Week 2 Matchups + The RETURN of Fantasy Faceoff - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/13

And then, like Jaliel or Javante, that is the question that we should answer. I would still go Javonte first. I'm still Javante, but I'm going for Jalilil. He had five catches. If I, I can cheap some points with Jaliel. Yeah, I mean, that's fine. I will say this. When we, when we look at the, in a PPR scoring format, his receptions were worth 5.1 points. That is, that is a good point. Argument for point for first down leagues. highest drafted players dropped after week one. You mentioned this in the Megalabole. There was Romadunze, Joe Burrow, Caleb Williams, Deonti, and Javanti. Javante was the one on that list that I think is you should never be dropping a starting running back. So you wouldn't drop Chuba? I don't know that he is the start. Yeah, I would hold on to Chuba, but I would certainly not play. Javante, if you drop Javante, I would not have, but I totally understand it. That was a.

This is an emotional rage drop after seeing what happened last year, hoping for better, getting week one saying, I've had enough of this. Cincinnati's own one taking on the 1-0 Kansas City Chiefs. The Draft King Sportsbook line is Kansas City minus six. The overrunner is 48. What are your expectations in this game? Because there are a lot of fantasy relevant players and a ton of question marks. I mean, Burrow is one of the top drop players. On the Bengals side, I would. I would try not to play Joe Burrow. Andy, you're not into Stafford. Would you play Stafford over Joe Burrow? I think with the history in Arizona, yes, I would. Okay. That's where I am as well. I think the Bengals are actually pretty easy. I don't want to play Burrow. Zach Moss is a fine enough running back start. I think they will run more. They completely abandoned the run last week. Jamara is in every week. Yeah, Jamar is in every week. So, I mean, I just, I.

I think the Bengals are pretty easy this week. And like Chase Brown, if you drafted Chase Brown, don't drop him just yet. You picked him up to see what happened. And you can't make full conclusions after one week of them divvying up the snaps. Oh, I already dropped them. Just kidding. I didn't draft him anywhere. If you need an emergency wide receiver start, Andre Yoshivas got 100% of snaps and had six targets in the game. So if we were in a place where we would formally start Tyler Boyd occasionally. You can look there with no T. Higgins at an emergency start in a deep league. I agree, but man, I want to see Burrow be better before. Like, I am pretty much benching Joe Burrow right now as well. If I had Justin Fields and that low over under, I would still play him over Joe Burrow until, like, I think Joe Burroughs is going to get it together. I think he's going to be great. Yeah, sure. Maybe it'll be week four. And as soon as I see him look good out on the field, then I'm going to scoop him up if he's on waivers. I'm going to, I'll try to trade for him if he's got a good schedule.

But I'm not starting him until he looks good. Hollywood Brown's going to IR, which means Xavier Worthy. His snap count could go up. His involvement could go up. He only ran 24 routes. He's suddenly looking like a much better rest of season play than he did a week ago. Yeah, he's, like you're confident putting him out there this week against this team for the big play? If we're talking about like a double flex situation. James. I'd play James and Williams. I would as well. Nine targets in week one. But I do think Xavier Worthy is a worthy start. I mean, when you get two touchdowns and you got Patrick Mahomes and you've got an explosive offense against what looked like a really bad defense, yeah, you can play him. I would say single flex. Jason, you're my guy, Isaiah Pacheco, his line is sitting at 64 and a half rushing guard. Do you feel him? I'm feeling fantastic about that.

He's a phenomenal play. Holmes, Pacheco, Rice, are locks, and then Worthy is two touchdowns last week. And I'd be fine playing worthy. Looking for the Shahid, Jameson Williams, big play upside that defines your week. I'd play him over McLaren personally. Yeah. You got to get more work, though. I mean, yeah, he had the two touchdowns. It's four opportunities. I mean, it's one week, though. Of course, he's going to get more work, right? Yes, over the course of the season, I'm just not sure that it is in week two. And what happens if every reception in his entire career is a touchdown? Then he's the greatest fantasy player of all time. All right, see, that's in the range. Right now he's doing that. Chicago's 1-0 taking on the 1-0 Houston Texans on Sunday night football. That's a fun game. Get to see Stroud and Caleb Williams in prime time. Drafking Sportsbook line, Houston minus six and a half at home. The overrunner is 45 and a half.

You know, we know the Chicago defense is pretty good, but going on the road in Houston, dealing with a trio of great wide receivers, what we saw from Joe Mixon, I mean, I was, I was watching, is it Slovak? Their offensive coordinator. Bobby? Yeah, Bobby Slovak. They were like, he got 30 carries. What's going to happen now? Like, can he handle that? And he was like, he's one of the only guys in the league that is built to do this. He's like, you know, this is what Joe Mixen does. He can carry a workload that large. And you're going to get games this year where this offense is dragged down on the four-yard line five or six times in a game and he's going to score three or four touchdown. He is the only running back in the entire National Football League in fantasy football who has been an RB1 for the last three seasons. No one else has done that. And they haven't done it because they haven't stayed healthy.

