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

I think the only way you know what's going on is if Jonathan Brooks takes control. Jonathan breakout? Yeah. Like that's the only, that would be like, oh, holy crap. Off of, you know, he was released by General Sornis. Oh, yeah, from duty. Yeah. Where Chuba's healthy. If, if they switched it in week one, that would feel like a big deal. Yeah, I really hope it's honorable. Yeah. Yes. DeAndre Swift is a must start. Absolutely.

Great matchup, Carolina 31st and yards before contact allowed. And DeAndre Swift, if he knows anything, it's how to get yards before he gets hit. It is true. And we'll keep an eye on Roma Dunzee and the injury and whether he's 100%. We hope so. He was limited on Wednesday. I think they expect him out there. But, you know, right now it's Burden, Loveland Adunzee in terms of our priorities. Probably Loveland Burden Adunzee. Yeah, that's how I would do it. Jason's thoughts there? Lovelin, Burden, Odunzee.

For sure. I think you've got to, you know, make sure you see the practices that Roma Dunesay is practicing in full. Yeah, I mean, with that injury, it's got to be burden ahead of him. And Loveland is obviously, there's no world where he's not starting because he was, you know, pretty much a third round draft pick. Okay. We're ping pong in between games that we're excited about in games that are going to be interesting. Cleveland, the Browns have an implied point total of 15 and a half this week.

15 and a half. Taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. I did hit the Duval button. It didn't work. Do it, Mike. Duval. All right. Jacksonville, 24 points implied points total. The game is only a 39 and a half over under. Jacksonville minus eight and a half at home. Yeah, don't worry about that part for Jacksonville. Jacksonville, they won their last eight games last year. Cleveland 31st and points per game. Deshaun Watson is playing quarterback in the NFL this week.

So that's happening. Didn't he just get pulled over, arrested again for speeding or something yesterday? He did? I think so. I didn't see it. Yeah, I didn't see it. I think Watson got pulled over or something. Well, careful on your reporting here. Cited going 86 miles an hour and a 60. Someone just saw it. Pled non-guilty to the citation. This happened 19 hours ago. You can do that? Yeah. It's pro football talk has it too. Cited for speeding. I mean, you can get pulled over going.

86 and a 60. And you'd be like, no, I didn't. Not guilty? Not guilty. Hmm. Well, I don't think accepting guilt has really been. Oh, go. Nice. Oh, Boston. You know what he should be saying in court is more along the lines of, I hold myself in contempt. You know what I mean? But he's watching. Oh, man. Is that it? That was it. That was that it. That was the third. Okay. We made it.

Quinch on Judkins Bay Shaw, Tudin at the running back spot, both guys probably in your lineup. We'll get to watch Chris Rodriguez and maybe LeQuint Allen active and how that distribution goes. The Tooten and Rodriguez of listed co-starters. Yeah, they're co-staters. And if you get down on the eight-yard line and it's C-Rod every time, it's going to be bad. It's going to feel bad. It's going to feel real. It's, yeah, it would be bad. I'm excited to watch the rookie wide receivers. I don't know if their quarterback can get them the ball.

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 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 um we get to watch the brian thomas junior parker washington jacobby meyers this one's a huge huge one for gathering information so much to learn about the jaggs

And then Brinton Strange, you know, spot start if you need them. If you lost Brock Bowers, I mean, I'd start Brent and Strange over a lot of different lower level tight ends probably. Yeah, or some of them. If Jwanson's not there, Britain Strange, I think, is he's 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 Donald 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 Leight in 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's. I mean, it's the exact inverse. One drives, like recklessly drives sports cars. The other ones afford Taurus man. Yeah.

But that thing is, but that thing's been running. Oh, yeah. 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, 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. Okay. 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, you know, Christian. And Tangdale's not active 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 Marks, 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 fantasy points per game given 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 Kashon 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 injury news unless it's positive.

Like recovery type stuff. Yeah. 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 Jacobs' 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 Gentile is likely to play, or going to play, sorry, in week one against the Dolphins. Awesome.

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