Week 2 Studs & Duds + General Mills - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/20

is, you know, it favors you. Rondale Moore, eight targets, seven for 114 and a touchdown. Man. Rondel Moore, if you didn't watch the game, like the stat line almost betrays how good he was. Correct. He was better than seven for 114 and one. He made this ridiculous play where he should have run out of bounds before the half. He cut in, gained 10 yards, cut back out of bounds with the second left.

It's the rookie wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. And gave Matt Prater a shot at a 62-yard field goal that he made, and the Cardinals won by a point. Yes. This was a stash candidate from week one for us because he had a pretty good week one game, but he only ran 14 routes. He was on the field a lot. He was involved. He was targeted. This is a player that when he's on the field, he is involved, and he has the ability to break a long play at any moment.

Can I give my kind of Cardinal breakdown and then wrap in my AJ Green stuff? Sure, sure. I'll allow it. The Cardinals, by the way, AJ Green, if you haven't heard of him, he's the fourth most athletic receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, fourth most talented wide receiver for the Cardinals. Here's how I see decision-making fantasy wise for the Arizona Cardinals' offense. And this is our hometown team. We watched every minute of that game. We always do. You will have.

You had six receivers with three catches, not three targets, three catches. This was Max Williams' best career game ever. Rondale Moore had a huge game. Christian Kirk had a big fourth down bomb catch. Hopkins started the game on fire. You are going to have a tough time figuring out which explosion is going to happen in this offense. AJ Green caught a touchdown. He also had another end zone target this week.

Not to say that AJ Green is a better play than those guys. I don't believe he is. I'd rather be starting Rondale Moore or Christian Kirk moving forward, and Hopkins is at the top of the list. But you now have seen in two straight games, they've gone to, AJ Green's touchdown came from a screen pass on the goal line. He's had three in-zone targets. So one week is going to be Kirk. It'll be more one week. Hopkins is the only one that you can feel 100% confident on. But I would love the manufacturer touches for Rondale Moore.

And that was what was interesting about this game is you saw more snap counts and then you had seven catches. How would you rank them beyond Hopkins? I don't disagree with what you're saying that right now you don't know who it's going to be. But that's why the number two for me is Rondale Moore. Because over the course of the season, I don't think that AJ Green can establish himself as the number two go-to guy. He got targets because the Vikings started to.

just clamped down on Hopkins. And Hopkins really didn't do anything in the second half, so they had to send the targets elsewhere. And Christian Kirk, good player, but I don't think at this point of his career, he's going to elevate to the point where Rondale Moore could end up. Is he flex-worthy moving forward? Would you flex Ron Dale Moore? I think you can. It's still sketchy. It is still sketchy. I want to highlight that. So Christian Kirk would be my number two because he gets the air yards.

And I think he'll be the most consistent. I don't have any fault for saying I want to take the shot on Rondale more as the two because he has the explosive upside. And if he continues to get more involved in his rookie season, great. But with both A.J. Green and Rondale, you're chasing. You're chasing the touchdown with A.J. Green and you're chasing the big broken play for Rondale. He had a 77-yarder where he was wide open. And that can happen with that kind of speed. Outside of that, he was six for 37.

Right. So the little tiny touches and you're chasing the broken play. But it's Hopkins and then, you know, a shot at an explosive offense. For formation-wise, when they have four on the field, you see Christian Kirk and Ronnell more in the slot. Yes. But when they don't have four on the field, one of those guys is going to run over to the bench and it's not going to be, it's not often AJ Green who sees a lot of snaps even if he's just walking his guy down the field. Right.

Corlin Sutton, 12 targets 9 for 159. Oh, brother. We have our answer. It's not KJ Hamler. And even though Tim Patrick scored, right, it's not Tim Patrick. And so 12 targets, nine receptions. And a couple of those were like big boy air yard targets that Cortland Sutton almost came down with. So his line could have been even better. If you managed to get Cortland Sutton on your team, if you had the courage to grab him during draft season,

Congratulations. It looks really good right now. The top 12 wide receivers on the week. There's only one that didn't get a touchdown. And that's Cortland Sutton. That means the volume is there. His upside is even higher than what we're seeing here without Jerry Judy. This isn't the Jacksonville effect a little bit. It certainly isn't going to hurt to play a bad defense, but this is a get right game for a player who needed to get right.

He's been, you know, coming off the ACL and hesitant. And I think after this, you know, part of what happens when you come back from an ACL is not all physical. A lot of it's mental. A lot of it's believing that you're good to go. And nothing like a game where you just dominate to say, yeah, I'm ready to just be the player I was prior to the injury. Like Teddy Bridgewater's looked good, man. Yeah, they're two and all right.

Yeah, Teddy Bridgewater had over 300 yards, two touchdowns. Man, imagine being in one of the West divisions and actually losing a game. Mr. Moore, you said that part of the recovery is mental. How has your mental recovery been for Fuzball with the rib injury? Oh, I'm bad. Mentally bad? Yeah, I'm mentally. I believe in myself. No hesitation. I'm ready to go. Full power? Yeah, full power. Not going to hesitate. It's more my.

Defender 2-man line that was bearing the brunt. Hollywood Brown 10 target, 6 for 1, 13, and 1. Mike, you said you wanted to talk about him. Yeah, because he's, this is now another, this back-to-back games to start the season for Hollywood Brown where it's been very solid. Week 1 was 6 for 69 with a score. Nice. But also go back to the way that last season ended. Hollywood started to really show up, you know, those final, the final six weeks.

