Starts of the Week + Week 2 Preview, Thanks Khloe! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/17

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's football time. We're already back. Did you almost forget? No, no, no. Oh, okay. I did not. It is super football time tonight. I did not. Superdupa football time. I woke up and I was like,

Oh, it's Thursday, baby! You know what we didn't even talk about on the incredible game that is happening tonight is the fact that this is the Bill's home opener of their new stadium. Is it Highmark? Is that what it's called? Highmark Stadium. It's the first game ever. That's going to be electric. Moving lines. Electric. I will be disappointed if this game is not 68 to 65. So this is the no wind.

stadium, right? That's right. This is the, we are still open, but we've prevented the blustery wins. Big Dome accepts. Okay. Accepts this compromise. We will, we will inspect. Look, Big Dome reserves the right to change our opinion. Thank you. Because you're inspecting. Yeah, but if this works out where it's like, hey, y'all get your snow games, but we get that wind.

out of here, that absolute nonsense. The wind would be really great. Yeah, and rain without wind is usually fine as well. Like, it doesn't get in the way of... So it gets sloppy. Well, but that's what I'm saying. When it's sideways wind and it's like 15 mile an hour to 30 mile an hour winds with rain. You can't do anything. And that people, that's not fun football to watch. I don't, I can't hear that that is fun football. You can make a great argument the whole like, oh, I don't like watching defensive games.

No, you can watch an awesome defensive game where two great defenses are just annihilating the other offense. You can have fun with that. You cannot have fun watching sideways rain football where no one can complete a pass. Everyone's slipping around. I want to giggle at the weather three times a year. I want to laugh a little bit because of what I'm watching. I want something kind of funky. I can appreciate.

the beauty of a snow game. Okay. And if you get the wind out of there. We've been working through this for years and years. And to hear the big dome is willing to go and inspect the situation. Yes. To consider what we've done with technological advancements and geometry and whatever physics is going on there to prevent the wind swirling. Cleveland better be paying attention. Well, Cleveland needs a dome. Chicago and Cleveland, those. Yeah. They just, you're talking about Indiana?

Oh yeah, maybe their new state is far enough away. I don't know what the winds like in Indiana. It's not the windy city in Hammond, is it? We've got a great show. We've got a fun quick question, news and notes to talk about. Starts of the week today, fantasy forecast. And we had the funniest thing happen yesterday ever. And so this is, I mean, I'm going to apologize to the audio listeners already because, I mean, you can go to YouTube and see it. You can go to our socials and see it.

But lo and behold, we hired an influencer. We did. And you might not know her. But, you know, we are great friends, our partners at Series XM, they're like, hey, we're going to, you know, it's football season. We're going to get you up on a billboard in New York City. And what a cool thing that is. Pretty cool. It is. But then we needed somebody. Some random. Got to get the word out. I mean, some random person to. Preferably an influencer. To go and just show off.

The billboard. Yeah. And for lo and behold, somebody is browsing, I think Mike found it first. Well, but someone tagged us. I don't know how they found it. I don't know how they found it. I think she's trying to show her own billboard off. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe. If you look at this objectively, she is showing off our billboard. She's literally pointing at us. She's covering her own face and pointing at us. She's cheering for the fantasy footballers. So I just want to say thank you, Chloe. Yes. Good work, Chloe. Wait, we got.

I don't have an applause button. Oh, I got you. What in the world. I think we really appreciate it. And, you know, she was showing off some three new fragrances and Jason pointed out. I mean, that's one way to refer to us. The new smells are Andy, Mike, and Jason. So you can go to Sephora and pick up Chloe's three new scents. Unbelievable. You want to smell like your dirty basement? Some things. Pick up O'Dy Mike.

Some things are just too funny because you just can't believe. You want to smell like a chef with garlic on his hands. Is that your fragrance? Pick up yes on. Oh, I don't know what ice cream smells like, but that's my sense. I would go with yours. My gosh. Have you not showered in like four days? No, that's Jason. Is that a little garlicky? Yeah. You catching a few grass clippings in there from the range? Yes.

Unbelievable. All right. Our quick question of the day from Tony in North Carolina. He says in a buddy of mine's family league, there was a trade that got vetoed and people are really upset about it. The trade was Bijon Robinson. Oh, boy. For Luther Burden and Chubba. Chuba. Chubba. Chubba Hubbard. So would you veto is the question. And you're really, let me, you guys answer the question. I'm going to give the, the,

the opener. The opener is that our policy of which I know we still hold to is that outside of open collusion, let people be who they want to be. We have been around the game long enough to see trades that look lopsided in one person's favor change in the blink of an eye and be lopsided for the other person. So in almost all circumstances, we would say you never veto. You certainly don't have.

you know, a commission only veto situation. You know, if you have to have a veto, it should be some sort of like unanimous league veto. Even then, we say pretty much just don't have it. Yeah. This is not a good trade. It is not a good trade. Bejohn is worth much more than the hope of what Luther Burton can become mixed with Chuba Hubbard. However.

there's a world I mean tuba hubbard was a running back one two years ago he got all the work in week one and luther burton was drafted as a you know a wide receiver too high potential and so it's one of those things where unless you know that these managers are doing something nefarious one of these guys is giving in one of these guys is helping a buddy or whatever more than likely one of these guys is just bad at fantasy football we have the the clues are in the

the question in a buddy of mine's family league. Ah. Y'all never been in a family league? Someone's dunking on kids. Like, it's generally speaking, and maybe I'm way off base here, but I don't think I am. It's a family league, which that means that there's going to be people in that league who aren't like dialed in rabid.

