Week 1 Matchups + Fantasy FACEOFF! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/11

Your quarterback is inept, and the defense is just laughing hysterically because they know they don't have to really do much. We don't like running backs on bad teams. No. And I've spent the offseason telling you how much I love to Von H.N., but you guys and most of the world believe that Miami's going to be a terrible team. We like Ashenjinty. Most of the world believes that Las Vegas is not going to win a lot of games. That same category has to apply to Bejan, even though he is spectacular. If you're on the goal line half as much. Yep.

If you have, if you're three and out and we're, you know, let's say you lose a snap here or there to Brian Robinson and then you're three and out. And then it's like you never see them out there. And it's, you're just going to get frustrated. If I'm a defense and it's Cooper Rush, I'm just, my game plan is.

Bijon doesn't beat us. Right. Bejohn doesn't make Cooper Rush show the defense that we have to respect what he can do. I will say Cooper Rush back in the day, you talked about that brief stretch. Just as a reminder with the Cowboys of 2024, he had a seven-game stretch where he basically was the starter for all of the snaps. He would have been on pace for 3,900 yards, 26 touchdowns, nine interceptions. He did not play poorly. No, but then the Cowboys were like, no, we don't want you as our backup anymore.

Yeah, it was weird. That's a pretty strong signal. A handful of quick updates on the matchups we went over yesterday. Alec Pierce remained limited on Thursday. They still expect them to play. Zay Flowers upgraded to full. He's going to go. Nice. Jonathan Brooks remained limited on Thursday and Roma Dunesay limited on Thursday. And we're expecting, I think all four of those guys to be in the lineup, but we will continue to monitor. There is an injury blitz.

podcast, an exclusive Injury Blitz podcast every Friday by Matthew Betts, our injury expert, and that is a perk of the Foot clan over at join the foot.com. If you want to listen to that, he will break it down with, you know, far more detail and acumen. And I believe he waits for the Friday practice reports so that you've got a little bit more information. Yes, sir. Let's take a quick break and then we'll jump right into the forecast.

All right, we're going to jump into the forecast. I should mention also it will be the very first fantasy faceoff of the year. The Wheel of Shame returns at the end of today's episode. So stay tuned for that. Let's talk matchups. Fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Yesterday we covered buccaneers, bangles, saints, giants, ravens, colts, falcons, Steelers, bears, Panthers, Browns, Jaguars, Bills, and Texas. Six more matchups remaining today. The Miami Dolphins and first-time head coach.

My name is Jeff. My name is Jen. Take on the Las Vegas Raiders and first time head coach Clint. Liar face Kubiak. Vegas line is Las Vegas minus three over under 40 and a half. It's pretty low. Yeah, it's two bad teams. One of these teams, I mean, we just, this is H&V Genti, and it's like one of these teams will not be a losing football team after week one. Who's it going to be? Who will be the loser? Yeah.

This is tough. It's really tough. I mean, obviously the Raiders, you're like, who's going to win? This one we're like, who's going to lose? The Raiders are favored by three, probably just because they are the home team. Losing Brock Bauer so close to the season is a massive impact on what their offense can do. But the Dolphins defense should be very, very bad. So I think, I honestly wonder if could the Dolphins' offense be the better?

of both teams' offenses and defenses is the number one out of those four categories, the Dolphins offense? Because that's disgusting. I would say Vegas. Oh, man. Look, you know what I'm going to say? I'll stay quiet. Yeah, no, you're, I'm going to say, do the sound effect for me, Matt. What? What? Sorry. The dolphin. He's not listening to the show.

What are you? Oh, I didn't even know what you were trying to get. I was just trying to, I said you know which side I'm going to go with and then I was looking for my sound effect. Gotcha. And I'm looking for Dolphin boy. I feel like he deserves the poop trophy for that. Malik Willis. Devon A. Chan. Chris Bell, Caleb Douglas, rookie debuts, Malik Washington and Company. Greg Dulcich, how involved will he be? You're starting Achan. That's your lock. Yes. The rest of it, I mean, most of you are not going to start Malik Willis in week one, but you're going to watch from the sideline because.

