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

for Miles Garrett. Miles Garris could be out for a while. So your pass rush, if anything, it should mean some better stuff for maybe Williams and Corum and Puka and Adams. I think the Rams will be okay. Running back scores on the week, the top five. Why not? Derek Henry, 34.8. He looked like the Yeti. Goodness. He was. He was in complete control, man. But it's not time. Just imagine when it's crazy. Winter. He is now third in most rushing touchdowns in NFL history.

Swift, Gibbs, Gentie, Monty, of course Gibbs and Monty together, and Bijon Robinson. The funny thing about Monty was, I mean, they're obviously going to lean on him. He's going to be a huge part of this offense. This is a very reminiscent performance to the Mixen-esque. Yes. Like he arrives to no fanfare and then all of a sudden is everything.

Great defense. Running game is going to help win it and take pressure off a Stroud. I just talked about the pressure rate was the lowest in the league. So you can say what you want about the offensive line or the Bill's defense. But something worked because he scored three touchdowns. But did you see the snaps? Yeah, I mean, like it was almost 50-50 with Woody Marks. I believe Woody Marks had more snaps to David Montgomery, which you wouldn't know because all the work went to Montgomery, which is all that matters. I mean, it basically was saying when Monty was in the game.

You know, they were using them. They were putting the ball in his hands in both the passing and the rushing game. It was gorgeous to see. Ginty looked great. 23 for 102. Now the Dolphins defense, again, you know, it's probably not going to be this good every week for the Raiders, but you love to see it. And by the way, Jemir Gibbs, 29 carries. You're going to kill this, man. No, no. You can't give. You can't. You can't do it. No. You can do it one year. Dan Campbell said he's going to get more. One glorious year. 34.

touches. Not enough. Oh, man, Andy. I don't know that you know what you're asking for. I know you've got Gibbs, but, uh, who, you know, we'll see. I'm not, I'm not a man like you that would be willing to guarantee that a player becomes healthy the entire year, but, uh, but you want to, but he's been a healthy player. So we'll see. Bejohn got it done despite, I think Cooper Rush might have looked worse than everybody this entire week. Yeah, I was like, surprised.

It was like if you took a game manager and cut that in half. That's what he was like. He just found Bijon. I mean, if Cooper Rush was starting the rest of the year, I would be three shovelfuls on the way into the grave for London and for Pitts because this offense cannot function. This offense with Cooper Rush cannot produce fantasy value for London or Pitts, and Bijon will pass away. Ten targets?

I think his target share was like 56%. Yeah, well, it had to be. This was, I mean, Michael Pinnock, Jr., I never thought I'd say this. You've done an amazing job. By not playing, you have looked so good. We've never accused him of being a dumb man. No. We've just said maybe he's not that great of a quarterback, but he is. Please come back. He is playing his hand very well right now. The Falcons attempted 22 passes. Three were batted at the line. One was a throwaway. There were 12 completions in the game.

went to Bijon, the running back. That is not a real NFL offense. He missed Pitts on a seam route. London was not involved. I'll say this, man. I loved Pitts because I loved Tua and what he would do. Let me say this. Fantasy face-off that we do every Friday. Oh, yes. My Green Goblin, which is the easy, like it's generally. That's the game. It's a freebie. Yeah. Mine was like what, Baker 150 yards or something. Mine was.

Two and a half receptions for Kyle Pitts. I said, oh, certainly he will get more. And then I had already locked in. And then it was like, oh, well, Cooper Rush is going to be the quarterback. I'm like, no, you know what? Certainly Cooper Rush could get the ball to Kyle Pitts three times. Yeah, but who's going to spin the wheel? Not me, maybe. It feels really bad because we, so we all did great.

Yeah, it does feel bad to be a loser. We all crushed. I mean, because we all cashed all three of our lineups. Four for four, three for four, three for four. And then you guys did a tiebreaker last night, which Jason narrowly lost. So I'm pretty happy with that. We saw people's feedback. It was almost perfect.

