Super Bowl Picks + Roster Madness, Draft Blitz - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

That's got to be a lot. It's got it. There's got to be a handful of them. That's funny. But if you're new. I definitely tried that immediately and a lot. If you're new and you don't understand the flying V reference here, it is Will Fuller. Will Fuller v. Will Fuller the fit. I thought he was going to speak as an authority on Mighty Ducks now. Yes. All right. Trey Burton's on injured reserve tied in for the Colts. So you get some starts out of Jack Doyle. Jack Doyle. 100% you can. Maybe. Maybe.

Oh, is that a start of the week reference? I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to wait and find out. You have all your starts of the weekends? All my starts of the week have been in since last week. Yeah, good luck with that. Travis Kelsey was limited in Monday's practice. Something to pay attention to. I read a few beat reporters talking about this. They were not concerned about his Thursday availability. Zeus will play. There you go. Zeus always plays. And then Mitch Trubiskey is officially named the week one starter.

I've made illusions in the past that Matt Nagy feels like a budget store magician. Allusions or illusions. Thank you, Jason. And then it all finally clicked and I was able to match up. I finally figured out who Matt Nagy is. And he is Job from Arrested Development swinging. He's got the knife in his mouth and the cards just. And the $3,000 suit on. Come on.

I mean, here we are again. Oh. We forget that, I mean, the one thing about Trubisky, because I feel like we beat up on the Bears constantly on the show, whether it's warranted or not, it does happen. The thing about Trubisky is that you have seen elite.

fantasy games out of Mitch Tribes. It's if he runs. It's not like Josh Rosen's experience in the NFL where it's boring. And often against the Detroit Lions, who he always torches, who he's starting the season against. Yeah. Well, this was not meant to lead towards someone starting Mitch Trubisky. That was not the goal. DFS play. But Trubisky has to run. And they win games when he runs. So didn't he throw five touchdowns?

When you were mean things. I had this was several years ago now, and I had this now infamous moment where I boldly declared, and I would say rightfully declared that Mitch Trubisky is not a great quarterback, and he will never, ever be a franchise quarterback. And I was right. But then a few days later, he goes out and throws five touchdowns and murders my soul.

Malcolm Brown's going to start week one for the Rams. At least that's the expectation. I don't think we'll see Daryl Henderson out there on the field. So at this point, Malcolm Brown could be a sneaky week one start for fantasy teams. Yeah, I completely agree. There were some things that have happened. So if you, your last positional player, maybe you drafted a player you could put on the IR and you're searching around your waiver wire. Who should I?

be picking up. Who should I be stashing? Malcolm Brown is definitely in the discussion. He was, he saw quite a few goal line carries even last year when Todd Gurley was there. The situation in Jacksonville seems to have clarified at least a little bit where we didn't know, I mean, Chris Thompson's locked in. I still love him, but we didn't know, is it going to be, Raquel Armstead, is it going to be. Divino Zygbo. It's going to be James Robinson.

And it sounds like it's going to be James Robinson as of now. So if you have that last spot, he is 100% a player. I think you should throw on the back of the bench and just see what opportunities happen week one. It will not shock me in the slightest. If a week from today on the waiver show, we're saying the biggest pickup of the week is James Robinson. Malcolm Brown in week one last year, two touchdowns. In our dynasty league that we co-own, who has James Robinson?

We do, actually, and we grabbed him right off the waiver wire. Well, here's an important thing for fantasy. You have to both move quickly to sign a player and react to news, but you also have to be willing to quickly take the, you know, not take the L, so to speak, but move on. Like when this news happened about Fournette, you had to go out and just grab Rockwell Arms did. Everybody had to do it. Or Anne Chris Thompson, if you hadn't. Divine. And Divine, potentially.

things have become more clear. So you can't be like, oh, no, I just spent capital on RyQuil and I can't move. Like James Robinson is the guy to own right now. Yeah. And to be clear, what happened to Armstead was he is actually, he's back on the COVID list. He was on it earlier in the off season. Then he had a leg injury. So the team is not counting on him. You had head coach Doug Morone come out and he said, it's going to be a while.

before Armstead is ready to play. They had him almost not at all through training camp. When they decided to release Leonard Fournett, Raikwell Armstead was not active, was currently injured, and has missed most of training camp. He wasn't the reason that they were able to move on from Fournet. Yeah, and Judge Diamati himself wanted us to remind everybody, if you hadn't joined us when the COVID list was developed by the NFL and the NFLPA.

Just because a player's been put on the COVID list does not mean that they're positive for COVID-19 and have a prolonged time on the list. Oftentimes, it could be, we've seen false positives. It can also be if you were in the circle of somebody else that has COVID and you are quarantining for a period of time because somebody in your vicinity. Like if you've seen hard knocks or you've seen some of the behind the scenes of NFL camps this year, every camp has these.

watched style proximity alert things that they're wearing. And if anybody test positive in the organization, everybody that was within six feet of that person gets a notification. I think a lot of these cases are people that were within six feet of somebody that ends up testing positive, part of staff, and then they're being careful about it. Now, RyQuil might be a completely different story being back on there. We're not sure yet.

But just don't think that you're going to be without a player for weeks on end just because they go on the COVID-19 list. Yeah, agreed. And then some other backup situations that have clarified, let's say you're in deep leagues, dynasty leagues, what have you. The Panthers did release Reggie Bonifone, Super Bonifon, makes Mike Davis. He looks like the clear backup right now to Christian McCaffrey. And in Kansas City.

