Starts of the Week, Wk 2 Matchups, Boils + Beasles

Yeah, he's... And he's still around. What's crazy is these speedster guys, they don't really lose their speed. Deshaun Jackson, Ted Ginn. Similar situation. Still around. Still fast. Good for you, Ted Ginn. All right. We're going to move on. Let's move on to Pittsburgh. The one and no chiefs. Travel on the road to Pittsburgh to face the 0-0-0. Steelers. Steelers are four-point favorites. O-O-M-1. O-O-F.

Judge, I'm going to need a ruling on that one. Tell me that's the right stuff, man. I'm laughing over there. The Steelers and Brown song. You fell for that? Oh, yeah. Yes. I'm disappointed, Brooks. I'm shocked that you're not madly in love with that one, Mike. This is a Mike Wright wheelhouse. I kind of agree with Jason on this one. Well, maybe I'm mad because I didn't think of it. The Steelers, four point favorites, 52.5 point over under. I love. And now I'm doing the new kids dance under the desk. The Steelers.

in this game. Big Ben has QB1 potential. He is a start-em-up. He's a monster this week. Big Ben, James Connor, Antonio Brown, Juju. I feel great about the entire Pittsburgh offense. What about the Vance dance? I'm not doing the Vance dance. He just returned to practice. Yeah, but he's going to play.

Sure, but Jesse James was involved last week. Because there was no Vance dancing. No, no. One playoff game does not establish Vance's role in the offense. No. That's sad. The question here, so I know you pump the brakes on Patrick Mahomes, Andy. I disagree. I think Mahomes is, I mean, certainly pump it on the 42-point fantasy finish of last week. This is a game where you have two.

I'm in the minority on that. I view both of these teams pretty similar in the fact that their defenses are hurt from what they were a year ago. Their offenses are better than what they were a year ago. Vegas agrees with a 52.5 point line of total points going up in this game. I think this is going to be another back and forth shootout. There's every single player I want with the exception of one big question mark to me. And that is if you drafted Sammy Watkins,

In the sixth or seventh round, are you okay flexing him this week in a matchup that should be good for him? No, I'm not okay flexing him on the road with Pat Mahomes. No, I'm not. And to speak to the Mahomes thing and give you our rankings right now, which you can get on the website, the fancy footballers.com, you can go to the start sit tool. You can see where we're ranking players. Jason has Pat Mahomes at 6. Mike has him at 9. I haven't been at 13. Reading.

what I saw from Pat Mahomes last week and knowing the fact that this Steelers defense is motivated, they're at home. They have the highest sack rate in the league since the start of 2017. I have a feeling that the intimidation factor of that game for Pat Mahomes, it's just going to be there. It's going to be present. And maybe he overcomes it. He's riskier to me. That's why he's ranked where he's at. I will say this. That was the first real.

game for Pat Mahomes with starters. So there is film for the Steelers to go off of. You know, a lot of times it's the week two that I always want to play the defense against a rookie quarterback. And this is kind of that situation. This just feels like a potential growing pain for Pat Mahomes. That's why I have them there. So you asked about Sammy Watkins. Do you guys agree with that assessment where I said I don't feel comfortable playing him in this game? I'm okay.

playing him as that third option simply because I'm buying into the points. I'm buying into the... But if you had to flex Kelsey or Watkins, you're flexing Kelsey. Yes. Yeah. But you have made a mistake if you're flexing Kelsey because then you mean you have two tight ends. All right. Starts of the week momentarily, but the Eagles take on the Buccaneers. Let's talk about this matchup before we get into the starts of the week. The Eagles with Nick Foles. It's been confirmed. Carson Wins is not starting. So now you get the Nick Foles.

Uh, fantasy machine. Could, you could get that. I mean, he's, he's put up huge fantasy. He is a lot machine. You got to, oh, that's what he is. That is exactly what Nick Bowles is. It can hit, you can get triple sevens. Him and Ryan Fitzpatrick are just, you're, you're, you're pulling that lever and going, come home. But more frequently, you're just dumping money into it. Yeah. And getting nothing out. So what are you going to get out of this game? Tampa looked.

Pretty impressive last week on offense. But on defense, you know, Drew Brees picked him apart. What do you think? I think you're going to get up. Who can you count on? You can count on Nelson Aguilar in full point leagues because he was the clear cut target. I also think it's not out of the realm of possibility for Mike Wallace to have a big game. He was open and missed on a couple of deep passes. I think Tampa Bay's defense is.

nowhere near as good as Atlanta's was, at least last week. So this is a much better opportunity for the Eagles to come out and score fantasy points. I think, you know, Nelson Aguilar, Zachertz, Mike Wallace, I think I'm actually fine starting them all three this week, which leads me to believe that, you know, I don't know, maybe we'll get at least two sevens on that slot machine. Now, JJ, coach Doug Peterson said,

Speaking to last week, Jay was nursing a little bit of a lower body injury for a couple of weeks. He wanted to make sure that he was good to get him into the game flow. And of course, then said after the game happened and Jai, he had a monster second half. He said, we're going to use JHAI more. Are you buying into that or are you buying into this is just Doug Peterson talking after a big game from his running back and we're still stuck in a full three to four running back committee?

I think what you saw last game was the worst case scenario for Ajai. Yeah. So I do buy into it. I think he was clearly the best running back on the field. Darren Sproles didn't do anything other than go out there for the snaps. I mean, he really wasn't productive. Corey Clement, he's going to spell Jayae. He might be in there in the red zone. I think Ajai is the, he's the safest play on this Eagles offense this week. Yeah, you know, a little insight, peel the curtain back here to the fantasy footballers.

