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

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Hey, this is Patrick Mahomes, quarterback to the Kansas City Chiefs, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, BJ! It's Beckham time. Hey, he's back. Doing things. Woo. Woo. Welcome in. Friday, September 18th.

The fantasy footballers alive and well. Andy Mike and Jason at the FF ballers on Twitter. All right, gentlemen. I had somebody write me on Twitter. They said some flags don't need to be planted. And yet there I was. Had planted the flag on O'Dell Beckham Jr. One quarter of football in the books. Never a moment of doubt.

Boys, never a moment. Look, I can confirm that. In the company slack, we can absolutely confirm no one was freaking out about the goose. I think he had no targets in the first quarter. Yeah, yeah. Karim Hunt didn't have anything in that first quarter. Those were two players that I played in League of Record. No points. Yet, here we are. What were your thoughts? They had a very good game, both. And by they, I mean everybody. Everybody not named Jarvis Landry had a great game.

Baker looked great. On the brown side of the bowl. Well, I would say that, well, sure. People would not say AJ Green or Joe Mixon had a great game. I was too bothered by Burrow. I can't think of, I mean, he just looks excellent. I think he will be a super star. I'm talking like Super Bowls in Cincinnati. Wow. That's how I feel about Joe Burrow. Really? Yeah, really. I was certainly impressed. Second straight week, Joe Burrow.

Looking great. Zach Taylor. I mean, everything that I hoped about this offense so far, maybe minus a few extra receptions by AJ Green, is looking to come true. I mean, you have a great trust that Zach Taylor already has in Joe Burrow to extend plays, drive the ball down the field, and they're 0-2. Yeah. But I think we all know that Joe Burrow looks like the real deal. I will tell you, what got me hot and bothered was the fourth and four.

When they went for it on a fourth and four early on in the game, I was like, oh, this is what I am talking about. Pay attention, NFL coaches of the momentum swing that that produced at the moment. I get it. The Bengals ended up losing, but that you had to go for it there. And look, that's what we need to do. But back to O'Dell Becker, because this is the main storyline here. Baker Mayfield only threw the ball 23 times. O'Dell Beckham.

came through with a very big game. Four for 74 with a touchdown. Baker and O'Dell, if you didn't watch the game, just missed on what would have been a second gigantic touchdown. So six total targets for O'Dell Beckham in that limited amount of passing work for Baker Mayfield. And the flag planting on O'Dell Beckham by Andy, it was bold because this was not like a cake matchup cornerback wise.

for O'Dell Beckham. He had a good player. They've got decent DBs and what O'Dell Beckham was going to face. So this was very, very encouraging that we saw Beckham still being used. We saw an incredible route on the touchdown where Odo Beckham, and we got a little bit nervous. He went down early, but we still got the touchdown. This is exactly the confidence boost.

that Baker Mayfield needed, prime time, everybody's seeing it, you were the number one pick and you had been trashed for over an entire season. This is what a human being needs to get their confidence back, get the swag back. Well, let me ask you this. I was asked this question on local radio this morning, and it made me stop and I didn't know my answer. But with Odell Beckham's one good game now, which was great,

What are you doing in fantasy? Are you selling? Are you buying or are you holding? I thought about this a little bit last night with the fact that it came together. Obviously not a high amount of passes. Look, if you downloaded the Cleveland Browns video game made by Kevin Stefanski, this was the tutorial. Last night's game plan, the passing attempts that Mike just mentioned, the running, Kareem Hunt, two touchdowns, Nick Chubb, two touchdowns.

running in the entire second half, all of Beckham's damage was mostly in the first half. I had to think about that, Jay. I had to think about, you know, do you go and try to cash in on this primetime performance? Because he did this in week two last year, 89-yard touchdown in primetime week two. If you had gotten rid of Odell at the time, it would have been a better situation. But you expect higher passing volume if they're not, you know, out ahead like they were in this game. I think I'm a hold. I'm not actively trying to shop him.

I'm not actively trying to go acquire him, but I think I'm a whole. If he's on my team, I'm willing to listen. If somebody else is like, oh, I'm 100% back in on Odo Beckham, then, yeah, I'll listen to trade talks, but I'm not actively out there saying, hey, everyone in the league, you saw what Odo Beckham did, he's back, and then trying to intentionally trade him. But this was the Minnesota formula. Yes. Dalvin Cook.

shoulder most of the touches for Minnesota, and then Stefan Diggs, who, if I recall right, was the leader in deep touchdowns last year. That's what DeFansky wants to do. But to your point there, Diggs, as you've brought up many times, was very hot and cold. Not a consistent good fantasy option, even though at the end of the year he finishes as a high-end wide receiver two, it was not helpful through the season. I think there's so much to talk about in this game. I mean, the other piece of my...

