Week 1 Matchups + TNF Reaction, Stack Boom! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

A lot of questions, but still unlimited. Does he get off to a hot start in this game? Well, the matchup says that you can, which is really nice for Sean Peyton and Russell Wilson to have the opportunity week one to say, hey, we've fixed the offense. We've got some things figured out. I think they'll be better than they were last year, which isn't saying much. They were the bottom of the barrel. Right now, I am hesitant to believe that Russell Wilson is. quote unquote fixed. The way that he was playing last year was so poor in his reads and his throws that I'm going to take a wait and see approach. I do think you can play a lot of these pieces. I just think you have to really temper your expectations. Cortland Sutton is a good flex. I think he should be out there. Javante Williams seems like a really good flex option as well. I think he's a running back too. What are the odds that Javante Williams?

makes the fantasy community look silly after this week. I mean, if he falls into the end zone and catches four or five passes, then you're going to, at the end of this week, go, man, he's going to have an unbelievable year and be great. I still believe that P. Rhine will be heavily involved. This will be a... What if he runs into the end zone and doesn't fall into it? Or what if it's a bit of a jump? You know, a breakaway run, I think that would be something special. I just mean relative to draft costs. Is there a chance that he comes out? He gets 22 opportunities, and he's a workhorse, and he should have gone in the second round. I'll be shocked if he gets 22 opportunities. Mike, are you in the same boat? Yeah, I think P. Ryan's going to play probably pretty close to the same snaps. Jerry Judy was limited on Thursday. If he starts, do you play him against this defense? I prefer not to. All right. If Judy misses Marvin Mims is in, if Judy's back, is Marvin Mims a sit?

Marvin Menz is a sit if Judy is active. And if Judy has gone, Marvin Mims is not a need to start, but he is a flex option that you can throw in. I'm starting him pretty much either way. In our league of records. He's your Skymore this week, Jason. Yes. Yes, he is. Cheers. Except the difference is. I think Marvin Mends is actually good at football. He's taller. Isn't he? Marvin Mimbs? He's not taller than Skymore? I don't think so. Then it's going to be hard for him to get the hands up there and catch. He's a small player. Catch the overthrow. He's unbelievable. He's a great wide receiver. And Skymore. Oh, no. He is in fact taller than Skymore. Wow. Yeah. Doesn't take much. All right. So yeah, I think you can't start him. But much thinner. One of the things I'm going to be watching for a lot in this game is the Greg Dulcich, Adam Troutman.

split and utilization. Adam Troutman is the starter. Mike is so happy you even have to think about it. That I have to say Adam Troutman's name. Yeah, I love it. I do think that... If you were flexing Dulcich or Mims with Judy out, which would you go with? Because if they were in a flex spot, both could benefit from the lack of options. Yeah, I would rather flex the wide receiver over a tight end. But you could argue that Dulcich is more important if you're playing him in the tight end role. I, the preseason utilization of Greg Dulcich was very, very scary to people. I'm still of the mindset that I think they were hiding him and not showing their cards. So I will have all eyes on Dulcich. The Joker card. Nice. Exactly right. Josh Jacobs absolutely massacred the Broncos defense last year. He was the RB1 and the RB7 against them at 175 rushing yards, 160 rushing yards.

Are we getting vintage Josh Jacobs in week one? Vintage? No, but you play him. You play him with full confidence. He'll be an RB one this week. Devante Adams. He gets to start for the first time with Jimmy G. But you're playing him. You drafted him to play him. And that's the end of that story. The Eagles take on the New England Patriots in New England. The drafting sports book line has Philly minus four on the road. Oh, little bit rain. Over under is 45. We do have some possible reign in this game. We also have an update on Remandre Stevenson. Ooh, important. He is still expected to play Sunday, despite today's absence from practice. Takes for nothing. Per source. Reporters. So there's something going on. That's what that says. It wasn't like a personal absence. I don't think. So that means Zieg could get more work in this game against a Eagles defensive front. This is.

