Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, Bounce-Backs - Podcast for 9/11

Yep. Josh Allen, of course. Keon, yes. Kincaid, do you buy in? Would you play Kincaid or Joanne? I played Joanne. Frequently asked question. I'd play Joanne. I would play Ferguson. I'd play Fanon. Last year, the Jets defense was real bad against, or I guess that was last week. Last year they were very good against tight ends. Last week they were bad. But Kincaid, yeah, the targets aren't going to be what Joon's will be. Four targets in a complete... shootout. Yeah, no, we got to move on from Kincaid as a guaranteed, you know. Yeah, you can stream him. Yeah, you're playing pits over him, obviously. I would. If James Cook was somehow out due to the hamstring, is Ray Davis the play? Yeah, if he was out, Ray Davis would be the play. I don't expect him to be out at all. He finished this game. This was a Wednesday. If he's, we'll see if he's limited in practice today. Are you hitting the wire and picking up Ray Davis right now?

To be smart. Personally, I mean, if I've got an extra roster spot, sure, but I'm probably not going to have someone on my roster. I would be willing to drop for him. If it, I mean, right now, we'll find out soon before waivers run tomorrow if James Cook, if he's, you know, not practicing on a Thursday, yeah, I'm definitely making that. I'm with you that. I believe that Cook does play. I'm just saying of the, no, just holistically. I guess he'll be limited today again. If your guy has a hamstring injury. going into the weekend, would you prefer to put the, because Ray Davis, if James Cook doesn't play, Ray Davis would be incredibly sought after. Yeah. One more game here, Seattle, Pittsburgh. Games in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is, I don't know, the comeback win. Seattle, 0-1. Pittsburgh is three-point favorites, 39.5.0. That is low, very low. Two good defenses, or at least.

Supposed to be too good defenses. I don't know if the Steelers defense is good anymore, man. They certainly weren't against the Jets last week, but I will say this. They have personnel to be good. They've got coaching to be good. So I do believe they'll get that figured out. Yeah, it was a really rough week one for the Pittsburgh defense. No question about that. Last year, they were top half in fancy points given up to quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers. D. K. Mekoff was your start of the week, Jason. Jackson Smith and Jigba should be everybody's start of the always. Mm-hmm. Seems like it.

And when you look at the running back situation, this is when you kind of, you know, Jaylen Warren, I think probably is the running back you'd feel the safest with in a home matchup where you're favored of all the running backs on both sides. Yes, for sure. But I mean, beyond that, you know, you're not playing anybody else in Pittsburgh. Kenneth Walker. I can't imagine anybody feels like there's nobody that feels good about putting him in their lineup this week. No, it would be a... I'd play Charbonnet over him. I would think I would too. I would play Charbonnet over him, but I'm not looking forward to playing Charbonny. I don't think he's going to... This appears to be a 50-50 split. I mean, Bruce Hall had a good time. And I found... A real good time last week. Kenneth Walker is...

to me, much more the Breece Hall style of back where it's like you get that little crease and then you go versus the Charbonnet. Charbonnet is more like the Braylin Allen type of back where it's, I'm the big guy that's going to move the pile. So stylistically, Charbonnet is, I don't think he comps to Breece if looking at last week. I'm just looking at the yards given up to running backs. Matt Williamson had pointed this out on X that the Steelers have allowed. 27.6 points per game since week 13 of last year. Like, it's been total fantasy or like score? Score. Oh, okay. I'm saying of the like, are the Steelers still a good defense? I know that's not for the, you know, like, well, we're not forever since week 13. But it's like that's a, that's a sample at the point where you have to start asking a question. Well, to be fair, if you look at the schedule. Yeah, who is? Philly, Baltimore, Kansas City, Cincinnati.

Yeah, that's tough. So those are probably the four best offenses in football last year. But if you are, if you're a great defense, that's not happening. Well, this game, Seattle's only projected for 18.3 points and they're not missing a starting quarterback. You know what I mean? They have their full allotment of offensive weapons. So we'll see if this game ends up just disappointing for fantasy all the way through. It kind of feels like it might. That's, you know, one week into the season, Seattle, they did a pretty good job. on the defense. Top 5 to 20 defense. What about Jonu Smith? I'm just watching to see if he's more involved. People wanted us to talk about Calvin Austin's first week performance. They felt like we missed out on that on the waiver show. He had a good performance. He seems like you're going to need a big play touchdown, you know, a similar stylistically player, not not body wise at all, but like Rashad Bateman. We're going to get a few targets. You're going to get a bomb or two.

You could have a big play on a great fantasy day, but I think very low floor, and this is a low over under. I'm not going to chase it here. Yeah, he was 15.2 a catch last year. That's on the higher end, 17.5 in week one. That fits the Bateman style that you're talking about. Quick temperature check here on Sharbs. Would you play Sharbs or Dobbins against the Colts? I've got Dobbins one spot ahead. My gut says Dobbins. Okay. That was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Check out max discounts on the app now like Travis Kelsey at more than 5. Sorry, more than 0.5 receiving yards for the September 14th game. Use code footballers and get $50 instantly in lineups when you play $5. We have more matchups tomorrow. We have the fantasy face off. We have...

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