Week 2 Studs & Duds + Big Ben & Brees Injury Fallout

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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast for Monday, September 16th. We're back most of week two in the books. We've still got the Monday night football game. Browns, Jets. We'll talk about it.

A lot of reaction to the weekend. Got the stud muffins on the show today, the stinkers of the week. All them big boy players with their big boy pooping of their pants. Yes. Jason has a slightly new twang to his voice. You could hear it on the opener. You had a little, little twang. Also, howdy folks? How many packs a day are you up to now? I'm 12 packs a day now.

I understand that and I know the internal struggle here for you is you've been laboring through. I mean, you're in clinical trials at this point. I have unbelievable things coursing through my blood. Whatever Walgreens can help me with. I am on it. I'm trying to get better for you, Fookland. Sometimes it takes the voice a little while. And, you know, it helps if you have a.

Nice New Mexico ad read at the beginning. If I got the twang, I think it's okay. I need to sing me some country songs. I could crush some country. Josh Rosen. Oh, I can't make you laugh either. We got a jam-pack show. It is Monday. We have some one-liners from the Foot Clan provided via Twitter. Their reaction to the weekend, it's Monday Punday, so we got to get into these.

Mark outstandrews. Yes, he is. My goodness. Highest target share among tight ends. He is a beast. It was ironic because I have Mark Andrews, Vance McDonald on my dynasty team. Last week it was Vance. It was not a good dance. This week I put Andrews in him like he's blowing him out and then Vance comes back with two touchdowns. Do Vance outscore him? No.

Okay. Nope. I'll say he had like a Hyundai Flopkins. Oh, come on. Oh, yeah, boo. What? He's earned himself a week off. Come on. That guy sucks. Rahim must start. Yes. You know, he is, he's great. Matt Breda is great. Rahim Mostert. It's great. This is true. They are both. Also, Kyle Shanahan and running backs. That's a good.

situation. My name is Jeff had two touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. Latavius worry. Oh. I would be massively worried about Latavius. The worry level has to be going up. And Jared cooked as well. Jared cooked. Okay. Latavius worry. There are players and we'll talk about the, we'll talk about the Drew Bree situation and all the impacts. But those two players, bad news bears. Yes. For Drew Bree's absence, the injury over the weekend. Marquez Valdez struggling.

What? That was not very good. Valdez Cantling. Oh, that's way better. There you. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, do-do Westbrook. It's so simple, but it works. My man. My man, Didi. Can't be sweet on Didi anymore. Well, they've, not without Nick Foles. Look, Gardner Minshu is like my favorite human being as of right now. He's overtaken Fitzpatrick. Dude, his swag level.

is off the charts. I don't know if you guys saw the report. He does all his pregame stretching in the locker room only in his jockstrap. Yes, I saw a teammate of his said, I didn't even know guys still wore jock straps, let alone only a jock strap while he's working out. That jockstrap, that facial hair, that chest hair. Oh, man. He almost got it done. Well, they took the ball out of his hands. Yeah.

Danny almond donut. Fair. And then Terry McLevin it. That's a good one. That is. Terry McLaurin. Probably a little overshadowed by Hollywood Brown's fast start. But McLevin, two great games to start his NFL career. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We had a few water bets this weekend, and each one of us ended up winning one of them.

John Ross versus McColl Hardman. Neither of us were unhappy with what happened, but you ended up winning that one. John Ross over McColl Hardman, Mike, so you'll douse me in water. Jason, the Dolphins Patriots game was a tight one, but you ended up covering twice. Twice. So I'm taking, I volunteered to take two waters. Oh, that's admirable. Because I was double wrong on that one. And then Eric Ebron.

The touchdown. He snuck into that top 12, so I end up watering Mike. So we put the week one payouts up on YouTube last week, the videos. You guys have been asking for us to pay the water bets out publicly. And so we did that. And you can go to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers to see those. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. And we appreciate everybody supporting the show over at jointhefoot.com. It's time for the rewind.

Weekly Rewind. If I take a big pause in between every word that I say, it lets me think of the next word I'm going to say. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like if I'm not sure. It's really my strategy. Weekly Rewind, brought to you by the Sleeper app. Here's the big one. Drew Brees slated to miss six weeks. That's not an exact science there. Torn thumb ligament, going to need surgery.

The estimate right now is six weeks. Could be more. Could be more. It is possible that they place him on IR. That would guarantee it that it is eight weeks. I doubt they do that. Sorry, we have breaking news for the next one. All right. Well, yeah, it's possible. I doubt they do that because if they could get those last two games and have them miss six weeks instead of eight weeks, that's two losses that could become wins potentially. So I...

