Week 2 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, BLARF! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/15

On today's episode, we react to that Eagles, Vikings, Fantasy, Bananas, a breakdown the rest of the matchups and a face-off punishment that you are not going to want to miss. Make sure you subscribe to this channel. Subscribe right now. Leave us some comments and enjoy. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Friday, September 15th. Jason Moore, Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright. I'm Andy Holloway. Excited to be with you. Friday episode of the show. Matchups to talk about, reaction to last night's game, NFL news. Wheel of Shame returns today. Why are you so happy, Andy? I don't know. I just feel light.

Well, I'm happy for you. I don't have any care in the world. I am happy for you. I know what a struggle last season was. Yeah. As it just kept grinding on you. Yeah, piled up and piled up. Yeah. So maybe I can, maybe I can take that mantle this season. We can hope. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's all about that. Yes. Welcome in one and all. You can find the community over at join thefoot.com. We had a fun footcast episode yesterday. You get a bonus episode every week over there. Bonus. Later today, the Injury Blitz podcast from Join the Foot.com from Matthew Betts will make a second appearance this year. Pretty important one, too. I mean, with all this. I mean, come on, man. We're one week in. Seriously. Why is everybody getting so hurt? Yeah, just appeal to football. Yeah. Come on, football. Yeah. And we have that giveaway we talked about yesterday.

Signed CMC jersey. You can go win that. Footclan giveaway.com. Head over there. It is Friday. Let's do this, and then we'll talk about the game. Put Clan Friday. Every Friday we give away a little something, something to a member of the Foot Clan, a $100 gift card to Fantasychamps.com. This week's winner, Lucas, Jay, Lucas, congratulations. Go buy yourself a ring. Now, do they have permission to purchase a ring or a trophy if they did not win? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you can. Your champ will love it. You can get it for your champion of your league. You can get a perennial trophy for your league? You know what I mean? Can you get an eventual trophy for yourself? If it's a perennial trophy, yeah, maybe you didn't win it this year, but your name's going on that at the end of this season. But can it say eventual champion on the trophies? Yeah, you pre-order the plaque. Probably like 2023.

probable champion that's like the the guy they tattoo tattoo which is just what he at this point you can peel that little plaque off i think it's i think it's far safer that's that's a good point all right last night 3428 philadelphia with the uh i don't know the biggest six point blowout of the year i guess kirk cousins 31 for 44 364 and for no interceptions Come on. Why are you going to do me like this, Kirk? Guys, Fookland, if you're new, welcome. Stay to the end of the show so you could see something absurd and ridiculous. But if you haven't followed the last year and a half, maybe two years, five years. Yes. Mike, the fantasy hitman, right, has always been a supporter and a believer of Kirk Cousins. Like as long as he's back to the Washington Redskins days, like way back then, he loved him.

You have him on your dynasty roster. I've had him since the draft. You had him. You drafted him in League of Record. And you have never gotten weather to pitch him or start him right in your life. No. It is unbelievable. He, I mean, I can't believe you are. I can't believe you are alive with the amount of knife wounds. Kirk Cousins is put right in the belly. Yeah. Just, whoop. There's another one. Yeah. If he's on prime time, Kirk Cousins against the Eagles. Isn't that a start the situation, Mike? The process. I am comfortable in the process saying there's no way I could have played him because my other option is Joe Burrell. I'm going to play Joe Burrow. But like in League of Record, I dropped Kurt Cousins to pick up Jared Gough. I talked about it on the show. Uh-oh. And of course, what does that mean for golf? 364 and 4 for Kurt Cousins. What a monster game. Two of those touchdowns went to T.J. Hawkinson who had a huge week. Jordan Addison.

was invisible and then whoop very visible 72 yards put him on the field 62 yard touchdown and then kj osborne with a touchdown as well honestly jordan add i thought he had several rookie mistakes which i i thought he stopped running on a route down the sideline that you know he's not in sync yet he this is exciting this is a player who week one it was great week two was great And he's not on the field yet as a full-time player, and he's making mistakes. He's only going to get better. There was only one player on the Minnesota Vikings last night. That wasn't a good start. Yeah. Because Jefferson went 11 for 159, had the fumble where he was reaching for the end zone. Alexander Madison. Woof. Eight for 28. He did have three receptions. On six targets.

