Week 3 Studs & Duds + Free Willy - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/27

opportunity for a bylaw and Kenny Galladay. And hopefully you picked up Evan Engram. Yeah. Like I know that they were. I know I did. Both of these guys missed and Engram didn't really have a great game, but just saying moving forward. Targets. How do you not game plan that Engram is your top target? James White was carted off with a hip injury. Yeah. What have you guys heard about this injury?

I haven't heard a lot other than the, you know, it's basically similar to what happened to Ryan Fitzpatrick that landed him on the IR. So it's not a great situation. And I think that the question is going to be hopefully answered on tomorrow's episode as to who is, you know, is it JJ or, you know, does Ramondre who also can be a pass catching back get the opportunity that.

He got early in week one that he fumbled away. So people's, so he does not have a stateline where I'm looking for Romandre Stevenson. So was the announcer misquoting who caught the pass? Maybe. I think that's what happened because we had heard that he was out for this game. He's marked his out in platforms. And then during the game, we heard somebody credit him with a reception and we were wondering what in the world happened. But now that I look at him, he has no stat line. Okay.

So the mystery of whether Remandre Stevenson played or not. It continues. Were you there? Answer me. Rob Grankowski took a huge hit to the ribs, came back in the game. Yeah. Probably won't practice. And then Gio Bernard suffered a knee injury on a senseless play at the end of the game. Probably a hyper extension. Justin Fields underwent. This is a quick aside comment, but like.

Did you guys catch the video it was a week or two ago? I don't know, but it was Tom Brady talking about how he does not like the, how these new offensive rules are bailing out offensive players for, you know, taking big shots. Putting their players in a bad position. And that stuck with me because I'm like, wow, you know, Tom Brady is very interesting right now. Both him and Aaron Rogers of.

the filters that they had on are completely gone. And they're just saying whatever they want to say at this point in their careers. And I was with that information, watching yesterday's game going, Brady, you're getting your guys killed out there. How can you? Specifically, Gio on multiple plays. Geo? It just seemed. The Gronk hit. I'm like, how can you be out here touting, well, you've got to learn as a quarterback how to protect your players and then you just throw them into the...

into the thornbush this week. It was crazy. How's that cactus feel? Yeah, I mean, it's fair, fair point. Justin Fields underwent a precautionary x-ray on his right throwing hand after Sunday's game. It was returned. I would have done that too. I did pause before I said game because I don't know what that was. The test was negative. He called himself fine. He's not emotionally fine. Yeah. He's not mentally fine. That's one. I'm very excited to go back and watch and

See what happens. He was an abhorrent game. That's one I'm very not excited to go. I saw enough plays where I was like, I know I need to rewatch it. And I am not going to enjoy that film. We'll talk about it. K.J. Hamler exited with a knee injury. Elijah Moore suffered a concussion. And just breaking this morning, the Panthers are trading tight in Dan Arnold, the postman and a third round draft pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for former first rounder, C.J. Henderson. Poor Dan.

Thank you. He got shipped out on. Yeah, our boy, Dan Arnold. Priority mail to Jacksonville. Our boy on the 3-0 Panthers. He's loving his life. He got a good amount of money. He's on a winning team. And they're like, no, enjoy the Jaguar's sucker. Now, at first glance, this seems like just a complete death now. But James O'Shaughnessy was, yes, super involved. Eight targets, week one.

and then goes, you know. Urban is like obsessed with tight ends between kicking the tires on Tim Tebow and then making a midseason trade for Dan Arnold. I'm just saying like I would much rather be on the three and O Panthers. Oh, sure. That's a human. And not around, uh, urban. Yes. Monday night update. Zach Hertz has been removed from the COVID-19 list. I really wish you could just play Goddard's.

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Or if you like Emmanuel Sanders and Stefan Diggs, any of the above, 43 passing attempts, 358 yards, four passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown. And what does he get as a reward? Houston next week. I mean, this is what we were hoping for, disappointing beginning to the year. But he's obviously going to be great for fantasy. This is just indications that don't, don't overthink, start, sit decisions. Washington was like, oh, no, they're a good defense.

