Starts of the Week, Wk 3 Matchups, Boom Boom

agree with you. The health of Leonard Fournett is the difference in Bortals. Because if Fournett plays this week, then I don't think Bortals is a guy you want a piece of. You can probably find a quarterback that's going to be higher. They're going to slow the game down and take the passing out of his hands. I tend to think that's true. And you probably, you probably got 12 guys, you know, 12 to 15 guys you can start over Bortles with more assurance of the game script. I don't know how Tennessee scores.

in this game and that's the real problem there where last week you had even even with jacksonville out to a lead you had the threat of tom brady coming back in that game that threat is probably gone and this defense could score against playing gabbert if he happens to be out there true and all of a sudden you end up you know you run a touchdown in and you get a defensive score and then what is it over under 10 passing attempts for boardles the rest of the game maybe that's the concern so how do you feel about

the Jacksonville wide receivers of Keel and Cole. Yeah, I mean, that's based on your options. I mean, in my dynasty league, I'm choosing to play Marvin Jones, Matt Breed, Corey Clement, all over Keel and Cole. Like, he's on my bench this week, not because I don't think you can start him. Like, there's an opportunity there, and if you have to pick a player to be that passing touchdown guy, I mean, Cole's got as good a chance as anybody. But...

It's not going to be a ceiling game. It's going to be a floor game for Jacksonville. I agree. But again, if Fournett does hold out another week, then I feel much more confident in, I mean, Bortles was my streamer. I think you can play him off of waivers. And that would help Keel and Cole if Fournett is out of the game. Update from earlier. Gio is practicing now. And we're heading into that Bengals Panthers matchup. So let's talk about the two and oh.

Cincinnati Bengals taking on the one-on-one Carolina Panthers in Carolina, 44 point over under. Panthers are three-point favorites. Impressive week for Andy Dalton last week. I don't think people expected that kind of performance. No, no, no. If he did, congratulations on being Andy Dalton's number one fan. Andy Dalton and Blake Bortles are very similar in respect to their perception, right? You get fantasy production from them from time to time.

Maybe more often than not, but... But it's always shocking. It's always... You're always surprised. Never expected. But what do you expect in this matchup? Look, the Panthers, you know, they pulled out a win in week one. They lost last week to Atlanta. It's been a wild ride there, but they did get DJ more involved.

last week with one big touchdown and they talked about involving him more in the offense how do we feel about this game what are the big story lays geo bernard obviously is going to get an opportunity here and you guys are all starting yeah geo bernard last year there were five games he had 15 or more touches in those contests he averaged over 16 ppr points a game and i believe that he will get the bulk of the of the work yeah he's mark walton has been very disappointing

I would say there's a lot of redraft players who are listening to the show who don't even know who Mark Walton is because he's more of a dynasty name. You know who he is, but he's been incredibly disappointing. And just historically speaking, I believe they would, they'll go with Gio. Yeah, we've, that's why I believe Gio will have vast opportunity of this game is because we've kind of seen what happens when someone goes down and they're fine writing Gio.

for a week or two, and he's always proven successful. What it's worth, Lewis did talk to Ross Tucker on Series 6tham, said that it will be Geo and Mark Walden, shouldering the load. And we have not seen Walton in a regular season game yet. He is a rookie. He's highly acclaimed and had a bad preseason. That's where we're out with Walton. Yeah, and certainly Geo is not going to get 100%. Nobody does on any roster, not Todd Gurley or David Johnson or Zeke, but...

I still think his opportunity makes him a must start. Obviously, you have to start Christian McCaffrey, and you have to stay in the flames with Cam Newton. He's on pace for his most rushing attempts of his career. He's out over 100 yards, both games. I mean, he's just been awesome and needed. That's 100 total, by the way. Not in each game. Sorry. And his offensive line has been so wrecked that...

It's kind of for fantasy, certainly not good news for the Panthers if you're a Panthers fan, but for fantasy, it's making Christian McCaffrey become the clear-cut number one target in the offense without Greg Olson, and it's making Cam Newton run and run and run. So this is great news. You have to have those guys locked and loaded, but I'm not really digging.

Funchus or DJ Moore, you don't know where, you don't know even know who. What about, you probably don't want to start him this week, but are you considering picking up and holding on to Ian Thomas, tied in for the Panthers, seeing what, what goes on? I know he came through with, with really nothing for fantasy to speak of, but he did have two targets inside the red zone.

Last week he played on 94% of Carolina snaps. And the Bengals have been torched so far on this season at tight-in. So I pass. I get the thing, but I agree with Andy. I pass. I'm not playing that game. He's one of those. Show me first. Then I'll sign you. Not the other way around, not with all the other opportunities to get guys on the waiver wire. McCaffrey had the 14 receptions last week. But he was in the single-digit carry count, which is kind of unfortunate. But it's nice that he's game script proof, obviously, with the reception totals.

You know, you're starting AJ Green. What do you think about Tyler Boyd? He had a very impressive game last week. He looked like, I don't know, the Quincy and Nunewa to AJ Green's Robbie Anderson. You know, he was the target leader on the team, a possession type of player. I thought Andy Dalton showed a lot of confidence in Tyler Boyd in that game. Yeah, he's the number two receiver. And if you're in a full PPR, I think he is, you know, a flex-worthy option. 18 fantasy points, six for 91 in a touchdown.

John Ross has not emerged. No. It's the other way of saying. Is the other way of saying that. No, I'm interested to have Boyd on my bench, but I don't know that I'm ready to throw him in yet. Sure. I mean, the, yeah. The Panthers, they've been stout so far against fantasy-wide receivers. So I think there's other options that I'm looking at.