Yes, but they were garbage. Yeah, two of them were uncatchable passes. So here we are two weeks in. Madison, I believe, is 19 for 61 on the season. The concern grows. They don't have viable options behind them. Only nine carries for this team. The offensive line is bad. It's not like there's someone waiting in the wings, although I just saw in our league of record. Somebody went out and signed Kareem Hunt today. In anticipation, I think. Interesting. Of Minnesota kicking the tires around Cream Hunt. It hasn't been a good start for Alexander Madison. What are your thoughts on moving forward? I had put out there, I would love to cash in on him after the week one touchdown ahead of the Eagles matchup because I thought you could attach him to somebody else and get rid of him. Sure. So we knew we talked about it during the matchup. Like this is going to be a.

This will be very tough for Alexander Madison. His running style versus what the Eagles do really, really well. I mean, you can go back week one. Remandre Stevenson. Is Remandre Stevenson a bad running back? No. But he was 12 for 25 on the ground against the Philadelphia Eagles. It is very tough to run on them. The NFL gods have not been kind to the Minnesota Vikings offensive line. and Alexander Madison. But Madison is not helping the situation either with, I mean, the fumbles yesterday were so, so bad. The second one didn't count. It got called back on a defensive holding, but he got pulled off of the field right after that. So that is something to pay attention to. He's not an elite athlete. The argument for Madison has been he can catch the ball and he will be reliable.

Volume. Volume is going to be there, which the snaps and everything were there. There wasn't a ton of carries on the ground. But there were a lot of, like, there were a lot of good carries for, I'm not sorry, not a lot. There were some good carries for Madison out of the few that he had where, I mean, he's getting hit right at the line of scrimmage and having to fight his way just for a couple of yards. And for the yards per carry, like, it counts when Carter gets. just saunters by the backup center, like right into the, I mean, they're right this way, Mr. Carter, like to the backfield and Alexander Mads is there just to get blown up. That counts against the yards per carry. Again, it counts against the future yards per carry if their offensive line can't get fixed. We've been bashing the volume-laden 22 opportunity, Rashad White. How do you view Rashad White, Jason, in the context? Now, he has Sean Tucker behind him.

Whereas Madison, Ty Chandler is not, I think he's a JAG as well. So they don't have somebody to step up. Yeah, I think Alexander Madison is going to be fine. He's going to be a volume play. You know, he is not what I don't think he is what some people hope. He was going to become just a star. But I also think he is going to be a reliable fantasy asset that is an RB2 or a flex option on a weekly basis. And Mike's right, the Eagles run defense is very difficult, especially with the offensive line injuries. The next month, the next month is great. He gets the chargers, the Panthers, the chiefs, and the bears. Is that by low great? I don't think it's by low great. I think it's hold on great. He is my Zach Moss.

You know, the name Zach Moss was rolling around in my mind because it's not too dissimilar. The opportunity for Zach Moss will be there. There's nobody behind him. He's going to get the carries. He's going to get the receptions. The only huge difference is if Jonathan Taylor comes back and plays for the colds, then Zach Moss is. Nine carries for Minnesota, 48 carries for Philadelphia. The last point for Madison. argument was, or part of the argument was the Vikings offense, they're going to score a bunch of points. They had four touchdowns yesterday. They just were all passing touchdowns yesterday. DeAndre Swift. Oh, mercy. Oh, come on. I've never seen more consistent. Where was this last year? Offensive, well, he wasn't running behind this line. I'll tell you that. Kenny Gainwell didn't play. Boston Scott.

Friken Swift. Bosses Scott was 5 for 40 on the ground. Yeah. Knocked out with a concussion. Rashad Penny will be out of Walmart next week. DeAndre Swift had 28 carries for 175 yards in a touchdown, had a 43-yard run, looked exceptional. The line was opening up. Like he was getting ahead of steam, which seemed to be a huge advantage to him because he's fast. Like he got to the hole quickly, and then he did a lot with it. And, you know, he's faster than can he gain well. What is the recipe moving forward? Because 48 rushing attempts, Jason, we were talking about the offense in Philadelphia. Your reaction to their offense so far through two games. Yeah, I think their offenses look terrible, like putrid. The week one against the Patriots, they scored one offensive touchdown the whole game. Week two against not a great Vikings offense, they looked really bad. They did until they went, oh, you know what?

