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Week 1 Studs & Duds + Overreaction Hour! | Fantasy Football 2023 - Ep. 1457

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Foot Clan Week 1 failures flood Monday Punday

The hosts solicit listener puns and report that 99.9 percent target bad Week 1 games, then read a dense run spanning Bengals, Ravens, Mims, White, Goedert, Evans, Dallas defense, Ekeler, Nacua, Atwell, Doubs, and Tyreek Hill variants.

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Andy's Mike Evans high five leaves Jason's hand burning

After Mike Evans scores, Andy high-fives Jason hard enough to shake the room. Jason later tells Mike it felt like a frying pan and says his hand is still trembling and burning; Andy proudly confirms how hard he hit it.

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Tyreek Hill and Dallas defense stop a dominant Listener League start

The hosts say they had been dominant in the Listener League before running into an opposing combination of Tyreek Hill and the Dallas defense. The passage supplies no opponent name, score, or final result.

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Cam Akers is demoted to insurance salesman Ron Acres

A disappointing Cam Akers role pushes his name from Cam to Cameron and finally Ron Acres, an imagined insurance salesman who is done and toast; the next paragraph adds Captain Ron and a Kurt Russell reference.

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The new sad-music button waits for the Dobbins announcement

A host tests the new sad music during Monday Punday, then asks permission to hit its button when the J.K. Dobbins injury arrives; the others make him state the news before the cue proceeds.

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Production surprises Mike and Andy with STUDS/DUDS body art

The back-wall monitor first depicts Mike as a grayscale muscular, near-nude STUDS figure with his tattoos missing. Later it depicts Andy as a balding/altered DUDS portrait, prompting Andy to remove his cap and show his real hair while the desk says the crew is surprising them.

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Andy is caught praising Durham Smythe while muted

Andy calls Durham Smythe great with his microphone muted, the other hosts expose the attempted silent aside, and he repeats 'He is great' audibly while emerging from the desk controls.

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The hidden Sammy Watkins Lizard King drop returns

A comparison to Sammy Watkins's 2019 Week 1 revives a drop the hosts say is hidden away. The published overlay presents Watkins as the Lizard King in a black suit with yellow lizard emblem and a bright red cape.

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Pity City membership is litigated while only Mike appears

Michael Pittman triggers Pity City and a visible neon-city overlay containing Pittman plus rainbow-visor Mike. Jason argues he was unfairly removed and says the new graphic contains Mike and him; Andy says he asked to be removed, but the claimed revised version is never displayed.

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Mike's old-man voice pleads for one last Panthers start

Mike performs an aging Panthers-receiver character who asks Andy whether he was played for old times' sake, then apologetically offers two catches for 12 yards and says he did his best.

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Kyle is asked for the tight-end top ten but never answers audibly

A host asks Kyle whether the list is the tight-end top ten. Kyle supplies no distinct answer or live image; Jason visibly owns the immediate 'Oh my goodness. Yeah' reaction before the hosts read the list.

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Pooped in His Big Boy Pants opens the DUDS block

The spoken Pooped in His Big Boy Pants phrase triggers a full green produced stinger with all three host portraits and a brown mud/manure splash before the show moves into quarterback duds and Andy's wall-graphic protest.

