Week 1 Insights + TNF Preview, Quadzilla - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/9

Who drafted Cream Hunt. We were all punched in the stomach because you start having these flashbacks of Tom Coughlin with David Wilson, who fumbled on his first touch and then never saw the field again. Andy Reed is no Tom Coughlin. That's one of his greatest features. That is not Tom Coughlin. That is not Tom Coughlin. That's right. Cream Hunt goes back in the game. Dominates. How many touches for Edwards Allaire? I would set the over under at around.

I would say like 15 and a half, which that would be a tough line for me to go with. Because I want to say 15 sounds like a guarantee. Yes, Daryl Williams will be involved. But Clyde Edward Delaire or David Johnson, your start of the week. Oh, I would play Edwards-Alaher over him. For sure. You want to take the team that's favored by 10. Yes. Yeah, I agree with Mike there. And you already talked about Will Fuller, getting him into the lineup for Thursday night. Looks like the primary.

Target, at least to start the year. This was a, you know, there's a rematch of that AFC divisional game when the poor Texans were up 24 to nothing. Oh, man, it was 24? 24. Nothing. And they were down 24-0, the Chiefs, and the Chiefs won by 20. So, I mean...

So just for like the mathematics of the equation, there could have been like a 43 point deficit that turned into a. Oh, goodness. Oh, victory. Because of that game, there is no way. Like if you're the Houston Texans and you start the game well.

It doesn't matter. Right. And it's going to be in your head. And it's going to be in Mahomes and the Chiefs. Like the Chiefs are returning all those same players. They're not going to be worried about it. I don't see how the Texans could possibly win this game. The implied point total for the Chiefs is almost 32 points. We know we're starting Tyree Kill, who by the way, in that game when they had 51 points in the divisional series, only went three for 41.

We know he's in your lineup. Because it was playoff time. It was the Lizard King. He finally emerged. It's just what happens with Tyreek sometimes. I mean, if you don't hit on those two or three big plays, he doesn't go out and give you Michael Thomas type of PPR numbers. So in a regular league, you know, just normal depth, you're not really wanting to start McColl Hardman, Sammy Watkins, or Randall Cobb. They're not, you know, you're not aching to get them into your lineup. But you have to choose one. You have to do a sneaky snart here in this matchup.

Jay, which of those three wide receivers would you go with? It would be Sammy Watkins. It would be the lizard king. He's going to have the most... The pain. The pain to say it. He's going to have the most snaps. He will end the game with the most targets. He will probably... He's the coldest blood. He will probably end the game with the most receptions out of that group.

I don't know that he ends the game with the most fantasy points because McCall Hardman could just touch the ball once and 90 yards later, he's the fantasy star that you want. But I would still put Sammy Watkins and pray that he's a week one magician always. So that he can take up somebody else's waiver spot in week one instead of the guy that you really want. The nice thing about the Chiefs is all of their players are one touch player. I know McCall Hardman is, but Watkins is. DeMarcus Robinson is. They are.

They've equipped that Patrick Mahomes fellow with some pretty decent weapons. You're playing Travis Kelsey. Also, I was kind of laughing over here because you guys were talking about who you'd start, and I'm scrolling down in this matchup. And I'm seeing that our fearless editor, Kyle the Borgogan, has put a far too zoomed up picture of Bill O'Brien's...

Chin? It's a little not safe for work. I'm feeling a little bit uncomfortable. I mean, I thought for a second that that was Adam Gays. Let's put it that way. Oh, no. We're moving on. Look, that was a transition we should have moved on here, but Brooks, oh my goodness, has the great reminder. It's Thursday. Make sure you are paying attention to your lineup. Don't put Tyreek Hill in your flex. Or maybe it's a lower level guy, so you just.

thinking I drafted him later. So if you have to start Sammy Watkins. Right. If he's a guy that you're looking at your lineup, you want to take that shot. And he's your, you know, he's certainly not one of your best two wide receivers. You still put him in your wide receiver spot. Yeah, I have Will Fuller all over the place. And I drafted him late and he's not one of my best two wide receivers. And he's in all of my wide receiver spots this morning. Get information. Yeah. For the flying team. Yeah, you got a little bit of, uh,

knuckle guff on the old Twitter. You're darn right you did. But most people found it more offensive that you hadn't seen Space Jam than Mighty Ducks, which surprised me. So, well, they were right in the sense that now I've never seen either movie, but it is more actually offensive because I grew up a die hard basketball fan. The players that were in that movie were.

probably false based on this situation. You know it wasn't false. But this evidence, the evidence against you. So it was a travest. Yeah, you don't like Michael Jordan. Look, sometimes people, uh, they give you guff on Twitter and it's undeserved as sometimes they give you guff on Twitter. It's well deserved. This is well deserved. I absolutely should have seen these. Are you going to prioritize this like seeing these movies or are you just kind of done with it? I think it's been, it's been enough years where I've, I've made peace. Okay. Yeah, I get it.

We have all the matchup previews or the beginning of them on tomorrow's show. We have starts of the week on tomorrow's show. So we got a new segment taking it to 100 on tomorrow's show. So very, very, very excited about getting in there. I know you guys have your starts of the week figured out. I'm taking it to the last second on my starts of the week. I want as much... You're taking it to 99. As much drips of information as I can get heading into the week because I just...

What a difficult week to predict overall. But it's going to be a lot of fun. And let's do some mailbag. Mailbag. Yeah. All right. Into the mailbag we go. Check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the submit a question button. You can send us your question for the show. 302-464 TFFB. That's the voicemail hotline. 302-464 TFFB. We'll start with a voicemail question.