Check this out. They can't stop the run. And so then, I mean, the passing game just did not look great. And then they figured. More than double the rush attempts than pass attempts. They figured out that if we just hand the ball off every single play, their defensive line cannot handle our offensive line. It worked every single DeAndre Swift's time that they did it. And then that opened up the passing game. Then you had some success in the passing game. So the passing game was really two. Big plays. Yeah, it was two big plays, both to Devante Smith, one touchdown, one just big deep pass, and then running the ball. Now, going forward, I don't know that you're going to be able to, you know, next week is the Buccaneers. They have a much better run defense, I think, than the Vikings, the week after that as the commanders, same. So I don't think you're going to be able to say.

that they're going to run the ball to this degree going forward. I think this was a Minnesota Vikings special. But what DeAndre Swift did was establish himself as an important part of this offense. I think when Gainwell is back, it will be solidified a little bit more to a two-man rotation. And Rashad Penny is just, just drop them. Just get rid. Rashad Penny could not get in this game. You had Kenny Gainwell gone. Then you had Boston Scott concussed. And they still just kept going to DeAndre Swift over and over and over and over and over no matter how tired he was until DeAndre Swift called himself out of the game. He's like, I need a break. He calls himself out. They bring Penny in. Penny was fine. And Penny ruined an AJ Brown touchdown. He did ruin an AJ Brown touchdown with an offensive hold, which would have.

made me quite a bit of money. Jerk. But yeah, so he's just dead on that roster. It's hard as someone who has Kenny Gainwell not to see this night and say if he had been able to play, how great it would have been behind this old line with that defense. But D'Andre Swift, you can't erase what he did. I mean, there's a chance he leads the timeshare just on this performance. I'm not sure that will happen. I think it's about 50-50. It's almost worst-case scenario for next week. If Gainwell is active. I mean, who are you going to have the confidence to play? I think you probably play swift. But that's what you're like, well, I probably do this, but there's no, like, I have real confidence that I know that I can predict or project that this is what the team is going to do. It probably is swift, but it could go right back to Kenny Gainwell. And it's a mess now. Go ahead, Jay. I'm just going to throw this out there because it.

There's a very small situation where I think I would be at least willing to look at kicking the tires on trading Jalen Hertz high here. Oh, interesting. If Josh Allen comes out has a really bad week or something, another great quarterback looks bad, and you can parlay this great fantasy performance. Fantasy. Fantasy performance. I mean, he had two goal line opportunities where they just happen to get the ball at the one. And so it's push push. It's going to work every time. That's not going to happen all the time. They just didn't look good as a passing offense. So don't hear what I'm not saying. Jelen Hurts is great. He's going to be good for fantasy. But I don't think he's going to, like I'm scared he's not going to be the what you hope when you spend a second rounder. So if you could trade him for another great quarterback plus a running back or plus a wide receiver, I think I'm having. I've got him on the league of record. I'm probably going to be looking at that. He is, the office doesn't look the same without Shane Stuyken so far.

I'm concerned about Dallas Goddard's involvement in the offense in light of the fact that the offense is changing, the play caller has changed. Those are things to watch. And then AJ Brown, like AJ Brown, he was screaming on the sideline in the midst of a 27 to 7 lead at the time, whatever the score was, because he wasn't getting enough. And, yeah, the passing offense doesn't look comfortable. Jalen Hertz's rushing attempts, if you notice, there's been a lot of them for very little yards. Uh-huh. And they all seem like hesitant last minute decisions, not rhythm decisions. And he's not looking, he is not looking like he did last year where when he went on the run, he's looking to break a 20, 30, 40, 50, 80 yard run. Like that's his goal. When he was running right now, he's looking to pick up a couple yards, get out of bounds. Like that's, that's kind of what it seems like so far. All right. Let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Well, I must have.

I must have dipped out early yesterday because I didn't see this news till just now. Really? No, I didn't see it. Echler not practicing again on Thursday, Jason. Yeah. You want Zach Moss? I'll make you an offer. I could use him. Oh, if you trade back for him? I would never. I would never. Yeah. He already made his bed. I deserve to lose if I play Zach Moss. I'll give you Moss for Hertz. So Echler did not practice. It's an early game on Sunday, which complicates the matter. If you didn't spend, or I guess it helps the matter, sorry. It helps. But if you didn't spend up on Josh Kelly and you need a pivot, I mean, like, do you think Echler's going to be out or is this just like he's the kind of player where he could not practice all week and they could still play him? 100%. As of right this second, I think Echler misses this game, but I am waiting until the, the.

game time decision is made because he's 100% in the lineup if he plays. He has been really good. Despite him being a smaller back, he has played through all sorts of injuries and played well. There are just, there are some human beings are just tougher. They just are, you know, that they can play through. You know the right doctors? I'm just saying, he's going to be hurting and he's going to be fine if he's out there. All right, we talked about that breakdown on yesterday's show as well. Christian Watson, Aaron Jones, both didn't practice on Thursday. I would consider them both doubtful to perform or to play, rather. Titans, wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins didn't practice. This has been the Hopkins issue for three years. This is why the demand for Hopkins on the open market was minimal. He came out. Did you see he came out and said there were like four teams who wanted to play for and they all said they didn't want him? Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, that feels bad. Lions didn't want him.

