Week 3 Buy or Sell + Trending or Ending, Beard vs Mustache - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/23

New York football team, the Giants, they signed Devante Freeman to a one-year contract worth up to $3 million. So, though this is the word out from Devante Freeman's agent, he passed up more money elsewhere because he did work out with the Eagles for the opportunity in front of him in New York. Now, I thought he'd get more money than this. So this actually throws a little bit of shade on my view that Freeman will

walk in the door and take all the work from day one. I thought this deal would be $4 or $5 million, more guaranteed. He will practice with the team. He passed the COVID test, and he's going to practice and potentially play this week. But you're going to have Dionne Lewis involved. You're going to have potentially Wayne Galman involved. He is a hold on my bench right now. Yeah, if you have the opportunity to hold, wait, and see.

I think that's the preference. A lot of people that are picking up Devons of Freeman and lost a running back or two and need to start him. I do expect that he'll come in and be the primary ball carrier week one. You know, if I had to say which one of these running backs from the Giants has the most fantasy points this week, I think we would all put it on Freeman. We would not. We would not. Okay, we would not. I would put it on Dionne Lewis in week one. I think it's probably irrelevant. Whoever it is is.

someone I don't really want in my lineup. I can agree with that. And I agree that I thought he was going to get $5 million. So up to $3 million was this is not a situation where they're saying save us. We're putting our hopes in you. Here's all the money. What's funny to me, you know, just trying to look in back of the history of what has happened with Freeman over the course of this offseason. We was, he was reportedly offered like what, four?

from Seattle? Correct. You think somebody has some regrets that he did not take that on a good team? And now, I get it for Freeman. You believe this is your best opportunity for touches. This is not your best opportunity to impress another NFL team that you have a job next year. See, I think it is. I think that's why he's doing it. I believe that's why he's doing it. I see what you mean. You just mean the team. But I'm saying, I watched San Juan Barkley. Right.

In week one, you have absolutely zero chance. It was like they were a JV team playing an NFL team. There was nothing he could do. And if the receiving work doesn't go to Freeman, it goes to Dionne Lewis. Good luck, Freeman. I see what you're saying. Best of luck, man. Better 10 carries behind a good offensive line than 20 against behind a bad one. Exactly. Sterling Shepherd on IRF, turf toe. That stinks. I think Kevin Ingram will have a.

A pretty good shot here. They're not going to be able to run like they expected to. They're certainly going to be down in a lot of games. Ingram, Slayton, Golden Tate. Golden Tate, a little sneaky snart. We're getting to the part of the schedule where it opens up for the Giants and Daniel Jones. We knew that the beginning was going to be rough. Soon, but not yet. Yes, the 49ers are pretty banged up. Their defense is rough right now. Devonte Adams is considered uncertain for week three against...

What is this? Why is this verbiage? It's a new injury designation. Uncertain. I think this is just them saying we don't want, we want to utilize the fact that he had a hamstring issue to say maybe you should plan for without it. If you're the Devante Adams manager, you need to pick up MBS and hold him as the last minute pivot because it's a Sunday night football game. Yep. I agree.

Dirk Cutter says he believes there's more to the Julio Jones hamstring injury than he let on. It's like a transformer. More than meets the eye. It's just more of a Decepticon situation. What do you think here? Russell Gage, Haydenhurst, the beneficiaries of Julio has to sit? Russell Gage, I would say, would be the number one beneficiary. Obviously, Ridley's been awesome. But, yeah, I think it would help.

Obviously, everyone else. Julio commands a lot of targets that would go to other players. Okay. Deonté Johnson, lingering toe injury. He's fine. All right. A.J. Brown, noncommittal for week three. If he's in there, are you playing him because of this? If he's in that situation. So good. I think if he's in, he plays. I have A.J. Brown in our League of Record team. I've been following this news closely, listening to the wide receiver coach.

I do not believe he plays this week. I think they're going to give him this week off. They're only playing a football team and have him heal up for the long stretch of the season. Your matchup with the football team is when you have a chance to rest. Justin Herbert likely to start week three could be Tyrant. I've seen Tyrod projected by the majority of platforms right now, but okay. We'll see. Does it change? Depending on who's starting, does it change whether you start?

Henry or Allen or Mike Williams? It changes the order of which players I prefer. I would put Keenan Allen ahead if Justin Herbert is there. I would bump up Austin Echler if Justin Herbert is the quarterback. But I don't think it actually changes whether I would start a player or not. I'm not. Like Mike Williams, it doesn't change if you'd be willing to flex him or not, if it's Tyrod.

Yeah, I guess I don't want to start him with Herbert. Yeah. Before we move into the trending or ending segment, I want to thank today's sponsor, Simply Safe, the Simply Save security. This is what we have in the office here, keeping all of our goodies. Keeping Jason out after hours. Why won't you give me the code? It's too dangerous. Because Simply Save is.

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slash footballers. We also encourage you to check out join thefoot.com or fantasy football community become a part of that incredible group of human beings. This is insane. Adam Schifter just tweeted this. Tyrod Taylor. No way. The Chargers team doctor accidentally punctured his lung before kickoff. Holy crap. While trying to administer a pain-killing injection. Bro, what?

