Week 2 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Mahomes Madness

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With your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, what's going on? It's Monday. It's September 17th. This is the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Andy Mike and Jason reflecting on the majority of week two here today. So much going on. We got the rewind, studs, duds, rising stars, reactions, sweet.

Fancy Mahomes. Oh, goodness gracious. I knew I should have made me. I was wrong. I was wrong. I mean, mind you, greatest two games in NFL history, but I was wrong. Yeah. I laughed, though, because I had to make this, look, if you listen to me about pumping the brakes, I meant cut the brakes. Yeah, you got to let that, you got to let it go. And.

I started, I have two leagues, and thankfully I'm probably going to win both of them. But I started two quarterbacks over Pat Mahomes. So he's sitting on the bench of two of my leagues. Big Ben and Cam Newton. Well, you're just getting ready in case of you tied. Who I think are the number two and three quarterbacks of the week. But sweet, fancy Mahomes.

Yes. What is going on? Guys, how much can you react to these two games in terms of like a dynasty league, right? Like how high would you rank Pat Mahomes in a dynasty league all of a sudden? That's a legit question. Because if I think of the list of people I would for sure want ahead of Pat Mahomes, it's...

Do you want Carson Wins ahead of Pat Mahomes? That's what I mean. If you're saying for sure, no, not necessarily for sure. We haven't seen him come back from this injury. So, I mean, probably, I would probably still put Carson Wins ahead, but it's close. And my true belief, I said this in preseason, I said this after week one, you know, disagreeing a little bit with your pump. Oh, yeah. I believe that Pat Mahomes is 100% legit.

He's not, you know, throw five touchdowns a game, you know, change the NFL history books great, but he is fully legit. You can count on him. You can start him. I mean, at this point, this isn't wild and breaking news, but, you know, as opposed to, say, Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's on fire through like 78%. Dude, I love this guy. He is. Big fan. Andy, have you seen? Yep.

The picture of him at the press conference. The whole world has seen the picture. Talking about Connor McGregor? So good. And have you seen the video? Where D. Jacks comes in. And so I don't know what is true about the story or not, but Fitzpatrick alleges that he borrowed some things from Deshawn Jackson specifically for the presser. When all of your wide receivers are happy, it's a good time. And Miami, I'm sorry, Florida is undefeated.

It's going well. It's going well for football. And the Bucks are having an incredible start to the season. We'll get into all of it. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Click that bell and you'll be notified of Sunday Live with Mike the Fantasy Hitman. He went live this past week. It was delightful. You were so live. Very live. L-I-V-E. We're going to talk about the Josh Gordon situation as well.

Jason, I do want to check in with you. Now, it's very well known that you have a super team in our league of record. And on this show, we talk about the importance of the draft and the draft season. Yes. It is where you set the foundation. This is where you get ready to have a fantastic year. Ultimate draft kit. But we always say you can't win at the draft. Right.

You can certainly lose at the draft, but you can't win at the draft. Meanwhile, Jason Moore. Let's focus on the not winning. No, no. Meanwhile, Jason Moore, who of the three of us says that phrase the most declared. He declared victory of our league after the draft on Twitter, on this show. The words undefeated did come out of his mouth. Yes. Is there a question here? We're just checking in. How's it going? It's going. How's week two? Week two.

Week two is off to a look, it's not over, but I give myself a solid 5% chance at victory. For those that want to follow along at home with Monday night football, Jason needs Russell Wilson and Trey Burton to outscore Alan Robinson by 32 points. Yeah, I mean, it can happen. I need Alan Robinson.

If Alan Robbins just goes out and, you know, has a complete stinker and a goose, then I think I think I'll get there. But it's probably not going to happen. Might start 0 and 2. And let me just say this, but don't care. Oh, my team is too good to lose. And we have people every single year start out. Oh, and 2, 0 and 3, 0 and 4, 0 and 5. And then they hit hot and they run and they get. They hit hot. They hit hot.

They listen, they make the right start sits, and they win the championship. This happens every single year. Get hot. Here's what you can't do. You can't tilt off of a couple losses, and it's so easy to do. You cannot lose, and then all of a sudden think, I've got to blow things up. My team's not winning. I've got to make wholesale changes. Now, you've got to analyze your team, and maybe your situation does require that, but I don't.

