Starts of the Week + It’s Football Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/7

You know, do you sit this guy down? Do you pivot away? I mean, it's week one. It's very difficult in week one. In week one, you are playing the players that you drafted generally in the order you drafted them. Otherwise, you would have taken somebody else ahead of them. You know, we're not going to tell you that CMC is the start of the week. I might, I might eventually. He is. He's mine. But, yeah, so let's kick it off with the quarterback position. And I'm going to go a little bit deeper here. I love the matchup. I'm going to send it in. Send in the car.

send in the car here we go Derek Carr new home new uniform the Titans were a plus matchup last year for quarterbacks and they allowed the most passing yards per game Chris Oliva is a monster and I love the Saints at home I think Derek Carr is I think he's got a chip on his shoulder and I think week one is the matchup a bulging Very muscular shoulder. Oh, no, no, I thought he said like a bulging disc. No, no, no, I'm saying that he's. Yeah, he's very strong. He's yoked. He's yoked. And, you know, the Tennessee defensive front was number one against the run. You have injured, you know, Alvin Camara, no Kendry Miller. Like Jamal Williams, he's a dog around the goal line, but he's not going to be the guy that's moving the chains all game long. I think it's going to be Derek Carr. So I think you're going to get low-end QB-1 numbers with some upside here in this dome game. Yeah, I don't mind that at all.

I can easily see the path. Also, Logan Thomas is totally fine. Is he? He's finally back? Looked good at practice. Off the injury report. Never mind. Cole Turner, take a seat. Yeah, dreams are dead. All right. I'm going to go with Gino Smith. If you have, to me, Gino Smith is the must start outside of the obvious guys. There's eight obvious guys that were drafted as the top eight quarterbacks off the board that you're clearly going to start. If you don't have one of them, I'm starting Gino. I'm starting over Kirk, over Dack, over. Watson, Daniel Jones, Russell Wilson, Anthony Richardson. The matchup here for Gino is very, very good. You waited for this opening matchup against the Rams. Next week, it's at Detroit. So he'll probably be my start of the week next week. They have a 25 and a half point team implied total. That's the fifth highest this week. Gino was already a top 12 quarterback two times against the Rams last year. And now, JSN. He's...

Ready to go. It looks like he's going to play week one. So now he just gets a better offense plus Zach Charbonnet out of the backfield that he can dump off passes. Sounds like a shopping network. Oh, that does sound like a shopping network. Or at least news. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, I think Gino Smith, really good start this week. And where you drafted him, you might have questions. I'm going with Tua. Oh, I like that. Outside of the Thursday night game, Dolphins Chargers, it is the highest over under the week. Again, besides the Thursday. Chargers defense, they give up explosive plays. 31st and explosive pass rate allowed. That's 15 plus yard plays. Second highest passer rate allowed on 15 plus yard attempts. And the guys for Tua, that would be their specialty. A crazy stat. Tua led the NFL in passing yards on play action last year, despite missing four games and being knocked out of a few more. Because if anyone bites, just a little nibble.

on play action. That's a free huge play for Tyreek or Waddle. And Tua's going to keep throwing. Last year, Miami ranked fourth in pass rate while leading. Don't underestimate the passing value of Devon A chain for Tua. Sure. Out of the backfield. Last year, the Chargers had no receivers for a period of time, but Austin Eccler still helped Herbert put up record-setting passing numbers. All right, Brian Robinson is my running back start of the week. Yeesh. It's not the sexiest pick, but it is going to be delicious for Brian Robinson. He is coming into his second season without the recovery process that he had last year. He's going to see 18 plus touches. Even if my stupid, almost upset pick comes true, this game's going to be a kind of a dog fight on the ground, Connor Robinson. And yeah, this was.

The commitment Ron Rivera is shown to Brian Robinson. And the fact that Antonio Gibson's come out and said, hey, I'm the, I'm the J.D. McKissick. Yeah. Brian Robinson is going to get it done this week. I'm going to downgrade myself. I completely agree. I was telling Mike, I think he's a great draft pick for where he's going like ninth round. Brian Robinson. I take him everywhere. He's going to come out. He's going to have 25 carries 100 yards of two touchdowns in week one. And I am. shipping him out. It's going to be hard to do after that game, but I'm going to go, hey, who wants a bell cow running back? You wouldn't play him over like Kenneth Walker this week against the Rams. I wouldn't go that far, but he is up pretty high, and I think should be in most people's starting lineups, at least in your flex. My running back is a smash play this week. It's JK two legs, two healthy legs, J.K. Dobbins against Houston. Guys, Houston.

