Players We're Afraid to Be Wrong About - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/2

Says a lot. Week one, would you start George Kittle or like Dalton Schultz? Yeah, that's where I'll probably just roll Kittle and just see if I can get a touchdown. That was going to be my point. But say Hunter Henry, Juan Johnson, Britain Strange. I'd start John Johnson. I would start John Johnson. I would be willing to start the other two over Kittle. Yeah, my point being you can't, let's say Kittle goes in as a six this weekend. I don't think that's unreasonable. This kind of news of him starting the season, I've seen him going sixes in leagues that we're in.

Um, my point being, you can't spend another seventh on Goddard or likely or an eighth or something like, like you're going to have to take a lower guy like Schultz. And in that case, I might just start Kittle. Yeah. We won't, we don't have any reports yet. We don't even know if he's going to be active. Yeah. But like what would not surprise me? Inactive in Australia will be why. Yeah. He did travel though. I mean, if he's traveling, I assume he's going to be active. Uh, and it wouldn't surprise me if we get, you know, a limited snaps.

but George is going to be there in, like, the red zone. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, okay, give me just the red zone trips of George Kittle versus a full game of Dalton Shultz. But I'll play with George Johnson, who's also on director. This is why I'm just out. This is why I'm out on George. Like all of this debate, all this like, oh, what do we do? How do we? I don't, I don't have to do any of this. I just have an extra player on my roster and I'm starting. Kiddle has been historically injury prone.

That is going to be a component. And historically awesome, though. Yeah, I get it. I know. It's not surprising to me that Mike Wright would pick a 49er with a long injury history to be a league winner. Yeah. It's just that we'll find out a fancy football luck or not. Did he was so good when he wasn't injured last year? Carnell T.T. working out stiffness did not practice on Tuesday, Robert Sala said. Boo. It's not the thing you want to hear. Oh, come on, man. T. Higgins tending to a heel contusion.

Uh-oh. Isn't considered to be a major concern of week one. Both him and Jamar were like, they're limited. But everything is just saying they're going to be fine. It's funny. If Jamar's not practicing and T. Higgins is not practicing, it's like one of them is like, cool. All right, Jamar, just rest up. T is like, oh no, red alert. Well, let's just continue the great news for Jason. Trayvion Anderson continues to rehab right ankle injury. Has not been cleared for full participation yet.

All the more reasons that... Disgusting. Top of season, Ramondra is a steal. Oh, I hate it. Jonathan Brooks missed practice due to General Sornis. Uh-oh. Yeah, but Chuba's back. And Chuba, there was one report that he'll lead the backfield. What? I was going to ask who that was with a really bad joke about General Sorness.

If you had, no, no, no, if you had gotten it in, I would have liked that. I was too late. Yeah, you were. I knew I was too late. So that's why I laughed to myself when Andy called me out. General soreness, like as a character. Yes. Yeah. I'm not going to lie that went through my head. The way it was said, it. Yeah.

Oh, he's not going to do this because of General Soreness. He said, I'm not allowed. Like an order from General Sorinus? Get in there, Colonel. I will say this. That's an order from General Sornness. This really stinks for a guy. So stupid. It's so, so dumb. I love it. I tweeted this out. And Colonel Tightness would have been furious about it. I tweeted this out, but it's really true. Like Jonathan Brooks missing practice for a guy who has like had one healthy season since high school. And Kendra Miller.

was off the field at practice. It just makes me go, oh, Marshawn Lloyd, it's going. Kendra is back. For how long? No, what? He got hurt yesterday. Yeah, he's back again? He's supposed to be minor, no big deal. I think he's going to be back today. Kyle Monongai week to week due to right knee injury. You know what? There's a week until the season. Yeah, I mean, that means he's not playing week one. Yeah. I mean, Jen, pretty much. Like, that's how I take Kyle Monongai. Or that's how Josh takes.

Kyle Mononga in a chopped league as his running back too because. Oh, he did? Yeah. Yeah. But it's like he likes not having the players at play week one according to his draft. Was he following the Jeremy draft plan? Yes. At least I didn't know when I drafted. There's something extra special about the Packer fan take in Jacobs, too. Let's be honest. That's why you took him. Oh, he got Jonathan Brooks as his running back one. So that's good. Oh, does he really? No way. Yeah.

But it's okay because he's got neighbors. Well, it's only a chop league if you're last week one. He's got neighbors, so he might play week one too. So Roshon Johnson. Wait, do you have neighbors? Yeah, and Pooka. And Kittle. Are you kidding me? What does possibly go wrong? All five of those guys could literally not play week more. Name your team week too. Oh, I'll name the team week too. All those players aren't waivers. For the Chicago Bears, Roshon Johnson will be next man up. Okay. I forgot about him.

