Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 3 Breakdown, Trade Techniques - Podcast for 9/18

I just, I don't, I don't think that Diggs is going to get the type of targets that matter for fantasy. Like that, that's my only issue. He's going to get the four for 32 targets. Exactly. Yeah. And that, that might be true. I just, I guess I'm a little scared of getting shut out on the other guys, but I guess you can go booty. Yeah. I mean, booty to me is still a good. Speaking of booty. Sorry, Jason. I noticed that you have a different trophy over by you on the desk. Back to me from my. What trophy is that, Jason?

For the audio listeners. It's a little potty, a little toilet. You may notice that the show came out a little bit later than you. Yeah. About 10 minutes. 10 minutes late. Some tummy issues. It's just Kayshawn reminded me. Toilet booty trophy. And Jason sat down and he saw the trophy in front of his spot. We were all sitting here waiting to start. And what did you say? You said. I can't repeat what I said. Oh, that's true. That's true. You were, you just realized that it was, it was, um, it was a legitimate awarding of the trophy. Fully legitimate. I delayed the show due to do key.

So, sorry, Fuckland. Oh, that's a long drop. Perfection. Sorry. I might have cut you off when you said booty. Booty, to me, if I was going to start a wide receiver for the Patriots, it would definitely still be booty. Because wide receivers go back and forth. Unless you're a super duper star, you have dud games. Thankfully, booty got a touchdown last week. But let's go back to rookie year, uh, with Drake May. The second half of, of last year, booty was his number one target. You come out week one, he's the number one target. He gets a touchdown in week two.

Disappointing that he wasn't targeted as much, but he is a up and coming, much better athlete than current Stefan Diggs. All right. You've sold me. I'm back to booty. All right. Which by the way, I've, I've seen a couple of people say, Hey, you're not saying his name, right? It's bootay. No, it isn't. It's booty. You can go listen to him. Tell people to, he's like, I don't know where bootay came from, but it's booty. It's probably from the way he spells his name. Both are great. Yeah. I mean, if I were reading it, I would say bootay. Yeah. When, when someone says the way you spell your name, do you, it feels like they're the one

that decided it, but they didn't really decide that. No. You can't say I'm Jason Moore because I've got two O's in the name. I mean, you can. You can, I guess you can change it. I'm just saying you didn't decide how to spell your name. You woke, you woke up. I woke up. You woke up and that's how it was. That's right. Los Angeles. They call that the big wake up. The big wake up. Yeah. All right. The Rams two and O the Eagles two and O. Okay. Here we go. Games in Philadelphia. Jason just waved his hand. Vegas line.

Philly minus three and a half over under 44 and a half. He's, he's like two good quarterbacks, four great wide receivers, two good running backs, amazing offenses. Like I've, I've got starting all of the players. I've got the under on this game. Oh, okay. So much. And I'm just curious how you guys see. I see it the same way. Because I feel like I have too many contracts on, um, that not having offense here. So I just want to know what you guys feel about this game. Asking for a friend. Yeah. I don't, I think I see it that way.

The biggest question mark in this game is what's weird about it is Philly's favorite, right? They have the higher implied point total, 24 to 20. Philly's two and O. They're at home. And yet I want the Rams wide receivers and not the Philly wide receivers. Why is that? Because the Eagles aren't throwing the ball. The Eagles, when they throw the ball are not throwing it down the field. Did Puka get to a hundred last week? Oh man. Ninety one. Can you count the rushing yards? Cause I know. I, well, I remember I, what was it? 11 times. I need them to hit a hundred yards.

Uh-huh. It's only one for two so far, man. You know, I feel like you can count. You cannot count it. Really? No. With the 45 yards. He had 134 yards. If you. I will count it in the end. I'll be like, yeah, but I kind of got it. Yeah. I'll do that later. If he's one short, I'll allow it. But you gotta, you would. That's on Andy. Andy should have said total yards from scrimmage. Now, I'll be honest. I'm not, I don't remember that he said receiving yards. He might've just said yards. Hmm. Okay. Well, check the tape. Kyle. We actually burn the tape after every show.

So we. Thank goodness. We, uh, we scrub it all and then we just blur it out on YouTube and it's indistinguishable language. So you don't know what we said. I. Puka. There's no world where you don't start. No. And 13 targets for Adams. You have to start Adams. The question. The discussion is really the guys on the Eagle side. Jason, you have AJ Brown. I am. You're probably forced into playing him, but. Yeah. I have, I have shotgunned 800,000 trades. The problem is. If you had Debo right now or an AJ Brown, would you play Debo or would you play AJ Brown?

Against the Cardinals. I'd, I feel like I'd probably go Debo. Tough questions. Um. I feel like Jacoby's just such a good baseline of. Because Jacoby is safe. He will give you yards. He has a little bit of ceiling. Would you play Jacoby or would you just stick with the self-hatred and play AJ Brown? I think. That's AJ Brown. So. Yeah. I mean. AJ Brown will live with the consequences. Part of it is. He's so good. Is matchup. Like if I'm favored and I just need a floor, then I do think Jacoby Myers might be safe. You, you, you gotta, you gotta play AJ Brown there.

