Week 2 Matchups + Ketchup Mode, In-or-Out - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/18

Henry Ruggs is right now. And like Brian Edwards, even though he was on the field more than any other wide receiver, I think he had one target, couldn't get any attention from Derek Carr. So where if all the Raiders are rolling out are Jacobs and Darren Waller, that's not going to be enough to keep pace with the Saints. And I would expect to see that slowdown happen. I think Ruggs will be out there for what it's worth. And he's probably somebody that you could in a pinch.

flex him. Gruden came out and was really impressed with him, not only on the performance, but in the fact that he played through injury. But Waller would be a better play. Oh, yeah. Do you agree with that? Yeah, definitely. They're going to need to throw the ball. And here's what I'm excited to find out, right? If they are down and they are in catch-up mode,

which I expect by the fourth quarter, that's going to happen. Is it Josh Jacobs out there? Is he the one, you know, we saw him more involved in the passing game, which was great. But that was kind of in a neutral game script. I want to know in a game script where you're losing and you've got to go quick and you're running essentially a two-minute offense, possibly for a quarter. Will that be where Jacobs is? Now, as a chef, what exactly is catch-up mode?

Catchup mode is what goes on a hot dog after mustard mode because mustard mode comes first. And do you go, are you a relish mode? Only if you also have the finely chopped onions. Catchup mustard relish onions is pinnacle. Okay. And that's four different modes. That's four different modes. It's kind of a chef mode there. You've got to know what you're doing. Do we have anybody that doesn't go ketchup mode on the hot dog? Because some people, that's sacrilege. Mike's putting his hand up. I wouldn't say it's sacrilege, but I'm, I am a.

Enigma. Well, I'll say this. I used to be naked hot dog. I just want. Really? I want the bun. That's weird, bro. I want the hot dog. That's all I wanted. But over the quarantine period, I had to express to Jason that something happened with my taste buds. I don't know if it was the quarantine, but I have, I am.

Fully engaged on team mustard. Yeah, maybe. Mustard is on everything I eat now. So good. And so now. This is like a win for Jason. Zero calories. So, well, not when I put the mayonnaise on there, too. Oh, gross. Oh, yeah. So you go. Mayo mustard. To be clear, you were naked hot dog up until the quarantine? That is correct. Wow. That is, I mean, cheese. Your food takes, they leave me shocks year after year, Mike. I'm here for it. Yeah.

Uh, producers. Any, any naked hot dogs back there? No. Definitely not. Yeah, that's good. I don't have a panicle arm on my thing. So this is what you get. Oh, all right. Um, it gets funnier the more I sit in it. All right. All right. There it is. Thank you. Was that Al Borland doing it? Oh, gosh. All right. Um.

All right, Jared Cook, he plays football. He should be in your lineup. Yes. There you go. We've got another segment to get to. Hold on. We do. Jason's getting sweaty. Why the English accent? What is happening? Jason's glasses are fogging up. We do have an update for fantasy football, not related to how one dresses their hot dogs.

Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin did return to practice this morning. Well, that's huge. Yeah, so that would put him on track to clear concussion protocol and play. You still need to pay attention and watch what's going to happen. Yeah, I mean, generally you wouldn't see them back on the field unless he's passed something, right? So that's good. We have another segment that we have to get to right now. Prop it like it's hot, presented by Monkey Knifeight. All right.

It's week number two. That means our second, prop it like it's hot. Prop it like it's hot. Segment. Our favorite week two props over at Monkey Knife Fight. So much fun to play the more or less game over there. And we were all looking through some of the matchups. And there are different lines. Go ahead, Jay. It's so easy as well. Because.

Literally, you can go to games where it pays out a hundred times. But the simplest thing to do, go to your game. The game that is your hometown team that you're watching. And if you go to that game, they'll give you two players. And you pick more or less on yards or fantasy points or whatever you want. And then if you get both of those right, you get paid out two and a half times. And then you have that skin in the game. It makes the game a lot of fun. I'll lead off with mine. Yeah, by the way, if you want to play.

Go to ballerspicks.com and use the code ballers. And you get a 100% deposit match. Yeah, up to $50. So definitely, yes, ballerspicks.com, use the code ballers. It's a lot of fun. Do it with us. My pick for more or less this week is Dak Prescott. He has a more or less line of 299.5 passing yards. This is, you know, that bonanza game. This is the 53 point over under. This is the Atlanta, Dallas.

The passing yards are going to be flowing. And Dak averaged last season more than 300 passing yards per game. And now he's playing in the highest over under of the week against the Falcons who just got, you know, lit up by Russell Wilson. He hit 300 or more yards seven times last season. And five of those seven were at home where he is playing this week against Atlanta. Now, I will say this.

I just got an alert that surprised me. It wasn't, it was Amari Cooper expected to play. And I was like, wait, Amari Cooper was not, he was, apparently he had an ankle injury. So that's good news. It's permanent. Yeah. He always has a little something. Yeah, I would still take the 299.5. I'll take the more than 299.5 passing yards. Yeah, I'm going to go with the Gardner Minshue line this week, 240.

point five passing yards, and I'm taking the less on that one. Tennessee is a tough defense that he gets to face this week. They have the ability to slow the game down with a big lead if that's how the game script indeed goes. He only had 173 passing yards last week in the win. He averaged 233 last year.

So I have him less than 240. Even in his one game against Tennessee last year, he was at 204. So I'm going to go less on Gardner. And I've got Malcolm Brown, who I wanted to highlight here, 54 and a half rushing yards. I'm taking the less. Cam Acres was still involved for the Rams last week. Acres had 14 carries. This was, and they're up against the Philadelphia Eagles. We saw the Washington run game.

except for one breakout run for Gibson was essentially completely shut down. Brown, up until last week, Brown had really never broken this mark in his career, and he's still in the timeshare with Acres. We could see even more Henderson this week as he returns to health. So I'm taking it. I'm taking the less. All right, it's a good point. McVeigh actually came out and said that the ball went to Malcolm Brown a little bit more.

Then they had expected it to in week one. He probably kind of earned it with the hot hand approach. All right, check out Monkey Knife Fight and all the more or less games this week. Ballerspicks.com. Use the code Ballers for a 100% deposit match up to $50. That's ballerspicks.com. Play with us. A couple of quick updates, entry updates. George Kittle, game time decision on Sundays for Sunday's game against the Jets. If he's active, I will play George Kittle.

No questions asked. I will 100% as well, but you have to have a pivot option. And then Matt Patricia said that Kenny Gulliday will be, quote, pretty limited during Friday's practice. It's not turning in the right direction, but a limited practice would be better than no practice. If he is active, I will not play him. Yeah, I lean that way too. Hmm. Distraction. Goliday? Yeah, I mean, it's what you saw. Bumpy routes. Mike Evans, week one, it's not just a matter of whether they're active or not. It's whether they're fully healthy.

All right, you can check out the Injury Blitz podcast later this afternoon from Matthew Betts over at Jointhefoot.com. The Foot Clan premieres here, but thank you for tuning in. Good luck this weekend. I'll see you on Sunday. Stay safe. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.

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