Fantasy Football - Week 1 Studs & Duds + Panic Players, Deep Breaths! - Podcast for 9/8

be startable. My opinion is that this was not a problem with the Lions. Okay. That this was not a problem with the offensive coordinator, that this was the Green Bay Packers. And the reason, if I was in a court of law, if I would bring you a piece of evidence, it would be that Jamir Gibbs had 10 targets. He had 10 receptions. Jamir Gibbs, the fastest, most dangerous guy to have the ball in his hands, he had 31 yards. That defense. was swarming and tackling and beaten up the lions. I saw it over and over where I was like, dude, you get Gibbs a little throwout to the flat and you're just waiting for him to just break it off and then 12 Packers were there, even though they're playing 11th. Next week is against Chicago at home. That's a great matchup for them running. Say, you feel like as of right now, we're very early, but you'll be like, I'll put Montgomery back in my flex. 100%.

personally. Yeah, it might be a decision based on some of the other guys that you have. Right. I mean, I'm not starting him over everybody, but I think he is next week is an absolute flex play. I play Dobbins of Romante. What's the matchup? I don't know. I think he's saying it doesn't matter. I mean, it's Indianapolis. Oh, sure. Okay. Trayvion Henderson, five for 27 on the ground, six target, six for 24 through the air, 35% of snaps. Remandre, seven for 15. 65% of snaps. And you'll see more Henderson sooner than later, but just wait. Yeah, it, but it's inevitable. It will happen, but how long will the cremudgeons hold out? I mean, he is just playing a little bit smaller. I mean, he's just not, like when it's, when he's going to be fourth downs, maybe some goal line, like I don't think you're going to see, I think you're going to see a lot of remandre in those situations, unfortunately, but the targets, you're looking for the high value opportunities and touches and hopefully Trayvion, you know, Miami next week. That went pretty well for.

The Colts. I mean, like, listed, you know, these are the way, but it's like, Trayvion Henderson's listed at 510202. Jamir Gibbs is 59-202. Like they are almost sized identical. Gibbs. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Gibbs and hand-up. Yeah, but watching him, he's not. No, he just, he was just bouncing around. He's different in different uniforms, man. He was bouncing around, though. I mean, when he was getting hit, he was getting hit hard. I'm not saying anything. Like, we want him to catch the football and get into space. I don't think he's ever going to be. Well, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Marian Hampton, 15th for 48 against Kansas City's running interior. Not worried. Nope. I'm not worried either. Caleb Johnson didn't really. He didn't play. He had one play, negative two yards, although I give him positive 13 because he drew a flag. You know what I mean? 15 yards. I got to do it. No, I mean, Caleb Johnson is sold out to help the team. Thank you. Caleb Johnson is third on the depth chart. And until he overtakes.

Kenneth Gainwell. Impossible. But Kenneth Gainwell wasn't good in his own right. So I do think you think Kenneth Gainwell was good? I did. I thought he looked fast and they won the game. So I don't know. I mean, I'd have to go back and watch. It's hard to compare to the numbers of Caleb. I mean, one carry from Caleb, but I think Gainwell did not reach three yards of carry. The production wise. How many carries did he even get? He was seven for 19 to those 2.7 and he caught the ball three times. for four yards. Production was due to. This is what I'm saying. What is Arthur doing? It's so bizarre to give Jalen Warren that extension right before opening weekend. And you're like, hey, this guy we picked up. That's going to be the guy. There's a lot more to the running backs in Pittsburgh. When you have Aaron Rogers, it's about picking up the blitz, picking up pass protection, chipping guys. It's the ones that he feels like has experience. I mean, there were numerous beat riders in Pittsburgh that said that that was the point of emphasis for Caleb Johnson to work on in this off season.

was that there were struggles at times this offseason. It's his focus. Caleb came out and said it. If he earns the trust in those situations, even when he's not touching the football, he will get out on the field more because Gainwell's made to be a backup. Yeah. History has shown that rookies often take time. Don't look at this list we're talking about. Trayvion Henderson, Amarian Hampton, Caleb Johnson, Cam Scataboo. Like, they're all on the duds. This is week one. This is, I don't pull a red alarm. on rookies getting off to a slow start. Camp Scataboo was two for negative three. They could not run the football. Tyrone Tracy was not good. And Washington just shut it all down. Russ, Russ sucks. It, if... It'll be Jackson Dart very soon. It needs to be this week. It might be. It, I think it's gonna happen this week. Did Russ get 100 passing yards? I don't think he achieved 100 passing yards. He...

