Week 2 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Mahomes Madness

Not from where you drafted him. No, you trade David Johnson. If you want to call your shot and believe he's going to be an RB2, you trade him. But what I'm saying is you don't trade him now. You don't trade him on the heels of a disgusting game. You look at Todd Gurley's, you know, two of his first three weeks in that 2016 season, actually three or four, running back 49, running back 30, running back 25.

When you traded him then, you got pennies on the dollar. The next week he's the running back 12. You want to wait for a good performance, not coming off of the Rams game. When you get that good performance, it's so hard to trade. Yeah, but then you're going to buy back in. By the way, write yourself a note from what I understand. Fold it up and it says, whatever. David Johnson, no matter what. Jeff Fisher and Mike McCoy, they hit the old arcade. They play the Pac-Man together. That's what they do. They hang out.

And they reminisce. When they're feeling crazy, they go Mrs. Pac-Man. Right, exactly. Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry, both disappointing fantasy weeks. 18 carries for Derek Henry for 56 yards. Dionne Lewis, 14 for 42, only one reception. I'm going to just, no Marcus Marietta this week. Dogfight of a game. I'm not going to read too much into this. I agree, but next week they get Jackson. Isaiah Crowell stunk, 12 for 35.

Nothing special there. Bad game against Miami. Game Script was against him. It was more in favor of Bilal Powell, but that's the problem with Isaiah Cruel. Oh, revenge game game next week. Disappointing performance. Adrian Peterson. Yeah. Look, that team, that was a game script problem too. They were down the whole game. They did not come out to play. One of the most impressive performances of the week was the Indianapolis Colts defense because, you know, I mean, they looked.

like the worst defense and, you know, they were competing with Buffalo for who could be worse. And they went on the road to a competent offense, and they really did shut down a lot of what Alex Smith was trying to do is it was impressive to me. I don't know that I buy in, but it's one of those things that you continue to watch the trend and say, what you expect from week one when it comes to team defenses, those are the...

Those team defenses are the things that change more often than any other position over the course of the season. All right, I'm going to blitz a few names, guys, and I want to know how worried you are on a scale of 1 to 10, all right? Duke Johnson. 7? 8. Rex Burkhead, 6 for 22 this week. 8, 7. Sonny Michelle, 10 for 34? 2. 4. Peyton Barber, 16 for 22. He's put two single-digit games together when he's had the entire backfield.

Yeah, Ronald Jones has been a healthy scratch for two weeks. Would not be surprising to see Ronald Jones get a chance in week three. And I would say seven. Marlon Mack was 10 for 34. The best runner of this game was still Jordan Wilkins. Naim Hines was very inefficient. He had one. Except for his touchdown run. Yeah, he has seven-year touchdown run. But he was really bad. And Marlon Mack was really bad. And Jordan Wilkins was the best of the bad.

You're just kind of black about this whole backfield or do you still have confidence in Mac, Mike? No, Jason. Yeah, Mac, man. I have confidence that Mac is the best of the three backs. I don't have confidence for fantasy that that's going to matter much. Wide receivers that poop the bed, Demarius Thomas, five for 18, O'Dell Beckham Jr. Woof. Four for 51 really let you down last night. That offense can't move the ball right now. Yeah, the Giants, the Buffalo Bills and the Cardinals. Maybe the Giants knew they didn't, they could take Shaquan.

Because they could take a quarterback the next year. Neat, neat idea. Maybe that was the strategy. I mean, I think the NFL has passed Eli by. I think it's done. Well, honestly, I don't think we even got a chance to see. I've never seen so many players in a back field. I mean, their offensive line was unbelievable. Every snap, Eli Manning's basically having to run. And we all know he can't do that.

Hopefully you traded Robbie Anderson off his touchdown last week. We told you to, and he was three for 27 this week. Also fumbled. Not a good week. Jameson Crowder does not look like his future with Alex Smith is going to be strong. Two for 29. Kenny Stills, two for 17. Boo, Kenny. And Randall Cobb, four for 30 against Minnesota after the big week. It was a huge disappointment. You can't trust the Dallas Whiteout. Cole Beasley, two for 13. Alan Hurons, one for nine. Michael Gallup, one for five.

DeAte Thompson got a lot of targets in that game. You can throw them all away. Sterling Shepard, three for 24. Disappointing week. And Ted Ginn, four for 55. That's fine. Yeah, but the fumble killed him. Yeah, he fumbled. And then Rob Gruncowski matched up against Jalen Ramsey. They went away from it. Two for 15. Cut him. George Kittle. That's the bigger news. Two for 22. Let's ask you, Mr. You went hard to pain after George Kittle. What's your level of?

Of, oh, crap. None. None. And I don't, it's not just, it's not pride. It's not stubbornness. It's simply four targets, two catches. They were, the game script here was one where they were, you know. They could have used them. No, they were protecting a lead almost the entire game. I mean, they had a big lead over, uh, my almost upset of the week, Detroit, who almost came back to win, but didn't. Three point gap. Almost is going to be a word associated with Matt Patricia a lot this year.

But Kiddle had an end zone target he was interfered with that he probably would have come down with. I'm not that concerned about it. Okay. I'm not either. And then, yeah, I mean, I was disappointed in David Injoku this week. I thought he had an opportunity to step up in lieu of, you know, in light of the Josh Gordon news. He didn't do it. Jonah Smith, zero targets, but a high snap. What happens? What happened was that?

Blaine Gabbert came in. This is the weirdest game, right? Tennessee. They won, by the way. Sucked. Every player for Tennessee on both sides of the field sucked, and they won the game. It makes no sense. So it's Derek Henry Wildcats. It was just, it really was crazy. Yeah, Corey Davis, five from 55, nothing special. I don't understand how they won the game. But they did. They did. They got up, they got to won, I know, this week.

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