Week 3 Matchups + Minsh-eww, In-or-Out - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/25

It's just a matter of time until he gets a big play, and it probably is going to come this week. And Joshua Kelly is so involved now in this offense. Lots of work inside the 10-yard line, goal line work. 26 total opportunities last week for Joshua Kelly. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah, if I had both of these players on my roster, I would start both in the same game. Like a Brown situation? Exactly. I could not imagine benching Echler or Joshua Kelly this week. The Carolina defense.

is so easy to score on the ground. They're giving up rushing touchdowns, left, right, and center, and awesome, excellent, and Joshua Kelly will, you know, they could both score in this game very easily. I think everybody's looking for an opportunity on the other side of the ball with what Caroline has done. I mean, Robbie Anderson, two games into the season, 115 and 109 receiving yards. DJ Moore, tons of targets, probably even more coming his way without Christian McCaffrey.

And even Curtis Samuel, to me, is an interesting play because I think he's going to have more than five carries in this game as they look to fill the void that is Christian McCaffrey and also receive some attention in the passing game. Mike Davis has been the big fab pickup. When you are kind of sifting through options here, how are you prioritizing the Carolina offense in this game? Because the defense in Los Angeles is tough. It is, but...

Just from what we have seen from the pace of play and the volume, DJ Moore and Robbie Anderson are, they're in. Like, they're locked in guys. I know both of them kind of padded the old stat line at the end of the game there when, when. But they can do that again. They could do that again. Absolutely. And again and again this year. So, uh, so those guys are must starts for me. You're probably in a situation if you, if you paid for Mike Davis that you have to play him.

What about in the same matchup? Mike Davis with the starters role, in quotes, or Joshua Kelly with all that opportunity? Joshua Kelly, higher touch. What about Jerich McKinnon, maybe limited touches, but high upside against the Giants or Mike Davis? I would go Jerich McKinnon there. I think this is not a great matchup for Mike Davis. We know that Mike Davis is going to get at least three games because that's...

The minimum that Christian McCaffrey has to miss now having gone on that short-term IR, the next two matchups are going to be Arizona and Atlanta. Those are where I think I'm more confident playing Mike Davis than against this Los Angeles defense that is proven. I think I would take him over McKinnon. I would take Mike Davis over McKinnon. Davis, eight targets last week. J.K. Dobbins, Monday night, or Mike Davis? Mike Davis. Okay.

Anything else in this matchup? I mean, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen you can play. Mike Williams is still more of a deeper play. Yeah, I think that's how I view it. Now with Justin Herbert, the man behind center, I definitely put Keenan Allen ahead as a start, and Mike Davis is someone that I would prefer to not start. Keep playing Hunter Henry. He's our tight in five on the week. He's been very solid. He's not going to let you down in terms of like goosing you. This is.

A deeper question, but are you willing to start Herbert? Interesting. He was the quarterback 13 last week. He ran the ball a lot. He had a pass touchdown. He ran the ball four times and had a rushing touchdown. He obviously has great weapons here. Austin Echler can take anything to the house. Keenan Allen. The matchup is great. I don't think so. Okay. I think just mistake prone nature of the game. Maybe I'd go somewhere else. Yeah, and I could also see because of how poor the rushing defense is here that they might.

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Definitely listen to the fantasy footballers DFS show with Kyle the Borgogun and Matthew Betts. You can get it wherever you get this current podcast. What a great suggestion. Yeah. It's just been amazing. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, one and one taking on the O and two Denver Broncos. Broncos falling apart. Buccaneers five point road favorites. It's a 43 and a half point over under, not leaving a lot of points there for the Broncos this week. Jeff Driscoll.

Going to get the start looking for one big score. He's got a plan. Melvin Gordon might be the only real fantasy play on that side of the ball. If Jerry Judy's injury concerns this week, his questionable status, has you wavering, I can't imagine you're taking a shot outside of Gordon Fant. No, keep an eye on KJ Hamler, see what happens. He is also another rookie that...

for the Denver Broncos that you could put on your bench and just see what happens this weekend, but he's not a start yet. Fant has gotten into the end zone each of the first two weeks. Last week saw five targets, four receptions for 57 yards. Driscoll is competent, and I think Fant will end up with four more receptions. Driscoll's fine. He's a fine backup quarterback. He can put up yards. And Noah Fant, man, he has been.

He is absolutely blown all expectations I had for Noah Fan. Where you know, you had. We did, we did convince you to put him in the breakout category of our UDK. Yeah, I know. He fit all the criteria, but it's, you know, like when you were making those choices in the off season of which tight end are you going to go all in on. And it felt like Hawkinson and Noah Fant were identical situations, both first round picks, both very athletically gifted.

second year players, just who did you go in on? And so far, man, Noah Fant has, to me, completely proven, as long as he's getting the opportunity, he's going to be excellent, just excellent for fantasy football. And the opportunity with Cortland Sutton out is not going away. Here's a hot stat for you. The Tampa Bay offense, wide receivers have only seen 52% of the team's targets this year. With Winston last year, they've averaged.

