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

Yeah, they do normally lose them because they usually have a terrible defense. Their defense looked good, caused a lot of turnovers. And, you know, both the Cowboys and the Bengals last year's great offenses with terrible defenses. They both invested heavily in the defense. Cowboys look like they failed. Bengals look like they might have succeeded. A little early to tell, but worth watching. Baker, Stafford, Down Games, and then this one I do want to talk about. I thought it looked horrible.

I thought the Dallas offense looked bad. 175 and 2 for DAC threw a pick. Man, if George Pickens just didn't drop three passes, would we feel like it was bad? Because they were all three, like, bombs. I'd like to see one of those two receivers not have, like, a drop day. Dak had the most passes over 20 yards, and none of them were completions. Like, he'll be fine. By the way, is that true, Matt? Yeah, I think so. Oh, my gosh. He still can't talk into a microphone.

Two drives in the second half for Dallas? So it was, yeah, I think so. I think that was true. That's insane. Yeah, because they couldn't get the Giants off the field on third down. That's insane. It was a tweet from Good Friend of the show, JJ. It's nearly 18% of Dax pass attempts on Sunday went for 20 more air yards, the sixth highest rate in football. He didn't complete any of them. So, yeah, he missed Lamb on that bomb. With Lamb and George Pickens, that won't carry over. So I'm...

not concerned about this uh mike uh morbid satisfaction and quenchon judkins performing like this 12 for 33 and two targets a bet against dison watson is a cashable bet yeah it's yeah it's unfortunate because i i like judkins i think that judkins can be a good running back but when you have when you have a bad quarterback and your offensive line is not elite you just

It doesn't really matter how good you are. Here is one player that I have some real thoughts on. Marshawn Lloyd against Minnesota. I know how good Minnesota's defensive front is. They played a big part in this. However, Chris Brooks and Marshall and Lloyd threw one week as the lead backs of the Packers left so much to be desired, in my opinion. There were two thoughts ahead. One, we may see some Caleb Johnson soon. And two.

Jacobs will be everything. Oh, we did have a Jacobs. Maybe even more when he comes back. We have at least one Jacobs update that it is. He pled no contest to... I did mention it on the show last Friday. Oh, did we? Yeah, last Friday we had all that covered. The only thing we didn't talk about was the fact that they had actually sealed the record in court, which sometimes means that the NFL can't get as much access to the case information. And that can cause the suspension to be... They may factor in.

In fact, there's a lot of precedent for them factoring in games missed on commissioners list. But we don't have the league is trying to get the video. But we don't have a decision yet from the league. But I was not impressed with Lloyd or Brooks. And I know there were a handful of OK runs, but 13 for 37 for Lloyd. I thought he was really, really hesitant from the handoff.

Like he'd get the ball and he'd make a move that wasn't a response to the defense coming at him, but was just a little bit of a, let's juke for juke's sake. I didn't like that. I think it's fair criticism. But to me it was like, okay, nothing I saw means Jacobs. We'll have a reduced workload. We'll see what happens. The Vikings are a good defense. I just thought we were on the way to basically the Packers establishing a great passing game. And then that being the precedent for like.

loves going to be the leader of the offense. It won't be the running game. We'll start to transition into a heavier. I'm just kind of disappointed the way it went. Yeah. Honestly, Marshaun Lloyd got enough work to show something to have one good explosive play. And he looked bad every single time he touched the ball again against a good defense. So we'll see next week. They go on the road against the Jets. Opportunity to rebound, to show something special.

You want to talk about there's a commonality here. These are teams that mostly lost. Tony Pollard, seven carries for 35 yards. I believe the split was nearly even. 26 snaps and 25 snaps. Okay, there you go. Retage A Spears. But don't worry, neither will be good. Let's, for the foreseeable future, the Titans don't have big boy pants. If they're studs, we'll celebrate them. Yeah, they can't.

Duds are pooped in your big boy pants, not little boy pants. Not unless Mitchell Trubisky is starting. Oh, who would have thought you'd? He's got the big boy pants. I mean, if you're at the cope phase of like only Trubisky can save my guy, you're in real deep doo-doo. Yeah. I'm up, like my nose is just barely out of the water. I'm drowning. I'm going to have some Cam Ward cards for sale soon. Jalen Warren and Rico Dowdo were.