Dual start of the week did not come through. AJ Green, 13 targets for AJ Green. The opportunity did. Three catches. He had, you know, a whole assortment of ups and downs in this game. He had his own drops. He was overthrown by Burrow. He had, I think, four drives. It might have been three, where he had an end zone target on each drive that didn't end up with a touchdown. He had the sideline catch that he made that didn't count as a reception. Some.

And look, I feel like I'm a little bit biased here. So what I want to do is put the ball in the tea for both of you to analyze what you saw on film. I'm encouraged by the targets. You've got Joe Burrow, 46 past attempts. They're probably going to be in negative game scripts all year. And he was the number one target. That being said, a lot of reaction from people saying, oh, he looks washed. He doesn't look as fast. He made a mistake here. You know, he's done.

I don't think he's done, but he doesn't look the same as he used to. There were a couple throws that, you know, it was a little behind him, or he'd have to bring something in with a little bit of difficulty where you used to always see him.

catch those balls. He wasn't. Now, that could just be as simple as rust. He hadn't played since the middle of 2018. This is his second game back. So maybe he shakes off that rust. But what I see in AJ Brown is that he's going to. Yes, AJ Green is that he's going to be a heavily involved number one target. But while I love Burrow and I just, you know, waxed philosophical and loved him.

I believe you said Super Bowl title. Super Bowls, not this year. No, I know. But the point is he's still a rookie. So I don't think A.J. Green has the chance to be a top 15 wide receiver. Are you trying to, same question you asked about Beckham to you. Are you holding AJ? Are you trading for AJ? Are you trading them away? Well, I would, I can't hold him because I would never have drafted him. But if I had A.J.

Green, I would probably wait until a big game and then shop him. I would hold him right now. You don't trade a guy after a down game. Well, and you're holding him because when you drafted AJ Green, he's your, what, wide receiver four? He can just chill out on your bench and see if the rust does come off. All right, we have to talk about one more player from this game because I don't want people to think I'm ignoring it.

Nick Chubb, he's real good. There you go. No, but you can talk about Kareem Hunt and what his prospects are. Kareem Hunt, he's real good. He may get the whole fourth quarter this year, you know, in these games. But Joe Mixon. Yeah. Joe Mixon, you know, I think when I looked at this game, he failed on a goal line carry that would have, you know, people ask him, what do I do with Joe Mixon now? He had like nine first half fantasy points.

gave away a number of third down touches to Gio Bernard. Like I said, didn't get into the end zone. Game script coming from behind, you saw a little bit too much geo out there for my liking. I thought Mixing looked good on his touches, but their offensive line didn't really do much. And I liked the four catches, but we didn't see huge fantasy production. So let me ask you guys, are you...

concerned about Joe Mixon? What is he rest of season to you? Yeah, I mean, he was one of the guys I was a little concerned with of those top upper tier running backs coming in. And this was kind of the concern that the Bengals offense, would they be able to have him be as good as he was the second half of last year on a consistent basis? Mixon's going to have great games. He didn't look.

Bad. You didn't watch a film and say, man, he looks slow. He's still, you know, it's kind of similar to Kenyon Drake in week one. When you watch Kenyon Drake, you go, oh, he still looks really good. But you were a little concerned that Chase Edmonds was on the field, had the touchdown opportunities. So I see him as a running back two, but a high end running back two at this point. Would you go try to get him, Mike? I would be open to it. And I've been kind of the most pessimistic on Joe Mixing during the off season of I didn't know what to make.

of him, which kind of turned my take into, yeah, like, yeah. If he falls into my lamp, okay, but I'm not going to actively go out and spend, you know, a high second round pick on him. That's just wasn't my strategy. I'm encouraged that the offense can move the ball. Yes. Like, he'll get his opportunities. And so if, if, uh, whoever drafted Joe Mix, if they want to bail out, I'd be interested. Look, he's a starting money back who's getting touches. Final question. Would you rather have?

Joe Mixon or Aaron Jones at this point going forward? Aaron Jones. Me as well. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's tough. It's only two weeks. Yeah. Let's see what happens. Not even two weeks for Aaron Jones. I mean, here's in the reminder, we were here last year. We were actually much further into the season and people saying, okay, do I finally drop Joe Mixon? And then they were able to figure things out. Let's see if the laser can figure things out. We had somebody from our league say that if Nick Chubb doesn't deliver.

Last night he's on the block. I mean, that's how quick it moves. Yeah. It is Friday. Put Clan Friday. All right, every Friday we do a giveaway from pristineauction.com, a weekly giveaway from, uh, we pick somebody from the supporters over at join the foot.com. Today's winner, Roto Yoda. Oh, Roto Yoda. Roto Yoda. That's fun to say. Francisco. Roto Yoda. One.