One more matchup then starts of the week, and we'll get the rest of the matchups in tomorrow's show. The 49ers of 1-1 take on the Chiefs at Arrowhead. The Chiefs are 6.5 point favorites. 56 point over under. I tried to find a way. I tried to find a way to make this my almost upset. It's impossible. And I couldn't. So I'm not. The Chiefs are going to win. I'll look up this tweet. You guys start talking about the matchup. There was a tweet by Evan Sylvia yesterday talking about

the fact that the chiefs still have meat on the bone. And speaking of the offense, and I'll find that tweet, but this is going to be another opportunity for you to roll out Patrick Mahomes with great confidence. What are the big storylines from this game? I mean, are you starting Sammy Watkins after the impressive performance last week? Yes. Yeah, in a game with a 56 point over under where Jimmy Garoppolo should be able to come down. Be it on that.

and score on the Chiefs. This is the type of game where you, anybody that could be involved, you want them in your lineup. Here's what Evan Silva tweeted yesterday. Mahomes missed Watkins on a long TD bomb in week two. Miss Kelsey for a 27-yard touchdown on a wheel route. Cream Hunt has one target through two games. Pat Mahomes has three starts so far. They're all on the road. Now he's at home. And Kansas City has yet to play from behind in a game at all.

So when you talk about a baseline for an offense right now, wow. See, this is the one thing I will say. Andy Reid, when you've got a coach that's coached this long, you can get an idea for how he utilizes his personnel and his players in certain ways. One thing we've seen is that Tyreek Hill surprisingly has more success

on the road than at home. Part of that is not, oh, he's just, he's great in front of all their crowds. It's game design, right? There's four more rushing attempts per game so far in Kareem Hunt's early career at home than on the road. So I think this is a great Kareem Hunt game. I mean, nobody's benching Tyreek Hill, but I don't expect him to have one of his insane.

blow-up games, partly because this is the first freaking week of the season. Then in one of my main leagues, I'm not playing against the Patma Holmes, Tyrie Killstack. That you know of. Yeah, I know. You guys are going to trade them. I'm going to make a way to get somebody on your opposition quick. But look, the Chief's defense is atrocious metric-wise this year. 30-second against quarterbacks, 29th against running backs, 29th against wide receivers, 31st against tight ends. Now they're scorching people.

But I like 49ers in this game. I like them a lot. We're going to talk about him in a minute. So Marquis Goodwin returned to limited action on Wednesday. Yeah, how do you feel about him? There's so much excitement before the year. We haven't got to see him. He goose you in week one because of the injury. Now, you know, if he plays, I will I will put him right back in my starting line up. I'm fine starting Goodwin. I'm 100% fine starting Garsohn. Kill?

Kettle absolutely. Kittal's a must start until otherwise noted. If Goodwin can't play, what's your Dante Pettis level of excitement, Jason? I'm still there. I mean, I realize he had a down week last week, but in this type of a matchup against a really bad defense with a high over and under, you know, you're always playing probabilities. And so that doesn't mean you're always going to hit. So last week's advice was, you know, to.

that he was, if Goodwin was out, that he was a startable asset, I don't think was inherently wrong just because it did not come to fruition. I mean, this is the NFL. If people could predict everything that's going to happen. It's very difficult with Pettis because he only had two targets last week, but he played on more snaps than any other wide receiver on the 49er offense. So I think it was a bit of just the wrong, you know, a perfect storm of suck for Pettis.

But there is opportunity this week. I think he's a dart throw play, though. Right. Like, I'd much rather play Kenny Gulladay than Dante Pettis, even with Goodwin out. Yeah, I can agree with that. Oh, wait, even with Goodwin out? Yeah. Yeah, I'd rather play, I'd rather play the Gala day side. Okay. You guys got to. Do you, uh... Gala day's a must start. Kenny G is, it's so smooth. Can Tettis do this? No. No.

He's not classically trained. He's certainly not smooth. I've heard him, he's on the recorder like, hmm, hmm, hot cross buns. That's pettis? Yeah. All right. Show me something. Everyone starts there, though, Mike. It's true. On hot cross buns? Yes. That's where Beethoven started. That's where I ended. That was the end of my musical training.

My goodness. We talked about on the Spitballers podcast, an inanimate object you could get rid of from the world. Oh, I did not think about recorders. The recorder should have been off the list. I mean, Mike, you said you'd get rid of corners, which I still can't quite comprehend mentally. I stand by. That's a Neil deGrasse Tyson type of situation. Now, would that have included cornerbacks then? Ooh. Are they gone? No, they're animate. Moving along. Starts of the week.

All right, my start of the week at the quarterback position is Deshawn Watson. I want to give you that little pat on the butt to start Deshaun Watson this week. A lot of people worried. Great opportunity against New York. Deshawn Watson is chucking it. He's chucking it deep. He's gained 73.3% of his total passing yards through the air. That is the highest of all qualified quarterbacks in the league. I'm calling him launch pad. I mean, he's just...

He's launching it. And when you have Will Fuller and DeAndre Hopkins, as part of that deep threat offense, I love it. And he's still third in the league in rushing yardage at the quarterback position. He put up a great fantasy game last week, albeit it took him a while. I think this is a, you know, just start him. Just start him. You're fine. My start of the week this week is Matt Ryan. You know, he's one of those guys that you're not always sure whether you want to start him. And you're not.

This is not chasing last week's points. He had a phenomenal game last week. But this is more about the matchup that I think the New Orleans Saints and the Falcons, I believe that they will take the over. I think they're going to score a lot of points back and forth in this game. And it's the weapons. When you're at home and you have Calvin Ridley, new first round pick, you have Mohammed Sunu. You've got, you know,