection in dynasty for JJ McCarthy or not really? Well, for sure. I mean, it's better than this year. Yeah. As of now,

he has a chance to start NFL games versus he didn't. So, yeah, of course that's an uptick for, I did not assume that he was going to be traded for or traded away for that matter. But I think it makes sense for both parties. Hopefully he can figure it out. I know Mike and I believed he was better than he showed in the NFL. Obviously, this was a guy who didn't start enough college games. You see like Tyler Shuck after, you know, 20 years in college coming to the NFL. And it's like, I wish you have your birthday. Oh, yeah.

To Tyler Shuck. Oh, is he 42 now? Yes, he is. Wasn't he, didn't McCarthy pay a ton? I mean, I see 28 starts in college. Is that a ton? Yeah, 28 starts is almost getting old of them. Yeah, 28. Still needed more. Look, I think that McCarthy, once they made the decision, it was over in Minnesota. It was not going to happen. Yes. Once Carson wins is the second guy. This was a, I mean, a fifth round pick, you might as well just.

No sunk cost fallacy here. Let's get rid of this guy. That way, Kyla Murray can just run away with the job. The 3 and L Vikings, that is. The team is so good. I think the playoffs Vikings are going to be a force to be reckoned with with Carson wins.

I think when the playoffs come around and Carson Wins is leading this team. Carson Wins is not that good either. That defense is so good. You just need somebody to not turn the ball over and both those guys turn the ball over. That's the wild thing. Wow. Look, we got so much to talk about. That's a hot start. We've got all the Monday Punday. We've got to get into your reactions. And my goodness, it was hard to find somebody say something nice about somebody this week. I mean, it was difficult. The tight-ins had a week.

Yes. The Titans had a week. Did you see it was the most touchdowns for the tight-in position like ever? I did not know that, but that adds up with the submissions you guys sent in here. But I saw a tweet about it. I'm not surprised. I mean, you had you had tons of guys like in the Seattle game. I don't even know who that dude was. Soberd or whatever. So we call him Sorbet. Sorbet went into the end zone. And the Higby. The touchdowns for for Shuck.

Those were tight-in touchdowns. Yeah, and they were mighty fine. I saw some poor souls that dropped Joanne Johnson in order to pick up Terrence Ferguson for the long-term value. Jason went through the whole emotional reaction. I would have done it too. I would have done it too. I love Joanne Johnson. I can't imagine dropping him. I absolutely would have dropped him for Terrence Ferguson, which would have worked out.

based on Tyler Higby. Raiders Saints had six touchdowns by Titans because Mayer scored in that game, Bauer scored in that game. It's the most tight-in touchdowns in a single game in NFL history. It's a tweet from Josh Dubot from the AP, it looks like. There were 20 touchdown catches by Titans today most of the day in the NFL history. That's most of our positive on the Monday Punday. Here were your submissions and reactions to the weekend in the most sophisticated way possible.

Starting with, of course, a tight-in. Brock Powers. You had mighty Giggins. Ju-Win Johnson. My favorite new edition, the Grand Kenyon. He was great. Or Wynion, Sadiq. Yeah, you had Tyler Higbeast. Oh, classic. Yeah. A refined classic. Harold Manon, Jr. Do we like Glock Purdy or Brock Tutty?

They're both good, and he is great. No weapons left. Jamirical Gibbs? Yes. What about driving in your kettle red corvette? Oh, kiddle red corvette. Oh, no. It's Drake, may I drop you? Oh, Marion Hampton. Starvin Harrison. I also thought Omari and Hamper was very funny. I like that one a lot. Did you say Starvin Harrison? What about Michael Sitman, Jr.? Yeah.

Aaron Rogers hates him or Orronday Badsen. Oh, David Mott. Bummer Rie. Bummer Rie. Yes, thank you. Finished it. Bad McConkey. Oh, Teta Rutt Row. Yes. Millen. Oh, that one's good. Tyler Crapped. How about a mecca egg booca? Or if Gronk was saying it, a mica egg big poo.

And we'll finish it out here with another rookie Jedarian yikes or Jadarian overpriced. Oh boy. There was a lot of a lot of Jadarian puns submitted. Yeah. That is fumbling? No, none about the fumbling. No, not about the fumbling. Production? Yeah, this is not. I mean, that team.

You know, I'm going to lose it, by the way, in the Great League of Record Super Team. I'm going to lose, and a lot of it comes down to the Seattle D-S-T-P-P-P, whatever you want to call it. Seattle was atrocious. Drew Locke looked a lot better than Sam Darnold did, made some...

mistakes and the defense getting cooked. This was the lowest implied point total for a team, Washington going into the week, and they scored, what, 30-something points? I put that one more on the defense. Yeah, I mean, it was shocking. What was the final score? Seattle had plenty of points. Yeah, yeah, they did. Wasn't Washington in the 30s? Oh, yes, they lost. I feel like Seattle was in the 30s. Come on, where's the score? 33 to 31. Yeah. If you put up 31.

I'm not blaming the offense. No. And you know who? So Seattle defending champs loses to Washington on the road, right? It's amazing. To a backup. So what do you think? So they're on the road. Now they're coming home, right? You think you're going to have a chip on the shoulder? Probably. After losing on the road and getting up 30 points in the defense and the 12th man, guess who they play next week? At home. Please tell me. The Chargers. Oh. The Chargers get to go into Seattle after a loss.

After a long. Thank you for your submissions on Instagram at Fantasy Footballers on X at the FF Ballers. We'll talk more news. News and notes from around the league. I apologize. I think I have a little too much adrenaline running through my system due to escaping the toilet trophy by five seconds before the show began. We were literally doing a countdown from five because we were ready to start and you were still in the bathroom. And then you blockaded the door.

Well, not we. Yeah, the Falcon did, which was a pro move. Good job. But, yes, you overcame the garbage can blockade. Five seconds. Got here with about three seconds to spare. All right. Case Keenom expected to start tonight for the Bears. Tyson, Baygent did clear the protocol, but didn't practice much. So they're going to go with the guy that practiced more. Case Keenum against Seattle. All right. We'll see if Ben Johnson. Against Philadelphia. What did I say? Seattle. Oh, I'm sorry. You got Seahawks on the mind. I got, yeah, the birds.