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Episode notes

Complete published-video review shows Mike at left in a gray T-shirt and black cap with his reddish beard, neck tattoo, and forearm tattoos visible; Jason at center in a black T-shirt, black cap, black-framed glasses, and dark beard; and Andy at right in a green T-shirt and multicolored green-and-orange cap. They remain the only live occupants at the standard microphone-and-laptop desk throughout, with no booth cut or fourth seat. The prerecorded WITH THE DUCERS card labels Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon. Monday Punday turns Foot Clan submissions into a dense Week 1 roll call, including the transcript-rendered no burrow/T/hidden, Ja'Marr Waste, Joe Money Joe Problems, P. Higgins, Fake London, J.K. Sabins, I.R. Dobbins, J.K.1L, Starvin' Mims, Facade White, Dallas Go Eat Dirt, Stairway to Evans, Dallas Weevens, Boston Ekeler, Puka Cooper Kupp Jr., Tutu Did Well, Romeo Dubs, and Tyreek Hallelujah. Stairway to Evans leads into a physically attributed desk story: Andy hit Jason's hand after the Mike Evans touchdown so hard that Jason said it felt like a frying pan and was still burning. The hosts then report that their previously dominant Listener League side ran into an opponent with Tyreek Hill and the Dallas defense; the episode gives no Megalabowl detail. Cam Akers is demoted through Cameron to Ron Acres and Captain Ron. A new sad-music cue is tested during the pun block and deliberately requested again for J.K. Dobbins. Production repeatedly surprises the desk through the small STUDS/DUDS wall monitor: first a grayscale, muscular, near-nude Mike flex image, then a balding/altered Andy portrait that prompts Andy to remove his cap and display his real hair. During Tua praise, targeted four-frame-per-second video centers on Andy bending toward his desk controls while the others catch his inaudible 'he is great' praise of Durham Smythe and make him repeat it aloud. The Sammy Watkins Lizard King cue is a produced overlay—not a costume—with Watkins in a black suit, yellow lizard emblem, and red cape. Pity City likewise overlays Michael Pittman and a rainbow-visor Mike cutout against a neon skyline; the hosts verbally claim a revised Mike-and-Jason version, but targeted video never displays that later version. Mike visibly performs the aging Panthers-receiver voice, then a host asks Kyle for a tight-end top ten. Word-level alignment and four-frame-per-second mouth movement assign the following 'Oh my goodness. Yeah' to Jason, so Kyle remains a silent crew mention rather than an off-camera voice. The Pooped in His Big Boy Pants DUDS stinger is also directly visible. No Jay Griz name, voice, cutout, cue, costume, substitution, or bear prop occurs; the generic black bear in the standard intro is unrelated stock imagery.

Inside the episode

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Oh, Foot Clan Week 1 is nearly in the books. We go through all the studs and duds, all the goosees, all the overreactions, all the madness. Make sure you click this button, subscribe to the channel. You don't want to miss a minute. Here we go. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Monday, September 11th.

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The fantasy football is back with you. Take a deep breath. Barely. Take a deep breath and freak out. Oh, that was an interesting week one. So much to talk about. I feel like we could discuss it for hours, to be honest. This could easily be a seven-hour show recapping week one, all the fun, awesome things, all the surprises, and mostly all the... Yeah. as illustrated by the touchdown scoring in opening week. Yeah, right now we're sitting at 59 touchdowns. Last year, it was 73. The year before is 88 in terms of week one. Rich Rebar put that out. And, you know, you definitely felt it. I'm going to need the NFL Rules Committee to get on this. They're trying. We need to change. We need to react. No more defense. Immediately. Ten.

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10 guys on defense, yeah. 59 touchdowns is fine if they don't go to Justice Hill and Tyler Algier. Hey, hey, I warned you about Tyler Algeria. Don't point at me. I'm redirecting your mirror point over to this guy. No, no, no, Bijon's going to be fantastic. Yes. And it was not a warning about Tyler Gio. I was just saying, like, brought him up in the sleeper show of like, of course. What if? We've been talking about in the last... What if the running back pie is just the entirety of the team? Yeah. Yeah, that's... I mean, we're going to talk about them. Most of the reactions to the weekend, 95% of the reactions were to the bad. Yeah. Which is how it works. I mean, expectations are built for month after month after month. I put a tweet out really early in the morning. Basically saying, look, week one is the hardest because you have tremendous amounts of turnover.

