Week 2 Matchups + In-or-Out, Pantomime Jason

You know, it was very fun in week one. This is the dynamic of fantasy football that everybody enjoys slash hates. Like Carson Wentz is my guy on the year. Had a great game. Had to play against him. That part hurt. Jason had him. So I can rejoice in the performance, but then he beat me. That part was great. Yeah. Matt Ryan at home in 2018, he completed 72% of his passes for 296 passing yards per game. I think he's going to be a lot better.

for Matt Ryan in this one. Then it was in week one. Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley. Do you play those two guys against this Eagles defense? They got torched by Case Keenham in week one. Yes. That's where I was going to go. Case Keenham had a pretty solid game, including the breakout of Terry McLaurin. So I'm going to play both Julio and Calvin. Okay. And then on the other side, Alshan Jeffrey, Deshawn Jackson. Do you have preference between the two? Wow. Oh.

Right now our consensus rankings have Jeffrey slightly higher than Dijax. But I mean, they're right there. But it's hard not to play the upside of Dijax after what you saw last week. Yeah, I mean, I feel like Alshan is slightly safer than D Jax. But D Jaxx had enough targets where, you know. They were also coming back from 17 points. Right. That's built into the equation of Deshaun Jackson with a huge target game. Not that that can't be the new normal, but.

It should be a high-scoring game. I mean, this should be a game where it's back and forth a little bit. Do you play D-Jax or Gallup? I would play D. John Jackson. Really? I will play, man. I think I play Gallup. What about D. Jax or Jarvis Landry? D. Jax. Yeah. Larry Fitzgerald or Deshawn Jackson? Definitely D. John Jackson. All right. So you just.

He earned his way into your lineup with the 35 point week one performing. He has literally always been a great fantasy player outside of when he had James Winston as a quarterback. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, he was a great fantasy player last year. He was the number, you know, top three performer in week one. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Ryan Fitzpatrick, exactly. Miles Sanders, are we just saying the same things about Miles Sanders this week as we did about David Montgomery or is it a little bit brighter for Miles? It's a little bit brighter for me.

considering all the things that just went slightly wrong for Miles Sanders. And I'm willing to play him. It's not like Montgomery where I'm afraid to start Montgomery, willing to play Miles Sanders. But in scenarios where I have a comparable level running back, I'm going to make the pivot. Like I said, I'm playing shady over him this week. Do you believe this will be an offensive explosion in this game?

Yes. Yeah, I do. Devonta Freeman then. You okay playing him? Give him a second chance here after the 50-50 split with Edo Smith in week one. I'll give him another chance, but this is he's one of those players where in week two, somebody who's really on watch, it's Freeman. I heard several people talk about Austin Hooper this week that they're bought in after seeing, you know, a significant amount of targets last week. They did come in garbage time. Was it garbage time? Was it trying to come back in the Minnesota game? I'm not sure what the line is. It's trying to come back.

Yeah, but, like, Austin Hooper will be involved when the team is trying to come back. Last year, the Eagles were really good against the tight end. That, you know, wasn't indicative of week one. They were not that great, but, I mean. Not when you've got Vernon Davis jumping over you. I like all the waiver guys more than Austin Hooper this week. You do. You do. Assuming Mark Andrews plays as one of those contingencies. I forgot that was one of my bold predictions on the year that they would have.

four players in the top 12 at the position. The Falcons with, like Hooper's the one that he's got to fight his way there. Hooper can easily finish as the tight end 12. Freeman is the one who has to fight his way there at this point. It is. It is Freeman. So Monday night we get to experience the Sam Darnold Les Jets. Donald Schwarzenegger down with Mono. Behind the bleachers hanging out with Maddie Snapback.

Is Jay Cutler involved in this situation? There is definitely a bowling alley and arcade games involved and bubble gum. We were saying this yesterday like it feels so weird because this is like, this is a high school disease. Yeah. I want, I want detectives on this. I want it tracked down. Where did Darnold get his mono? He is. I don't know if we want to know that. I need to know. It's not just one. I've upgraded.

I need to know. He got it in high school, probably. He's only, what, 22 years old. Yeah, he's a little bitty baby boy. And he's going to have to, you know, did you see the press conference where Adam Gaze? No. Oh, my goodness. Oh, I can only admit Adam Gaze. Where he talked about the mono?

