Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, Bounce-Backs - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/11

Summary

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Fantasy Footballers Podcast Summary

Episode: Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, Bounce-Backs
Air Date: September 11, 2025
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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Episode Overview

This episode delivers the Fantasy Footballers’ signature mix of matchup breakdowns, expert advice, and playful banter to get fantasy managers ready for Week 2. The trio highlight “Starts of the Week,” offer bounce-back perspectives for week-one letdowns, sift through emerging injuries, and help listeners set their lineups confidently. Throughout, the hosts focus on actionable analysis with plenty of entertainment.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. News & Notes (03:59–07:02)

• 49ers Health Woes: Brock Purdy is “a long shot” to play (04:05); his toe injury could sideline him 2-5 weeks.
• Chris Godwin & Tristan Wirfs: Both returning to practice, targeting Week 5 (04:41).
• Tight End Injury Updates: Evan Engram (calf) & Dallas Goedert (knee) both questionable. Goedert’s surprise injury left managers scrambling post-waivers, and his absence would spike value for Eagles’ WRs, especially DeVonta Smith and AJ Brown (05:11–06:03).
• Browns RBs: Uncertainty for Quinchon Judkins; Jerome Ford a no-start after Week 1 struggles, but Sampson a deep PPR option (06:03–06:47).

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2. Starts of the Week – Presented by Paramount Plus (07:02–19:17)

Quarterbacks

• Justin Herbert vs. Raiders (Andy, 07:39)
  • “He had more designed runs and he scrambled quicker… Weapons are the best he’s had maybe in his entire career. Huge.” (08:10)
• Kyler Murray vs. Panthers (Mike, 08:50)
  • “He himself said I need to do that – and he did. 7 rush attempts for 38 yards… Big home favorites.” (09:09)
• Justin Fields vs. Bills (Jason, 09:50)
  • “He was #1 in completion percentage over expectation… 9.9 YPA, wasn’t just dink and dunk. Bills gave up the most yards per play in Week 1.” (10:00)

Running Backs

• Travis Etienne vs. Bengals (Andy, 10:37)
  • “He’s the guy now, there’s clarity… ETN’s backfield, especially right now.” (10:37)
• Jordan Mason vs. Falcons (Mike, 11:46)
  • “He was the early down guy. Mason ended up 13 for 69, Jones was 7 for 21… Vikings are favorites at home.” (11:46)
• Breece Hall vs. Bills (Jason, 12:39)
  • “Very clear who the lead back is by opportunity and talent… Bills got gashed last week.” (12:39)

Wide Receivers

• DK Metcalf vs. Seahawks (with Jets) (Andy, 13:27)
  • “Revenge game. 26% routes targeted… Has Aaron Rodgers who hyper-targets his #1. Perfect matchup.” (13:27)
• Garrett Wilson vs. Bills (Mike, 14:12)
  • “He was the alpha – 36% of the team’s targets. Was a fraction from a second TD.” (14:18)
• Keenan Allen vs. Raiders (Jason, 14:44)
  • “Right back to the target machine… Dominated Raiders historically.” (14:44)

Tight Ends

• Juwan Johnson vs. 49ers (Andy, 15:11)
  • “This is probably their second target in the receiving game… Out there running routes, 24% target share. Usage is unbelievable.” (15:11)
  • Banter about his mustache boosting his fantasy stock (16:41)
• Kyle Pitts vs. Vikings (Mike, 17:18)
  • “Lined up in the slot on 49% of snaps; ran a route on 81% of drop backs… Expect game script to force throws.” (17:18)
• Brenton Strange vs. Bengals (Jason, 18:13)
  • “It’s about the Bengals… dead last against tight ends last year, 29th in Week 1. Great matchup for Strange.” (18:13)

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3. Fantasy Forecast – Major Matchup Breakdowns

Jaguars vs. Bengals (21:09)

• Bounce-Back Alert for Burrow: Jaguars were dead last against QBs last year; Burrow’s Week 1 struggles not a reason to bench him (22:47).
• Trevor Lawrence: Waiver wire option or QB2; not a strong start unless desperate (23:11).
• Chase Brown & Travis Etienne: Must-starts; Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter as flexes with better days ahead (24:00–25:43).