You gotta play AJ Brown. I think you do. Now, uh, Caleb, or Caleb, um, Kyle dug up the, uh, the prediction. Oh, okay. Matt Stafford stays healthy for 17. Puka becomes the first player in NFL history with 12 or more. 100 yard games. Okay. He had a 100 yard game. So you're two for two. All right. We're good there. Uh, yeah. The, uh, I think you're two weeks in. You gotta play your wide receivers for Philly and you just gotta hope it gets a little bit better and the game's more competitive. And you know, Matthew Stafford could put up some points and if they're good, Jason's going

to be wrong on his under. That's the truth. Yeah. I think you're going to be definitely wrong on if AJ Brown and Devante Smith have good games, you'll be wrong there. But Kyron is another question this week. Kyron is going to be splitting 65 35 with Blake Corum, which I am fine with that in a normal week. But against the Eagles, this is a matchup where like Jalen Warren, I feel like I would play Jalen Warren, your start of the week, Mike over. Wow. Kyron. Um, Javante Williams, I would play over him. Jordan Mason. I would play over him. Kyron is a, you know, always, always, always a touchdown.

It's not, it's not like the Rams are going to have it that way too. It's not like the Rams aren't going to score a touchdown and it, and you know, he's got the highest odds of a Ram to score a touchdown, but you have to have it. If he doesn't get a touchdown, you're going to have a very disappointing week this week. Okay. Anything else from this game you guys want to discuss? You paying attention to anything else? Nope. Okay. All right. Um, boy, we have a lot of matchups this week. Let's talk about the Jets. Oh, and two taking on the two and oh, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay minus seven.

The over under is 43 and a half. And that's not a lot. The Jets will have to Rod Taylor at quarterback. Uh, how do you feel about their offense? Not great. So Garrett Wilson, Brees Hall, um, former starts of the week. Garrett Wilson is, uh, he's not a must bench. He'll still like, he won't get the majority of the targets. And I mean, the bucks right now are, they look better against fancy wide receivers, but he, he's still an okay. Ish play. Yeah. I would play Garrett Wilson. I can't imagine that I've got good enough wide receivers. Yeah. Exactly. Like not even have them in my flex.

Garrett Wilson should have enough targets to Rod Taylor can get it done. The question is Brees Hall because the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a multi-year, very impressive run defense. This is not like, oh, so far through two games, it's like, oh, they have continued being what they have been for a long time with Vita Vea. And Brees Hall can break something out, but also he could be stuffed a lot and have a disappointing offense. You know, he was the running back 43 last week. So where do you, where do you slot in Brees? As an RB two, three. Yeah. RB two.

Bucky Irving's averaging 20 opportunities a game right now. Baker Mayfield's a dog. Quarterback 12 and 16 though, the first two weeks. Yeah. And then touchdowns haven't been there. Would you play Brees Hall or Kyron Williams? I'd play Kyron. Kyron. Me too. Yeah. We did get another update on a Bucas expected to practice despite not being there for the media part. Yes. So that's, that's good news. Mike Evans outside the top 40 for two straight weeks. Still on track for a thousand, right? Well, it's not. I mean, no on track for 909. Yeah. Wasn't that our, more yards are coming. Didn't we make a bet on that?

I'm almost positive. We made a bet on Mike Evans and I think we did. And whether this is the drop off year. Yeah. And I'll win that. Well, I mean, they're going to get more players back, not less. So we'll see. Um, that was a really strong pronouncement after two bad weeks. They will, they will force feed him yards. Let's double our bet. First he goes, he's still on pace. Then he goes, no, he's not at all. Then he goes, let's double our bet. Oh man. That is called human nature in its finest as us, as us men. The reason that I think that I'm so confident Mike Evans will get it is not because of how

he's playing or what he's done so far. It's really because of what they did last year at the end. You do know it will stop, right? Yes. I know it will stop. That will be true in your mind all the time forever until it stops. Until he's injured. Yeah. No, it's, I mean, it stopped for Larry Fitzgerald and Heinz Ward and all of the, I mean, Julio Jones and, and Andre Johnson. They'll manufacture it like they did at the end of last year. They care so much. Like the human beings, Bowles and Baker. They can't manufacture it after a certain point.

Well, they're still trying because he was 27% of targets week one, 31% this past week. He's just, it's, he's not getting touchdowns. Godwin's not going to play this week, but he's in consideration for next week. Ibuka should be back out there. And if those guys miss, Kate Otten would be relevant at the tight end position. The Raiders are one-on-one taking on the one-on-one Washington Commanders. The biggest line right here, Washington minus three at home. Over-under is 44 and a half. These are three straight low over-under games. So it's going to be, you know, Dan Quinn, the backwards cap against the youngest old

man in the league. Pete Carroll, 74 years old. Doesn't look it at all. No. But 74. Setting a record there. We talked about Jaden Daniels at the top in the news section about the knee. It is at home. It is against the Raiders and you can play Jaden Daniels regardless of the knee injury if he's active. Let's, let's talk about, are there changes that you'd make if he's not active in terms of Debo, McLaurin, Ertz? McLaurin's out to me if Mariota's playing. Because the manufactured touches, the easy stuff, the close to the line of scrimmage. I think Debo is okay.

