Starts of the Week, Wk 1 Matchups, Super Bowl Picks

debut game against Houston, biggest over-under on the week. The Texans allowed six receiving touchdowns to tight-ins last year in the red zone. That's an area where Cook was frequently targeted. To me, this is all about the big play. And that is what the tight-in landscape is. Somebody wrote in, there was like a five-minute period of time on the website where I had misformatted our tight-in rankings page, and it was all disrupted. And somebody wrote in, they go, the tight-ins page is all disgusting. I assume you did this is a reflection of the tight-in landscape.

This is a statement. This is. I'm expecting a big play from Jared Cook in this game. Houston's linebackers, their DBs, they missed tackles at an alarming rate last year. One missed tackle and you give up a monstrous play. And Jared Cook's going to feast in his debut game, which he owns week one anyway. Yes, he does. Jared Cook loves week one of the NFL season. It's the weeks two through 17 he has trouble with from time to time.

Jared Cuck started the week. That is a good reminder. He does always come out week one and dominate. I am genuinely pivoting to Darren Waller. He is my start of the week this week. If Antonio Brown is not there, if you watched Hard Knocks or paid attention in the offseason, all the camp buzz was always Darren Waller. He's unbelievable. He's so good. Nobody can guard him. Then you go to Hard Knocks. They're asking different players. Who's the surprise? The players are saying, dude, it's Darren. This guy's amazing. You watch the preseason.

He looks great. He's always open. He's a freakishly talented physical specimen. And then on this last Hard Knocks episode, you actually, if you caught it, when Gruden was talking about his offense for a second, he said, my offense runs through the tight end. Well, that's Darren Waller. That was after they gave Luke Wilson the boot. So, yeah, Darren Waller, I think he's going to have a very good game, and you can probably pick him up off of waivers. So if you've got a disgusting...

tight end and you want to are you confident if Antonio Brown is not suspending because he is it's it's all planning to suspend right now if Antonio Brown's out there are you comfortable with Darren Waller would you ask our listeners to pivot or would you say stick with it because of you know week one upside if you don't have a good tight end I mean a lot of people out there on our advice drafted Darren Waller I would just go ahead and play him I was going to play him with Antonio Brown at that level Waller over Andrews but he if Antonio that would be like if Antonio Brown is gone

then I would go Waller over Andrews. I might go Waller in either situation. I like that pick. I like it, Jason. Thanks. Mike, you close us out. All right, my stream or my start of the week of the tight end position. It's old man Delaney Walker. Yes, it's my turn now. It's not a sexy pick. It's not fun to have pieces of the Tennessee. I'm open. I spit out my teeth. It's 35-year-old Delaney Walker. Yes.

I am older. I haven't been talking the right way for years. Just a reminder. You go Dumbledore. Before last year where he was, he got hurt halfway through week one, he had played, he had received over a hundred targets four straight years. And last year in that game where he barely played 50% of the snaps in week one, he already had seven targets. Delaney Walker is.

Marcus Mariotta's go-to guy. Mr. Marioita. It's bland. It's boring. It doesn't have that upside feeling of someone like Darren Waller, but Delaney Walker is going. Let's get to the main of safe. You're going Lubis for week one with Delaney Walker. Is that what you're saying? Look, they got great roast beef. All right. We do have one final segment.

Jason Moores, ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. Let's start the year off without getting too nuts. Go with the sure thing week one with the Saints kicker Will Lutz. That sounds pretty locked and loaded, Jason. Oh, I mean it's boom, boom. 100% guaranteed. Iron clad. All right, we'll be back with more matchups tomorrow.

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