Week 2 Waivers + Bounce Back or Buns? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/15

Which, by the way, I did offer Mike Ken Walker for Christian McCa... Oh, wait. No, it was Bejohn and the 2-11. Oh, that's right. Which I'm like, well, maybe that was a mistake. Maybe. Darnold, week four, return. You know, Cardinals play the Seahawks this week. Cardinals play the Seahawks and Drew Locke this week. Okay. Jim Harbaugh. The NFC West.

goes through Arizona. Yes, it does, and we'll find out because it's in Arizona. Ladd-McConkie day-to-day with the rib injury. That's good news. So obviously he could put a flack jacket on, maybe play this week. The Chargers offense was running through him, granted poorly, but hopefully they figured that out. Jesse Minter said Jacoby Lane will seek a second and third opinion. Why did they already presume they need a third?

because they're like, wait, we already know that guy's going to agree. We're going to see a kook and then a real doctor. See how many doctors until we tell them, hey, your wrist's totally fine. Well, Dr. 2, he loves Dr. 1. He's just going to agree. I mean, he fractured his wrist. That part is, I mean, that part is settled. I hope it's conclusive.

Say flowers day to day with the hamstring. That's optimistic news. Hopefully he is not going to. I mean, that's going to be in the back of your head for a few weeks until he gets through a game. Yeah. I will say the expectation is he probably won't practice much this week. He will start and be active. It's just a worry of whether he reactivates. I'm not sure. I don't, I think he might miss a week. I mean, potentially that would be smart to just give him the time off. They did say that they left him.

questionable for a long time in that game. They played the Saints. And then at that point, they decided the game was out of hand. They don't need to bring him back. They said if it was a playoff game, he would have absolutely come back and played. So maybe they give him a week off just to be extra safe, but. Would he have come back and played injured is the question? Sure. I mean, the reaggravation is the risk. We saw Jalen Coker, a report of him being in a walking boot after the game. We're like, oh my gosh, the leading wide receiver on the week. Not expected to miss time.

rolled his ankle in the first quarter, the boot was precautionary. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, of course it's not. Otherwise, everyone would be walking around. It's very cautionary. Everyone would be walking around in two boots at all times. Look, I can't roll my ankle in these things. Like, it's not precautionary. Something happened where they put a boot on him. Thankfully, he said it was mild. He's not worried. He's going to play. But at the same time, it is not precautionary.

It's cautionary. Yes. Okay. We have Liam Cohen saying Brian Thomas Jr. is expected to play in week two against the Broncos, so avoided major injury there. Jordan Mason sore thumb being evaluated. You know what, Jordan, keep that one quiet. Yeah. Keep that one to yourself. That's embarrassing, man. Keep that one quiet. I get it. If like.

I mean, especially if it's, it's not a broken thumb. It's a sore thumb. Would you hammer? Were you like hammering the picture in the wall? Oh, I got my thumb. It matters. It's a bruised thumb, Jason. Get it right. If you're a running back and your dominant hand, like you have a busted thumb. For sure, a percussionary thumb cast. Busted. Busted thumb sounds great, Mike. A sore thumb? Like, come on. It's sticking out. You know, jokes aside.

Yeah, it doesn't matter. If it's ball security of stuff like that, you got it. Yeah, because he plays Chicago. Guess who returns to practice. Oh, let's go. Trevo, back at practice. Okay, that's good. They need him. They do. They need some weapons without AJ Brown. They looked like a team that had no one to do anything. Like, Ramandre was okay. And outside of Ramandre, they didn't have a receiver or anyone else there that could do anything explosive. Todd Monkin says he anticipates to Sean Watson starting for.

the Browns in week two and more repugnantly he said there were some really good things on film well there was there was a good thing that one play was pretty good yeah Mike is 100% correct I I guess you're out yeah Deshawn Watson is this one updated yet for him start this number two no no why how dare you how dare you wait who's the new number two

Well, no, it's not been updated to. Number two. Yeah, that was last year's number two. We need Watson in there. Oh, yeah. Dylan Samson, significant time missed for the Browns. So third down back, Dylan Samson won't be there. And then Isaiah Pacheco underwent back surgery. He will miss 12 weeks. This was not the injury he missed time with, by the way, in preseason at all. That was a neat. That is such a specific time. It's not like he'll miss like 10 to 14 weeks.

