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

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for the ones who get it done. This is Al-Lazard, aka the Lizard King, wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, and you're listening to Fantasy Footballers Podcast. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Oh, me, oh my. What a weekend. Monday, September 21st.

The Fantasy Footballers podcast back with you, Andy, Mike and Jason. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. It's going to be a show. It's a physical sport, Mike, this football. Yeah, it certainly is. We will do our best to report the news. There will be a lot of news to report. But we also, like, a lot of cool stuff happened.

This is the first Meglodon injury episode. Yeah, a lot of cool stuff happened yesterday, so we will make sure we try to balance out highlighting a lot of that good stuff. But yeah, there's, there's unfortunately a lot of injury news that has to be talked about, evaluated, breakdown of what do we do moving forward, what situations does this create for fantasy football. So buckle up. Yeah, yeah, I mean, the most.

significant fantasy football related news is injury news because you have to make huge adjustments to your team with some of these injuries and we're going to have to walk through all of them. And it's the nature of the game. I mean, every year it happens and yet we seem blown away by it, but it happens every single year. Yeah. And when your players go down, at least this week, you can say, well,

So did everyone else's. I don't know anyone who just escaped this week where it's like the team that you went in with, yeah, that's good. You exited with that exact same team. It felt like a battle royale. I mean, it was like last man standing. Yeah. Oh, love Michael Keaton. All right. We will get into all of the injury news, the studs, the stinkers on the show today. So much to talk about. You can find us on YouTube, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers.

Twitter at the FF Ballers. I have no doubt that there will be further updates throughout the day about some of these injuries. And so you'll want to follow us on socials and make sure you're up to date. The Fantasy Footballers.com is the website. It's Monday, so it's time to get sophisticated with some Monday Punday. Well, we can start here with Naeem hides. Yes, sir.

Nunheim, Hind. None heem. Or T.Y. Hilton. Yes, but we have the more positive Mo Ali rocks. Oh, very nice. Way to roll it. Dak impress Scott. Oh, but what about Tyler Higg? Three. I also heard Triler. Not bad. Oh, no. Now we got to get sad again. Who, Leo Jones. As in who? Foo. Foo.

Leo Jones. And Julio Grones. And Stulio Jones. Oh, no, it is a poop joke. Mark Blandrews? Yes. Oh, here's one you'll like, Mike. Plod Gurley. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Oh, here's a nice one. Terry McScoran. He looked great. I liked that one. Oh, no. This one might be the best and the worst. Pottie Miller.

Or Frauddy Miller. Oh, they didn't work out. Or Benny Smell. Oh, if you started Benny Smell, that's on you. And I added one to the end. Oh. The failing V. Oh, no. For Mr. Will Fuller. So. All right, Jason. What'd you think? Uh, I give that, I give that an eight. I give that an eight out of ten. My favorite was Potty Miller. Oh, Potty Miller was the best. Potty Miller dropped the touchdown pass. He did.

Yes. If he catches that touchdown, he's fine. It's not what you expected for it. What did he have week one? Like five or six receptions was heavily involved in the offense. Chris Godwin is out. You expect to see things. And then Jason's favorite player of all time. Justin Watson. Superstar Justin Watson is the one, I believe he even led the team in snaps. It's like you throw your hands in the air and just shake your head. I tried so hard to.

acquire Mike Evans before this past week in all of my leagues. I tried. I tried. Not with you, though. Not in Dynasty. Of course not. I knew you wouldn't let him go. That's a fool's Aaron. We don't trade with each other. All right. Let's do some rewind. Weekly rewind. I want to be clear. I pushed that button. Sure. The evidence seems to betray me. All right.

Hey, let's hit some positive news here. All right, Robert Woods got paid, four-year, $65 million extension. Bobby Trees. He got... Yeah, there it is. He got paid because the Rams have unlimited money. Yeah, apparently they do. They've extended cop, Woods. It just, it just never stops. So there you go. He didn't parlay the money into a big game, though. No. Two for 14.

Yeah, he did have a... He had a rushing touchdown. He had a rushing touchdown. Tariq Cohen got paid three years, $17 million. I don't know why. What? I don't know why. I mean, he deserves to be on an NFL team. I think he's... No doubt. He's in addition to your roster. It's just the timing of it with all of the things happening with Alan Robinson is so bizarre. This is a bite your thumb situation. This is a do you bite your thumb at me, sir, from Alan Robinson? Right. So rude to be like, we...

We will not, you know, we're not going to look at extending these contracts. In season, you know, the Chicago doesn't usually extend contract. Did they say that? That's just, it's not something that's come out with this Alan Robinson like negotiation, but it's a longstanding bear's rule, which is what the assumption has been. And then, and then here's Tariq Cohen getting an extension. Well, maybe, you know, some teams like to do that if you keep quiet and negotiate, not in public.

