Week 1 Studs & Duds + Rapid (Over)-Reactions? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/14

That's not a fumble. Get out of here. It does seem really silly because the problem, and if you didn't see the play, essentially Jared Gough went to throw a pass. It ends up being decidedly backwards because he was impacted while the throw happened. It was originally a fumble on the field. The saints scooped and scored it. But then you're like thinking, well, nothing matters here on the review because a lateral is a fumble, right? If you threw the ball intentionally backwards, so it doesn't matter, we were all surprised when it was overturned, unaware that.

that intent of the heart was such a big factor. That is an official rule. A couple other things I think were answered. I did not know if the Baltimore Ravens offense would be good or not with their offensive line changes. Declan Doyle. Apparently you don't need Lyndonbaum for Derek Henry. Seems like he was just in the way. Hold on. Let me try and find the...

Also, the Bears defense stinks. I'm so thrilled about that. This was a tweet from Jameson Hensley says in Offensive Coordinator Declan Doyle's first game is a play caller. The Ravens produced the first game in their 31 year history with this trifecta, a 300-yard passer, 150-yard receiver, and 100-yard rusher. I think that middle one was the hard one to do. And I would say finally, Sean Mannion did not fix the Philadelphia Eagles. Their offense, they won the game. Perks was running.

okay and hurts it hurts ended up with you know like 47 russing like a jog part of the offseason reality that we have to face every year is that when teams make changes they make changes to improve but half the teams don't improve from the changes like brian dable the intention was to improve yeah we didn't see it in week one they should give them the win they intended

To win that game. And through one week, I will say this. What a dumb rule. It's one week. It's two rookie whiteouts. It's one coming off of injury. I'm not so sure the dolphins are going to be any good. Oh, the dolphins off. I could be really, really off on my Malik Willis hopes there. Do you know what their schedule is? It's not good. Oh, it's as bad as the Cardinals. Let's just real quick before the bye week, we get, uh.

At San Francisco. Oh, I'm very aware. Kansas City at Minnesota. There's two games they can win this year. And the Bengals, the Jets games? The two Jets games. Yeah. If you look at the Dolphins schedule. If you don't, if you don't win week one against the Raiders, you have, you're not beating the bills. You're not going to beat the Patriots. No. They play. They do play the Chargers guys. They play the Chargers. The Dolphins might not win a game. Any given Sunday.

Well, we have more reactions from the weekend, as we always do. The very first edition of this year, and we have a bunch of great ones. I will say three of the, three-fourths of what I reviewed on the Monday punday seemed to be on the negative side of people's experiences. Maybe three-fourths of those were Colston Loveland, but here we go.

Monday, Punday reactions from the crew. I'll start. Well, let Mike start with this one. Zay Powers! Yes, sir. Ashton Plenty. Oh, and Dalton Win K. What about Parker Watch Me Win? Parker Watch Me Win. How about Chuba Hubba Hubba? Yeah. And Isaiah lovely, or Isaiah certainly. Or David Mangumbery. Or Jamir. Gives me that. And...

Give me dad. Christian Gigawattson. Oh, yes. Oh, it was not all good, despite the routes. Cattston. Coulston Dudland. Or ghost in Loveland. Yeah. And you had Jamar Waste, of course. That's fake May. Fake May. That's written. Fake make. Why did you take the next one? Let's go with...

Bustin Herbert? Bustin Herbert. How about Faker Mayfield? Yeah, and you had a heaping pile of pits. Oh. Stinky. Marshawn Void. Terry McMoran. Oh, George Little. Jay, I'll let you do this last one. Oh, no. Oh, no, yeah. I had to end with this one. Yeah. Carnell Taint.

Yeah. To be clear, I could have gone with Carnell ain't there. Oh, that was better. We got a- We're classy here. We got to end classy, classy style. That's Cam Ward. I can't wait. Like, genuinely. If- Can't. Can't Ward. If he were to be benched, they would be better. Do you know who's up if he is? It doesn't matter. Okay. But who? Uh, Mitchell Trevisky. Dude. Heck yes.

No joke. If Mitchell Trubisky stepped in there, that offense would be at least twice. Can we get a JJ McCarthy injury slash soft benching here? Yeah, exactly. I mean, you can't. You can't do that as a team. You have to develop him. I know. But man, that was bad. Instagram and on X, you can send those in every week at Fantasy Footballers on Instagram at the FF Ballers on X and submit them with hashtag Monday Punday every Sunday night.

Let's take a break and we'll talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right, we have a lot to get into, including a whole bunch of this. Oh, man. He's just making it rain. All right, so DeAndre Swift, three-year, $33 million extension. This was all prior to kickoff. Tucker Kraft, four-year, $75 million extension. That's too. Oddly timed three-year, $45 million extension. The timing of that one. For the Raiders. Oh, boy.

Any thoughts on those deals? The Swift one is... Nice hat, Jason. Thank you. I'm a die-hard, lifelong Cardinals fan. The Swift one is interesting, especially for Dynasty leagues, where this was a team that over the last couple of years since Ben Johnson got there, there were rumors for them to take a high draft pick at running back. They were in the market on some of the bigger-named running backs. The way that the Lions took Gibbs, and now they're like, hey, Swift is our dude. We're happy with him.

And that's a big deal because this run game and this offense is going to be awesome. And what we saw from the Bears' defense is they had a couple of off-season injuries that were unfortunate to their defense, really hurt them, and it is just so good for fantasy because their defense looks very bad. You realize they had almost three 100-yard rushers, sort of? I mean, they had two.