His price picks projection, 39 and a half rushing yards. That is the highest among all quarterbacks in week one. That's so juicy. It's a cheat code. Although he has never attempted more than 23 passes in a game in his six career starts. I mean, look, I'm willing to put, I'm willing to come in here and look the fool on Monday morning if Malik Willis falls on his face this week.

But I will not be surprised if Malik Willis is one of the biggest talking points this week, facing the Raiders in week one. I'm with you, man. So I'm looking forward to finding out. Now, here's what I don't want to happen. I don't want an injury to ruin our ability to find out whether our predictions are right. Yeah. Chris Bell goes down again with the – I will say this. The problem for Malik Willis is not Malik Willis. He does have the worst receiving core in the league, in my opinion. Maybe. Maybe.

Sure, maybe the two rookies turn into a boat. But as of this moment, they are rookies who have not played, who are starting week one, who aren't first round draft picks. So that's like not historically successful. I mean, Malik Washington, Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell, or Trey Tucker, Jalen Ehler, Jack Bess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You take Brock Bowers out. And yes, the Raiders become. And Brock Bowers is out. Yes. I'll say literally this. Yeah, you can take him out. This week. This is.

The NFL, week one. Are you just, what are we doing here? They're just getting this one out of the way. Save this for like week. This is great. This is Ashton, Genti, Devon. So this is Gentile, H&Log out, move on. Yes. From a fantasy star perspective. And then watch. And then watch Willis and the two rookie wide receivers. And also I think it's really important to watch the wide receivers on the Raiders side while you, I think it's going to be several weeks or, you know, a couple of weeks at least for Brock Bowers to get back.

And if Jack Bess emerges or Jalen Naylor has 12 targets, you know, that's going to be an important thing for a couple of weeks on spot starts. I will say in our listener league, which is it's a 14-team or double flex. So it is a deeper league. I got Trey Tucker in my lineup right now as a double flex. I get it. The matchup is there. I get it.

There's not. Who's left? Yes, exactly. You could have started Matt Collins yesterday, so. So how do you feel about Michael Mayer as the Bauer's replacement? Are we looking? Break glass. I think it could be okay. It could be okay, but there's more than likely other people, Juan Johnson, Don't Schultz. Those guys, I would start over. I did just send you a quick trade offer in league record, Mike, because I want you to have to click reject on it and have done that.

Okay. You pull it up because I would love to hear what this is. I'm going to go check it out. I just want you to have to reject it here on the air just to have clicked the button. Oh. Let's hear it, Mike. It is. Unless he doesn't, unless he accepts it. It is Malik Willis versus Tyler Shuck. Oh, so he's going to get, he's willing to give you Tyler Shuck. Yeah, he was. I bet you rejected it. I did. Okay.

I just want him to have rejected. I love that. I love that because he has been Mr. Tyler Schott. And he just said he's Mr. Malik Willis. He is. Yeah. Actually, what he said is. I've been on the Malik Willis. No, what he said was, I don't like Tyler Schott. Yeah, that's what he said. Green Bay. Taking on. Talk to me in week five.

when Jordan Tyson comes back and leaves after two snaps. Okay. George, yeah, why did I say George? Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings. George Packers. Against George Vikings. It's week one. George has the line. Where did George come from? It started with a G. Like Green Bay. That's the closest I can help you with. I saw the first letter I just got filled in the rest.

George Packers against the Minnesota Vikings. This is awesome. I mean, this is the matchup you want. Divisional game. The debut of Kyler is the quarterback. Minnesota minus one and a half at home. Yeah. Over under 46.5. They split the series last year. Jordan Love, Marshawn Lloyd, Christian Watson.