It sounds like there's one. Maniacs. It's funny because we played in a family league for several years with our children, one year with our wives. None of us ever won that league, right? Because we didn't go. We didn't do this. We didn't do this. We didn't try to take advantage of fewer people and be like, this is going to be so fun. There's not a hundred percent guarantee that Bijon side will win this, one.

Pretty close, but it's pretty, I mean, it is pretty close, but I mean, literally, I mean, you could have injuries, you could have things that change the situation. We don't like what's going on in Atlanta, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's probably a very lopsided trade in the Bijjan manager's favor. However, if the Chuba, the person getting Chuba has zero wide receivers at all, there's a world where the net effect of this trade is better for them. Look, this is the type of nuance and speculation that we don't want veto power to control. So, crappy trade. That's okay.

Crappy trades can happen. And here's, look, my advice, if you are in a family league and you are a cutthroat fantasy football player, if you're listening to this podcast, you want information, you want to be better. That's on you, man. You go make that trade. You know who to trade with. Yeah. Go get their players. Yep. All right. News time. News and notes from around the league.

That escalated quickly. Oh. You guys were making fun of his sore thumb. I mean, to be fair, Kevin O'Connell did say he has a sore thumb. And to be fair, I'll bet he did because it was broken. So I'll bet his thumb was pretty darn sore. Jordan Mason's on IR with a small fracture in his thumb. The fracture was certainly tied to the soreness. That's two thumbs down for that. Nice. Yeah. That's one thumb down. One's in a cast. Joe Burrow told reporters.

On that note, though, before we move on to Joe Burrow, this matters for fantasy. Yes, it does. We'll talk about it later today, but there's going to be, you know, some waiver wire pickups. Do you pick up, you know, their rookie who's got a lot of speed? DeMond Claiborne. DeMond Claiborne. There was some talk about when you listen to Kevin O'Connell talk. He was not bullish on the rookie. Now, I'm hopeful on the rookie. I liked the rookie's tape.

He had a lot of speed. The thing I liked with Jordan Mason coming into this year, kind of that outside vertical zone works really well for him. I think it works pretty well here for Claiborne as well. However, the quotes were talking all about past protection and that they're excited for his future, but he's got a lot of work to do. So you kind of have to temper it a little bit. Can we just say just play Aaron Jones? Yes. It's like we're fine. We've been trying to find the non-Aaron Jones answer in Minnesota.

Aaron Jones is part of the equation here. For the next month, he becomes an absolutely fantastic play. His legs are fresh, which we see all the time. A lot of times older players get off to a stronger start in the beginning of the year. Last year's Keenan Allen was great for about a month. If he's all alone for a month, that is fantastic. Yeah, I mean, this is going to be, the Vikings are just an interesting case all the way around when it comes to fantasy. I mean, Aaron Jones played 46.2% of snaps.

That was 2% higher than Jordan Mason in week one. Mason did have a lot of work. But, I mean, it was pretty even 12 carries for Aaron Jones, 15 for Jordan Mason. I even think they were similar efficiency-wise. So, yeah, I mean, Aaron Jones is going to get a ton of work. It's, yeah, I don't know what their offensive philosophy becomes because you can't, like you, they talked about we really want to run more. You can't feed Aaron Jones.

just carry after carry after carry. So I'll be interested to see if Claiborne can get things, just get some opportunities. If you, like, if you took them in your rookie draft, this is, this is the kind of break that you need. Yeah. Yeah, it's Jason's moment too. He just spent 29 in the chop league for him.

Well, I Jordan Mason was my running back two and my running back three was Isaiah Pacheco. So I have to have a start. There was no one out there. And also 29 fab in a for context. We have a thousand fab in that league. Yeah, it's 27 more than you needed. Sure.

I just looked at that. Julia was talking about him and I was like, ah, and she needs them too. Oh, there's the little, there's the chop league. The context of your league matters. Well, no, I just were we can talk up. Talk up a name. I mean, just start saying rumors about people you love. Joe Burrow told reporters, this sucks, that he's dealing with back, with back tightness, expects to play. You can go back and watch the clip. He got, and what's crazy is we saw this play live. And when I saw it, I made a comment in the studio that, oh, you don't want to see that. Right.

He was going to the sideline, and instead of going out of bounds, he just kind of like dove forward and inbounds and got absolutely annihilated. Like it was a hard hit. Then he gets up and you see him react, ah, ooh, you know, like we do when we get up in the morning. Right. And now you have him dealing with back tightness. And then Jason and I yesterday, Mike, on the footcast, yeah, you were heading out to your son's football game. Going to Tucson in the rain. But we started to speculate like, you know.

Why were we so frustrated with him not going down field? Why was it so many tight-ins in the short area? Was he feeling a little bit of pain from this? That's fair. I don't like it. No. I don't want to have conversations about Joe Burrow being hurt, guys. And what was going on with people's backs? What? Why aren't people wearing precautionary back braces? Yes, thank you. I mean, like two. Or at least like the thing you wear when you're doing like 10 months? Yeah. You're talking about the spasm epidemic going on. Seriously.

I don't have a stretch for that one, guys. There's no butterfly. I don't know what to do. No. I think you just do the old twisty. You know what they need on the sideline? They did a good old fashioned school desk. Oh, because it'll pop your back. Oh, you just see that chair. You just lean back. The ultimate and chiropractic care. Elementary school death. Do you see a chiropractic? No, I actually just bought a chair from a school. Nico Collins. This sucks. Limited hamstring injury. Availability in question.