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

Anything else from this matchup that you think is a tough decision or something you're watching for, as you said? I'm watching the James Sam Leporta situation where hopefully assuming Sam Leporta is healthy and plays his full allotment of snaps, which it appears he is going to. I want to know how does James and Williams do. Because Jameson Williams blew up at the end of last year. It coincided with two different things, the play calling changing, but also Sam Leporta being off the field. I want James to come out week one.

and dominate with Laporta on the field. I think that would say a lot. Yeah, I think it would be tough, I think, for all those guys every week to get it done. I think LaPorta and Jameson could seem more ping-ponging this year in terms of one of those guys being the next man up because Gibbs and Alman Raj are so involved. But this could be a good week for it with the over-under. If you lost Brock Bowers and you are scrambling, I had tweeted out right when the news came, but this shouldn't surprise you that Joanne Johnson would be pretty much my...

favorite replacement who is on a lot of waiver wires. I know he's not on everyone, but I think that he is a solid play. All righty, New York, Tennessee coming up next. We'll take a quick break and get back into the week one matchups. Football season has arrived and with the U.S. Bank's Smartly Visa signature card, you can earn an unlimited 2% cashback on every purchase, whether at the stadium.

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Tennessee minus one and a half at home. That's fine. Over under 38 and a half. Lowest of week one. You're talking about the 29th and 30th ranked offenses last year in points per game and yards per game. They were not good. Cam Ward, you know, I still hope that he's not a liar when he said in the preseason, look, we've got a lot of, we've got a lot of stuff we're not doing yet.

and we'll do it when the game time happens. So that's all fine and well, but the stuff you were doing, you were not doing very well. So I hope the stuff that you haven't done, you're really good. That's, I mean, that's a fair point. Robert Sala echoed that, you know, after some of the preseason struggles, he said, you know, when it came to. No, I know, but I believe it. I believe that they were not focused on necessarily like, I think there's going to be a lot of.

worry about starting Carnal Tate. You haven't seen it yet. Looked bad in preseason. Do I start or as a rookie, do I just like hold off? And I would absolutely be starting them. How high of a level of a start? Are you saying like a wise receiver? Yeah. Why do you or a two? Is that a wise receiver? Is that I heard? I see I see him as a top 24 play. Okay. I mean, it's, you know, the Jets defense is is not going to be very good. I do think that they're going to force him the ball.

and design plays for him. Brian Daibald did this with Malik Neighbors in his rookie season. I think there will be some design plays for him. I am very curious to see the Wondale involvement. I brought up Alec Pierce as being one of the only receivers drafted that late where he had 1,000 yards the year before. Wondale was the only other one. They paid him a ton of money. He's a very good player, and he played for Brian Dable. When Brian Dable goes and gets you, it means something to me.

So I am curious about the utilization there. On the other side, we just want consolidation, Breece Hall, Garrett Wilson. I'm not watching for much else. Honestly, if I had to pick a sleeper surprise performance of this entire game, to me, it's Adonai Mitchell. Yeah, people talked about him during the off season. Maybe this is the year. Yeah, I mean, I liked what I saw in the, I mean, it was hard to watch the Jets last year, but in his limited time once he arrived.

I thought it was pretty good. Baltimore, the Ravens at Indianapolis, Vegas line here, Baltimore minus three and a half, over under 47 and a half. You feeling good about this one? Much better than the last game. I am very curious about this. Both of these teams are teams that I'm very like, I'm not sure how it's going to go. I know that Baltimore is expected to win, you know, double digit games and they should be great. Their defense should be great. They've got Lamar. They've got Derek Henry. But.

they've gotten much, much worse on the offensive line. They lost their star fullback. I could see their offense potentially struggling. And with the change in the long-term leadership that this organization was very used to, you know, a harball run in the show. And now it's a completely new system in here with new coaches. I'm just curious. I want to see what we see for Baltimore. And then when it comes to the Colts, it's like,

That was the tale of two halves last year with and without Daniel Jones. They were, Daniel Jones was an MVP candidate. They were the number one seed in the NFL after eight weeks and everything looked good. He got injured and then they were a putrid team. And so it's like, well, are they going to be as good as they were to start last year this year now that Daniel Jones is back? This is a great test for both teams. I am absolutely fascinated to watch it. Yeah. So you're going to start your studs in this one.

The health of Alec Pierce is something we're watching. The distribution of the downs, Keenan Allen. You know, what does Daniel Jones look like? Jacoby Lane, a rookie were watching, mostly to see what's the snaps like? Yeah, snaps is everything for Jacoby Lane. Which I'm not expecting. I'm not either. A lot. I'm not either. Even though he had one of the loudest drum beats of the entire offseason, we know the...

traditional path for rookies drafted in the range that he was, that it takes time, would expect it will be Flowers and Rashad Bateman as the primary guys, but maybe we're pleasantly surprised. Yeah, when day two or day three picks get a bunch of buzz, and Lane was really excited, right? Was he a fourth? Remember that right?