Giants vs. Cowboys (26:47)

• Dak Owns Giants: Prescott has won 13 straight vs. NYG (28:07).
• Giants’ Backfield: Tyrone Tracy is the “workhorse for now,” but Jaden Blue could emerge over Miles Sanders. Don’t love starting Giants’ RBs this week (28:58–29:47).
• Javonte Williams: Stronger start than most Giants’ RBs; monitor Jaden Blue’s role (30:27).
• Passing Games: CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens are starts. Jake Ferguson a low-end play but with classic TD frustration risk (31:27–32:43).

Lions vs. Bears (33:43)

• Detroit in Need of Answers: Expect heavy run focus after Week 1 disappointment (33:49).
• Montgomery & Gibbs: Monty remains a touchdown-dependent flex; Gibbs’ workload will tick up (34:57).
• Bears WRs: D.J. Moore and A. Odunze both shaky starts—“like neither” (37:44).

Rams vs. Titans (39:45)

• Cam Ward Caution: Rams are a tough follow-up for the rookie QB. Only Tony Pollard a potential start; Ridley’s usage noted but not a Week 2 start (41:05–41:41).
• Rams Core: “Go ahead and start Kyren, Puka, and Davante. Let’s not overthink it.” (42:10–42:19)

Patriots vs. Dolphins (42:37)

• Tua Bounce-back: Historically good vs. NE (7-0); after a brutal Week 1, “I think it gets a lot better.” (43:12)
• Tyreek Hill & Jaylen Waddle: Both in play, but much less certain than last season.
• RBs: Achane a start; Travion Henderson a buy-low (45:04)

49ers vs. Saints (50:19)

• 49ers Injuries: McCaffrey’s heavy workload continues—“he has been siphoning the health of other players” (51:10).
• CMC Usage: “31 touches; not sustainable but could go even higher” (53:17–53:40).
• Saints: Kamara and Olave are steady starts; Olave a “buy low” candidate (54:35–54:54).

Bills vs. Jets (54:54)

• Jets Stack: “Fields, Hall, Wilson—play them.” (58:08). Buffalo’s defense allowed plenty of production in Week 1; Keon Coleman highlighted as a strong WR start (55:21–55:52).
• Tight Ends: Kincaid losing steam vs. Johnson, Fannin, Ferguson (58:13).

Seahawks vs. Steelers (59:45)

• Low Scoring Expected: Both defenses talented; only Jalen Warren a confident start at RB (60:51).
• Charbonnet & Walker: 50/50 split emerging, but neither is a comfortable start (61:03).
• DK Metcalf: Remains a must-start. Calvin Austin mentioned as a deep risk; “low floor in a low over/under” game (62:59–63:21).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “He had more designed runs and he scrambled quicker… Weapons are the best he’s had maybe in his entire career. Huge.”
  — Andy on Justin Herbert (08:10)
• “No one ever has more end zone/red zone targets than Jake Ferguson with no touchdowns. Like you can’t just – dude’s tired of getting blown up.”
  — Andy (32:00)
• “Christian McCaffrey…has been clearly siphoning the health of other players. It’s draining too fast.”
  — Andy (51:10)
• “[Charbonnet] is more like the Braylon Allen type of back where it’s I’m the big guy who’s going to move the pile. So stylistically, Charbonnet… doesn’t comp to Breece (Hall).”
  — Andy (61:18)

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Strategic Takeaways & Player Notes

