Starts of the Week + Week 3 Breakdown, Late Week Pickups - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/23

Starts of the week. Starts of the week for week three. Let's begin at the quarterback position. Why don't you kick it off, Mike? All right. What position did you say? I was not prepared. Quarterback. All right. Let's start at the quarterback position. We all know what's coming, but I'm doing it anyways, baby. Great Scott. Daniel Jones, man. He's a top five quarterback right now, and he's taking Andy's face says it all.

Watching the Giants game, the primetime game against Washington was fabulous because I have my chat with you guys and then I have my chat with my D&D crew who are, but there's a lot of sports over there. Nerd. Oh, yeah. Big nerds. Those guys are big nerds. Yeah, well, not me. I'm the cool one in the group, clearly. Yeah, you got tattoos. But like almost simultaneously. I get a message.

Jones does something dumbfounding. Get a message from Andy. Daniel Jones sucks so bad. Get a message from my D&D crew. Daniel Jones sucks so bad. At the same time? At the same time. And then the moment right after both that you said that, Daniel Jones just went on a tear and looked great for the rest of the game. He's running at a very high rate. He's getting, like the opportunities are there. People don't think I can say a nice thing about Daniel Jones. And they're right.

Oh, good, good. Tusha. But as of right now, he's a top five guy and the matchup is there. The Atlanta secondary is atrocious. So if you get the passing game going, combined with what Jones is doing on the ground, he's a quarterback one streaming option this week. For me, I'm going. If you have courage. Yeah, no, he is a good streaming option. I think he, was he my stream of the week? Yes. I agree with you here. The matchup is good, and he's been running the ball so much.

My start of the week is Jalen Hertz again. I think at Dallas, look, last week he had exactly zero passing touchdowns. And he finished as the quarterback 10. He had 80 rushing yards. The dude could have 150 rushing yards if they used them more. Like I'm watching this game. Justin Herbert had one passing touchdown against Dallas finished in the 20s. Exactly. Jalen Hertz had none against that. And now he plays Dallas this week. Yes. So, you know, his rushing baseline is so high.

And I really don't think that Philly, their defense has been good, but I don't think they're going to stop Dallas. So there's going to need to be more points scored in this game. And Hertz has just been so consistent with his rushing ability as the passing work comes more and more. And I think it can against Dallas. So he's a good start. Matthew Stafford's my start of the week at the quarterback position. Yes, they play Tampa Bay. No, I don't care. Tampa secondary, giving up 300 plus yards in both games.

Brady's going to score on the Rams defense. And frankly, the Rams are going to give up on the run against this Tampa Bay defensive front. The couple games that we've seen McVeigh play against Tampa Bay, he has completely abandoned the run. He just goes all pass heavy. And it's worked. And you also have a banged up running back. And Darrell Henderson, your most trusted running back is hurt. Matthew Stafford is going to have an opportunity in this game to get Higbee involved, to get Woods involved. And obviously.

Cooper Cup of Coffee is always involved. Oh, Cooper Cup of Coffee. My running back started the week. It is Chase Edmonds from the Arizona Cardinals. They're seven-point favorites. The team total is implied at nearly 30 points. He's seeing half the carries. He's seeing four targets a game. Chase Edmins has been a top 20 running back both weeks without a touchdown. So, like, once those start to hit for him, he's going to catapult into this.

fringe running back one discussion. And my running back start of the week is a guy who has been super disappointing. It's Sequin Barkley. So it's time? It's time. Week one? I completely agree with you. Week one, he had 48% of the snaps. Week two, on a short week of rest because it was Thursday night football, he was up to 84% of the snaps and had a 41-yard breakaway run against a very good...

Washington D-Line with 16 opportunities. Now we're in week three. He's had extra days of rest coming off the Thursday night football. He's against the New York Giants at home or the New York Giants are. He's always playing against his own offensive line. He is during the week. That's true. That's really, really sad and true. But the Giants are favored. They're at home. They're against Atlanta.

Like if it's not this week, when is it going to be? Well, and every fantasy player has to make decisions with limited information from the year. And so you have to plant your flag. And so I'm with you. I would go, he's a trade target for me. I would be targeting Saquan Barkley. Because the wheels on the Daniel Jones bus, they fall off right when you don't expect them to. The running game is going to be the key to them succeeding. They have a good defense.

I fully endorsed that start of the week. You look down and you realize that you never actually had tires the whole time. You've been riding on the wheels. Yeah, I kept thinking of analogies for the Daniel Jones situation in my head. I spared you for most of them. It was like the good looking food in the fridge that ends up being moldy after you get closer. I mean, it's all of those ones. You're halfway through. And then, uh-oh. And I'll be the first to say he's a great runner.

He's a great runner. He'll, and that helps the fan. You run for nine, nine for 94. Don't matter what you do in the passing game. And hopefully Kenny Gallaud is okay and they can get it going and I can, I'm happy to crow if he's great. But I'm going to bet on the side of the rest of the sample. I don't blame you. But this week he could get it done. My running back start, Tyson Williams, running back for the Baltimore Ravens. I'm.

I want to give everyone out there a pat on the butt. Start this dude this week. 6.9 yards per touch, six targets so far this year. Detroit's defense has given up over 30 points to the running back position in the last two weeks. Yeah, I mean, when Aaron Jones comes to town, what did he catch four receiving touchdowns? Yeah, I won one rushing, three receiving. Okay. But I think M1 was the old tap pass. Yep.

