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

But Concepcion, Denzel Boston, that'll be exciting. Harold Fanon, that's exciting. Casey's going to be so open all the time. I can't wait for a couple weeks from now. I still wonder if Deshaun Watson's going to come in here and target Jerry Judy the most, which will just be tremendous. Jerry Judy was very excited that Watson was named the starter. He was asked back a couple months ago who he wanted to start, and he threw up a four.

Let me tell you this. We have a segment tomorrow because the Wheel of Shame is returning. And Jerry Judy has a role in that segment tomorrow. Oh, yeah. I will tell you that right now. Because there's nothing more shameful than the Wheel of Shame in Week 1 and having Jerry Judy in a lineup. Which side is he going to go? So he is in a lineup. I don't know. I don't know. I think based on seeing that I feel like. I don't know what his projection is. I don't either. Is it a disservice? Is it a disturbance to our listenership to?

not tell you what it is ahead of time. You're fine. Stay tuned until tomorrow. The game's not until Sunday. So there you go. Stay tuned. Tomorrow show also, I mean, even with that going on, Andy, we're not putting Jerry Judy into our season-long lineups. That's a thank you, Mike. Thank you for letting me know. Let's be clear on that. We get to watch the Brian Thomas Jr. Parker, Washington, Jacobi Myers situation. Yes. This one's a huge, huge one for gathering information. So much to learn about the Jags.

And then Britten Strange, you know, spots start if you need them. If you lost Brock Bowers, I mean, I'd start Britten Strange over a lot of different lower level tight ends probably. Or some of them. Pete Jawanson's not there. Britain Strange, I think, is an okay dart throw. And play T-Law. Who's a better play, K to Otten or Brenton Strange? Because I feel like that. I agree with you. Jwanson is the best of the...

probable waiver? The problem for Kate Auden is whenever people have been healthy, he just runs wind sprints. Like he doesn't actually get targets. But having said that, the matchup for Kate is so glorious in terms of the defense he's against, you know, of where they ranked last year against the position. For years. And then his opponent's pace of play.

them moving faster, giving Tampa Bay more opportunities. It's a really good spot, but I don't, I feel like I would probably still play Brent Strange. We're going to do one more. Buffalo taking on the Houston Texans in Houston. Buffalo minus one and a half on the road. I feel like that is, that's an interesting one too. Houston's a good team. Yes. Over under 44.5. Dominant defense last year. Sixth against quarterbacks giving up just.

12.2 fantasy points per game, but they didn't play Josh Allen every week, obviously, although the one time they did, they held them in check. Their ninth against running backs, fourth against wide receivers as well. Buffalo was the Super Bowl pick for me yesterday over Detroit, and Jason had Detroit over Buffalo. Yep, yep. So Josh Allen won in his career against Houston. Houston's defense is going to put pressure on him. We'll get to see DJ Moore's debut.

You're going to be starting Josh Allen 99.9% of the time. James Cook, yep, DJ Moore, probably. And then, you know, I found myself, no matter what we said, we said a lot of things about Dalton Kincaid this offseason, which is ironic because him and Kyle Pitts just have this redundancy to the offseason hype train where it's like, we just know how talented they are in the right situation. Right. And Dalton Kincaid, I found myself when push came to shove in drafts, I couldn't do it.

I couldn't get myself to, like, I'm just like, part of me is expecting to have week one, and Don't Kincaid is two for 21, and we're back in the same boat, and it's, you know, Kalil Shakir is active, and he gets a bunch of little targets, and then there's somebody else that just, I hope it's not the case. I hope Duncan King can utilize in proportion to the gifts he has. So the reason that I loved Dalton Kincaid latent drafts was certainly not a probability.

play of he's going to be good this year. It was more of a breakout hope that if he actually plays 75% of snaps, I think he would be very good. It was a ceiling case. This game is actually a really, really good. I know it's a bad matchup in general. There won't be a ton of points here scored, but you can attack the Texans a little bit more at the tight end position than at wide receivers. They're going to need Dalton Kincaid. If Dalton Kincaid is 50% of snaps in this game,

