Week 2 Matchups + Losing Impressively, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/17

Not a gimmie. This is, if Latavius comes out and gets more carries, gets the goal line work, sure. If Devanta Freeman ends up more involved than we think and it takes away from Tyson, that could happen. But my projection, I do think Tyson is still going to be the first backup, get the majority of the work, and get the high leverage work that will have him finish as the number one running back. And I'm fine starting Tyson this week. Some of these players like this,

You have to call your shot on it. You can't, you know, we've been talking about some players you want to take a wait and see approach, and that's fine. Sometimes you can't. And this is a situation where I think if you're going to need to start him and I think he's going to be fine. All right. What about the passing game options? Hollywood, Sammy.

Mark Andrews. Andrews is who you start. You drafted him. You were disappointed week one. You're going to be fine this week. Kansas City has never been tough against tight ends. And Mark Andrews, if you didn't watch that game last week, he was a foot away from a great bomb, you know, reception where it wouldn't have been a, you know, he would have had, you know, eight, nine fantasy points. And you would have been like, I'm disappointed, but he didn't crush you. Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey.

are the auto starts on the Kansas City side. Yep. Clyde is probably an auto start for you too, but what are your expectations against this Baltimore defense in Baltimore after kind of meh, week one? Yeah, I mean, Baltimore's defense was kind of meh week one as well. Obviously, it was a lot of kind of fortuitous touchdowns to the running backs and Josh Jacobs. But I do think that Clyde Edwards O'Lear is going to be fine this week. I would expect him to have at least double-digit fantasy points.

You got to start him. Yeah, very encouraged by the snaps, the opportunities. He was in for 72% of the snaps. He only surpassed 70% twice last year. I mean, he was the dude. Like the fears of, is Clyde going to be bad because he's going to be in a full time share with Daryl Williams? At least for one week, that wasn't there. The problem was that he didn't score and we need more targets for Clyde.

But I'm at least encouraged by those peripheral outside numbers that he still play. I think he's going to be outside the top 24 again with the tough matchup on the road here. He was 14 for 43, 3.1 to carry last week. And the offense is Tyreek, Patrick Mahomes and Kelsey. So I'm going to maybe if you believe in him, maybe you buy low after this week on the road. Sure.

Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Monday night football, the Draft King Sportsbook line Packers minus 11 and a half. Overrunners 48 and a half in this game. Everyone wants to know. Everyone's expecting the Green Bay Packers to just, I don't know, install their normal version of software and fix all the bugs from week one. It's payback time this week. It's, it's vengeance. It's, you know, it's who are they paying back again? They're paying back the, the,

Well, the payback goes to the Saints. Yeah. But they're taking it out on the Lions because they couldn't take it out on the Saints. That's the expectation. Sometimes the router is terrible. You're like, how is this thing broken? And you just unplug and re-plug it back in. You're like, oh, this thing works perfectly. Right. Yeah. So I'm. So is that the truth here? Is the router fine and it just needed a reboot here for the Packers? For me, going into Week 2, I would say yes.

I'm playing Rogers. I'm playing Jones. My big worry that I've thought about a little bit more. And again, maybe the Detroit Lions are the salve for the worry. But the offensive line looked really, really bad for the Packers. They've got two rookies on there. They lost a lot of pieces. And, you know, you saw that on some of the interceptions that were thrown. I mean, there's been a lot said about Aaron Rogers getting nut punched.

for one of those interceptions. But he was on the move. And granted, the Saints defensive line, greater sign, the Lions defensive line. But is it possible that the offensive line for the Packers has taken such a step backwards that the Packers' offense is not going to be a prolific one of those top five offenses on the course of the season? Devante Adams is in your lineup. Aaron Jones is in your lineup. Do you?

Take a... That's the answer. Okay. Do you take a shot with AJ Dillon? Uh, maybe because of the cleanup opportunity? Yeah, I mean, if you're favored, if you're at home, 30 points implied total, favored by almost 12, I don't know. Yeah. If you were ever going to play him, isn't this the week?

If you're going to play him without an injury to Aaron Jones, this would be the week that you play him. James Connor or A.J. Dylan. That was the name I was going to bring up. I'd rather have James Connor than A.J. Dillon. Any other? Would you rather, Andy, A.J. Dillon or James Connor? I feel like I'm being trapped into, like, saying I despise James Connor beyond a measure, but I'll take A.J. Dillon. That's fair. Heavyer favorites for the second R.B. Robert Tunyon.

49% of snaps in a week one. You just throw the week out, see what happens this week. MVS, Mike, you brought him up as kind of a deeper play. I'm curious to see what Randall Cobb does because he wasn't doing a lot with Aaron Rogers, but then ends up with, well, he only had one catch. So never mind. Not doing a lot with anybody. Well, I saw a stat line. I thought he had more targets from Jordan Love at the end of the game, but it must have been my imagination. DeAndre Swift to Jamal Williams. Are you playing both?

Yeah, Swift for sure. And then Jamal Williams, I would like to hear a little bit more about the chest injury that has them limited in practice. But this could just be the tape, rewind the tape of last week and the lines are getting.

smashed again and the whole offense is throw to T.J. Hawkinson and dump off to the running backs. Yeah, assuming that he's back at practice today or that the injury is not a concern with the chest injury for Jamal Williams. I would start him. I would start Jamal Williams over A.J. Dylan and over James Connor, not, you know, it's funny because he's not the favorite. He's the heavy underdog, but we talked about it. There's just not a lot of weapons here in Detroit, and they are going to let.

