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

Totally. We're good. We're good. A 20-yard touchdown is fun. 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. Poopped 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, it was just broken on every level. Everything looked back. 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, they're running game, their offensive line. Sorry, I realize we have a new back wall graphic for the duds, and you should definitely dress like Dad Jason. I'm thinking about it. You missed us in the studs. Me and Jay were yoked. Great. 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. Yeah. Is that on the shirt or is that in the air? It's on your shirt. Okay. Okay. Well, maybe we, we touched that up. But we're talking, Dodd. 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. Teams, 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 354 and 1 for Burrough. It was a letdown.

in this matchup at home. It's kind of what they do. Week one is bad, but I will say they normally lose them. Yeah, they do normally lose them because they usually have a terrible defense. Their defense looked good, cause 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 in no 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, 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. This is 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. Mike, morbid satisfaction and quenchon Judkins performing like this, 12 for 33. Two targets. A bet against Deshaun Watson is a cashable bet. Yeah. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. Because 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 Lloyd threw one week as the lead backs of the Packers left so much to be desired, in my opinion. There were two thoughts I had. 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 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. Like we'll start to transition into a heavier. I'm just kind of disappointed the way it went. Yeah. And honestly, Marshawn 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. With Tazze 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 say? 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 Dado 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 sayquine against washington not really worried there 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 one is 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 HN, 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. 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 dropskis. Yeah.

Drake one and 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 Dunes-A 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 off-season 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-A, 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 Burton to me is actually more concerning. Five-for-663 is not the end of the world for Luther Burton. When you have a fumble, it really kills your 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 Omnara roll. 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, 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's 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. He had two fumbles and then Bucky had a fumble. And then was there another pick by Baker? He had two picks. Oh. Yeah. Carnell Tate, six targets, four for 38. Wondale, six targets, five for 38. 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. Tight ins. This line feels bad. Well, why don't you talk about it? Colson Lovlin, 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 Comet did.