Like Minangai and Swift. Was Caleb almost there? Not quite. But I mean, he was in the 60s. That's how you do the stat, man. With 100 from Munangai and 120 something from Swift, they scored 59 points. I think their record-setting season is off to a good start. So our guys on the Bears had a good week, right? Yeah. Who? Right? Yeah. Is your guy. If you score 59 points, obviously Loveland big games. All three big names. Bird and huge game.

Yes. O'Don's a big game. We'll get to them in the duds. Tucker Craft's deal, I mean, we all know he looks the part. They're locking him up while they can on a cheaper deal. And then Michael Mayer, they're not letting him go. This is honestly, he's a compla. And these teams with their double tight ends, yeah. It has nothing to do with Bowers. Bowers doesn't play the tight end role that Michael Mayor plays. Yeah. Brock Bowers is a slot player. They didn't have an injury.

to Michael Mayer and then in one day go, let's get a contract. This was already in the works. We did not get the best news on our high ankle sprain patients here. A.J. Brown expected to miss six weeks. Gross. I believe they are a week 11 by, you know, six more weeks. Is that, I mean, statistically you have a three week reduction of production. That doesn't say, I got to find a new way to say that. A reduction of production. A reduction of production. So you got six weeks you're out.

A three-week reduction, a bi-week mixed in. And then fantasy playoff glory. I mean, maybe, but you got to get there. That sucks. Yeah, that stinks. My guy, one of them injured here, Dajon stribling. He's going to miss at least a month. If you look into this injury, it's a deltoid ligament sprain of the ankle. You don't hear that very often. This is he couldn't put weight on it. He was carted off the field. This is an injury that often leads to surgery or you need surgery right away. But essentially.

They're in a position where they can see if rehabbing gets him back before that decision is made. Because if you make it in four or five weeks and it's season ending versus now season ending, you can give him a chance to get back. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if they throw him on IR. A.J. Brown was placed on IRR. I would imagine they will, but TBD. Also, I mean, can we talk to Big Anatomy here? Oh, Big Anatomy. Yeah, let's be careful with that. Go on. Yeah.

Your muscles. Yeah. Your deltoids. Yeah. Where are those? That's in the lower meat. No, no, no. Your actual deltoid muscles. Ah. They are in the upper body. Why is there a deltoid ligament in your ankle? The headbones connected to the, I believe. Just say, like, that's really strange. We couldn't find another word? Maybe they do the same thing. Down there. I mean, Mike, big anatomy, don't bring it up here.

I'm more of an expert in almost upsets. There's three other guys who could have chimed in. Oh, those guys don't know if they're deltoid from there. Well, maybe Josh does. I was going to say one of these guys is a biology major. How many deltoys do you got, Papa? One on each side. The top and the bottom? Top and the bottom. Yep. No, that was my answer. One on each side. He's like, no further questions. It depends on the alignment of the side. Yeah. Are you laying down or? Miles Carrot. Knee surgery.

I are. Okay. So much for the duo to start the year. Super team. Yeah. Kyla Murray left almost instantaneously. First he made a fadeaway terrible interception throw. Yeah. Which the worst part about that by far was that immediately what you do in that moment is you go and you make fun of it. Right? Yeah. And then two seconds later, it's like, oh, shoot. Very severe injury. Looked awful.

He was talking to Carson Wentz and smiling and laughing in the locker room after the game. Which is great. Didn't have to go to the hospital. And also Carson Wentz came in and looked awesome and Justin Jefferson got rescued. I know for a fact that I know for a fact that this guy over here, this Al Borland character, while we're wearing the gear we're wearing, I noticed a stark lack of gold and green. That's primarily diet related.

Oh, okay. I've outgrown a lot of that. But that was a rough game. He's emotionally or? Just to be clear, we didn't even make that joke. He's just like volunteering. He outgrew his Packers gear. You could have just said like, yeah, we lost and I'm upset about it. That's also true. Wait. How upset were you? Wait, to be clear, I know for a fact over the last couple months, you've lost weight. So are these jerseys too big?

Yeah, I mean, we're talking. My jerseys are Eddie Lacey, Jordy Nelson. Oh, so they were a long time ago. Lacey would have worked. It wasn't Eddie Lacey's jersey. Oh, okay. Okay, it wasn't game worn. But loved a brutal game for the package. In the morning with.

Why are the Vikings favorite in this game? Yeah. He did start the day with that. Because they're a good team, man. I know for a fact he stands by that. Also, the Chargers get a lot of crap for being the Chargers. But I feel like the Packers are doing this thing now where they are giving away games that they... Possible. You know that's the first time in history. A team was up by 12 points with 20 minutes left and lost by 17?

I did not. I mean, that's very specific. Well, it was just the dynamic, like it was 2217 with what seemed like four minutes left in the game and then all of a sudden you blink and it's 3922. That's what I'm saying. I saw a tweet talking about, you know how there's always the win probabilities and you're at 96% win probability with this much time left. In the last like two years.

There's been like four or five games where the Packers are basically above 95%. The game is over, and then they lose and lose not just like, they just collapse. I mean, shout out to that team rallying around a backup quarterback. Brian Flores' defense turning on the juice, man. The Vikings are legit. They just need a quarterback. And shout out to the refs according to Al. The refs were not good in that game, but the point differential at the end was.

not due to the refs. It was significant. Chargers wide receiver Ladd McConkey left with the chest injury. He got blowed up in a bad way. I mean, I was kind of making, you know, I was like, man, it looks like he got his organ scrambled. And then after the game, they're like, they're actually worried about organ damage. He got hit really hard. So no update on that, although I did see Jason shared with me one.