I've seen, I don't remember where the report came from, but it was like an NFL executive poll, and Matthew Golden had been picked as the breakout of the season. Saw that? Which is interesting. Was it followed by like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Who's the executives of only the Packers? No, to me, that will be so fun to watch. I think they're going to be more pass heavy without Josh Jacobs. I think you're going to see Watson, Reed, Golden, the distribution. That'll be fun. Tucker Kraft.

How healthy are you? Where are you guys in terms of like, you know, you had the discussion on Kittal. We kind of said, don't start him. With Tucker Kraft, are you in the same boat? Or you think that, you know, if you took Tucker Kraft in the seventh round. This is why I didn't draft Tucker Kraft. So I need to like recuse myself. I don't have this decision because if you drafted him in the fifth, you have to, you pretty much have to start him. I would say you probably do have to play him. I would not start him. I mean, we.

There's so much pressure on the shoulders of Joanne Johnson this week. He is getting recommended so much. This is, look, I like the Packers. Christian Watson is my guy. I think Marshawn Lloyd can get it going. We have all, when is Jacob's going to be back? I don't know. But this is about the worst possible.

first week that we can have. That's how I was feeling. You know, you're on the road against the number one quarterback defense, six running back one against wide receivers. You're in, yes, it's division. So you know, you're going to play them twice, but on the road against Minnesota for week one is they're in excellent defense, an excellent defense. So it, I'm playing, like I'm, I'm playing my normal guys, but I understand what I'm getting myself into. The only,

Viking I would play this week as Justin Jefferson, if it's me. I... Yeah, I think that would be the hope. You've got... There's teams that might have to start one of either Aaron Jones or Jordan Mason, and I also would say Kyler is okay as a start, but I don't want to. Would you play Kyler? I would prefer to only start Justice Jefferson. Would you go with Kyler or would you go to Malik Willis? I think I'd go Kyler. Okay. He's got Justin Jefferson. Not...

Chris Bell. That is a fair argument. On the other side, Watson, you probably are playing. Oh, Watson's a great story. Keep an eye on. Oh, he's a tough matchup. Yes, tough match. If you had Rico Dowdell, you'd play Lloyd over him this week, even though the matchup is bad? I would play Lloyd. Tony Pollard against the Jets or Lloyd in this bad match? Trey Tucker.

Right now, that lineup I talked about, I have him in over Marshawn Lloyd. Do you? I do. I think it could be tough. The Vikings are terrifying. It won't only be Lloyd. It really won't. Right. It will be some Chris Brooks, some Caleb freaking Johnson. Yeah. And it will be. What a world. I mean, if Lloyd gets in the end zone, you'll be happy with this performance. If he doesn't, I think you'll be disappointed. I agree with that. Yeah. I think it's interesting. 46.5.0. It's not bad, but Minnesota favored.

Yeah, and it is really a good Minnesota defense on the road. I think I change back to Rico Dowdell and Tony Pollard. I would start them over Lloyd. I'm sorry. The time has expired. You're locked. We have to see, you know, what the rotation is there. Did you see what Kyle threw into the dock for the next matchup? It is the George Washington commanders against Philadelphia.

In Philly. So, yeah, that's where the George was coming from. Oh, that makes so much sense. I was thinking of the George Washington Commanders. Ah, yeah. Games in Philly, minus six, over under 44.5. That is a pretty big line for this divisional battle. New offensive coordinators for both teams. Dang, Philly by six? Philly by six. Who? Yeah, the offensive line is a huge question mark for the Washington commanders, or as I call them, the George Washington commanders.

And the defensive line for the Eagles is going to be a problem. Yes. So that is where this line comes from. Yeah, it really is. The offensive line for the commanders was bad and then got much worse this offseason. This is part, we were talking on the footcast yesterday. You know, the JCP, Bill Kroski, Merritt, you're hoping that he, you're hoping that he is the one that breaks out because he's got juice and youth.