DeAndre Washington was starting to build some buzz, the previous connection to Patrick Mahomes, the past catching ability. They have released him. Darrell Williams is, as of right now, Darrell Williams is the backup to Clyde Edwards. He's another name that I would throw on that list of, okay, you threw someone onto your IR and you're picking someone up off of waivers. He's in consideration to me of someone that just pick up and see what happens week one. Would you rather pick up Malcolm Brown and?

James Robinson ahead of him, though? Yes. You both would? James Robinson would be my top choice, then Malcolm Brown and then Williams. Get ready for the Malcolm Brown-esque week one for Darrell Williams. It could happen. It could happen. And we're all going, oh, wait, I want to see Clyde. It could happen, considering they've already, you know, said, and this is to be expected, that week one, it might not just be 100% the Clyde Edwards-Lillard Show. Like you said, Darrell Williams could come in and get a couple rushing touchdowns.

But we already know that's going to happen or could happen, prepare for that to be a likely event. And do not freak out if you have drafted Clyde Edwards-A-Lair. Do you remember Malcolm Brown's week one last year? Yes. And he certainly does. Yeah, two touchdowns. Yeah. Top 12 fantasy quarterback. Oh, did you just say that? Yes, he did. Second time in a row. Well, that's because I was looking. I was like, man, I think he had a dominant week one. So I was looking at the stuff.

And it's hard to look and listen at the same time. Great information. I couldn't listen to your Malcolm Brown take because I was too busy looking up Malcolm Brown. Developing my Malcolm Brown take. Hyped train Eric Ebron. A lot of talk out of camp with him being used all over the formation. That's one piece of the equation, the hype and the talk and Ebron, Ebron. The other part is that they chose to go with fewer wide receivers on Game Day because of Eric Ebron's.

flexibility to be able to use him, line him up outside. It is interesting. It's not like you have a stone cold locked wide receiver cord full of production in Pittsburgh. You have Chase Claypool, a rookie. You have James Washington, up and down. You have Deontay Johnson. First time he's playing with Big Ben. And then you got Juju after the down year. Juju should be pretty safe from a volume perspective. But here's Eric Ebron. Like, I'd rather take a shot at Eric Ebron in week one than I would Jack Doyle. Because...

I want a chance at 25 points. And I think Ebron is that guy. He definitely is, especially when you look at the wide receiver core in, you know, Juju's the number one guy. You don't have that locked in. This person dominates in the red zone. As good as Juju is, that's not been where he has been really successful for the team. And it could be Eric Ebron, just another.

flashback to his year with the Colts where he had like 10 receptions, but all 10 of them are touchdowns. All right. Are there any huge roster cuts that you want to bring up outside the ones you talked about, Mike? I mean, DeAndre Washington was signed by the chiefs this off season. He was cut and put back on their practice squad. But we just talked about Daryl Williams. Talked about Theoretic was cut. Trey Quinn was cut. Wide receiver for Washington. Maybe that's a little...

But tap for Sims in Washington. Hakeem Butler was cut for all the dynasty truthers. That was. That didn't work. But he was also not picked up through waivers. So he was also, in addition to that, not resigned to the practice squad. So he's not really a dynasty hold then. That's, yeah. I mean, I would move on. Do you see the Packers picked up Robert Foster? Yeah. From Buffalo?

I thought that was interesting. For the speed. And then shout out to my man, Josh McCown, quarterback, who's been in the league forever. This dude is 41 years old. And he is now a backup for the Eagles, except you know what he has to do? Oh, it's amazing. He gets to sit at home. I believe it's in Texas. Yes. So he just hangs out.

keeps in shape and he's making like 12K a week to hang out. Josh McCown, you're my hero. That is the. That is the best job of all time. Cherry on the top of his career. It's so, like he deserves to sit at home with his family and make 12 grand a week just to be here. And he could come in and probably play better than half the backups in football. Yes. Yes, he could. Without any reps. Like he's practice squad. Wait, you're practice squad and you don't have to, you don't have to practice? No, you don't, Josh.

Just be a dad. You're in your mid-50s or whatever. They're just making sure, like, if they need a quarterback, which Philadelphia has frequently needed a backup quarterback, they're saying, look, dibs, you can't go to another team. And, well, dibs is 12K a week, just for the record. So amazing. That's incredible. All right, let's do some mailbag. Mailbag, yeah. All right.

Let's go to a voicemail question. By the way, if you have a question, you can go to the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com. You can also dial the voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. We take a lot of questions, especially on the Wednesday shows during the season. So if you've got questions heading into the week, that's a great time to get them in. Let's go to a voicemail. Good morning, footballers, greetings from New Hampshire. My name is Pedro, and there's a lot of mouths to feed out in Arizona. I'm sure you guys know.

So who do you think finishes the year better? Christian Kirk or Larry Fitzgerald. Full point PPR. Thanks, guys. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, I think we all have Kirk projected as that number two. He was actually pretty darn good last year. Then he got injured and had a slow, you know, coming back from injury was a little bit difficult. But he is the younger, faster.

You know, he's the number two guy to me in Arizona. And I believe we saw that. He was the number one last year when him and Fitz were both healthy. Now a year further, a year older for Fitz. I believe he's the number two. Yeah, that's how we all have him ranked. But I will say this. I mean, last year, Larry Fitzgerald started the year on fire. I mean, he was the go-to target to begin the year. He had the huge plays against Detroit to start the season. And as an older wide receiver, I mean, I've watched probably two hours of Cardinals camp over the last few days.

Larry is featured frequently. Hopkins is just becoming a part of the offense. Kirk is great, but I would not be shocked in any way, shape, or form if somehow Larry Fitzgerald is the better fantasy-wide receiver through three weeks. Are you taking either of them in drafts, Andy? I have drafted Kirk with my second to last pick a couple of times. Larry doesn't have any upside. So if things go right for Christian Kirk,