Pretty terrible news. This is an afternoon game, so if you're waiting on Remandre Stevenson, you better have a backup option just in case, or hopefully we get more news between now and game time. If Remandre plays, man. You have to play him. Yeah, I think if Remandre does, if you get the, he's active for week one, I'm just going to put him out there. Agreed. Yeah. Does Mack Jones get fixed by Bill O'Brien? Is this, are we going to find ourselves drafting pass catching options, or not drafting, picking up past catching options for the Patriots after week one? I doubt it. I do think that the offense will be much better than last year because of Bill O'Brien. I think Mack Jones will be a nice quarterback two for Superflex leagues. I am still of the belief that Juju Smith-Schuster will be the clear and obvious wide receiver one for this team, but he'll be very similar to.

Jacobi Myers last year. More of a dink and dunk, a lot of targets, not a lot of yards, PPR type of player. But to me, I think he will end up being a solid weekly start. Hunter Henry, I think, is a sneaky, okay play this week. On the other side, play Hertz. Yeah. Play J. Brown and DeMonte Smith, play Dallas Goddard, and then spin the wheel for the running back room. I mean... You could. The Patriots were a top 10 defense against the run last year. They're at home. I don't think it's a good match for any of them. And there's four of them to worry about. There's absolutely no reason to play an eagle. You didn't draft any of those players where you have to start them. You have another option on your roster. I think Swift was like a 6-7th round pick. Yeah, but our listeners didn't draft them. Hopefully. Well, we'll see. Kenny Gainwell, DeAndre Swift, Rashad Penny, and Boston Scott. I talked to somebody who's one of the...

people that follow the Eagles the most, and his opinion of this backfield was that it's going to be gross, that you're going to see all four players play, which is going to see Boston Scott come in only inside the five-yard line, and that you're going to pull your hair out. And Jason made the point earlier in the off season. Miles Sanders finished at 11 last year, and it wasn't a fun ride. Yeah, it sucked for fantasy. He ruined your team as often as he had nice big games. And that was... That was about as good as you could expect from an Eagles running back here. Miami. The Dolphins go to Los Angeles to take on the Chargers. This is another one of those exciting football games for fantasy. The Drafking Sportsbook line Chargers minus three. The overrunners 51. Does the line surprise you at all or does that make sense to you? I think the line is exactly where I would expect it to be. How did it surprise you? By you asking the question that said? Yeah, I guess I thought it might be like a point.

Not three points. I think at home, Herbert, the offensive line issues for the Dolphins. Yeah, I think the line is right. All right. So Tua was Mike's start of the week. The Chargers gave up a ton of big plays last year, and that is going to be the specialty all year for Tua with Tyree Kill and Jay and the Waddle, who are both in your lineup. We've had some start sets coming out of this game, including making the decision on. You know, do you play Tua Tungavaila or do you go with somebody like Dak or an Anthony Richardson or? I play Tua. Dishon Watson. And Tua is kind of seemingly taking the cake on all of those. Yeah. For me, I go Gino and then Tua in that order personally for the two quarterbacks I play outside of the eight known commodities that no one is benching.

All right, Rahim Moster. Is he a good start this week? He is a very good start this week. Chargers don't. Very good. Yeah, I think he's a very good start. You're going to have an elder statesman at the healthiest he's going to be all season in a matchup that is winnable, high overrunner. You've got Jeff Wilson definitely gone right now. Ahmed is still banged up a little bit. Devon A-chain is... A rookie, we just saw Jemir Gibbs in his first game getting eased into action and he's coming off of an injury. I think Rahim Mostert will get a ton of volume in a game you want pieces in. So I personally, Mostert to me is is like locked into a start. Rahim Mostert or Damien Piers? I would go Damian Pierce at that point. Damian Pierce is way younger, more talented. Antonio Gibson? I would go Mostert. James Connor? I would go Mostert. Khalil Herbert?

