Week 2 Studs & Stinkers + Injuries, Injuries, Injuries! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/21

A dime. A beautiful. A beautiful pass and a beautiful reception by Melvin Gordon. I got a plan. Yeah, he does. All right. This was the stinker that everyone wants to hear us talk about. Naim Hines. Zero carries one target. I played nine total snaps. They gave the entire backfield to Jonathan Till. I don't. I have no idea. I have no idea what happened unless Frank Reich just took the situation of, well, okay, Marlon Mack is out of the way.

Great news for me because I want Jonathan Taylor to do everything. Now, it was the game script was not one where they're having to pass very much. As seen by Jonathan Taylor's targets where two receptions for him, I believe we said. And in a more competitive game, even Jonathan Taylor is going to see more targets than that from Philip Rivers. So this is, I'm not going to rage drop Heinz.

That's what people are asking. Do I drop him after spinning all that fab on? I'm going to bench him. Jason, what are you doing? Well, you've got one great week and one bad week. So you're saying, what do I do? What's normal? And I think that normal is going to be not the two touchdown week one. But I do think Naim Hines will be involved in the passing game. The issue is it's not going to be this week against the New York Jets where, again, the, you know, the Colts are going to be up.

It's going to be a Jonathan Taylor game. So do you want to hold on to Heinz as this pass-catching PPR flex-worthy back? Or do you want to go, you know, make a move after someone? If you need a spot start this week, you know, would you rather pick up a Mike Davis or someone like that? And really, it's going to be team dependent. But I don't think Heinz is going to be completely uninvolved like he was this week.

after next week. It's a good point. I mean, with all the injuries that are happening, I imagine you need the depth that running back. But if you need a start this week is, like you said, it's going to be another Jonathan Taylor week against the Jets. Maybe all of the weeks will be Jonathan Taylor Weeks with that workload. He almost had 20 carries in the first half. Do you realize that? Wow. I think he had 18. And he looked good. He looked good. And you can just do more with him.

Any worries about the disappointing Clyde Edwards, a lair game? Eight targets in this one. That was nice to see. Not really. The Kansas City offense really as a conglomeration were bad. And Mahomes saved his day towards the end, and so did Tyreek Hill with the 50-yard touchdown. But...

A divisional game against the Chargers. Every time they play the Chargers. They just, they were very, very flat. Nothing was happening. No magic was going on. Any concern over Kenyon Drake's week? 20 carries. Yeah, I would say no. Jason, where are you on Kenyon Drake? Yeah, I mean, look, I'm watching these games, just wanting him to break something off, do something special, have a fantasy superstar game. It hasn't happened. It's been very disappointing, but I'm, again, I'm not concerned. 20 carries.

Is baseline as high? And if he breaks something off, great. Did you guys see Kenyon Drake's tweet about fantasy football? No. To all the fantasy football managers who are sad with my performance, please drop me and bless someone else in your league as the season goes on. So he obviously thinks he's going to have a monster season as the season goes on. But if you're telling me I get 20 carries from any running back, I'm happy to start them weekend and week out every.

single time because the opportunity will eventually lead to a lot of fantasy points. J.K. Dobbins only got two carries in this game. Gus Edwards, I believe had nine. Mark Ingram had 10 or vice versa. What do you do with the backfield in Baltimore? It seems to be a true committee. Yeah, it's a bit like the random backfield of Los Angeles.

Mark Ingram is still the start. He ripped off like a 30-yard touchdown run on fourth and one, or fourth and short, whatever it was. It's still Mark Ingram, but it's a bit of a sketchy situation going on. Yeah, I don't have a great deal of confidence in either of those players, even though you might start them anyway because it's Baltimore. Benny Snell, if you are not the James Connor owner, what do you do with Benny Snow? I...

I'm still holding him. If you're, if you picked up and rostered Benny Snell because of a James Connor injury, that's, that's still the plan. This is, is, see if James, like, yeah, he's a, he's a high leverage insurance running back. Yeah, I think tomorrow we'll talk about whether or not guys like Tony Pollard and Benny Snell and these, whether they are worth dropping for.

player X or player Y because there are situations where you would drop the backup, the insurance policy for a known starter. But there's a line to draw on the sand where you go, if I don't need this player to go into my starting lineup, then I'm going to hold on to the insurance policy. All right. Some wide receivers that stunk this week. Tell me if you're worried about him. Julio Jones, Alan Robinson, T.Y. Hilton, Hollywood Brown was not great. Michael Gallup, two straight weeks of not a lot.

