Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 1 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Injury Tears

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, come aboard. Choochoo! Welcome. One and all. I know it's been a bumpy flight. We made it. But we made it. I'm going to stick with that analogy here because the whole offseason, you've been packing your bags. You headed to the airport. You got yourself your window seat. You strapped in. And for some of you,

Now, some of you had Kareem Hunt, and the takeoff was beautiful. But for others. The Kareem Hunt owners, you're at the hotel. Your shoes are off. You've already made. You've landed. You've made balls with your feet on the rug. You have finished your room service. It's outside your door. But for many of you, many, many, many of you, there is some turbulence that took place on the ascension, on the takeoff. And we are, we're going to do our best to be the Xanax.

For your flight right now. Try to bring some sanity and some stress relief to what's going on. It has been an incredible team altering at times crazy week one. It really has. It's so funny to look at Twitter and you have so many people incredibly happy. And they're like, I can't this is the best I've ever started. And then you have the other people that.

deal with, you know, that's the thing in fantasy. It's fantasy football. Half of you are going to win this week and half of you are going to lose. The math adds up. It's going to be 50-50. Now, I'm going to start off because I was hoping that we could get this stat and Jason looked it up beforehand because I think we all recognize, look, especially halfway through the morning, you were looking at your matchups and you were looking at these games and you saw just no points scored. I mean, big, big time players left Bell.

Just low scoring games. Jason, illustrate for the people exactly what we saw, the difference between this week and last, I'm sorry, this year and last year. Yeah, I was really curious. So I just, you know, looked up how many passing touchdowns were, you know, week one last year versus this year. Now, we still have two games to go tonight, and there was the canceled game because of the hurricane. So last year, you had 48 passing touchdowns week one. This year.

29. And then rushing touchdowns, you had 25 last year to 15 this year. That's the difference. I mean, you're talking about this huge. Yeah, 73 versus 44 touchdowns offensive. I mean, this year, week one was an epic pooped in their big boy pants. I think like week one is is now personified with pants on and he's dying. And out of those 44 touchdowns, I believe 22 were.

the Chiefs on Thursday night. Yes. And so, Kareem Hunt did everything he could. You're right. You posted on Twitter. You said, look, if everybody poops in their big boy pants, does anybody poop in their big boy pants? If you got them on your roster, you know they did. So we're going to go, look, that's what today's show is. It's the rewind. We're going to go through the stud muffins, the duds. We're going to try to sort out which.

breakout players to buy into, which breakout players to ignore. Which busts to target? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And look, let's start it off. That's the quick question. By the way, you can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Follow us all year long. We're a five-day-a-week show. If you're joining us for the first time, keep it right here all season long. I was going to say hello if you've just joining us for the first time. Hello, greetings. I'm just simply trying to survive the potential tilt that a David Johnson injury will bring you.

I'm going to illustrate my situation because it's going to mirror a lot of yours and we'll decide. These guys will tell me what to do because I don't know what to do. All right, quick question of the day. How are you doing, Brooks? I'm great. That's not the question of the day. All right, which week one bust are you trying to trade for right now? Which week one bust are you looking to make a move on in week two?

I'm going to start right at the top. The tip top, I'm going to go. The tippy, tippy top. You got to go make a move for Lev Bell because half of the owners out there will go, no, I'm not trading Lev Bell. He just had a bad week. But the other half of the owners are full tilting and they're worried that something bad has happened and Lev Bell's not going to be Lev Bell. And he'll, I mean.

That's just how, you know, fantasy football goes. Yeah, our listeners are not tilting. Yes. Do not tilt. Do not trade away Love Bell right now because you're going to be getting the least that you can get for that. Oh, it's lunacy to trade Love Bell. Would you make the move?

I know what you can say. Yeah, you're going to say, Karim Hunt for Lev. Of course. Give me Lev Bell 100%. Just verified. Yeah, don't be, don't be crazy. Now, could that work out to be bad? You know, we don't know the future, sure, but you have to go based on history and logic. And logic and history. Take the Xanax. Right. And Lev Bell. I'm going to say, let's make a move on any of the elite tight-in options that poop the bed, which is every elite tight-end option.

Rob Grancowski, Jordan Reed, Greg Olson, Travis Kelsey, Tyler Eifert, Jimmy Graham. How dare you leave my guy out? Zacherts is an elite tight end. But you keep... That's not the... He didn't poop his pants. I know. He said every elite tight end. He was not drafted to be an elite tight end. He should have. We all agree he is one. And he was my start of the week. Thank you very much. Yeah. But look, look, the big situation here I would look at is somebody like Charles Clay.