I would go her I would I would I would go most her I would I would James Cook I would go most her I think I love mostert I think you love ketchup too uh Austin Echler playing Keenan Allen yep Mike Williams uh huh wait on Quentin Johnston agreed Gerald Everett Mike start of the week at tight end oh what a good start like thank you the more and more I've looked at it last year that The dolphins were literally the 32nd out of 32 teams ranked. That's why we went there. And what's funny is I went to put Gerald Ever in for my starts of the week early in this week when I was just researching these games. And I was looking at the home road splits and Gerald Everett's much better at home. And for some reason, I had this game in my mind in Miami. So I didn't. And I pivoted away from him. This is in L.A.

where Gerald Everett has been much better in a perfect matchup. So I do like the start of the game. Just get ready for Donald Parham to have his breakout game. I mean, people didn't draft Gerald Everett. I'm playing him in the league where I lost Travis Kelsey. He was my pickup off the waiver wire. There you go. That would be the league that you're together in? No. That would be the listener league. The Rams take on the Seahawks in Seattle. The Draft King Sportsbook line, Seattle minus five. The over under is 46. The Rams will yet again be without Cooper Cup. It was real, real bad. Like, I'm not talking kind of, sort of bad, real, real bad without Cooper Cup last year. 30th in yards per game without them. 31st in passing yards per game. 31st in pressure rate because you have to hold the ball because no one else gets open. Pass rate over expectation, 26. They lean on the run.

I think Mike was right when he talked about Seattle's defense being better than people give them credit for. And look, I would take Seattle and the points in this game if it was me. Yeah, I believe Seattle and the points is the right way to go. The Rams have a terrible defense. And without Cooper Cup, they've had a terrible offense. I don't know what there is to really like on the Rams side of the ball outside of Cam Acres. Cam Acres to me is set up to get the ball as much as they can give them the ball. aren't able to pass. And if they haven't fixed their issues from last year, Seattle was a team you could run the ball on quite easily. I will say, I'll take Van Jefferson's targets in this game. Yeah, I'm open to that. But the, just to be fair to the stat of when Cooper Cup was out last year, it was almost completely in sync with Matthew Stafford being out. So we don't know yet. Like, what is, what will Matthew Stafford and the Rams be without?

Cooper Cup. That's a question that we'll get to see answered at least a little bit. Van Jefferson's just his he was, he's been a sleeper kind of for us all off season and I think this is interesting. I think that the volume will be there. I'm not expecting a high level output for Van Jefferson, but it's certainly better than Skymore. He should be forced to be involved. I mean, the way that this game is going to go, Seattle's probably going to have a lead. Well, yeah, the depth chart of you have Tutu Atwell is like the other season veteran on this team. And then Puka Nakua, he's an interesting rookie wide receiver to watch. I mean, it may be, he might be someone I even stash if I have an IR player that I'm going to stash. And my question for Cameron Acres is I'm playing him. But.

How much Kyron do we see? Yeah, how much Kyron Williams do we see? There's been some rumors of him taking on a pass-catching role for the Los Angeles Rams. Something to watch. It's just, yeah. I'm not out on Acres because of that, but just watching. Would you flex? Because we just asked this question, Jason. You chose Marvin Mims over Dulcich. Are you flexing Van Jefferson over Higbee? Yeah, yeah. If they're in the flex, I would still go with the wide receiver over the tight end. I think there is. I have slight fear, and it's just slight because I love Higby. I think he's going to be a PPR machine. He's going to be necessary. But if the pass rush is getting after them, they might need him to block a little bit more if wide receivers aren't getting open and he's holding on to the ball more. That's my only fear there. Gino Smith was your start of the week. You play him. Tyler Lockett. Mike started the week at wide receiver. You should play him. You should play Metcalfe. Jackson Smith and Jigba would be a gamble. Would you take him or Van Jefferson?