You can't have an offense with Russell Wilson in 2020. He did. He threw the ball 37 times and he ended up with 168 yards. Four and a half yards in attempt. Get him out of here. What is Derek Henry's Baltimore career rushing yards per attempt? Like get it. How does Russ keep getting these jobs? How does that happen? It's a, it's a resume thing. Sometimes you hire someone. Sometimes people come and they show you the resume and they, you go, whoa, you work for that company. Yeah, that does happen. And you go, okay. All right, wide receiver duds. Let's say some big names. A.J. Brown, Jamar Chase. I'm on Ross St. Brown. Brian Thomas Jr. had one catch. He had a lot of targets. So seven one catch. Nico Collins, three for 25. Terry McClureen, two for 27. Mike Evans, five for 51.

George Pickens, three for 30. A lot of players with a lot of expectations, but it's one week. And wide receivers are all going to have some down weeks. You know, it was super disappointing. I have a team with the Jamar Chase and Burroughs stack. They didn't win. They didn't even come close. That's a stack you still want. I got 15 points between them. That was bad. But, you know, T. Higgins also didn't get it done. Devante Smith didn't get it done. So you had tandums. Like it wasn't like one guy did well. So it is. Who are you concerned with? I'm concerned with Tyree Kale. Yes, that was the name that I'm probably most concerned. I'm concerned. I'm a little bit concerned with Brian Thomas because I don't, you know, Travis Hunter, the news came out before full-time offensive player. He was a full-time offensive player. He out targeted Brian Thomas Jr. So yes, I'm a little bit. This is one of the reasons Brian Thomas' stats didn't bear out as high in my rankings as.

other people is I was just a little bit worried about the Lawrence with actual other weapons. Like they didn't really have anybody else at the end of the year. And all of his success came with Mac Jones, like his major world beating success. Sure. So I was a little bit concerned that Thomas might be good, not great. So I'm a little worried there. I am a, I'm a little worried about Terry McLaren because Debo, the way the offense functions, if you don't hit the big play. I don't think you're going to be happy. If you look at recent history of wide receivers who have held out of training camp waiting for that new contract and then they come in and then they, you know, Brandon Ayuk did it and he just sucked. He came back and wasn't good until he got injured. So that one's concerning. I'm not overly concerned on this guy, but it's me. Okay. Do you need to whisper it? Just little Nico Collins worry because of the overall offense. Just.

That offensive line was so bad. And to be honest, C.J. Stroud did not deal with pressure well. He kept running backwards and kind of trying to, like, he had opportunity after opportunity, step up in the pocket when the offensive line was going around him. And instead he tried to do like the old school Russell Wilson turn and run away, but he's not that type of an athlete. And so he just gets this deep sack. Hopefully he corrects that, but that offensive line was. Robo. We talked about Mark Andrews. He was awful. One target, one catch. Seems like good night. Pick up Isaiah likely. Yeah, maybe. We have Tucker Kraft, four targets. He caught a touchdown. That's not a dud. Jordan Love threw the ball 22 times. And Kraft had four targets. Which, look. That is something to be aware of. If the Packers defense is what we saw on Sunday, you're going to get, I mean, you're going to get a lot of Josh Jacobs. Like, I thought.

Jordan Love looked really good. He can make plays when you need to make them, but he might not have to make as many because you're going to have games. It's kind of like the better get in the first half situation of Philadelphia. Yep. It could be the situation. Josh Jacobs looked good to me, even against the tougher run defense. It took him a while. Matthew Golden, only two targets, you know, because of that same thing, two of the 22. But I don't, again, these rookies don't move away from them yet. That was Studs and Duds presented by Lowe's. Lowe's knows Sundays are for NFL football. Earn your Sunday with Lowe's, official partner of the NFL. We've got another game tonight. We've got waiver wire tomorrow on the show, our first waiver wire of the year on Wednesday, backup options, TNF preview, mailbag. We've got starts of the week coming at the back of the week. And yeah, here we go. One more game to get through. Deep breaths, everybody.

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