65% actually over the last four years 65% of the targets sounds like tom brady yeah it sounds a little bit like tom brady but also you've got a two game sample size here where one game you had to hurt mike evans and the other game you didn't have chris godwin so you would you would expect the wide receiver core as a as a whole to be down on targets okay so you do i'm not worried about godwin or evans those are never going to be outside of my lineup

Running back, I think I'm making the switch to Leonard Fournet from Ronald Jones. He is. You like ping pong, do you? I don't, I mean, when I say I'm making the switch. Remember what a ping pong sounds like? Yes. Sounds like a lot like a clock. Exactly. Clippity clop. Clippity clop. Yeah, you know, when I say I'm making the move from Ronald Jones to Leonard Fournett, it's mostly a lie because I don't have.

Either of these players, this was one of those backfields to avoid, right? Leading up to the draft season. But if you had both of those players, I would start Leonard Fournett over Ronald Jones. With them as heavy favorites, it does seem like you could go that way until, of course, Fournette fumbles or misses a blitz pickup, and then they rotate somebody else in there instantaneously as a horrible punishment. Brutzerians. I'm out. Yeah. Grancowski's been awful. Don't play him. Please don't play him. Don't.

Roster him. Why? Yeah. Are people still rostering? That's an excellent point. Gronk? Don't, don't bench him. He does not need to be on anybody's roster. Agreed. There's no reason. I don't think that the foot client had a lot of Rob Gankowski. No. We were. There was definitely excitement during the off season when it was announced Gronk is going to be back. He's going to be back with Tom Brady. I want to throw the question real quick to producer Owl Borland. All right. Who in fact dropped all $100.

of his fab to pick up Rock Rock Rukowski. Oh, that's right. How is that going, Owl? It's fine. I mean, the fab that I dropped reset at the beginning of the season. That's a fair point. He had a good end. He's not cracking the starting roster, though. Yeah. That was in Dynasty, right? Yeah. Yeah. I remember being sad that I didn't get him in Dynasty. And now I'm not so sad anymore. All right. I'm excited about this game, guys. Detroit.

The Lions getting back, Kenny Gulladay. They're 0 and 2 taking on the Arizona Cardinals in Arizona. Cardinals are five and a half point favorites. It's a 55 point over under. That's an implied point total for Arizona of over 30 points. The Lions at just under 25 points. That's not too shabby either. It is not. And this, I'm just excited about the fantasy back and forth that we should see in this game.

Hopkins is currently our consensus wide receiver one on the week. And Kenny Goliday, if the team is telling the truth, which we hope, they've taken their time. He could have possibly played last week. They gave him another week of rest. And what's really been missing from this Detroit offense and Matthew Stafford's, you know, what the numbers told us about last year is the deep, big playability that they were going to the well with that over and over again last year. And it's dropped.

tremendously without Gallaudet in the lineup. He gets them back. Arizona's defense, it's been good through two weeks, but he hasn't seen, they haven't seen a Kenny Gallaudet, Matthew Stafford. Correct. I think it's going to be just a tremendous week for both offenses. And it's almost a matter of finding who not to play in this game than finding who to start. Yeah, I would be willing to start just about everybody except for one of the.

Lions running backs. I don't know, you know, the gamble to take with Swift, carry on. What if you had to? If I had to, I would start DeAndre Swift because he is kind of slotted in as the receiving work guy. This is a game on the road where they're down. Arizona's pace of play is, you know, they're leading the league in no huddle rate and the pace. So you're going to have pass catching backs on the field, is my guess, unless Patricia comes in and tries to say, well,

This is what the expectation is. So we're going to take over this game. Put in a lot of Adrian Peterson and slow the game down because that's what bothers the Cardinals. I can see that happen. And so I don't want to be in with any of those running backs. Cardinals are favorites in this one. Drake's my start of the week. Hopkins, of course, it's in your lineup. I will throw this out there. Christian Kirk, I don't think he plays in this game. He's questionable. So it's going to be Hopkins. It's going to be Larry Fitzgerald. And I think it's going to be Dan Arnold.

I think you're going to see. I think the postman makes his, makes a delivery this week. I think he makes a delivery into the end zone. All right. I was going to ask how you. Thank you. I was going to ask, okay, what's the temperature check then on the legend? Larry Fitzgerald, seven receptions, 50 yards. Like, that's not anything incredibly special. PPR flex this week. But PPR situation, seven for 50, you would take that.

in your flex. Oh, I will take that, Mike. Yes, I will. All right. PPR Flex, Larry Fitzgerald. I'd play Fitzgerald over, you know, Mike Williams with Justin Herbert this week. Okay. Sure. Yeah, I would as well. And in DFS, I know it's a deep, dark shot out there. Dark, huh? Well, I think. A cave or? Well, just depression-wise as a number two, you know, a second round pick. But Andy Isabella.

You know, had... You mean because Arizona could have taken D.K. McCaff and instead they took Andy Isabella. Is that the depression that you're feeling there? No, no, it was Terry McLaren. They could have taken Terry McLaren, but they took Andy Isabella. So, yeah, I mean, you know, depression and sadness. But the point is... Wow, that... I was having a great day, Jason. Yeah. He still has crazy speed. And last week you saw Isabella get deep. And if Kyler hit him in stride...

It's a 70-80-yard touchdown strike. He could do that any time. He's so fast. One of the things that I do to not feel depressed about the situation is remember what Bill O'Brien did for us. Hopkins, David Johnson, and Andy has emulated this in our League of Record. Yeah, that is actually a funny story. I managed to trade for DeAndre Hopkins this past week.