I would take Van Jefferson. Jackson Smith and Jigba is the clear, more talented player here. But in his first game as a rookie, as the wide receiver three, coming off of an injury in a game where they're very well could be not passing the ball as much at the end, I would, I'll take Van Jeffers. Yeah, because of the injury, that'll, I'll let that break the tie for me if I have this specific decision. If he weren't hurt and he was going into the season fully healthy, I would just put, I'd put the rookie in. And if Kenneth Walker doesn't play. Oh, oh, baby. Our man. Yeah. Our man. Yeah. Zach Charbonnet is going to be so dang good. Pour these guys the glass. Yes. Oh, I will have a, it's on ice right now. Charbonnet. My Charbonnet is on ice, and I'm just waiting to pop the top if Kenneth Walker is, uh, is going to rest up this week.

Charbonnet will be great. Dallas takes on the New York Giants on Sunday night football. Dallas minus three and a half. DK has over under at 45 and a half. What are you expecting out of this matchup? I mean, this will be, I think, fun to watch the Giants offense. Can they get it going against this Dallas Cowboys with defense, which is a Super Bowl, a legitimate Super Bowl defense. Daniel Jones. You know, we didn't throw many interceptions, but he also had the fewest 20-plus yard passes. So he kind of was making that decision that I'm not going to turn the ball over, but we're not going to get the explosive plays. But the addition of Darren Waller is really, I think it is huge for this team, that they have someone who they can give a 25, 26, 27 percent target share to and have them get it done. So that's...

From the Giants, it's real easy. Barkley is in. Darren Waller is in. We're watching the, we're watching the Giants wide receivers. Does someone emerge as the top option? Isaiah Hodgins kind of had some splash plays here and there at the end of last season. Does he turn into the number one wide receiver? Does it matter? Because it may not matter. It might just be, this team, the Giants might be very easy for fantasy the entire season. On the other side, Tony Pollard? He's the guy in the backfield, finally, for Dallas. This is a good matchup for Tony Pollard to kind of get the season off on the right foot. C.D. Lamb, you always play him. Now, the debatable options on the Dallas side are going to be, you know, Dachwin undrafted in our league. I think he got picked up since then. He got picked up. By you? No. Okay. He's won 10 straight games against the Giants. That's crazy. They are favored. Brandon Cook's and healthier.

Michael Gallup. I think DAC is a perfectly fine lower end QB1 play. Geno or Dak? I'd go Gino. Yeah. On draft day, because we ended up having to be very, very late round quarterback. We were hoping to get Gino, didn't work out. And then the question was, do you go with Dak or Kirk Cousins? And the fact that we had a Minnesota Viking pass catcher, we drafted Jordan Addison, that moved us over to Kurt Cousins for just the potential of of a week one stack boom other than that oh you want that you want that stack boom by playing sky more over jordan addison no jordan addison could still be in okay you've made him very mad this i yeah i understand look it didn't work jason i already received my punishment all right and it's a week one lost yeah but i think i'm not just trying to punish you i'm trying to victory lap myself as well bro

Well, the Skymore victory lap. Yeah. After there was no victory laps to be had. It was, you could have just said they're all going to be terrible. Yeah, but Skymore sucks. Yeah. They all suck. I brought this up. Tony dropped passes. Skymore didn't get targets. Didn't get targets. Which is an earned stat. So he is still not good. By the way, update. DJ Chark is out for week one with the hamstring. So, uh, You know, that game's going to be interesting. If Thelan's out there, I might be. Would you play Thielen or Isaiah Hodgins if Thielen is fully active? I'm not saying. Yeah. I would play. If you're going that low, I'd go, I'd go on and Thielen. Unfortunately, gentlemen, I have to go that low. In my Dynasty League, my second flex spot. Thank you. We're getting, we're getting dirty, nasty feeling.