Christian McCaffrey or whatever. You've got 16 games, 14 games, 17 games played the last three seasons. So he is built for it. He is able to take a strong workload. He's going to be such a great asset. So I like Sakewon in that regard in the fact that they plan on, I mean, the utilization was out of control in week one. His DK line is just under 70 rushing yards. Nice. So on that side of the ball, it's pretty easy, right? I mean, Dalton Schultz is, He's a D&P. Yeah, no, he, I don't expect him to play. Consolidation of targets for those wide receivers get out of their Dolk. And Joe Mixin. I mean, Stroud mixing, Colin, Diggs, and Dell. Yeah. So one of the things I'm most excited to watch for this weekend is this Bears defense because I think they're really, really, really good. And they looked unbelievable. They won the game in, in week one, but they were playing Will Levis. Yeah, Will Levis makes a lot of defenses look pretty incredible. So you certainly can't.

say they're great yet. But if they come here and shut down or really hamper the Texans, I'm going to flip the switch and say the bears have one of the best defenses and not overreact to whatever disappointments from Del Diggs or Collins might happen. One of the biggest surprises maybe in week one was just Colquette's getting not a lot of time on the field. I mean, that was the preseason. Gerald Everett, 61%. Commet 48%. This is Waldron. He just loves Gerald. He can't get enough. Yeah, with Keenan and O'Donze, possibly missing this game, I thought about Cole Commet as a starter. This is a great matchup for tight ends. And then I was like, ah, it might just be Gerald ever. I don't know who it is, so I'm out. Neither one. Yeah, DJ Morris Mike started the week. DeAndre Swift, consolidation of targets. If you drafted DeAndre Swift. Swift should be better in this game. If Keenan Allen and Adunze both miss, he won't be.

I don't think he will either because Houston's defense doesn't give up a lot to running backs. Yeah, I think that he will see, you know, targets, though, is the- Austin Echler or DeAndre Swift? I'd play Swift. I'm sure Echler had a better week one. Oh, for sure. That's why I was asking. And while I think most people will play Swift, I'll bet. I'll bet Echler has a better week, too. Caleb Williams was one of the biggest drops in week one. If you're in a redraft league where you drafted Caleb Williams. And you got that performance in week one with 93 passing yards, the lowest of the week. Did you move on? Like for the season, like don't keep them on the bottom of the bench. I mean, you're losing wide receivers this week. There's no way you can play kid. I'm not holding on to him and clogging a roster spot. There will 100% be great games ahead. There will be weeks that we say pick up and stream Caleb Williams. But I'm not just clogged. He's not an every week starter like what you would have hoped.

And so he doesn't need to be on your bench. I mean, I'm dropping Joe Burrow. I can drop Caleb Williams. Atlanta is own one taking on the one and no Philadelphia Eagles, the DK Sportsbook line. The game's in Philadelphia. Philly is six and a half point favorites. The overrunners 47. It was an unimpressive debut for Kirk Cousins, the statue. I watched him in practice. He still looks like he can't move. I mean, I saw someone tweet out a picture of him rolling out, doing a big rollout. and saying he looks fine to me. What are you talking about? You can't move. And I watched that rollout and I went, you don't look great. It's like that's a ginger rollout. It's not like you can't be a competent quarterback with limited mobility as he gets back on track. We have had those. Kurt Warner and Joe Flackle last year couldn't move ever, but it was, you know, he could dice up a defense. Late Philip Rivers and Matt Ryan. But like late Philip Rivers?

Yeah, in the later. But no, I got you. Like those. Oh, like he had passed. Like they were dead. Those guys, though, can still execute play action. They didn't run a play action snap. And I would be shocked to hear that was an offensive philosophy or as opposed to that's because Kirk just can't do it. So in week one, if you want optimistic spin. The utilization of their star players was fixed from the Arthur Smith era. Bejohn was out there, touched the ball 46% of Atlanta's plays. It was the highest percentage of any team. They had to face a tough defense. Kyle Pitts was out there, 95% of the time. That was new. You were very disappointed if you had put Drake London into your lineup last week, but you can also look to a new offense, new coordinator.

recovering quarterback and hope that this matchup against Philly. I think it's going to take time. Well, does it take too much time to put Jake Lennon back out there this week? Because Philly's defense is not, you know, they should give up some point. Yeah, they should. But like last week, honestly, the Eagles Packers game, I have mentally thrown almost all of that into the garbage of that field was so unbelievably atrocious. Defenders can't react in the appropriate amount of, amount of time. Put those defenders on turf? Like, Jade Reed's sure, he probably still has a great game. He doesn't do what he did in that week if the defenders are on turf. So I, for the Atlanta Falcon side, I mean, Pitts is, you're going to play pitch just because of how the tight end position rolls. Bejano, I'm going to play with full confidence. Drake London is.