Hey, ballers, it's Andrew from Wisconsin. Pretty standard question here about the flex, half-point PPR. Do I start Chris Thompson or D. Jacks? Thank you so much. Love the show, but it definitely needs more slide whistle. Oh, man. Oh, man. Yeah, Jason's reaching for it. I can see it. This is easy for me. This is Deshaun Jackson. The window for Deshaun Jackson to...

Have success in this offense is the window where there's no Ashon Jeffrey, there's no Jalen Rager. There is a bad Washington defense. Yeah, and there's a healthy Deshawn Jackson. I'm playing DeShon Jackson over Antonio Gibson this week. I'm playing him over AJ Green this week. But what about when he gets injured? He just tried to find something to use the sideways. That wasn't very good. Look, when it's forced, it's the best. You're welcome.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh, love Chris Thompson, but you're playing D-Jax this week. What if he gets Andrew? Uh, here's another voicemail. Hey, ballers, this is Kyle from Minneapolis. I have a question about your fellow co-host. Has there ever been a time where the other two guys convinced you and saved you from taking a player that you were otherwise pretty high on or getting a little too caught up in the hype? Thanks. Love the show.

Nope. You kidding me? Get out of here. They should have with Carry on Johnson, but they didn't. Andy tried his best. Yeah, I made every effort. But the problem is, is the way we... Here's why the answer is occasionally, but mostly no. The efforts we make are a combination of real efforts and taunting. And when someone taunts you about a player, the human nature elements cause you to, you know...

clinch down and what we call hashtag take lock. Yes. Why do you think Andy has doubled down on AJ Green so hard? It's because I've just shoveled it on them. That's not a false statement whatsoever. And so, and there have been players that have taken me a little bit of time to come around on this off season, two of them being from the Washington football team, Terry McLaurin and Antonio Gibson, that, you know, I wasn't excited about.

at the beginning of this offseason, Mike has been very vehement about both of those players. You know, they've made changes to their backfield situation. And then, you know, Mike's brought a lot of good data to the forefront. And I have more Terry McLaurin and Antonio Gibson on my rosters than I did, you know, imagine that I would have. So, yeah, I think that they have, that we help each other out. We do, we do. Yeah, but you're right. It's more of a, you bring a perspective on a player that,

I didn't like and then you change my mind and then I become far more interested into that player. But you're right. We're very stubborn men. Yeah, we change our mind two and a half weeks after the information quietly and then bring it back up. It's rarely a two on one situation that gets us to change though. It's almost worse. It is almost worse. When you're ganged up upon, you get defensive. But like I remember Andy's metrics on Tyler Higby.

really convinced me to the side of Tyler Higby not being a great fantasy option this, this year. I mean, it does, it happens. And then Hard Knocks brought you back. Yes, the one scrimmage touchdown was like, out the window, I'm back. No, the reality is almost. If you're playing a scrimmage touchdown league, though, that's worth a lot of points. That was six points. Almost every single episode.

I write a note or two down from you two gentlemen and adjust my ranking. So it doesn't sway someone from a strong belief or disbelief in a player all the way to the other side. But yeah, I mean, look, the reason you're listening to it is the same stuff we get out of it. Yeah. And the whole point of the show is not to come up with a take in March, April, and May lock it in for ultimate glory. Like the point of the show is to stay water.

Take new information. Win. I think the first thing I said about Antonio Gibson when I wasn't as much of a believer was I'm not going to decide right now. I'm going to watch camp. And all of a sudden they got rid of two running backs in camp. So I'd be a fool not to adjust my viewpoint. Great question, because I know my answer. Facebook question from Brandon, who is one player that you really wanted in at least one league, but did not end up getting.

Well, we still have a chance tonight. No, we don't for me because he's a keeper. Ah. So the answer for me is actually DeAndre Hopkins. While we are lower than the industry on Hopkins, freshly minted money, Kyla Murray in this Kingsbury offense, very friendly to the wide receiver. You know, there's a chance that it's great. And he's a hometown player. So for me, it's kind of that hometown desire to have one of my guys that I'll be rooting for every week.

on the team. I don't have Hopkins anywhere. For me, it's, it's Marquis Hollywood Brown. I mean, I, no, you have him nowhere? I can't get him anywhere. Oh, no. Everybody, everybody grabs him. I've intentionally snatched him when I'm in draft. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's, it's purposeful. If you're in a draft with me, you grab him. And, and honestly, you're probably grabbing him too early. Like, you're doing that because you're in a draft with me and you know he won't get back to you. Yep.

But there might have been a better player on the board for where you're grabbing him. But I haven't got him anywhere. And it's devastating. And he's not even a player that like... Like you're in therapy for this. I have tried and tried to trade for him and our keeper in Dynasty League's failed. I'm so close in all these different drafts. But someone two spots ahead of me grabs him every time. And I would say James Connor. He like...

I've always had a warm spot in my heart for James Connor, believed that Mike Tomlin wants the three-down running back. And just the way that drafts have gone, it's simply never lined up. Maybe I get him tonight. We'll have to stand by and see. But if James Connor is actually healthy, man, in the fourth or wherever people have drafted him, incredible steel. I have my bold predictions article coming out either later today or tomorrow morning.

And with Pittsburgh, I ended up just going with the James Conner is the top 10 running back until he's hurt. I mean, because he is. Because he is. Unless something goes really sideways with this offense and Big Ben and, you know, Big Ben coming out today, I don't know if you saw a little bit for the first time in a while. There was some Deontay Johnson hype coming from Big Ben. Talking about the sky being the limit, how good he is at getting out of his routes, getting open. So it was nice to see because that was a.