He wanted to go to Detroit. What? So, wow. You know, there's something on film. Money, too. Yeah, money. But the money should be there for a guy that you expect to deliver like Hopkins, and it wasn't. So he didn't practice. Honestly, he puts Traylen Berks into consideration. Very sneaky. 100%. I think Traylon Burks is a good start this week of Hopkins is out. Devante Adams, returned to a full practice. So it was maintenance. Jacoby Myers is doubtful for week two. You know, you look at that and you would hope that. Josh Jacobs' targets would go up with the lack of Jacobi Myers. Devante Adams, certainly you'd expect those targets to go up. And then I don't know where else to look because Renfro has been so withdrawn from the offense. I mean, he's the one that jumps out as like, okay, he should take the Jacobi Myers role. But maybe he's just not that good anymore. It's possible. I do think that he has a good game, though. Would you play Berks or Renfro?

If Hopkins is out, I would play Traylon Burks. If Jacobi Myers is out. Trail on Berks, I think, is a really good play this week if Hopkins is out. Renfro to me is someone that matches what Jimmy Garoppelow and his style is going to do. He'll fill in for that Jacobi Myers role. Travis Kelsey Limited on Thursday. I think there's a lot of optimism he'll be out there. What time is that game? Kyle, do you know what the, is it the early game? The Chiefs came? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's early. Yeah, that's good. It's morning. Mark Andrews was also limited as well. Here are some matchups to talk about today. I just wrote in our Slack channel. We need the, oh, come on, sound bite from Jim Carrey. Because, guys, I got this in the car driving home yesterday, and I was like, of course, fantasy football. Pooka Nakua.

was added to the Thursday injury report with an oblique injury. He did not practice on Thursday. Oh, man. I mean, the darling of the fab, we had no idea about this injury. Nobody did. Assuming it happened late in the game. But it was added Thursday. I know. So maybe it happened Wednesday. It is possible. But this is really disappointing. It's so disappointing. He's the bell of the ball. And I want to see him play against the Niners. The world deserves to see is Pooka that guy. We'll talk about it in the matchup, but do you care about Van Jefferson and Tutu? No. 2.2, maybe. I thought you were going to have Van Jefferson. Oh, it feels like such a trap because I want to go back to Higby again. But we'll talk about it. Jerry Judy, upgraded to a full practice. He will probably be on a snap count according to Benjamin Albright.

Very trusted source out there in Denver. James Connor, limited on Thursday. No expectation. Limited it every day. Kendrae Miller returned to a limited practice. Oh, the recovery. Maybe we'll see a limited game at some point. Greg Zerline, groin injury. Just some kicker news for you, Jason. Thank you. That was today's news and notes presented by. Oh, did we got that? We got the drop? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Puka missed practice on Thursday. I think we can upgrade the audio quality. But that's good for mid-show. It's the best I can do on short notes. Thank you. I mean, that gif is great. I say, oh, come on to that sound drive. Yeah. All right. That is it for news and notes. Brought to you by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Quick break. Back with the forecast. All right. Let's go ahead and dive back into some very important matchup decisions. Week two.

Those of you that fell in week one, this is redemption time. We've got to get you back on track. Let's do it. Fantasy forecast. What is going on here? Explain. First matchup. Okay, the Colts, O and one, taking on the O&1 Houston Texans. The drafting sportsbook line, Houston minus one and a half. It's moved. It was Indy minus one yesterday. So the money has jumped over to the Houston side. The overrunner is just 39 and a half in this game. Blarf. Blarf. Blarf. That's good. It was like a rolling blar. I've never wanted a shirt printed so fast. Blarf is the perfect fantasy football word. But yeah, any game, that's official. Any game under 40. That's a Blarf game. The line was Indy minus one yesterday. I know why this changed. Zach Moss is going to be active.

