Players We’re Embarrassed to Love + Jeanty Madness! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/24

Because, like, if it's a low ankle sprain. I'm sorry for saying his name on the show. Low, thank you. If it's a low ankle sprain, it's like, okay, well, that's no big deal. Maybe he misses the, like, they'll just hold him out, you know, let him recover, and he should be good to go week one. If he has a high ankle sprain, that's like a four to six week injury, and we know that there is, you aren't full go right when you come back from that injury. So.

If you're drafting soon before that information comes out, it's still, it's the risk that you have to either accept or pass on based on this little information that we have. We have news that Deshawn Watson has been named the starter. Despite the preseason games played. I had seen, are you?

Are you talking Watson, Mike? Are you trying to react? There's both. There's both. Okay. Well, let's just finish. I was reacting to Watson of the, his quotes going on social media of the, he was not happy with what he felt was very disrespectful of fans booing him, even though he's been.

horrifically bad on the field the last time we saw him so it was it was just like it's not performance it's personal but it could be it could be both it could be both and 100% be both somebody gave me a hard time I posted uh the idea came for Matt he he said is is Deshaum Watson a better player than a person or a better person than a player and I said neither and then well it was meant to trap yes um because you'd have to say one or the other and you don't want to no but the point

Somebody responded. Why are you giving him such a hard time? Other players have made mistakes. We've all got our own opinion. But here's my answer. Humility. Yeah. Apology. That's admitting you did wrong. In this press conference, he literally said he regrets nothing in his life. Look, the way you approach these things, I have, you have a right to say what you want to say, and I have a right to have an opinion based on what you say. That's called, like, we all judge people that way. It doesn't mean that, look, I don't know. I haven't had a conversation with Deshaunson, nor.

shall I? But at the end of the day, this guy faced up to nothing has been a $200 million disaster for the, yeah. The whole timeline is, hey, you did something wrong, obviously. You admitted and apologized for nothing. You were given $200 million. You rewarded the franchise that gave you that money with the worst play on the field possible. And then you came back and said you don't like the fan base. And I'll admit, like,

when there were cheers by fans when he heard himself that crosses a line too but you also you could have had that press conference and said you know what it's been a long road that was disappointing to hear but at the same time i gotta be better i want to be better and i want to i want to make this fan base it's not hard what you know what blew my mind is in that press conference when he's saying correctly he's like it's not they're not just upset we know that it's not just to play on the field it goes beyond that it's off field stuff you know it's like yes that's correct

And then he goes, so that's pretty hurtful. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought he was going to say, like, so I understand, you know, that that's what the fans have to go through and I got to get the play up. Instead, he's like, that's so mean of you guys. It's not. Like, I mean, fantasy wise, Casey Concepcion, great player, great opportunity. Harold Fanon, great player, great opportunity. Denzel Boston's been flashing. None of these guys.

I mean, it is very fair to say none of them are going to be players that you can 100% guarantee are going to be great today. Because Watson is not playing good football. Chatur was playing better than Watson. If you look at the preseason splits, much higher completion percentage. Otherwise, not that different. And neither one of them is elite or even mid-tier in terms of production. So, you know, Fanon, the volume, probably safe, Concepcion, the upside might be nerfed.

and they might want the first pick to turn the page officially. The last two times. And why did you draft Dylan Gabriel? Can I just say that? A third round pick last year, you drafted him. He wasn't even a part of the worst quarterback competition in the history of football. Stavansky tried to make him. He gave him the first shot over, should do her. He is. It wasn't good enough. Yeah, okay. So the last two times that Watson has played for the Cleaver Browns, which would have been 23 and 24.

you know, completing about 62% of his passes. That's not bad except at six and a half yards per attempt and five point three yards per attempt while fumbling five times. Pro bowler. In six games and seven games. Like Watson is just go. I mean, fan and the play on the field for Watson is not acceptable for a franchise quarterback. You can remove literally everything. You're not even good enough to.

You shouldn't be on an NFL team. Well, the news we got while we were talking. Breaking news. Did you see this, Jason? I did not. Trayvion Henderson left practice early Monday after slipping during a cut. Of course. Got his right ankle and foot and leg looked at. Was this variable buttering up the field? Dude. This is, this is, well, I thought he had mispractice yesterday or on Saturday.

for unknown reasons. And then this is saying early Monday, so after another, maybe he's dealing with something because he slipped on a cut. I'm going to spoil something real quick and just take it. Like my, we're doing players we're embarrassed to love today. And we're going to give you a name that we're very embarrassed to publicly state that we are fans of. And then we're going to throw in like a Sean Watson. No, it isn't.

That's good, though. That would have been a great setup for me during the event. Unbelievable. But then we're going to throw just another name out there that is also a name or Embarrassed 11. Ramandre is the name for today for me. It's a great. All of my pro-travo takes and belief and hope.

does not in any way, shape, or form say that, I think Romandre is a fantastic pick, where he's going right now. I mean, he is two rounds behind Travion Henderson, and I had no clue that this injury was happening, but one of the things I was going to say was that we all say, like, if Ramondre goes down, Travion's a monster, well, it goes the other way, too, and I was going to bring that up, but we had comments before the injury from the two of the biggest beatwriters in New England this past three days. So Greg Bedard and Andrew Callahan, Boston Globe, Boston Sports Journal.

Badard said not even a discussion. Ramandre is way better back at everything. That's the quote. Andrew Callahan. Stevenson is clearly the RB1 and doesn't want to, and he didn't want to hear about 50-50 splits. Yeah. And so you take the, now that you got an injury, like, I don't, I don't say with pride that I want to take Ramandre, but I did something I've never done before in my life this past weekend. And I opened up a trade window.