Both Jamar Williams and DeAndre Swift touched the ball a ton. In Tyrault Williams, their number one wide receiver, he's currently still in the concussion protocol. It is a Monday night game, so perhaps he gets cleared. But if Williams is out for the whole game, that's another massive hit to the pass catching court. Yeah, at which point you could look desperately at CFAS on the Detroit offense.

for the number three quarterback in fantasy football. King Goughrey. With 57 attempts in week one for Jared Gough and a team that gave up 38 points. Like there's plenty of. There's plenty of opportunity for this game to turn into like a quarter of garbage time, which is what Gough did last week. So.

Look, I'm not, I would look at Cephas in desperation if Tyrell was out. Okay. If you need DFS help, we do have a DFS podcast. Yeah. A couple of hooligans host it, not me. Emphasis on the hool. What is, what's? I don't know. Okay. Weird. Zach Moss was in active in week one. Look good in practice this week. Part of it was health, according to Sean McDermott. So that's something interesting to pay attention to.

And like I said, the Injury Blitz podcast and the game day alerts can be found at Jointhefoot.com. Time for our faceoff. Fantasy faceoff, presented by Draft Kings. Well, look, it's not the way I wanted the first week of Fantasy Face Off to go. We were going head to head to head on Draft Kings, each with our own lineup. You guys ended up. Now, we don't tell each other the lineups beforehand, but you guys ended up.

Pretty similar, like four or five players. We're not fantasy points-wise, but yeah. So Mike finished second is what's happened. The places we did not cross over, Jason, where I had Moster and Galva Ridley that it didn't work. Jason had Cooper Cup. Oh, Cup of coffee. Cooper Cup of coffee. Ty Sean, Devonsa Smith, Jalen Hertz. Jason won with 170 points. Mike at 123. I was at 104. Rahim Moster didn't really help. No.

That means I am the, I'm privileged because I'm the inaugural spinner. Oh, congratulations. Of the Wheel of Shame. Which really, I mean, if you're watching on YouTube, you will get the benefit of the Wheel of Shame. I will not receive the benefit. I will receive its retribution upon my soul for a third place finish. We'll reveal our week two lineups, but first. And it's an owl for the people listening. Yeah, I'll put this together. Let people know just a couple of the options of,

the shameful things that one of us will have to wear each week. Sure. Yeah, we got a lot of, like, embarrassing masks, hats, wigs, things that hopefully don't degrade the audio side of our podcast. But we got fake mustaches, lipstick, bicycle helmets. Lipsticks on there? Bald caps. Oh, yeah. And I have to wear this. Well, if you get, we'll see what you get. Let's give it a spin. Let's find out what happens if you put lipstick on a pig. Oh, right.

All right, it is spinning a clown wig, fedora. No, it's not the fedora. Yes, chicken mask. You're going to wear it. I thought you said it wasn't going to degrade the show. Oh, no, it's just. Oh, it's going to degrade the show. Oh, fantastic. Okay. All right. I got a chick. All right. Andy gets to do this segment in a chicken mask as we victors here reveal our lineups for week to. Oh, you look. Out of white.

Can you hear me? Oh, yeah. Loud and clear, Mr. Chicken. Yeah, unfortunately. All right. So week two lineups and I can avoid this if I win? That's right. You just don't have to, all you have to do is not lose. I look like an idiot. Go to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers if you want to get in on watching Andy do this segment in a chicken mask. Get some serious fantasy analysis going on over there, man. I want to hear it. Look.

I'm not going to be a chicken with this lineup. I'm going after it this week. Let's start with, hold on, I'm going to try to see if I can see through these eye holes. Let's start at the quarterback position. I decided to go with the top guy. I'm with Kyla Murray at home. 8,200 Baccarus, but I won it at home. I get it. I am going with who I think has a good shot of being the top guy. Dak Prescott, $6,800. I want a lot of pieces in that Chargers.

Cowboys game, Mike. Ditto. Oh, nice pick. Nice pick. Jack Prescott, I want in on that matchup. All right. Well, I do want part of that game. My running backs, one of them, Austin Eckler, part of the Dallas, Los Angeles game. Okay. 7300. And then I'm going Najee Harris against Las Vegas at home. Every snap, 6,300.

All right. Running back, it's not a great matchup, but he's not 10,000 yet. Christian McCaffrey's locked in my lineup until he's 10,000. And I'm going to Ziciel Elliott back in that Cowboys game. He's only 6,200. I love my top three there. Yeah, I like the price on Zeke, but I bypass that. I also have Naji. The 6,300 was too alluring. I've got Daryl Henderson taking on the Colth. 5,700. I think that Henderson's week was truly understated,

He was, he was the workhorse for that team, just didn't get a touchdown. Wide receivers, I got some powerhouses in here. D.K. Metcalf at 7600 in that matchup against Tennessee. Saw all I needed to see of Tennessee last week on the defensive side. C.D. Lance. I'm laughing that, that D.K. Metcalf. I'm laughing because you look so stupid. He looks so stupid.

It's a pretty good mask. Oh, it's fantastic. So I'm going to go CD Lamb in that charger game with DAC, $6,400. And then I put AJ Green in the lineup at $3,700. No, you did. I did at home against Minnesota. So he was a bargain price, obviously. Oh, yeah. I wonder why. Hey.

Call your shot. At wide receiver, I've got Keenan Allen. It's full PPR. I'm going to get all those points in that Dallas Chargers matchup. Coup a cup of coffee came through week one. He's coming through week two again. And then at only 3,800, I think K.J. Hamler is a someone that should be in, I mean, he was locked. He was an absolute lock for me in these lineups. Well, I'm going with the super stack fellas. I've got Dak Prescott.