Week 2 Matchups + WHEEL OF SHAME! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/18

Ladd if he was healthy over Mike Evans, Parker, Washington, T. Higgins. Yeah, I'd play all three of those over him. Yeah, okay. So let's go a little deeper. Devante Adams or Ladd? I'd probably, I think Ladd with the, I mean, they're heavy home favorites again. I'm going to play Ladd. Okay. So that's about the. The waiver sensation, Jalen Coker. He's got his own injury. He does. I would definitely go Ladd there. Okay.

Really cool story here. Michael Pinnock's throwing to practice squad receivers right now while Cooper Rush takes majority of throws with starters. While they hope that Tua could somehow play. What a disaster! There's going to be Cooper Rush again. Would you play Pat Fryer Muth over Kyle Pitts? Probably. Hunter Henry. I just had that thought. I just had that realization right here right now. Dalton Schultz. I mean, he should be out there in most situations. Yeah. Luckily for me, it doesn't even matter. Even if...

You're like, I'm just going to play Pitts. I am. I'm not going to make the better move. Your team, when you have 100 points from three players on Thursday night. Yeah, we get it. Maybe I won't play any. Just bench him? I'll bench him out of respect. Yeah, just to motivate. But for those out there struggling at the table, my process is like, I, of course, something crazy could happen for Kyle Pitts. But I don't care about that. I'm not playing him with Cooper Rush. The one thing that I'll say.

is that the Pittsburgh defense is not the Carolina defense that gave up 59 points. So there's a world where I think Carolina will score against Atlanta, and I think Atlanta will be able to score, even with Cooper Rush, against Carolina. So, I mean, what's the overrunner of that game? Do we have it? Is that only like 40, 41? That's got to be. But they're heavy. They're three and a half point favorites.

Drake London is the biggest question mark to me. I mean, Pitts is an easy, pits is an easy guy to swap out, right? You've got Dalton Schultz that's fine on the waiver wires, grab them, play him, Hunter Henry, whoever, all the names we've been mentioning. But Drake London's a guy that, you know, that was your second pick in a draft. And it's like, Terry McClorin, my start of the week, or Drake London, who's a way better player, more investment. Terry. Yeah. Terry. Terry against Dallas. You got to do it.

Process-wise. 43.5 point over under for that game. 23 to 20 is the implied point total Carolina favored. There you go. Brock Bauer's not practicing again on Thursday, so he's so healthy that he's not playing. Any second now. Not meant where he's second to second, guys. I hate. Just stop. You hate, I know what you're going to say. Wait, can I guess? Yeah, you can guess. You hate that right now you're hating Kubiak.

Yes. I knew it. Yes. Because it's like we want to love Kubiak. He's such a brilliant mind. He is doing this to us. Don't be a turd. Like you don't need to do it this way. No. Not everyone. Like this isn't the standard. You could just like, I don't know. There's plenty of coaches out there that are brilliant that don't have to like, you know, I think about how what a tight squeeze of information Aaron Glenn keeps. And it's like.

Okay. Is that how you want to do things? Oh, that's why he's winning. I will remind people with all these injuries and late decisions, Mike will be live an hour before kickoff on Sunday on YouTube, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers for Sunday live. Come and submit your questions. You know, there were thousands of you on there last week. It was super fun. Definitely check that out. We'll take a break. We'll jump into the forecast.

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So keep it clean. We've done this show for so long. We've played fantasy for 20 plus years. I'm saying this is like a different, like I didn't think there was something I haven't seen before. But I've never had a team that looks this good on paper and should be good. But it's a 17-week season. So I don't even know how to feel about them playing well now because there's injuries and there's things that- Dude, just go to sleep. Don't worry about it.

Yeah, you think it'll be fine? I think you should just do nothing. Just rest on your laurels. I'm so used to being a neurotic trader. No. I don't need to. I sent like 12 trades out this morning and deleted them all. I did. I sent a bunch out because I don't know what else to do. I normally wake up on Monday on trade. So trade. Yeah, trade away. Well, I tried. People turn down my deals. No matter what you do.

It won't matter. It feels like it right now. Yesterday we talked through the Panthers Falcons game we just mentioned. The Vikings, Bears, Eagles, Titans, Patriots, Packers, Jets, Browns, Buccaneers, Texans. That's how we, that's what we covered yesterday. Seven more matchups today, starting with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who looked great in week one. One and O against the Denver Broncos who continue their gauntlet of a schedule to start the year. Broncos O'N-1 Vegas line, Denver minus two and a half at home.

Overrunners 45 and a half in this one. Jags won 34 to 10. Chiefs beat the Broncos 31 to 10. So bounce back. Do we expect it? I mean, the tackling by the Broncos was some of the worst statistically in history and so frustrating. The worst I've seen with my eyeballs. It was insane. They looked pitiful, but they are well coached in a good team and should bounce back and they're at home and they're favored.

So how much do you expect to see the bounce back? And where does that translate in terms of fantasy? Like we've had our week one high draft picks that have failed, the Colston Loveland's of the world. Waddle's in that category. He seems like the biggest question mark to me on this team right now is like, do you have the same? Like Loveland, you have no qualms, throw them right back out there, let's go. Do you feel the same about Waddle? Not as strong as Loveland, but.

I'm letting more than one game happen. The guy with the brand new team, it was definitely a bummer. But, I mean, he's, they brought him in for a reason. And I don't think that the, while the Jags were awesome against the Browns. Yeah, it was the Browns. Like, I want to see their defense against not Deshaun Watson before I start really formulating that opinion. So I'm, Waddle is right back into the lineup for me.

