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. I mean, 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. Kurtz was running.

okay and hurts it hurts ended up with you know like 47 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. Yeah, they play the F. They play the Chargers. The Dolphins might not win a game. In a 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 Kay. What about Parker Watch Me Win? Parker Watch Me Win. How about Chuba Hubba Hubba? Yeah. And Isaiah lovely, or Isaiah certainly. Or David Montgomery. 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 Parnell 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 Ward. If... Can't Ward. If he were to be benched, they would be better. 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 Trebisky 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.

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Download the app today and use code footballers to get $150 instantly in lineups if you win your first $5 lineup prize picks. Run your game. 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. Michael Mayer.

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.

you know, pick at running back. They were in the market on some of the bigger named running backs. The way that, you know, the lines took Gibbs. And now they're like, hey, Swift is our dude. We're happy with him. And that's, that's a big deal because this, this run game and this offense is going to be awesome. And what we saw from the Bears defense is they're, you know, they had a couple of offseason injuries that were unfortunate to their defense really hurt them. And it is just so good for fantasy because their defense looks.

Very bad. Do 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 Menongai 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. Uh, who. Right?

Yeah. Is your guy, Khalif Raymond? If you score 59 points, obviously Loveland big game. 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. He's a, this is, honestly. I mean, these teams with these teams with double tight ends, yeah. It has nothing to do with Bowers. Bowers just 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 Mayor 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. AJ Brown expected to miss six weeks. Gross. I believe they are a week 11 by, you know, six more weeks. 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 of production. So you got six weeks you're out, a three week reduction, a biweek 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 IR. 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, but go on. Yeah. Your muscles. Yeah. Your deltoids. Yeah. Where are those? Let's send the lower meat. No, no, 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 the deltoid from there. Well, maybe Josh does. I was going to say one of these guys is a biology. Biology major. How many deltoys do you got, Papa? One on each side.

Wait, what are you? The top in the bottom? Top and the bottom. Yep. That was my answer. What on each side? He's like, no further questions. It depends on the alignment of the side. Yeah. Are you laying down or? Miles Garrett, 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 very severe injury very severe injury looked awful he was talking to Carson Wentz and smiling and laughing in the locker room yes which is great didn't didn't have to go to the hospital and also Carson Wentz came in and dude looked awesome and Justin Jefferson got rescued

I know for a fact that I'm 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. 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? 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. Possibly. You know that's the first time in history. A team was up by 12 points with 20 minutes left and lost by 17?