No, he was the third round. You get really really big, baby. Yeah. But even them, they don't usually play enough snaps week one to be relevant. So that's what to watch for. And of course, you know I'm watching the Josh Down Snaps. Yeah, and it's always... Are you on the outside? It's important to know that these rookies, while they don't get a lot of opportunities in week one, that doesn't set the table for them to never work themselves into an offense. Things evolve with effectiveness. Rashad Bateman has the legal plus...

talent troubles and we'll see what happens for the offense as it goes and that you know the debut of jesse minner deklin doyle offense is it's a big deal yeah i'm it's i think the ravens are extremely exciting for week one to because each like it should absolutely work out your concerns jay are i think are very valid but you're like you have superstars on this team yeah so it should work and

The whispers, they're very quiet, but the whispers of Derek Henry catching more passes this year, we'll see. Atlanta at Pittsburgh, they can't all be winners. Vegas line here, Pittsburgh minus three and a half, over under just 42 and a half. Is there a worst quarterback matchup on a single week? What's worse to watch, Rogers v. Tua or Camward v. Gino?

Cam Ward Vigino, I think. So we're getting a couple of the super combos this week. The Falcons have not had a winning season since 2017. The Pittsburgh Steelers were the slowest, most plotting offense last year, 28th in plays per game, which it's one thing to just be, like, disappointed in the offensive output of your wide receivers in Pittsburgh, when Kenny Gainwell leads the team in receiving instead of DK MacCaf, their alpha.

But it's another thing to do it in such a way that makes me so bored and so sad. They were the worst to watch last year. Like if we just watch a back and forth affair where Tua is throwing four-yard passes to Kyle Pitts and Aaron Rogers is throwing four-yard passes to Darnel, Washington. Yeah. I mean, that might be the game. Who has the lower A-DOT this week? Between those two guys. Gosh, I think Tua. Yeah. Man, it, he is done soon.

He is done soon. Two of E. Rogers. We're hoping that Mike McCarthy brings some new life to the Steelers. Well, and the same with Kevin Stefansky in Atlanta. Sure. And Tommy Reese. But right now, play B. Jean Robinson and Drake London. Play Kyle Pitts for sure. Mike's start of the week. And then on the offensive side for Pittsburgh, I think you would probably concede Jalen Warren's going to be in lineups.

Warren and Dowell will both be played. Metcalf was not in, he was not drafted in a place that means you have to start this guy. No, but I would. You know, this is a perfect matchup. Obviously last year, the Falcons were the 30th against wide receivers giving up over 31 points a game with McCarthy in tow. I would say that this is a...

You know, D.K. Metcalf is going to be in one of those situations where until one of the two things are proven, like he is really good or he's irrelevant on this offense, you're going to be playing matchups. And this is a matchup you want to play. So week one at home, I would be starting D.K. Metcalfe. The Chicago Bears travel to Carolina to take on the Panthers. Chicago three-point road favorites. The overrunners 46.5. Okay.

implied point total puts the bears at 24 and a half Carolina at 21 and a half what is the man is that you're surprised they're not favored by more or favored at all or what is it no it's I think favored by three is strong that's kind of that's how I felt too I mean if you want to say the bears are favorite like okay a point a point and a half that a full field goal is pretty surprising to me well we'll see it is uh

Boy, I'm getting reminded of the Bryce Young when he was traded for what equated to. Listen to this. DJ Moore, Darnell Wright, Tyreeks Stevenson, Caleb Williams, and Luther Birding. That was the net. Wow. That was the net. We call that a whoops a doozles. That is, man. That is a franchise. That is a lot of players. Last year we had this Chicago Bend Don't Break defense that got them pretty far.

Oh, it bent, though. They did bend eventually. And, well, can Bryce Young bend it this week? He's got Tet McMillan, Jalen Coker, Healthy. Darren Waller, don't forget, he plays football. Yeah. The Wallerish himself, boy, do we even have that anymore in the drops? Is he in the right jersey? I think we probably don't. We're going to have to get that fixed. He's probably in a Dolphins jersey. Just imagine it was Panther Blue. Is Bryce Young going to do enough this week? No. I will say that every week.

He honestly... Will he do enough for Tet? Because he's... Yes. Mike's start of the week. Yeah, no, he will. If he... If there's any matchup where Bryce is going to do enough, this is one of them. I think one thing I'm watching, because we're kind of using that language in week one. I'm watching for, you know, Tett McMillan where he's lining up in this offense. And if they start to move him around more, that's exciting. Yeah, he was in the slot a decent amount with preseason. Like, we saw it. So...

That would be a huge boost if they're actually willing to move them around and not just be dumb. Odds that we are satisfied in any meaningful way by what happens in the running back room for Carolina this week. No. I think it's more of a... The odds are no, Jason. The odds are no. Yeah. They are no. Okay. It's looking for rotation. Like I guess I mean, like when we get done with the day, are we like, hey, we know what's going on? Or not really.