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

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Tuesday, September 15th. Somebody in this office is glowing. I did not think Mike could be here. You didn't ascend? You did not? I just assumed you were no longer on this brother. I did. I did. So you did. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You just came back across the table. Ken Bone brothers. These two Kinbone Walker. Oh, baby. Also, what is this Andy on the Kid Bone Walker? He's got him on League of Richard. I know why. I'm just saying it's not fair or true to nature. Just with Gibbs and Josh Allen and Citi and I'm not their time right now, Andy. Listen, it took one game. Ken Bone Walker. It took one singular game. Well, hold on. Against.

One of last year's elite defenses. You may continue. Are they elite? I don't know. They were. I'm saying they were last year. Yes, I know. Now all of a sudden it's like, do you start running backs against them? No. You can start this one against them. Kenneth Walker, 23 for 173. Two touchdowns because one was technically a passing touchdown. Did you realize this? Oh, yeah, yeah. It was the old fashioned Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes. We just.

We bowl it. Did you see that on that play, Ken Walker said that was a really tough one for him to learn how it worked because they were watching early 1900s football plays. Yeah. Early 1900s play. Andy Reid said Chris Berman gave him that play. I mean. Yeah. Chris Berman showed him that and he took it.

It's always funny because I'm like, when do you decide you're actually going to use these? And then when you use them, you kind of like expire them to a degree. But look, it was the Ken Walker. You set it up so that they're watching for it. And then you do something else. It was the Ken Walker show. Guys, he's good. He's good at football. Well, look, this is, this is like, anybody in this room read the Lord of the Rings books? No. They're very long, right? They're long stories. It takes a long time for a payoff and things like that.

I feel like the Ken Walker story is it's like a six series book set. And it had some ups and some downs and some all arounds. And Mike, Mike's like, I'm going to keep reading. And we're like, I don't know if you should keep reading. He doesn't seem like. The fourth book was pretty slow. The fourth book was slow. And then some pages were torn out all over the place. And then.

Okay. It's a novelty. You win the MVP. But is he coming back to the team to share with Charbonnet? Or is he going to the doldrums of some other franchise? Oh, wait, Kansas City. Well, that should work. And I love on the broadcast. They said what we all assumed, which was the reason he went there, was not to win a Super Bowl, was not to, it was solely.

He wanted the opportunity to get all the work. It basically was saying, like, oh, why were you so good in the Super Bowl? Why were you so good in the playoffs? Because he got the opportunity. And he wanted to go somewhere where he got the opportunity. Kansas City promised him the opportunity. Turns out. 375 rushing temps seems realistic if he could stay healthy, which is really going to be tough. But definitely is. Andy, I mean, I shouldn't be talking. Mike, you talk all you want. I just, I love that. So we're in our.

Our slack. The Ken Bone brothers are celebrating. Yes, the Bone Brothers is the worst. Just, I mean, how can you not be celebrating? We should go out for like a Bone Brothers lunch. Yeah, get some Bone broth? Yeah. To celebrate. I hate this. Ken Walker Day. Go over to Bourbon and Bone. Oh, yeah. Oh, very nice. Hashtag not sponsored. Wings. No, I just the, the slack from the haters of our officers like, yeah, he's going to die.

Oh, that, what, that's the, that's the thing. Oh, no, my good player's getting too much work. I will say this. The only hope that our League of Record has with Gibbs and Walker. Out of here with that. Is simply that they're going to die. Your biggest problem, Andy, your legitimate biggest problem right now in our league, in our main league, is that your guys are getting too much work. Oh. That's, oh.

It's so good. Do you know how much that sucks for the rest of us? You know, there was this, we've had super teams in our league before. Oh, man. And the super teams, sometimes they come out in week one and they're just, you know, they're underwhelmed. That did not happen. No. No, it went as planned with a down week from A-chan and a down week from Davao. Yeah, in our league, if you score 130, you should win. That's like our scoring format. That is a great week. Right. You crossed 130.

And 140 and 150. Well, and then you thought you had an okay game and then you had Ken Bone Walker and then you went to what 175-ish? It was a delightful moment. I need to get everybody else to give up. That's the real key. I need them to just. I think you did in week one. I think they need to retire. But this, it was on the back. I mean, Ken Bone, unbelievable performance. It was also, in my opinion, unbelievable to see Mahomes able to.

You know, to run the football a little bit to, you know, he didn't. I didn't forget this one, though. He didn't even slide. Oh, the pants store drops not working, Jeremy. On it. I'm sorry. Travis Kelsey 3 for 71. Look, Rashi Rice, thank goodness for the touchdown, because which was two broken tackles, which by the way, Denver did not practice tackling this off season. They seemed like they had a little bit of issue on wrapping up. Yeah, I don't know if there was like a.

They distributed like Vaseline to everybody because Bo Nix couldn't hold on to the football and they couldn't hold on to the Chiefs. It was an embarrassing performance. He did have an all-time podium quote though. He was asked. Bo Nix? Yes, Bo Nix was asked by a reporter. Can you walk us through the end zone interception? And he goes, yeah, I dropped back to pass and I threw it to the other team. It was like next question. I mean, super accurate. I mean, he did walk you exactly through what happened. The Broncos.

Yeah, there's hilariously two parts of this story. And Emma Johnson looked awesome. Let me finish one thing on the Chiefs real quick because I want you to talk about the Broncos, but I just want to say, make no mistake, this is the recipe for the season for the Chiefs. It's not that Mahomes can't have bigger games, better games, whatever. The recipe was seen in this game. The recipe has run the football and be a dominant defensive force and then let Mahomes execute without mistakes.