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and personnel on these rosters, head coaches, coordinators, quarterbacks, rookies, all of that hits in week one, and you learn. And then you adjust. I mean, all of our in-season tools from Jointhefoot.com gather data for two to three weeks before it breaks out the streamfinder. It's like the Megasort. But that does not mean that you can't react to week one because I think there are some things that are worthy of reactions. And then there are some things that you can just probably not worry about. But we did throw out the Monday Punday request 90. I'm not even going to say 95%. 99.9% were the Monday Punday bad games. Honestly, I understand it because like the highs were incredible this week. Like you had some players who it was, it was awesome. But then there was just, it wasn't just.

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Oh, my stud had a down game. No, it was my stud gave me zero points. So let's jump in. Here are some of the favorite Monday punday submissions from you, the Foot Clan over on Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers or Twitter at the FF Ballers. I'll just take care of the Bengals here at the top. We've got lots of them, but how about no burrow, T, hidden. Yeah, I like that one. And Jamar Waste. As someone that played against a burrow. Waste stack. Yes, you did. I was pretty happy with that Brown's defensive performance. You had Joe money, Joe problems as well, because he just got paid. And then, of course, our show, I'd be remiss if I didn't include P. Higgins. Well, right. I mean, Pete all over the place. So, Mike, how are you feeling about fake London? Oh, not good. Oh, no. Not good. Not good. How many times did they throw the ball?

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18. 18 times four total targets to London and Pitts combined. They won the game going away. By two touchdowns, yeah. Don't worry, though. I'm told by a source in the room that Drake London doesn't care. That would be his head coach who mentioned Ritter had more receptions than Drake London. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. I did. How do you feel about you two? My resident, my resident. Ravens, Truthers. How do you feel about Lamar Jackson? I think that's a good pun. I think he was Lamar Jackson. Yeah, this week we were. To me, I'm just saying to me, it looked like he needed Mark Andrews pretty bad. Well, he won't have J.K. Sabins. Yeah, we'll talk about that later. Or I.R. Dobbins. I R. Dobbins. J.K.1L. I mean, this was. And that's a big L. Mike.

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We have to talk about it later. We talk about it now. Let's get through all this. I just had to hit the new sad music. No. It is good. We will get there because it is. What else do we have on the bad puns? I like starving mims. Oh. And facade white. Yeah, that's good. That's good. And also, this one shocked me. The first time you saw that. Yeah. This one shocked me in the game. I kept saying, where is he? Is he out there? Dallas. Go eat dirt. That was the craziest part of week one. And again, welcome to the table, all of you who are bemoaning week one performances. I saw on Twitter the constant flurry of...

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Is this guy hurt? Yeah. Did I miss something or are they out there? This is the Cam Faker situation. He led all tight ends in percentage of routes. Go Eat Dirt did. 95% of the team's routes. So there was some good though. Yes, there was. Stairway to Evans. You're my guy. Congrats. Thank goodness for that. I gave you a high five after Mike Evans touchdown. I shook the room. I have never. My hand is not recovered. It was literally the hardest high five I've ever experienced in my life. I told Mike afterwards when you were in the kitchen, this is like two minutes later. I was like I feel like he hit me with a frying pan. The hand was trembling. It's still burning. I hit it so hard. Foot Clan. We give a crap. Oh, yeah. When Mike Evans delivers for you, that was my pinnacle moment of the day. Here's one that I didn't enjoy because I had a really good weekend.

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I thought I was going to win everywhere. And then there were a couple times where I went up against the Dallas Weevens. Oh, no. Oh, sweet, sweet mercy. Boston Echler. I haven't seen that one before. This is my favorite. Pooka Nacupacupacupac Jr. Yes. Puka the Cooper Cup Jr. And then why not his running mate, Tutu did well. Which is the first. Yeah. Romeo Dubs. Yeah, baby. Rolling on too. And Tyreek, hellelujah. I like that one. Not bad. Oh, so as I was saying, I went into the afternoon feeling real good, real good about sweeping my leagues. And then Andy, you had Tua. Yeah. On me. And so now I will probably lose to you. And in the listener league where we were dominant.

