It's FOOTBALL TIME + Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/9

Mike, we want you to preview the whole game in an Australian accent. Crookie. I'm living in a lounge down under. You'll just sing. Yeah. The San Francisco 49ers travel to Australia to play a team that also traveled to Australia. It's Melbourne. But they have taken two very different strategies. I don't know. Have you guys been locked into this? Well, the 49ers went early, didn't they? Yes.

The 49ers. And Kyle Shannon has no idea which day is what. He's been very confused. Future in the past. And I haven't read through it, but people have said, like, the actual science of it is they say, go a week early like the 49ers did, so you're fully acclimated. Or go last minute. You go last second. And then you're, so you don't have the weird, your body doesn't know what's going on. You still have your schedule and you play the game and you get out of there.

The Rams have been getting absolutely crushed for going with that strategy online. So I'm excited to see how that works out. Yeah, the Rams are technically considered the home team in this one. So they lose a home game this year. The Vegas line, Rams minus three and a half. The overrunner is 48 and a half. We just did our little weekly picks pool in the office that we do. And I took the 49ers in this. I don't blame you. I mean, having no Aaron Donald, I know that they've.

There's been a lot of mispractice from Miles Garrett this. They've been without Aaron Donald for a little bit. Well, sure. But I mean, I'm saying where the line was set, assuming that you would have him after he signed. Miles Garrett, we expect to play. But he has missed a lot of practices. Maybe that's just veteran rest. And you also have the fact that like usually Kyle Shanahan, I think Sean McVeigh is a better coach than Kyle Shanahan. But when these two match up together.

Shanahan usually has McVeigh's number. I mean, I think either team can win this game. It was just relative to that three and a half line. I was just really like, okay, this game will probably be good. They are often very good. This is the oldest venue ever to host an NFL game. That's, I mean, is that, is it better to be near a substation or to play on the oldest in the oldest venue? I mean, why do I, I'm going to interpret that as all of the.

Earth is also old. Oh. It's not just the stadium. They also have the oldest grass with the oldest rocks. You don't what I mean? Oh, yeah. We haven't seated since 1832. You've got it. It's going to be real tough on the ankles. But so we are, yeah, yeah, we are technically talking about a Thursday night football game. We're talking about it on a Wednesday. And the game.

technically takes place on a Friday because it's in Australia, and it's Friday in Australia, just so you know. I don't accept this. And I don't believe we own Wednesday, Thursday, Friday football.com. Someone get on it. So week one, give a little overview of your perspective on how you, because this is the hardest week to preview games. We have no information about all the head new, you know, the new coaches, the utilization of certain players on the depth chart.

A lot, we learn a lot after week one on how teams are going to approach just rotations and things like that. So how do you think about these previews compared to the rest of the year? You know, that's what it is. This is what I'm looking for. And this game is exciting. Like there is truly, some games you'll go, I'm watching this singular player and then I don't really care. This one is absolutely fascinating. So much to see. You've got Deshaun Stribling. Yes. Deshaun's stribling who, uh,

Will he play 75 plus percent of snaps? Is he a full starter? That's the most important thing to me. It's not even how he does. Is he a full-time starter in week one? I'm watching Terrence Ferguson to see is he the third pass catcher? Is he playing a large enough percentage of snaps to matter? I've got him in tons of leagues as my last pick. So I'm ready to kick him to the waiver wire after week one or victory lap, you know, a great last round pick.

You've got the Blake quorum, Karen Williams split. Like, how's that going to go? Does Devante Adams still have it? Or is he look sluggish and old? It's both 33-year-olds playing each other in week one. You got Mike Evans. Does his meat work? You know? So all sorts of... It's a meat check. Yeah, it's a meat check. What did he say? Hey, did that get amped up? That sounds pretty good. We fixed it. There's so much. Yeah, there are a ton of questions. You know, there's...

There's part of me, like you can see a lot of scenarios taking place. I could see a world where Chiron dominates the snaps and we all roll our eyes into the back of our head because we made a big deal of Blake quorum again. I can see a world where Mike Evans comes out and dominates. After all of this, like, because he came out to the podium for those that don't know and said, look, all this stuff I was dealing with in camp. He's like, none of this would have kept me off the field. We're taking it easy. I'm an older player. You know, none of this was significant enough to where I would have missed a week of football. So in his mind, he's completely healthy going into the year.

He said they did a good job taking care of me. I wouldn't have missed any time. So I could see a world where Mike Evans goes out and it's two touchdowns and we're all going, oh yeah, that's the world where you liked in the beginning of the off season. Absolutely. I mean, I still to this moment think that if any single game that Mike Evans is healthy this year, he's going to be good. You know, he's such a perfect matchup for this. And then speaking of health, George Kittle. Yes. How many snaps does he play? Do you start him again with the information that we have at this moment?

I would prefer to probably not start George Kittle. Like, I would rather start Juan Johnson. And he's basically available in almost every league. You know. Isaiah likely I'd play more over Kittle in week one. Johnson, Dallas Goddard. I mean, there are, there's plenty of options that are probably, like, let's do this. I'm going to literally look at our League of Record, which we just drafted. I'm going to look at the waiver wire at the tight end position.

And you tell me if you'd start them over George Kittle in week one. You ready? I am ready. Dallas got it. Yes. Okay. Hunter Henry. Yes. Tonight. Seattle. That's where they are weakest. Is the inner dialogue is coming out? No. I feel like we still do need more info. I want to hear the... Dalton Schultz. Yeah. Against the bills. Dalton Schultz is going to be...

He shultz be okay. The, thank you. Swish. No, I loved it. Oh, you swish me? Oh, man, I hated it. I'm saying he's going to be the nastiest, most disgusting, reliable PPR tight end because he's just going to, like, he won't do anything with the catches. But if you're in a PPR, Brent and Strange. That one's interesting. Yeah. I needed to hear the, we're going to play George in the red zone. I don't think you're going to get to hear that. Let's say you don't, let's see you make the decision right now, Mike.

