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

the fifth highest play action rate in week one and did some things that actually seemed smart. Get some motion, bro. Put some players in positions to succeed. He had a play where he had five tight ends on the field. Yeah, I'm going to give credit to their offensive line. How many facts did they give up? No, absolutely. The time that Garret Wilson had, or that Gino Smith had to throw the ball was outstanding compared to what this offensive line was last year. They put a lot of investment in it, and there was a hope. You always have these teams that are like, ah, they had a bad offensive line. They tried to improve it.

Hopefully it's a little better. One week only and, you know, they were against the Titans. But the offensive line looked massively improved. Gino was the most pressured most sat quarterback last year in Las Vegas. That must have been a relief fading back to pass and having a chance. Play Breece Hall. He had a great week one. Garrett Wilson, yes. Keep your eye on Kenyon, Sadiq. And that's it. And that's it. On the other side, Christian Watson, what a week. I think you can play him and Matthew Golden unquestionably. You know, Golden led the team in rounds and target share.

Golden is such a good trade-for target. I agree. I mean, what we saw in week one was the hope, and he did enough to where it's like, hey, he did stuff with the ball in his hands. Last year, he was a halftime player. He played around 50% of the snaps in his rookie season. Twelve targets. And this year, week one, 82% of the snaps, he led the receiving core in snaps. So bright days are ahead for Matthew Golden. What about for Marshawn Lloyd?

Oh man, you hope that he shows something here, right? Like last week, very difficult matchup, looked outrageously bad. Jumped around behind the line, just looked indecisive, bad vision, nothing good. Like I didn't see anything from Chris Brooks or Lloyd to make me believe. However, they were going up against a really, really elite defense. And this week, they get the jet. So I wouldn't be surprised if Marshawn Lloyd rips off, you know.

two or three 20-yard runs and looks outstanding. So I think we just got to pump the brakes on the judgment from week one. I think you could still probably start Marshaun Lloyd because he's going to get carries in a decent matchup while they're favored. 44% snaps compared to 55% for Chris Brooks last week. Yes, but 13 carries compared to seven carries. So when Lloyd was on the field. Makes me nervous out of minimum. Yeah, for sure. I can get that. But the carries were for Marshal on Lloyd. The routes were.

Chris Brooks, I don't believe, ran a route. Huh? I don't think he ran around, did he? Chris Brooks? I guess he had 2% target share last week. Yeah, no, he ran some routes. One target? Just saying, like, it was split. If you drafted Lloyd, that's not how you wanted the season to start, but I think it improves for him. The Cleveland Browns, O&1, taking on the O&1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay,

Give me the bucks and the points here. Jason went on to tirade flushing the whole Brown's team down the drain yesterday. It was a dirty bowl. It'll get better in week three with Shador. It's going to be Watson again. Do you start, and let's make this one quick and easy. Do you start a Brown? No. Okay. Baker Mayfield probably not tempted to start him this week. I'm perfectly fine. You're fine with it? Would you play golf or Baker?

Goff. I wouldn't goff. But I just say, like, Baker is still, he still has high potential. Jacksonville beat the crap. Like, Trevor Lawrence was awesome. They beat the crap out of the Browns. And if they get way up, it's because Baker was a part of it. Bucky, logout. Are you, are you just, like, benching and watching Gainwell and Godwin? It was more than the actual output for Godwin that concerned me. Yeah, he didn't look spry.

Four for 40 last week on four targets, 86% of snaps, 6.3 fantasy points. To me, I'd rather watch and get a little more upside somewhere else, but maybe, like, I'd play valet over Godwin. Yeah, I agree. You must hate Godwin. I was just trying to give you a win here, Mike. Trying to give you one. Well, my win was, I started valet last week. And won. And it was awesome. Yeah, New Orleans. Oh, and one, speaking of valet, taking on the 1-0 Baltimore Ravens.

Baltimore minus eight and a half. So, you know, you have a situation here. Same line, these two games. Really? This one, I saw it this morning and I was eight and a half. I saw it this morning and I was like, wow, that is. Respect what they did in week one. Jeez. That's crazy. Eight and a half over a touchdown. They just win. It was a whooping by Baltimore in week one and the Saints, the Saints had a nice comeback. It looked real bad for a while. I do think it's a pretty big one. Well, it looked.

