Starts of the Week, Wk 1 Matchups, Lev Bell Saga

Started for Baltimore and Joe Flacco has loved himself some tight ends in the past. So he just, he'll be someone to watch and see how he's used. Boyles upside is less than Dennis Pitta's upside though. He could get targeted a lot and nobody really wants to play. You'd rather have Boyles? As you say, I would be, I'm kind of hoping Boyle emerges for the sake of the show. A lot of good nicknames we could come up with. Covered in, covered in Boyles. Susan.

Oh, is that Susan Boyle jokes? A Susan Boyle reference? Only on the footballers. Keep it here all year long. The Bengals. They take on the Colts in Indianapolis. Hold on. Yes. The Colts are favored? Yes. By three? Yes. They've got Andrew Luck. They are at home. Cool. I don't think it is crazy for the Colts to be favored in this game. No, I don't think it's crazy. I think it's ludicrous.

So what's your line on this? I would say Bengals favored by maybe one and a half. That's the line on set. Okay. So from a fantasy perspective, there are a lot of players I like in this game because I don't like the Indianapolis defense. So I think we're going to talk about a number of them later. I know Jason and myself both have Bengals in our starts of the week. Dalton, Mixing, Green.

Where's John Ross this week? People want to, you know, deeper leagues. Are you confident enough starting the number two wide receiver in Cincinnati this week? Maybe as a flex if you want to hit that nitro button. Yeah, I was going to say. If you have a two-flex situation, that's where John Ross gets in because he's more of a glory play. I think he could have a fine week, but, you know, he still has never shown it in real live action. So you're taking more calling your shot. But this game.

in general. This is like the game that I keep coming to when I look at the slate of games this week. It's a 48.5 point over under, which means Vegas thinks, hey, they're going to score a lot of points. I'm taking the over on that because you've got, you know, the Bengals are an okay defense, but Andrew Luck's going to be able to move the ball on them at home. This is in a dome, no weather considerations. And the Colts defense, it.

It's bad. So I think there's going to be a lot of points, a lot of fantasy relevance. The real question, because I'm starting up just about everybody, I don't know what to do with Jordan Wilkins. How do you guys feel about where you slot in the, we assume, starting running back for the Colts in week one? Well, how do you compare it to a guy like Chris Carson? Let's say you're deciding between you grab Jordan Wilkins late in your draft, you grab Carson before it, and you're trying to pick a flex play there. Sure.

Do you go with Jordan Wilkins or do you go with Chris Carson? The Bengals, I'm looking at it right now, they gave up the fourth most points to the running back position on a per game basis last year. So I would play Wilkins. Over Chris Carson? Over Chris Carson? I don't really want a piece of Chris Carson going against the Denver Broncos defense on the road. I expect that to be a very negative game script. Not that it won't be for Wilkins, but.

If Jason's expecting all those points, that means that Indianapolis is at least keeping up. So Wilkins will still be involved in. So Andrew Luck makes his return to action here in week one. You assume that this will still be a high volume passing offense. You know, starting Jordan Wilkins does not mean depending on Jordan Wilkins. And Andrew Luck is going to pass the ball. So how confident are you in his start here at home?

It seems like a pretty decent situation for him to get back out there. Are you starting Andrew Luck this week and who you're starting him over? Yeah, if you drafted Andrew Luck, you start him. I mean, you took him as your only quarterback, and this is a home matchup against a somewhat winnable defense. We all have him at nine this week. A high scoring game. So, I mean, I don't expect him to end the week as a top three quarterback, but he is. You drafted him. You're rolling out. You can have far worse matchups than this. T.Y. Hilton.

Started. T.Y. Hilton is a great play. Anybody else to talk about there on either offense? The only question would be, are you willing to take a week one start shot on either Jack Doyle or Eric Ebron? I am not. No, I'm not either. And I like Ebron more than Doyle in the long term, but not a week one chance. I mean, there's a lot of decisions to be made there where you can go with a guy. You can go with.

Eiffert and Kittle and Ricky Seals Jones and Jared Cook. Look, there's a ton of players to pick from, and we know Ebron and Doyle are sharing some time. So that's probably where I don't touch that. The Titans, take on the dolphins. This one, the road team is favored. The Titans are one and a half point favorites in Miami. There's a 45 point over under.

There's a lot of unknown on both sides of the ball in this game. Yes, there is. We have a completely reworked wide receiving core in Miami. Devante Parker's missing the game. No more Jarvis Landry, a brand new tight-in in Mike Gassicki. So let's start with Miami here. It came out this morning that Frank Gore is not on the injury report. Is that correct? Yeah, I think that's what I had read. Or maybe he is on the injury report. He's dealing with Killies injuries, yeah. But practiced in full. I think that's the actual report.

That gives me more confidence in Kenyon Drake week one. Yeah, I mean. And heavy utilization for Kenyon Drake. What about the ore? The or the co-starters. We don't know who's going to be the starter. But we'll talk about Drake here in a little bit. I have 100% full confidence in Drake. I have my sources are reporting. It's an e-meany-mini-mo situation in Miami. Those are some young sources. Yeah, he's got a whole. He's asking his children. Whole team of children. It's actually, it's actually the, the brain.

the brain child of the Miami Dolphins. The any meaning, mighty most? Yeah. That's where it originated? Yeah. Oh, okay. It's the people making the decisions. Did you get any feedback on your very intelligent insults yesterday for Adam Gays? I did not mince words about my feelings about this or decision. And the feedback was very positive. Very positive. Very positive. Marcus Mariotta, Derek Henry, Dionne Lewis, Corey Davis.

Delaney Walker, the Tennessee Titans offense. It didn't look great in the preseason, but it is a revamped offense. It is finding itself. How confident are you in Corey Davis as a flex play or a wide receiver two play in week one against Miami and that secondary? This whole team is just a team that I want to have all of them just be a flex play. You know, I like.