We'll get it done. That's what they do. Sequin Barclay, this was the headline news. All right, here we go. It's part of fantasy, Mike. I know. Sequin Barclay is believed to have suffered a torn ACL. This was moments. I can't remember off the top of my head. I don't know if it was literally the play after. It was literally the next play. Okay, so the play after. Sequin Barclay, if you weren't watching the game, had taken a really awkward fall. Look like he hyper extended his elbow.

I mean, he jammed it really good to the point of a normal human being is tapping out. If I fell and hurt my elbow that way, it's it. I'm done for probably a couple of weeks. Not say, Gwen Barclay, he is more human than human. The next play, leg is planted, knee twists. You know what's happening immediately as one who watches football. So it's still a believed. I don't know that we have a confirmation for it, but it's,

Well, Devonta Freeman is visiting the Giants on Tuesday. Oh, here we go. Here we go. It's all but confirmed when teams come out and say what they believe, they're almost always right. And it's devastating. And, you know, this is the kind of probably number two pick in most fantasy drafts.

And it is a complete disruption of the entire Giants offense and offensive capabilities. It is. But at least the number one pick in NFL or in fantasy football drafts is safe? Yeah. No, he's not. Christian McCaffrey. Oh, come on, man. Chris McCaffrey, news just broke this morning, Schefter.

McCaffrey expected to be sidelined multiple weeks with the ankle injury. We need to talk about both of these, though, in terms of who you might be looking to pick up. If Devont of Freeman is signed by the Giants, he would be the pickup. Because Dionne Lewis, maybe in a PPR league, you could get by with a flex play. He doesn't look great. And then Wayne Galman wasn't even active. Wayne Goldman will likely be active now. What's tough about the Freeman situation, I don't.

It's hard to disagree that if they signed Devante Freeman, how is he not the guy? But it could, we have no idea. It could end up being that Wayne Galman is the one who comes in and gets the most snaps because they feel like he is the most comparable. You know, I mean, my money is on. Without saying it. But my money's on the money because Freeman hasn't accepted a deal without getting paid.

So if he's in this situation and they pay him, I have a hard time believing he won't be the guy. We'll see what the contract is. It's just difficult to imagine that, let's say they pay him and he is the guy. It's difficult to imagine he's going to come in and be really good. You know, even he stunk last year on the team that he was good with, you know, the system he knew. And he's not any younger. So, you know, at least on the Christian McCaffrey side, not only is it.

you know, only multiple weeks. But Mike Davis is the clear, you know, you don't always know who the backup's going to be, but you know in this situation it is 100% Mike Davis. He came in relief and actually had a lot of fantasy points in garbage time. So, you know, we're going to talk through all this tomorrow and that'll let a little bit of the dust settle, the official nature of the injuries and some of, you know, if Freeman does get signed, the waiver show tomorrow, that's going to be a pretty big one.

Devante Adams, hamstring injury in the second half of the game did not return. This is the second year in a row now that Devante Adams is dealing with a soft tissue issue. How concerned are you on initial reports? I would say I am moderately concerned. I can't remember the score of the game at that point, but the Packers dominated.

this game. So I'm hoping that this was just a... And by the Packers, do you mean Aaron Jones, right? Whatever, man. That's all one of the same. I know. I'm hoping that this is, he tweaked it. There's no reason to put Devante Adams back in a re-aggravation. Increased probability of re-aggraving it. Let him rest. This game is done. Move on to next week. Kenny Gallet's missed the first two weeks with a hamstring injury. Mike Evans missed week one with the hamstring injury.

Something we'll be monitoring all week long. By the way, here's a hot stat. Adam Levitton. On Saturday, Chicago gave Tariq Cohen $17 million. He played 32% of snaps, had six touches. They were an excellent six touches. Yeah. Yeah, Mike's throwing his playing cards again. I tweeted when this extension was Adam Gays in training, because that's what it feels like with Matt Nagy over there in Chicago. That being said,

Been playing some okay football. Yep. Drew Locke will miss two to six weeks with a sprained AC joint. Jeff Driscoll didn't look that bad. Arthur. Yeah, Driscoll is back. I got a plan. I can't believe he's back. Oh, Driscoll. Cartland Sutton. Oh, my gosh. I didn't know this. Yeah, this just happened as we started the show. I got a sleeper alert on it. So Cortland Sutton was coming back from his shoulder injury.

He exited early with a knee injury. And now, according to at James Palmer TV, he's getting an MRI. There is more concern about the severity of the knee injury. So this is absolutely a wait and see. We have no confirmed news to report other than you better pay attention to the news on Cortland Sutton. Scheduled for an MRI today could be significant.