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

15 for 51, no touchdowns, only one target. That's the part that, you know, last week him and Naeem Heinz got a ton of targets. They couldn't run in this game against the Rams. Not surprising. Tennessee next week. Wait, Pittman didn't make the studs list. Oh, you should have. He's not a running back. No, no, but we're already making. You're skipping ahead? No, no, the studs. We finished the studs. I'm saying Michael Pittman and is 120 plus yard outing.

That wasn't enough? He didn't get a touchdown. That's not enough for you, Brooks? It was great for him, but he didn't stack up against other wide receivers as high because he didn't finish. Goodness, he finished points. You people are impossible. Paris Campbell missed this game. Yes. Pittman took advantage. He looked good. What do you do there, though, with the quarterback situation? With the quarterback situation, that really sucks. You say it's the pits? Yeah, yeah. Hopefully the Taylor Heineke to Terry McLaurin.

can be the model, and we can have some hope here that Jacob Beeson will say, oh, yeah, Michael Pittman is my number one guy. It is worth highlighting because like the opposite of seeing Alvin Camer going, oh, well, this can happen. That can happen. Seeing the realization happen on the field of, yes, Michael Pittman is the guy who I thought he could be at least one week, where most players can't.

ever do that. Yeah, you just, they need to give him work. So knowing that that's possible for him, very excited to watch the rest of the season unfold for Michael Pitt. Naim Hines is doing his best recreation of 2020. He's after week one and being great, one carry one catch. How is this possible? People probably play. Frank.

Frank, you old scally bag. He is a rap scallion. And then MEH for the chiefs. Yes. Clyde Edwards Allaire. Oh, man. 12 for 46, no touchdowns. Lost the one goal line carry to Daryl, who had three for negative two for one. Yes. Yes. Now he has a rushing touchdown and finish with negative yards. Yeah. And then fumble for Clyde, obviously, no targets in the game at all. That's where this is like, this is.

Very alarming now of, you would hope, week one we could call it an anomaly and let's get Clyde involved in the passing game. But this, it sucks for fantasy and it doesn't make sense. If you are the Kansas City Chiefs and you are drafting a running back in the first round where Jonathan Taylor is there, DeAndre Swift, you have better natural runners than Clyde Edwards Aller.

You draft him because his calling card is he is a top-notch pass-catching running back. And this is how you utilize him in the offense? This makes absolutely no sense. But we are, my DefCon level has finally officially gone up here for Clyde. Would you be trading Clyde? Trading for Clyde? Because right now I don't imagine.

Like if you trade for Clyde, I would imagine you can get him on cheap. So that means if you're trading him away. I'm willing to trade for him because he's still the starting running, but all the reasons we've laid out why he should be good. But we're to the point now in our, I have him in our dynasty league. It's a double flex, two running back double flex. Clyde might end up on my bench. And I'm going to be playing some of these other wide receivers I have over him, which feels insane. Clyde can't make a big play.

Yes, he doesn't have the speed. That was the whole reason I didn't like him is because he's not going to touch the ball. Like when Kareem Hunt was there, you didn't have to focal point Kareem Hunt. He gets, what does Kareem Hunt do? He gets half the work in Cleveland and can make a big play and be fantasy relevant in any moment. Unfortunately, I think when you ask, if you want an answer to the question why he pounded the table for Kly, is because this was a Super Bowl winning team.

that wanted to bring in ironically. I mean, this is just a stupid time to say it. He's a running back who legitimately never fumbles. He didn't fumble one time his rookie season. He never fumbled at LSU. So no mistakes. Amazing pass blocker, right? He can come in and at least help out in that regard and be solid. You didn't need to bring in a focal point because Patrick's the focal point. So I think the hope.

here is somehow what happened to David Montgomery. You know, David Montgomery coming in as a rookie was super disappointing. And you would say the same thing. Can't make a big play. You know, he's a four, six three guy. Clyde's a four, six guy. Like never, never made big plays. And then somehow it clicked.

And a year and a half in. Yeah, a year and a half in, it clicked and it came through. That's the hope. You have to hope something changes here in Clyde. 27 for 89 on the year. He's down from 4.4 last year on the ground to 3.3 this year on the ground. Three targets, three receptions in two games. Incredibly disappointing. Moving forward, though. Miles Sanders, 13 for 55 against San Francisco. Eli Mitchell.

17 for 42. I mean, I would take some solace in the 17. Before Trey Serman got his first, I mean, it was second half, right? So Eli was the guy. Now, he wasn't great. That's for sure. The whole offense could not run, but I take solace in 17. I think if memory serves me, Elijah got injured before Trey. Like, Trey came out because Elijah got.

banged up 17 carries is amazing um it seems like the philadelphia eagles defensive line is maybe a little bit better than the eagles played this game pretty tough like there was i had messaged you guys i said i know we're early we're we're only one quarter into this game but if if gropolo keeps playing this way it's going to be tray lance season next week and then gropolo picked it up and they ended up getting the w but uh this was this was a rough game

for San Francisco, which maybe the Eagles are actually solid. The two defenses that have been the most impressive, like Philly, they shut down Atlanta, and Atlanta kind of came back this week offensively, and then the Buffalo defense for two straight weeks. Mind you, too, it got hurt, but they've been, then no one's doing anything against them. Pittsburgh, nothing against them, and now Miami. Miles Gaskin was a huge fart this week, five for 25, four for 21 through the air. Oh, man.

