Week 3 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Jason Tilt Watch

handoff, I'm sorry, a reception. Tap that pass. Tap that pass for 70 yards and a touchdown. And then remember, they had that other crazy trick play where there was like every single player on the offense. Three card Monty. Three card Monty. Everybody touches the ball. And then, I mean, so they were up or they were, they were coming back at that point. It was just a weird game. It's not like Gore did anything. Drake did anything. I think you've got to just throw that result away. And.

focus more on what happened the first two weeks when it comes to Drake. Well, I think fantasy owners also want to know, I mean, before this week, Drake was barely a fringe RB2 on the season. Then he has this week only two fantasy points. This has not been, I mean, 14 carries, 11 carries, five carries. People want to know, can you start Kenyon Drake as an RB2? Can you start him as a flex? I don't feel comfortable. Goes to New England, goes to Cincinnati. I mean, I know he's a very talented guy, but the concern for me has just been worked.

work you know they clearly didn't want to work him yeah i mean you gotta get work work work that was some of the discussion that's some of the discussion we had early in the off season is he's talented but will they give him the rock enough and i would say over the first two games they did not enough to be a superstar but i mean if he's getting double digit carries which he was and then involved four targets a game

in the passing game. That's enough for Drake to be an RB2, to be a flex, not to be a superstar. Right. But I expect him to get back to that volume. He's not going to end up with five carries. I think Frank Gore had five carries as well. And they, did they have ten total rushing yards? I don't think they did. Like, as between them. That's fantastic. Do you know five garries? I mean, can we name five garries? Shandling. Busey? Bucy. Gary. St. Payton?

Oh, Gary Payton, the glove. Gary Sinise? Oh, we've won a way. Gary. Brooks, can you help us out here? Is there a Gary Schaefter? No, that's Adam. Gary. Gary Sanders, running back, famous running back from the Detroit Lions. Some, everyone, I wonder if people are listening going, we need a Gary before. We need a Gary before the end of this show, Brooks. Gary Grape from the hit Johnny Depp movie. What's eating Gary Grape?

Okay, this is gone. This has gone away. Jamal Williams, five for 29. Jason, I would love your intimate thoughts of Jamal Williams. Oh, and especially, I would really like you to focus the observation on the Jamal Williams versus Aaron Jones debate. Did we, did we talk about Gary Oldman? Gary Oldman. Did we bring up Gary Oldman? Okay, that is my official answer to the Jamal Williams. Here's the deal. In the studio, you know, I pretty much.

ate my pro. Yeah, you did. You ate crow. Early, early in that game. Aaron Jones was, Jones in for some crow. Aaron Jones was involved. Early, Jamal Williams was not the clear cut snap leader. Jamal Williams, Aaron Jones, Ty Montgomery. I'll be honest with you. If you want one of those guys, it's going to be Aaron Jones because he's the best back.

I don't even with that, I don't really want any of these guys because I don't see, I don't think Aaron Jones, even seeing that he was involved. William still had about double the snaps of Aaron Jones. I don't, I don't think any of them are going to get the workload enough to be a dominant weekly starter. I just kind of want to avoid the Green Bay back field. I get that. Look, I said it last week. It's two games. You need two games and then I'll start Aaron Jones. This is one.

Give me one more and let it, let it sift itself out, and then I think I'm okay. I've been targeting him. He didn't have a great fantasy game. Target him. That's what I'm doing. He's a must stash. Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry, bad games. Are you worried, or is this Jacksonville, or is this just, is this offense? Is this just the Titans running back situation? Yeah. I just got an alert, by the way, that Ajai and Sproles are both supposed to be back on Sunday. Oh.

Windows Smallwood is... He's very sad. He's queuing up as Netflix. So, Lewis and Henry, can you start... Would you rather start deal on Lewis rest of the season or... I thought so? Or Kenyon Drake. Oh, Kenyon Drake. So Lewis or Drake? Drake. I'll take Drake. Okay. Hide over both of them? Yeah, I think so. Probably. All right, wide receiver poopers. I got some big questions here. Stefan Diggs, Keenan Allen, Larry Fitzgerald, Amari Cooper, back to...