And that's a long time from now to know exact. He will miss 12 weeks. But he's basically done for the fantasy season, it seems like. All right. We are going to take a quick break. And then I want to play a little game before we get into the waiver wire. All right, guys. I decided to do this on the way in. All right. I looked up the top 30 players in ADP, or as in the top 30 performing players by ADP order that had bad week ones. And we're going to play a little game. Okay.

All right, I'm going to give you a name, and you have a simple task at hand. You have to either respond with bounce back or buns. Okay, bounce back or buns. It's bounce back or buns for week one. Again, I did this on the way in. I didn't have a lot of time to workshop it, but it's a great name. You ready for this? Sure. Let's start. George Pickens, 4.3 fantasy points. Bounce back for sure. All right. I figured you'd say that. How about Devante Adams' is 4.1 fantasy points?

bounce back or buns bounce back you said that quietly i did i'm that's allowed you can say it as loud as you want they didn't they didn't the one of seven times inside the tin that he was on the field what are you doing you all bounce back okay uh colson lovelin zero points oh bounce back he's fine i figured that would be the answer how about kyle pitts is zero points bounce back or who's the quarterback yeah i'll say buns because i never thought he was going to be great okay but like if if it were

Tua or Michael Pennix, as bad as we think they are. Better. On the one route where that Kyle Pitts actually got a target. I mean, that was a, that was like a 10-point play. You think Tua wouldn't have underthrown him either? No, I think he would have, I think he would have got him. I think he wasn't 20 yards down the field. I don't think. It was close enough that Tua could be accurate. Josh Downs, 4.7 fantasy points. Buns. Ooh. I think he's going to be okay.

He was on the field. You were looking for usage and routes and stuff for Josh Downs. I bet Pierce was on limited snaps and Keenan had to work and scored more fantasy points. Yeah. Bounce back or buns, Mike? Bouncy Bunchy Buns. I'm not sure I name this game correct. I will say he had 94% route participation, which is good, but 78% was in the slot, only 21% wide. This is going to get harder. Okay, Marshawn Lloyd, 3.7 fantasy points. No way.

Bunce. I have to, that one I have to know who they play. And I'm not, my week two radar is not going yet. The Jets. It'll be better than last week. Mike, he doesn't understand the game. He doesn't want to, I don't want to keep saying bounce back or buns, man. That is the game. Well, Mikey Lemon one fancy point. Boom.

Can you bounce? Now he wants to say it. There's only one that you want to say. Can you bounce back when you have never done anything yet? Oh, he did something, Jason. He finished with negative yards. I mean, literally, these are the 30 highest ranked names in terms of ADP before the season. No, I'd go buns there. Tarynne. Taryn McClorin, 2.4 fantasy points. Bonds. What?

Yeah. You're doing that to Terry? I was pre-seasoned. I don't think Terry is going to have a great season. Brooks wants you to know, Mike, it's okay if you're wrong. It's just the game. I don't like to be wrong. Bounce back. I'm still in on Terry. Rico Dowdell, 3.1 fantasy points. Oh, dude, I watched for today's Dynasty pod recording, which comes out tomorrow. I watched both Jalen Warren and Rico Dowdell. Okay.

The assessment was the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense was Bunn's. This was like, when you saw the Warren production, like, well, I guess he was better. It was like, and he was, no, dude, it was just awful. All the way across the board. Also, when you're watching specifically two running backs and my biggest takeaway was like, good Lord, D.K. Metcalf was awful. I told Andy, I'm not even watching for that. I told Andy yesterday that you were in the middle of watching this film and you were like,

Man, DK's bad. You want to know what's wild is. Such a bad week for him. I think DK was the number one like points below expected. Yeah? Like his expected fantasy points was like 19 points something. They were throwing a ton. I'm going to say Rico bounce back. He had a lot of snaps, targets, everything you need other than quality play. I got three more names. Okay? Ready? Because I can't, I can't not bring these up. A bounce back or buns, Harold Fanon 3.1 fantasy points.