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We ran into Tyreek Hill and Dallas defense. And if you had both of those, let me just say this. If you had both of those and you lost, incredible. It's some great work. The Dallas defense performance was one of the greatest ever seen, ever witnessed. And it never stopped. The backups were just destroying them. It felt like a divisional game, like in a non-divisional game, maybe that stops. Maybe they slow it down. But the divisional game, it's like, let's send a message that you don't even. you should be relegated to another league. They kept Daniel Jones out so long that like in the game. It was like, what are you doing? His office of line hates him. They're just like, go get them. Trying to work through some stuff. All right. I did want to throw a quick question in there before we get into piles of news and all the studs and all the duds of today's on today's show. The quick question is, look, we have been here before overreactions to week one, not advisable in general. Proper reactions to a handful of things.

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That's what we should be doing. Is there one of the overreactions out there that you think is worth it? Like we had just to run through a few, the Bengals, the bears, and the Steelers and the Giants looked outmatched. Yeah, putrid, absolutely disgusting. And then you had all the goose performances, the T. Higgins and Goddard and Drake London. Is there a overreaction that you think is worth it? Yeah. Yeah, there's one there I think you're not overreacting to. For me, I think it is just you need to react to it. And that is Cameron. I, Cameron, because he is the backup running back for the Los Angeles Chargers. He got the start. It seems that way. He was out there for like the whole first drive or two drives. It seemed like. And then all of a sudden they put Karen Williams in. He got the goal line.

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It was like, oh, he got the touchdown. That's a shame. Cammakers should have got that. And Cammakers got a touchdown a little while later in his own right. He was still mixed in. But if you look at the carry counts, the snaps, the utilization, the value, this is not what you hoped. I think he had more carries than Kyron was. Yeah, but Kyron. He was 22 for 29. Yeah, but it was that showed up at the end of the game. Yeah. That's a. So he went from Cam to Cameron. Uh-huh. I want to give him Ron now. Oh, we're just wrong. He's just Ron. He's just Ron Acres. Oh, man. See, that dude sells insurance. Ron Acres is done. He's toast. So that's your overreaction that's going to stick. I mean, is. Yeah, he scored a touchdown. So if, and, and he had the carry count. So if you can sell him for something and make someone believe on a decent performance, I'm in on.

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Cap, I get something for it. I picked up Captain Ron. I was going to say capitalizing on him, but Captain Rock. Kurt Russell reference. I picked up Kyron Williams 30 seconds before a kickoff. Yeah, I did not have a spot. It's one of those things that we always say to do, which is if you have a roster spot or somebody, basically what happens is in your league, players will get put on. They'll be like for me, it was Devon A-Chane. He was a healthy scratch, gets moved out. I pop them on to IR. And then I go shoot for a backup that you think can compete. I mean, if it was Justice Hill for you, congratulations maybe, or Gus Edwards, or Kiron Williams was my choice. And now maybe he's a player. Yeah, I picked up Damien Harris. And so now I got a route against the Cook. James Cook. I am, Mike, I'll let you go first. Sure. It's, I think it's still going to take some time. But it got the pun. And it is facade white.

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The entire argument for drafting Rashad White was volume and a, he's a good pass-catching running back, but he's also not in the running back dead zone. Like this wasn't a, you had to just send one of your fourth or fifth round picks over for Rashad White missing out on a great wide receiver, or maybe he wanted to draft a tight end, even though Darren Waller and the Giants. crap the bed last night. But that's one that I will really be paying attention to over the next few weeks. Sean Tucker was a name that we had mentioned that was building up some momentum and some steam, went from an undrafted free agent to making the 53 to being named the number two running back on the team. And this was not a hard match. Rashad White was not up against a killer defense this past weekend. He got all the work.