They don't have the wide receiver personnel to be a dominant passing team. I do not believe they do. What are you talking about? You saw a super spry Travis Kelsey in this game. I mean, it's funny because Emmett Johnson and Travis Kelsey were the two leading receivers, neither are a wide receiver. Xavier worthy three catches. Thornton, zero. Cyrus, zero worthy was the leader in total receptions at wide receiver. And then Rashi Rice, two catches. I mean, I, man, it's one week, but I.

I'm concerned about rice. Oh, your drop is fixed. Oh. I'm never going back to the pants store. Imagine owning pants right now. There was a point last night when I thought about making AI of pants exploding off of your body. I was just like, that was the pinnacle of your life. Yeah. I don't think you're, you've got anywhere to go, but down now. Last night, probably your wedding.

Maybe the birth of your kids. Well, I mean, you forgot super duper champ night. That was probably, that was better. Fantasy fantasy. Yeah. And then marriage and kids. Yeah, I'm not worried. I'm really concerned about that other stuff. I would say that there is legitimate concern for Rashi Rice going forward. Two targets with, you know, the Eric B. Enemy system in place. I was worried about like, how will they utilize him? Will they have him be that kind of?

true possession receiver. And I don't think this is necessarily, I don't want to overreact to week one. You go back, you check the tape. They won easily running the ball. So you didn't have to throw it much. But I did have a little bit of concern or worry coming into the game that they wouldn't use Rushie Rice the way that they have the last couple years, which has been so good for him. I don't think that that has been good for the Kansas City Chiefs. It's not like a huge EPA play when it's successful.

enough but it's like not explosive plays you i mean there's a reason the chiefs didn't make the playoffs last year they weren't a great offense and so you know TBD he got a touchdown i don't know if you use that as an opportunity to try to matt has a question for him the uh the falcon aka poop butt wants to know would you trade rishi rice for parker washington in a heartbeat and i think i would sprint yeah do the button in a heartbeat

And I don't think you can get that done after that first week. In any format. Yeah. In points per Rashi Rice leagues, I would still do it. Mike, talk about the Broncos. Okay. So my question was going to be, how long is Davis Webb calling plays for this team? Totally. I can't believe he made it to quarter four. Because the next five weeks. J.K. Dobbins had one carry in the second quarter. Your main. And Harvey looked good.

I thought they used Harvey. You know, you have to get him in space. My entire argument of why I like Dobbins over Harvey is that Dobbins is a better actual running back. Harvey is, Harvey has juice. He is a weapon that can be used in the correct way. But this is a defense, and it should be a defense and run team. Now that we, now that Dobbins is back to health, they did not. They completely abandoned the run.

I think it was like three carries in the first quarter, one in the second. Then he had a couple, or he at least one good carry in the second half. But it's like they kept throwing it over and over, even though it was not working. The chiefs knew what they were going to do. I mean, shout out to Pat Bryant. That was pretty fun. He led the team in targets. One catch for two yards for Jalen Waddle. Yeah. That's...

they were how about they were broken how about jacksonville the rams the 49ers the next three weeks for yeah it's it's tough they've got a good defense and and we've seen explosive offensive like performances last year they were sparse though they were they were you know here and there they would blow up for 40 points and then most weeks it was like they just did enough to squeak out a win i did see warren sharp tweet out just a reminder of who the broncos beat yeah

In 2025, which was Trey Lance, Chris Ola Dukin, Jordan. O'Dookin. Kenny Pickett, Gino Smith, Marcus Marietta, Gino Smith again, Davis Mills, Justin Fields, Jake Browning, Cam Ward. There was a list of not great offenses that they were playing. So I know we, I still do view the Broncos as a very top end defense, but at least be open to potential.

You know, incorrect thoughts. It was so insane. They're like, hey, Bo Nix is playing real bad. Should we try and, like, get him on track with some? Like, let's help him out with the run game. Like, no, we're just going to let Bo Nix keep looking terrible. Yeah, and once you got down, you were stuck. And it was, it was not good. It's one week, but, you know, through one week, the AFC title game contenders didn't look great.

right so it'll be very interesting we got more news by the way today's a waiver show i didn't even say it at the top because i was too quick to get into the kin bone walker moment for mike but waivers on today's show news on today's show i've got a little game i want to play with you guys because is it called kin bone walker or uh no i think i know how because the list is very small uh i think i know well that would be a fun game to play that we could do that actually actually wild

So it's like after you can't overreact, but you can't overreact. It's like, okay, obviously you'd take Gibbs and B, John. Ken Bon Walker. Then the question starts. Well, I think I'd take Jonathan Taylor over. Okay. I think I would take CMC. Sure. But then I think the list ends. I mean, it's, it is. I mean, you're taking them over A-chan. Oh, gosh. You're taking them over. We were before the week one. People are very excited for Gentie. I need to see him play not the dolphins. James Cook.

I think that's a question. I mean, Ken Walker got zero goal line opportunities last night. Well, he got a target. Oh, I mean, he got the target. Yeah, I just mean, like, you're going to have games where they're on the goal line and he's joining the ball in. And Mahomes, you know, ran one in. So let's talk some more news. News and notes from around the league. The last piece of information we got on Sam Darnold, a unique soft tissue injury. I saw, I heard glute.

this morning. Oh, that is quite unique. And expected to be short. What is that a glute? I haven't seen one of those in a while. I expected to be short term. I don't eat bread, so I'm not worried about it. Right, right, right. You're glute free. Oh. Switch. Thank you, Mike. It was on the, it was on the, you know, on the bubble there. Come on. I liked it. Guys, I don't even care what's happening today. Arnold is looking like. Wavers, sh mavers. I've got getting bowed Walker. Week four return to play.