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Hey, this is Mike Cickey, tighter with the Miami Dolphins, and you are listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's football time again. Hey, every week. I love football. Are you adding lyrics? Well, it's, I, I, that was not added.

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Just like that intro, just like those lyrics. Some news, some notes, some injuries to catch you up on. Fantasy forecast, the matchups. Starts of the week today, Jason's boom boom kicker. I've been told by a very reliable source that it is the absolute best. It's the worst. It's the worst. I have not, I don't know. I made the mistake of, I looked at it. Yes, it is. It is the best. It's the worst. I, I, multi levels of terrible.

I have not seen it. I have not heard it. Okay. You get the review. I'm very excited. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballer subscribe. Click the bell. If you want to watch the show, that's where you do it. Appreciate everybody supporting the podcast, subscribing, leaving reviews on Apple Podcasts. The community, join thefoot.com. We added the Injury Blitz podcast recently, which comes out on Fridays, Matthew Betz.

delivering some last minute injury news, very helpful. Oh, talk about taking it up to 100. Yeah, the reviews have been solid. Mr. Betts. Mr. Betts himself. But, no, we've got, we've got football tonight. We've got the beard versus the mustache tonight. I can't wait. I have never been more excited for a Jaguars Dolphins game in my life because of these two mediocre.

as far as, you know, how the NFL views them. I actually, I'm glad you said it like that, Jason, because I can see the future. I know you are aware of that. I do have. And it just seems like Gardner is going to be the next Fitzpatrick in the sense that what Jacksonville should do is use them at, use him as their quarterback for the entire future, which Fitzpatrick should have been.

a quarterback, not gone through each and every team in the NFL. Remember Houston moved on from Fitzpatrick to get Brock Osweiler, right? And Buffalo moved on from Fitzpatrick and Cincinnati moved on from Fitzpatrick to Andy Dalton. New York? Wasn't he on the Jets? Yeah, I mean, we could go for days. And all these teams just should have had Ryan Fitzpatrick as a quarterback. And I'm worried that that's the future of Gardner Minshu. He should just be the starter.

But if they get a high pick, they'll be tempted to, oh, we can do better. If Gardner has the future that Fitzpatrick had in the past, we are all blessed in the future because I can't wait to watch him on every team that has ever been in the NFL. He makes the full mustache tour. Whatever that is. As he ages, he'll get to a beard. All right. Let's jump in. Taking it up to 100.

Presented by Head and Shoulders, available at Walmart. I feel like you got really serious at the end of that drop. Look, it got a little darker. You got to know where it's available. I know. All right. If you haven't heard this segment, we're each picking a player that we think will take it up to 100 in week number three. We're picking outside that kind of starter consensus group of fantasy options or a player that just hasn't done it yet and we think this is the week.

Last week, Jason had Deontay Johnson. Oh, two for two. David Montgomery was Mike's pick. He had a great week. I went with Scotty Miller. He did not work out. He was one drop away. I'm going to, I realize I'm going too far down the list. Oh, I see. I'm feeling like I'm getting a little, I went like Boston Scott and Scotty Miller and I'm over. Oh, it's the Scott. Oh, that's the problem. Oh, no. Great Scott. You got to avoid that. Great.

Scott. This week I'm going to go with Scott Bayo. No, not Scott Bayo. And that is just the ancient reference. This is the first Scott I think of. Ancient. Open the Crips, pull the reference out. I'm going to go with Devin Singletary. I'm going to go with Devin Singletary. So I'm back into the exact same group of deeper names. But Zach Moss is banged up. He was not at practice yesterday. He was working on the side.

If you look at week two, the running back opportunities in Buffalo, Devin Singletary had 13. Zach Moss had eight. I think there's an opportunity this week for Devin Singletary to give you a good game. So I'm going to give Devin Singletary this week to take it to 100. All right. All right. Go ahead, Jay. I like that. I'm going to go with a player that, you know, we told everybody to pick up yesterday in deeper formats and Dynasty leagues. And that is Drew Sample, second year.

a second round pick. A lot of people forget that Drew Sample actually had that pedigree coming in. You had CJ Uzama have a great game last week before, unfortunately, going down to a season-ending injury. And then Drew Sample comes in and gets nine more targets. Now, they were in a must-pass situation, but I think the Bengals will, you know, there's a good chance. That's their default mode. Yes, their default mode is.

Oh, we're down. So let's give it to the rookie, have him throw the ball. But the matchup against Philadelphia, the Eagles, they just gave up three touchdowns to Higby. And in week one, Logan Thomas actually was pretty good against him. So I think Drew Sample confirms why we had you pick him up this week, takes it to 100. And I'm going with, I'm jumping in with Andy here. I'm going with a bit of a, could be a deeper play, a more difficult thing, but I'm going Jerich McKinnon.

who, look, he's still on the San Francisco 49ers. The Giants, look, Montgomery smashed Snell took it to them as well. McKinnon is back to health. He absolutely fits the Shanahan system. I think this is the week he can prove that Shanahan was right a couple years ago to go and try and make McKinnon the starter of this team. He's already, even with his limited work last week, he's 10% of the targets for.

