Starts of the Week + Week 3 Games, Tucker 2x4! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/24

Oh, that didn't sound like a man who actually... Well, because you already... You're like, hey, I'm going to do this thing. You cool? That's a fair point. He might not have the cognition, though, to reply in a good... Kyle was hit in the head with a baseball this week. He was being a good dad pitcher for his league. His son's league. Bad baseball player. I believe he said that he was... I asked him if he was a kid that was way too old. His kids are all like they're in a 10-year-old league.

And then like some 13 year old came up there. And now I'm picturing him as like, this kid's gigantic. Oh, for sure. He just, he dropped off the keys after he got out of his truck, walked up here and. And he took a, he's like legit. He got a line drive. He fired a piss missile right into your head. He, we're going to go. Brady would love that term there. Jason would too. But he literally hit a line drive off of Kyle. And I was like, well, were you behind a pitching screen? And he said, yes. It was too fast.

So Kyle's been actually dealing with, I would say a trauma, no dad thought they deal with. Not in the 10-year-old baseball league. It was unbelievable. So in other words, yeah, I would take Adonai Mitchell versus Adonimichael in this one. So Kenyon Sadiq with Mason Taylor out. I'm sorry. He didn't practice. Seems like he's going to be out this week. Kenyon Sadeek, first round pick, very athletic player.

We didn't particularly love him and his production profile. But draft capital and opportunity here says that Sadiq is someone to pay attention. And athletic profile. We talk about it. When you look at athletic profiles, it doesn't matter that much at most positions. But tight in, that is like almost always required to be good at fantasy. And he is off the charts. Perfect matchup for him with Miaoson out.

So, yeah, I mean, it's not one that, like all those other names we were talking about earlier, the Darren Waller, the Terrence Ferguson. I'm going to start those guys over Sadiq. I want Sadiq on my bench. But a DFS play, some kind of surprising, you know, if you can find, you know, I don't know what price picks line is on him, but that might be. Waller or Sadiq? I play Waller. I'm just bringing him up of like me. Could be a breakout game. If you're waiting through the mucky muck of the tight-end position, this is like.

This is the situation where, okay, first round pick shows up because the starter is out and then that first runner has a great game. It's like it's done. He'll just take the job. Yeah, yeah. It's adjacent point, by the way. So you have golf in this one as your start of the week. So Sadiq right now looks like 25 and a half receiving yards on. It's a price picks projection. Houston, O&2 taking on the O&2 Indianapolis Colts.

The Vegas line is Houston minus two and a half. The overrunner is 42 and a half. Okay. Here we go. Which part is the cackles, just that they're both 0 and two. I mean, yeah. Where are we going? Yeah, the spread. And the fact that like, you know, I still look at Houston's defense as a top tier defense, but we have yet to get that kind of prolific performance so far. The Colts had a heck of a battle against the Chiefs, made it a game. They've fallen short.

the last couple of weeks. I don't know how complicated the start-sit decisions are, but I don't think Nico's not practicing. And so I don't think you're going to have him. And so outside of the doctor in Montgomery, is that the whole offense? Is it consolidated for Houston? Yeah. For fantasy, it's pretty, it's pretty gross. Because it's like Hutchinson is, it's, he'll get targets. He's just, it's not him.

So, I don't know. I mean, Jalen Knoll, if you're wanting to get disgusting. I mean, it's a really good matchup, you know, against the Colts D. You want to target. This is why we like David Montgomery and Dalton Schultz. I do think someone else will, you know, will have a good game. It's just one of those things where. Can you, yeah, is Jared Wayne going to be the guy? You know, you just don't know where the ball's going to go. All right, Pilgrim.

It's me. Yeah, I don't know that you can confidently start Booty Hutchinson, Noel, Wayne. So start the doctor. Who's Booty Hutchinson? Booty Hutchinson. If they put them... If I got both of their scores, I would absolutely start them in this game. Sounds like that's who Jared Wayne would fight in the Wild West. Oh, Booty Hutchinson. Oh, yeah. Oh, Booty. This town's not big enough.