I mean, Warren was better by a lot. So here's what's funny. Warren was better by a lot. Fantasy-wise. Fantasy-wise, he turned 10 carries into 46 rushing yards versus Rico turned 8 into only 15. They both had a good amount of targets, six targets to Jalen Warren, five targets to Rico Dowdell. Rico turned it into six yards. Rico was terrible. However, when you look at the splits,

You know, you go, okay, so obviously Warren was the one RICO was irrelevant. The actual snaps, 39 snaps went to RICO, only 25 went to Jalen Warren. Passing snaps, 29 to RICO, only 13 to Warren. Warren was way better. And so maybe they flipped that, but the player on the field that they were trying to get going who couldn't do anything was RICO, so stay tuned. Three big names that were disappointing, not quite Duds in week one. James Cook against Houston. Not worried.

in the slightest. No, Seaquin against Washington, not really worried there either. A little more worried there. Are you? Just of, he wasn't fantastic last year. I mean, 15 for 83, and he had to do a lot of blocking. And then Devon A. Chan, 11 for 36 on the ground. That one is more. Four for 30 through the air. I believe A. Chan played the most snaps percentage-wise of any running back in week one. So he wasn't sharing any time, but there wasn't much time on offense for this team. Every time I looked up.

It was a dink and dunk drive for Kirk Cousins and then a three and out or a short drive for the dolphins. And so through one week, you know. When you get all of a bad thing, it's bad. Yeah. Yeah, he ended up. It was funny because I traded for H in, traded Hampton away in a bigger trade. And they were 9.5 and 9.7 fantasy points in week one. Both disappointed.

I think it's going to take the dolphins, if they get it going. It will take them some time to figure it out. I agree. When you have two rookie wide receivers, when you have a new offensive coordinator head coach and quarterback, I mean, how good can it get is the problem. And their upcoming schedule, Mike brought it up earlier. It's terrible. San Francisco, Kansas City, Minnesota. Oh, golly. Wide receiver disappointments, Jamar Chase, and an off day, two for 12. That's a bummer. To be expected, sadly. Off day for George Pickens. Three for 28 and some drops keys. Yeah.

Drake London, two for 29. Not his fault, but terrible. Devante Smith, three for 53. This was part of what looked weird in this offense. I mean, Wicks had a 75-yard catch and a touchdown. Devante Smith, three-for-53. You wanted more than that? I did. I wanted more than that. He was the start of the week. I didn't think that the commander's defense was really good enough to stop and slow down the Eagles. They seemed like they were. Thankfully, the next two weeks, Tennessee and Chicago.

Maybe the Eagles can get it going a little bit more, but I was super disappointed in Devonzie Smith. Roma Dunezay, Luther Burden. Two for 52, five, for 63, neither scored. This is worth a discussion because there's been, I mean, there's been so much offseason talk about the three receivers, including Loveland in here, and all three were disappointing in a game where the bear scored 59 points. It's crazy. Roma Dunes, I kind of throw, I throw it out.

He didn't play as many snaps, but he was coming back from a cap injury. He was a part-time player. He was a part-time player, so that's less concerning. Luther Burden to me is actually more concerning. Five-for-663 is not the end of the world for Luther Burden. I mean, when you have a fumble, it really kills the fantasy-wise, yes. I'm not concerned is my way of saying that. Now you might get two in a row. They go to Minnesota or they play Minnesota next week. You may have two down weeks in a row. I don't know. I wasn't concerned, but I also, I mean, I feel like.

By being concerned about burden, are we in on Khalif Raymond? I mean, I'm not. No, I'm not. No, I don't think so. I think, I'm guessing that Khalif Raymond, Jedi Walker, maybe they got some more run because Roma Dunezay wasn't on the field as much. Rome played, I think, like 48% snap share of passing snaps. Luther Burton was at 73. Luther didn't play as much as you would have, he didn't play as much as I would have wanted in two wide receiver sets.

