Week 2 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Spicy Toes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/15

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and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's Waver Day. Tuesday, September 15th, Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. We're the fantasy footballers back and getting you ready for week two. Watched a little bit of football over the last four days. It was wild last night as I'm in the third quarter of game one.

And then that, oh, wow, there is another game on after this. That's spectacular. And a nice IV bag set up. It was just dripping football. Oh, I thought you meant you literally had an IV bag to get you through. Two arms. So one was football. The other was just a healthy saline like a banana bag. You know you couldn't handle the needle. Oh, I could never. I could never. Get away from me, doctor. Tell my family I love them. Jason has a few quirks like that.

You said you could never get LASIC because your eyes, you don't like people touching your eyes. Yeah, that's hard. How do you feel about lasers, though, touching your eyes? I think lasers are cool when they're not shot into my skull. What would you do if there was like a spider carrying around needles? Oh, man.

Oh, yeah, because you don't like spiders. Mike's just bringing your horrors to the forefront. My two horrors. No, you're right. My two horrors are basically needles and spiders. So if those things were together... So if like one had a hypodermic needle just...

taped to its back. It's just running around. I don't think that would scare me more. Mike is really working on this like nightmare for you. Maybe I would just, maybe I would just have a heart attack. But you've always wanted, you've, you've been a proponent of general anesthesia for all sorts of things. I mean, any medical procedure of any kind, like a normal vaccine, you're probably under general. 100% if it's allowed, if there is a medical group that will allow it, whatever it is. You want to give me.

An IV, please give me, just knock me out first. General. Yes, sir, we're just putting a Band-Aid on. Gas mask immediately. He's got nitrous. I brought my own. I don't know how we got here. All right, we have a jam-packed waiver show today where we will attempt to appropriately react to week one, not under react, not overreact, just plain old react. The baby bear. And we saw.

I mean, what was your reaction to the games last night? We had a couple of interesting matchups. We had Steven Goskowski as the saddest man in town, although could have been sadder. Yeah, no, he turned it around. Last night was wild because there were really big fantasy football things that happened, like really, really big. Starting with the Pittsburgh Steelers game, James Connor.

Comes in. James Connor was, he started off. I've got all sorts of drops for him. Yeah, I could go. I figured you do. We could go there. James Connor started the game as the bell cow, a very inefficient bell cow with his six carries, only nine yards on the ground. But he tweaked his ankle, seemingly. Slash ego. Well, seemingly immediately, and he went off to the side.

and nothing was really being reported on it, which was interesting because you know, you always get the update right away. And I believe it's actual NFL protocol. They have to report something. But it was, it really felt like Mike Tom was like, seriously, man? Seriously. I spent this whole offseason defending you saying that you're going to be the leader of this running back team. And this is what happens. And I don't doubt at all that.

James Connor actually hurt his, he tweaked his ankle to the point where he needed to go off to the side for a little bit. But Benny Snell came in. Benny Snell looked like a transformed running back compared to last year. He looked very good. And that's just, that's a confirmation of everything we'd heard at a camp that all the beat reporters saying, Benny Snell looks really good as the backup. So how are you guys reacting to?

the Benny Snell James Connor situation. Andy, you're the one. You drafted James Connor. You were letting... For the first time in my whole life. I mean, I... You've been anti-Connor forever. Because of this. Now, let me say this. If someone out there is going, what? Andy drafted James Connor. I drafted Benny Snell, too. Yeah. So I'm not a complete psychopath. But, uh...

I want clarity. Like if I have a request for this week, I just want some sort of clarity because what I believe will happen, what I tweeted last night, and I don't know anything about an injury report for James Connor. So when you listen to this, I could already be wrong because something could have come out. What I think is going to happen is that this game was well enough in control. Tomlin was frustrated enough and Benny Snell was effective enough.

that Connor didn't need to reenter this game. I don't know if the injury is much of anything. The only report I have from Schefter is that it's not much of anything. Yeah, the quote was, optimistic for a timely return. Whatever that means. Obviously, Snell's going to be in the waiver part of this show. He needs to be added. But what I'm worried will happen is that he'll just start next week. Connor will just start next week. Snell might take a little bit more work from him. Connor could get hurt again because he pencils it in for...

anytime between quarter one and quarter four of a national football league game. That's my worry, Jason. Yeah, no, I echo those things. I think every fantasy owner will have a hard time deciding what to do. I assume Connor will be healthy for next week and you go, okay, do I play him? And I wouldn't be shocked. I mean, the way that they just sat him and moved on and said, okay, Snell's our guy, would you guys be shocked if James Connor is active and healthy next week and Benny Snell is the starter?