He finished as at least a top 36 wide receiver with three performances inside the top 24. We were, Hollywood Brown is one of the harder players. Like when you went all in on him last year, because it seemed like the breakout would happen, should happen. And it didn't until the second half of the season. And I think you just got to, you know, count your lumps here and say,

A year too early on Hollywood Brown, but this, he looks like the truth right now. The last six weeks of last year, he was the wide receiver 11 through, you know, that month and a half of the year. And now you start off looking hot. And he's a talented wide receiver, first round guy who's look good, but you don't have. Unsolved mystery equation here. Sure. And you don't have a shot, Bateman. And who's coming back soon. And.

You face two explosive offenses in the first two weeks, which is not what you expected the Baltimore game plan to be, right? You face Kansas City and then you had the Raiders beat you in a high scoring game. So he's an unsolved mystery still, but he's looked outstanding. Right. So like this coming week will be a good answer. It's the Detroit Lions. So they should be dominating the game. Is he part of the reason they dominate? Correct. Because it's an easy defense or is it?

They run the ball so much that, again, the pie for passing is small there. It'll be a really telling performance this week. Henry Ruggs went five from 113 in a touchdown, and I'm going to leave it there. We're going to talk about them on smoke fire tomorrow. I feel like every single name I bring up, we could talk 20 minutes on, to be honest with you. Mike Williams, 10 targets for 7 catches 91 yards in a touchdown. Your start of the week? Yeah. Mike Williams looked outstanding. He had so many targets.

that were making Keenan Allen, truthers like Mike, frustrated because every time he wanted Keenan to get the ball. But Keenan was still good. He was. People freaking out about Justin Herbert, by the way. I get it. Brandon Cook's 14 targets, 9 for 78 and a touchdown. Oh, man. Doesn't matter who his quarterback is. And the breakout, it's happening. DJ Moore, 11 targets, 8 for 79 in a touchdown.

Finished at wide receiver 12. A touchdown. You can do it, DJ. Yes, he can. He's like, what is this paint on the ground? What is all this paint? Does this come off on my shoes? Where am I? Oh, my goodness goodness. I thought Julio got over the touchdown hump, but a heel rule. Oh, goodness gracious. That Mike was a huge fan of. Please don't. The toe then heel out of bounds, toe only inbound. I will tilt out of this world if I have to rant about that.

Kelsey, 7 for 109, he's good. Gronkowski. Grong, grong, grong, grong. So, funny game, four for 39 and two. You can keep playing gronk. He's, um, he's really good. He's good at finding space. He looks like he's got square wheels.

Like if he was a chariot. You know what I mean? Like. Coglunk. Exactly. But it doesn't matter. He's big. He's strong. And he's got a mind meld with Tom Brady. Yeah. Dosaki, seven targets, seven catches. 94 yards. Max Williams starting tight in for the Arizona Cardinals. Okay. Don't care. Noah Phant. Six targets, four for 33 and a touchdown. Do care. Glad he got in the end zone. Mm-hmm.

I almost said Agumbole again. Aguibon. Aguabanam. He gets involved a little bit too. Shall we move on to less exciting names? Pooped in his big boy pants. Oh, I'm glad that segment is back this year. Crap Prescott. Yeah, I mean. I mean, what's the unsolved mystery here with Dak? I mean, the week one was unbelievable. Week two. Is this the Chargers defense? Is this Dak?

confidence? Is this no Michael Gallup? I'm throwing it out. Which one? The first week or the second week? Second week. I would rather throw up this week. But I also think that's the more likely outcome in the sense that they had two rushing touchdowns. They were able to move. And this game, you know, we expected a barn burner. Obviously, Mike and I, we took a lot of these players in our draft kings lineup because we expected a lot of points.

Some of the things just didn't fall right in the timing of that game and touchdowns were rushed in and the score stayed low. I don't expect this to be the norm. So I'm with Mike. I throw this game out. I mean, are you going to not start Dak Prescott next week? No. You're going to play him. He's got elite weapons everywhere. Joe Burrow, 19 for 30, 207 and 2. At one point, he threw interceptions on three straight throws. Gross. Which is something I have done.

in our flag football league, and it doesn't feel great. James Winston, this was disgusting. I mean, the Saints were the worst offensive team in football by every possible analytic you could discover. You probably had to make new ones to describe how atrocious they were. He threw for 111 yards, two interceptions. They were, I mean, Bruce Ariens remembers interceptions like these, no touchdowns, and has New England on the road next week.

Uh, no. Well, let's talk about his teammate because that's the real question. That's the concerning part. New England on the road next week. Alvin Camara finished the game with 30 total yards. Eight carries five yards. Woof. Four for 25 through the year. I mean, Mike, if you're throwing out the DAC game, are you throwing out this Carolina game after they put up 38 against the Packers? I will.

Not throw it completely out. I will scoot it to the side, though. I'm still going to believe in Alva Camara, but to know that this is in the range of outcomes for this New Orleans offense, that is terrifying. Yeah, to know that this could happen? Yes. Gross. And New England picked off Zach Wilson four times this past weekend. They're at home.

So the Saints have to go on the road. And it's not, you can't not play Alvin Camara. No, and you shouldn't, Alvin Camara. He should be fine. He's difficult to tackle. He had a bad week. Players have bad games. And honestly, if Alvin Camara has a bad game, what in the world can the Saints do? Like, he is their offer. Right. So when he saw. Do you trade for him?

Sure. Absolutely. I would trade for Alvin Camara. So buy low on Camara right now from some frustrated manager. Joe Mixin, 20 for 69. Yeah, I mean. Still saw the volume. It's tough to put him as a full poop. No, he would be someone that. Just turtle head. Yeah. Oh. 21 total touches is enough to get it done. He didn't destroy your team. But they're not filled. Jonathan Taylor.