You know, swinging a miss with Miles so far. And they have Las Vegas next week, maybe with a quarterback, maybe with that one. Cream Hunt. Okay, not great. It happens. Yeah, James Robinson, 11 for 47. Where are you guys now? Because I had, I was out. I was OUT on Robinson before the season. How are you guys feeling now? 73% of the snaps, like he was the guy.

14 opportunities, not the worst. Where are you at for fantasy? He is where I said he was to me at the end of last week after rewatching the game. A low-end RB2. And I think that's where he will live. He finishes the running back 30 this week. Not good. He didn't do enough with it. Obviously, he's in the pooped in his big boy pants segment. But he was on the field the most. He clearly looked better. We saw a couple of places. Hyde only had two carries. Yeah. That would be your.

Exactly. And he looked good. The problem is this offense, I apologize, this team just sucks right now. And I would expect, even though for all the mismanagement of Urban Meyer and our disdain towards him, I still think that Trevor Lawrence will get better as the season goes on, right? He's a rookie figuring it out. I would expect the second half of the year he's better than the first half. And if that's the case.

If the offense picks it up, I think he can be a flex-worthy option going forward. And Denver is a good defense. It's always scary, whether it's James Robinson or I guess, you know, Marvin Jones. It's always scary to claim to, you know, try to grab the nicest fruit on the bad tree, you know. Melvin Gordon, Giovante Williams, 13 carries a piece. And Javante was better with him, 13 for 64. Gordon was 13 for 31.

Gordon had two targets, two for 38, one target again for Giovante, one for 10. The inability that Denver is having right now running the ball. They just can't run at all. Is very strange with like how well Teddy's playing, how well the wide receivers are doing. It's something to watch. You want to be excited about the fact that they play Jacksonville this coming week, but they just. It's weird. Or they play the Jets, but they just played Jacksonville and didn't do anything. I'm going to read you some wide receiver poop poopers and you tell me if you're worried.

Tyreek? No. Amari Cooper? No. A.J. Brown had nine targets. Three for 43. Not. No. He dropped at least four easy catches. And he had dropped problems last year. I think he had a tweet that went viral talking about how his family told him that he couldn't even catch COVID if he tried. Brutal. No concern there with him? Not concerned. Nine targets and he's awesome. Antonio Brown. No, because he'll be, this is what.

You should expect. If you were riding high off a week one and you should have been, thinking that Antonio was just... I still think Brown's going to be more irregular than the other two. Sure. That would be my only... I still think you could...

Flex him, but he's more irregular than him. I would definitely have him in third place. Needs more total. D.K. Metcalf. 11 targets against Tennessee. How is this a bad game? Robert Woods, nine targets. Five for 64. That's not a pooper. He's not a pooper, but he's concerned. I'm a little concerned. I am concerned about Robert Woods. I've got him a couple places. This is Cooper Cups offense. Until somebody watches the tape like we do. Right. And then you get the game where it's him.

Where's Robert Woods? It'll certainly shift over and it'll go back and forth a little bit. But going into this year, you kind of expect Robert Woods to be the... Go to breakfast, Robert. The one in targets and not so much anymore. Gross. Wait, is that true Brooks? Robert Woods has back-to-back wide receiver 42 finishes? Yes, sir. Five-for-64 doesn't sound so bad until you say wide receiver 42. Corey Davis.

Not concerned a great trade for target. Here's why, the New England Patriots. They take away your number one option against a rookie. I mean, we should have seen it coming. I think Corey Davis will be fine. DJ Chark, one for 19. No player got me more crap on social media last week than me saying that I literally said, I just want to see what happens for a couple more weeks.

before believing that DJ Chark is the guaranteed number one. So let's, I'm still in that boat, by the way. This is not a declaration of victory, just the declaration of, let's see what happens for the next two weeks. If, if Channalt is going to miss some time, then both DJ Chark and Marvin Jones are far more interesting. Robbie Anderson, six targets, three for 38. Do I, do I hit the alarm button here? It's concerning. We told you last week to trade him away after his.

his touchdown one catch week. You know, McCaffrey's going to get a ton. Yep. Moore is going to get a ton. Dan Arnold was very relevant this week, by the way. I don't have a stat line right in front of me, but it was, let me see if I can find that here. I'll pull it up. Pull that up for me. He had some catches. Three, four, 55. Oh, baby. That's what Dan Arnold does. So, you know, Robbie is still.

Robbie has a lot of name value. That's what I will say. In a league, Robbie's name still means a lot. So if you, you might be able to get better than, like, you might, can you get Mike Williams for Robbie Anderson? No way. I doubt. Maybe last week you could have. Yep. There's no way. But you could probably go, you know, Robbie plus something for Mike Williams. Robbie, Robbie is. So are you out on Robbie? I'm not out on Robbie. I think he's someone you can flex every week. Are you in on Robbie?

I think Robbie Anderson is kind of that wide receiver three where the nice thing about Robbie is he has big play potential. So you throw him in your lineup. You know, we talked about you could start Rondale Moore, AJ Green and take a piece of the, I would start Robbie over those two guys because. Would you take Robbie over Rondale rest of the season? Yes. I'm doing the hokey pokey. Turn yourself around? No, no. Put your right foot in. Put your right foot out. Oh, with Robbie? Yep.

So your unhelpful advice. I'm just telling people what I'm doing. Calloway should hit your waiver wire. Marquez Calloway. Tight ends. Are you concerned with George Kittle? Ran the most routes on the team, but just four for 17. People are scratching their heads going, but I paid up for a tight end. Debo had eight targets. It is very head scratching. One more week. Yeah. Before you panic? Before I worry. Okay. Bad game for Tyler Higby. One target, one catch in Tampa Bay next week.