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

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 on the juice, man. 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.

one fantasy medical expert, see if you can find his, so we can shout him out real quick. But he broke down the fact that majority of the time, if it's a rib injury, they can play through it with a flag jacket. Like, that's the majority outcome. I don't remember where I sent him to you. Yeah, so I'll see if I can find that. But the hope is that lad will be able to, you know, be back out there soon. There might be a scarier injury.

We'll have to wait and see practice reports, but Zay Flowers re-agravated the hamstring that he was already dealing with. Fantasy docs on Instagram, sorry. Yeah, there was, Zay Flowers was dealing with, you know, his little hamstring injury, re-agravated it despite the fact that you just look at the game and you go, oh my gosh, Zay Flowers.

dominated that game. Yeah, he was 150 and 1 in the first half of football. I think he only ran like 19 routes. 11 routes. 11 routes. He ran 11 routes. It's the most fantasy points scored on 11 routes in history. That's so the yards per route run numbers. You know, it's like if you're if you're up at like four, that's amazing. He was at 13.6 yards per route. You just don't want to keep reagravating this thing. And this is at least a second aggravation. There are some.

comments that maybe it was precautionary. Yeah, the latest from Rappaport was Zayflowers. It is not considered serious. He'll have an MRI. But if it was a playoff game, he likely would have returned. So day to day right now. The problem is there ain't no playoff games for a while. So does that mean next week, do they give him a week off? We'll see. I mean, Jacoby Lane. But one week. Also hurt. One week versus a dude going on IR because his hamstring is.

For sure. For sure. They will certainly MRI it and see what's going on. Jacoby Lane, who had a touchdown called back, got a lot of snaps, left early with a wrist injury. It ended up being a fractured wrist. This is their rookie. They're promising looking rookie from camp who's gotten a lot of buzz. It was great to see him on the field, used around the red zone. Everything was like, okay, this one worked. The touchdown was called back. It didn't work, and then he broke his wrist. So. Desjohn, Stribbling, and Lane were like my favorite two.

rookie whiteouts from camp and they're both hurt. Yeah. So Rashad Bateman. Yeah, we'll have a waiver show tomorrow. He's so weird because I don't think he had a catch. It's funny. And he had by far the most routes on that team. That describes him. Yes, it does. But it's funny because I wanted to move on from Mark Andrews because it's like Mark Andrews did nothing, whatever you move on. But then it's like if Zayflowers and Jacoby Lane are gone, it's like, do I have to roll Andrews again next week? You could go smith. Yeah.

He is there. There were plenty of smite touchdowns in the absence of all the star tight-in touchdowns. Omar Cooper Jr., another rookie wide receiver, high ankle sprain. He had a nice play in this game and then got hurt. Chica Conquo hamstring injury did not return. We'll see. Dylan Samson also left early. I saw him going into the locker room. Knee injury was on crutches following the game. This was the... So the Judkins have a good game? Well, no. Kidding. Man, the Browns and...

The Browns, look, it's as simple as Deshaun Watts is not a professional quarterback. That guy's so bad. If Deshaun Watson didn't have that paycheck, he would be nowhere near an NFL team. Every single play from decision making to physical gifts, abilities, and talents, yeah, he threw a bomb touchdown at the end of the game. I don't care. He'll probably start another week, but.

disgusting yeah and he's going there did you see harold fan and have a nice game nope what about judkins nope nope whatever no conception i mean the only one that did was boston because he caught the long bomb touchdown but um if you want to bank on that good luck to you man football's fun though it is we we uh we had the initial nine televisions up on the lobby and uh complete stimulus overload as the game started

And it was wonderful. It was fabulous. Let's talk. I will say just because you bring that up, and while Deshaun Watson's playing, it's irrelevant. But Snapshare, Denzel Boston was up at 92%, 47 snaps to Concepcion 35 snaps. Jerry Judy, 32 snaps. So it was like, that was just interesting behind the scenes. Now, you could say, oh, wait until Watson was the target leader. Who was? Even.

Concepcion. Yeah, he worked from the slot on 63% of his routes. So something significant there. Let's get this team of quarterback, please. Yeah. So there's lots of studs and does to talk about. By the way, one oddity that I noticed was you had talked about Parker Washington in the beginning when he's definitely the one. And then we, I don't know why we didn't mention it, but Brian Thomas Jr. is another update. He went out with a shoulder injury.

But in spite of his absence, Jacoby Myers, his playing time, 65% of offensive snaps. So we saw some work with, well, we had a touchdown by somebody who we didn't even know. And then we had Travis Hunter getting in on the office side of football. He played four snaps. But he'll probably play more if Thomas is hurt. Yeah. You guys want to talk to some positives? You want to talk to studs? Yes. Some good stuff. There was a lot of that.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. We're already going to have an interesting waiver show tomorrow. That'll be fun because... It is. Because I don't... There's not like, oh, that's... That's the guy. Like, after week one, there's... I feel like there's always a top player. What percentage of leagues was Isaiah likely drafted in? The majority I would say. Near 100. See, that's what I thought, but the feedback I'm getting, I'm thinking he wasn't drafted in a lot of leagues. Oh, well... 88%. That's a lot. Yeah. That's a lot.

