Fantasy Football - Week 3 Studs & Duds + Broken Offenses - Podcast for 9/22

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Monday, September 22nd, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Thank you for joining us. Week three nearly in the books. We've got a very fun Monday night football game still, but we have many games and many injuries to react to.

We had been spared catastrophe in week one, got a little bit more injured in week two, got real, real injured in week three. Week three got us. And, you know, we're talking season deletion stuff. So we'll talk about that, give you our reactions. We'll get through the NFL news we've got to cover. Studs and duds on today's show. Mike in a perfect... I'm very matched blue today. Yeah, I was going to say like a teal. Teal? Is that teal? I think that's teal. Look at this. It's aqua. I don't know what's going on today. Very... Hypermatched. I am. Why don't you have the teal...

I'm a little disappointed that your pants are gray. Yeah, me too. I'll work on it. Yeah. You could have gone... Bring me some teal pants. You could have looked like Calais Campbell in the All Reds yesterday. Giant beast of a man. We were watching the end of that Cardinal 49er catastrophe of a game. Oh, man. That was such a bad game. Oh. Here's... Oh, no. I mean, we knew and predicted what was going to happen, like, from the safety. Here's what was funny for me. So I had to leave. My children were on a show. We're at the end of the afternoon games.

Yep. And I leave right before the end. So I'm trying to track it on my phone. I sit down. The show is about to start. And I see... I'm like, oh, the Cardinals are clearly going to lose. And then I see they get a safety on Mac Jones with, like, two minutes left. We're going to get the ball. We have the lead. I was like, oh, my gosh, we're going to win? I can't believe that. And then the show starts. And that was all I knew. And then afterwards, the show is over. And I'm like, of course we lost. I don't know how, but of course we lost.

It was funny because when the Cardinals got the safety, that's when I knew we'd lose. Correct. Because if the game had not... If they had not scored there, they're aggressive on offense to go win the game. But because they got two points, which is not enough to surpass a field goal on the 49ers side, I knew the Cardinals would go blobfish conservative and waste their drive and give the ball back to the 49ers, who would easily get a field goal. Like, it was so predictable. And they... People are like, what is happening right now? I know. We are... We've said the Cardinals suck, so there's no way to hurt us.

All right. We have Monday Punday submissions from the Foot Clan to react to the weekend, so we better get into those right now. Hmm. Well, we had some good, Jason. Oh, I want to take this one. Go for it. Cam Skedaboom Shaka-Laka. Oh, baby. Quinchon Studkins. Yes, and Yee-Jay Brown. Hey, there he was. Oh, marry me, Hampton. How about Caleb Billions? Cortland Strutton. Oh, yeah, he was. Oh, Michael Jordan Mason. Yes. Yeah, Rome Obooms, eh? Keewin Allen. Oh, the Winnesota Vikings defense. Defense was the play of the week. How about Trace Tucker? Oh, boy. Superstar. All right, we had some bad this week, like Chase Frown or Waste Brown.

Saquon Barthley. How about, come on, Dre Stevenson? Yes, or we got a lot of these. Bleak Neighbors. Malik Nevers? Or Malik Wavers? Not that far. All right. Oh. The Silence of the Lamb. Joe, that's mean. Moment of silence. Yeah. Whack Prescott. Yeah. Not his fault. How about, why don't they play Vion Henderson? Oh, man. Sad McConkie. My personal favorite, Ashton Janky. Oh, man. Jake Frowning. And Kyle Pitstains. And this one. Mitsubishi Marv. Yes. Marvin Embarrassing. Yes. Meowvin Harrison Jr. I was told it was a Maserati. And we didn't get a Maserati on Sunday. And we haven't gotten a Maserati for two seasons.