Also, DeAndre Swift. Yeah, Swift is a great pick right now. Kalil Shakir remained sidelined at Tuesday's practice. Okay. Bejan Robinson, oh boy, the athletic reporting, fantasy managers may not like how many goal line carries Brian Robinson gets. I get it. Yeah, is it more than one? Right. Then I'm unhappy. Honestly, if it's more than zero. The fact that the backup there is prototypical bruiser.

It was with Algier. Alger's 225 pound back that was used around the goal line with success. It's a differentiator between the Jemir Gibbs who doesn't have that on a good team. Yes, for sure. I mean, that's why he's the RB2 versus RB. I mean, it used to be a debate. It's not anymore. Gibbs is in a tier of his own. I bet we come on this show this year and we are upset a couple times. But like Tyler Alger had 19 carries inside the 10 last year. I doubt that's going up for Brian Robinson.

19? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, 10 inside the five. If that's the role that they're going to use, it's just sad for the like 20 touchdown upside potential because Bijan could lead. Like he's been, I think, number three at running back. Yeah. Do you think the falcons scored 20 touchdowns this year? It's a team? Probably, but. Yeah, right now it's not feeling great. But that's why Tua posted affirmations to himself. Oh, no.

Someone, I have to believe it's someone else who has access like a family member or a PR person who was like, you got this too. Oh, we love you. Has access to his account and didn't.

log into their account and was like giving Tua that affirmation but it was Tua commenting on his own IG post of like you got this Tua you're so good we're with you uh Brooks is like oh my gosh that was real yeah that was real brooks the nice thing is is it was a message of like like a family member if it had been like two is underrated and he's never he'll perform this year from Tua that would be that would be worse he didn't uh what Kevin DeRan Kevin

By the way, Mike, how'd your boy do last night in his first... Oh, yeah, bring that up. In his first high school football game ever. Thank you. Girl. I found out last night that high school teams in Arizona are allowed to play preschools. I did not know that. I did not know that. I appreciate you bringing that up. My boy had a scoop and score off of a punt block. Delightful. He had his own.

Blocked punt. Spectacular. And then he had an interception. Oh, gosh. How did he do in the second half? Uh, that was, well, that was all in the first quarter. And then the, the, the, the team they were playing, which we've never seen. I don't, like, still to this day. That day gave up at halftime. Final score? For nothing, it was 56 to zero. Oh, brother. All right. Want to know. But, hey, thank you for. It'll probably get harder.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. But it's like, that's awesome. A week one is like, okay, we'll take it. We'll take a freebie, get some confidence. Hey, in Arizona, if you only have to go for two quarters of outdoor football and you get to go home, that's pretty good. It was a win. Tell them to shut that thing down early. All right, yeah, congrats to your boy. Let's take a break. And then we'll talk about players we're afraid to be wrong about. This should be fun.

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We're all talking about one name as kind of a main pick of players that we have ranked a certain way, and then we're kind of afraid to be wrong about. But we'll throw in another name or two. Who else to start? I can start. I've been changing my opinion a little bit lately, but just so I still haven't drafted him. This is a guy I've pretty much been out on. From the moment that news broke that he should or could be very relevant this year, I was like, I don't believe it.

is DJ Moore. DJ Moore, new wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills is a player that is like, is it Stefan Diggs part two? Years ago, Stefan Diggs, he had a down year in Minnesota. He went from being a wide receiver one to a wide receiver two in fantasy football, then gets traded after that down year to the Buffalo Bills.

And at that point in time, Josh Allen was not a... It was not really a down year. Just, I mean, he went from the wide receiver 11 to the wide receiver 21. He wasn't bad at all. He was like 17 yards. No, it was the most yards of his career to that point. Just out of curiosity. DJ Moore is like, what, 29? 29. And at that point, Diggs was 27. Correct. So I am, I am pretty out because...

You know, I went back and I looked at Diggs and I was like, how to, the world was very down on Diggs. Diggs was very similar to D.J. Moore, I want to say he was a seventh round pick in fantasy football, maybe a sixth round pick about where D.J. Moore is going after that trade. The bills weren't seen as a juggernaut offense. Oh, at that, Josh Allen wasn't Josh Allen yet. Right. And so that was part of like the downplaying. I was.

very bullish on Stefan Diggs that year. That was probably one of my biggest wins ever because he was a league winner finished as the wide receiver three. And I worry that like, okay, we've got a guy in DJ Moore who has always been a very good wide receiver who lacked a great quarterback. And while Caleb Williams last year looked pretty good, that's still not what Josh Allen is.