Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 3 Matchups, Under Pressure

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, let's get the show on the row! Let's go. We're already into the weekly rewind. Let's go. I was concerned about Jason. He, you probably can't see it on the YouTube because of the majestic intro graphics. Jason was like taking a macro nap over here.

And then woke up right with the intro's going on. It's all right. I'm awake now. Neither of us had an ordinary start. I was very close to sneezing throughout that entire intro song. Did you look at the light? What? Does that stop it or does it start it? I think that makes you sneeze. I think, yeah. The old wives tail. Actually, no, it came from a, it was a mustache whisker. Mm. You understand that, right? Oh, believe me. My mustache does not all grow down?

In fact, I call it the eyelash mustache because many of them grow vertically. Do they ever intertwine with the nose hairs? Does it grow up and just? I can not confirm nor deny that has ever happened to me. Welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers, Annie Mike and Jason back once more. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Great show today. The starts of the week, the fantasy forecast, the week three matchups. A good quick question. Brooks is in the building taking care of us over there behind.

the camera how you doing brooks oh i'm great and you left out everyone's favorite segment oh my goodness i apologize uh jason's boom boom kicker on the show yep put in a lot of work this week guys now i know it would be like um an inefficient amount of our resources to try to do this but i would really

We should probably try to get a kicker to actually come on the show and be personally interviewed by you each week. But then you have, like, kind of questions that are somewhat condescending, but maybe they can't pick up on it? I would just ask, you know, what's it like to be in the NFL now that kicking is more relevant? Right. No, that would be a good way to do. Or like, ask the Chargers kicker, how relevant can he is. Oh, my goodness. It's very relevant, my friend. Man, that look on his face.

reminded me of Robert Aguio. I was going to say. Roberto Guaio. Yeah, it's irrelevant until it's very relevant. It's the lonely kicker, man. You remember the Adam Sandler song? I just, I told you before he missed the kick that if he misses this kick, how do you get that out of your head? I don't know. Way to start a career. Yeah, that sucks. All right. Let's transition to the quick question. Who's under the most pressure?

to perform in week three for fantasy. You should have gone. Well, speaking of pressure. I'm going to go with Youngway. Yeah. Kicker for the, no, I think that there's like a tie here for me between Eli Manning and Andy Dalton. You have two teams that were legitimately considered deep playoff contenders.

You know, the Giants, if you're in New York, you know, can they contend for a Super Bowl with Brandon Marshall and the office together, this elite defense? And they're both 0 and 2. Why'd you have to bring him up? Brandon Marshall. Yeah. They're both 0.2 and both quarterbacks have looked really poor. So I think there's pressure on Eli and on Dalton. I will disagree with you.

from a fantasy perspective. I think that you made the perfect NFL case for who has to perform for their teams this week. But I don't think if you are a fantasy owner. I did not realize that I was answering the question in that way. Oh, were you really? Yeah. So you did. Okay. So it was who can perform in week three for fantasy owners. But you're right about them in the NFL sense. And that will have a trickle down effect on, you know, O'Dah Beckham Jr. and Brandon Marshall and Evan Ingram and A.J. Green and all those players. Well, then I'll throw one other name out, Hunter Henry.

Because we've had one game where he was stayed in, in line to block. Now he goes, you know, Houston is one of the best pass rushers in the game. Are they going to use him to block or are they going to use them like they did last week? I'm really curious. From my understanding, Hunter Henry actually his performance is directly proportional to his ownership percentage. If it gets really low, he's permitted to catch passes. And then if you start him, you jerks. He gooses Mike. Yeah, he goose my caboose. Yeah.

And gave me the goose egg. I'm throwing out, I'm going same teams here. Joe Mixing, there's been an offensive coordinator change. Fantasy players drafted him in the third round, knowing that you're likely going to have to wait. But now, now actual fantasy is going on and teams are 0 and two. And they're going, uh, my running back that I drafted in the third round is not even getting snaps. He's not getting touches. Will, uh, will, uh, Captain Laser.

fire up Joe Mixon and give him the touches that he needs to perform for fantasy. There are a lot of desperate owners hoping the answer is yes. People are dropping Joe Mixx. I've received tons of people on Twitter. Joe Mixon's on the waiver wire. Should I spend my number one priority to get him? And my answer is always yes. But that's where we are through two weeks. People are already dropping Joe Mixon. Yeah. I mean, you might have, if the offense was performing.