Just for, you know, Sutton, who is seemingly like the least popular player that could exist because Pat Bryant's sexy and exciting and Waddle's the new arrival, he led the team in snaps at wide receiver. Cortland Sutton had more than Waddle. He had more than Pat Bryant. I just noticed that he also had a target share that just trailed Pat Bryant. So I don't think the team looks at Sutton.

I don't think they look at it as a, it's this guy or that guy, right? It's everybody, one big group. That's been a problem before with Mims and Franklin and guys getting involved and we expected Sutton to do it. So this will be a week to me where if Jalen Waddle doesn't have eight targets, I will start being really worried that it will not necessarily be a 1A alpha that we're expected. Like we expected with the draft capital they gave up to get him the money. Like they're saying, hey, he's our.

He's our Drake London. He's our JSA. He's our leader of the wide receiver room. And the target share needs to go through him. This matchup is very different than the Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, we don't know what the Jags defense is because they played the Browns Week 1. But if you look at last year, they were pretty doggone good against the run most of the year. And they were just an average team against the pass. So this is an average NFL matchup. There's a team that should be able to score on the Broncos.

because they're a good defense that could get in the way of a wide receiver. So to me, this matchup is like the perfect recipe for your average game where you can pass the ball. Does Jalen Waddle get eight plus targets? Is he like the one for the offense or is he one of the pieces in the offense? Are you playing Parker Washington on the other side over him? Yeah. Yeah, I am. So, yeah, I mean, 45 and a half point over under. It's not, you know, it's fine. It's good.

It makes me wonder, you know, RJ Harvey. He had 51% of the snaps at running back. He is questionable right now. He's dealing with the you-hoo. That'd be a hamstring. When you put it like that, though, it sounds like something else. If he's out, we might finally see Jonah Coleman on the field. It's true, and I think that's exciting. I don't think that there's a world you can start him. I'm not even sure if you can start J.K. Dobbins this week. Like I said, this is...

a team that last year was very good against the run. You could start Dobbin. I guess with RJ Harvey out, if he's out, Dobbins is okay, but I'm not bullish on him. Really? Yeah, I would think that Dobbins would get more work. I'm pretty interested in Dobbins. If Harvey misses, though, this is, that's the window that Jonah Coleman needs. And like, because Jonah Coleman has to get on field, get some tape, start earning the trust. He has been kind of the biggest concern for.

for the success of Dobbins. If an injury like this happens to Harvey, I don't think, once the genie's out for Jonah Coleman, that I think that's what ends up happening. But for this week, Dobbins will be in my starting lineup. I like Bayshall Tooting a lot this week, although there was a report this morning that LeQuint Allen is going to get more and more third down snaps, according to Liam Cohen. That's fine. So we'll see what happens there. Parker Washington is a star. Brian Thomas Jr. to me is a must bench this week.

I would not mess around with the shoulder injury. He got knocked out early last week. Yeah, I agree. A good defense. I think you can find another option out there like valet. He can, he's the like, valet seems to be the litmus test of like the spot start this week. He does. But I mean, Pat Bryan on the other side. Would you play him over Ryan Thomas Jr.? Yes, I would. Okay. Pat Bryant looks like he's in the, you know, like Troy Franklin. Jason. Hey, it's Franklin. Yeah, I mean, if you want to go ahead and hit that. Sometimes you do it for the last time. Yeah.

Sometimes you know it's getting retired. Troy Franklin's role in that offense last year, he got a ton of targets. And it's like, I think that's Pat Ryan's job now, where even if Cortland Sutton's in there, you know, running on the field more, Pat Bryant's going to get more targets. And then just for Bayshall Tootin, Tutin is a tackle breaking machine. Like this is part of what he does. Kenneth Walker, tackle breaking machine. I mean.

The fantasy algebra doesn't always work out, but... Make Denver prove they can tackle you, and if you're good at it, even when people do tackle, well, yeah, that's a good point. Trevor Lawrence, I think it's not the best start matchup-wise on the road in Denver, but I imagine if you started them last week and got 2.45 and 4, you're going to roll them right back out there and trust Liam Cohen. And then Bo Nix, I'd find someone else to...

to kind of lead my team until he proves that he can get it going. By the way, a quick update for you since we covered the game yesterday. I'll tackle this real quick. A further update on Zaymond Flowers. He did return to practice but did very little during the media viewing portion. Spoke to teammates and coaches. Did not do any running during media viewing at all.

So the full practice or back at practice thing, will he be limited on the official report? We have an injury blitz podcast that comes out Friday afternoon by Kyle or by Matthew Betts. I almost said Kyle Betts, which they kind of merge. We are. That would imply an amount of technological advancement to Matthew Betts that he doesn't possess. Kyle just screamed, do not. Do not combine them. But there you go. Zayflowers still very much in question.

Mike, your plans now. That's so much worse. You had plans to not have flowers and you were so bummed when flowers was available. Well, but he's not available. Well, you should be happy. This is worst case scenario. Is it? Yes. Oh, darn, the year of mine. Las Vegas, Los Angeles. Yeah, I did like when you're like, I've, I've never seen this with my team. Super duper champ over here. Oh, dear you. You know there's a big difference in what I was talking about.

You ended. I want to be in the playoffs. You didn't go into the season. Like you had, Josh was had a better record than you last year. Yes. That's all I'm saying. I think it's a, it's a heavy burden to bear. That's all I'm saying. I don't know why Josh is catching strays over there. Catching strays by having the best record. And then losing. Ah. You just gave him the stray. It was implied. Mike is all over the place. The Raiders want to know against the Chargers. Oh and one. Of course. Vegas line.