Bounce back, but it won't be until Watson's gone. Okay. Bonds. Bonds. Oof. You are, I mean, you're pretty buns all the way through on the Browns. Brown buns. Okay. Easy. Stop talking. It, uh, it, Casey Concepcion is a huge part of the problem. Like he's going to operate. Well, but, but I'm saying where, where Concepcion's getting his targets and getting his work. I mean, Sanders could come back in and just be like, no, I love Harold Finn and that's where I'm going to go.

He's a very good player. He is. Two more names. Jay and then Waddle, point seven fantasy points. Oh, he'll be back. Bounce back. Bounce back for him. Let me see if I can give you a tough one to finish this out. Rashad White, 3.7 fantasy points. Buns. Yeah. That situation is weird. We didn't really highlight it. But Bill was, like Bill was the guy, and he fumbled at the end of the game. And then they just put the rookie in.

Ketron Allen? Yeah. It was weird because they were in the game. Yeah, it was very, very close. They don't see Rashad White between the tackles. That's what that says. Well, I'm saying, like, they were so fast. I know, like, Ketron, I mean, he kind of looked okay. But it's like Bill was, Bill was playing okay from what I gathered. I didn't rewatch the entire game. I mean, it's a dream show of Mike gets to celebrate Ken Walker and then call Rashad White Buns. Yeah, that's a pretty good show. Yeah.

I'm feeling great. Don't talk some waivers? Sure. WaiverWire, presented by T-Mobile. All right, well, this will be fun. By the way, if you go to the website, if you are a Fookland member, you get access to the ultimate dashboard, there are custom spot starts and waiver rankings for your specific leagues. So they're all customized to your league, to your scoring system. You can check those out here. Running backs.

Do we have names? Do we got names? We got a lot of backup. I think the people will react to Kalem Black's performance on Thursday night. Yes, they will. They will probably overreact, but I don't think when it comes time to do the waiver wire rankings that you're really going to overreact too much. If you're on like a priority list, I would burn my priority on Kalen Black personally. You would? I would because I think what he establishes not. I don't expect him to do what he did week one, which is be a flex with benefits. Like I don't expect him to get enough work to where you're going to start him. No.

But what he did do is show that he is that backup. He is capable. And should Christian McCaffer go down, he's the guy that you want. I would put him as probably one of the most important guys to get. But again, what's the fab amount for Kalin Black? So I don't think that this- If you have CMC and if you don't. I don't think this week has the dump-your-fab type of player, which usually week one has it.

Right. Hopefully we've got it in week two. Right now, I would say that I'm not going to burn too much. If I was to go out there, I'd be like 10 or 15 fab on Kaelin Black. If I've got Christian McCaffrey, I'd probably spend up a little bit more just to protect my asset and get him. Is he your number one running back pickup? Is it Kailen Black? Are you looking towards...

You know, Tyler Algier heavily involved, 17 carries for Arizona, Chris Rodriguez. The snaps were pretty decent. The works were not. Right. The work was not. Yeah, I mean, to me, there were, like, I think that there is not a guy. If you need to start someone this week, like, oh, my gosh, I have nobody to start. Okay, maybe you grab Tyler Algier. He's not, he's available in about a third of leagues.

probably not out there for most people. I don't think there's really a guy you're going to start. Maybe George Halani, because you have a touchdown opportunity. I know, gross. I'd much rather play Algeria. I didn't play Algiers. So to me, I'm focused on the backups, the insurance backs. That's Kalim Black and Emmett Johnson. Those two guys, to me, are they both looked good. They're both on what could be good offenses. They both have historically.