Week 1 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/13

Tennessee that. Yeah, none of us thought that could happen. That it was the defensive line of Arizona was so dominant that Tennessee was really shut down. And then the Drew Breezeless Saints completely changed how they play football. They went to a ground and pound defensive team and we're just going to have James Winston not lose the game for us. And they crushed Green Bay.

crushed them. Jordan Love played almost the entire fourth quarter because the Packers had already waved the white flag by then. Look, Rogers went to the doctor this morning and he wrote him a script for the Detroit Lions. Take one next Sunday. Who gets to place Aaron Rogers as their start of the week next week first? Paper Rock scissors. He'll bounce back. It's Aaron Rogers.

He was embarrassed. The press conference was a bunch of embarrassed people. That being said, it's almost like you needed to be around at camp. It's almost like, you know, you can't help. He was there for camp? You can't. Who? He was there for preseason. You're talking about Aaron Rogers? Yeah, sorry, preseason. He was there. Yeah. If you remember, Aaron Rogers went through the, the offseason of absolute stuff he skipped. Embarrassment. Why does he look so?

ugly now. What? His current look, look, Aaron Rogers sometimes he's, you don't like the long hair. Oh, it's good for Hawkinson, but it's not good for Rogers. Correct. One of them, I mean, I think someone's jealous. Aaron Rogers has had a lot of different looks. Yeah. A lot of different. And sometimes he's got a super handsome look. He is, I'm just saying right now, Rogers, this look is, oh man, it is bad. You don't think some of that no touchdown game wiped off on your view there?

You don't think you would have looked beautiful with five touchdowns? I don't think he could look beautiful. Oh my gosh. Hair hater. Yeah, well, look. I get it. Aaron Rogers, man. Passer rating was 32, but I'm not freaking out. Pro football focus put out this funny tweet. The passer rating if thrown into the dirt every play would be 39. Wait, that means he threw.

into other people's arms instead of the dirt. That's right. Wow. Yeah, he had a couple ugly throws. Matt Ryan had a huge stinker of a week. Disappointing. That offense looked like it missed Julio Jones. Like, I'm not concerned about Rogers. I'm concerned here about Matt Ryan. I'm trying to. That means you're concerned about Calvin Ridley. Yes, I am. I'm trying to pump the brakes here. But, like, so far, you know, it's Arthur Smith is here in town in Atlanta. Arthur.

And he's got a plan, and that plan was apparently destroy all of Matt Ryan's production. To ruin both the Falcons and the Titans. I'll throw this out there. It's really selfish. You know, every year defense is there's a turnover. There's teams that, like the Cardinals, the defensive line. And we don't know if the Eagles are much better than we thought they were on defense. You can throw that out there. Now, a prescription for a remedy there is not Tampa Bay and Tampa. No.

So I would be, yeah, we're going to be on this show next week talking about are you scared for Calvin Ridley? That's the likelihood with the Tampa matchup. Running back, Duds, Zeke, Henry, Sequin. You know, Sequin has Washington's defensive line next week on Thursday. Not great. No. So that's going to be a tough start-sit decision for people. Aaron Jones. So there's four studs.

Who are you most concerned about? I'm most concerned about Saquan because you knew he was going to be eased in. He only got 10 carries, and it's going to take him probably a month before he's looking like...

we want Sequin to look. So that means the next couple weeks you're not going to be starting them. Derek Kenry, the defensive line of the Arizona Cardinals, you know, the hopes of getting Chandler Jones back, adding JJ Watt. That looked insanely good. Zeke, we talked about it with Tampa Bay's D-Line. That was a bad matchup. Aaron Jones, not worried at all. New Orleans, another great run defense gets the Detroit Lions. But Saquan, I think the next couple weeks is an issue. And, you know, I've got him in our listener league.