And I think the only one you missed was Jordan Love's rush attempts. The only one you missed was Kyle Pitts' Cooper Rush problem. Jordan Love was all about rushes. Supposed to have a couple kneel downs at the end of the game. But then they were like, oh, I forgot. I know you were counting on that. Yeah. Jonathan Taylor was great. Chuba Hubbard was great. Javante scored twice. Breeze Hall, your start of the week. Great, Jason. Bucking Irving, Mike started the week and your number one draft pick, Jason. Oh, dude, my heart. He's got my heart. Only eight carries. That's the only thing I'm going to point out there.

It was eight carries. They were down so much. I mean, you had Kenny Gainwell with five carries. They just didn't run. They had to just drop back a pass so quick. What was wild is, do you know who the lowest yards per attempt of the entire league was in week one? Was it Baker? Mayfield. I feel like Burroughs wasn't great. But the, this is why I'm saying I'll hold off on Bucky. Look, week one looks great. If I had Bucky, I'm not trading him. I'm feeling good about my pick.

But it's like Kenny Gainwell was in for 46% of the snaps. Work on the ground was very close 8 to 5. The targets happened to go to Bucky. And it's like with the snaps being almost shared, those targets almost certainly could have gone to Gainwell as well when he was on the field. So that's why I'm just a hold. I will say what was very good to see was that Bucky looked. He actually looked like the first step was great. The Bucky of two years ago.

We'll take a break. We'll talk wide outs. The number one fantasy score at the wide receiver position in week one was Jalen Coker at 29.8 fantasy points. So you talk about waiver wire pickups. That's going to be the biggest. Yes. Probably the biggest one. Number two, though, Christian Watson. Oh. What? Are we doing a week one victory lap right now? Yeah, he's healthy. Listen, it's like the Cardinals. You don't know how long you got him.

He's so good? It felt like it all came in the first half. It really did. That's how Minnesota won. They're like, hey, we should take Christian Watson out of the game. Christian Watson was awesome. And a, look, Matthew Golden, I think that's almost, even though Watson crushed for Fantasy 4 week one, I think he's going to be, Watson is like, we're looking good. Matthew Golden led the team in routes and target share, 31%. I mean, that is the consolidation really.

It looks like it should work for Matthew Golden. From what I'm seeing, I believe he was like 41% in the slot last year in his opportunities, and it was 5% in this game. So the change of role in the dedicated targets. Zay Flowers, Amon Ross St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, the other top three. Oh, Justin Jefferson. We are so back.

If Carson Wince... But it would probably be Kyler. It probably will be Kyler. But like maybe not next week. I doubt next week. But then what if Carson goes out? I mean, is Chicago next week? Genuinely, if Carson Wince goes out next week and throws for 350, they win the game... Couldn't it also be McCarthy? I mean, because I had seen comments. Here's what I had seen is that the order of operations on the backup quarterback is not necessarily indicative of who they would start in an injury.

Now with Wince winning the game. That's the thing. That's what's going to create Wince starting this next week. I mean, he went out there and played well enough to, you know, he threw three touchdowns. But Al MonRaw eventually got it done. Two touchdowns, 10 for 67, 14 targets. And you know what? Jamo, they gave Jamo chances to get in this game and he dropped the ball. Yes, he did. More than once. I was kind of, that was a bummer. Chris Olavi was a machine. Again, 86 plays.

You're probably not going to get that every week. But, yeah, he looked every bit. The Crystal Lave, they got the paycheck that got the big year last year. Yeah, we even had an injury scare. Yeah, guys. That was a scare. And Devon Valle as well. Yeah, spot starter. You're not always going to have as many snaps as we're in that play. But we've talked a lot this offseason about Kellanmore offenses. They do have more snaps than most. I mean, it was a combination of also playing against Detroit, having an overtime, yada, yada.

But the reason we wanted this offense was just because of pace of play and you get more snaps, more opportunities for fantasy points. What other big names that were worth talking? DJ Moore, 5 for 100. Nico 7 for 75, had a couple other chances to score. Parker Washington, all in the first half, 5 for 83 in a touchdown, and man, was it an impressive touchdown? Yeah. I think that's pretty good. Ladd McConkey still finished with a solid stat line despite the chest injury.