You can know right off the bat. This is not going to work. So that's what I'm watching for more than anything is basically just snap count because he's hyper efficient in his routes run. Are they involving him and running more of those routes or not? He's healthy. Hopefully he does. I don't mind anybody even if they want to have a safer play and throw in Juan Johnson.

while keeping Dalton Kincaid on their bench, that's fine. It is Dalton v. Dalton. So Dalton Schultz on the other side are Dalton Kincaid in this one. You've got the injuries at the wide receiver position for Houston, Dalton. Dolton v. Dalton, Jason. And talk about two different Dalton. I mean, it's the exact inverse. One drives, like recklessly drives sports cars. The other one's a Ford Taurus man. Yeah. Yeah.

But that thing is, but that thing's been running for it. It will hit 400. Dude, every-246,000 miles on that bad dog. Every suggested service handled. Oh, yeah. We are preventing any problems. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if I'm an underdog, I would play Kincaid. Okay. If I'm a heavy favorite, I would play Schultz. And if it's a 50-50 matchup, I'm going to go with Dalton Kincaid. Dalton Schultz had a 19% target share last year, which is like, that's a lot. We've, for a garbage.

type of a fantasy tight end, you would 100% take that. And when you lose Higgins and you lose Christian Kirk from last year, he will be involved. Oh, man, so involved. He had games of 10 targets. Here he comes, 11, 9, 8, 9. The issue is those, you can have 10 targets with Dalton Schultz and have a bad game. Absolutely. We'll see what David Montgomery, Woody Mark's breakdown looks like. Buffalo has been the run funnel type of defense, allow the highest yards per carry to running backs last year. Don't keep that.

You know, just because their defense overall was pretty good against running backs, 23.2 fancy points per game giving up. You could come out of week one saying a couple things. You could say that David Montgomery, we should have seen how good he was going to be. You can come out of it saying, oh my gosh, here's a perfect 50-50 timeshare and Woody Marks looks spicier, right? I mean, Montgomery's been the non-spicy choice in Detroit, but a good player. You know, what is the most likely outcome?

I think the most likely outcome is you're going to see David Montgomery get a ton of work. This is a Joe Mixon-style situation. A Joe-Mixon-style thing. If you're the Houston Texans going up against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, you are going to want to control the clock. You are going to want to keep your offense out on the field, play slow, run the ball as much as you can, keep their offense off and let your defense win. And I think that that is David Montgomery is going to have, you know, I would guess, 65% utilization.

All right, Nico Collins, play him. We'll see what Kaysan Booty's involvement is as well. That was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Guaranteed picks drop in the app every Monday. Prize picks run your game. Tomorrow we will have more matchups. We will have a Thursday night football game recap for you. We will have the fantasy face off for week one and hopefully no more injuryness unless it's positive. Like recovery type stuff. Not substation stuff.

You know what I mean? MRI came back. Everything's good. Yeah. They're going to play in week two. Yeah. It's not going to happen. Probably not going to happen. The latest news on Josh Jacobs, by the way, that I have is that it seems very likely that we'll have a two to six game suspension happening. We don't know how long it'll take for the NFL to finish reviewing footage and meeting with him. But I would guess that with the legal situation being wrapped up, they will expedite. The Packers will try to expedite. They will try. And, I mean, look,

If it comes back, and there's a two-game suspension for Josh Jacobs, that is going to be a pretty... It will be a seismic shift. Thank you. That is the way to put it. A seismic shift in where the Marshawn Lloyd truthers will live and what Jacob's implications will be. Now, you know, two games seems unlikely to me, but I don't know what's going on. We did get a report that Ash and Genti is likely to play, or going to play, sorry, in week one against the Dolphins. Awesome. Nice to get a... What did I say?

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