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

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Made the biggest impact on me last night was Jason saying we haven't even reached the weekend of week one yet. That's crazy. Well, because you're my guy in stribling gets hurt. My MVP in A.J. Brown gets hurt. And it's like. Probably same injury, by the way. Yeah, probably. Both could miss six weeks realistically. I mean, your situation I just stayed out of the gate here is so much better than mine. Because the number one thing that you need to do as a rookie wide receiver.

is establish yourself early in the season. And he was getting, he had more wide receiver snaps than any other player on that team and goes down. And now, okay, let's pretend it six weeks. Because I think, well, for one, stripling was carted off. He couldn't put any weight on it. There could be other damage. Two, he...

Now, as a rookie, has to come back in week seven with Debo and Evans and Kittal better well established. I just think the pathway, while not impossible, is, you know, this was disappointing. This was so disappointing. It's certainly not good for anybody, but I would say that the draft cost for AJ Brown was five. The draft cost and the age combination for AJ Brown. They were talking about how it looks like he won't need surgery. And so... Oh, great. That...

You don't usually even question that on a high ankle sprain. So it's... I don't need surgery, guys. Right. Like, yeah, oh, yeah, you don't? No. Oh, that's great. I don't need surgery either. But we don't talk about that out loud because there's no reason to. It's presumed. So I do think AJ Brown will take a while. But yeah, we were talking about it. We were lamenting. Like, how sad week one has been so tough. And I'm like...

We're not two week one yet. It hasn't even started. We're two games. Yeah. So 27 to 7 49ers over the Rams, a whooping. I mean, really in all respects. The takeaways from this game, I don't, I honestly want to be fair to the listeners here. I don't know, like obviously Evans looked very good. I mean, the starting. Debo is very involved.

And that is a headline to me because with Stribling going out, like Debo absolutely is just because Shanahan and this offense and Purdy, the familiarity, the way they use him. Like the first half of last year, Debo Samuel was a top tier wide receiver for fantasy. I just want to remind people that. Yeah, with Stribling gone, Ricky Pearsall gone. This is a, this is definitely going to be a big waiver pickup this week. You know what? I just can't believe like the 49ers.

are so impressive to me. They deserve so much respect. They have dealt with so many injuries. Year after year after year, they have the most injuries. And they, and they had injuries there, like right off the bat in the game. They lost Tandjus Macbasketball. They lost stribling. Right before the season started, they lost a defensive lineman that was pretty core to them. And they just go out and they win and they dominated and they dominated the Super Bowl favorite Rams.

It's so impressive. One, it's the, maybe the 49ers were right to go down a week early. Yeah, I did feel that way. The Rams looked slow. And so, Andy, I'll just point out, this is a tweet from Adam Levittan in front of the show. Debo was 19 of 36 routes. George Kittle was 17 of 36. So, I mean, maybe that sees a bump up for Debo almost certainly has to.

But there's like, stripling went down, and Debo was still kind of a halftime. Well, I mean, DeMarcus Robinson came in to the game, but they also, if you look at what they did, it seemed very much that they were being protective of their older players in week one. Christian McCaffrey, limited work. Kalim Black had four more areas than him. There was talk of that he played the whole game cramped up. With cramps. But then also, you know, Debo and Kittle, those are older guys, limited snaps.

On the RAM side, it was pretty awful all the way around. You had 155 passing yards for Matthew Stafford. One interception, no touchdowns. Blake Corum, 10 for 54. Kyron Williams, 11 for 41 in a touchdown. Kyron was the only of the backs to catch a pass. I think I saw Corum ran one route.

Yeah, I mean, Corum was really great between the tackles. He looked fast. Both running backs looked great. They both looked awesome. And slightly different. The offensive line looked really good for the Rams. Honestly, they both were so impressive. Corum looked outstanding. Yeah, he's got juice. It was kind of what we...

I think what we have come to expect. It's one game of exactly what to expect. Which is, Kyron was fine for fantasy. Karen was great for fantasy. He's going to be probably an RB one in the week because he had a touchdown and receptions and, you know, whatever. Corum might have even looked better. Man, he was so fast. Yeah, it looked like shot out of a candidate. But then you look at the snap counts and it was 36 snaps for Kyron to 13 for Corum. 21 routes run for Kyron to two routes run for Corum. Okay, so we're seeing two. Yeah.

So it's like the usage was heavy on the Chiron side. Both are awesome. Both, you know, it's. Puka had basically one big play. Devante Adams, just three for 26. The tight end onslaught for the Rams was, it was a distribution of random targets, Davis, Allen, Tyler Higby, Colby Parkinson. They all caught passes. Ferguson, one target, no catches.

And mind you, they didn't even activate Max Claire for the game. So I don't know how predictable that's going to be. A lot of Twitter bros. I am Mr. Terrence Ferguson from the offseason, had him on a lot of roster. I'm watching the snap counts, the route rates, the, you know, all of that. A lot of people. A lot of people out there are talking about how he ran, you know, enough routes and this and that. He didn't. He didn't in the game. What I saw from week one is enough to move on. And if it changes later on, that was the plan from the get-go. Yeah.