Just start your job. I overthought one this weekend, and I played Allen over Brady, and I'm very happy that I made that change. Justin Herbert. Yeah, the touchdowns came through for him this week. It felt inevitable because he's had such prolific performances. He has a true one-in-one situation with Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. I think Keenan is the one B now. I mean, 281. Well, I would agree with you because touchdowns matter so much. And Mike Williams is.

Certainly the favorite to have those. But Allen still had a, he still had a solid year. But 281 and 4, no interceptions. They knock off the Chiefs. The Chiefs are 1 and 2 at the bottom of this division somehow. And he's completed 70% of his passes, something we pointed out last week when looking at the box scores. And he had a couple touchdowns called back. This was a positive regression situation. And he looks great. And as Jason said, the most beautiful ball in all of football. It really, really is.

Matthew Stafford, start of the week. Four touchdown passes against the Tampa Bay defense. 343 continues to be absolutely lights out for the Rams. The Rams are very good. Yeah, they are. They're very good. Coup a couple more touchdowns. You can't stop him. No. Yeah. You burn your mouth. Oh, the coffee? Yeah, very, very hot. He's on fire.

Tom Brady did end up with 432 passing yards. Wow. And two touchdowns because he ran one in. So he was fine. Yeah. He was fine for fantasy. New England next week. Oh, that's so exciting. He'll be going to break the, was it the all-time passing yards record well within reach. Jason, how do you feel about this Kirk Cousins run we've got going? Three weeks, quarterback 13. But the last two weeks, quarterback six, quarterback six, hasn't thrown a pick on the entire year.

Lighten the world on fire. He is. Cincinnati, Arizona, Seattle, I think all three of those defenses are middle of the road. This isn't, you know, some situation where he was facing, you know, the jets, just awful matchups. Honestly, their defense has been a little bit disappointing, although they came through. I mean, you look at, you look at this last game. I think it's the most reassuring.

on Kirk Cousins because their defense only gave up 17 points to the Seattle Seahawks. You think, oh, maybe it was a shootout. It wasn't. Kirk just played great. It started his one. It sure did. I mean, it looked like nobody was going to stop anybody at the beginning of that game and, you know, it was going to reach 70 points. But he's in the, he's in the every week streaming starting category. 74% of passes completed, eight touchdowns, no picks.

averaging 306 yards per game and has elite touchdown scores and weapons with Jefferson Thielen and Osborne has been good. Cleveland will be a very big test. That one is such a shame that that's the next matchup. It's at home, though. I expect him to be all right. It's just Cleveland's so good at controlling the clock. They just take the ball away for so long. That's true. Patrick Mahomes, up and down game here, three touchdowns, two picks, 260 yards.

Ryan Tannahale bouncing back with three touchdowns. No A.J. Brown, though, but the Jets and Jacksonville on the docket. But Julio looks more than capable. And they're throwing the ball a little bit to Derek Henry. Derek Carr, 386 and two, they won again. Go Raiders. They tried to lose. They sure did. They had some defensive players hurt. They're down 14-0 real quick.

Yeah. Then they got that safety. It was one of the worst play calls ever. So similar to Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr has, he has not finished outside the top ten of quarterback so far this season. Carr or Cousins rest of season? Cousins. That is the right answer. Before we move into running back studs and have some discussions there about Nasi Harris, a glimmering, a glimmering target, the light in the midst of a dark, dark.

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Is this for real? Is this a one week? Or is this something longer lasting? I like will it stick. That sounds like a fun adventure. Does it stick? Does it stick? Cream Hunt, 10 for 81 and a touchdown, seven targets. You know, Nick Cheb had 22 carries in this game, but Cream Hunt seemed to have the meaningful ones. He's the running back one on the week so far. Really? Yeah. In fact, our own Matt DeSorbo writer, he pointed out something pretty incredible. I think it's really interesting for the fantasy football world.

He's the running back one with 24.5 half ppr points, which should hold even after Monday night football unless Z goes crazy. But from 1999 to 2020, the weekly RB1 scored less than 25 points just 19 times. That would be about 320 weeks. Yeah, so only 19 times has that ever happened. And this year, it's already happened twice in three weeks. So his point is the running back position is changing.

You're not having these necessarily as many of these monster performances. Obviously in week two, Derek Henry went absolutely insane. Right. But worth observing, it just shows you that it's hard to come by in terms of huge performances and not shared backfield. Yeah, I mean, the reality is there are very few. I mean, three or four full.