I opened up a trade window before this news to try to pick up. Now it's ruined because Trayvon's hurt. Now I can't get Ramandre. Okay. All right. Do you hear it yourself? Maybe I can. Maybe it's not ruined. But hey, in the seventh round, in the sixth round, there's a chance that Remandre comes out now. I mean, I don't know what this injury is. But either way, you should have a viable starter on a really good team. Yeah, good offense you want.

pieces of good offenses. So that's crazy news though, and we'll monitor that. I mean, that is up in the air right now. George Kittle activated off the PUP. Christian McCaffrey, after tightness for a long time, finally returned to practice, said that taking time off in camp was part of the plan. That was so good to hear. Yeah, no injury. Two different reasons. One, no injury. And two, that they are like literally worried about it and keeping him fresh because.

They're doing it because they want to give them the ball a ton. Dejean stribling was practicing. Why would they not just say something? Like your coach is having to field questions. Well, can you like? Just be like, hey, this is part of the plan. That McCaffrey work. It's weird though, right? Like, can you just mark them down as like rest day in training camp? Or do you have to mark them down? You probably have to mark something. And that's what tightness was. I feel like they get in trouble if they don't say it after or something. I don't know.

Dejohn, Stribling, non-contact jersey, had a minor shoulder injury. Parker Washington returned to practice, but Jacobi Myers was seen in a brace on his right hand in Friday's preseason game. I hate to say it, but I'm like, you know, one piece removed from the Jacksonville wide receiver room and things start to become a lot easier to project. We'll see what Jacobi Myers' health is like. Michael Pinnock's Jr. cleared for 11 on 11. It's been a pretty good offseason for Pinnock's.

I mean, as he's done nothing, as he's done nothing. He has not been able to show his skill, which is great news for him. And Tua at the same time has been awful. So like, you can't imagine a better setup for Pinnix. You didn't. I mean, it's perfect. Yeah, you, you look great and you didn't have to do anything. Exactly. Well played, Michael. There have been conversations. I would stay out a little bit longer. Yeah, about one more week. You're going to walk right into the starting job.

Yeah, just hang out a little bit longer. Woody Marks had a great preseason game. That's something we should have brought up. And the news out of Houston Chronicle, at least one beat rider says the workload might not be 50-50, but we'll be close between Montgomery and Woody Marks. You do not like hearing that if you're a, like the entire argument for Montgomery is he is everything for that backfield. I still feel like Jason was right though on the last show about like.

not seeing Monty at all is saying something about that situation. Yeah, he's the starter. I mean, they trade for him. They give him money. He's the locked in starter. And you need to, but people have to play. So they have Woody Marks out there. It's just what is the percent. That's the entire bet on David Montgomery. If Woody Marks is like 30 percent.

All right, you're probably fine. Oh, you're totally fine if he's 30%. But if you're looking at 40 to 45%, then you have a big problem for David Montgomery. Chris Bell, this is exciting. Dolphins wide receiver, if you don't know who he is, rookie wide receiver. He is practicing without a non-contact jersey. I saw a clip of Chris Bell running some routes, looked explosive. We did the leader of the PAC segment last week on the Dolphins whiteouts. We all admitted that like if Chris Bell was the healthiest.

We probably would all be in that camp. He was certainly the most highly touted coming out of college, if not for his knee injury. He was a borderline first round pick, and they got him at a discount because he was coming off of the ACL. So it's exciting because this is a team that needs someone to step up. The reason I think we landed on Caleb Douglas is because, you know, you hope that someone in a nebulous situation is able to say, hey, I'm a special player. We know that that's not too, too, at well.

Maybe Malik Washington steps forward, but we've seen him a long time. I don't think it's him. But Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas now have opportunities. The Chargers officially placed their newly signed center Tyler Beattish on injured reserve ending his season. Oh my gosh, the people hate it. It's terrible. It's the worst. Preloaded excuse for Herbert. All set? You got to have them in the barrel. Yeah.

The thing about Biotis was weird because he was cut. You know what I mean? It's in the barrel. It should have been in the chamber. Yeah. If it's in the barrel. Yeah. I don't, I think it's just loose rattling around in there. Does he load six or seven in the barrel? What if you, I'm curious about this. If you've got one in the barrel.

And then you shoot one from the chamber. You don't want to do that. You don't want to do that. That's one of those cartoon guns where they peel back all four sides of the guns. I think something they gnaught it. Yes. Something bad's going to happen to your hand. Okay. Get it out of the barrel. But look, this is not good. Chargers. Rashon Slater's back of practice. I'll say that. Okay. That's good news. And then... This really stinks for the Chargers.

We also have news from the Panthers head coach Dave Canales. He said if Chuba is good to go, if Chuba is good to go, it will be running back by committee in week one. I feel like Canales is hard to trust when it comes to how he talks about his running backs. To me, this is a step up from if Chuba is good to go, he's our guy. It's a step up from.

And Chuba's good to go. He's been our starter. He's been our tried and true guy. We're going to lean on him. I mean, it's also a step up. Week one. It's not just a step up to saying, hey, it's going to be a 50-50, you know, they're going to share. Committee. Sure, a committee. But also, it's more if he's ready week one, like. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a fair point. This is, I mean, if he comes back, you're not going to have Chuba. Like, I can't imagine. If you draft Chuba right now, you can't start him week one, right? There's no world where you can start.