That's not okay. Well, certainly not, Mike. I'm just saying like, I don't think he did it on purpose. Well, I get that. Nor will he have the opportunity to do it again. The repercussions for this are massive. If that is, oh, man. You got to feel terrible for Tyrod Taylor. Yes. We thought this, I mean, to be honest, the first impression, Tyrod's been through this before. Every single person thought.

Oh, wink, wink injury. Right. They're moving on to the rookie, and this was it. And Tyrod had his lung puncture. My first thought was I'll bet Herbert took first team reps this week, and they knew all along. And they didn't want to say who their starting quarterback was. And then, no, this is just a terrible real life situation. Yeah. Wow. Hope you feel better, Tyrod. Yeah. Very soon. All right. Let's, I thought it'd be nice to do some trending or ending today. We've got two weeks of the NFL season.

That's enough to draw all conclusions, right? Of course. Let's do it. Trending or ending. All right. So we're going to walk through some good and some bad in terms of trending or ending. You guys make your predictions. Let's start with T.Y. Hilton. Through two weeks, the T.Y. Hilton plus Philip Rivers, it's not been good. No.

He was the wide receiver 50 in week one. He was the wide receiver 93 in week two. He dropped a 50-yard touchdown pass that we all watched right before the show today. It's more like a Motel 6 experience than a Hilton. Am I right? Yep, nope, you're right. Look, you got to bust out the hotel jokes. Yep, you do. Whatever you got a chance. You don't get a lot of them, but that was a good one. All right, week three, week four, New York, Chicago.

timing seems a little off. Rivers threw an interception his way. He dropped a touchdown. I saw another drop, you know, watching every one of his plays this year. I think it's an ending situation. That's how I'm going to weigh in. And not, that is not the same as saying to you, I Hilton is going to be a top 12 wide receiver. I don't believe he will be, just with what Philip Rivers is now. But I think Hilton is better than these numbers. The opportunities were there. If he catches that.

Touchdown pass, everything changes. That's a 50-yard touchdown pass. All of a sudden, he's a top 24 wide receiver. So I'll go with ending. I'm also going to take the ending. We're only two weeks in, so the data is very limited. And with the Colts, you basically have to throw out week two against the Vikings what happened. You saw only five targets for T.Y. Hilton, and he was in on 58% of snaps. This game was over before it really started. And I'm looking more to week one.

They played Jacksonville. He had the nine targets, was in on 90% of the snaps. Didn't get the output that you were hoping for. But this is, if I have to call for one, I'm going to say ending. And I think that T.Y. Hilton will bounce back and still be a very, like a very solid top, top 24 type of a guy. Would you go try to acquire him? Yes, I would try and trade for him. I do think he's a good, buy, low candidate. I see him.

as my preseason ranking was, which was low for T.Y. Hilton, for, you know, oh, he's been this top 15 wide receiver. I had him in the lower 20s. I think he was a back-end wide receiver two or a high-end wide receiver three. I still believe that's what he is. Not an elite player, but not what we've seen these first two weeks. He will be much better than that over the course of the season. And yeah, I mean, right now, T.Y. Hilton managers have to be.

looking to offer. They're going through waivers going, oh, man, do I drop him if they didn't watch the game? If they didn't see the 50-yard touchdown that was dropped right in his lap and whoops. So, yeah, I would acquire him and I think he'll be better. So I unanimously agree this one is going to end. He will not be as bad as he's been. I had Will Fuller and Tiwi Hilton as my starters in our Dynasty League. And that was a...

suboptimal situation. Mike and I this last week had in two different leagues the stellar combo of Julio Jones and Devante Adams. Oh, no, no, it was the trilogy because Alan Robinson was also in there. Oh my. Yeah, that's right. Let me ask you this before we move on to another player here in trending or ending. Would you rather have A.J. Green or T.Y. Hilton for rest of season. Oh, that's a fantastic question. I would take the chance on.

I take the chance on that AJ Green volume. It's been absolutely outrageous. They just haven't connected. Did you know, Jason, that AJ Green is number one in the NFL and air yards through two weeks? Well, I believe it. But the air yards are extra. Like when you go and you look at his air yards, he gets like five extra air yards. Because he has the overthrow. Yes. I'm still going to take the better quarterback here, though. So I'll take AJ Green.

Oh, AJ Green is my answer as well. Any chance to take a shot at P. River, I'll do it. Yes, you will. And he kind of deserves it right now. So let's go to another player here. Josh Allen. Oh, the stallion. Excellent. Yes. He has been the quarterback three. Both weeks. Both weeks. He's been the quarterback three. Now it's the Jets and Miami, a very nice start to the year. This is why Josh Allen was on.

the short list for all of our fantasy drafts because we knew you want to get off to a hot start? We didn't know it would be this hot. And you didn't know it would be 300 passing yards, 400 passing yards. That's not what you were drafting out. Well, I knew, Mike. I am. Well, if you knew it was going to jump up to that level. I should have told somebody. You should have shared that information. No, I didn't know he was going to do what he's done. But Safon Diggs, that...

If you're looking at trending or ending, Stefan Diggs is one of the reasons why you could buy into trending because you have a, it's more than an anomaly, right? He's had big games before, although last year he really struggled to give you the big time weeks. Two years ago as a rookie, the big weeks came because of the rushing yardage. Last year, he was a much more solid quarterback, but not premier type of fantasy finishes. This year, you start the year with two week-winning type of performances.