it's a really sketchy play to me. I'm going to start Drake London this week. You're not going to have every week be great. You're not going to have every week be against T.J. Watt. Even last season, I know they give up a lot of points to the Green Bay Packers in week one, but last season they gave up a ton of points to the, you know, to the secondary. So I will start Drake London. I will start Kyle Pitts this week. Drake London or let's say Drake London or Chrysola. Olave against Dallas. Drake London or Chris Godwin against Detroit? Your start of the week. I've got them back to back in my rankings. I think it's a matter of if you need upside or if you need safety. Safety is Chris Godwin, but Drake London still has more upside than that. I hope that's true. Sequin hurts, A.J. Brown and Devante Smith all out there. Devonte Smith's line is at 59.5 right now. And all the offseason questions of who's the

Who's the power slot player for this offense? As of right now, yeah, Jason's firing on finger guns because as of right now, it is Devante Smith. All right, Dallas Goddard, a spot start over Goddard or Colby Jack? I would prefer Colby Jack. Colby Jack Parkinson. Yeah, that's a coin flip. I'm going to throw Friermuth in ahead of them. Well, back by popular demand. We do have a little fun. in store for the rest of the year. Fantasy face off presented by Draft Kings. I'm so excited. We thought it was gone this year and the people. The people have demanded. And we listen to the people. The foot clan is mighty. They're strong and they're the reason. They wanted their fantasy face off. They're the reason this face off is here. So here we go. Quarterback position in week one, head to head to head.

Loser has to spin the wheel of shame in week one here. I guess it's week two, but our first week of fantasy phase off. I'm going with Kyler Murray at 6,600 at home for Arizona. I had Jaden Daniels in there and I pivoted. I'm going to go, Tyler Murray. I have Jaden Daniels in there. I have Jaden Daniels. A few hundred dollars less, 6200. My running back starters, Brees Hall at 7,400, Alvin Camara at 7,000. Brees Hall and Alvin Camarra. Those are nice. Okay. Go ahead, Jay. Mine are not quite as nice, but still mighty fine. I've got Jemir Gibbs out there at 6,600 and J.K. Dobbins at 5,400. Okay, you're rolling. I've got Jemir Gibbs as 6,600, and then my RB2, it's a full sell. We're going Jordan Mason. Okay. Against the Minnesota Vikings at 5,200. All right.

I'll throw my flex out there. Then I have Jordan Mason at 5200 in my flex. I'll throw my flex out there. I've got Jordan Mason at 5200 in my flex. Stop copying me. I didn't. Who's your flex, Mike? Is Christopher Christopher or Christian? Christopher Godwin. I believe that's Christopher. The Rod. If you go Chris, you're probably fine. I know, but I wanted to be a little bit formal. He is 6K. Jason started the week at Detroit. All right. Rod Christopher Godd. There we go. My wide receivers, Cooper Cup at 7600. Cooper Cup at 7600. Let's just watch that one out, guys. You got them? Yeah, I wasn't taking no chances. My other wide receivers at 4,800 and 4,600, Brian Thomas Jr. at 4,800. Nice. At 4,800. And Greg Dortch. Oh, man, the Dorch. Correlating with Kyla Murray at 4, 4,600. I like that. For a full PPR, which Draft Kings is, that's not bad. So after Cooper Cup, I've got the other Cooper.

I'm hanging with him. Amari Cooper, give me to add drop. There it. There it is. Hanging with him, Mr. Cooper. And Malik Neighbors, who at 5,900, I still think has a great game. It's nice to hear that the knee is not an issue. Malik Neighbors at 5900. My other wide receiver is Rishie Rice against the Cincinnati Bengals at 6,700. I was really close. I was between Cooper and Jaden Daniels or Ryshe Rice and Justin Fields. So I went this way. To finish it out with tight-ended defense, I am going Taisalm Hill at 3,900 at the tight-in position and the Broncos defense on the other side of the Pittsburgh matchup at 2,800, looking for the classic Justin Fields mistakes in that way. I like that in their home. I've got Pat Friarmouth, my start of the week that I believe in at 4,100 and the Patriots at home against the Seattle Seahawks for 2,800. I got Colby Jack cheese.

at the tight end position. So I'm going with the two Rams and my defensive money that was left. Oh, brother. It's bad at the bottom boys. The Titans against the Jets. That was about the best I could do. That's not too bad. 2700. Yeah. That could work out. The low tier ones are so brutal. So next week we'll get our first spin of the wheel of shame based on this week's results. Fantasy face off back in business. All right. That was the fantasy forecast presented by Draft King's Sportsbook. Draft Kings is dishing out NFL, no sweat, touchdown bets for all customers every game day. Download the Draft King Sportsbook app and use the code ballers. That's the code ballers for new customers to get three no sweat tokens this week. All right, that's going to do it for the show. The fantasy footballers leave us a review over there on Apple Podcast if you have an extra minute today.

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