Week 1 Matchups + Zeke Tilt, Tony Tony! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

Which of the Kenny G's are we expecting? I don't know if the saxophone is tuned up and ready to play yet. I, yeah. Oh, no. Are we expecting more of this this week? Yeah, I don't. Give him some time. It's, even though we've heard it, it's, it's fresh every time. It's still real bad, but given some time. Missed most of training camp, still limited. Kenny Galladay's, his ADP, you know, if you, it dropped. So.

If you're of Kenny Gaudet on one of your teams, hopefully you have a better starting option. Maybe you don't. If Noah Fant was drafted to be your tight end, are you pivoting because of the injury news? Are you just playing him? You probably are having to play him. I say that as a Mike Kosicki owner who, you know, it was like there's just no one I love on the waiver wire. Gronk was the option who was available in plenty of leagues, but that option is no longer available.

Yeah, this is not an exciting game. The Giants games hit the under 80% of the time last year. Sequin Barclay, is that a grin and bear it because of where you drafted? 100%. All right. Let's move on. Bears. Rams. Let's go here. Rams minus 8. That's the drafting sports book line. Over under is 46.5. That puts the Rams at 27 points. The Bears at 19.

two new quarterbacks for both of these franchises. Yes. Matthew Stafford at home. Okay, let me ask you this. Do you do anything? I mean, you have to play Montgomery and Robinson despite the matchup, am I right? Correct. That's it, though, right? On the bear side, no decisions. I mean, like Mooney, now with the back injury, I'm not playing him on the road against the number one passing defense in football. No. Yeah, I mean, that's it.

I don't even know that there's anything to watch for here because of the Rams defense. The bears are the easiest decision. It's David Montgomery, Alan Robinson, log off. Last year when Montgomery played the Rams, if you want to get an idea of expectations, you're probably hoping for 10 points because he was at 19 for 69, five receptions for nine, five receptions, nine points. You better hope he gets those five receptions. Or a touchdown. Yeah. He's going to get all the work.

So there's that. But it could be a Zeke-esque type of game for him. We'll see what Andy Dalton can do. Stafford, Daryl Henderson, Woods and Cup, Higby, start them all at home. Yeah, I agree with that. Tight-in was a position the bear struggled immensely against, hence the Higby start of the week, which I think was Mike's started. It was. I don't know why someone's trying to credit you with my incredible start of the week. No, it's because he's my. You're my guy. My guy. Yeah.

All right, the Monday night football matchup, the Baltimore Ravens, we've talked a lot about the backfield there against the Las Vegas Raiders. The line from Draft Kings, Ravens minus three and a half, over under 50 points. Maybe our primetime games are exciting in week one. I think this could be a pretty good game, actually. The Vegas Raiders, their games hit the over.

13 of 16 times. That was number one last year. So I had a 50 point over under with them hitting the over a lot last year. Maybe we get some exciting performances from, I don't know, what, Henry Ruggs and Brian Edwards? Oh, man, that would be sweet. I just want one of them to be relevant. It would be a lot of fun to have one of them truly break out this year. I am hopeful. I am not optimistic. Let me ask you a question, Andy, you've always been good on the lines.

Were you surprised at how close the line is between the Ravens and the Raiders? No. Okay. No, because this is game one, Las Vegas at home, 500 team last year. Yeah, I mean, three and a half is given the Ravens quite a bit on the road here, I think. So I imagine it's going to be a very close game. I don't think the Ravens are going to be able to.

You know, the Raiders, no Marcus Peters now, a backfield where it's ambiguous for Baltimore, injuries at the wide receiver core where, okay, yeah, we get Sammy Watkins, we get Hollywood. I don't know. I think it'll be a pretty close game myself. Now, that doesn't mean I'm playing a bunch of Raiders. I'm not excited about that. I'm not playing Derek Carr. I'm not watching Rugs and Edwards. I'm not playing them. Darren Waller and Josh Jacobs.

Are the starts? Are you worried about Josh Jacobs with the toe injury, the running back signings? Do you have hesitation where you're willing to look to like a Melvin Gordon? I play Gordon over Jacobs this week, based on the match. But I would, I imagine most people are going to need to flex Jacobs based on what options they have. He fell really late in drafts. I mean, you know, sometimes if you were like going zero RB, he could have been your first running back. But otherwise, there's a chance that you have the.

luxury, I think, with Josh Jacobs to sit him for a week. Yeah, you might need to do it just because of the time. I mean, you have a Monday night game. So if you have any question mark about the injury heading into the weekend, what's the practice report today? That's going to matter. Yes. Because unless you can pivot to, now if you have Kenyon Drake for some reason, wait until Monday. Or you grab Tyson. Right. Okay, let's say heads up. Would you prefer Williams or Jacobs? Jacobs. I would play Williams. Okay.

That is a Monday night decision. None of us saw coming. A week ago. Lamar, though, you always play Lamar Jackson. Mark Andrews. He's in your lineup. So is there a flyer you'd take a wide receiver for the Ravens this week? Well, I mean, come on. Week one, wonder. You know, it's week one. I mean, it's cold-blooded. The lizard king. It's incredible. The Ravens wide receivers had 137 receptions combined.

Say that again. Say that one more time. The Ravens wide receivers last year for the entire season combined for 137 receptions. Doesn't Julio Jones have like 130 plus reception year? These two teams ignore their wide receivers more than anybody else. The Raiders wide receivers sought 46% of the time target-wise, which was the lowest. Like the Ravens just have a small pie. The Raiders threw the ball a lot more and still lowest target share to wide receivers. And I don't know if it changes. So.

