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

Yeah, the only one that I might put out there in that valet tier would be Caleb Douglas. You know, if you're getting as much work as he got in his first week as a rookie, you're going to be down and you're going to be throwing the ball a lot. I expect targets to go to him with 16 implied points. You don't assume that he's going to have a lot of huge fantasy success. So he's like just a PPR floor play. That would be the second player on this offense outside of.

A. Chan, I guess Malik Willis in certain situations because of his rushing upside would be there. But yeah, I mean, you just don't want dolphins. The team stinks. You want some 49ers? Yes, please. By the way, Malik in that stinky week one still ended up as the quarterback 13 on the week. And he looked bad, in my opinion. I don't think he played well.

Which is you can make the argument like, oh, that's good news. I mostly agree with you. Because he can, you know, he can figure it out, get more. He's working with. 220 passing yards, 39 rushing yards. Well, I just mean like his accuracy. I felt like there were a lot of bad throws. But at the same time, he's dealing with two rookies playing a ton of snaps that one of which he didn't really play with through camp. So could be brighter days. I mean, to your point of like, Malik Washington led the team in Target share. Yep. And air yards.

And Caleb Douglas was the talking point because he's the one who actually got the production. It was like, Malik Washington should have had the production, but Willis didn't get it to him. Brock Purdy is my start of the week. Christian McCaffrey, yes, please. Caleb Black with the injury report, will they bring somebody else up? Will he be okay? We'll see. He was 43% of snaps and 15 opportunities last week. I would imagine Jordan James is not a healthy scratch if Kalin Black can't play.

Would also imagine Christian McCaffrey's just going to get all the work. I would think so. I've had Jordan James on my dynasty team for three years or two years, however long he's been in the league. I dropped in this week with Kalin Black's emergence, and I just needed to pick somebody else. It's just ironic. It's just one of those things where I think it's going to be okay. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Mike Evans, you play Hamdibo. I think you're good there too. I think both these guys spots start to Marcus Robinson. If you're desperate, I mean, two catches last week after the departure of stribling.

You're looking for the touchdown with Robinson. And George Kittle, limited practices. You're going to see more of that. Only played 46% of snaps, but now Tanger's basketball is out for the year. Jake Tunges is not an alternative option for this team. Kettle to me showed me enough to where I'm really excited for the second half of the year and also absolutely not starting him now. So he is just a roster quag. Shultz. Yeah, all those. Juan Johnson. Yep.

Goddard, all those guys. All those guys, I'd start over. Kyle Pitts or Kittle? Who's the quarterback for Atlanta? It's going to be Cooper Rush. Then Kittle, because he could get a touchdown. Harold Fanon or George Kittle.

Oh, that's a good one. Disgusting. Fanon. Yeah, I'd go Fanon. Colts, Sunday night football, taking on the Chiefs. We get more primetime Ken, Bone, Walker, Chiefs minus six and a half, over under 46 and a half. Good work, schedule people. Honestly, the schedule people. All need to relish in his greatness. These first two weeks scheduled people are kicking butt. I mean, these primetime games are fantastic. Read the Eric B. Enemy quote. Yeah, I will. This is for Mike, but it's also for everyone else out there who drafted Kenneth Walker.

Eric B. Enemy, who Mike brought up all offseason as one of the reasons he loves Ken Walker in Kansas City. I hadn't seen this. You haven't seen this quote? He says, quote, you want to read it? Yeah, why don't you read it? Sure. He says, quote, ideally, what did he have? 23 carries? Some people have carried a whole lot more than that. So I don't think you want to put a limit on anything. I think sky is the limit. Woo, brother. This is delightful.

I mean, it's why he went to Kansas City. My bone, bro! Yeah! Oh, another! Woo! Yay! I don't like being Heifel Tower. I need to get Kenneth Walker in one of these leagues so I can join in. Good luck with that. I know, it's over. I can't. I told you to draft him. I mean, look, barring injury, which is the story of all players, you know, Christian McCaffrey and all these guys, he's going to be so good every week. Running back. Defense and run the football. Early on in the year.

