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

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. And it wouldn't surprise me if we get, you know, hey, 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. I'll play with Johnson, who's also under. 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 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. This is not, 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 Tate 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. Disgusting. Top of season, Ramondra is a steal. Oh, I hate it.

Jonathan Brooks mispractice due to general soreness. 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 soreness. If you had, no, no, no. If you had gotten it in, I would have liked that. I was too late. I knew I was too late. So that's why I laughed to myself if an Andy call 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 Soornness. This really stinks for a guy. It's so, so dumb. I love it. I tweeted this out. 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 just makes me go, oh, oh, Marshawn Lloyd, it's coming. Kendra is back. No, for how long? No, what? He got hurt yesterday. Yeah, he's, he's, he's, he's back again? It'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. That's, 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 Monongay 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, the Jeremy draft plan? Yes. At least I didn't know when when I drafted.

There's something extra special about the Packer fan taking 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 if you're last week one. He's got neighbors, so he might play week one too. Rocheon Johnson. Wait, do you have neighbors? Yeah, and Pooka. And Pooka. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? All five of those guys could literally not play week more. Name your team week two.

Oh, I'll name the team week too. All those players aren't waivers. For the Chicago Bears, Roshan 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 not like Algeria. 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 tear 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 5. If that's the role that they're going to use, it's just sad for the like 20 touchdown upside potential because.

Bijon could lead. Like he's been, I think, number three at running back. Yeah. Do you think the Falcon scored 20 touchdowns this year? Is it 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.

a family member or a PR person who was like, you got this, Tua, 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 to a, you're so good. We're with you. 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 two. That would be worse. He didn't, what, Kevin Durrame. Kevin Durrins. By the way, Mike, how'd your boy do last night in his first? Oh, yeah, bring that home. 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.

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? Well, that was all in the first quarter. And then 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? It was like 54-0. It was 56 to 0. Oh, brother. Get wrecked. Want to know? But, hey, thank you for. It'll probably get harder. Oh, yeah, 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.

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Players I'm afraid to be wrong about. Spectacular. Spectacular. That tone, that kind of scary motif is how I feel about these guys. 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 will 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. It's DJ Moore. DJ Moore new wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills is a player that is like it is it Stefan Diggs part two years ago. Stefan Diggs he had a down year in

in Minnesota. He went from being a wide receiver 1 to a wide receiver 2 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, Dave was 27. Correct. So...

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. He is going to play with his.

best quarterback of his entire career on a you know we just drafted yesterday like the top offenses buffalo is if they're not one they're no lower than five they are absolutely one of the elite of the elites the s class tier um and so it's like okay now he's the wide receiver one camp highlights have been great uh all of the buzz after when he first arrived it was like oh he's having trouble getting on the same page with josh allen he's got to learn the playbook

It seems like he did because practice after practice after practice he's leading the team in targets. He's dominating the defenders. He's looking great. And part of me is still like thinking Alan Robinson vibes. Later career goes to the Rams and in practice and in these camp highlights and the one hand, you know, in zone touchdown. It's like he looks good. He was paid money. DJ Moore was traded for with good capital. They paid a lot more than.

the going rate was assumed then they paid the man money he is there one it should work for fantasy but what i saw last year from dj more was like he don't he didn't break tackles the way that was his trademark forever he is older you know 29 years old is like that's the time where you start to worry so i have not been bullish on him i haven't been in on him i haven't drafted him and i'm worried i'm going to be wrong because if it hits if he's just

If he is a good wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills with no target competition, like at the end of this year, you can be like, how did we not all know that he was going to be a wide receiver one for fantasy? Because his upside is like top 10 wide receiver. Yeah, we have, we do have the back of our minds, the Amari Cooper trade that didn't do anything. We also would not have changed that opinion about the bill's offense if he didn't exist there. Correct. You would have thought the same thing. So there's a lot of reasons to be like, we've watched him succeed, Josh Allen, with no.

wide receiver one with just a bunch of options you like don't concade now Shakir being out to start the year potentially also interesting yeah there's there's a lot kind of swirling around there and it's really like if you if you want to make the bull case for DJ more being fine and being good for Buffalo I think you also can look to Chicago didn't want him no Chicago inherited him Luther Burden Colston Loveland Roma Dunesay