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Like he had 54 snaps. Sean Tucker only had 10. But Rashad White went 17 for 39 on the ground. And that is unbelievably bad. I wonder if, I wonder what it was because they won the ball game. And Sean Tucker was 5 for 15. So he didn't, he didn't flash. But there's going to be opportunity. I mean, that's three a carry. Better than Rashad White. Yeah. But the point being, I. It could be a matter of time before Rashad White loses massive opportunity. And I noticed a stark absence of Steelers fans in my Twitter timeline this weekend. Oh, man. I didn't see all of the preseason parades that I had. The heroes of preseason. I never saw any of them speak up. And you guess what? Here, I got a public service announcement for the Steelers. You're done.

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Oh, come on. That was the 49ers. That's one of the best defenses in the league. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And I'm being a little bit facetious. But the truth is, can he pick it without Deontay Johnson now? Yeah, that's a problem. You want me to sit here and tell you the Steelers are on the way to the playoffs with Alan Robinson leading the way? Because I'm not going to do it. I think he had 50 plus yards. He was better than George Pickens. Yeah. He had eight targets. And no, I'm not, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that that he looked good. Kenny Pickett didn't look good. Pickett's passes were off. He was, he played very poorly. He was flustered. He was flustered in the pocket. And next week, he's taking on the Cleveland Browns. And that was the team that just put a shalacking on Joe Burrow and the Bengals.

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You know, they'll be the home team. The Steelers will be. So maybe Cleveland doesn't travel as well. But I don't expect good things next week. 49ers travel pretty well. Yeah, the 49ers. So that's one of the things where I struggle. I watch a game like that. And I say which one is the real truth? Obviously, it's a little bit of both. Yes. But which one is the heavier truth? That the Steelers are putrid offensively. And that when we said you couldn't be worse than last year, we was wrong? or the 49ers defense is just picking up right where it left off and they are dominant and everyone that they face is going to have their worst or bottom three type performance of the season. It's not just that the 49ers defense is for real. It's that the 49ers offense with Brock Purdy is for real and that just if they can get their offense going and then they put their defense in rest. You put them into a.

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a plus situation. Hunt and kill mode. Exactly. Where you just unleash, unleash the pass rush. And it's going to be a very good recipe for the 49ers. That's what happened for the Cowboys last night. If you watch the first drive of the game when the Giants had the ball, they just ran down the throats of the Cowboys. But then a couple special teams touchdowns later, you know, some quick special teams of defense touchdowns. All of a sudden, you're up. And now it's like, well, you're not running the ball anymore. You need a pass and check out what we can do with our pass rush. Yeah, you're right. And I would imagine every Steelers fan, every Bengals fan, every Giants fan is blaming the defense that they played against for their offensive woes. And they'll certainly be better than they were this week. The Bears scared the crap out of me. That's fair. 37 passes for Justin Fields. Ten of them, or I'm sorry, three of them went over 10 yards in the air.

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So that wasn't good either. And only two of them went to DJ Moore. No, not good. What are we doing? Well, we got studs and duds. We'll talk all about it. Let's jump into the news first. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Prior to kick off the Rams Place Cooper Cup on IR, that means that that first game will count towards his four mandatory minimum games missed. Everybody came out and said, oh, the. The tank job for Callum Williams. It begins for the Rams. Yeah. Then they went out and shalacked. It began for Arizona. The Seahawks. J.K. Dobbins. Okay. Can I hit the button now? Yeah, yeah. You definitely can't. This is. This is the freaking worst because. Well, make the news announcement first. So, J.K. Dobbins is out for the year with a torn Achilles. J.K. Dobbins was looking good. He was getting opportunities. He had.

