Week 2 Studs & Duds + Trade Drama, Bye Guys! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/21

Trevor Lawrence, 17 for 29 for 189. It was a really down day for Trevor Lawrence. Lamar Jackson didn't have enough help in my opinion. 21 for 31, 235 and 1, one pick, barely ran the football. And, you know, the fact that Zay Flowers, if you just remove him and this is possible, like Mark Anders is toast. I mean, that dude is not a game-changing asset in any way. And without Jacoby Lane, who would have had a huge chance,

you were throwing the ball to, what was it, Webster? Yeah, this Westerman. Bateman had a big day. He finally came through on the promise of like Rashad Bateman always is the, he should be good. He should be good. Why is he not good? Yeah, he had seven catches. I want to go watch the second half of that game again and just figure out what happened. Because it seemed like everything in the first half was going to be perfectly fine for Lamar. Yeah, he got off to a hot start.

They jumped out to an early quick lead. It fell asleep at the wheel. Yeah, I will say it for teams like with the Patriots and with the Ravens, when you have one alpha wide receiver and not a lot behind him, losing that guy, it seems very similar where it's like he really did not have someone reliable. Jordan Love.

16 for 29 for 144 and 2. Jordan Love was in the other one of the weather games. I hate this guy now. Jason is. I hate him. Jason is going to get. You guys were just crushing everyone in that game, but no one was good. But neither offense. This is not about that. No. This is about our prize picks lineup where two weeks in a row, I'm going to be shame. Shame. But the reason the reason why I'm ashamed. Look in a mirror, bro. Sure. No, it's. I did bring it up. Yeah.

But my point is, it's both weeks, Jordan Love, on the green goblins, which are like the gimmies. He couldn't throw for more than 145 yards against the Jets? Nope. Boo. I mean, I guess Jaden Reed is everything to Jordan Love. It was a bad week for that.

entire matchup. Yeah, I think I'm mostly throwing that game away. Yes, I am. Baker Mayfield, 21 for 34 for 182. Boy, when he runs around like crazy and completes passes, he's pretty cool. When he runs around like crazy and air mails everybody, not so cool. Again, bad weather, but it's not just been recently. He hasn't scored 20 fantasy points since week 10 of last year. Second half of last year, the bucks looked bad, he looked bad, their offensive line looked bad.

It has followed through to this season. Watson had a great game in the bad weather. So he didn't make good decisions, I think. I think the downfield side. And Abuca, I mean, we're going to have to talk about it. David Montgomery. Oh, boy, six for ten. All right. The Montgomery argument were one one to one. Yeah, I mean, this one without Nico, I mean, it was really you're playing the run in this game. It feels like that would be like, I mean, without Zay Flowers, you're playing.

the run right with henry and he was fine yeah but henry is that's where it is yeah exactly david montgomery is is a this is a opportunity play like david montgomery is good enough to capitalize on a good situation all right just wild when your quarterback puts up 350 yards let me let me ask you a question all right do you want me to press this button with travis h n junior oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

Yeah, full panic. It's also ridiculous what the team. I mean, what are they doing? Eight carries 25 yards for the context, two targets, two catches for six yards. Tons of Camara on third down. John Daigle pointed out that the Saints gave Travis H.N. Jr. $28 million in guaranteed money. And Kenneth Walker received $28.7 million in guaranteed money.

and the share of backfield touches through two weeks. A-chan is 57% and 40%. Camara had more opportunities. You can't even blame him. Camara. They just went out. And they paid a ton of money. They did. They paid a ton of money to bring this player in. And while he was there, they brought a withered old off of injury, Alvin Camara and had him play withered with with with. That's a tough word. Didn't they cut his money?

What's that? They cut his money to make him stay. They gave him nine rushing attempts, Camara, while he turned it into 15 yards, 1.7 yards per carry. But don't worry. They also target him six times in the passing game where he turned that into seven yards. Dude, what? What are you doing? H.N. was all the way up at three yards of carry.

That's who you got to give the ball to. One of the funnier. They gave him 15 opportunities. Yeah, it's nuts. Funnier tweets of the weekend, front of the show, Josh Norris was like, is the Travis H.N. Junior contract, are they laundering money? Because why on earth would you give a running back? And they won. I don't care that they won. They're making.

Yeah, I bet they wish they had the money for a different position. We spent a year on rational coaching last year with Charbonnet and Ken Walker. There is no way they were doing the right thing with Ken Walker. And yet they won. And so they kept doing it. It's just this is panic. I don't. A. Chan is not. I don't understand what they're doing. He's not even positioned to be an RB2 right now. No, he's, well, I mean, he's not. I don't think he's that great.

as a player. This is a player I think Mike and I have been down on pretty much most of his career. He's had a lot of touchdown success, which has helped his fantasy outputs. Coming over, we were hoping that because of the money, they turned him into a three-down kind of a bell cow usage, and they didn't. They were doing the same thing with Kendra Miller last week. Then Alvin Camara this week, they are not going to seemingly make him the engine of the running game.