For fantasy football, you want to see utilization. How are they using players? Kenneth Walker is going to be everything. Maybe he can't, you know, all the... What sucks about this situation is, like, the people that... If Kenneth Walker gets hurt, which he probably will, because he's playing NFL football. He's most likely going to get hurt because running bats get hurt.

Goodness gracious, the victory lap on Kenneth Walker missing a game or two is going to be so obnoxious. You're like, I told you. Yeah, he plays football. He's probably going to get hurt. 24% of top 24 running backs over the last 10 years play in a complete season. So you have a three-quarter chance, you know, 75% chance that you're going to miss a game. Rashi Rice, guys, two for 19 last week. Troubling. Was terrible if you look at the separation scores.

in week one in terms of being able to get apart from the DB. I think you're going to play him in this game. I don't think you don't play Rashi Rice, but your tempered expectations probably. Absolutely. I think if you have Rashi Rice, you are praying for a touchdown and then you are trying to ship him out of town.

as soon as humanly possible. The utilization, and I know he's coming back from the knee injury, maybe it'll completely change, but I think this is an Eric B. Enemy and Kenneth Walker change of offense, where Rushi Rice isn't just the, hey, I'm going to target you pretty much every other passing play. They had no one else. Yeah.

You can actually throw the ball to Kenneth Walker. As funny as it is, I think there's a world where Cyrus Allen is getting more and more and more snaps towards the back half of the year. They've talked about bringing them along really slowly. What I saw from the wide receiver room in week one was we need to get a possession receiver that can go out there and run a 15-yard in or something and catch the football. That's not Thornton. That's not Rice. It's probably not Kelsey anymore.

I'm not telling you to go pick them up. I think this is just deep league, crazy deep league, dynasty leagues. But if I'm the chiefs, I'm like, I need to get a wide receiver on this team. And there have been rumors that are turning into like things I think are going to happen that Tyreek Hill will join this team by the midpoint of the season. I had not heard that. Yeah. He said, so there have been some stuff going out there. A reunion is possible. And if this team is cooking halfway through the year, I've seen Tyreek running now and breaking.

Our dynasty team, Mike. You still got Tyreek? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Jonathan Taylor, this is going to be a hard matchup, but you never sit him. So just play him because one play is all it takes. Alec Pierce practicing on Friday, so they gave him some time off. But that's good to see. Keenan Allen and Josh Downs, I'm afraid these guys are going to kind of cannibalize each other throughout the year when you also have to mix in Tyler Warren. That one was wild. And Warren, by the way.

horrible week, saved by the touchdown. I mean, three for 13 on 93% of snaps was disappointing to me too. Keenan Allen, the Keenan Allen Josh Downs situation of Josh Downs being out there for such a high percentage of dropbacks and routes for the Colts. And yet Keenan Allen leading the target share, it will be something to watch.

Yeah. Are you playing Alec Pierce? Or, you know, where are you with him? This is a tough matchup. I'm willing to play Pierce, but it's more of his, like, hopefully a wide receiver 3. I think he's a great trade for target right now as he gets back into full snap counts. When you get half snaps and, you know, he's supposed to be their dude. And so he's coming off an injury, didn't get a lot of practice, didn't get training camp, played 59% of snaps was still 4 for 61. I mean, like,

Right. I mean, that's the name of the game for him. 15 points to a catch again. Like, that's a target for me. Are you not worried? I mean, I can totally see him being a target for the second half of the season. But as far as this week in a tough matchup, are you not worried about the fact he didn't practice on Thursday, I believe? Correct. That just seems. Yeah, that's what I brought up. It seems bad. If you practice on Wednesday and you don't practice on Thursday. That's why I was asking Mike if he liked it because it's a bad matchup.