We're doing a lot of impressions today. We really are. By the way, I like the Josh. Really good ones. Really good. Josh Down started the week for Mike. I like him a lot in this game, but I will say this. If you want to buy low opportunity, the moment is now on Tyler Warren. Alec Pierce is going to miss an extended period of time. I think that Tyler Warren is going to be a beneficiary of the consolidation of targets. We haven't had the yardage there. We've had the touchdowns. Otherwise, he'd be.

I mean, you would be talking about Tyler Warren right now in the same breath as Loveland and everybody in Pitts. The only saving grace is that the 30-something yards he's got comes with a touchdown right now. Yeah, it's so weird. He is a yak machine. That was what he was in college. That was what he was last year. I mean, he let all pass catchers in yards after catch through the first three weeks of the NFL season last year. Now all of a sudden. 3.8 per catch last year was 10.8. Yeah, I mean, it's like he's. Buy low.

He really doesn't look like the same monster out there. But, I mean, you know, you have a couple down weeks. I agree with you. This is a very good by-low opportunity. He should have a better rest of season. And is Keenan Allen going to be on this team the rest of the season? Probably because of injuries, but not because of play. I mean, it was weird, man. Two drops hitting him in the chest, Keenan? Like, that is just not normal.

And they're still talking about his suspension. I believe that that is pushed. It's, yeah. It got pushed? I miss it. No, I think it might happen. This season? Yeah, unless you saw something like in the last day, they've been talking about it. Oh, no. I mean, my information was probably four days ago where it was like basically he's going to get a three game suspension, but it'll probably play out after the. Oh, they think it'll be after? After the court proceedings, which will probably be after the season. Okay, I got you. Yeah, well, he, you know.

When you're close to retirement, that's a real sneaky technique. Yeah, it's like, oh, why don't we just push this off, let's say, just to the end of this season? I'll totally accept whatever you decide. Give me a 20 game suspension after the season. That's right. Kansas City 2 and O, and two, and O, and two, Miami Dolphins. Kansas City minus 10 and a half on the road, over under 46.5. That's cute. Yeah, it should be more. Only giving them 10 and a half. Come on.

The Chiefs are 28 and 3 whenever they're double-digit favorites, but they have failed to cover the spread in 55% of those things. I mean, the Chiefs look amazing and the Dolphins look terrible. So there you go. And you take the one player, the only player in the passing offense that kind of looked like he had some sort of rapport with Malik Willis, Caleb Douglas, and you throw him on to the practice report with ankle injury. I doubt Caleb Douglas plays this week.

I'm not sure that outside of A-chan, you can play a dolphin. No, I don't think you can. I mean, we're excited for the prospect. The future of Chris Bell as a good wide receiver and a rookie, this isn't the game for him. Malik Washington should get the most targets if you're in a...

Two point per reception league, you know, point per target league. A dolphin only league. You know, you can throw him out there, but I think you're right. It's basically Devon A-chan and check-out. And the fact that they are not using Malik Willis's legs is going to bring it up. I believe Kirk Cousins has more rushing attempts than Malik Willis. Ian Hart has brought it to our attention, or to my attention, I'll say, Kirk Cousins with more rushing attempts than Malik Willis on the year as of right now.

And that is what? Yeah, you have a superpower that you're sticking in your pocket. No, it's dumb. I mean, it was part of the argument from Alec Willis was like, you unlock everything by running. Why would you bring him in and pay him that money and not say, dude, you need to run. Like this, you change the offense. If you're just going to be a pocket passer.

Yeah, to a bunch of rookies and nobody's. Then what are we even doing here? We're going for that number one pick. I will say. Play Mahomes, Walker, Rice, and Kelsey on the chief side. Week one, six rushing attempts for 39 yards. Last week was bad, but I don't think that's the norm. Malik will run. I believe he will run, but it's like, how can that even possibly happen? That just can't happen, especially when you're having no success moving the football. Right. And, you know.