• Start Confidence: Herbert, Fields, Kyler, Etienne, Mason, Hall, DK, Garrett Wilson, Keenan Allen, Juwan Johnson, Pitts, Brenton Strange all received strong endorsements.
• Injury Watch: Keep tabs on Purdy, Goedert, Engram, Chris Godwin, and others. Monitor the Buffalo RB situation (James Cook hamstring).
• Buy/Lows: Travion Henderson, Chris Olave highlighted as candidates.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• News & Injuries: 03:59–07:02
• Starts of the Week: 07:02–19:17
• Jaguars vs. Bengals: 21:09–26:47
• Giants vs. Cowboys: 26:47–33:43
• Lions vs. Bears: 33:43–39:45
• Rams vs. Titans: 39:45–42:37
• Pats vs. Dolphins: 42:37–50:19
• 49ers vs. Saints: 50:19–54:54
• Bills vs. Jets: 54:54–59:45
• Seahawks vs. Steelers: 59:45–end

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Tone and Style

The episode maintains the Fantasy Footballers’ trademark: highly engaged, data-savvy dialogue mixed with laid-back humor and good-natured jabs. Both informative and fun, the trio blend analysis (“Let’s not overthink it, start Kyren, Puka, and Davante.”) with running gags (mustache power, McCaffrey’s energy drain) and league anecdotes (trade offers, dynasty woes).

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Summary

This Week 2 preview delivers in-depth player analysis, start/sit confidence tiers, trade perspective, and injury monitoring, all with charm and camaraderie. It’s a fast-moving, packed episode—ideal for fantasy managers who need the sharpest advice and a little comic relief as they set their lineups.

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Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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[Mike Wright]

Football time was the point for me to do it.

[Jason Moore]

Oh yeah. Isn't it football time?

[Mike Wright]

It is.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah. I thought you were gonna jump in.

[Andy Holloway]

I was confused. Oh, football time. Let's go.

[Jason Moore]

Thursday, September 11th welcome into the fantasy footballers. We have matchups on today's show. Starts of the week. We've got news to talk about. San Francisco can't stay healthy. We almost need a drop specifically for them. Yeah, I ordered down the stairs since.

[Andy Holloway]

I do all those voiceover work. I'm working on a new 49ers injury a bit. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Update.

[Andy Holloway]

It'll be coming.

[Jason Moore]

Let me hear a little bit of that voice.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, Mike always does like some.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I gotta do a lot of stuff to it.

[Jason Moore]

So install a lot of software.

[Mike Wright]

It's almost like I turn it into another person.

[Andy Holloway]

Right. Just feels like that.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, there's, there's a lot going on. We have week two ahead of us and you know, we'll put to bed some of the week one. I guess I would say like our expectations for some of these players, they might change and then some of those Week 1 performances, you may get a follow up that makes you feel very confident about them and some of them in the, some of the players in the starts of the week today are some players that we think maybe will you know a couple of them are guys that had good week ones.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I know my running back start of the week is scary because it was a player that you know is not supposed to be great. Week one was great Week one and I'm saying start him this week.

[Jason Moore]

I will tell you from Jason trying to trade me Keon Coleman multiple times that he doesn't necessarily believe Keon Coleman's going to keep doing what he did in week one.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm not. I'm trying to acquire my running back start of the week.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, Reminder. The weekly rankings, the Start Sit tool, a bunch of articles every week from an amazing writing staff. All available at the fantasy footballers.com for free. So you can check that out and make sure you prep your lineup up this weekend. Let's jump right into the news.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league presented by Progressive Insurance.

[Jason Moore]

Brock Purdy, a long shot to play this week according to Kyle Shanahan. He's dealing with a turf to variant.

[Mike Wright]

I did see it was like it.

[Jason Moore]

It was like turf toe.

[Andy Holloway]

It's just a kind of a. It's a. Does that mean it's like evolved?

[Jason Moore]

I don't know. That's more like athlete's foot that evolves.

[Mike Wright]

It's a multiverse turf toe.

[Andy Holloway]

But they are saying that the injury could be two to five weeks, which is quite the range. But this is obviously serious. They said earlier when he had the two different injuries that the toe was more serious and it will keep him out.

[Jason Moore]

Chris Godwin expected to return to practice today for the first time. Week five remains the target return day for Chris Godwin.

[Andy Holloway]

Tristan Wharfs as well return to practice. Not going to play yet but we'd.

[Mike Wright]

Like to see that they're practicing.