I will hopefully be able to bench him this coming week. Here's a player I'm not worried about at all that had a dud of a week. A lot of people, big expectations, Naji Harris, 16 for 45. He had some plays that I thought he looked like a rookie, trying to do too much, right? The offense wasn't, the offense had a, not a great game against Buffalo. They had a special team's play and, like, one good offensive drive, and otherwise it was kind of nasty. And the Steelers, the Steelers defense, he has just as dominant.

as they were last year. But to add to your point, Andy, running back snaps for Najee Harris, 58. As a rookie, first game. Running back snaps for Benny Snell, zero. How about Kalin Belage? Also zero. The two guys that I think... Do not panic on Najee. The two guys that I want to ring the bell to not panic on are Najee and Clyde Edwards Aller. Okay. Clyde Edwards Aller was very disappointing. He got double digit fantasy points, but barely and, you know, was not anything special. But...

There are only a few opportunities in the league where you are the every down guy. And that's what we saw. 90% of the backfields, 100% of the running back targets. He was there on third downs. I think there was only one rushing attempt for another player. Like this was all Nodgy, all Clyde Edwards-Alear. And I want to remind you guys, like Kansas City when, when Kareem Hunt had his incredible breakout year and was just dominant, was the running back four.

He had so many weeks back then where it was like Andy Reid after the game would be like, oh, we should, we should use that guy more or whatever, you know, where you've got, I'm looking at his box score from that year and all the time. 11 carries for 17 yards, nine receiving yards. I mean, just complete duds. I'm not, I'm not worried about either of these two guys because Najee is unbelievably talented and I think he'll break plays. And.

with Clyde, he's on the best offense, and that means opportunities should be there. Yeah, I mean, we saw Clyde different in the off season. I still view, I mean, to me, this is you don't need Clyde Edwards-Aler, which is the problem. You score 33 points as an offense. He plays every snap as the running back. How many times did that happen last year they didn't need him? And he doesn't have breakaway speed, big playability. We see this one differently, Mike. Maybe you can weigh in and kind of how you saw this performance from Clyde, Baltimore.

Chargers, Philly the next three weeks? I think that the hopeful ceiling for Clyde is probably not there, but I'm on Jason's side of there. There are not many running backs that see that type of an opportunity as far as a market share, in a high-powered offense. But it didn't, it did not bounce his way. You add a single touchdown into this.

You know, 14 for 43, 3 for 29 and a touchdown. And you're like, okay, that's not terrible. Yeah, that was the problem last year, though. Yeah, it was. James Robinson was awful. That's a real problem. This one's a red alert for me. 35% of his team's running back rushes. His lowest of all of last year was 85%. That's from J.J. Zacharias and friend of the show. Mike, do you have room for the Urban Meyer hate train? Oh, you know I do, brother. Because I was skeptical of your hatred.

pre the first NFL game and I am riding shotgun man open that door up I'm hopping in if you if you want to find a silver lining I mean this team is getting blown out by the Texans which is not the silver lining the Texans but but the game the game script was not in the favor of James Robinson but Carlos Hyde is a pickup so yes wide receivers that poop their pants this week

None bigger than IUC's situation. We talked about that one. Kyle Shanahan said Trent Sherfield impressed. Yeah. We'll see what happens. We talked all about what to do there. Monitor it. Devante Adams, not worried. Mike Evans, he does this every year. I mean, I'm not worried about Mike Evans. He had probably five of these games last year. Alan Robinson. What the heck, man.

You don't really want to look at the routes that Robinson ran in this game because they were all under 10 yards. You, man, Nagy saw the Hopkins route tree from last year. He's like, oh, that's a recipe for success. I think this is game specific. I think this was 100%. We have to get the ball out of Andy Dalton's hands so fast. I mean, you didn't have any deep shots to Darnell Mooney. You had nothing beyond 10 yards to Allen Robinson. This was the Aaron Donald may not have had five sacks in the game.