They did have to have a comeback, but, I mean, number one, like, Shuck was, like, just horrifically bad for the beginning in the first half, completed 46% of his passes, 85 passing yards. But, like, that game was very tight for a long time. Yeah, 7-0-0-14-0. Like, the Saints' defense, they were holding as long as they could before the line started to put up points. And it's, I don't know, eight and a half is. It's a tough environment to go to Baltimore.

and play this team, I think, for Tyler Shuck. There are certain situations, I think, that are maybe more conducive for him. But an outdoor game in Baltimore, I guess that's the viewpoint. I don't know. The overrunners, 46 and a half. That puts Baltimore at the fourth highest implied point total of the week. It was an exciting week one for both of these teams and the players therein. I mean, Alave and Valle were great. Shuck ended up great. The main situation, I think, of kind of some concern was that Travis H. Ann Jr.

You know, week one, had a lot of opportunities. It didn't turn into a ton of fantasy points, but, you know, kind of similar to maybe A-chan. The real A-chan's week, like A-chan Jr. and A-chan were very similar in, like, a lot of opportunities, but not a lot of production. Yeah, but it was only nine carries, but nine targets is, that's, his floor is okay, and there'll be bigger ceiling games. I'm not saying I'm a, I'm not a huge Travis A-chan Jr.

fan or supporter, but when you're that utilized, things will improve. How worried are you about Zay Flowers? He did not practice on Wednesday. He did not practice today. I have felt like you. He didn't practice at all, non-participation? Non-participation today. Yeah, we're seeing that come through. I had figured he'll sit at least a week. Thankfully, it's not a long-term thing, but I would expect him to be out. So Andrews start of the week, that's part of the why there. I mean, Mike and I start of the weeks of tight-in are exactly the same.

Yeah. Nico and Zay Flowers. It's questionable to play. Injury opportunity. Exactly. Derek Henry, please do. Lamar Jackson. Uh-huh. Rashad Bateman, if you're in a pinch. Eight and a half point home favorite. I mean, he's going to catch the ball. The wild thing about Zay Flowers being out is... You should be able to just say that. Yeah. But I have no idea. I don't know if it's going to be like Devontes Walker plays heavily in this game and gets some targets.

The Elijah Serrat has felt buried. How is this an eight and a half point line? Derek Henry. Yep. And Lamar. Yeah, I mean, just the. But it's wild. Rashad Bateman played so many snaps last week. So many snaps. And I believe he had a target. Let me confirm. Yeah. He didn't. One target, no receptions. Played 78% snaps. He should be okay this week. He really should. I think he probably will be.

27 and a half point implied point total. And you've got Mark Andrews running around. You've got no Jalen Lane anymore. I would love to be able to come in here and say Jalen, breakout week after Flowers misses. But I think Bateman will be fine. I really do. That's what stinks is like. What did I say? Jalen? Jacoby Lane, sorry. It's like Rashad Bateman. He's got to be up on the Mount Rushmore's of like it. It should work. Cardio King. Yes. I would never trust it.

I agree with Andy's analysis of it should work for my teams. I'm not doing it. If you give me 97% of snaps with Omar and two guys missing, I think you're going to be fine. I really do. I will be the guy attaching my name to Rashad Bateman. Totally think you should be. Right. Yeah. But Jay, are you going to start? No. No, I would not start. I'm not either. You know, there was more snaps than he's played in any game last year?

Bateman? Yeah, I just looked at it. And no catches. No, but I mean, you got to trust some of those underlying the opportunities matter. Yeah, I don't know. Rashad Bateman, I don't know. He keeps doing it to us. Man, I just feel like this line is mind-blowing to me. I... The Saints, they've got to stop Derek Henry. Good luck. He faced... Derek Henry faced a stack box and 50% of his carries last week and ran for 144 at 6 a carry. Only 50?

50% of the rush attendance. Dang. But I mean, Stack. Declan Doyle's doing good work. You've got you've got stack boxes against Henry that low. I mean, I feel like 50% is a lot. No, no, I don't think so. I can't imagine historically that's what he. 50% is very high. Is it? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Tyler Schuck, you're probably not messing around this week or are you playing him? I'm very curious about this. The Ravens, I mean, last week they obviously dominated against the Colts, but were.