We're here to help. Well, it might. I love the, we'll talk about it. I will say this. We'll talk about David Johnson. Yeah, David Johns and Dalvin Cook. I love that you, you are so committed to the show and the fan base that you have decided to put yourself out there. You are the rock. You're darn right. You're showing people what it's like to just lose and lose and lose and lose and stay positive. Good for you, Jason. Oh, my goodness.

Weekly Rewin. All right. I'm undefeated in that league. I am as well. Undefeated in our Dynasty League, where I destroyed you, Mike. By the way, Dynasty League, Brooks. Brooks did not disrupt my perfect season yet. I keeling cold all over him. Yeah. That's what I did. All right. Big news in the Weekly Rewind before we get into our studs and duds. Let's start with...

with what broke over the weekend. Josh Gordon went from out with a hamstring injury to out on the street. The Browns released a statement that they will be releasing Gordon today. Since that news, Adam Schefter has reported many times that they're more likely to trade Josh Gordon. We don't want to dwell too long on the rumor mill of Josh Gordon in possible destinations because it's very possible that he has a new home by the time you listen to this podcast.

Not on a team. Correct. Or just, yeah, just completely released. And if he is released, he becomes a free agent does not go through the waiver wire so he could sign wherever he wants. Yeah, the last we heard, eight to ten teams may be in on picking up Gordon. The gist was that the Browns were concerned with his sobriety.

On the verge of relapsing late to meetings hurt his hamstring in a photo shoot and are just... Yeah, the reports are all over the place because I heard that they were concerned about his past demons coming up again. Then you heard that it had nothing to do with that. You heard it... A suspension is not imminent. That's what fantasy owners should know. Which is insane. It's a crazy situation. I mean, it's Browns. Because you hold on to a guy forever. A suspension is not imminent.

He just scored a touchdown in the rain last week and is dominant, and you let him go. And here's the thing. If you want to make that decision for your team, I support it. You know, you, that's fine. Your team. But you need to realize he's about to go sign somewhere and dominate. No, he isn't. I don't agree with you. I actually think. This is a weird role reversal on.

He could, but to say he is is ridiculous. The reason I say he is is because the Browns cut him. But I'm going to give the Browns some rope here because. Because you love the Browns. No, no. Guys, I'm going to give him rope because they might get compensation for Josh Gordon. And if he really is struggling, first of all, let's put the player first. We don't know what's going on. I read this morning from a verifiable source that every Brown that was spoken to about this issue.

It's concerned about Josh Gordon the person. They're not throwing a fit about the situation. They're not dropping expletives because he's off the team. They're all saying he needs help more than a new team. That's exactly what they're saying. So if the Browns get compensation for Josh Gordon in all these years lost, let's say they get a third, fourth round pick for him.

Because who knows? If there's 8 to 10 teams fighting, we've seen some bad wide receiver courts out there. Have we not? Yeah. So if there's teams fighting for them, the Browns get compensation and the distraction gone from that team. Antonio Calloway gets a chance to go and blossom. I'm going to give him some rope. And I do not think it's a foregone conclusion that Gordon goes and dominates somewhere. I think he could, but he could also be out of the league in two weeks. I traded amazingly, fortunately, without any knowledge of the situation. I traded Josh Gordon in Dynasty for Doug Baldwin.

the day before this happened. And part of it is the risk mitigation of Josh Gordon. If you have Josh Gordon, you want to roll that die, go ahead. Yeah, there's certainly huge risk. You need to hold him, though. If you're in a season long, you don't drop it. If you were in redraft, because that was the actionable, the actionable fantasy football advice is you hold onto Josh Gordon or trade him. You do not cut Josh Gordon. So.

Maybe by the time you're listening to this, you're like, oh, yeah, he's on the, you know. He's on the Eagles. The Montana Alouettes. Maybe. Joe Mixing will be out a couple of weeks at least with a procedure that he had Saturday to clean up loose particles in the knee. This is why he ran off the field multiple times in the Thursday night game. You've heard it said as early as a week.

Two weeks is the most common, but this is the exact same procedure that Sony Michelle had done early August. That obviously kept him out, you know, longer than two weeks. Over a month. There were some benefits for fantasy owners in the order of what things happened for mixing. You got him this past week, which was a fine, you know, double-digit game, nothing special. Then he's got, you know, he got to have the procedure before Sunday, which means he gets a little more lead time on...