He got it in their heads before the week began. I agree. I think that this is game specific, and I'm not going to overreact on Alan Robinson yet. It was bad to see, and it certainly could be this is the Andy Dalton effect, but I'm not viewing it this way. Julio Jones, six targets, three for 29. Honestly, the Titans got nothing going in this game whatsoever. Seattle next week for Julio. Didn't Derek Henry have nine rushing yards entering the second half? That is correct. Yeah, this game was nothing.

Nothing went the Titans way that would have let you see what they want to do on offense. So I'm going to, my policy on Julio, I'm going to wait a week. I'm going to give, let him give, I'll put him out there against Seattle. Give me one more week of watching this team. Because Mike Grable's a good coach. You heard him come out and he said something that I know you two have never said, which was, he said Cliff Kingsbury out coached him. He said they were out prepared, you know, they were better. Was he winking? Nope, they more prepared.

And that they're going to bounce. Talk about falling on your sword. Jeez. Yeah. Just say it was your fault. You don't have to. I mean, come on, Vrable. I mean, it's funny because it's rare that we would go out on a limb and be like, I'm giving them no chance. I finally got on board with Bash and Cliff Kingsbury with you guys. And he goes out and you have to give them credit because on the road against Vrable dismantling them on both sides of the ball. This was genuinely.

This was the best game that the Cardinals have ever played under Cliff Kingsbury on all three phases of the game. Outside of the first five minutes with 22 penalties. Yeah. But I view a little bit differently on Julio Jones. I completely agree. Titans in general, you've got to throw this one out. I think they're going to fix some of the problems. But I was a little bit worried. Again.

hard to tell in this. And I want to go back and rewatch it, but he didn't look like Julio to me. There was a play on the sideline where, you know, he just, he looked a little different. Maybe it was the, he looked a little old. And I don't want to say that because I don't want to, I don't want to set panic alarms. But I'm certainly going to be watching this next week. Let me give you a trade. Would you trade Robbie Anderson for Julio Jones? Because I would definitely do that. Yes, I would. I would do that. All right. So not.

That word. I'm worried and I'm going to be monitoring it. And I don't think I would just, he's not an auto start to me because of his name next week. Marquez Calloway was a bench. And you should have benched him. One catch, Jair Alexander. Was the lone bright spot for the Packers. Yeah. And then Kenny Galladay, four for 64. This is not a, this is not a pooped in his pants to me. First game for the new team. It's just a little like a skid mark.

No, it's just a, he's just wearing pants. They're clean. Clean pants? And actually, he looked good out there. Yeah, he looked fine. He did not, um, he didn't win anybody a week. This is an egregious inclusion by our producer. He didn't win anybody a week. But it was, it was a okay performance. I just kept hearing that saxophone, the bad sax. Oh, that's worth. Yeah, I mean. You talk about this? Kenny G. Ladies and gentlemen.

Now I take back my anger, Brooksie. You know, Brooksie's got a different pair of headphones on today and it's throwing me off. He's wearing these like silver. Is that what you normally wear? No, I'm in a different mic. You're on a different mic. He looks like he's from outer space. He's looking good, Brooks. Well, thank you. Just don't grow your hair out long or Jason will think you're super ugly. I don't think we have to worry about that. What if I could? Get it.

body. I'm not to worry about that. Oh, my goodness. Tight-in duds in week one. Robert Tunyon on the other side of the Aaron Rogers Pooper, I would just wait a week. Yep. See what happens in Detroit. Mike Asicki was a bit of a surprise. Just because Tua had leaned on tight ends a lot, and you saw more Devante Parker. Yeah, Mike Goosecicki. Yes. Boy. And then Kyle Pitts, eight targets, which was tied with Calvin Ridley.

71% of snaps ran around on 90% of the dropbacks. But only four receptions tied with Hayden Hurst for 31 yards. Yeah. So I'm just... The peripherals are good. Yeah, I would just wait the same way I'm going to wait with Calvin Ridley and see what happens next week. Are you playing? Like, let's be realistic. You've got Kyle Pitts. Yeah. So you're starting him next week against Tampa Bay. No question. Who are you going to pick up and play over?