Fantasy Time Machine + Target Breakdowns, Blind Spots - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/2

Cooper Cup being at that number is interesting too because there's some positive touchdown regression there. And so maybe we can get an article out with some of this information. Yeah. So we're very excited to see where this. Or you're fired, Kyle. We're very excited to see if this correlation keeps translating and this is a trend that can take some analysis to just another level up. All right.

That'll do it for never not working. Get up to 100% dandruff protection. That's never not working with head and shoulder scalp shield technology available at walmart.com. News and notes from around the league presented by sleeper. This news actually broke during our Spotify Green Room live event yesterday. Rashad Bateman, Miles Boykin, both put on the short-term injured reserve for the Baltimore Ravens. And, well, somebody returned to practice. Yes, he did.

If you notice the graphic for the Lizard King on our show has changed to team agnostic because we know he'll be playing on different teams every year. Our graphics department was working overtime with all these Sammy Watkins changes. In addition to that... He's in his lizard uniform. In addition to that, Marquis, Hollywood Brown also returned to practice yesterday as well.

Is that why you drafted him late in the listener league draft yesterday? It was a combination of the fact that he is back and that they took his recovery slowly and I have Lamar Jackson. So I wanted one of one of those hopeful maybe late round stacks. I got regularly sniped.

in yesterday's listener league. It's hard to draft with people who literally listen to hundreds of hours of you talking about your opinions on fantasy football. Yeah, I was like one pick away from my player three or four times. By the end of the draft, I felt beat up, but that was a good time. Jameson Crowder sat out of practice with the groin injury. Groyne Index.com newest member. Bradshawd Perryman, signed a one-year deal with the Bears.

Okay. Carson Wentz, Ryan Kelly, Zach Pascal, all activated from the COVID-19 list. That's good. And Ty Hilton got placed on short-term IR. This was something where, you know, it's a neck injury. There's re-injury risk. I wouldn't have been surprised if it was year long and the season was over. So I guess.

Yeah, it's worth pointing out that the short term I are, sometimes people are confusing. That means they will be back in three weeks. It means they're able to come back in three weeks. That is no guarantee that they'll be back week four. All right. We do have Gio Bernard dealing with a mid-high ankle sprain. Okay. Well, he's supposed to play in week one against Dallas. He's that Thursday night game a week from today. Okay. That's something to pay attention to. I mean, because Gio was going to take.

The majority of those running back targets away from Ronald and Leonard. A mild high ankle sprain. Yeah, I don't know what to make of that. I mean, that is the first I've heard of that. I mean, if he has a high ankle sprain, I would imagine that's too much for him to play football. It's mild. But it's mild. It's not spicy. Yeah. Royce Freeman was waived from the Broncos, and I bring that up because Mike Boone is on the short-term injured reserve.

It's Melvin Gordon and Javante Williams. That is correct. I am preparing myself mentally for the end of week one and that the number one wide receiver in fantasy football is Adam Thielen. And the number one running back in fantasy football is Melvin Gordon. Yeah, we're trending that way. I'm ready for those two names to pop up and everybody to say, where was all the hype about these guys? Because Melvin Gordon is going to be viable for a while.

To start the season, yes. And I just don't think that this is the kind of team that's going to, they paid him a lot of money. And if he's good, they're at least going to share time with him. Maybe Giovante ends up with the majority of the committee at some point. But.

Have you seen anything that says Melvin Gordon slowed down? I mean, he looks great to me. No, I really do think Melvin Gordon will be the leader of this timeshare. And I think by the end of the year, it'll be 50-50. And I wonder if the team ends up doing well with Teddy, if it turns out where this offense is clicking. And that is certainly no guarantee.

But if that happens, I question whether they could both be viable fantasy assets at the same time, similar to how I view Trey Serman and Rahim Moster, where you might be able to play both of those guys in the same week. Completely agree. I think people just don't want to draft or play Melvin Gordon. Correct. Guilty has charged. Which I understand, but those are the sneaky players all the time that happens. All right, that was today's news and notes brought to you by Sleeper.

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I think so. Yeah, for sure. You go back and look at the historical. We did the live show, you know, in Chicago, we're at this historical place that was built 100 years ago. The hallways are the hall. You guys are like ducking in the hallways. Everything was very small and tiny. It does seem that way. And even like seeing.

Broadway shows in New York. You go to classic theaters. Enjoy those seats. He's made for human beings that live today. No, my children could barely fit in them. But even old roads have smaller lanes. So how does that work? Well, we're going. The Hummer changed everything. The Hummer changed everything. And like Michael J. Fox made it look like it was just. Oh, he's a little guy. Very comfy. Michael J. Fox is 5'4. Oh, boy. Is he really? Is he 5.4? According to the Google machine. Well, Google's never been wrong.

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And the wind chimes? Oh, the wind chimes. That's the tasty harmony into the chimes. I could listen to that all day. I've moved that one up my rankings. I've totally forgot that was created. That's at the top now. All right. The premise of this segment is if you could travel forward in time, who could be this year's version of a number of players that stood out last year? So let's find 2021.

David Montgomery. So what we're talking about, and it doesn't have to fit this exactly, but what David Montgomery represented last year was a running back outside the top 40 picks in an ambiguous backfield, right? Tariq Cohen was there and threatening and has a chance to see 70% of, you know, 70 plus percent of the workload, has a nice end of season schedule maybe. That was something that held David Montgomery. But, you know,

What is this year's, who has the highest odds of being this year's David Montgomery when you consider some of those elements? For me, it's now James Robinson. James Robinson is a player who has certainly been disrespected.

Not just by fantasy, but maybe by his own team. His own team, yes. I mean, he was awesome for you last year. Comes in was great for fantasy. He was the running back seven. And then you spend a first round pick on Travis ETN. However, we all know at this point, Travis ETN lost his season due to an unfortunate preseason injury. And now the whole reason why James Robinson can't repeat as that top.

tin type running back that he was last year, is 31-year-old Carlos Hyde. I mean, I get it. Urban Myers loves Carlos Hyde, was with him, but I think as the year goes on, I think Carlos Hyde is probably going to be seen for what he is, a 31-year-old running back who's not that good. And I think James Robinson gets the ball more and more. He's capable in the past catching game, just like David Montgomery was. I think his offense could surprise and be better. Obviously, it should be better than last year.

If Trevor Lawrence comes out, has a great year, and James Robinson's involved in the passing game, I think you could see, I mean, we saw it last year, put it this way. Every time we were watching games last year together, the three of us, we were just blown away by James Robinson, not analytics. I mean, he got the whole market share. That's why he was the running back seven, but just.

watching it was like man he never goes down he always gets it's like as another six yards another seven yards it was just he's a quality back and i think in the end he's going to get enough workload um he can he can catch the ball he can score touchdowns so he's my uh call on david montgomery of 2021 do you think that they respect him now that et n's been hurt because you said they they disrespect him they draft a tn they signed carlos hide i think they disrespect

did him when they drafted him. I don't think it's that they don't respect him. I believe it was more of the fact that they wanted to bring in Trevor Lawrence's guy from college, give him that extra confidence and comfort. I think that's speed. James Robinson, the top end speed for James Robinson is not close to what Travis CTN has. For sure, but you want to know who makes James Robinson look fast. Carlos Hyde at 31 years old.