I'm not sure how much of that was the colt or not. I probably won't be playing Shuck, but I'm very excited to see how he fares in this matchup. I do think Olave is a must play, and Velae is one of those, you know, break glass in case of emergency. I would play Vailay over Rashad Bateman personally. Vailay or Caleb Douglas. I'd play Vailet. I'd play Vailay.

Cincinnati 1-0 Houston 0-1 Vegas line Houston minus two and a half over under's 46 and a half two guys that dominated the news and notes today the borough back injury the Nico Collins injury which we did have an update he's not practicing on Thursday and it was a diagnosed as a grade one hamstring injury which is it could be worse there's worse grades yeah I mean like it can spell a few words I get it thank you swish yeah what sorry no I'm sorry that's just the sound that came out

Yeah, it was natural. Okay. We didn't try to. Yeah, like I feel like we got to get like our billboard back up on the back screen real quick or something to fix that situation. I need a shower. I retract. Okay. I retract my joke. That's not what got us on that billboard, Mike. No, no, no. I'm just saying that joke wasn't. Or maybe it was. All right. Burrow Brown, Chase and Higgins. Start them all if they're active. Absolutely. Just understand that. I think week one was a little bit of an anomaly for this Texans defense.

I would say that I won't be surprised if there's a bit of a tempered output from these guys again. It's in Houston. And that defense is very good and not as bad as it looked in week one where Josh Allen managed to carve them up. So can Burrow with a hurt back carve up the Houston defense? I don't know. That's the question to me is Burrough's health matters a lot for this game because this is a tough defense. I mean, we went into.

Last week talking about you're going to start Josh Allen because he's Josh Allen. But, reminder, the last time Josh Allen played against this team last year, he was terrible. I don't remember if he even scored 10 fantasy points. It was it was hard sledding against this defense. Now, obviously goes in there with, you know, the new scheme and a healthy dog in Caked and DJ Moore and dominated. But if Joe Burrow is hurt, that version of him, I don't know if you can carve up the Texans.

that is just saying it might be a little slow for week two i would try to find a different option than burrow i would definitely try to find it because you could get knocked out of the game you could have a reduced performance you didn't love what you saw in week one regardless i have burrow outside my top 12 which feels weird feels so weird yeah let me let me see where i have him because i mean purdy i would much rather play yeah all those names we said we would play over drake may

I would play over Joe Burrow. I think the biggest, not that people have the question. I'm not there where you guys are. He's still, he's still a QB8 for me. Okay. Yeah. Like, Purdy is higher in my ranking. So I have my, I have my nine. Would you play Burrow or Herbert against Las Vegas? Because that matchup is juicy. Potentially. I'd play Burrow. We talked about Dalton Schultz already in this game. He started the week for Mike. We talked about the wide receiver.

Pivots, I mean, it could be K. Sean Booty. It could be Dalton Schultz. It could be Xavier Hutchinson. It could be Jalen Knoll. Jalen No, I think Jalen Lowe is in a like a good weekend stash type of a player. Monty, three touchdowns last week. Can he repeat the? No, he can't. The madness. And then Woody Marks, 50% of snaps and was very efficient on his touches. It wasn't like Monty took the headlines. He got the touchdowns, but just giving, you know.

Four point, what was he last week for Woody Marks? He was nine for 42, four point seven to carry, one target. It will be a committee situation. It reminds me, like, situationally, it's like, it's very close to what happened in Jacksonville last week where it was like, okay, the snaps were really split, Tutin got the work, but it was like. Yeah, Woody was 51%. I think they both were. And it's like Tutin was good on his, his opportunities.

He just didn't score any touchdowns where, so David Montgomery with a multitude of touchdowns is this, and this is not an anti-Montgomery, it's just a, he won't be what he was in week one. I don't think. Do you care about Mike Gassikis, he's five for 78 in week one? I mean, I looked at the- He is the wildest player. The box score last year, man. He played all the time and he just, he only had one good game last year. He, and he was barely on the field. Yeah. He just was.