Tyson's going to give you 15 points this week. That's what I want to tell you. I think you're going to get that. You saw the carries go up. Keep that in mind, too. Nine to 13 after all this, oh, we're going to activate Devont of Freeman, you know, just deactivate him from your mind and play Tyson. Can we get Baltimore to start doing the tap pass? Like, it's not that hard. That's a good point. It's not that hard. You just, instead of holding it for him to grab, just drop the ball. And the nice thing is,

It doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter if they fumble because then it's just an incomplete pass. Yes, get it going. All right, my wide receiver started the week. I'm going to combo off of that game with Tyson Williams. Hollywood Brown. Marquis Brown, he's taking on the Detroit Lions as we discussed. But look at what is happening for Hollywood Brown. He closed out last year over the final six games he was averaging 14 points per game.

Fantasy points per game. This year through two games, that number is at 18. He's seeing a 30% target share, and the lion's secondary is terrible. I do believe by the end of the game, the Ravens will be running out the clock, but they're still going to pass to get those points at least a little bit, and Hollywood Brown has been playing sensational football. If you could pick any other player to frolic through the meadow holding the hand of Daniel Jones, it would be Hollywood Brown. Well, I mean, that's a perfect combo where it's...

This is a nice start for these two players where they've let you down before. I've been impressed. Maybe the number change helped him out. Jason, your wide receiver start. The matchup is so good. This was the first time in his career that Hollywood Brown has ever actually really had an off season and a full training camp and all of that stuff. Would you play Hollywood Brown over James Robinson, Marvin Jones, and Michael Pittman? Not over Marvin. Marvin's close, but I think I would take.

Yeah, I would go Hollywood. Because that's what I've got in my lineup, baby. Okay. Let's go. So that was a selfish question. It was 100%. I mean, it was just a question from me for me. My start of the week for myself. First time, long time. My wide receiver started the week is Cooper a cup of coffee. Except.

Nobody has that question after what he's done these first two weeks, but he is going to adjominate. So I'm going to say he's hot? Yeah, he's a hot cup of coffee. Cortland Sutton is my wide receiver start of the week. Cortland Sutton broke back out last week. He was easily one of my favorite players. Broke back out? He did because he had his breakout two years ago. That's not a phrase. No, but I can still say it. I could say things that aren't phrases, just string words together. I love it.

I mean, two years ago, he had his breakout. And then, so anyways. Shouldn't have said that out loud. He was one of my favorite players this offseason. Remember, if you were with us through the whole offseason, I absolutely loved Sutton. He was on route to become a my guy. And then it was.

And then the injury. It just looked like he was way delayed on his recovery. And then his routes and training camp. And he misses preseason games. And you have all these worries. Well, worry's gone. He's back. Is that what it is now? It's worries gone. Yes. It's worries gone. Because my worry was never, ever, ever talent with Cortland Sutton. My worry was health was, is he back to full strength? When will he be the Cortland Sutton that did break out two years ago?

It was last week. He was the wide receiver six, and that was without a touchdown. Nine receptions for 159 yards on 12 targets. I know it was against the Jaguars, but good news, but he's against the Jets. So I think you should definitely be starting Cortland Sutton. Without Jerry Judy, there was a lot of like, oh, is a cage of Hamler, Tim Patrick. It's Cortland Sutton. He's the dude. Julio Jones is my start of the week at wide receiver. Like I said, I kind of summarized it in the game breakdown, but.

You know, he's facing an indie defense that's given up 44 fantasy points to opposing wide receivers and back-to-back games. If Indianapolis decided to watch the film for the previous Tennessee game, I think stopping Derek Henry will be a priority, which means play action, which means Julio Jones. I think, you know, eight targets, 128 yards, almost a touchdown. I want to give you confidence to start Julio this week. Put him in your lineup. There were people scared of doing that last week, but get him in there.

Mike, finish us off with your tight-in start of the week. And this is deep. Let me clarify, this is a tight-in stream of the week. And I want to highlight that this guy's name, I like, if I had Jason's guy on my roster, who was a waiver-wire pickup, I would play him. But I just want to bring this name up. Gerald Everett from the Seattle Seahawks. He was tied for the ninth-most routes at the tight-end position last week. He saw his snaps jump.

all the way up to 80%. He's in the highest over under of the week with Seattle taking on the Minnesota Vikings. And he hasn't done much. He cut a touchdown in week one. But that's because everything that Russ and Tyler Lockett are doing right now is working. It's connecting like every single time. And that will not be the case all season long. Tyler Lockett's not going to keep catching 50-yard touchdowns week in and week out.

And so Gerald Everett, I think, is a name that you need to monitor that he could have a four reception, you know, four for 50 in a score this week. And then all of a sudden people are scrambling to pick up Gerald Everett. So if you're in a dirty, mucky, tight-in situation, I think that you should consider putting Everett on your bench. Yeah, I mean, I think you can put them into your lineup because.

Whenever you stream tight in for the half of the league or a third of the league that really has to find someone every week, what you're looking for is touchdowns. And Russ is going to throw a lot. So there's upside there. My start of the week is Jared Cook. The reason is because when you're rolling with someone like Cook, so when you picked up off the waivers last week, the worst thing you can do when you're in that situation as a team is be completely results.

oriented. If you do that, you're always going to be chasing the last week, and you're never going to get the good games. He was on the field enough. He was targeted enough, targeted in the red zone. He even got a touchdown that was called back on penalty. I personally would not be dropping him to move on to a different guy, just always looking for, well, you disappointed me last week. Titan suck outside of the top guys, and I'm going to roll again with Cook. And I'm going to cheat code this one.

But I feel like I have to because people are freaking out. We had the Spotify Green Room show yesterday where Jason's player of concern for the rest of the season was George Kittle. It's time to shine. The Packers got torched by Hawkinson. They got torched by Joanne Johnson in week one. Put George Kittle at the top of your list this week. I think he's the number one overall tight end at the end of the week. I think everybody takes a deep breath and they are smiling about their draft.