I know we know that they were bad last year, and they are better this year. But here's how bad they were. Okay, 17 games. Here's what the teams did against them in 17 games. They ran the ball 573 times for 2,894 yards and 25 rushing touchdowns. That is the most rushing yards allowed by an NFL team in over 40 years. Teams ran the ball. 5.05 yards per carry. Yeah. They ran the ball 34 times a game versus them. Even though Baltimore is going to be faster and more pass happy, when Baltimore, who is 10 point home favorites, are up by a ton, they are just going to hand this ball off a lot because they're an NFL franchise. They're not trying to break passing records. They're trying to win games. J.K. Dobbins. Oh, no. The Gus bus could be involved, but I do think that.

J.K. Dobbins has an outstanding week one. There's no situation where I'm not starting them. In my week one, start of the week, we've been waiting for this all year, baby. It's Alexander Madison time starting running back for a team that is a six point home favorite. Jason bringing that up for JK2L. Looking at odds of scoring a touchdown. Draft Kings has Echler? Chub, Derek Henry, and Tony Pollard. Those are the only running backs who have a higher percentage chance, according to Draft Kings of scoring a touchdown than Alexander Madison, the defensive front for the Buccaneers. Maybe they're better this year, but again, last year over the final seven games, a top 12 running back in four of those games. It's Madison time. All right, I'm pairing my wide receiver start of the week with my quarterback. Chris Oliva. Oh, yes. It's time to get him out there and get him going.

pairs with the car start of the week, going against the Titans defense that allowed the most fantasy points to wide receivers. Wide receiver ones averaged 18.4 fantasy points a game against them last year. Let's get this rocket ship off the ground. Agreed. Yeah, I'm going with Jehan Dodson at Wide Receiver. We talked about it in the matchup. I don't need to go over it too much, but he projects to be the wide receiver one for this team, no matter what, even if Terry McLaurin is out there for week one. He's got great hands. He's just a good ball player. While I think that the second half, they'll be throwing the ball less. Dotson gets a touchdown in the first half of this game. All right, Mike. I'm going to pair with Jason's quarterback start of the week. I'm going to take wide receiver, my guy, Tyler Lockett. It's hot locket time. Hot locket. Thank you. Against the Rams last year. We had nine for one, 28 and a score. Four for 54 and a score. Again, that's week one. It's hard to pick a guy. So I just, Tyler Lockett, he's going to crush in week one. Okay. My.

Tight-in start of the week's Tyler Higby. No Cooper Cup. Obviously, if you're without Travis Kelsey because he doesn't play tonight, George Kittle, because he doesn't play. Mark Andrews, surprise, he doesn't play. Please pivot to Higby. He has a great play in a PPR league. He will get volume and they don't have a lot of options. It's not like Van Jefferson. They're going to have to throw. Van Jefferson is not a proven one. option. He's a proven not one. He is a proven. It's like Josh Palmer taking over as the number one in an offense. You don't have an established go-to. Stafford's going to go to Higby more frequently than I think he'll go to Van Jefferson. Jefferson's targets may be more valuable. But he had 108 targets last year. Higby did. And so you're looking at a game where they are going to be behind. You may have some garbage time. And that's where I'm going to go. Tyler Higby.

I'm going back to pair with another quarterback here. Derek Carr, I think at tight end, Joanne Johnson, is a really good start this week. When you look at the camp buzz around Joanne Johnson and how he's been involved, their beat reporters saying if you're going to draft someone from the Saints in fantasy football, Joanne Johnson's the one you want. And now you look at the matchup, the matchup is good against wide receivers, good as its quarterbacks, but it is great. against tight-in schedule-adjusted last season. They were the second worst against the tight-end position. They got eaten alive there. So you put that all together. I think Joanne Johnson is a good bet for a big game. I mean, whenever you're looking at these kind of waiver-wire type of tight-ins, they've got a lot of things that work out. It's probably 60-40 that it'll work out. But if it works with Juan Johnson...

It's going to be good. I mean, he had seven touchdowns last year and four top five finishes. I'm going with a lower end potential streaming type of an option. Gerald Everett, who has not really been talked up on this podcast. I mean, because you keep talking of Gerald Everett, and then he kind of keeps letting you down. You got to keep it quiet. But he's in a really good position. Chargers tied with the Ravens for the second highest team implied total. Miami allowed the fourth most fantasy points to the tight end position. So I mean, that's what that's what we want, a team where at least we have last year's history of they gave up points of the tight end. We got a high over under. I think that he can end up as a low end tight end one on the week. All right. Well, a reminder, all the rankings in the start sit tool on the website to fancy footballers.com. I was going to end the show, but then I remembered we got something, something special.

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