Top five tight-ins on the week. Man, he was such a finalist for my guy, and through one week, I regret I'm not choosing him over one of my injured dudes. Isaiah likely, 23.8 fantasy points. Dallas Goddard, start of the week, 21.7 fantasy points. Trey McBride, sticky gisicky. The amount of times in that, now, Jamar Chase last year had like no points in week one. This year, no points in week one. It's a thing.

It's a thing for this offense to get going, but man, every time I looked up, Burrow was thrown to a tight end. He was. He was really. Antia Higgins was better than Jamar Chase, but it still wasn't a fantastic game. They really, I don't know, they were clamping down on the wide receivers, just maybe fully selling out. I mean, worked out for the Bengals in the long run. Dalton Kincaid, I think, is one of the most interesting storylines. He scored 15.5, and he did not score a touchdown.

Yeah, exactly. This is a player who has been great on a per route, per touch, per pass basis. Like he's been really, really good. Last year, with his knee injury, he played 38% of the snaps. That is obviously an irrelevant player you can't throw out there. And we were just saying all off season. And yet you could have taken shots on him last year. Yeah, I mean, he had plenty of good games despite 38% of snaps. We're just saying if he's actually healthy and he ends up being a 70 plus percent snap player, then he.

could be a top five tight end. He played 72% of the snaps and was very, very, very good. Through one week, the Muth got Luth. Five targets, five for 46. That's always fun. He was like the deep sleeper of the off season that I brought up one time and then got embarrassed about. Juan Johnson.

Three for 54 and one. Never a doubt. Oh, man. Never a doubt. He ran 52 routes. I feel like in the fourth quarter. Was he goose going into the fourth? I think so. There's something like that. His first catch was the touchdown. So it felt like, okay, totally. We're good. Bailed out. We're good. A 20-hour touchdown is fine. He kept getting targets. And then T.J. Hawkinson scored. So there you go. Let's go ahead and we won't spend as much time here because it's week one. We don't overreact, but we'll spend some time. Here we go.

pooped in his big boy pants. Yes, yes, yes. We did have some, we had some big boys that let you down. Starting with Drake May, we saw that in Seattle. Justin Herbert. Oh, man. 209 and 1 and maybe without lad for another game. I mean, I did not see.

It was just broken on every level. Everything looked bad. Even Hampton. I mean, they barely gave Hampton any work. And then Hampton fumbled and, you know, he got into the end zone, but somehow like nothing looked good. No, their running game, their offensive line. Sorry, I realize we have a new backwall graphic for the duds. And you should definitely dress like Dad Jason. I'm thinking about it. You missed us in the studs. Oh, me and Jay were yoked. Great.

Those, those, the studs, those are real pictures. Yeah, these ones. Yeah, that's real. The duds. Oh, man, you guys are looking good. Yeah. Even with a cupcake shirt. That's also the biggest muffin. Why is the cupcake shirt on? That's a stud muffin. Okay. Is that on the shirt? Or am I, is that in the air? It's on your shirt. Okay. Okay. Well, maybe we, uh, we touched that up.

But we're talking, Dudd. I thought it was a floating muffin. Where do we go from the Herbert against the Raiders? I think you. I genuinely think what you do is you throw out week one and pray. There is. He gets the Raiders. Yeah, the Raiders. I mean, he got the Cardinals. You just hope that they go back and fix some stuff. All teams across the league will have down games. Sometimes they happen in week one. Like we talked about, the Patriots last year lost to the Raiders at home.

and then went to the Super Bowl. You just have to hope because nothing looked good. Nothing. On either side of the ball looked good for the Chargers. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Bengals won because their defense was good. 25 or 35, 25, 454 and 1 for Burrough. It was a letdown in this matchup. It was. It'll be better. It's kind of what they do. Week one is bad, but I will say. They normally lose them.