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

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The fantasy footballers Monday, September 21st. Welcome into the show, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway. Wow. Another weekend. Yeah. Didn't quite escape the injuries like we did in the first week. No, we should have seen it coming after week one. It always gets you.

They, yeah, it'll return to the mean. And it was very mean. It was very mean. So much to talk about today. We got Monday punday. We got NFL news, studs and duds on the show. I'm sure we'll have potentially some injury updates even throughout the episode. But happy to have you with us. The community over there at join the foot.com, the ultimate dashboard helping you weave your way through each and every week, the starts it decisions.

all the premium in-season tools. I mean, it was an adventure. I mean, we were here on Sunday morning watching the rain, watching the fiery heat, 157 degrees on the field in Tennessee. I think it was like just last week, Jason. And he's like, I like at least four games to be ruined by weather. Per year. You got it. Well,

Quota filled. Yeah. Quota filled in week two. That was week. Last week. Last week we were Big Dome. I'm speaking on behalf of Big Dome. You, yes, please. We were very kind in saying that what the Buffalo Bills have done with their stadium, we might accept.

But this was a real big week for Big Dome. Yes, it was. I mean, there's a lot of rain around the country, and there was a lot of poor football. See, you guys talk a lot about, oh, rain doesn't affect anything. And then you spent the whole morning complaining about the rain. Well, there was rain and wind. Yeah. Oh, there wasn't a lot of, there was a lot of Chicago. Two of the games. Yeah. Okay. So is the wind that when the ball hit them in the hands, that's the wind that caused them to drop it? Wait, are you arguing?

For Big Dome right now? I'm so confused. No, I'm just saying you say a lot about rain being no big deal. Okay. Big Dome is officially changing. Rain is a problem. Okay. Rain, rain, go away. So you're accepting. I'm accepting your argument on behalf of Big Dome. Put a move on it. Welcome to the team, Andy. Maybe I'm just a little bitter because every one of the players that I recommended this offseason decided to get hurt within five seconds of the season starting. It.

was a real problem for you um your nickname if you're new to the show you got once upon a time once upon a time you were known as we were past as the fantasy reaper because you had a knack for getting guys injured yeah if i didn't get you got them injured if you like someone that means that the grim reaper is slowly trailing them and he's gonna get yeah so let's just recap here your

Fantasy MVP left right here. Alec Pierce. Yeah, off with crutches yesterday. That's cool. Your three my guys were Dejohn Stribling. Out. Ladd McConkey. Barely surviving. Injured barely in and currently. He's playing. And Caleb Williams got injured out. It's possible that Caleb had the most severe one week injury of all time. Yeah, we're not really sure yet. But it looked like maybe career in it. On the field. Tell me one thing.

Who do you like right now? I'm not mentioning my players on my team. Well, like who? I like Zay Flowers. He's just going to mention all Mike's guys. I like Dawkinson. Kenneth Walker. Do you like Ken Walker, Andy? No comment. I overpower him with Kenneth Walker, Jason. We're good. Okay. Yeah, I mean, we had. That's a powerful statement. Look, I guess I'm sorry.

Also, apparently if your number is in the mid teens, you're also in jeopardy. I'm looking at the board here, 14, 15, 15, 18. Maybe like I'll pick on my guy in a different. Yeah. Obviously, it's all tongue and cheek. It sucks that, you know. It's just terrible. Terrible time. By week two, all four of your guys went down to injury. But, well, you know, Lad will be back. Lad will be back. Lad looks great. Caleb Williams seems like he's going to be back sooner rather than later, TBD.

So yeah. And then last week on Friday, there was some drama around the studio. And by drama, I mean our producer screaming his head off for eight to ten hours. Also, Phuklan, I know Jeremy and I can look a little bit of like, but I got accused of some things in that video of which I am not in.

A lot of people were like, I knew Jason was the one he drops all the first words. Yeah, he's the potty mouth. I'm not in this video. I saw comments, oh, just like Jason to be in the fridge in the background. That wasn't you either. Oh, man. That was our developer. That's true. He looks just like us. Oh, no. Is that Snyder? Yeah, Schneider, me and you. I mean, me and Schneider, our team name in League of Record is dead ringers. Yeah. Because you look like each other. And then, yeah, so we, you know.

I'm just going to bring something up here. And I'm not saying that I am against it because I find it as a form of respect. But basically what happened on Friday for the three of you that didn't see the screaming video that went out all over social media, I made a very fine trade, normal trade in our league of record. In fact, I don't think it's a good trade for me from a value perspective. It's a good trade for me because my team had one weakness, tight end.

And I traded Kyle Pitts and two picks, a second and fourth round pick. In our keeper league. Context is needed for the picks. But it is the best pick that you can trade a second. You cannot trade a first. But it's a three keeper league. So it's effectively a fifth. So I trade, again, it is. But we've seen these trades with the twos and the threes and the fours for years. This is not a weird trade for Tucker Kraft. But the problem was.