But the snap counts were the same. You'd be like, all right, here it comes. But because they've struggled and Andy Dalton is stunk and they haven't scored, you're like, oh, no. The problem is people spent high picks on him. Yeah. So I think he's actually the hardest player to trade for in fantasy football because if somebody's waiting, it's kind of like Christian McCaffrey, too. You spent a high draft pick on him. McCaffrey is one of my two nominees for this under pressure to perform. The other one's Isaiah Crowell. Both have great matches in week three. That's a good one.

Both are outside the top 24 right now in terms of running backs, and both have great matchups. So if the wheels fall off for these guys this week, then you're going to have desperate fantasy owners. You're going to have people wanting to know, do you drop them? I think Jonathan Stewart could have a great week this week as well. There'll be lots of debate. So there's some pressure. Do you see Crowell talking, he was asked about, is he thinking about his contract?

No, I didn't see that. He was like, are you, is this a distraction for you or are you thinking about it? And his answer was basically 100% of the time he's thinking about it. I mean, like he went verbatim of saying, I think about it at practice. I think about it when I'm playing. I'm like, well, that could be good, right? Has it been for two games. Yeah, as the carry counts go down for Isaac. Well, he's probably saying, yeah, can I get that, uh,

Can I get that offer back that you had before? All right, hey, our week three rankings are up on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. They will be heavily polished today and through the weekend as we get more injury news, as we get more depth chart news.

and apply that to our rankings. They're always changing and being updated, but you can check them all out over there. You can also get access to the premium projections and flex ranks and an extra show and stuff at Jointhefoot.com as a way of rewarding those of you who choose to support this podcast. You guys want to talk some news? Yes, sir. News and notes from around the league.

The first piece of news comes from Mike Wright's dream and relates to this first one. He had a dream. Eric Decker had 80 yards and a touchdown. And lo and behold, Corey Davis has been ruled out for week three. You had a dream that Eric Decker had 80. I have no doubt that you have that dream every night. He was fully clothed. Okay, that's step one. Come on.

No, I legit, like, welcome into the show, new listeners. Mike has a history of, um, he's a handsome gentleman praising Eric Decker for his, uh, good looks. Uh, Eric one, number one, Eric Dagger dreams are, that's not normal. Just want to clarify that. Uh, two, Jason is the dreamer of the show. That's true. He has had several. We call him Joseph.

Mm-hmm. Because not only does he wear a multicolored coat. That's all I wear. But he also has these football visions. So this is the first. We'll see. We'll see if I've been. 80 and a touchdown. Been gifted. You don't get this on any show. You get it right here. The dreaming Miss Cleo over there. And a technical dream coat reference. I mean, come on. The news in there is that Corey Davis has already been ruled out. It's disappointing. Jordy Nelson, big news here.

Practicing fully for week three expects to play avoided a major quad injury. Everybody breathe a big sigh of relief on that one, whether you're an Aaron Rogers owner or you're a Jordy Nelson owner. Evan Ingram, concussion symptoms was limited at practice put in the protocol following the Monday night game as a precaution. They think he'll be fine. He is somebody that is creeping into the you might start him category. He certainly is.

Certainly is. In our dynasty league, I have Charles Clay, and he's kind of been, you know, my low end, tight end one starter. But I have Evan Ingram, and I'm to the point now where I will have to make a weekly decision of, should I play this rookie? Right. Which sounds madness.

All right, let's move on here. This is a disappointing piece of news to me. Todd Bowles says it's too early to tell if Austin Safarian Jenkins will be active. ASJ was one of those guys that all of the news, all of the time was positive all off season. And I feel like you were just, you know, ready to buy into ASJ. And now they say he's out of shape, needs to get into a little bit better shape. We don't know if he'll be active. You've got to wait and see with ASJ. He'll be free for you because nobody else is probably paying attention to him.

So I would give it a week. The one thing I'll say is that all the germane curse takes over this last week talking about waivers, those have mentally been including Austin Savarian Jenkins coming back and not having Germain Curse be, you know, the alone. Yeah, exactly. The only NFL receiver on that team.

So if ASJ is not out there, I think this gives a slight bump to being able to play curse again this week. All right. Nobody in football has played more snaps than Time Montgomery in terms of the running back position. 139 snaps, 16 more than the next running back. He's a guy who, if you look back at his history, he's been banged up. He's had some injury concerns. A report out of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday said that Michael Cohen expects the Packers to lighten the workload. What do you think about...