Yeah, I mean, the game's tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, that's what, yeah, but I would, I would take these decisions up to tomorrow. I'm not saying that you might not get more information, but you probably won't. Would you start dulcite or kiddo? Yeah, that won't go, I mean, I think that there's a, I think there's an all but guaranteed limited snaps for George Kittle. Yeah, I mean, there's just no way he's playing full snap. I'm, I'm not, I'm pretty much not playing George Kittle. There's just too many people. I,

I think I would play T.J. Hawkinson over George Kittlebe. No, that was the last name. Yeah, I mean, but when I'm looking at this, it's like guys that are potentially on the way, Mark Andrews, Isaiah likely, Dalton Schultz, Britain Strange, Hawkinson. Those are, you know, Kate Otton against Cincinnati, you just, one of these guys is healthy. Kate Audens in, like, the best situation possible, but I don't know. He needs people out in front of him.

Let's take a quick break and come back and talk more about this game. All right. Back into the matchup. I don't know if I mentioned the over-under. If I didn't, it is 48.5 in this game, which it starts at 835 Eastern. From Australia. We do have a quote circulating from George Kittle from nine-ish hours ago or something. He's trustworthy source. It's from George Kittle.

And, you know, poking fun. Remember when Shanahan had his little miss speak when he was talking about guys returning from injuries. And he's like, but he went with the phrase of George Kittle took a step back. And everyone was like, what do you mean he took a step back? Why are we glancing over it? So George Kittle says, I've taken a step back toward playing. That's helpful. I mean, I agree with you guys, especially in week one.

It's a lot of risk to take on. But man, betting against George is also. Just one touchdown. But the Rams are also a good defense. This is a really good defense for the Rams. They've added pieces from last year. You know, we still haven't even seen the Rams with Miles Garrett. This is going to be a very good defense. Brock Purdy in three starts versus the Rams averaging 213 passing yards. I'm not really, really excited about.

the 49ers pass catchers in general receivers for this specific matchup yeah obviously the the auto starts in this game CMC is is there Puka is there um how's this Devante Adams is I think an auto start for where you drafted him and then probably Mike Evans in that category yeah Mike Evans is I think he's in that category if he's healthy you've got to play him touchdown upside is there with an over under of 48 and a half you know that the

Both teams are going to score. It might be tough sledding. But yeah, I would put him in the almost certainly going to start category. The last two games for Christian McCaffrey against the Rams, two and a half yards per carry. Don't care. But 53 opportunities. They just give him the ball nonstop.

If you were deciding on like you're in a deeper league, you have Matthew Stafford, the MVP and you had to decide him or Purdy in this game or Matthew Stafford or Jackson Dart in his first matchup? I would go Dart Stafford. I would take Stafford over Purdy in this matchup. The 49ers have like always, they've lost a lot of pieces in the offseason. They just recently lost.

Alfred Collins, their defensive tackle, tore his patella tendon, what, yesterday, day before yesterday, something like that? They were always getting hurt. Yeah, but, I mean, that was a, that's a decent loss on the defensive side. And last year, just for the record, dealt with injuries, obviously. And this has been a bad day for this guy. That was a, you really scold that one. Yeah.

The podcast. The audio listeners have no idea what I'm talking about. Because it didn't fire. Al tried to drop a little substation drop on us. But it went as well as his four iron. And he freaking scold it. And nothing happened. We got the lighting effects. Oh, man. It's been a long month. I will say it has been a long month. Oh, he wasn't. Was he going to fix it? Of course you would try. Oh, yeah.

It's been a long month. I'm looking over here, and Papa Josh is barely alive. Yeah, he's been dealing with customer service. Papa Josh, I want the people to know. Like August, no matter what we do, no matter how perfect our systems are, we have a tremendous amount of support requests that come in, people that need to find, you know, get stuff fixed. Yeah, it happens. We have a lot of subscribers on the Foot Clan. And we don't have 100 employees. No, we have that guy over there who.

According to what I saw has responded to people in 48 minutes on average in the entire month of August, no matter what time of day the freaking thing comes in. It's incredible. Which, I mean, that's why he looks like that. Right. He's not casket face for no reason. You've put him in the casket support request. August is the casket, yes. Yeah, but I mean, it's been a month, but that's what football is. Put that to the test. Send Josh some emails at like 1230 in the morning.

What are you doing? I'm filling his inbox. Oh, my gosh. Why don't you hit that drop again? I can't. All right. I was going somewhere with something. I was going to ask a question. But I don't remember where we were. Oh, yeah. I was going to tell you that the 49ers defense last year, 24th against quarterbacks, 22nd against running backs, 26 against whiteouts, 26 against tight-ins. A great matchup for opposing offenses. Again, the...

This was the best offensive football at 30 points of game last year in the Rams. So matchup-wise, what you were saying about the offensive pieces for the 49ers, it doesn't matter where the game's at. It's just a better defense for the Rams. Yeah, I've got the Rams. Maybe I'll change my pick after this conversation. Yeah, I took the Rams on the pick-em. But there's not a lot of Rams I don't want to start.

I think Stafford is a fine enough start. You're going to start Kyron, Puka, obviously, and Devante Adams. So you're good to go. And then you get to watch Coram and Ferguson to see, are either of them really, really involved from week one? Yeah. I mean, Ferguson has been, despite the fact that I don't, I'm not on the hype train, but he fits the mold of like, he's been a last round, second to last round pick for me in a bunch of deeper leagues just to see what week one looks like. Yeah. Just to find out. It's all it is, because it's a perfect, it's the perfect type of player where.