I mean, we, I'd go like Miata. Yeah. Miata Marv. Yeah. I mean, look, you, you, we could spend the entire show hating the Cardinals. Because it's, it's so painful. It's, and Marvin Harrison's just the, I mean, he's the biggest. Most. Disappointment in a long time. Because when he does get opportunity, he doesn't take advantage of it. Those that didn't watch the game, he had a brutal drop. And that one's the one you're going to. Another. That's the one you're going to see. Is this brutal, wide open, probably 75 yard touchdown. No one around him. And the slow motion of him trying to catch the football.

Not running across the field. He kind of comes to a stop. Yeah. He turns and it goes through his hands. Hits him in the belt, in the chest. And then. Whoops. Boink. Which. Okay. That's terrible. But then later, later on, he got bailed out because they called a pass interference. But he had another chance to go up and make a meaningful play. We call these first round pick plays. Yeah. Like if you're a seven. I just call them NFL player plays. Yeah. You don't have to be a first round pick. There was also, I think the thing that, that grinded my gears.

Yeah. The most. Yeah. You pointed it out live. There was a play where Marv's coming across and Kyler ends up scrambling towards his side and just runs. And Marv just stops. He literally looks dis... He just stops on the route. He doesn't go try to block the guy that he probably could have got to, to give Kyler an extra yard or two. He just, he just stands there. We talked about this. Mike and I did. But some of the, some of the best receivers in football, what they do is when the play starts to break down, they work back to the quarterback.

They get themselves. I mean, Tyreek Hill did this when Tua was running out of the pocket on Thursday. We saw Quentin Johnston do this yesterday. Every time that Herbert got out of the pocket. Keenan does it all the time. Yeah. Keenan Allen. Good wide receivers do it. Yes. Because they know they can find space when a play breaks down. Travis Kelsey for generations has done this when they get outside the pocket. But Marvin Harrison takes a break. So we're not... Gotta get some milk. We're not happy. Some milk break. A nice saucer. A nice saucer of warm milk. So angry.

For Melvin Harrison Jr. Can you imagine if I'd made him a my guy? Oh, a meow guy. And bought into the... A meow guy. Yes. I'll tell you what, man. We do have a... Oh, we need a yearly meow guy. Yes. We need a meow board. Everybody picks a meow guy. Oh, man. No dog in him. Goodness gracious. All right. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance. I don't know if anybody can be prouder than their own video editing work that Jason did yesterday. Oh, I'm so proud. But he took his shots at Marvin Harrison Jr. on Twitter.

I felt really bad, too, because he's still a guy. Yeah. But at the same time, sometimes you need to... Cathartically. Yeah. You need to get things out with jokes. What's the last time you did video editing work, Jay? Oh, man. It's been a minute. I was like, can I do this in an iMovie? I don't know. You're trying to figure it out? Play it around. But yeah. I think I'm up to 1.3 million views right now. Nice. Amazing special effects work. We have James Conner. Here we go. Season-ending ankle injury to James Conner. This is super unfortunate. Conner's been kind of the heartbeat of the Cardinals for a long time.

Trey Benson will take over the starting running back job. DiMarcato will be the RB2. And yeah, it sucks. He's done. Mm-hmm. And at this, this is, I mean, we're going to talk about another guy here. But at this stage of the career, kind of like what we saw with Austin Eckler, you just wonder, okay, if it's season-ender, I mean, Conner's under contract. He's, you know, he's a captain. So they'll probably give him another chance. He'll probably come back. But at the same time, this could be, you know, the end of what you see from James Conner. You don't want to go out that way.

For the other guy, Najee Harris, this is an Achilles, and he was on a one-year deal. So that could be far, far worse as far as an opportunity to come back. This could be the end of the career for Najee. Yeah. That one, I think, is, it's really hard to come back from an Achilles for anybody. And so for Eckler and for Najee, this late in their career, it seems very low odds that they get back to a, I would say, major contributor for a team. It's possible they could come back and be a help. Yeah, Najee might be back as a backup.

