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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Friday, September 10th. That was a game. Oh, yes, it was. Welcome into the fantasy footballers. I'm still glowing. Jason Moore, Mike Wright. So many points. Andy Holloway. So much fun. I'm not sure the NFL could have asked for something better than what they got last night. That was...

Storylines, a plenty, a competitive game, an exciting game. Had it all, man. If your name wasn't Ronald Jones, you had a great night. Right. Greg Zerling had a great night. He finally hit it. What fantasy purposes, this is what I'm saying, this game had at all of just real life excitement, coming down to the wire. Can Tom Brady actually do it again? Which, I mean, he did.

Fantasy points plenty, and yet full-on fantasy tilts already from people who drafted Mike Evans and Zeke. I'm sorry if you're dealing with that on your roster, but just for fantasy football to be back and have every single facet of the game encapsulated in a primetime island game for everyone to watch. It was great. It was so much fun. How?

Just Tom Brady not have a top five season with those weapons? Injury? Age. Maybe he dies old age. I don't know. I mean, I was trying to use my imagination last night to visualize what it would be like to watch Tom Brady regress on the field. And my imagination couldn't do it. Like I couldn't see the big play, you know, where the arm dies off. Like, it's going to be hard.

One of the things. Maybe he just walks away on top at some point. Yeah, one of the things that- Like, week eight, he's like, I don't have it anymore. I'm out of here. I just can't see, I can't see him not producing to just an incredible degree. The honest to answer that question would be that he is old and this is week one. He's fresh. He's ready to go. If somehow. He got better last year over the second half. I'm just, I'm just, but he wasn't as old as he was now. Sure.

I'm just trying to figure it out. Terrible argument. Arm fatigue. He's not going to play the Cowboys every week. Yeah, that is also true. That's a big part of it. Oh, Cowboys, don't ever change. Oh, seriously, don't ever change. I absolutely love the fact that we can count on you to need to throw a lot of points on the board. It's fantastic. Well, and they're not, inversely, they're not going to play Antonio Brown, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Rob Grankowski every week either.

They're not going to play the Super Bowl champions on the road. You know, so it was Tampa couldn't stop anybody either. I mean, Tampa's secondary got beat up, got picked apart. The Cowboys threw the ball constantly. I mean, you needed to keep Zeke in to block against this pass rush. He did a great job doing that. I am fully on board with what Jason said last week, which is.

Go get Zeke from skittish owners. Yes, he still played. He was the guy. Again, Tony Pollard was used more than you had hoped if you drafted Zeke, but it really wasn't that much. It wasn't, especially in the second half. It felt like a lot because when.

because Pollard got touches, but Zeke was still in for the vast majority of the game. Zeke was in for 73% of the snaps. He ran 44 routes. He was super involved, except they weren't running the ball and the passes that could go his way. And it was smart to not run the ball because their defensive line was better than their offensive line, especially missing their all pro left guard. So we saw this coming. We talked about this before the game. If you're the Zeke owner, just calm down, take your lumps, do not trade him. And if you're not,

Go make a trade offer for Zeke. I would. I think he's going to have a great season. He didn't look bad to me. No. To start the game, his runs looked great. He looked svelte and ready to go. You would have hoped that he could have handled the, yes, Blake Jarwin missed the block, but. The touchdown opportunity. Yeah, the touchdown opportunity. But, but Zeke should have.

made that the defender miss. All right, we do have a jam-packed show. We have nine matchups to get into some news, big-time news to talk about. Also, Antonio Brown is great. I have to. Also, Amari Cooper is great. Pivot my start of the week at running back momentarily. Oh, no, no, Andy, we're riding high right now. I know. Bringing everybody down. I can bring us back up. Here we go. It's Friday. Put Clan Friday.

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Got off to a great start. Grankowski was outstanding. Gron, grong, grong. Mike was very happy because he started him in our League of Record. From the waiver wire to my starting lineup. 13 receptions for Amari Cooper on 16 targets. C.D. Lamb had 15 targets. Very up and down performance from Lamb with some drops. But you saw the yak explosiveness from Cid Lam. He is going to have five.

mind-bending long touchdowns this year. Just get ready for me. He had 100 yards and a touchdown and he sucked. You know what I mean? Like he could have. He didn't. No, he didn't suck. But my point is he had three plays that I mean, he made mistakes. He should have walked away with 160 yards and maybe two touchdowns. Like the bigger news for, I mean, the benefactors were Mara Cooper and C. Lam having the incredible target share. Michael Gallup left this game with an ankle injury. And.

I mean, to that point, it seemed like when they were in too wide, it was still going to be Cooper and Gallup. But if Gallup misses times, he lambs an even better option. And might cover your ears, but Blake Jarwin and Dalton Schultz are going to share the work. Yeah, no, I know. Yeah, it was unfortunate, but Jarwin is nothing more than a just desperation play at this point. Into the news we go.

News and notes from Around the League. Presented by Sleeper. Yeah. Beep. Beep. One more. The Gus Bus himself. Dang it, man. Torn ACL done for the season, placed on IR. The Ravens have now lost. J.K. Dobbins, Justice Hill, and Gus Edwards. But don't worry. They now have four 1,000-yard rushers.

They signed Latavius Murray, Devonti Freeman, Leveon Bell, and of course, they have the rookie Tyson Williams. How is he a thousand-yard rusher? He is not, but wait, isn't there a fourth or I think I miscounted? Wait for Todd Gurley. Just give me a day or two, and then we'll revisit that stat. This is...

This is a mess. It's unfortunate for Gus, the person had his opportunity. And for it to happen in practice, like right before the season begins, shocking. I mean, Mike's expression in the office was when he saw the tweet come across. They also lost Marcus Peters immediately after on the next play. Terrible luck for the Ravens. Jason asked me yesterday on the footcast, our extra episode for Patreon.

You said, am I sticking with the Ravens as my Super Bowl pick? It's hard to do that. I mean, it was hard. They were my pick before Dobbins got hurt. Now you lose your entire running back room and Marcus Peters. I don't think I earned bonus points by sticking with them through injuries. So I guess I would pivot to the Chiefs at this point out of the AFC and be extremely boring with that selection. But Tyson Williams, impressive preseason.

But the team went out and signed Freeman, Bell, and Latavius Murray. Murray's the most, I mean, he had his best yards per carry last year. He's a veteran. He can catch the football. He can pass protect. To me, he's the better back to have on my roster.

Yeah, I think long term he very well could be the number one here. This weekend, I would still expect it to be Tyson Williams, the fact that everyone is basically showing up right before, you know, the game time. I don't know that they're going to throw them right into the lead dog role. And what that means to me is that Tyson has at least the opportunity to prove it. He can go out this week and say, if he is the lead dog and say, look,

I can handle this, I can do this, in which case he would solidify that role. But if he goes out and is mediocre, then I think it would be Latavius Murray as the one to have the rest of them. I would be picking both of them up. And I would, I agree, I'll probably prioritize Latavius Murray for the long haul. If you need a spot start this week, Tyson Williams in this matchup, I'm with Jason. I think he's still going to be a really solid running back two play against the Raiders. The matchup is fantastic.

He's the guy this week, I believe. Oh, yes, voice of public opinion. Levi-on Bell is a fantasy superstar. Levy, look, do we have an official report yet? Because Latavius Murray was put onto the 53. Devante Freeman is still on the practice squad. What is the status of Levion Bell? I think he might still be on the practice squad. The only...