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He had a touchdown. He had three targets before going down to the season-ending injury. He gets down to the goal line where he gets, gets injured, and then the next, I think it was the two plays later, rushing touchdown for Justice Hill. And then there was multiple rushing touchdowns that would, like, JK Dobbins was dominating the backfield. This wasn't a split. It was, JK Dobbins is going to be our dude. And he is. This is the final year of his rookie contract. This is his second season ending injury in two of four years. And it's an Achilles injury. So this is it's not necessarily like you look at it. Oh, well, it's the end. Because we've Cameron Acres came back. Deontay Foreman came back. I'm saying they became like Foreman is a relevant football player. They're still in the NFL. I was only laughing at Cameron. Oh, yeah. Ron. Yeah. Yeah. But the point is Dobbins does not have a contract.

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Yeah. His career is over. His career is over. He might get veteran minimum. So that's what a team will have to do is give him a one-year veteran minimum knowing we're probably just rehabbing you and hoping that we can rebuild your Achilles and get you back to some of what you were. The odds of JK Dobbins ever being started in your fantasy lineup, the rest of your life is extremely low. I mean, the best case scenario is he ends up. signing a deal in two years and getting scratched on game day like Rashad Penny. The human element of the Dobbins injury is just unbelievably catastrophic. And for fantasy football, which that's what our show is about, it's also catastrophic. It looked like you were going to have a steal of a running back where you drafted him. But now we get to talk about Gus Edwards and Justice Hill. Yeah, tomorrow's Waverwire show. We'll kind of order those guys tell you what to think of.

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who's behind him, but this. What about Melvin? You ready for Melvin? I'm also ready for the possibility of Kareem Hunt. Yeah, I mean, this, this, this offense, with Dobbins getting hurt again, which has been the recipe for Dobbins, and Andrew's getting hurt again, there was one shining star. Oh, yeah. Okay, wait, do you want to get to the? No, we'll talk about him later. Okay. You can stop and smell that later. Oh, all right, we've got hamstring injuries. You ho. You ho. Deonti Johnson exited the game of the right hamstring injury. And let me tell you, the way he grabbed his hamstring was not the, oh, I tweaked it and I'm limping off the field. It was the, you might not see me for six to eight weeks. Yeah, this was, I felt my hamstring rip off the bone type of agonizing pain from just visually. Obviously, we don't know. Maybe he went down. Maybe he's just a giant baby. Maybe, but he went down. He's back next week. He went down in a heap.

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grabbing the hamstring. To contrast, Aaron Jones, off of a monster fantasy day. Aaron Jones, here we are, a 35-yard touchdown. And he grabbed at the back, I think of his, maybe his left hamstring, but you saw him pretty much as he entered the end zone go, and he was seen that on the sideline. The trainers were trying to stretch it out. We don't have an update yet, but he did not go back into the game. Granted, the Packers were completing a beatdown of the Chicago Bears, but we will be on watch for Aaron Jones hamstring. There are two players that I've seen injure themselves on touchdowns frequently. Aaron Jones seems to get to a speed that is not acceptable to his body. Sure. And Mike Evans has caught a lot of long touchdown passes and grabbed body parts while he's going into the end zone.

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Greg Dulcich, out with a leg injury getting an MRI today, Mike. The Troutman may be here. I will not lap Greg Dulcich getting hurt. That sucks. But Troutman was, in fact, the starter. He was running the same garbage route every single time. I don't know what they're doing with Adam Trowler's leaking him out to the flat. And that like, like, Troutman is, he's not beating a guy. What? He's not beating a guy 1V1. You got to use him up the middle like Dalton Schultz. But Troutman will be an interesting, he could be an interesting pickup. All right. Jacoby Myers, who was having a huge game. Monster game. Left with a concussion. A really scary one, too. And he's got a history, doesn't he? I don't recall. I think Jacoby has missed some time. I don't recall. But as of right now, Jacobi Myers is the wide receiver.