But CeeDee Lamb left early. Ankle injury did not return. We're seeing high ankle talk, but not, you know, multiple weeks probably. Yeah, this is, from what I'm hearing, is... Not Jerry Jones, though. Well, I mean, it is possible that he's back sooner than that. We've brought it up in the past. High ankle sprains, usually, statistically, historically, you miss zero games or you miss three games. That's pretty much how it goes most of the time. That's not always, but that's what the data says. So you're not going to go on IR, and more than likely, he's going to, you know, miss

a couple of weeks here, which sucks. And it really sucks for Dak. Like, you know, personally speaking, in the League of Record, I am banking on the Dak CeeDee stack. That's what I built my team on, and now it's like... You excited about Dak against Green Bay next week? I am very much not excited. Or Dak against the Jets the next week in New York? Now I need to look for a new quarterback, because even though, I mean, it's, you know, good for fantasy utilization of George Pickens, George Pickens being the one for Dak isn't good enough and can cause interceptions.

And Jake Ferguson will catch 17 passes a week for... That was ridiculous. The most tired man on a football field I'd ever seen. And they're like, go catch more passes. Stop throwing it to me. I'm so tired. When he was standing up, that's what his face said. It's like, please stop. And they're like... You get tackled 17 times. Scott Starring. I'm going to stop catching it. You throw it to me. I'm going to bat it down. Don't you make me take a tackle. Leave me alone. Mike Evans left the game early for the Buccaneers with a hamstring injury. This has been a problem for Mike Evans throughout his career, and it seems very likely he'll

miss some time. It was immediate. They said IR stint, potentially. I saw somebody, one of the medical guys I followed this morning, he was saying it's very possible that it's an IR. I wouldn't be surprised at his age, his history, and the way. He broke on a ball and kind of non-contact. It wasn't the play where you're sprinting full speed, and then all of a sudden it was immediately like, well, I'm done. I never thought I'd say that Stirling Shepard could end up on a waiver wire show ever again, and he belongs on a waiver wire show. Sure does. Terry McLaurin left Sunday's game with a quad injury.

I didn't even see this one. Didn't return. Yep, we'll have to monitor, see if he's going to miss some time. Man, injuries suck. Tyrone Tracy Jr. left Sunday Night Football with a right shoulder injury. He was actually running pretty well in that game, but he did not return. Mack Jones re-aggravated a PCL injury. He was the quarterback for the 49ers, leading them to the illustrious victory over the hapless Cardinals. And yeah, Brock Purdy was questionable this past week. He could be back. We'll see. Colson Loveland injured his hip, didn't return. He had made at least one catch in that game.

And then we lost three players to concussion. Noah Fant, Michael Mayer, Alec Pierce. Alec Pierce, who was cooking. Yeah, he was. He was over 100 yards. And Daniel Jones, I mean, I know. Here we are. It was Tennessee again where you go, okay, it was not a very good defense. I'm making reasons why Daniel Jones' play isn't Daniel Jones. It feels like Sam Darnold from last year where we just need to buy in because, yes, I mean, he was good against Denver. And Denver is a great defense. But it was at home. Right. And two of them have been bad.

Now, he's going to go on the road to the Rams. I mean, that's not. Dan will know for sure, guys. Dan will definitely know. Now, it's funny because how many times has he thrown for two or more passing touchdowns on the year? Two or more? Yeah, two or more. Not this week, I don't think. Or it was just Michael Pittman. Is it once? The answer is never. Oh, okay. He hasn't thrown two touchdowns in a game this year. Because he's too busy in the Jones zone sneaking them in. Yeah, we did. Oh, I do not like that. We have named the one-yard line the Jones zone.

So whenever, you know, my guy Jonathan Taylor touchdowns. No rushing touchdowns this week from Daniel Jones. It was a great thing. For Jonathan Taylor. Yes. Well, what else matters? That was news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers. Not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. All right. Let's talk more positive things. This week's Fantasy Stud Muffins. Presented by Lowe's. Top five scorers at the quarterback position. Oh, cool. I played against this guy. Caleb Williams, number one. Our main two leagues. Andy's going against Caleb.