See if... Breakout week. Yes or no. Yeah, exactly. Breakout week. He wasn't playing, you know, 80% of the snaps. And so that's... Fifty-three percent of the routes while Stafford was on the field. Yeah, so, you know... He'll have four nice games this year, and Parkinson will have three, and Davis Allen will have one. And the wide receiver three for the Rams last year had 18 catches. So maybe there's not room to go around. The biggest concern for me from like an actual watching the game and trying to take something away was Devante Adams' utilization.

Inside the 10-yard line was bizarre. I mean, that's where he was king last year. He was like literally a goal line-wide receiver, which isn't a thing. And they had seven snaps inside the 10, and he was on the field for one of them. It was weird because I just feel like it was personnel groupings. You just went in there and they were trying to do, they're trying to use the running game a lot last night. And it just, they got stuffed. I am.

For the Rams, I agree that the running backs are, this is probably what to expect. I'm throwing most of this garbage in the garbage for the Rams. Oh, garbage in the garbage. Yeah, that's where you do it. Is that what I said? No, but that is? Yeah, it does work because on that. That's, yeah, they put the, yeah. You do put the garbage in the garbage. But most of the Rams performances, you just don't know. Yeah, I need to see another week. This was not in Australia. Correct. Yeah. No, I agree. Miles Garrett had fewer tackles than Pooka. Yeah, it's like, is.

Does Miles Garrett suck at football all of a sudden? I find that highly doubtful. No, I think the most encouraging thing out of last night was a healthy Mike Evans is a third down target, a goal line target, the same Mike Evans we've always had. And as long as he stays healthy, he'll be a value in drafts. And what do you guys make of the Kalin Black? Kalin Black usage. Is that cramps? Is that this is the new norm? I don't think it's the new norm. Okay.

Calum Black looked really good, and I think he helped establish himself. Like Jordan James was injured, so Kalen Black got the backup role. What he did on the field, I think. But then Jordan James wasn't injured yesterday. He was just inactive. Right. So I'm saying he, but what he did on the field, like I am now confident, Kalin Black is, you know, has to be rostered everywhere. He's a great insurance back.

I would be trading for Christian McCaffrey right now. I think people, if they went out and they said, oh, what's going on? Why is he not on the field so much, Kalen Black? This is not going to be a 50-50 times. There's no way at the end of the year that we're going to be like Kalin Black and Christian McCaffrey, we're in a 50-50 times shirt. That's not happening. Zero chance. And the game became a blowout as well. It's Friday again. Put Clan Friday. All righty. Here we go.

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Yeah. So good. Yeah, you fell in love with that recommendation. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Dejohn Stribling did not sustain an Achilles injury. That is good news. I honestly, you know, we're not the injury experts. We just know what certain things look like after I've seen many of the same type of injuries. And when he turned and then.

just went down and the way he grabbed, it was like, oh. Well, it was non-contact, and it wasn't like he rolled an angle that you're used to saying. It seemed like it was in play. It will take a few days before we find out. Usually we have information a little quicker, but because they are in Australia. You just mean in terms of the severity of what he does have. He's not going to get an MRI until he's back in the States. No, but they did say his Achilles was intact, which is good news. Jake Tongis, knee injury, does not look good. I heard MCL. That could be...

season ending. Davis Allen carted to the locker room with a possible concussion was the other news that I was unaware of. The news on AJ Brown three to six weeks, high ankle sprain, IR stint as possible. Stay tuned there. Malik Neighbors, that situation has been very weird because the reports are like first, neighbors is leaving, the Giants are leaving the decision up to him whether he'll play. Then yesterday he's feeling good. He'll let, he says he'll let Harbaugh decide if he's going to play. What about today?

This morning, he said the decision is his and no one else's. I can't put my career at risk. Which I... That says you're not playing, doesn't it? Did you listen to Jeremiah Love's comments about his injury and who's going to decide if he plays? Yeah, I'm going to do whatever the coach tells me to do, right? He said, if the coach wants me to play with my ankle at 50%, I'll be out there playing. I want to contribute. If it's 75% and he wants me out there, I'll do that. You know, it was a completely different answer than the neighbor's scenario. I mean, an ankle sprain versus your... Absolutely.

destroyed your knee and you spent an entire year rehabbing this just two words tempered expectation yeah this one's i mean he might not even start he needs i would try to play somebody else he has to get hit really you would try to play someone else if he starts i don't think i i mean we people drafted george kittle to be the wide receiver one but we told them tight in one tight in one we told people like probably don't play him he was two for twelve by the way kiddle was not we didn't talk about it he

you know, was involved in 43% of the routes or something. I was not a... I actually left encouraged of, like, they put him out there and they were trying to get him involved early. He looked good. He passed the eye test, but, you know, it's going to be a ramp up period. Let's discuss the...

the neighbor's decision making while we review that game today because we got matchups to a tongue of Iloa added to the injury report on Thursday with an oblique injury. Oh my gosh. Cooper Rush now taking all first team reps. What's wild is that I'm the only person on the planet who's actually mad about this in terms of the from the Falcons outlook because I was relying on him for four-yard targets to Kyle Pitts. Cooper Rush, we've seen him have a

He had a short little stint of success for the Dallas Cowboys. He's probably not worse. He is a backup. Yeah, how much worse than Tua? I'm not sure. I mean, I think it stinks for the entire Atlanta team. Like, Bijon is awesome. But there is a certain point. There is a point of you just cannot overcome. No matter how awesome you are, if you're.