Buffalo takes on the Jets Monday night football extravaganza. Baby. I'm going to, I'm going to legitimately just glue myself to the couch for this one and tweet away because Buffalo and the Jets, this is, I love football. Yeah. DK Sportsbook Line Buffalo minus two and a half on the road. The overrunner is 45 and a half. I think the Jets win the ball game. Ooh. That's a doubt, man. If we have week one, And the Chiefs and the Bills are all in one. That's a spicy 23. Josh Allen, play him. James Cook, you drafted him to play him. Yeah. Stefan Diggs. I'm playing it. I would get him in there. I don't want to play another single Buffalo Bill option in week one against the Jets defense. The Jets are at home and they are not kind of good on the defensive side. They're going to be a severe problem for the...

for Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox and Gabe Davis and Damien Harris and no. They are absolutely awesome. Last year they were the number one schedule adjusted team in fantasy points given up against wide receivers. 14 total per game. Yeah. And that is, I mean, so yeah, you're not going to bench Stefan Diggs, but it's really hard to say that, you know, okay, we're going to split up 14.8 half PPR points a game through. Diggs and Gabe Davis and, you know, Deontay Hardy, like, it's not great. Obviously, this is a great offense. This isn't an average offense. The 14.8 is average. So they're going to score more than that. You could put them out there. You could make an argument, oh, Gabe Davis, maybe you've got Sauce Gardner really focused and locking down on Stefan Diggs. And Gabe Davis has opportunity. I think you can still flex him.

in a pinch because he's just one of those guys that can get a touchdown any week. Yeah, big play. Mims or Gabe? I would go Gabe. Okay. I mean, I would, too. I would not playing a rookie for Russ. Yeah. A Russ rookie. Right. On the other side, it might not be that complicated. Oh, it's, you got the big complication. Well, Garrett Wilson's in. Yeah. I'm not starting another wide out until I see how that shakes out. Agreed. Conclin is not really. I mean, he's a break glass, but I played the porta over him. I love Conklin. I play Jake Ferguson easily over. 100%. What if I did this? Conk, conk. I mean, it's fun. I'm in. Conklin. Conklin will be a lot of fun to conk with this year. Yeah, there it is. That's the goose you're getting. It won't be week one against the bills. Yeah, that is the goose you're getting. So the big complications are the running backs. The real question is Breeze Hall.

All right, Mr. Brees Hall. He's in, baby. Oh, he's in. Now the confidence is back. It's not confidence. It's excitement. It's love. It's passion. I'm putting him in over everyone. If I've got him on my roster, he's in, baby. I love him. Delvin Cook is healthy, happy, ready to rumble. If you had to place a bet on total touches, I'm placing it on Dalvin. I would bet total touches goes to Dalvin Cook over Brees Hall. Breast or Giovante, Mike? Oh, uh, Juvon. We just asked us, I think, and I think we said Javon. But no, we need to bring this up for Jason. Breece Hall or Rahim Mostert. I'm going Breeze Hall, but you love Rahim Mostert. You picked him over Alibu. I love Breeze Hall, baby. I'm going Breeze Hall, baby. I'm going Breeze Hall, baby. All right. All right. Well, you're back in, baby. I am. The heart wants with the heart wants, and it wants it bad. But so you are, then, you would play Dalvin Cook.

Assuming you don't have Brise Hall. You have Dalvin. Yes, I think Dalvin is a fine play as a two or a flex. Probably more of a flex. Okay. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings. Before we get started, do we have an update on Kenneth Walker? No update. You got to pick one, Jason. Okay. I've got my other lineup then. Mike, why don't you give a brief overview of what we're doing here on the Fantasy Face Off? Because we had some fun last year. Yeah, sure. We go, we jump on. the old draftkings.com play some DFS. We set a head to head to head. We set our lineups. We, uh, yeah, we're just playing against each other. And then the loser, the following week, we have the wheel of shame where it will be spun by that week's loser. And then they wear something ridiculous. It's usually.