I like Dionne Lewis. I like Derek Henry. I like Corey Davis, but I don't love any of them. This is basically, I look at this matchup as the Indianapolis Bengals matchup light. You know, this is where neither team has as good an offense. The dolphins were pretty good against wide receivers last year. Defensively? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they've got a lot of change in that defense from last year. So it's hard to.

It's hard to project them to be great against. Derek Henry is very interesting with the Titans offensive line is supposed to be good, and Domic and Sue is gone from Miami. So I think that Henry is, Henry is the most interesting player on the Titans this week. Corey Davis or Josh Gordon. We talked about Gordon earlier. That's a decision you'll have to make for a lot of people. I think I'll go Corey Davis.

Yeah, we all have Davis right on the fringe, wide receiver two, wide receiver three range. Yeah. And I do have them above Gordon. Emmanuel Sanders or Corey Davis. Sanders. Sanders. The problem for me is I won't even be surprised if Richard Matthews comes out and has more points than Corey Davis in this game. Crabtree or Davis? Davis. That's where I would go Davis. And Jason, what are your thoughts on the Miami wide receivers? Devante Parker.

is out with his finger injury. So is it Kenny Stills time? Is it Danny Amandola time? Yeah, I think it's Kenny Stills time. You got Malcolm Brown added to the Tennessee Titans, but we, you know, we haven't seen him, at least in the last game. Am I right? Yeah. Super Bowl time. I like Kenny Stills a lot. I think he will be the primary target. And I said this before yesterday. Danny Amandola, if you're in a full PPR league,

He's a guy that's on waivers right now, and I will be surprised. I will literally be surprised if he doesn't put up 10 fantasy points in a PPR league as his floor. One of the more difficult things about week one is we don't have defensive analytics and statistics from this season, and there's a lot of turnover on these rosters. We can go a little bit based on last year. Sometimes things stay consistent year over year.

You know, example of that is last year we talked so much about the Giants and how many points they gave up to the tight-in position. We get to see if that continues this year. And heading into week two, we'll have some, you know, there'll be some proof in the pudding, so to speak. In Joku. For some of these teams. In the proof in the pudding? He did earlier. Pudding? Against the Giants, insane. Got it. Tight-end positioning against the Giants. They were very susceptible. This season? Yeah, preseason. In the preseason. Oh, okay. Yeah.

All right. I don't read too much into the preseason defenses, though. Do you, Mike? No. If a team was terrible at something last year and they're still terrible at it in the preseason, I'm going to read into it, yes. The 49ers take on the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings are six and a half point home favorites in this one.

You know, Jason, you sat down Jimmy Garampolo. I believe he. Pumped the brakes. Yes. A handsome pump. A handsome pump. We've talked at length about Matt Breda and Alfred Morris. The name that has not been brought up almost at all in any circle is Kyle Eusecheck, the fullback slash passing capable fullback. If you're starting a running back, let's get the answer now since we're doing the matchup. Matt Breed Alfred Morris.

If you have to pick one, is it scoring system dependent or is it one guy across all? For me, in week, in week one, I'm still starting Matt Brita in all scoring systems. It is an unpleasant situation at best. I mean, you face Minnesota in week one. So what are you going to learn? Yeah, that's a great point, Andy, is the fact that we'll probably overreact to whatever we think we learned. But going up against Minnesota in week one, that's a matchup where you kind of,

Hopefully you can bench these guys if you've got someone else on your roster. These guys were Waverwire pickup, so as long as they're not replacing your Jerich McKinnon, you have a good chance of being able to bench them. But I wouldn't overreact to what we see in Minnesota. This is Berita coming back from having missed some time, and yeah, he's fully back at practice, but we're not sure. They're going up against a great defense and a great offense. I don't think people can overreact because they've had to...

pay for these guys so i think it's baked into the fortunately i think because you had to go spin fab on them you can't hype you can't overreact and drop them you're going to have to wait oh yeah you have to wait just the the worst thing that can happen is kyle us check comes out and gets six targets and bretah gets two that that's worst case scenario for this situation but that that could happen yeah 100 could happen and then all of a sudden

If you take away the passing down value of Matt Brita, the potential passing down value of Matt Brita, you're in trouble. You're toast. Is there? There's not an outcome that you're going to like. Is there a 49er you want to start? I do not want to start Marquis Goodwin, but do you guys? I still would. I'm fine starting Marquis good. But Xavier Rhodes, cornerback for the Vikings is a beast. I would expect him to.

Be looking Goodwin's way. The nice thing about Goodwin is he's averaging 16.6 yards per reception. That's a number where even if you don't get volume, there's a big play there to be had. They're going to pass the football. That's better than I think everybody about like D. Jackson, Josh Gordon since 2013. So he at least doesn't require a volume play. So I would go with the big play versus the volume. Anything else on that?

On that side? No, we've already talked Kittle. And Garsohn is the same. I would reluctantly play him, but I'm looking for other options. I feel like I would rather play Garsohn than Goodwin due to this matchup. Sure. You would rather play Garsohn than Goodwin? Yes. Because I think Xavier Rose is going to lock down Goodwin. Interesting. So the actual opposite take of me. The actual opposite take. 100%. You'd go with the volume.

Like, I'm just making, I was just making, you kind of said it in a way that was funny because it's the 100% opposite opinion. Yeah, I mean, I, it's, it's not a disagreement with your analysis, though, because I think you're right that it's only going to take one or two big plays from Goodwin to be able to succeed. But I would rather, I would rather take the guy who doesn't have the lockdown corner on him. Do you want to water. Let's do it. Fantasy points, Marquis Goodwin versus Pierre-Garson? Let's go. What?