Caleb Rome's stack. Yeah. And in the other one, I'm going against Caleb Rome's stack. Yeah. We were not enjoying that game. You know what? I don't know if anybody out there has heard anybody say this. I don't think the Cowboys are a good defense. Really? No, I don't. I think they're pretty bad. I'm hearing they may trade for... Micah Parsons. Yeah. All right. Caleb Williams was number one on the week. Jalen Hurts was number two. Comeback victory for the Eagles. What a... Wild weekend. What a wild weekend of like... It was... Penalty flags all over the place in the first half of those morning games.

Early games. And then blocked field goals. And missed field goals. I mean, just special teams overall. And special teams plays. And like, the fact that the league has made the adjustments to the kickoff to now where players are doing things on the kickoff. It is... I would be curious how this week stacks up in total defensive teams scoring touchdowns. Oh yeah. Minnesota. I mean, there were so many teams. Carolina had one. Seattle had the special teams. The Eagles had one. Yeah. It was all over the place. Crazy. Geno Smith was number three. Thanks, Trey Tucker. Three touchdowns. Josh Allen, number four.

Marcus Mariota, number five. Mariota had some juice. Caleb Williams, 19 for 28, 298 and four. He is now the current... He is the quarterback two. Yeah. He's the quarterback two on the year. I mean, yeah. Through three weeks and you put up a... I mean, but he was quarterback nine in week one. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It does. It juices it up. Kyle, are you... He's on pace. So he's on pace for 4,000 yards and 40 touchdowns. Kyle, what is the Mariota stat that you were sharing about him finishing in top 12 versus Stroud? He's been a top 10 quarterback three times in the last year and he's only started one

game. And Stroud is two? Stroud has two. In that same time period. Cool. That's a fun stat. You've been top 10 three times and you've only started a game. That's insane. Yeah. So there you go. I mean, another player to mention, like Drake Mays still inside the top 10 on the year. 28 for 37, 268 and 2 against Pittsburgh. Undone by the fumbled universe that happened over there. I would say for... But quarterback four and quarterback six the last two weeks. Switching back to Caleb just real quick is... I mean, QB nine against Minnesota in week one. That's pretty great.

Against the Dallas Cowboys. Russell Wilson threw for 450 yards. Mm-hmm. And Russell Wilson on Sunday night against the Kansas City Chiefs looked like a man who was daring his coaching staff to bench him. I thought it was very ironic that they brought Jackson Dart in for two read options and then they never let Jackson Dart take the read option and run. And then they brought Russell Wilson back and then they ran a read option where Russell did take the ball and ran it for four yards. It was so weird. The read option is the choice of the quarterback. I think Dart made two good calls and Russ made a bad one.

Russ is like, I got this. Jonathan Taylor... Unlimited diarrhea. I mean... Unlimited. That guy stinks. I told you he stinks. You got shamed last week because of Russell Wilson. Oh, because of the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah. I mean, gross. We all thought that maybe the Giants could pull off a victory. They... Honestly, they could have if they had any sort of competent quarterback play. Running back stars this week. Jonathan Taylor, number one again. Oh, so good. Jonathan Taylor looks like the number one running back in football. Yes, he does. Jordan Mason coming in at number two. Two touchdowns. Could have been even better.

That was a blowout. Omari and Hampton. Hey! There he is. Hey! 22 fantasy points. Cam Scadaboo. Oh, baby. He's so good. Despite his quarterback, Cam Scadaboo just runs with a purpose. And... Since the year 2000, the list of day three rookie running backs who have had a game of 120-plus yards and six-plus receptions in their first three starts, Cam Scadaboo just did it. I know. It's a very specific thing. Yeah, that's why I was laughing at it. And no one else has done it. Essentially, it's just saying day three running backs in... Doing this much this... Yeah, in week three?