A running back does not change the line. You know, I'm joking. Are there any fears? You understood that moved it the wrong direction, right? Are they? Oh. That's the joke. It moved it. It made Indianapolis worse. Smart betters. Very sharp. Two rookie quarterbacks is why this line is where it's at. Anthony Richardson last week. He was the quarterback four. CJ Stroud. There were some pains. Five sacks. Ten hits. It was Baltimore. I saw some good stuff from Strad last week. As did I. I didn't think the game was garbage. There were plays where I said, okay, that was a good throw, good read, tight window. Nico Collins, the targets. Robert Woods, the targets. Nico Collins this week I think is an interesting flex play. I would probably play Nico Collins. I'd play him over Hunter Renfro in that previous discussion. Sure. And I'd probably play him over Traylon Burks with how bad stinking. Tannahill. Tannah looked.

That one's tougher, but... Nico had a 26% target share, which was 11 targets, 6 for 80. And he's... Nico Collins, since he has been in the league, has always been that, like, alluring player. Totally. I'm like, man, I can see it. I can see that there is a good wide receiver there, but he could never manage to stay healthy. 14 games as a rookie 10 last year. So maybe this is... The time for Nico Collins. The competition is not stiff. Robert Wood is old. It's not stiff, but it's going to change. You have John Metchie did not play in week one. Noah Brown's on IR now. Noah Brown has gone to IR. So Tank Dell, who is another one of these quick twitch, just shifty little fellas. Jose Flowers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That type of a player. So it's.

It's not a home run. Jason's making a, you sure about that face? Yeah, the same flag. It's a two to Atwell comp. Okay, fine. We're just talking about the archetype of a player, not the quality. He's not, he wasn't a first round pick. But the fact that if those two guys are in there, it could end up taking away. But as of right now, Nico and Robert Woods are the offense. Jason has Damien Pierce as his start of the week. Last week wasn't great. It was Baltimore. This week. Brighter days. The Colts defense gave up 24 fantasy points to the running back position in week one, near the bottom. Dalton Schultz led all tight-ins and routes run in week one. And he ended up with four total yards. It is not good. No. Yeah, with Damien Pierce, you just expect this game to not get out of hand in either direction that both teams will be in it so the running backs can stay involved, which is while on the other side of the field.

Mike has Zach Moss disgustingly as the start of the week. Sometimes you've got to do what you got to do. Hit that button. Anthony Richardson, this is the question that I have. I feel like I've been tempted by the Houston name, and we've done this for a year and a half now. When you see a team play Houston, they beat Houston. And when you see a team play Houston, they score a bunch of points. But the stats bear out that Houston doesn't produce points for the opposing quarterback. Lamar Jackson. They covered the spread. He had seven points. This goes back to last year. Trevor Lawrence, you remember that game? Oh, Trevor Lawrence will get it done. No, he didn't. He scored four fantasy points, destroyed the Texans. I mean, just they shellacked him. Trevor Lawrence played fantastic. For fantasy, it was a bust of a game. When you see, like I have a decision to make with Tua Tunga Viloa going up against New England in New England primetime or Anthony Richardson against what seems like a patsy matcha.

I'm going to play Tua. I've made that decision. It's formal now. It's done. I'm excited to see what Richardson can do. Yeah. What I'm looking for is you had 37 attempts for Anthony Richardson. His first game ever. And he was accurate. Yeah. He was in the 60s. 65% of his passes. It was a good passing game for Richardson. But they were also in a very negative game script. The Jags got out to a really hot start on offense. It looks. I mean, from the first half, it looked like Trevor Lawrence was about to have just an explosive game where he's like the quarterback won. But the Colts found themselves over the second half of the game and kind of slowed them down. But more than the first half. But the point is, I don't expect Anthony Richardson throwing the ball 37 times in this matchup. That being said, if he has the big one on the ground because he had the most design runs of any quarterback last week, it's coming. Like,

Without question, he's going to have a Justin Fields Day with a 71-yard touchdown run or something to that extent. And I do want that on my fantasy roster. I certainly don't view Anthony Richardson as someone you need to bench just because of what has happened with. Shane Steichen, you know, we see his absence for the Philadelphia Eagles, but. So far in one week, we saw his presence here for the Colts, and I think he's going to do great things with Anthony Richardson. So you can start him. I wouldn't start him over Tua, but I think Anthony Richardson easily could be designed up a scheme run that makes his entire fantasy day good. You can put Michael Pittman back in your lineup again this week. Zach Moss, Mike mentioned it, and then we move on. I am keeping my eye on Josh Downs.