That was the thing that was a little bit concerning. He was more slot, which, you know, Ben Johnson coming over. We want slot. We wanted that Am and Raul role. So, you know, something to pay attention to. But I was a little disappointed with the utilization of burden. Cardinals won, but they didn't use Marvin Harrison. One for 33 on three targets. It was, he had a drop on his first target. It was gross. And it might just, I mean, they just paid Michael Wilson. Tray McBride is, Tram McBride and Michael Wilson are.

Dogs. The dogs. So that's a little scary. We'll see. It's just one week, but will they be more intentional getting him the ball at home next week? We'll find out. Terry McLaurin was awful. I mean, two for 14. Invisible. And the other part of that is I thought Antonio Williams looked amazing. I mean, he was four for 64 in a touchdown, but I go watch the touchdown. Go watch the route. I mean, he looked good. I thought he. Yards per route run were outstanding. Stefan Diggs, nine targets.

There are two rookie wide receivers I'm pretty interested in, like in the waiver wire. Antonio Williams was drafted nowhere. But then Ted Hurst. I mean, Chris Godwin. Chris Godwin was not good. Four for 40, four targets. And when I saw him with the ball, I mean, it was pure. Yeah. He's going to find a way to get open. But, I mean, Keenan Allen played this week, right? And he had a bunch of targets. And it was worth nothing. And I'm a weird game. I'm a little worried that Godwin will be like Keenan.

Four for 40 for Godwin, but Abuca is five for 63. Yeah. Like weird. That one feels all. Three turnovers by Baker? Yeah. Two, uh, he had two fumbles and then Bucky had a fumble. Um, and then was there, was there another pick by Baker? He had two picks. Oh. Yeah. Um, Carnell Tate, six targets, four for 38. Wondale, six targets, five for 38. Oh, Baker had no picks.

Okay, so it was just the funnels. He had fumbles. No picks. Yeah. I'm seeing no picks and three fumbles. Oh, three fumbles. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Three turnovers, all fumbles. I got you. Uh, tight ends. This line feels bad. Well, why don't you talk about it? Colson Loveland, two targets and making matters worse, which is always the case when something goes like this when another tight end has a big touchdown or a big catch like Cole Komet did. I mean, he ran the second most routes of any tight end and ended up.

Goosing. Colston Loveland. Where you at, dog? One of them should have been a touchdown. All I can take is that the Bears were, the Bears offense was amazing. They're going to score a bunch of points. He ran the second most routes of any tight end in week one. It will happen. But the fact that we have a zero as our floor, that felt impossible. Yeah, this is the behind the scenes metrics of.

the offense is great and he's running the most routes, says you can trade for him, you could be confident that good games are coming. But I will say that the one fear that I had coming in for the Bears was, was Khalif Raymond. No, was that if the Bears were really good and Colson Loveland's good and Roma Dunes is good and Luther Burden is good, it will be there taking turns and you won't necessarily have.

everybody dominating or anyone being super consistent. That would be my fear going forward. It was just like, we're going to have great Loveland games. You're just going to have some bad ones. We're going to have great burden games. You're just going to have some bad ones along the way. And it's a scary proposition from a consistency standpoint. Which is the biggest challenge with tight ends because here's another guy. Kyle Pitts, Cooper Rush. Yeah, you got to.

just throw it out until you've got the starting quarterback. I feel okay with Pitts with Pennix, but I mean, not as good as I did with Tuah. I think it'll be. How many backspous are we going to get there, by the way? I think it'll be one week. Is that contagious? I would be surprised if Rush plays this next week. George Kiddle five targets, two for 12, coming back from injury. Harold Fanon, this one sucked. Harold Fanon, the second Shadur has made the starter, I would make him a trade for a target. Yes. But not before. He, Shadour will start.

So if you mean, if you want to... I mean, they might go through four starters this year. Yeah, but I think Andy's point is if Shador doesn't start until week five. Yeah. I don't think you want to trade for Fannan right now and have a month of Watson version of Fanon. Well, it was when we had looked at the... So they start with two road games. So Jacksonville and then Tampa Bay. And when I was looking at it after the announcement of, oh, Watson's going to be the starter. It's like, hmm, I don't know. Two road games? Just let Watson go out there and...