But Terry McLaurin has not been good so far. You take a downgrade at quarterback with Debo's involvement. And I don't think I want to play with Terry. Terry McLaurin was the widest year of five last year. But did start the year very slow. His first two weeks last year, despite a five finish, his first two weeks was wide receiver 78 and 53. This year it's 75 and 54. Oh. Almost identical. These trends continue. You know, Mike said the missing the offseason was undefeated. This was what he did to start the year last year. He is at home. I'm probably not going to go too far away from McLaurin in terms of, you know, a desperation

play. Like, I'm not playing Josh Downs over McLaurin. I'd still play Terry. Like, if Terry's someone I'm already playing, then Mariota's not going to scare me off of him. And then we're going to see what the running back room looks like without Austin Eckler, who is getting the majority of the work. There's going to be Bill. There'll be plenty of Bill. But there'll also be some Chris Rodriguez and Jeremy McNichols. We did have a quote from Cliff Kingsbury talking about Bill saying that, you know, the challenge is going to be playing without the ball. Complimented him that every time he touches the ball, good things happen.

No points will be happening during those plays. But pass protection or just running his routes properly is a big deal. Well, he was running back 11 in week one, 64 in week two. We were very afraid of Green Bay in week two, and he did not perform. Only four carries. At home, favored. He'll get lots of opportunities. Where does he fit into your rankings this week? Would you play him over Hampton? Oh, man. I would not. See, I would. I would definitely play him over Hampton. I would not play him over Hampton. I want to see one week of what this shakes out to be because you have McNichols.

He was limited on a Wednesday, but McNichols profiles to take the passing part of Eckler's work. And then there still is that soundbite of the coaches talking about, hey, Chris Rodriguez probably is our goal line guy. And he'll definitely be active this week. Yeah, he will be active. That's what I'm saying. I just want to see it of does Bill get relegated to he's just getting some touches in between the 20s and he's not on the two-minute drill. I'm a little surprised that you guys are not more bullish on Bill or Bill-ish. I can. I like it. I like Bill-ish.

I am. Bill Kowalski. Okay. What do you got? Well, you can win a game of Connect Four in three moves. Okay. All right. So you're just you're all in. I'm just more I'm much more confident. I mean, like you said, you want to see a game and how it shakes out. Well, he did play with Austin Eckler in week one and was a top 12 running back. I feel like we haven't seen one game of Omari and Hampton where he is good for fantasy. So it's like the standard needs to be the same on both sides. And I like the fact that they're home.

I like the fact that he's supposed to be the guy. Chris Rodriguez, quote or not, healthy scratch. I mean, McNichols dealing with the hamstring. I am more Bill-ish. I'm more Bill-ish. All right. McLaurin and Debo. Debo's been good. Zach Ertz, your start of the week, Jason. And we talked about Jaden Daniels on the other side. Ashton Gentey. Keep playing him. I'm trying to trade for him. Yes. That's what I'm trying to do. Exactly. He came out and talked about getting more carries, more touches. They're going to do that. He is so much better than their other options. They will figure it out.

They will give him Lowby out there. I did see Lowby stuff. Yeah. So I'm not worried at all. Gentey is definitely someone you try to trade for. Both of these teams have been good against the run so far in two weeks in for what it's worth. Jacoby Meyer, seventh most targets in the NFL. Brock Bowers, yeah, you play him unless he's out for some reason, which he won't be. But I did not like, I did not bring me joy watching him run around with a brace on. Oh, he's going to be playing with one. It didn't look, I mean, you just don't like it.

I paid up to get him in a chopped league and I immediately regret it. I worry that it's going to be a month or so before he looks like himself. He had eight targets. He will be involved. You have to play him. But the upside of him just dominating NFL defenders and linebackers that can't handle his speed and safeties that can't handle his size. Like, he doesn't have that extra 10% that makes him so special right now with a knee brace on. You might have taken that toilet trophy from Geno Smith who earned it last week with his performance. Is he going to be able to do enough with, in this matchup?

Yeah, if I'm in a three quarterback league, I'm definitely throwing him in. All right. Well, that was Fantasy Forecast presented by PrizePix. Check out max discounts on the app now. Like Patrick Mahomes at more than .5 passing yards for September 21st. Use the code FOOTBALLERS and get $50 instantly in lineups when you play $5. We'll be back tomorrow with the rest of the matchups. The Fantasy Faceoff, which will be tweaked and improved. My shame. Shame. And Mike's shame. My shame. The Wheel of Shame shall come. Normally when you get the shame, you're upset about it. You're like, I got hosed.

No. I mean, I got hosed because Russ decided to be the greatest quarterback he's ever been. Let's just say you were buried. Yeah. And tomorrow you're going to emerge. Emerge. You're going to peek out of the ground tomorrow. Yeah, it's going to be great. Let's leave it at that. Am I a zombie? Well, you'll find out. You'll find out at the Wheel of Shame. So, stay tuned one and all. Check out the Footcast if you want an extra episode at jointhefoot.com and we'll talk to you soon. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com.