There are certain things that happen where we get a very entertaining view from Brooks. But when you talk Jay Ajai up, Andy, I can hear it. You can hear the smile that goes from here. I hear his saliva on Brooks because he is, he is a Jay Ajai truther has been for years. Cackling like a maniac back there. He's just back there going, yes. Hey, Brooks. Yeah. How are you doing? Great. You know, you and I face off in our.

Dynasty League this week. Yeah, I'm aware. Yeah. You ready for this? Ready to do it. One of you has JJ, right? Yes. Brooks has JJ, yeah. Of course he does. I will throw Sproles out as another. If you're in a PPR league, I think this matchup is better than the Falcons. So you could do worse. Peyton Barber. Last week, one of the biggest workloads of any running back in terms of percentage of running back snaps. Ronald Jones was inactive. I don't know if that will happen again. I would suspect most likely.

Barber looked okay. Right. You can fire him up in this game against the Eagles defense that's troublesome. It's a volume play. It's not by any stretch. Not an upside. This is not a delicious matchup for the Barber. The Eagles defense is very stout against what Peyton Barber does well. Yeah, I worry about Barber this week. If I can bench him, if I've got that luxury, I would. And you might because he was a...

Yeah, he's a later pick. Ninth-th-round pick. All right, Chris Godwin? Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I don't think D-Jax plays this week. I don't either. And if D-Jax does not play with Ryan Fitzpatrick, who utilizes the wide receivers over the tight ends, I love Chris Godwin. Even though it's a difficult matchup, they're just going to need him. And I think he's a, I think he is that level of talent.

All right, you guys ready for starts? I'm ready. Starts of the week. All right, week two starts of the week. Let's kick it off with the wide receiver position. Oh, Kurtball. And I'm going to start with... You're just doing that so you can start with yours. That is correct. Josh, Gordon. Lay it on me. Taking on the Saints. I'm going to ride this Saints wave here. Gordon's first game back was last week.

You know, from a limited... Tumultuous. Tumultuous. Yeah, that sounded like a wrong word, Mike. Tumultuous. I got it. Don't worry. Sorry to think about torrentialists. Oh, let's not go there, gentlemen. Because then it turns in Tarrantula. Tend. No. Jason doesn't like his spiders. I'm going to ride this wave. The Saints got destroyed on the deep ball last week. Gordon is still a dominating physical force.

And what's ironic is I made this selection yesterday. I think Haley takes deep shots with Gordon. Gordon has averaged 18.5 yards per reception on his 19 catches since week 11 of last season. That's very good. That is fourth best of 68 wide receivers in the NFL. The Saints have allowed 13.5 yards per reception since week 11 of last season. That is the second worst in the league. And Tampa proved it last week. Gordon is a...

manhandler of db's he's going to have his opportunities and just before the show started got a little sleeper alert you know that Hugh Jackson said look he's going to get more targets this week too last week he turned into a fantasy relevant game with the touchdown in the rain in its first game back Josh Gordon is the start of the week I can get behind it I think now is the time for Josh Gordon and the Cleveland Browns are going to need him hey Brooks you know who does

Josh Gordon playing against you in Dynasty League? I'm guessing Andy. Yeah, probably. Yeah, it's me. Yeah, probably. All right. My wide receiver started the week. I alluded to how much I like this player in the matchups, but Devin S. scrumptious. Oh. Devin S. scrumptious. Last year, last year with Greg Olson missing the majority of the year, he shot up to a 22% target share. What are the odds that?

that Greg Olson loves that drop so much. Oh, he's doing it for the show? He's worried that like he's just probably not. I would say decently high. I was going to go at least zero percent. That's true. But the matchup doesn't terrify me. He is he is the go-to wide receiver for Cam Newton and he still remains that in my opinion. So if right now, we're on Thursday.

If you can go steal Devin Funches for cheap and you need a wide receiver 3 because I was not, like many fantasy players, I was not interested in Devin Funches coming into the season, coming into draft season because his numbers were going to regress. But the injury to Greg Olson has forced the issue. It's going to force the targets to the giant Devin Funches. All right. Mine isn't even a start of the week. Mine is a star.

of the week a star has been born it's juju smith schuster look i was a believer coming into this draft season and i can't take a week one victory lap by any means but we have continued you can and you probably will i'm going to i'm going to look he continued the role

And here's why I like him more than the metrics, right? Because I talked about this a lot in the off season. It was a heart versus head thing with Juju because the head and the metric said he was too efficient. He should regress. Like Tyree Kill or Alvin Kamara. But it's the film side with Juju that just makes me go. He's.

He's better than the other guys on the field. He looks like a star. He's doing this at such a young age. It's unbelievable. Last week in the rain in a run-heavy formation who's on the field 75% of the time, that's going to go up this week in a high-scoring matchup. Juju's just a great player. You love Big Ben at home. Part of the reason why is because Juju's going to get a 70-yard touchdown. Whoa. I don't disagree. Juju gives you what O'Dell Beckham gives you. You can give him a little crossing route.

You can get him a little underneath route, and he can turn the edge and turn it into a 70-yard touchdown, and that leads right into the quarterback start of the week. Big Ben against Kansas City. I'm starting him over just about everyone this week. Agreed. Are you worried about the elbow? Not at all. Not even 1%. He missed practice. They gave him a day off. He's fine. It's a bruise. It happened on the last play of the game. Big Ben is going to light it up this week. If he doesn't, I'll be surprised.

I'll be very, very surprised. All right. I'm also going with a bounce back candidate. I'm taking a very handsome start of the week. Wasn't so handsome last week. No, but we were expecting that on the road against the Minnesota Vikings. But this is perfect. This is the perfect situation. Or of a man in the iron mask situation last year. Yeah. Yeah, we had to. Yeah. He's gone from that to full Leo DiCaprio levels of handsome. That's right. He's removing the mask because he gets to face the Detroit.