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Welcome into the show, jam-packed today. Super Bowl picks, fantasy forecast starts of the week, the boom-boom kicker. Oh, ball. Burying the lead there. Football is back. It's Thursday, September 5th. Some people know it as the debut of the NFL season. Others know it as Michael Keaton's birthday. Oh, I love Michael Keaton. I do, too. Yeah. So I'm not surprised with our illustrious history.

with Michael Keaton that he would choose to move his birthday to the day in which the NFL season begins. So thank you for that. Good at you. And if you don't realize people out there, if you're new to the show, Michael Keaton tweeted at us once. He did. He did. And he is now my favorite. He's also in the set. He is. Look around. Look around you. Hiding in the shadows. So excited today. The quick question.

We're going Super Bowl picks. The season starts today. Let's do it. Jason. I'll hop in here first because I'm going. Goodness gracious. I didn't see your guys' picks. I know. I feel like I got to change it. You've got time because I'm going to talk. All right. I am going with the two saddest stories you could say from last year. Two teams that many people believe should have been in the Super Bowl and were basically a play away each.

I believe that the Saints will get there from the NFC and the Chiefs will get there from the AFC. I have the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl over Drew Brees on his swung. Swung. Stop looking at me swung. On his swan song season. Oh, okay. All right.

I'm going to, uh, I'm going with a Doug Peterson, Andy Reid's Super Bowl matchup. Oh, it's personal. I told you many months ago I can see the future. The Eagles are going to win the Super Bowl. They're going to do it over the Kansas City Chiefs. The student has become the master. And the Eagles last year were the objectively most injured team in football. And they're going to bounce back in a big way. Carson Wentz, redemption. And the, uh,

The student will become the master. Doug Peterson will beat Andy Reid in the playoffs. And I've got the Eagles. All right. Well, I'm going with an offense versus defense showdown. Of course. It's also an Andy Reid showdown because I got the bears taken on the chief. So it would be Matt Nagy, the students.

Loses to the master. I'm taking the offense. I'm taking the chiefs to defeat Chicago and the Super Bowl. It's really a shame that all three of us have the chiefs here. Because we all know it's going to be the Patriots. I just couldn't do it. I picked the Eagles. I'd love to see Andy Reid get one. I want to see a happy Andy Reid at some point at the end of a season. There's no coach who deserves a Super Bowl more than Andy Reid. But what Andy Reid is great at.

is, you know, compared to what he is terrible at, and that is in-game management that matters a lot in those playoff games. That's why I've got the Saints. I know, look, Mr. Reed, I know you're listening. Higher, obviously. Hire someone to manage the clock. Just the last two minutes. You can do the rest, but the last two minutes, hand that off to an intern. It literally.

could be a kid, a teenager who plays Madden because they will know what to do. That's good advice. Mike, um, you can follow this show on Twitter at the FF ballers. We're on Instagram. Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. I mentioned this to the foot clan over at join the foot.com. We are so excited for the new year. We're also going to be giving you more behind the scenes access to foot clan headquarters. And we're going to be doing.

Water bet videos. We make bets throughout the year. Al Borland himself is going to be responsible for making sure we carry those out. We've got a whole new set for the water bets. And so you'll see Jason getting wet over and over and over again as he spins the wheel of water in defeat. Interesting take. I will say this. Well, there's only one of us who has already lost the water bet. That's true.

That is true, but many victories are on the way. Yes, yes. It's not how you start, how you finish. Is that, that's right? That's right. Thank you for everybody who's subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We're ad-free on Stitcher Premium. We're on Google Podcasts. Everywhere you listen to podcasts, you can find us. And we appreciate the subscriptions, the reviews, all the support of the show. And let's go ahead and get into the news. News and Notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper.

All right, Mike, end of day yesterday. Mike looked over with his very somewhat ghastly, depressed facial expression and said, did you see Stefan Diggs missed practice on Wednesday with a hamstring? Come on, man. Do you have any new information about this absence? I do not. I expect Stefan Diggs to play. Like, this is just a, to me, a.

All right, maybe he tweaked it a little bit. It's feeling a little wonky. Let's sit him down. Let him rest before the big debut. But Stefan Diggs' biggest problem is his body doesn't like to play football. And he frequently misses games. He gets nicked up. He gets banged up. And to start the season this way, it sucks. It's frustrating. It feels different because it's going into week one. In the middle of the year, what we would be saying is you never like.

late additions to the injury report, guys that weren't injured and now it's new. That means this is a fresh injury. It concerns me. Yeah, that's what I agree. I think he's in jeopardy. You think of Jeopardy of Missing. Of Missing Week 1. I think it's in that, yeah, I mean, you need to pay attention. Mike, Sunday morning, how do they find out what's going on? Well, that's a great transition. Yeah, every Sunday, if you're new to the show, if you're new to the show, you're going to find out about it. If you've been a listener of the show.

We're back. Sunday live will be happening. I will be live streaming, answering news notes, last second start sit questions. You'll get to see me tilt. Yes. That's usually people's favorite part as I make my own lineup decisions and I'm freaking out. But that happens every Sunday and we do that an hour before kickoff Periscope, YouTube, Instagram. Twitter, Twitch, everywhere. Wherever you.

consume streaming content, it will be there. So we'll know about Stefan Diggs. You'll have to monitor to that. We'll give you an update tomorrow as well before the weekend. Deshawn Jackson has been confirmed. He will play in week one against the Redskins. I'm not personally very excited to play Deshawn Jackson week one. I have them in a lot of leagues. I got him late. I like him over the course of the season. I'm not as enthusiastic coming off the finger injury as 10-point favorites against the Washington Redskins.

They might not need to do a whole lot through the air over the second half of the game. And with the finger injury, I'm pivoting in most of my leagues. How do you guys feel about D-Jax? 100% the same. I mean, it's not to say he couldn't catch a long bomb touchdown, but you know, you're taking in as much information as you can on every player. And I prefer my players who catch the ball to not have broken fingers.

It's one of my... Just call me crazy. Top tips. Doug Peterson told reporters the Eagles will continue to utilize a committee system at running back. He said, for us here, it's worked. We know they have Jordan Howard, Miles Sanders, Darren Sproles, and Corey Clement on the roster right now. It's tough to argue with Doug Peterson here on the basis of the success he's had utilizing a committee and with the team's success. That being said, I think the better player...

will dominate snaps at some point. I think that player is Miles Sanders. And a lot of it's going to come down to who actually gets the red zone work. They tried out Corey Clement at one point. It just didn't work out. If Miles Sanders can earn that role or maybe he starts the season with it, that's where the true value will come. The Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn plans to utilize multiple running backs ahead of the week one matchup. We know this. Echler, Justin Jackson.

I think you could play either. I mean, you could play either player this week. And moving forward, you're going to be playing a little bit of roulette when it comes to touchdowns there. I think Justin Jackson's probably the safer bet to score. Echler's the safer bet to get more passing work, which might be more valuable in most leagues. And I would also say probably more carries. The games were both of them played without Nevin Gordon last year.

It was Austin Echler getting the majority of the work with Justin Jackson, certainly getting enough work to be a fantasy start. But I view Austin Echler pretty much as a must start this week, you know, when they're favored at home and Justin Jackson as a could start. And then we kind of know this, but offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills, Brian to Bowl.

said that Frank Gore, Devin Singletary, and T.J. Eldon will each have roles this season. We talked a lot about the post-Lashon McCoy, Buffalo Bill's backfield and the fact that this is going to be the case. T.J. Eldon is going to steal receiving work. Yes. He's been a proficient pass catcher in the NFL. Devin Singletary will have a role. Frank Gore as well.