The nice thing I will say about A-chan is that when they are the worst, he's still fine. You know, last week was 20 for 74 on the ground, three catches for 19 yards. Hasn't gotten in the end zone yet. That was a big concern. He won't very many times this year. It does seem like that will be a challenge for this team until they find some sort of momentum on offense. But, yeah, Walker, Mahomes, Rice, only targeted on 11% of routes. But look, that...

This is a heavy favorite situation with a 28.5 point implied point total. It's the second highest of the year. If you don't play Rice here, why would you play him ever? Sure. Yeah, I mean, this is this also could be a game, though, where not only is Kenneth Walker awesome, but I think you could start Emmett, the same way that, Mike, you're saying you can start Blake Corum. Now, we know Blake Corum's going to get more work than Emmett. Emmett Johnson, their rookie who's looked great behind Kenneth Walker, but I believe.

the fourth quarter of this game. Emmett might game script the whole entire fourth quarter. That's what I mean. He might get 10 carries just in the fourth. And if you give him enough carries against this Dolphins offense, he's like Emmanuel Wilson last week. Exactly. Yeah, I'm with you. Sneaky. Tennessee O and two taking on the one and one New York Giants. This is the lowest over under the week. Giants minus three at home. 38 and a half is the over and under. Oh. Is that good?

Dude, where's that toilet sound effect? That is flushed this game. I feel like I'll leave that. We'll leave that. That's what I had for you. Okay, well, would it be helpful to tell you that in a game in which, oh, gosh. It's a long one. Oh, man. Brace yourselves. This is reminding me of your Browns. Oh, yeah, of course. And Brown discussions. Yeah. Good.

Okay, we got to stop the toilet. It's a real long flush. 68% chance of rain, potentially high wins. Oh, perfect. That's what this game needs. Building a game plan around James Winston. We need to slow this thing down. I mean, Winston was 11 for 27 last week. You're pushing 30% completion. Yeah. Cam Scada boo is your start of the week. I mean, I don't feel a lot of confidence with neighbors right now. No, I don't either.

This is, especially with the wind with his shoulder. I think Malik Neighbors is one of those players where he's not a guaranteed start. The worry here is a lot of different things can go wrong. But with a shoulder injury that popped out of the socket last week and then he basically wasn't targeted, it's hard to imagine benching him, but I don't.

I don't think that's the wrong move necessarily. I mean, I think you're... Would you go all the way down to the Denzel Boston Adonitey Mitchell tier? No, I don't think I could do that. I don't think I could go to Rashad Bateman if he's alone, because they flowers, by the way, not practicing again today. Would you play Bateman? I don't think so. Yeah, I wouldn't want to. I would rather trust that the game plan, like a lot of times a backup quarterback comes in, flustered, didn't practice with the ones. Now you get a week of practice. Winston has the arm strength. The way the Rams were playing, I honestly think that...

Jackson Darts line would have looked not much better. I think, you know, if you've got other options like a Devante Adams or Ladd or Tetaroa or. So really, really, if you have like really good options. Well, like James. Jameson Williams. Jameson Williams hasn't been playing. I play Malik. Yeah, man. I would too. Okay. Yeah, let's, let's be quick, though, on the other side. Zero.0 starters?

What sucks is... I mean, two ankle injuries for Spears and Pollard. Pollard and Spears did not practice, I believe it was due to... They said ankle, but I also saw some... The general was reporting for... Sornis. General Sornis. Yes, General Sornis. Yes, we know him well. The older I get. The Pollard should be playable in this matchup. The Giants, like, they're not able to stop running backs. And Tony Pollard should see a bunch of carries. It's disgusting.

I understand if you're looking at that actual starts a decision, you're like, I can't live with myself if I do this, but I think Pollard should be okay. Carnal Tate is a bench right now? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, in a game with bad weather, low over, under, I don't, I mean, he's got the talent to take anything to the house, but a lot of those other middling guys that you are far more confident in the passing game, in targets heading their direction, I think this is a bench week for Carnell Tate.