I doubt they place them on IR, but that is in consideration right now. I imagine that they'll give them the opportunity to recover faster and help their team. And so as far as the rest of the players on the team, huge downgrades. The way I was driving in, and I'm thinking about it, Latavius Murray, Jared Cook, I don't even care about you anymore. Agreed. Alvin Camero, Michael Thomas, I have at about 70% of what they were. That's how I view it. But that's still a huge downgrade. It's a monstrous hit.

Like Alvin Camara goes from a locked and loaded top three running back to, I mean, he's, like I would have him now as a fringe RB1. He's definitely a top 15 running back for sure because his talent is outrageous. But you look at the amount of touchdowns he's scored over the last few years. Those opportunities are not going to be there without Drew Brees. And so it's unfortunate when those things happen. I mean, the Saints.

plus rushing touchdowns. That's what you've come to know. And if this team is not as competitive offensively, those opportunities will go down for Alvin Camara, for Michael Thomas. It's unfortunate. Well, this is where we had the breaking news. This is even bigger. Big Ben Rothesberger with the right elbow injury in the first half of the game. The Steelers just announced that he had an MRI on the right elbow. He will need surgery this week. He is out for the season. Have we vetted that source?

Where did that come in from? Borland. Borland is gone. That's from rap sheet. Okay. That's from rap sheet. All right. Ian Rappaport reporting. Gone for the season. They're 0 and 2 right now. James Connor also suffered a knee injury. Big Ben is out. Your Juju Smith-Schuster shares just went to... They went way down. They went way down. They did exactly what just happened to Michael Thomas. I think these two players take the biggest hits because...

They are wide receivers who rely on quarterbacks, and now their quarterbacks just got massively downgraded. Look, I think Mason Rudolph is one of the better backups in the league. Teddy Bridgewater is probably one of the better backups in the league. But these guys are not going to be able to sustain top eight wide receiver performances. They're backups for a reason. This season's over, Pittsburgh. Oh, yes, for sure. For more than Big Ben. They're 0.2. I guess I lose that water bet at the end of the season. Well, I don't even like.

They weren't playing well to begin with, but now you're in a situation where you have no chance to overcome. Likely what Baltimore looks great. And then Cleveland will see what they have tonight. But this is pretty game-breaking news for Drew Brees, Big Ben, both Hall of Fame quarterbacks, both guys that have top five, top 10 wide receivers depending on them. And these injuries are very significant to their whole.

the whole outlook fantasy-wise for both teams. I'll say this, though, for Pittsburgh, we might have another Peyton Manning Indianapolis situation where the team was already struggling and Big Ben was going to be the one who had to carry them across the line if they were going to make any kind of move. You're saying draft pick-wise? Like all of a sudden now the Steelers, they're going to, at least from the team we've seen from two weeks, they're going to be one of the top picks.

in the draft and you just, and there's a couple good quarterbacks coming out. Well, Mason Rudolph, I mean, they like him. And he looked pretty good yesterday. He doesn't have the swag level of the secret garden. Well, no, because no one does. No man. Yeah, but he is also a better quarterback than the secret guard, I believe. Look, James Connor starting running back also injured his knee. He's getting tests today. So this is just.

Well, Jalen Samuels could end up one of the bigger waiver-wire pickups of the week, regardless of this quarterback situation, if James Connor is out. And more injuries. Devin Singletary, hamstring injury. He was ruled out. Yeah, we'll see the severity of this. Jason and I were caught this one live. It was the old. I'm running at full speed to the edge, and then I start hopping about halfway through.

Whenever you see a player do that, it's great concern for a multi-week absence with the hamstring, and then you're dealing with a recovering hamstring the entire year. He won't be as hot as a pickup as Jalen Samuels, but if Singletary is going to miss a few weeks, Frank Gore is infinite. He is all. He's going to get work. He's also going to be at home next week against Cincinnati. There is a very high probability. Frank.

Here's his stat line. Buffalo, New England are 3 and O facing off in week four. Here's his stat line next week. 32 carries, 80 yards, two touchdowns. 32 carries. Yeah, I'm just saying he's going to get massive work, be inefficient, score, and be fine for fantasy. Damien Williams exited the game with a right knee contusion. LaShawn McCoy dealing with an ankle injury. He's going to get an MRI on it. Goodness. I bet Pat Mahomes will be okay.

Yes. Pemos. No, you got to pay attention. Tomorrow's the waiver show. So we'll have more injury information about both Damien Williams and LaShaul McCoy, which can inform your Darwin Thompson, Darrell Williams pickups off of the waiver wire. You saw Darwin in there late after McCoy exited. So we'll see what happens there. This is, we say you don't win the league at your draft. And that's because every week on Monday, we have to talk through about.