Where he... Was he frustrated, Jason? Oh, he was beyond frustrated. His head was down. His shoulders up on the podium. He's like this just going... Yeah. I forget. What's Donald's numbers? He's 17 or what? I don't know. Anyways. I'm not good with the... Yeah. And he's so... 14. Okay. So he's like... 14's not going to play this week. He won't even name him? No, he didn't even name him. He's like 14's not playing this week. What a butthole. He's got mono. I mean, these...

really like i get it though because you've got like he's got to be frustrated with like his his debut you don't have your quarterback it's like the j gruden situation you can ever find the guy but to dehumanize him to a number i would be super pissed because like look that's how a lot of players get referred to their number i know that mono is a real thing yeah but like you doesn't feel like it though you get sleepy it's like come on

Right, which is not, I mean, it's not the truth. Get to work. The truth of the matter is, is you really can't play with the side effects of what Mono produces in an athlete. Yeah. But if he gets chicken, if it gets chicken pox after this, we're in trouble. But the real truth is now you're in a really tough situation with the upside of Robbie Anderson. This game has a bunch of question marks for the Jets in general. Lev Bell's banged up, you know, but the MRI came back positive. He played 71 of 71 snaps. It's pretty good. Wow.

All you time, Monty, Hughes. Anyone who was Mr. Behole didn't behole that situation, did he? No, he did that. 71 is 71. Baker Mayfield, is this a bounce back game for Baker. Yeah, look, I know I bodied the Browns as far as I think they were all overdrafted ADP-wise. I think that's correct. But this is a get-right game. This is a game going on Monday night football, primetime Baker, and now you're playing a team that is.

probably has its head down a little bit, losing its star quarterback. They've lost Quincy. They've, they've had a real rough two weeks here. So I think this is a get right game for the Browns. So Beckham's in your lineup, Jarvis, not as much. Is he a flex option this? Yeah, flex, wide receiver three. Now, do we have, Brooks, can you effort this? Because I haven't seen the very latest, but Dantrell Hilliard. He's still not practicing. Still not practicing with a concussion. This means.

More opportunity for Nick Chubb. He was already on the field 50 of 71 snaps. Just wasn't a good game. Part of that was. And the Titans have a really good defense. And yeah, Hillier was out there quite a bit. Well, I'm saying no, Hillier got his concussion. So I think that led to Nick Chubb's involvement, which is great news for him in the passing game. All right. I think this is a get right game for Cleveland. Their fan base should hope so. The only wide receiver that I would consider playing.

would be Jameson Crowder just because I, you know, I don't expect them to be airing it deep with Trevor. Who is that again? Crowder. Oh, I'm sorry. It's pronounced Crowder. How do we not give him credit after a 17 target game with his nickname? It's just been so long. Because it's, it was just, it still felt gross. Because not, why not, not hitting 100 yards receiving. Yeah, how do you catch that many passes and you don't get 100 receiving yards? All right. We've got some injury updates since the show started. Sterling Shepherd is out.

Hello, Evan Ingram. Mark Andrews, could you sneaky play? Cody Latimer. DFS lineups? Possibly, but he was also dealing with injury this week. Sneaky play, Evan Ingram. Super sneaky. Wow. Mark Andrews is expected to play on Sunday, just a rest day today, Jason. So take a deep breath, but not too deep where you start coughing, and then we have to put you in a home or something like that. You don't have mono, do you?

I hope. Oh, man. Did you give it to him? Oh, my goodness, gracious. Lev Bell. Someone needs to check on this. Expected to practice on Saturday. That's good news for Monday night. Dante Bettis said his body's back to normal following the groin injury. Let's hope his snap count goes away from, I don't know, two. Let's go up from two, Dante. I think he gets 10 snaps. Well, that is an incredible bet. I won't take a water bet on that one.

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That's fantastic. He's just got a great opportunity this week at Cincinnati. You just saw Chris Carson go to town on them, and Breda is just a good player. And with no Tevin Coleman, his workload's guaranteed. To me, that's a bargain at 5600. I'll jump in here. I'm starting at the quarterback position. I'm playing Derek Carr only $6,600. He's at home against the Chiefs. There are basically six starters who are cheaper than Derek Carr.

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