Zach Ertz's elite week one wasn't touchdown dependent. I love Charles Clay. And if you got him late, you don't need to feel the need to trade him. But he's not scoring 16 touchdowns. He's not going to score a touchdown every week. And this offense played the Jets. So if I could move Charles Clay in a piece to get one of the six elite tight-ins that pooped the bed this week, I'd be all over that. All right. The guy that I am targeting. We have a conflict of interest here.

That's the wrong phrase. It's a disagreement. Conflict of opinion. I almost went with this guy, so I can tell you I'm on your side, Mike. I'm targeting Des Bryant. And I know the final stat line was rough for Des Bryant. You look at the amount of points you got and you're like, this is absolute trash. He was targeted four times, four times in the end zone. And I'm talking one of them.

was a slant route, and he was wide open. Wide open, just overthrown. Dak sailed it. If you watched the beginning of that, or if you watched the whole game, Dak was a little shaky to start the game. The first quarter, he was overthrowing everything. He was nervous. Yes, and then the nerves settled down, and we saw, oh, Dak Prescott is still a very good quarterback, and he just missed Des Bryant late in the game on a bomb touchdown. The thing that I liked about it was,

It was, I believe it was first and goal on the five. Granted, remember, Zika Elliott got to play this week. They went three straight passes. And two of those targets were to Des Bryant. My point is just they're going to be far more willing this year to hyper target, aggressively target, Des Bryant, especially in the end zone and not just say, okay, we got a rookie quarterback. Everything has to run through the running game.

So I just, I think that Des Bryant is a great person. The nice thing about targeting Des is he should be super cheap because going into the years falling in drafts, people worried, people worried about matchups, things like that. And now you have them completely lay an egg. And I'm going to jump in because you guys are on that side of the pendulum. I'm weary. I'm not sure. I've been the one that said, look, the rapport between you can't just infuse.

the rapport of Romo Des Super Years to Dak Prescott. If you target him now, you're going to be disappointed again next week. He plays Denver. So you're going to listen to this and go get him, and he's going to struggle again. And he has tough matchups all year long. So if the price is right, I get it. He's a superior athlete. The target's in the end zone. You've got to love him. Nobody thinks that, I mean, we disagree on the show all the time. But that doesn't mean I think Jordan Matthews can't catch the ball ever.

or Jeremy Macklin can't catch the ball ever. It's a matter of the longevity of the season, and I am still unsure of Des as a top 10 wide receiver. And that's fine. The thing last year, Des still had tough matchups, but he was dominant. When he was held down was Jenkins, was Janoris Jenkins and the New York Giants, and yes, stat line he was held down, but play-wise, he was open. It was just a couple of barely...

just missed passes that, I mean, Des, you're talking, if the ball is just placed slightly better, he would have had a monster game. And that's, it's opportunity. Opportunity combined with an elite wide receiver. What was this total targets in the game? Do you have that number? I can pull that up. Was it 10 or more? I do agree with Andy that it's going to be a rough week too.

But that's where it's just a matter of the price. Well, week three is Arizona and Patrick Peterson. And this is the story that's going to keep happening. Nine targets. I think if you get him cheap enough, it's worth having. I mean, you're telling me you wouldn't want, even against Denver that you wouldn't want as like a flex type option. I think you can get him on the super cheap. Well, but the price may go down in the next two weeks. Don't you agree with that? It should. It should. All right. Nine targets you said? Yes. All right. Let's get into the news. Weekly rewind.

Are we going to walk through some of the injury news? I do want to remind you that you can find our fantasy football community at join the foot.com. There are thousands of listeners of this show willing to basically help you out with those start sick questions, talk about trades, talk about waivers, DFS. The whole community is over there at Jointhefoot.com. We'd love to have you aboard. Lots of perks, benefits, extra show every week. Alan Robinson's done for the year, 20.m. Oh, man.

That stinks. Yeah, Alan Robbins. Who steps into a relevant fantasy role? Because right now I looked, based on that week, like Alan Hearns, is the guy that, you know, he outproduced Marquis Lee significantly. But I believe it's Dante Fowler. The defensive vans. Yes. Yes. He is the one who steps on. I have no doubt that if Bortles could throw it to a defensive player, he would prefer it. Oh, he does. The defense looked fantastic, but.