I would not be comfortable starting Alec Pierce. Those other guys. No, I just want to trade for him now. That we've got in that valet tier. I would throw those guys in personally. You guys want to watch a Monday night game, Giants, Jackson Dart and Company, Cam Scada, would go to L.A. and take on the Rams who looked in week one. They looked quite tired. They looked tired, but they also have missing personnel. Maybe Aaron Donald comes back this week. Maybe he doesn't. But Miles Garrett's going to be gone. And in week one, it was, they give up 40 points to wide receivers. That's not great.

We'll see what happens in this one because the Giants look great in week one. Los Angeles minus seven, the world expecting them to bounce back over under 48 points. It gives the Rams 28. The Giants 20. So you expect full bounce back for the Rams in this one on the offensive side. Puka, Adams, Kyron, Korum, Stafford. Yeah, I mean, we left Australia saying we're throwing the game away. Yes. And it's hard to do that because we just saw them be like not show up.

to a game. But I do think that that is the mentality. The most difficult one for me is Devante Adams because there was a world where at his age he comes in and has lost it. There's also the issue of utilization versus performance where he wasn't utilized inside the 10. He wasn't on the field inside the 10, which was and is his superpower.

So he scares me a little bit. I'm still starting him. You think that's prescriptive of this team? I don't. I don't think that. They did real good when they utilized them. Yes. So I feel like that was an anomaly. I believe changes will come. But he's the only player that what I saw in week one from the Rams scares me that it might be prescriptive. Yeah. The other guys. Just because the age component. That you're just like. The age and the weird.

Like, why would they, I mean, I think they'll fix the- Still 22% of the targets. Inside the 10 stuff. Yeah, I would go back to him, a league neighbors. I mean, six for 69 coming back from a serious injury. When like two hours before the game, he was not sure he could go and play. Isaiah likely. He's back, baby. Yeah, I mean, Isaiah likely, Camp Scataboo, Dart. It's a pretty clean four-pack there, I think. Dart, Scataboot, neighbors, likely. Keep your eyes on Malikai Fields because I just.

I like the dude. I think he's a good player, but I'm not starting him. The Camp Scataboo route share will be something to pay attention to. Because we, you know, he's just coming back from his injury. So maybe they were trying to, you know, lessen that for him where Devin Singletary was kind of the receiving back for the team. But.

Yeah, but that was, I mean. It really, it really stunk that they didn't throw him. He's such a good pass catcher. I, but it's saying like this is a, this is the new regime. Yeah. Where you can't just copy paste last year's receiving work to the new, to the new play caller. Yeah, it's, the play caller is the issue. I don't think it's the health. I don't think it's coming back off the injury because they gave him tons of work. They, they did not seem like they were rusting him or giving him low snaps. It seemed like.

on passing downs. He wasn't the back they were utilizing. Hopefully that changes. It could have been a situation where it was Tyrone Tracy, who was really the guy they wanted to be that. And then he took himself out of the game. And then they're like, okay, well, the other pack. And maybe this week they're having a bad month. He's having a bad year. So hopefully he, hopefully Scataboo gets more involved. I do think obviously you've got Miles Garrett on the IR.

Right now, it looks like Aaron Donald is trending towards playing, but it's not confirmed. They're hopeful he will play Monday night against the Giants. I don't know if that impacts whether you're, I mean, you've got to make your decisions ahead of Monday night. I'm not sitting scataboo in any situation. You're not sitting scataboo. I don't think you're sitting neighbors in any situation. And the question then becomes just likely, likely.

So then all three are all playing. Joe Burrow practiced on Friday. A little injury update for you. He feels good. Jalen Koker, not on the injury report. So at least he seemed to tell the truth about it not being a big deal. Chigua hamstring ruled out against the Cowboys. Go ahead, Mike. Just will it into existence. Mike, you want to tell the people who I picked up in our shared dynasty league? I am the Senate. Yeah, Jason did me in a very solid friendship move. That's the connection between co-managers. Ben Senate was picked up.