It's that just the day before, and you can see he's still, he is still, there is heat coming off the top of his head. He is not over it at all. I'm biting my tongue back here. He is not over it. You might not bite it for long. I know. But what happened was is the day before, apparently there had been these internal conversations that nobody's going to trade with Andy and give him a tight in. And when Josh said, stay strong. Hashtag down with Andy, which by the way, collusion.

of which I don't care because it would have been collusion if we made an agreement to both not trade with you he was trying to influence there's a hashtag I don't know what a hashtag I never said that you know there was no agreement I're not going to trade with you I'm not actually protesting because in my opinion the qualifier the whole league knew what was going on the qualifier of bad collusion is that an individual team benefits through collusion this was more like I don't benefit from all of you yes making me public enemy number one let's be clear the entire league is

openly colluding against you because you are on a super team and we want you to feed me the Patriots not Josh oh yeah the real issue here was that Josh and his co-manager basically in DMs told Jeremy stay strong not trade him your tight end we will not trade him the tight end we will not trade him his backup for Kenneth Walker and then the next day they go and do it yeah he was at the front of the line

screaming. I mean, he's like brave her. He's like, hold. Yeah. And then he runs away. And then he homers into the bushes as all the soldiers. You guys stay here. So, so. Calvary's on the way. So that's the context because there were people out there that were like, what is wrong with this trade? Nothing. If this trade was between two other managers in the league, nobody bats and I or even cares, probably praises Josh for the value it got. It was the fact that there had been this, like, Owl has, he has Tray McBride and Kittle.

So I obviously am trying to go for his extra tight in, and he's just slamming the reject button over and over and over. And then the next day, his, and it didn't help that Tucker Crafts on his hometown team and he loves him. But that's what happened. So that's the context for it. It wasn't that bad of a trade. They just want me to lose real bad. You want to know why? Because, again, in our league, a really good score is 130, 135. You should win. You scored 175 last week.

You are currently at 179 with a player left and with Tucker Kraft doing nothing. So your team is stupid. All right. We once again put out the call for the Monday Punday. It was, I mean, I went through him this morning. 99.99% negative hatred. It was a terrible week. I mean, injuries, disappointments. Rain, bad football, not a lot of touchdowns. We were going into halftime of the early slate. And it was like,

Who scored? There was Derek Henry. Yeah, Trayvion Henderson. It was like nobody. Yeah, and then again, a bunch of the negative ones were about injuries, which I avoided. But it was a bad day for a lot of people. The nice thing is, is maybe your opponent also had a bad day. So let's jump into it. Let's get sophisticated. And we'll start with some good, like, Boss Allen. I got him. Yeah, and you had Seedy Lion making.

an appearance this week. How about the Boston TD party? I like that one. Yeah, that's a good one. James Cookin as well. Yeah. We also had some big deck energy this week. Chris Osweb. Yes, he was awesome. And the American Najibba warrior. That's right. And my dude, Trayvion Wenderson. Yes. Amunrah Saint Crown. And then Devante Swish. He was awesome this week. They weren't all good. No.

Drake May Day. Yeah, we got to have some conversations here. I'll take this one. Colston Hate Land. Yeah. And this week, despite 21 carries, it was Ashton empty. And you had Mazda Marv. Hey, I like a good Mazda. Mazda Marr. Why, you got to do that to Mazda. Oh, Tucker, crap. And Dallas got hurt. Oh, he did. Travis Ain't Jan Jr. That's good.

Oh, man. You're going to give it to Jason? The Justin Tert Squirt? We're not above it. We're not above it. You hate a bad turd squirt. Terror Lawrence. Loser burden, the third. Yeah. Bad McConkey. And why not finish it out with Alec Tears? Justin Tird Squirt? Come on. I thought you'd appreciate that one. Alec Tears.

Oh, man. Yeah, hashtag Monday Ponday every Sunday night. Share it on Instagram and on X. What? Yeah. Yeah. Look, the Chargers, what did I say last week? If they lose this game, back-to-back-back-at-home Cardinal Raiders, they might not win again for the next seven weeks. Looking at their schedule, I think there is a...

real chance. Buffalo, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Rams, Houston, Baltimore. Five of those seven on the road. They go 0 and 7. This team starts 0 and 7. They look broken. No, that would be 0 and 9 if they lose all those games. I mean, that is insane that Mike McDaniel, oh, man. Maybe it was his OC who's now in Minnesota. If you want to be in the massive panic category, charges are number one on that board.

But you have other teams that are joining them. The Falcons look as abysmal as you can look. Tampa Bay, they've continued their complete fail pile at the end of the year. As Tampa than Atlanta, who's, Atlanta has not had a qualified quarterback yet. No, I agree. No, first carry of the game by Cooper Rush fumbles the ball. I mean, just also have great teams that have stuff to worry. But I think the lions have looked, you know, they almost lost week one.

You could argue they should have lost week one. They've lost some people on defense. And if you look at the record, you know, pre and post Ben Johnson leaving that team, it's, you know, you lose a great mind. It's going to hurt you. You see all the blobfish second and ten runs this past week? He loves it. We do live in a highly criticized world here. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league.

Puka Nukuwa was this was talked about over the weekend, questionable for tonight's game. Added to the injury report, hip injury, and groin soreness. I don't know which one's which. McVeigh said groin. Didn't practice Saturday. Trending in the wrong direction according to Madam Schmfter. Thank you. Game time decision.

But don't worry, guys. In one of my leagues, I, look, I just didn't want to mess around with Puka. I didn't have an option to pick up on Monday night. So you played one of your good bench guys. I played Marvin Harrison, who might be the worst player in the history of the national football league. He will score the same as Puka if Puka sits. How many, like, the funny thing about Marv is that after every week of every game always, they asked the coaching staff about why Marv wasn't involved that day. And then the coaching staff comes up with some new, new line.