Back to his 2 for 17 form. Chris Hogan, Nelson Aguilar. This was the worry with, we thought he was kind of matchup proof, but the worry was quarterback change. You never know. And then Garsohn, Mike, you mentioned it. He disappeared from the earth. And it won't be back. Keel and Cole had a down week, Alan Robinson, a down week against Arizona. I want to ask about Keenan Allen, though. Kenan Allen has had two down weeks now after a start with a touchdown in 100 plus.

Three for 44 in a game in which they, you know, they scored quite a bit. Temperature check. Keenan Allen. I would 100% go by him if I would take the temperature of the person who has Keenan Allen on their team and see how they're feeling. He still had seven targets. That's the lowest total of the short season. But that's the kind of product. That's the kind of target volume I want for them.

a wide receiver. Had a couple opportunities in the end zone, right, Jay? Yeah, I mean, his day was not far away from having a very good fantasy day. If he gets one of those touchdowns and maybe he doesn't fumble the ball, those things help your team stay on the field and score fantasy points. I'm with Mike. I would purchase Keenan Allen if I could. 26 targets on the season. He's absolutely fine. Nobody, not even Antonio Brown has.

nonstop, never a bad game at the wide receiver position from a fantasy output standpoint. So, yeah, Keenan is fine to me. Do we know whether Amari Cooper checks his start percentage on ESPN before going out on the field? I mean, you mentioned it. As soon as you feel a little confidence in starting Amari Cooper, he becomes Amari Pooper. Two for 17. What do you do with him? Do you start him? Are you starting him next week? I mean, it's hard to, this is why we said last week after his good game, you trade him, because.

He's going to be up and down. You can't really trade him easily off of a down game. So hopefully you were able to capitalize on his 10 for 100 plus game. He's going to do this. He's going to have good games. And he's going to be a startable asset. And he's going to crap all over your team and make you hate yourself. So don't have him on your roster. I mean, I, you know, try to capitalize on his name, on the value he can provide.

Don't be the one that has to deal with the weekly decision. Because unlike a lot of players, some players, you go, okay, he's good against press or good against man, or he's good at home or he's good on the road, he's good against weak defenses, good against, you know, there's some trend. And there's, the only trend that you can think of with Amari Cooper is it's whenever you don't expect it. He just does the, so I mean. It's like the Spanish Inquisition. It's the opposite. If it looks like you should. Exactly.

Exactly like the Spanish Inquisition. If it looks like you should start Amari Cooper, bench him. And if it looks like no way in the world should you start Amari Cooper, plug him in your lineup. Is there an option to jettison him into space? Is that one of the three options that you have? If that was an option, I would love to see it. I would hit that red button.

All right, Corey Davis, what do fantasy owners have in Cory Davis this season? Obviously, Jacksonville is not a good matchup. They have a crappy quarterback throwing him the ball. You know, Jaylon Ramsey, though. Too crappy quarterbacks throwing the ball. Oh, thank you. I would take a little peek at Cory Davis. He'd be a buy for me. He's still been a target guy, but Jaylon Ramsey, any time you play Jaylon Ramsey, you just buy that player the next week. But it's... But Mario should be behind center. Yeah, he was. And they won again. That happened, too.

Yeah. This is the second week in a row where every piece on Tennessee was bad. Everybody, everybody sucked, and they won. It's impressive. Congratulations, Tennessee. You're going to be in the playoffs back to back years, and no one's going to believe in you still. Are we watching Houston to see if there's a coaching change this year, the way they're heading? Yeah, certainly. Bill O'Brien? That was, it was pretty disappointing.

This past weekend. All right. I think we're going to wrap this thing up, by the way. We got waivers tomorrow. Certainly. And before we do that, Fookland, quick reminder, NFL game pass. You got to check it out. You want to watch every single game, commercial-free, condensed versions of the game, lets you watch it in about 45 minutes. And best of all, you can kick off the 2018 NFL season with a seven-day free trial. Ryle.

A free trial? Free child? Free chriol. Chirial. You never had a free chirial? Not until the day. I get those at Disneyland. I go to the charile stands and I eat up. A seven-day free trial of NFL game pass. Sign up now at NFL.com slash fantasy footballers. That's NFL.com slash fantasy footballers game all. All right, Jason, good luck with OJ. Howard's score and what? Fifteen more points than Antonio Brown to get you a win.

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