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I'm Andy Holloway joined, as always, by Mike, the fantasy hitman, right. Jason Morris here is Thursday, September 12th. We've got football tonight. Yes. Yeah, it's going to be great. And honestly, it's been too long. Since the last time I watched football. That's fair. That's fair. It's been a whole days. It's been a whole number of days. Like I said, too long. Jason is with us. Hello, world. He is still at a kind of a different...

I think we just need to accept this is the new me. I'm never getting better. Somebody posted a picture of the show with Morgan Freeman's head in place of yours to illustrate what our podcast listeners are receiving this week. It's a special offer from us. I've never looked better. That's very true. How old is Morgan Freeman? Um...

Dirt. He is. He's old as dirt. 82. He's an old man. He's an elder statesman. 82. He's 10 years older than Tommy Lee Jones. Did you know that? Spoiler. Welcome in. We've got a great show today. The forecast, which is the week two matchups. We begin that today. Our starts of the week on the podcast, Jason's boom boom kicker, which is a. Oh, my goodness. What a home run. That was.

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for everybody. But you can check that out at Rotoware. Twitter, you can follow us at the FF Ballers. And the quick question of the day. Who's been the hardest player for you to rank heading into week two? A lot of reaction from week one. A lot of overreaction from week one. Players picked up off of the waiver wire. Players dropped. Is there somebody that's been very difficult for you to rank heading into week two, knowing truth from...

Lies. Yeah. For me, it's been Cameron Newton. Cam Newton is a guy that, you know, I loved coming into the season. Obviously, he got injured late in preseason and looked terrible week one. So the question now is, you know, is there a problem with the shoulder? Because he wasn't throwing far. Now, he says absolutely not. He seemed good in earlier camp at preseason action. But we have one game.

where he didn't throw the ball far. He was dinkin' all game. He also didn't run the ball. He finished with a career lowest negative two rushing yards. So I'm concerned, but it's also one game we talked about before. He bounces back from bad games. He's always been a very boom-bust type of weekly player. So I think the matchup at home tonight...

should be great, but I'm hesitant. So that's why he's been very difficult for me. I think you have reason to be hesitant. And the funny thing is we talked about last year once the shoulder injury happened, those short intermediate targets to Christian McCaffrey went through the roof and he was insanely productive. Like he had a different level of production over the back half post shoulder injury. Well, in game one, he didn't throw the ball down field a ton and you have this massive production from CMC. But...

I would be hesitant about Cam Newton. I would be hesitant to, you got to kind of wait and see as he, you know, is it going to take a couple weeks to emerge from the foot ankle injury, the foot problem from preseason or not. So I get that. In our league of record, I have Cam Newton. He was the late round player I took. And then with my very last pick, I grabbed Josh Allen, just because of the stallion running wild last year. Let's see what he has. And now I'm in quite the pickle.

of do I start Cam Newton who looked rough or do I start Josh Stallion who's in a super plus matchup? Yeah, he's in New York facing the Giants. Yeah. So, no, that's an interesting one. I'm going to throw Vance McDonald out there. Yeah. And that's because, not because I don't have any confidence that he's going to be a productive tight in through the course of the year, but because going into week two, you have a bunch of tight ends that you have to rank him over or behind. Guys like Mark Andrews, T.J. Hawkinson.

you know, the O.J. Howard thing tonight. So I have McDonald at 8 on the week right now. So a top 10 tight end, but he's difficult to rank because of the lack of involvement in week one. And it wasn't because he wasn't out there. Vance McDonald ran the seventh most routes at the tight end position in week one. So he was out there. The ball just wasn't going to him. It was going to Moncrief nonstop. Yeah, I would say that the Steelers.