I was not concerned about anybody until you brought up Michael Gallup. It has to be at least a little bit concerning for what is happening. C.D. Lamb is seeing more targets, a higher target percentage than Michael Gallup. Dalton Schultz saw over 20% of the targets. Schultz's final stateline was certainly inflated because of the game script of what happened to the Cowboys where they were down.

like three scores and had to fight and scratch their way back in, but it still was over 20% of the targets. I mean, that's not just a beefed up stat line. Is C.D. Lamb the best wide receiver on the Cowboys? Oh, did you just say yes? Yeah. I mean, C.D. Lamb was my number one wide receiver coming into the NFL draft. I think he's a superstar. Now, he's a rookie. He's not necessarily anywhere near where he's going to develop and become.

But I mean, I believe he is a really special player. Are you worried about this T.Y. Hilton first two weeks? Looks pretty bad. Drop the 50-yard touchdown in this game. Let's say moderately, not a huge amount. I'm not panicking yet. All right. We'll talk tomorrow about Michael Pittman. Scotty Miller, the bad week. Yeah. Goose for Anthony Miller. Tight ends. Rob Grunkowski, one target.

We keep Rob Grunkowski out of here until he does something. Well, people need to know if they need to cut bait. You should have drafted him. I know we said not to draft him, but people drafted him anyways. I feel like the Foot Clan, nobody who listens to this show regularly has had to deal with any gronk worries because nobody drafted him. Nobody's been rostering him. Nobody's starting him. So congratulations. Austin Hooper. Goodbye. Yeah, I'm out.

Chris Herndon apparently was blocking more than any other starting tight end because you have to block if you want to give the ball to Frank Gore every play. Yeah, it is ridiculous. Go ahead, Jay. Adam Gays is just so stupid, man. He's... Number two. Maybe not as a man. High intelligence. I don't, but as a coach, as a coach, I can't and won't trust any option.

They need to fire him immediately so we can have some Jets. You know, I would be far more in on the Jets' offense if they were to let Adam Gase go now. I think by the middle of the year, some of these offensive weapons could, I don't know, find the light of day. So here's just to, you know, because we like to pile on on Adam Gase on this show. Here are the players who outproduced.

Chris Herndon, the player that he has said is a huge part of this offense. He couldn't stop talking about Chris Erndon. Liar! During the offseason. Braxton Berrios, Chris Hogan, Josh Malone, and you may say, wait, those guys aren't on the New York Jets. Well, that's because you were sort of correct. They were practice squad guys who got called up so that Chris Herndon, on 36% of his passing snaps, could block. What are you doing?

What would our show content be, though, if we didn't have Adam Gaines? That's a fair. We kind of need him. A necessary evil. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's like SNL and you need a certain like president in place to really deliver. You don't want it, but you kind of need it. It kind of need it. Yeah, it will be a bittersweet day, but I think the day's coming. He'll get another job. All right. Last question here. Are you moving on from Eric Ebron, Greg Olson, Austin Hooper?

Hooper, I would move on from Ebron is, I would probably drop him. I'm still holding. Go ahead, Jay. I'm the Ebron truther. I would move on from Ebron, absolutely. I would hold Logan Thomas, though. It didn't turn into huge production, but it was still nine targets. And at the tight-end position, like Zach Ertz, seven targets, Dallas Goddard, eight targets, neither of those players. Honestly, Hasn's just missed him.

Yeah. A bunch of times. And he will continue to miss him a bunch of times. That's fair. But you got to trust the process. If your players getting an opportunity, they're going to come through. Stinkers of the Week presented by odor eaters, odor eaters, the best in foot odor defense. We also want to thank pristine auction for sponsoring the show today, daily auctions. Look, Calvin Ridley signed jersey. $46. Get in. That number's about to go up. $36 if you use the ballers sign up code.

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