very what happened to this photo that's what i was just noticing that is a combination of you and me and it is horrific it is it is terrifying it is really well done yeah it's uh it's in the kind of travolta nick cage yes yeah very face off sorry podcast listeners there's a picture go to youtube youtube dot com slash the fantasy footballers uh but losing it sucks it's embarrassing and often uncomfortable what you have to wear but That's, we just, we set our lineups. Also, if you haven't played these type of lineups before, if this is the first time you're like listening to us do this, it is a ton of fun. You can go and, you know, have just, you can make one lineup. Our lineups are more like cash lineups. We're trying to find the safest lineup because we just don't want to not lose. You can play big place is great. Yeah, you can play big tournaments, you know, big tournaments for millions of dollars, but it is so much fun.

to look through and call your shots on guys and be watching games on Sunday. And if your fantasy team is sucking, you'd be like, let me check out my lineups doing. And if you do need some help, we have Borg and Betts, Best of the Business. We have the fantasy footballers DFS slash betting podcast. That comes out on Tuesday and Friday every week. And we have the DFS pass on the website. We got everything. We got you covered. I use it. Well, let's kick it off. Quarterback, I went with. Tua Tunga Vailoa for 6,700. Tua. Oh, okay. Well, I paid only $200 more and got the guy across the field from him who's at home, whose favorite Justin Herbert, baby. Okay. All right. Justin Herbert is Jason's pick. My starting running backs, Austin Echler, across the field at 8,400. So you paid up. 8,400 for Austin Echler and Brian Robinson, Jr. for 5,100, taking on the Arizona Cardinals and their 32nd ranked.

defensive line. Yeah. I really wanted to find a way to get Brian Robinson in. Unfortunately, I did not because I went with JK2 legs Dobbins at 6,600 against the Houston Texans. And Raheem Mostert, a guy that apparently I really do like. He's only 5,400. And I'm getting a lot of pieces in that Chargers Dolphins game. And it's week one. I got the boys in purple, baby. I got them both. I got JK2L. and Alexander Madison at Madison 65. He doubled up on the boys in purple. It's week one. These have been my boys all off season. Well done. Let's see what we can do. All right. Wide receivers. I went with the stack. Tyree kills there for 8200. Of course. And then I went with one of your boys in purple. Zay Flowers for 4,000 in that Houston matchup along with the once great PPR machine.

Not so much anymore, but we'll see how week one goes against this awful pass defense. Michael Thomas, Michael Thomas, 5,100 in my second spot. I had Zay Flowers at 4,000 in my, in my Zach Sharbon A lineup, but I don't have him here. I do have Tyreek Hill, which will be your guys' stack with Gino, and I have my stack with Keenan. I mean, Tua. Or yes. You have a real Gino, Tua problem right now. I do. I do. Gino and Tua are the same guy to me. But Keenan Allen stacks with my Herbert. He was 7,300. This is full PPR on Draft Kingsworth remembering that. And at 5,000, my start of the week, Jahan Dotson seems like a good value. I think he'll be the wide receiver one against the Cardinals. We have a lot of overlap, Tyree Kill. Of course, I have two. I do have Johan Dotson as well. Then.

For the rest of my lineup, I had to save some keesh. So we are starting Marvin Mims at the Stone Cold Men 3,000. At least I think that's the minimum. Yeah, no, it is. I don't know if it can get lower. It is. No, that's, that's okay. So I'm, am I live with Zayflowers? Yes. Okay. All right, my final three, I'm taking all targets in this game. Tyler Higby. Tyler Higby at tight end, Van Jefferson at my flex. And the commanders defense against the Cardinals to wrap up my lineup. I have to imagine all three of us have the commanders. That is correct. Yeah. 2,800, the commanders versus Arizona is if you're playing cash, I don't know how you possibly play anybody else. No, I even looked to pivot and I'm like, no, just go with the commanders. I also have Marvin Mims Jr. in my flag, so I was very happy to hear you have them at the Stone Cold 3,000. And then I have Tyler Higby a tight end.