Week 2 Matchups, In-or-Out, Storytime with Jason

Cole Beasley outscored both of those guys in PPR format. I don't care. I realize that his floor is higher than either of those, but I don't care about the few points that I can get if I have no upside. It's like a TV dinner. He'll get the job done, but you don't want to eat it. I kind of really love Salisbury Steaks TV dinner. So bad analogy. Brooks, what's up? So we can just call him a desperation play. Brooks wants us to move on. That's what that means right there. Monday night football, the Seahawks.

The Bears in Chicago. The Bears are three and a half point favorites at home in this game. It's not an easy start to the season for Russell Wilson. He doesn't have Doug Baldwin in this matchup. He doesn't have a lot of pass-catching weapons. Look at Will Disley, who played a very small amount of snaps, by the way, last week. One of the reasons why you can't, you really can't stay in those flames because they're not that nice. The only way.

Will Dizzley, you're happy that you spend fab, and you're happy that you play him. Only way you're happy is if the moose gets loose. Oh, my goodness. What's the sound that comes when the moose gets loose? Yeah. Uncle Will, Montana's strong. Let him know, Will. The moose gets loose. If you picked up Will Disley, don't play him. Then why did you pick him up? Because you made a mistake. You could have picked him up to C.

To see what happened. But last week, here's the snap count percentage. I believe he was on the field for, well, him and Vinette were both on the field for the same amount, right around 60% of the snaps. So, look, it could happen. It absolutely could happen. I'm not saying there's no guarantee, but what I am saying is this is a guy who was brought in to be a run blocking tight end, and he's surprised in week one when the other team was not prepared for Will Disley.

Now that Doug Baldwin is basically known out, you don't think the Bears are kind of prepping for Nick Vinette and Will Disley is like, hey, we got to... The Bears gave up three points last week to Jimmy Graham. Yeah. So it wasn't a... Look, let's stop talking about Will Disney. Let's move on. Look, Russell Wilson started on the road against Denver. Now he goes on the road against Chicago. This defense looked pretty impressive last week until... Until the second half. Well, yeah, until...

Roger's Magic. But I don't know if you feel like Wilson is a top 10 guy this week, do you? I do. You're cozy enough? Yeah. I mean, he did have a 28 point week cluster. I have him as my quarterback eight. There's no chance that, you know, I'm not dropping him for anyone, obviously, but I'm not going to make a waiver claim. This is one of those like. Russell Wilson or Tom Brady? Oh, Russell Wilson. I've got Brady at 14 due to the matchup. But this is an example. If you take a look at that, like,

Tom Brady, there are guys. If I've got a burner spot, I would pick up and play ahead of them. I'm not sure that I would do that with Russell. This would be my second upset of the week, by the way. I think Seattle can win this game. Tyler Lockett, confidence level. Brandon Marshall, confidence level. What do you think? Are these guys flex plays this week? Is Lockett slide into that wide receiver two contention? Yeah, I've...

answered a lot of questions between these guys and the way that I see them is this. I think Brandon Marshall has a higher floor and if you're, this is a team dependent move. If your team is a favored team, if you've got a good matchup or you're looking strong, I like Brandon Marshall as a play. If you want to have fun and go nuts and hope for that, you know, week winning 25 point wide receiver performance, Tyler Lockett is going to be the play where you have the opportunity to have a couple deep bombs.

you know, deep bomb touchdown. So that's how I view them. I want to start both of them this week and see what happens. On the bare side, Jordan Howard, you're obviously playing him. Alan Robinson, I guess you're rolling him back out there. Yes, you are. What do you think about Tari Kohn? Can you play him anymore? Not yet. I don't think so. Trey Burton, is this the week that you get a little bounceback action? I mean, I believe so. Oh, man, I hope so. There'll be a lot of tilting, desperate, scared people this week if Trey Burton doesn't give you

Yeah, better production. I mean, six targets, I'll take it, but you need five catches, not one. I will be one of those people. That's terrified. That's afraid? Oh, yeah. I'm petrified of a one-for-five performance this week. That would be worst-case scenario, but I do believe he gets it together. I really do. All right. Well, any other storylines in this game you need to pay attention to? I'm not loving Chris Carson or Rashad Penny, but if you had to start one, it would still be Chris Carson. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The Daily Dose. Brought to you by Draft. All right. We're jumping in a draft right now, right here. Let's do it. Is this an expert level draft? It is. So we're playing on draft. Draft.com slash ballers.