Um, let's talk some studies. Speaking of a lot. So far, so good on one third of my my guys. Well, you got rid of your other two to put all the power into one. Number one score on the week at quarterback. Caleb freaking Williams. 37.3. Yeah. Um, there's some other guys that'd like him to throw the ball to. Well, the fact that he could do this without him. Yeah. That offense is, I mean.

I know he wants to break records. Do you think part of his strategy is a bad defense? Because you're not going to be able to break records without a bad defense, Chase. No, you probably won't, but they now have the ability to. I mean, you also had him doing what we need for fantasy football, which is running the ball at the quarterback position. 10 carries, you know, most of them probably scrambles, 65 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns. That's how he's the number one scorer of the week. It's just delightful.

I don't think it's going away. I will say that it's not going to be that good every week. No, the next two weeks will be a real test. Minnesota and Philadelphia, they're both at home for Caleb, but those are really good defenses. It'll be great to witness and see what happens. Josh Allen against the Houston Texans. I know he's Josh Allen, but. Remember I said I wasn't willing to bench him? Yeah. Smart. Can you imagine if I had benched him for golf? Yeah, it would not feel great.

I'm saying if I get it. I understood Josh Allen in Houston. It had not been not been good. And we expect the Houston defense to still be a strong play. But Josh Allen was playing incredible. Well, he had his best weapon finally out on the field for 75 plus percent of snaps. Well, that's a Dalton Kincaid comment. That sure is, baby. He did look good. Bryce Young.

was the third highest score of the week. Bryce. This is what we're talking about with the Bears defense. I mean, 361 yards, but it wasn't just because, like, you have, do you realize the numbers for Jalen Coker versus Tett McMillan when they both been on the game? Yeah. It's like 37 catches to 21 catches on the Coker side. Yes. Jailen Coker. And he was. Um, Cookin. Teta Rowan McMillan, uh, he was the number one. He was fine. He was five for 75. Okay. You're disappointed.

Especially in a game where you should have scored. If you told me Bryce Young, who usually throws for about 200 yards or you hope he hits 200, throws for 361 and three touchdowns. You just assume Teteroa dominated. But yeah, Coker is probably one of the biggest pickups. 9.8 yards per attempt is the highest of his career when attempting more than 20 passes. The downfield was working for Bryce. Let's do it against more teams than just Chicago. Yep. That's one we have to not quite grant the superstardom to. Yeah, not yet.

Jackson Dart, Mike started the week, 23 for 29 and full command last night. Also rushed for 54 yards. And felt like I know he got... Really in control the whole time. Yes. He got blowed up on one of those plays. But it was out of bounds. No, no, no. I'm talking about just when he was in the pocket and didn't look to the right. It was just like the Tyrone Tracy play, except...

There was no one there two blocks. So it was entirely on Jackson Dart. Yeah. It was probably still Tracy's fault. But I will. I will say he did. He did his own thing, man. You're talking about tripping over yourself. Yeah. But Jackson Dart looked really good as a quarterback. Still, you know, one of the questions was will he scramble? 11 rushing attempts, 54 yards. But also how will he scramble? And it looked so much more in control, so much less like.

I'm trying to sacrifice my career on every run. And instead, and there were designed runs, which I was thrilled to see that this team is like, hey, we've got a quarterback who has great mobility. Let's utilize him in the game plan, not just tell him that's dangerous. Don't do it. I, you know, Jackson Dart was, you know, he's close to my guy for me for a while in the offseason. He's very scary, but I think that the upside is here.

Grant it against the team that's not Dallas. Exactly. He's got the Rams coming up, much, much tougher. But I'm excited. I think Darts going to become a weekly must start. Trevor Lawrence should be, although, man, they didn't even need him for half the game. 18 for 23, 245 and 4. Since week 9 of last year, Trevor Lawrence is the QB what? Oh, well, he's got to be one. Yeah, it's top three. Number one. Number one.

He's a top 12 quarterback in 11 of his last 13 starts. Denver next week. Keep an eye on that. He completed, are you telling me he completed 18 passes? Yeah. Because seven receptions was what Travis A. Chan Jr. had. So seven of 18. Are you crossing streams of teams here? Yeah, you are. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Okay. That makes far more sense. Hey, my brain went. Grandpa, put the keys down. My brain went back to.

College and NFL. This is the first game we haven't had them together. Okay. Wow. Oh, yeah. They're not there. They're not there. That makes a lot more sense. He's so good. He's catching passes from a different city. Lamar Jackson looked in control as well. 324. Just one passing touchdown. Had one on the ground, 40 yards rushing. He only hit 40 yards rushing three times last year with the injury. So far so good for Lamar against the Colts. Jalen Hertz.

That was weird. This is a good bad game. It was a bad good game. Yes. He did not look good. He didn't play well. His rushing was me. And then at the end of the game. 48% of drawbacks, they were pressure. That's absurd. Wow. That's crazy. You know who the least on the entire week was? Joe Burrow, right? I have to guess Jacoby. No, it was C.J. Stroud, 21%. Oh, all right. Crazy. Yeah, Jalen Hertz. I mean.

You can't really complain with three passing touchdowns and 46 rushing yards and the end result of fantasy points. But if you watch the game, it was not easy sledding. They didn't look great. You know, the Dallas Goddard, big, late kind of breakaway touchdown really, really helped him. I forgot about it. Yeah, and Goddard had two of them, man. Goddard is, he was the start of the week, and we'll talk about him in a bit. But there are a few guys that I'm very curious to your long-term view on. Tyler Shuck.