Starts of the Week + Week 3 Breakdown, V8 Special - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/24

100%. I would probably not play golf, though. See, it'll be interesting in this matchup specifically. The Rams are fourth best against opposing fantasy-wide receivers. And you imagine that Jalen Ramsey is going to be on Stefan Diggs for the majority of this game, which through two weeks, John Brown has been a top wide receiver. Could he be the major beneficiary of kind of the...

situation with yeah i mean i believe cole beasley was missing some practice so john brown is is certainly that guy that is going to be the main beneficiary if stephan diggs is locked down that and i believe josh allen's running i think he will scramble and pick up a lot of yards on the ground here are you confident with cooper cup and robert woods has wide receiver twos this week woods yes cooper cup maybe not as confident but i'm still going to play him that's exactly how i feel

It's interesting. Cup had a much better game through the air last week. Yeah, I'm always confident in Woods just because of his consistency and the fact that he pretty much always has a decent game. He's the center of the offense. He's just not the nitrous. And you hope that Cooper Cup can get in the end zone and, you know, turn things around. I don't know if they have any nitrous. I think they might have lost their nitrous. Tell that to Higbee last week.

Yeah, I mean, a goal line touchdown. No, but I know what you're saying. They don't really have Brandon Cooks to stretch the field right now. I mean, Van Jefferson's made his mark, but to me, I don't feel like they have a... They're just a solid V8. They're a fast... They're a Dodge Charger. Not the vegetable drink? Correct. I'm very excited to hear Jason talk.

Cars? Yeah, engines. You know, they're a solid, they don't have any twin turbo, but everything you know about V8s in 60 seconds. Yeah, you know, the point is, I think that the offense is a hemmy. What does that mean? I don't know, but it's got one. But it's a hemi. I've heard it's great. So anyways, the Rams hammy offense is chugging along. It's really been looking much more like their Super Bowl season than it looked like what we saw last year.

The problem is, and you kind of just spoke to this when you talked about not having that twin turbo is there isn't a clear cut beneficiary for the high upside. Like there was with Gurley or there was for a while with Cup, you're kind of rolling the dice there. So that's why I say I'm always confident in playing Robert Woods because he's just, you know, he's just normal gasoline.

in an engine. Can I, can I end this? Yes, you didn't say anything about piston, spark plugs. I mean, those should have come up. Who's the spark plug of this offense? Well, I mean, clearly this week, it's Daryl Henderson. Okay. The nitrous, to keep going with this ridiculous analogy, it could be Daryl Henderson this week. Okay. All right. How many horse jokes does he have? A little gaffe again. The Washington football team.

Takes on the Cleveland Browns this week. The Cleveland Browns are seven point favorites, which seems quite frankly ridiculous to me. And I'll tell you why. In fact, I did not think you would let me have the almost upset in the Rams game. And this was my backup. Oh. Was Washington. The Browns are seven point favorites. I've got an idea. Make up for last week's terrible one. Do you want me to have two? Heck yeah, man. So I can go O for two this week.

And he's almost upset of the week. Here's the part where I tell you I'm going to take Cleveland to cover this seven. That's fine. That's fine. Look, here's the reason why. The recipe for beating the Cleveland Browns is to slow the running game down, the aforementioned Kreme Hunt and Nick Chubb. The Washington defensive front before this season was a pro football-focused top five defensive line. In the season through two weeks, they're number two in terms of fancy points given up.

The shade thrown on Kenyon Drake should be praise heaped upon the Washington defensive line on what they did in that game. They've given up 11.5 fantasy points in totality to the running back position. Last week, Nick Chubb and Cream Hunt combined for almost 50. Something's got to give there. And if you put the ball in Baker Mayfield's hands and say win the ball game, that has not equated to a victory very often, much less covering a seven-point spread. So that would be my argument of concern for this offense.

Yeah, I'm actually excited to see because I've questioned the defensive line for the Washington football team. I'm not sure if I really fully buy in, but I want to. And this is the proof in the pudding because when you talk about trying to stop Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, you either are good enough or you aren't, and we're going to find out this week. So this will be really telling for me for upcoming future matchups. We always talk about having enough data as the season goes along to start making

bolder, more sure calls. And I think this will bring clarity to that Washington defensive line. Yeah. And this is why I have less confidence in the smash play of Cream Hunt than you do. I mean, Cream Hunt to me is an always play because he's game script proof. If the game is close and they need to throw the ball and put it in Baker Mayfield's hands, it's going to have some dumpoffs to Cream Hunt. If they are up on the seven point line and they're crushing, then

They get to run the ball more, and Cream Hunt touches it that way. So I just don't see being able to... I don't think he had a fantasy point until the second half last week. I'm fine with that. I just care about what... How many fantasy points does he have at the end of the game? I agree. Those old first half leagues. He's going to have some disappearing games. That's my whole point. He had him last year, and he's going to have him this year. Because if he doesn't bust off 8.9 a carry in the fourth quarter...

There's going to be games he disappears. I'm with Jason that I'm confident playing Kareem Hunt. Deshawn Jackson or Kreme Hunt? Kareem Hunt. Oh, man. Probably Kareem Hunt. We were talking about David Montgomery or Kareem Hunt. I'm more confident in David Montgomery because of the touches. I mean, Kareem Hunt's going to, part of playing him will be some cardiac problems as you're watching the game. I felt like an idiot for a half and a genius for a half. Yeah.

Let the whole game play out. Antonio Gibson. Yep. He's up at RB 22 for us this week. McKissick had 29 snaps last week. Gibson had 43. The Brown's defensive fronts has been very good as well. They're at home. Gibson's been elusive, but this offense is kind of... They are also elusive. Are they present? Yes. So I, you know, Gibson...

