Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, JuJu Reporting - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/17

2020. That's right. Juju Smith Schuster is the headline guy in this. He's the headline celebrity in this fantasy football league and some other big names in there as well. But the key takeaway here is Juju Smith Schuster is playing fantasy football. Jason Moore. Last night, who did Juju add to his fantasy football team? Well, he dropped one of his running backs and he.

picked up Benny Snell. And he did not drop James Connor if, so don't do not insinuate that. Yeah, that did seem like maybe he dropped Connor. But he did add Benny Snell onto his bench. Yeah, when both Mike and I saw this last night with eyeballs split line. Oh my goodness. I was, I literally had to tell, as soon as that transaction went through, I started talking to my wife who could care less. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, this is what is happening.

So, who knows? Look, it's just a good transaction. We said yesterday. He probably listened to yesterday's show. He was like, waiver wires. Benny Snell's a good pickup. Yes, he is. Yeah, yeah. He took her Benny Snell advice. But he does practice there. It's meaningful. I'm not saying. I'm just saying. If he thought, put it this way. If he thought James Connor was locked and loaded, he wouldn't pick up Benny Snell. That's a good way to put it. Right.

So there's a, uh, I just want clarity. As a fantasy football player, I just want to know. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Any other secret news you got for us, Mike? Uh, maybe later. We'll see. Uh, before we move into the matchups, want to thank today's sponsor, Pristine auction. Presting auction, the best sports memorabilia site of all time. This is where I am going on the reg. Looking for signed autographs.

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And the ballers has nothing to do with us as a brand. It's the fact that if you put a couple of these things in your media room, people come over and be like, whoa, this is a baller right here. So ballers, save $10. Fantasy forecast. All right, week two is here. We're getting into the matchups. We covered the Browns and the Bengals on yesterday's show, which is tonight's game. Jarvis Landry is expected to suit up.

And we'll see what happens. There are a lot of very fantasy relevant players on the field tonight. And I think storyline-wise, you're going to see some, you know, if Joe Mixen struggles tonight, that's going to be a storyline. If he struggles for the first two games to start the year, we'll see what Joe Burrow can do, AJ Green on the field. It'll be a fun one. All right. First matchup I want to talk about today, the New York Giants. Ha!

decided to hold up some playing cards and an effort to, I guess, be Matt Nagy? That is correct. You didn't even let me get to the At Chicago Bears part. Well, you could have kept going, but I was, you were mystified by my illusions. Yeah, I guess I was thrown off a little bit when you pulled out cards and threw them around the table. You're a very good magician, by the way. All those cards have disappeared. They've all disappeared. The Bears are five and a half point favorites. It's a 42 point over under, which is,

Not a lot. That means the Giants are only projected to have just over 18 points. Mitch Trubisky had a nice fantasy week in week one. Gets to face the Giants in week two at home. So once again, Trubisky looks interesting as a streaming option. If you're desperate. David Montgomery, Mike, you just talked about it. Sequan Barclay. Yeah, you can still play him. Yeah, I mean, it was a struggle in week one on the ground for Barclay, but.

played Pittsburgh. Alan Robinson, we just talked about him, the storyline around his situation and the contract, but look, he's here. He's our wide receiver four on the week against this secondary. The Giants gave up 44 fantasy points to opposing wide receivers in week one. So that was Deontay Johnson. That was Juju Smith-Schuster, James Washington. So on the bear's side of the ball,

I guess the question is, do you consider Anthony Miller a flex after a nice week one? Jimmy Grandpa? I think he is, speaking to Anthony Miller, he is someone that you can flex. It's a matter of your options. I don't see him as someone I'm desperately trying to get into my lineup. His game was really recovered at the very end of last week's game. He, you know.

through the first three quarters, he had pretty much done nothing. He wasn't out there as much as you wanted to see in the routes run. And, you know, the behind the scenes data wasn't great. So to me, it's Alan Robinson and David Montgomery as the two clear starters that I would start in just about all situations this week. I do think David Montgomery is a really strong start. And then Mitch Trubisky and Jimmy Grandpa that could be started in a pinch.

After the strong week one for Darius Slayton, much, you know, could be a tough matchup here against Chicago. We don't know whether Golden Tate's going to be back, but if you had to choose between Slayton or Shepard. I mean, you got to stay with the hot hand. You've got to go with Darius Slayton, go with the big plays. Shepard had an okay game. Six for 47. Yeah, I mean, 78% snap count. A lot of receivers were just chilling in that 50-yard zone last week. Yeah, but.

I mean, we don't have any more information here to go off of it, except for Darius Slayton was. More targets, yards, touchdowns, and snap percentage. It's the air yards. He's younger. He was a rookie last year with the rookie quarterback. He had enough, you know, actual production in his rookie year to say, this is a breakout potential player. That's how I saw Dary Slayton coming into the season, is that if you wanted to take a shot of one of these three guys, if you take it on Darius Slayton, he has the,

breakout potential because we just haven't seen him, you know, he's coming into his second year as a wide receiver. Based on game one, I'm definitely in on Darius Slate. And I tried to pick him up anywhere he was available. I've tried to trade for him. And he would be the start for me. Are you trying to trade for Evan Ingram? Because in week one, 94% snap count, seven targets only caught two passes for nine yards. But he was on the field. Are you trying to acquire him?