I would be shocked if he was... Yeah, I would be shocked. You would be? I think I would be surprised. I would not be, but not a full shock. What stinks for the Benny Snell experience, Jalen Samuels, the other running back on this team, he was brought in when it was like... Every third down. When it was a passing situation, Benny Snell had one target, zero receptions. So if, let's say they move forward with Benny Snell, the best part of the Pittsburgh Steelers running back was he...

Got a whole bunch of targets on top of all the running, the carries on the ground. So that remains to be seen. That's still another part of the mystery. That's why Connor was more valuable as he was a three down back. And a week ago, Tomlin said, Belkow, James Connor, but he didn't look good in the limited work he got. He reminded me of the David Johnson we saw last year, right? Uncertain, hesitant.

Didn't look fast. Now, to be scared, to be fair to James Connor, the entire Steelers offense looked really rusty to start that game with Big Ben. The other story on the Steelers side is you are not going to want to play your running backs against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Holy crap, Sequin Barclay. What did he end with? We have 15 carries for six yards. My man, Barclay.

was chilling in negative yards for like 75. He had no chance. For those, yes. I mean, he had no chance. They were in the backfield every time he took a handoff. And there wasn't just one guy taking down Barkley. It was the handoff goes off. And there are four Pittsburgh Steelers defenders inside or like now on the other side of the field. Is it Melvin Gordon that gets to experience this next week? Oh, good luck, Melvin. Melvin Gordon will be on your bench. Man, Steelers defense next week with a pass happy Drew luck.

Yeah. Might be interesting. We did get to see a competitive close game there in Tennessee. Before we moved to Tennessee, what did you guys think of Daniel Jones? Besides the... I know how to take. Daniel Jones had two boneheaded mistakes that only a rookie quarterback should be making. But with that, you saw some really good throws. I mean, he ended up with 279 passing yards, two passing touchdowns.

against this Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Daniel Jones is going to be the James Winston of this season. That sounds good for fantasy. Exactly. I walked away from this game going garbage time, Daniel Jones, and company is going to produce a ton of fantasy points this year. This defense isn't going to stop people, not enough to put them in this position where, you know, Daniel Jones isn't winging it.

Yeah, that's enough. I mean, he'll be chucking it. Yeah, and I think that that is good news for Darius Slayton. Yeah, if you, that was a very fun conversation this entire off season, which Giants wide receiver are you in on? Through week one, if you win in on Darius Slayton, you look like the big winner right now. I don't remember who tweeted it, so I can't give them credit, but somebody mentioned, like, Darius Slateon has scored two touchdowns in four of his first, like, 16 NFL games.

and I think he has two across all the rest. So he's had these monster games, but he was impressive. Juju Smith-Schuster, two touchdowns on six-for-six in terms of targets, receptions, and Deonté Johnson. Basically, Juju and Deontay Johnson received the majority of all the targets. We did not see Eric Ebron break out in this offense, only one catch. James Washington, just two catches. Chase Claypool, two big catches. Oh, he looked great.

But the targets all went Juju and Deonti Johnson's way. So those seem like the two that you can look to for the future. With Juju's big game, the fact that he had the two touchdowns, more yardage. And it was kind of a mild game for Deontay Johnson. I would go try to make a trade offer for Deontay Johnson. Watching the game, I thought he. Ten targets. He looked great. And they started getting a rhythm later in the game. I think that people might be disappointed with this.

and you could hopefully scoop them up for cheap. Yeah, or he's sitting on, you know, a waiver wire after Waver Day goes because somebody's making a pivot to somebody like Corey Davis. Tennessee ended up with Corey Davis, eight target, seven receptions, 101 yards. I have a new classification for week one. It's DCY. Okay. Don't care yet. Oh, okay. It's my don't care yet policy. And with Corey Davis,

It's a DCY. I don't think 43 passing attempts was not part of the recipe for Tennessee. No, it was not. But it was nice to see Corey Davis do something. And I believe Devante Parker has condemned the fantasy football community into believing anybody that has stunk having a good game is the next Devante Parker. Is Corey Davis the next Devante Parker, Mike? I will. I mean, he'll be in the waivers. I would be.

adding Corey Davis and putting him on my bench just in case. I mean, if we were sitting here last year, I think Parker had a bad week one off the top of my head. But then Parker started to put together some games. And it was, well, you know, is Devante Parker. He's on a trash offense. And if you didn't add Devante Parker, then you really missed out. So he will be worth sticking on your bench. But I'm not like going to break the fab bank or anything like that.

All right, Jerry Judy, eight targets, four catches, 56 yards. Noah Fant, six targets, five receptions, 81 yards. Yeah. And a touchdown. He looked great, explosive that had some designed plays for him. I don't know if this is just because Cortland Sutton is gone. But, you know, you can also argue that Cortland Sutton helps open things up for him, helps the offense stay on the field. I really like Noah fan going forward if he's on waivers.