To keep the comparison going. Are we back to the cars? No, we're back to David Montgomery. Oh. And Montgomery kind of took over early last year. The total touches for Montgomery were outstanding. But the Mitch Trubisky problem reminds me of a Dwayne Haskins problem. So if you can't move the ball, can't provide a lot of goal line opportunities, high value opportunities, Gibson could have a lot of touches, not a lot of production, cementing him in that RB2, RB3 range. Yeah, I don't mind that argument. I do believe that the...

The mantle has, we have passed the torch here to Antonio Gibson. He's the starting running back. He's the primary guy, which we don't know yet did that turn into. We won't see the atrocious Peyton Barber at the goal line over and over. And then he finally breaks in. Like, will Gibson get those touches? We aren't sure yet. I think we are there. I think he will. But.

You're right. The matchup against the Cleveland front is not a very positive one for Antonio Gibson. We still have not seen them, the Washington football team, unleash him in the passing game. Maybe we finally see that this week, but Gibson is a volume play. I think you can play him like last week, where he got a whole bunch of touches. Didn't really do a bunch, but he did end up getting the touchdown at the end, saving his fantasy day. All right. When we talk about Terry McLaurin looked great last week against Arizona.

He gets Denzel Ward. Ward was outstanding against AJ Green a week ago. If you watch the tape and all the things that factored into those, you know, the force feeding of AJ Green, the complaint of separation problems for AJ Green, Ward was at least a piece of the puzzle. He had his best pro football focus graded week.

in quite a while in that matchup. He's excellent, and he has the speed to keep up with Terry McLaren. So I have some concerns, but I can't imagine that those concerns would turn into benching Terry McLaren because the balls have to go to him. He will have the opportunity. And week one, you had 100 first half yards from another speedster in Hollywood Brown. So I think Terry McLaren is...

is fine, but Denzel Ward is not an easy match. Terry McLaurin is a better wide receiver than AJ Green now. Yeah. No doubt about it. So I'm not worried about Ward. Odell Beckham Jr. had the nice week last week. Oh, man. What do you do? McLaurin or Beckham? Oh, man. That one's easy for me. I'm going to stay in Ter McClorin. I want the new hotness arrow pointing up than the, uh,

question just question mark is he old busted what isn't the arrow pointing up for odell after last week uh what you pointed out that last year he had a week two prime time big game and then continue the wide receiver three last year and then continued to disappear so odal beckham to me has a question mark his arrow isn't pointing down because of last week his arrow isn't pointing up because of 18 games he's just a question mark

Jarvis Landry's only had 8.6 fantasy points and 6.1 fantasy points in the last two weeks. Do you trust them at all as a flex? Are you letting him sit on your own being? I'm letting him sit on my waivers. Logan Thomas. Mike's going to talk about him a little bit later. Tight in for the Washington football team. Heavily targeted the last week. Didn't deliver for you. But there aren't a lot of pass catching options. It's pretty much McLaren, Sims, and Thomas. And then maybe if they involve Gibson a little bit more, that's your Dwayne Haskins targets.

Let's move on. Tennessee, the Titans taking on the Minnesota Vikings. Titans are 2 and 0.2. Titans are 2 and a half point road favorites. That's it? Well, yeah, I guess it's the road, but. The Titans also, they're 2 and 0, but through two weeks, they barely hung on to win both games. Is that right? I mean, last week, Minshu almost got them. So it's been close. The Titans' defense hasn't looked as formidable as I thought it would be.

when the year began, and Derek Henry hasn't had the success that we expected, at least getting into the end uprored. Hasn't transformed into the Yeti yet. That's right. Yeah. We need some snow first. Abominable. Yes. That nickname's tough because I know I'm not going to say abominable correctly very often. No, I like Derek Yetty. Yeah, I'm up with that. I don't mind it. Titans 2. But right now he's just Derek Henry. Right. Because it's warm outside. Yeah. Yeah. Getting hit by Derek Henry is bad to begin with. If you add, like, cold temperatures.

That's the secret. You just pass on that. 48.5 point over under. That's a pretty high over under this week. It is. Well, the Titans defense has disappointed. The Minnesota Vikings defense has been nonexistent. I, you know, I said this once. I'm targeting the Vikings.

across the board here. I'm hoping that AJ Brown does not play. So there's clarity. If he does not play, Corey Davis becomes someone that's going to be in... To be clear, you're not targeting the Vikings. You're targeting the team that's facing the Vikings? Correct. I'm targeting them as, you know, someone that I want to attack. However, I want it said that I do think that they are a well-run franchise with a good head coach. Those things don't stay putrid forever. This was a...

slow, you know, weird offseason where you lost digs and you had some changes to the offense, a ton of changes to the defense, half of the defensive starters were new. This is someone that I'm going to target until proven otherwise, but as soon as they have a good game, I will immediately buy in and stop just the hyper-targeting. That's how I'm approaching, looking at the Vikings. Are you worried?

about this offense without Stefan Diggs and what we've seen through two weeks from Dalvin Cook. No, Dalvin Cook has still been fine. He is the guy. He is the goal line guy. He gets stump off. Dalva Cook is fine. At this point, the way the things have panned out, if you took Dalva Cook over Alva Camara, sure, in hindsight now you're kicking yourself, but Dalva Cook has still been very solid for fantasy. I think he has three touchdowns through two weeks. He's a touchdown machine. That'll help.

Derek Henry, no touchdowns on the ground yet. 25 and 31 carries, I believe. The touchdowns are coming. I'm going to say that Derek Kimmer scores a touchdown this week. Is this your kind of by-low window for Derek Henry and fantasy? Yeah, if there is one at all for Derek Henry, it's right now. Yeah, I would certainly scoop him up if I could. I tried to trade for him after week one kind of being a meh game.