And we're doing the expert because it's the three of us. And that means that the top picks are removed. I'm taking Brandon Cooks with the number one overall pick. I think it's a big week for Cooks. And obviously we have to make decisions here beyond the best starts of the weeks. I'm taking a shot on the deep ball with Brandon Cooks. Last week, Jason won. You're like three points. Jason won. I finished second. Mike finished third. Sam Bradford. Go to YouTube for the watering video of me watering Mike. It will be delightful. I'm going to take.

Zach Ertz. Zach Ertz is still available. He could play in the wide receiver tight end role, and I think he has a big week this week. That's an interesting pick there, going tight end to start it off. So that puts me on the turn, and I'm going to grab the upside play of Josh Gordon in a really high over under. Like him, going to play more snaps. Start of the week, Mike. Yeah, Andy started the week. And then on the way back, I'm going to take advantage of the breaking news of the show.

And I'm going to grab Tevin Coleman. Oh, that was so smart. I can't even believe how smart that was. I should have scrolled down and looked, but when we're doing this live, it's hard. I'm going to get a little nuts. I'm going to grab a double stack of tight ends. And I'm taking Travis Kelsey in a game that I think there's going to be a ton of points. I'm going Kelsey and Ertz for my wide receivers. Wow.

That's a bold move, Cotton. I'm going to go with a couple of past catching running backs. Chris Thompson and James White and my backpack picks. I'm going to go for those PPR points. I'm blown away right now. James White by Jason's tight end stack. You're freaking me out, man. You just wait and see. You know, I don't like the matchup of.

I don't like the matchup of Jamal Williams going to Minneapolis. I always want to say Minneapolis Vikings. That is where they're going. It is true. But not who they're playing. But I do think he's going to be on the field a lot. I want the Packers upside. So I'm going to take Jamal Williams as my first running back. I still think he's going to. He represents a floor to me. He might not have the same upside. Like a tile floor. Laminate. Laminate. Carpet. Laminate. No, we're talking Travertine. It's a really nice. Wow.

All right, so that puts me back on the clock at the edge. I'm playing the game. I know that these fellas have to take their quarterbacks. So I'm going to grab mine first. I'm going to grab mine first. I took Cam Newton, taking the, you know, the upside. Yeah, no doubt. Atlanta. Speaking of floor, Cam Newton, very high floor. And then Manny Sanders. Mani Sanders. Oh, that's a great pick. At home against Oakland, looked electrifying with Case Keenum. There's a lot of other players on the board.

But he's just very intriguing to me. Yeah, I don't blame me. I'm going to take a shot at a Tevin Coleman situation. I'm going to draft T.J. Yeldin because I think that Fournett does not play and he'll have value. I went with Philip Rivers as my quarterback against Buffalo, seeing the difference between Flacco against Buffalo and Flacco against the Bengals last night tells me it's going to be bright and sunny for Philip Rivers. And then T.Y. Hilton. Wow.

T.Y. Hilton with my final pick. Didn't even realize he was there. My double tight ends looking worse. So, yeah, that's not so good. Manuel Sanders and T.Y. Hilton. But as I wrap it up, I have Rivers, Thompson, White, cooks, and Hilton. Feeling nice, feeling fine. So this sucks. Last week, I mean, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league, my league. I'm playing against.

Mahomes. Pat Mahomes and Tyree Gilstack again. You can't escape it. So I am drafting Pat Mahomes for my quarterback. I got you. And I'm rounding it out because I'm, it's hard to go against Andy's almost upsets because he hits him so frequently. But I believe that San Francisco is going to handle the Detroit line. So I'm grabbing Alfred Morris for some goal line upside. All right. What's your two final teams? I already read mine. So I got Cam Newton, Kevin Coleman, Alfred Morris, Josh Gordon, Manny Sanders. That's a good team.

Yep, I've got Zach. Yeah, I know what you're prepping to say. I got Zach Hertz, Travis Kelsey, Jamal Williams, T.J. Yeldin and Pat Mahomes. Wow. So you've got the Mahomes Kelsey stack. Yes, I do. So you're just trying to medicate yourself in case something goes sideways elsewhere. All I know is I won week one.

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