I'm still in on Evan Ingram. I don't know that I'm actively trying to trade for him yet with, depending on your situation, maybe you had Noah Fant Evan Ingram rest of season. That one, that's tough. I mean, I think I still side with Evan Engram. Are we including the games Evan Ingram will miss or are we saying per game? Stop.

We are just asking who you'd rather have on your roster. I would rather have no affant. However, I had Evan Ingram in as my start of the week before I replaced him. I do think this is a very good matchup. He had, you know, a ton of the valuable slot, you know, formation lineups for tight end. So I think he's a fine start this week. The Atlanta Falcons go to Dallas in the highest over-under of the week. It's up to 53.

on my latest report. Cowboys are four and a half point favorites. We saw the fantasy goodness with the Atlanta offense last week, three wide receivers over 100 yards. Dallas has three wide receivers that are very viable this week, too, and I would start all three of them. I would be willing to play, obviously, Amari Cooper, but then Michael Gallup and C.D. Lamb, Blake Jarwin's out for the season.

So you've got Julio, Ridley, and Gage, Cooper, Gallup, and Lamb. Are you starting all of them in the highest overender of the week? I am. I think I am. I don't think I've ever been down that road before. Six wide receivers in one game. Never. Never in the history of the fantasy footballers has there been a game where we've said, yes, start six different wide receivers. Well, and let's go beyond that because I think you start both quarterbacks.

Matt Ryan and Dakreska. If you're starting six wide receivers, I hope the quarterbacks are in place. I think you start both running backs, Gurley and Zeke. Yep. I think you start Hayden Hearst after he ran a ton of routes, let all tight ends and routes run in week one. Didn't get the receptions, but it doesn't matter yet. I think the only, the cheese stands alone. Dalton Schultz is not getting started. I'm starting Blake Jarwin. Oh, Mike, you can't do that. If you start Blake Jarwin over Dalton Schultz, you will end up with at least two fewer points.

Dalton Schultz is ruining this parade, man. Dalton Schultz stands alone as the only player you can't play in this game. Well, okay. Tony Pollard. I'm not going to start Tony Pollard yet. Over Dalton Schultz, I would. Sure, absolutely. If there's a flex situation. Take that, Dalton. I mean, watch Dalton Schultz go out and put up two touchdowns in this game, which you could, but. Dach Prescott likes to target the...

tight end. We'll see if it holds up when the talent level drops to Dalton. I want to know. Let's say Dalton Schultz has a good game or even a good season, just really solid. Will you be more happy that the role is vindicated in your analysis or sad that you missed it with Blake Jarwin? It will absolutely be both of those things. And both of those, like Donald Schultz is not going to be a top fantasy tight end, but he will probably finish the year with.

with 80 targets or so. It's tough when injuries happen because you don't get to find out if you're right or wrong at all. I mean, you get nothing out of it. You don't get to all that off season. First of all, not a luck dragon. Yeah. Yeah. We were told that Falcour was supposed to be a luck dragon. Yeah. Whatever bad luck dragon. I love Michael Keith. I love them too. All right. We're moving on because there's not a lot to break down in that game. Nope.

Detroit, the Lions, they head to Green Bay. They take on the Packers. Packers are six-point favorites. They looked great in week one. It's a 49.5 point over under. They did face in Minnesota secondary that's brand new, a Minnesota defensive line that was, I think, last in pressure rate last week. So you get to find out if it's that easy for Green Bay again against Detroit, which it might be at home.

because all of Detroit's starting cornerbacks are currently hurt with hamstring injuries. So let's dig deeper on the Green Bay side of the ball. Aaron Rogers, look, if he's on your team and he's sitting here against Detroit and he had the Great Week 1, you're playing Aaron Rogers.

Aaron Jones. He was drafted to be in your lineup. He's in your lineup. Devante Adams the same. Let me throw some Aaron Rogers questions at you because I feel like a lot of people that drafted Rogers could have gotten him with another player. Yeah, they're like, well, I'll just grab another quarterback because Aaron Rogers could be awesome, could be terrible. So let's say, Aaron Rogers, you're going to start him against Detroit or would you start Deshaun Watson against Baltimore? I'll start Rogers.

All right. That's a real. I'll smash Rogers. Let's go. Yeah. Come on, Rogers. I'm going to start Rogers. All right. That's fine, Jay. Don't feel bad about that. Detroit is not a tough matchup. Well, they're getting their, what was it, the number three pick overall back. He was a full participant in practice, a cornerback. I think that should help their defense. Aaron Rogers or the quarterback that he is facing Matthew Stafford.

Now, we saw Kurt Cousins. It was a bit garbagey, but Kirk Cousins and Adam Thielen came through with a big game. Aaron Rogers, without any hesitation. Oh, man, I love it. Kenny Goliday is, we don't have a status update on him. If he was back in, maybe I think about Stanford. But here's the only thing that can hurt Rogers in this game is Detroit can't do anything. And this becomes Aaron Jones's game. That would be my concern. Sure. Yeah, I mean, Aaron Rogers is a top option this week. Outside of the.

Crim de la Crem that you know are going to be great. You know, the Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen. Josh Allen, Lamar, Jackson, Dak Prescott in that crazy over under game. I mean, I think I would start Kyler over him. And then that's kind of the end of the list that I would start over Aaron Rogers. Matt Ryan? He's the biggest question to me. And I think I would start Matt Ryan over Aaron Rogers. Al Borland resident Green Bay Packers Homer.