San Francisco. My name is Jeff Wilson. May get the goal line carries. Look, they're going to be both going to be used. But I expect McKinnon will continue to be used in the passing game. And he has shown that he still has that electric ability that he had. I feel slighted here by you saying that this is some deeper. You're going, Andy, you're going super deep. I wanted to have this be my pick, but you already had him. I'm much more confident in Derek McKinnon than you two are.

I definitely think he takes it up to 100 this week. Are you saying that when I'm proclaiming McKinnon, we'll take it up to 100? You're saying I'm not confident? I'm starting him in most formats. I do not think that he will get the work that everybody else thinks. But I've said that already. So I was going to ask you if you'd prefer Singletarian McKinnon, but I already know the answer. Take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Pick yours up today. And check out next Tuesday's episode to hear how our up to 100 picks.

fared? Hopefully a little better than my last two. News and notes from around the league. All right. Justin Herbert is going to start week three against the Panthers. I view that as good news for Austin Eccler. I do. And the offense. All players. And Alan. Yeah. This was humongous news. The beat goes on for Philadelphia and wide receivers. What is in their water?

What is going on up there? I don't know. Jalen Rager suffered a torn UCL in his thumb. It's a long-term injury, guys. Yeah. Six to eight weeks. I will throw this out there as a fantasy recommendation. Alshon Jeffrey is going to be back pretty soon. Oh, I like it. If you want to pick him up, you can put him on your IR. You can put him, you know, basically as long as you maneuver that spot, he'll be free. And...

They don't have anybody right now. I actually think, like, Deshaun Jackson is a pretty good play this week. He really is. I know that people are disappointed with what's happened, especially because of week one. But Deshaun Jackson is a good play right now, as is, you know, people were disappointed with Dallas Goddard this last week. Dallas Goddard will be involved, and without Jalen Rager, both Ertz and Goddard will get enough targets to be relevant. I would. If I had to start Goddard last week, I am not pivoting off him this week because he had a bad game.

Yeah, he still was fairly targeted in that game, wasn't he? Yeah, it just didn't turn into fantasy points. I saw, I don't remember who tweeted it. Somebody broke down Carson Wentz's first quarter to the rest of the season. And the contrast, he had that when I tweeted that he was having a great game, he was, you know, 120 plus pass rating, amazing first quarter. And from every quarter on, he's been, he's arguably the worst quarterback in football. I don't know if you guys saw, but the official NFL research Twitter put,

Carson Wentz on blast. I saw it. And they just basically showed how bad he's been on his accuracy at all levels. And when you get out of the layup throws, he's been horrendous. Yeah. The hope with Deshaun Jackson this week with No Jalen Rager is you're not going to be splitting the deep targets. They could hit on one of those big plays. And you can have that game we are expecting from DJX in week one or week two. But.

The office doesn't give you a lot of confidence right now in the way Carson Wins is playing. I'm sorry, Carson. Miles Sanders, please. So looking at a number of names, players that didn't practice on Wednesday, there are a lot of players that don't practice every week on a Wednesday, whether it's Veterans Days Off or Monday Night Football Days Off. But I think a couple notable ones. The Zach Moss one was notable to me in terms of him missing some time. That's a new injury we hadn't really heard about.

Jack Doyle is still not practicing, so we could see if Moe Alley Cox is a thing again this week. Will he be a thing again? Get out of here with that doubt. We still haven't seen A.J. Brown practice. So if you're hopeful he returns, we need to see him on the practice field. We did see Kinney Gulliday come back to a limited practice. If you are wanting to be confident in playing Gulliday, you're going to want to see a full practice by Friday. But we'll keep you up to date either on tomorrow's show or in the Injury Blitz podcast.

Jerry Judy, he's got a rib injury. He missed practice or was limited. Maybe worth noting. I would expect him to play. He did come back into the game after suffering the injury. Just don't. Don't give him an injection into those ribs. Oh, my goodness. DJ Chark, what's the latest for Thursday night football? So DJ Chark has basically missed practice the entire week and with a game on a Thursday night. That's not optimal.

However, the news this morning trending upward for, it's a great matchup. This is an incredible matchup here for Gardner and all of his weapons at the wide receiver position against the Miami Dolphins. I don't think I'm playing chart, like trending upward. Really? That was going to be my question. So you're feeling like I, this year I have kind of taken the approach of when guys are super limited.

I'm just not playing them. Now, like Devante Parker, it didn't work out. Parker came out and he had a pretty good game if you had benched him because you were worried about the injury. It feels bad. But I think you, at this point, there are other options that you've grabbed off the waiver wire. Maybe you secured someone like Robbie Anderson on your bench off of the waiver wire. So I would look for those options. I'm not. Keeling Cole in the same game.