Going to be interesting. No news updates, Brooksie? No, sir. All right. Head over to Jointhefoot.com. The Injury Blitz podcast debuts today. That's with Matthew Betts, our injury expert. He's going to keep you up to speed on. And he'll have the Friday practice reports for at least some of these guys, right? Yeah, I think he waits to record until after that. Yeah. So you can get that over at Jointhefoot.com. Game day alerts as well. I'm so excited about this segment. Yes. Let's get it going.

Fantasy Face Off, presented by Draft Kings. This is going to be so much fun. Every Friday, we've got the Fantasy Face Off presented by Draft Kings, Andy versus Jason versus Mike. And we've got some things on the line here. First of all, this is the first year we've ever been able to actually play. Paid DFS, Arizona recently regulated DFS and sports betting. We are going head to head to head every single week.

We are very competitive. Money is on the line. Yep. Pride is on the line because we're going to keep track of first, second, and third place finishes. And perhaps most importantly. Shame is on the line because the loser last place every single week is going to do something that only we would do. They're going to spin the wheel of hats.

They're going to wear something ridiculous for this segment every week. It plays so well for an audio podcast to have people wear a stupid hat. Yeah, go check out of the YouTube. And it's really more for us to stare you in the eyes. I want you to look like an idiot. You're wearing the whirlicopter hat or something like that, chicken mask. Or an oversized cowboy hat or Jason stretching on a chicken mask. It's going to be fun. Or a fedora.

Or a fedora, which, again, that will be a stretch as well. Thank goodness that I will never lose. The best part of this punishment, Jason, is at least you're a hat guy. Right. Yes. Your head, you're always look real good in hats. So here we go. We're going to go through our lineups. We did not reveal these to one another until just now. We've all lined up our week one DFS lineups.

Let's start at the quarterback position. I'm going Ryan Tannahill for $6,500 at home against Arizona. I don't blame you. I am in love with Tana Hill this week. He was the first one in my lineup, but I ended up pivoting to Jalen Hertz. The matchup in Atlanta is juicy. And I see someone else did as well. Well, $6,400. Yeah, $6,400. And we both went with Jalen Hertz because we wanted it in on that particular matchup.

So much so that we both went with the stack of Jalen Hertz and Devante Smith. The value you can get on these rookies right now when you're playing over at Draft Kings, Devante Smith, 4,500. So I'm saving some cash there for what I project to be their number one target. So Hertz was 6,400, 100 less than Tanna Hill. At running backs, I'm going Dalvin Cook, Rahim, Mostert. Cook is at 9,100, Mostert at 5,800.

Most are taken on Detroit, Cook against Cincinnati. I wanted a powerhouse running back. Cook's the one I went with with the matchup against Cincinnati. Jason, your two running backs are? My two running backs are Tyson Williams.

Yeah, you're taking that kind. It's not a completely free square because he's 4,500. Yeah, and when I built this lineup, it was prior to Latavus Murray. So I don't expect a huge game, but it allowed me to get Christian McCaffrey full PPR. I think as the season goes on, he's going to be in the 10,000 plus range. Right now he's 9,500. Very, very expensive. But.

I think it's still a value. Yeah, and I found some value at the bottom of my roster, so I was able to get Christian McCaffrey in as well. Part of that value was Rahim Mostered. I'm with Andy that Mostered at 5,800 for what he could do in that matchup against Detroit.

It's very fine value. All right. My wide receivers were Julio Jones, DJ Moore, and Devontas Smith. You're in on the Smith train. Julio Jones and Ryan Tannahill. I have that stack there. Julio was 6,800, more, 6,100, and DeVant Smith's too cheap. I almost went with Jerry Judy here, very similarly priced. I think he's 100 more than Devontas Smith. But I went with Smith just not wanting to, I also have Giovante Williams in my lineup, so I didn't want to have a couple of Broncos in a low over under.

Yep, my wide receivers. I went Keenan Allen for the PPR with potentially not having Austin Echler, Devante Smith. We all have him. And then Cooper Cup. Yeah, I like that. He was pretty, I think his price is low, 5500. And he has the opportunity. Thank you.

Almost missed it. We should force a 5,500 player into a lineup every week. That should be required. Mike, who's your wide out? So as mentioned, I have Devante Smith. And like Jason, I went with Keenan Allen of the upside of if Austin Neckler is limited, possibly out. Point. Yeah, you're going to be screaming point a lot. And then I got in on the Atlanta matchup yet again because I have Calvin Ridley at 7,900, which is a screaming value.

to me, a guy who can finish as the number one wide receiver on the week. Tight end I went with this year's Logan Thomas, which is Logan Thomas, for 4,600 against the Chargers, Jason, Kyle Pitts. I went with Kyle Pitts because the week one matchup. Of course you did. I mean, week one against Philadelphia, he should be very involved. He was only 4,400. I think his price goes much, much higher after this week. Well, Mike took a cheap.

player at tight-in. This is where I found my value, but I just want to point out that come Monday, Kyle Pitts is going to be coming off a sensational rookie opening game. And Jason will, he will hide behind him using him in this fantasy faceoff and say, look, I like Kyle Pitts, even though he disparaged him the entire off season. Do his voice again for me. I love Kyle Pitts. Never forget, Foot Clan. This man hates him. Tyler Conklin, Mike, for 2,900.

Oh, yes. We got a conch drop? Yeah, we did. I think that's the goose? Yeah. Yeah, that works. I like it. It works for 2,900. That works for me too. I'm just hoping that my tight egg could pull in two receptions at a touchdown. At flex, I went Javanta Williams for 4,000, the opportunity against the Giants. We'll see what happens there. It was a discount flex for me. Kareem Hunt is Jason's for 5,500.