The Buccaneers, the fantasy options on those teams, you know, as a whole, they underwhelmed in week one. But I think both teams are going to come back to some sort of mean here. And so he's been difficult. Mike, do you have a name that you want to throw out there? It's going to be a running back who's going to be very difficult to rank all season long. That's Todd Gurley because you know what the upside of Todd Gurley is last week, 14 for 97. Only one.

target and one reception, but much like Vance McDonald, Todd Gurley was out there running a bunch of routes. It wasn't that he was off the field, but then you had the Malcolm Brown scored, but if you go back and watch, it was they didn't sub Malcolm Brown in to get those carries. He just happened to be on the field when they got down, when they got to the end zone, but they didn't then sub Todd Gurley in, which is a little bit of a red flag. And like the,

The variance of Todd Gurley is he can be anywhere from the number one, the underwear. He can be anything from the underwear to the shorts to the box and breeze. He can be a sports coat. He could be the number one running back any given week. Or he can be like a middling running back too. His ceiling and floor are so unique. Doesn't it come down to touchdowns with him? Yeah. Okay. And receptions. And those were the two things there.

He didn't get this last week that I do not think are prescriptive for the season. And when you, I mean, when you watch the game, when you see the film on Todd Gurley, I saw a lot of things I liked out of this game. I saw a productive, fast, quick player that contributed in a big way, didn't find his way into the end zone, distorted kind of the reality. But you're right. Week to week, it may be, you know, a little unpredictable because of them managing his reps. And Malcolm Brown was successful.

Right? Like you're not in a situation where they're like, yeah, we need a manager reps, Todd. And then Malcolm Brown fails around the goal line. And then you're like, well, they're going to have to turn back to him. No, Malcolm Brown got it done. They won the game. So let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league presented by sleeper. All right, the chargers are going to be short-handed in Detroit. Hunter Henry suffered a tibia plateau fracture. That sounds new.

It sounds very elevated. Yeah, yeah. Fantasy owners need to move on from Hunter Henry most likely. If you have an IR spot, you can put him there and wait for him to return. It's a four to six week absence, according to Adam Schaefter. It's his left knee. This is very unfortunate for Henry. And for the team that expected to get this guy back and have him contribute on it, you know, they don't have Tyrell anymore. They don't have Melvin Gordon. They don't have Antonio Gates. This was supposed to be a big opportunity for him.

With Henry out, in my mind, I go, well, you know, Mike Williams has got his shot. Silver lining. To make a huge mark. I mean, we saw Keenan Allen flash in week one. He's a monster. We already know that. But he could use some help, right? Mike Williams is there. Well, he didn't practice on Wednesday. Mike Williams didn't practice. They signed another wide receiver.

Anthony Lynn said he absolutely is concerned about Mike Williams' availability in week two. And so here we are with a couple of chargers that are banged up. Yeah, and I'm with you just to backtrack a little bit. For Hunter Henry, Anthony Lynn, head coach of the charges, he said the team is hopeful to have him back this season. That's not very confidence instilling. And four to six weeks is not.

That's not a length of time I'm willing to wait for Hunter Henry, who hasn't played now in like a year and a half. I'm not going to sit him on my bench and wait and hope for the upside. I'm going to move on. I'm going to use that roster spot. I agree. And our injury expert, Matthew Betts, for what it's worth, he thinks the four to six week timeline is very optimistic. He thinks that's best case scenario. There's a lot of things that could come out here.

if they find cartilage damage or anything else that could make this a longer recovery process. And then we got very surprised news this morning. Somebody's been smooching. Well, first thing I did when I heard this news, I wanted to see if J.D. McKissick was on the Jets, the Jets roster. Adam Gase, it's funny, but it's disturbing. Sam Darnold will miss Monday's game with Mono. He's out, and it's a Monday night game.

He's done. He's gone. He's not going to play on Monday. Trevor Simeon, the backup of illustrious John Elway fame, we'll get the start. And now on Monday night against the Browns, you have no Sam Darnold. And then Lev Bell has a sore shoulder. He's not going to practice today. They're monitoring that as well. You know, you expect him to be out there, but we don't know. He's going to get an MRI. Quincy and Noon is out. As the.

Big time Robbie Anderson supporter over the week. This, this crap sucks, man. Robbie Anderson goes right before the season. Draft season has happened. I've already got Robbie everywhere. He hurts his calf. And then he has a tough match. But now his quarterback is gone. Like, this is the worst. And his quarterback will be gone for a couple weeks here. They have a week four by.

Yeah, at school. When someone will come now with Mono, you don't see him for a month. Exactly. So this is going to cost him a couple of weeks. I expect maybe he's back in week five after they're by. I, it, Mono feels like an old disease, right? Old being like.