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three in half points scoring, nine for 81 and two. Jacoby Myers was, he was the preferred target of Jimmy Garapolo. Yeah, because he was closer to the line of scrimmage than Devante Adams. He's like, ah, I'm Jimmy Garoppolo. I just take the safe. It also helps when you have a player capable like him opposite of where the defense is going to be focusing. Jack Conklin, Brown's right tackle, tore his ACL and MCL. Season ending surgery, he's done. I think that's also built into the negative response was not just looking at your fantasy score. When you were watching Sunday morning, it was injury after injury after injury. You had Tyler Lockett leave the game with a concussion. You had Gino Smith leave the game at halftime, apparently. Oh, my goodness. What was three? I think it was three total yards in the second half. Was it three? For the Seahawks. I think it was 14. I think it ended up around 14. It was. That was.

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That was one of the... I'm thinking of about a minute left in the game when they had three. They jumped all the way up to 14 or something. That was one of the interesting things of how do you react to that game? Of the Rams who, heading into the season on paper, you're going, well, this defense is not going to be anything special. Looking at the Seahawks, Gino was the most accurate passer last year. They had two incredible weapons. They added a rookie. The rookie's going to play this morning. And then they were awful. So what is, is there any truth to gleam from that matchup of are the Rams defense? Did they figure something out with the unit or did the Seahawks forget how to play? Well, the Seahawks were okay in the first half. And I think it was a combination of the Seahawks losing their tackles. So I have to watch the health of their offensive line because that allowed the pass rush of the Rams to get through. But also the Rams offense.

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was a big problem for the Seahawks offense. They just stayed on the field. Pooka, baby. Oh, they puked all over them. Look, puka and two-two. Yeah. We're two of the seven wide receivers with 100 plus yards this week. And to be fair, Seattle looked awful on the back end, which we thought they might be better. So we'll see if that's an overreaction that holds up. Evan Hull knocked out with a knee injury, didn't return. For the Colts and Dion Jackson looked bad, fumbling the ball multiple times. That's right. It will be, it will be Zach Moss's job next week. And Jonathan Taylor going to pass the physical, could pass it today, and would be trade talks will heat up. So that was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Quick break, back with the studs.

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All right, just a reminder, we have a big waiver wire segment coming tomorrow. We've got another Monday, or one more football game, the Monday night game between the Bills and the Jets. Very excited about that. A better deliver compared to Sunday night football. I don't know, man. Yeah, it could be a tough one. I think it's going to be an amazing game. Thank you, Jason. Thank you for doing that. Let's get into the studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Do you remember the part of the week, Jason, when we had finished fantasy face off? Mm-hmm. And I had put Tua Tunga Vailoa in there. Mm-hmm. And then you were like really shocked that I didn't get Justin Herbert in there. Right, because you had $200 left over. And I could have done it. And you could have switched up to Justin Herbert on the other side of the field. I'm happy I didn't. I am sad you didn't. Yeah, Tua Tuaua, 466 passing yards, three touchdowns.

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He threw a league high 21 passes of 10 or more yards. Honestly, turns out speed very important to the NFL. It was, you know, we had games like this last year for them when he was healthy, obviously. So fun to watch. I mean, when you see Jalen Wado, oh boy. I'm just, there's a lot of chatter in our, in the slack going on about the back wall graphic. It is me. Congrats on your body, Mike. Which this is. I took that picture last night. Did you? Wow. Yep. Yeah. That was me flexing with Z. Wow. You flex those tattoos right off, man. Yeah, well. I actually paint my tattoos on every day. Wow. But that is really my body. Okay. Yeah. Sorry for the listeners out there. There's a not safe for work picture of Mike up on the wall. Our graphics team decided to go with naked Mike. They're just pointing at you. You just have a crowd.

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It looks like Fight Club hanging out. Look, it is a great and fun offense to watch. It'll be a test next week. They had to go on the road against the Chargers. It was a high over-under. Yes. You're going on the road next week, and then you play New England. Then you go against Denver. Then you go against Buffalo on the road. That's not very fair to these dolphins sending them on the road three out of four weeks. But what a performance. And you really, at some point in time, you can't stop Tyreek Hill. You can't stop Jalen Wattle. They're going to be okay.

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