Starts of the Week + Week 1 Breakdown, Injury Panic - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

until Trayvion is back on this team. I still think the workload's going to be high. And by the way, he had a higher top speed than Judarian Price last night. That's hilarious. It is hilarious because it's like, oh, Judarian showed his speed. He was so fast. It's like, Monre was faster. The argument for Remandre was always Belcal utilization. That's it.

He's not a spectacular back. On talent, remember I said? On a good offense, too. On a good offense. Yeah, it's just like now if AJ Brown's out, his passing work is going to be high. Yeah. And they're going to play defenses that are not, you know, in Seattle on the debut. So to me, if you can have a game that people on Twitter think is the worst game of your life and you're the highest scoring fantasy player on your team. And anybody who started him, I have him in a bunch of leagues, very satisfied with the output of a game where they didn't score a touchdown outside of Eli Rareddon, never got on the goal line.

I just think it was overblown. No, I mean, Ramandra is going to be a phenomenal play. At the very least, the next month, he should be a, like, honestly, he should be a running back one over the first month of the season. I really do. I really do think that. He's going to be so involved in the passing game. You're going to have Trayvion Henderson still coming back. I will say that on the positive for Trayvion Henderson, I know is the Seahawks, but this looked like a team that needed another weapon, especially with.

As soon as AJ Brown went out, it was like, my goodness, they are lacking weapons. Big Mac is back, maybe. Well, this was the expectation we had in our preview on Tuesday was that this would be a low-scoring game where the defenses were and that the Patriots were going to struggle dealing with new offensive pass catchers because they hadn't done it before. Now, it was alarming to me that Romeo Dobbs had zero catches and Mac Hollins.

was targeted as much as he was. And if you go to the snap counts. It's the three targets for Dobbs that is far more trouble. And it was correlated to snaps. Dobbs was getting far fewer snaps than Matt Collins or to Mario Douglas. So that's concerning. Like I think, I mean, genuinely, I think Romeo Dobbs is a drop in fantasy. Probably. But it's hard to know because Matt Collins came into the AJ Brown role. You know, AJ Brown got injured right at the beginning of the second half.

So you had Hollins playing a role that he wasn't usually. I think AJ Brown would 8 in that game. Before AJ Brown left, if you go watch the snap counts. If it was just first half snap counts? When AJ Brown was alive and well, the snap counts for Romeo Dobbs was fourth in the pecking order of the wide receivers. It is very strange. The only issue with dropping him is that I assume we're going to be without AJ Brown for a couple of weeks. No, I'm who is. That's an over. Yeah, maybe, maybe, you know, Matt Collins is a pickup.

It will be hard not to drop him as the better point. Because if you have zero production and you're getting low snaps and then you're going to have a swath of waiver wire pickups we're excited about because Pat Bryant breaks out in week one. Hey, so I'm all for it. Major takeaways from this game. Call your shot on Jadarian Price, whether you think he's explosive and looks good and will get more work or whether you confirm that he is going to be in a committee and can't be a top back. Drake May is much better than he performed yesterday. I think he's like a.

immediate trade for candidate because people are going to be very, very low, no A.J. Brown. I think A.J. Brown will be great when he comes back. Remandre should be awesome. And then the latest news we have on Sam Darnold is waiting on an MRI. The biggest fears of like a season-ending hip fracture look in the rear view. Short-term IR is still not off-pay. The quote here, dodged a bullet. Dodged a bullet, but it's still, I would. Still could miss time. Yeah, still could miss time.

Yeah, that's encouraging for the... And also, JSN is so good. He's very good. And Cooper Cup, wouldn't give an opportunities last night. He had a touchdown called back. He made some plays. Yeah, he had an awesome one-handed catch. Because just the, the outcome, you know, like, what is this with Darnel missing time for JSN? You know, I... Just to touch on it real quick, of like...

This isn't a, this doesn't feel like Joe Burrow last, or I'm sorry, Jamar Chase. Oh yeah. Last year where Brownie came in and you're like, this dude is completely incompetent and you're just, you do have to fully panic on Jamar Chase. I don't, your output's going to go down. Yeah, your volume will go down. But Drew Locke is at least a competent backup. You know, right. I mean, personality wise, he might be. But we'll take a quick break and talk all this news.

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Well, the first thing I'm going to share real quick is that today was the day of Josh Jacobs in court, and he pled no contest to the charges that were brought against him, which included a no contest plea on five different conditions. He needs supervision and counseling and pay restitution to the victim and no contact with the victim. Oh, by the way, one of the conditions, no further criminal acts.

Oh, one of the cool agreements you do when you've committed criminal act. They're going Jim Carrey on him. So we're not breaking the law. Yes, yes, we are. So we might have more information about that's well probably just there'll be an immediate six games then. Probably. Yeah. So.

We talked about AJ Brown and Darnold. We don't need to talk about them again. George Kittle, off the injury report. We'll play tonight against the Rams. Come on, George. It does not. Come on, George. Being off the injury report does not mean he is at 100%. So we've talked a lot about whether or not you play him and who you would play over him, but it's good to see. Oh, by the way, with all this injury news, I just want to remind people, one of the extra perks of the Foot Clan is an Injury Blitz podcast that comes out tomorrow. And I can tell you right now.

Matthew Betts is all over this stuff. And I'm going to give you the breakdown here because we got news yesterday that Raiders tied in Brock Bowers, who... Seven days. He's expected to miss... Just a curse. A game or two after undergoing a meniscus trend. Nope. Stop it. Matthew Betts, I talked to him this morning, our injury expert, and I wanted to get his breakdown of the scenarios. Now, I will say this. From what I cannot find anybody...