Yeah, through two games he has six carries in the first half. That's total. Okay. Jeremiah Love, nine for 29. It was a... Another one. Okay. It was a bad game against a great defense. Cardinals, I think, threw for about 115 yards. This game was nasty. Was it?

tied at halftime? 7.7 at halftime. I thought maybe. Honestly, the Cardinals came out. They looked great for the first half as far as like, you know, hanging. One big play. One play, one broken play for JSN, an 83-yard touchdown. And then it was 7-7 at the half. The Cardinals imploded and the Seahawks took over in the second half. But I also think part of that, something happened with Jacoby Berset. Because he came out in the second half and could not get

anywhere near a receiver. I mean, uncatchable target after uncatchable target. And so it was all three and outs. The Cardinals didn't have any time to possess the ball, which meant, you know, it's like you say, okay, Jeremiah, I love, oh, they're still involving Tyler Alger. He didn't do it. Tyler, Alger had five carries. The Cardinals had no, the Cardinals did not play offense in this game. Yeah, Giovante Williams. What are your thoughts on Giovante through two weeks? It looks bad. 12 for 30. Looks.

horrible 12 for 30 yeah and memory and he had a run come back did that get called back what was his long on the week oh it had to have gotten called back his long says it was nine yards this is what i remember like a 30 oh it did i remember it now it did get called back he had a very very long run right after i was dunking on him yeah so he needed some holding to get him there yes it's umari demarcato well i mean i don't know how high up people will be talking about him but longer term

If you're the Cowboys, I know you gave Giovante the money. You can't keep doing that. They'll keep doing it for a while. They'll keep doing it. For a while. He played 80% of snaps. They won the game handedly. Dak was awesome. I don't think they look at anything bad there, but I will say from our perspective, the juice that is required for fantasy points, he is not showing it. By the way, that was to roll back to the Cardinals and Jeremiah Love, that was the first time that the Cardinals did not complete a 10-yard pass.

since 1987. This game started with three or four targets to Trey McBride. He was my less pick on Friday for under 60 and a half yards. And through about five seconds of this game, I'm like, that is the dumbest pick I've ever done. I don't think he caught a pass in the second half. Something had to have happened to Brissette. Theo Mackey tweet. Brissette had to get injured because he went from week one. I thought I thought Brissette was seeing ghosts, man. And the first drive. He was so uncomfortable. Of this game just looked like.

just looked like what he did last year. And then from that point on the rest of the game, he couldn't, he couldn't hit the backside of a barn. Quinn John Judkins, 12 for 21. Tried really hard, though, on all of them. He tried so hard on all of those runs, guys. He is much more involved in the passing game now that Dylan Samson's been out, five catches for 27 yards. We'll take five targets. Ramandre, fumbled. The only thing you can't do, Ramandre. And he fumbled. And then Trevo scored.

it was a how long was that run 40 39 yards something close to that he had a 39 yard run got a bunch of work after that he was travion was 16 for 76 and a rushing touchdown looked great i mean obviously the fumble that remandre had seemed like you know that that took his utilization down he only had six carries he was he was 2.3 a carry on his other 15 carries

That's what you get. That's the Trevo experience. You get the chance at the big play, but between the tackles, you end up, I mean, like, Romandre was not bad between the tackles, six for 43, but he fumbled, and then Trevo gave them juice. And look, the offense is kind of weird and broken right now in New England. Still do not understand why they are not getting Treveon Henderson involved in the passing. Receiving work. Put him out in the slot. Yes. Put Ramondri in the backfield and put Trevo in the slot. I agree.

and then, you know, Bijon did his best. Yeah, that's another. And his best is okay. He tried so hard and he's so good. But when you don't have a quarterback, and right now the Falcons do not have a quarterback until one of Pua gets back there. You might be able to end that sentence right there. They might not have a quarterback. We got to remember that like before the injury, like Tua was going to get this job.

Yeah, but I can't imagine. Jack Strand doesn't look good. No, but that's what I'm saying. Cooper Rush and Jack Strand, they're so incompetent, incapable. I know, but I mean, I think Pinnix is a bottom third starter. But he's a starter. Yeah, okay. Ashton Gentie, he tried hard as well. 21 for 48. They won the game. Four for 15 in the passing game. Just didn't get into the end zone. Chase Brown, 20 for 80. Putting him here.

This is rude. This is not a dud. That's rude. And they were up so much. 2480s. Like, that's a good game. Yeah. And the Bengals were up. Brooks, that's rude. So much that where you usually get a lot of passing work from Chase Brown. No borderline duds. One of your picks was the receiving work for him. And they just, they didn't need to throw. They wanted to run the clock out. My prize picks, I had Chase Brown in there. It was 21 or 21 and a half receiving yards. He got two.

which I believe Chase Brown had been basically over 21 forever. We didn't talk about Burrow because he didn't have like some kind of superstar game, but the target shared a wide receivers got fixed this week. Yes. T. Higgins and Jamar Chase. If you haven't seen the Jamar Chase, his first touchdown, it is electric. It's one of the best catches I've ever seen. He had the ball thrown.

across his body had to basically do it. He was falling down. He was falling down. And had to get his feet in somehow. And he did everything perfect. Just unbelievable catch. All right. Wide receiver duds. Tell me if you want the button for any of these guys. Drake London, four for 51. I don't want the button yet on him because again, I think things don't get good, but get.

significantly better when they get a quarterback there well it's time to have this conversation roma dunes a luther burden rome three for 43 luther burden three for 32 i mean that's their wide receiver two and three on their team yeah i always say the i don't want to hit it but the the the biggest panic is the utilization right now of luther burden of him not being a full-time player like it certainly sounded like he was going to be

Caliph Raymond, man. The stats of that game are, I talked about it on Sunday Live because that was the weather report game of, oh, no, this weather of this level of rain and this level of wind is going to come in, and it's going to be a disaster for fantasy. And the fact that Luther and Colston 11 were bad in week one, and now they're, like, they're not going to be good. Nobody's going to be good in this type of a weather. I mean, but it's the on-field stuff that.