And he has reached out to multiple Raiders beat reporters. And he cannot get anybody to confirm 100% it's the same knee. But we all assume it is because he was in camp with a brace on the knee. He ended up with a meniscus trim on Tuesday. Here's the two scenarios that Matthew Betts outlaid for me. Number one, it could be a fluky thing that happened in camp. And if that's the case, he could reasonably return in a few weeks and be the same guy this year. Or.

Option two. No, I don't like this. If it's related to the PCL and bone bruise issue from last year, which caused Brock Bowers to be out and ineffective, it would be a red flag to him. He said if he suffered meniscus damage because of recurring instability in the knee, because of the PCL strain, it is a concern for all of the rest of season effectiveness. Vast majority of PCL sprains heal well, but there is a subset that don't, and the one he can point to, Ricky Pearsall. Oh, boy.

because you can have recurring, lingering issues. Like Pierce saw was another strained situation where it was like, well, if you're going to get surgery, why didn't you do it three, four months ago? I think the same scenario we're sitting here with Brock Bowers. You have these Twitter videos that were like, what do you believe? And he's kind of limping and he's doing these runs. And then he's kind of sitting to the side of practice. Oh, no, he's fine. And then what? Clint Kubiak came out and said,

Everyone's going to suit up an hour before this was announced. Yeah. Thank you for revealing yourself to us. Yeah. Kubiak, that was dirty. I mean, there's no way that Kubiak did not know that his player had, that his star most important player had had surgery. I hope coaches do that for the podium. Is they like, they tell everyone, don't tell me anything? The medical staff don't tell me. But I would say I'm very concerned with Brock Bowers. I don't think that there's.

much that you can do. If you could trade him high for a whole, someone's like, oh, I can get Brock Bowers. Maybe I'm going to ask you horrible questions right now. Okay. Horrible questions. Would you trade Brock Bowers right now for Tyler Warren? I told you. I'm going to ask you horrible questions. So I think I would. And that's, Tucker Kraft. No. No. Colson Lovelin. Yeah, I think I would. I had someone ask me today, would I trade A.J. Brown immediately right now for Garrett Wilson. And I said, yes, because.

I think AJ Brown is going to be better than Garrett Wilson this year. You just want the extra three games? Yeah, you get a month of fantasy production. Like that still matters. You still have to make the playoffs in order to win a championship. So that's a tough one. If you add those extra games in and then you go, I don't know how they'll come back after the injury. Maybe they're slow. You know, play how you're going to play. In the playoffs, I think AJ Brown will be better.

than Garrett Wilson. I hope that Brock Bowers is way better than either Loveland or Warren, but I think I would make that. We are so back. We are, that's it, Mike. We were one game in. We are so back. Oh, man. We weren't even a game in before the Brock Bowers thing came out. And then a just another note. Season pass on the tilt machine, baby. We bought it. We bought it. Definitely not here to, you know, call for panic in the street on Brock Bowers. We just, we don't know. We do know that.

if it's if it is exactly what they say it is typical recovery timeline is closer to three to four weeks the one the one to two weeks is that's a very aggressive wolverine your bra yeah oh ashton jen two liar liar references that's what we're going for today jason you're up i'm up i'm working on it and it can't be it can't be a goose

Okay, because I already hit that recently. Ashton Genti, full participant. There's some good Raiders news for you. Tucker Kraft, not in the injury report ahead of week one. There's some good injury news for you. And we're back. JCM limited with the groin injury, groin index.com member, lifetime member currently on this offseason. But JCM, Rashad White, practicing in full. That could be something to watch in week one for the commanders. Rashad White practicing in full is very similar to Bill being limited.

Okay, that's funny. Malik Neighbors practiced in full on Wednesday. Seems like he's going to play. Come on, baby. And the news that I have been waiting for as an emphatic and excited Chris Bell fan. The Dolphins head coach, Jeff Hayfley, says there will be there will be no pitch count for Chris Bell. They also listed Bell and Douglas as starters. Just put that in the category of better offense than you think. Chris Bell is a first round.

wide receiver talent talent wise and I believe I believe he is an alpha talent on a team with no talent at wide receiver that we know of outside of these two rookies who are now the starters you talk about Malik Washington or you talk about Tolbert or these other guys they brought in they just made two rookies the starters and that's what a team like this should 100% be doing they should throw them out there and be like okay if we lose we lose let's see what we have let's get them reps let's get them experience

I didn't think because of the recovery timeline, the fact that he's a rookie and the training camp and the, you know, being out there for reps would have a full snap allotment from week one, which is why I was on the Caleb Douglas side. If I knew for sure that both players, and it sounds like we know for sure that both players are full-time starters from week one, that's what we're being told, then I would switch to certainly to the Chris Bell side. The upside is higher, I think, with Chris Bell. Both are worth a shot, but right now, before this weekend's games.

Look at the worst player on your team, on your roster, your last round pick. And maybe think about swapping that out for Chris Bell just to see. Yeah, this might be the chance to get him before he's a big pickup next week. Yeah. And speaking of in our league of record, Malik Washington was one of my last picks for, because I needed him for a double flex. I'm like, I just need a guy who's going to get five or so targets. With this news, I have pivoted to Devon Valey as my nasty boy, who wide receiver two for the Saints. Yeah.