[Jason Moore]

We have Evan Ingram limited on Wednesday with the calf injury suffered in week.

[Mike Wright]

One or is Jason relevant? Jason would say just limited. He also has a calf injury though, right?

[Jason Moore]

Dallas Goddard knee sprain availability for Week 2 for the Eagles up in the air.

[Mike Wright]

This one is very special for fantasy football players that this I don't think anyone had a real inclination that Goddard was was hurt and then waivers ran and there were two very juicy tight ends on the waiver wire and people with Goddard were probably like ah, I don't know if I need one or not. And then Wednesday they went shooting.

[Andy Holloway]

I did well and a lot of people picked up Goddard. They spent. If he was on the waivers, if he went undrafted, they picked him up. It's also important for fantasy because we have a good amount of history with Goddard missing games and when that happens, the two primary the two primary wide receivers, especially devontae Smith. Yes, he usually skyrockets up in games that Dallas Goddard misses. But it'll be, you know, AJ Brown after his poor outing in Week one if Goddard doesn't go. Hopefully the wide receivers can refer to.

[Mike Wright]

The wide receiver one what the first John Dots Yes.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I don't.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was bad for both Brown and Devonte Smith in Week one, so we'd like to see them bounce back. Quinch on Judkins didn't practice Wednesday. Was meeting with the NFL expected to practice today and we'll see if he's available and active at all for the Browns. So you're Dylan Sampson.

[Andy Holloway]

Drum 4 I would imagine that if he is active, you're still not going to play limited in workload. You could if Judkins plays this week, I don't think it changes really anything which is no matter what, I'm not playing Ford because he was so bad in Week one. And I think you could play Sampson in either either situation if you're in a full PPR league where he should get the passing work.

[Jason Moore]

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[Andy Holloway]

Starts of the week Presented by Paramount Plus.

[Jason Moore]

All right. I felt good about three of my four last week. Joe Burrow didn't work out. I was trying to get a week one Joe Burrow performance.

[Mike Wright]

Nobody can get Joe Burrow to play well in Week one.

[Jason Moore]

What was great was that the world did react to like you. How dare you put him as your start of the week in week one. It's too easy because it's too easy. You drafted him too high. Oh, what the. Oh, all right.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I mean it was pretty sad.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was sad. I didn't mean to hit that, but it was sad. Week two Starts of the week Jason kick us off at quarterback.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to go with a guy that I think I'm bought into. Maybe, you know, you don't overreact from one week. I am overreacting from I'm bought into for the rest of the season. I think Justin Herbert will be throwing the ball enough this season to be very important for fantasy. I loved the way that he ran the ball. He had more designed runs and he scrambled quicker. He has athleticism. He had 32 rushing yards, 318 passing yards. That was Against a very good Kansas City defense. The Chargers are three and a half point road favorites in a dome against the Raiders where last year he was the quarterback three when they played there. His weapons are the best he's had maybe in his entire career. I would say definitely in his entire career. I think this version of lad McConkey, Keenan Allen, you know, huge. The two rookies going to include.

[Mike Wright]

Huge.

[Andy Holloway]

Absolutely. I'm going to include.

[Mike Wright]

I didn't know if we were there yet.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, well, I. When he is the third option, when he's literally like the. I'm going to go to Kenan Allen and lad McConkey and you can't stop me all the time. And the defense has to guard that. Oh, now I can throw a deep shot to Cuge. It's perfect for his skill set.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Mike, what do you got?

[Mike Wright]

I'm going with Kyler Murray.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, boy.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he's playing. Yeah, I'll do it.

[Andy Holloway]

It's fine. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

The quarterback seven after week one.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

No, actually in week one. What was he. Because he was. He's QB seven for us Ranking.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

This upcoming week.

[Andy Holloway]

I think he was higher than that. He had a good.

[Mike Wright]

He had two passing touchdowns. The. The. At least the promise of. Or the off season of like, hey, I think Kyler is actually going to run more. He himself said I need to do that. And he did. It wasn't necessarily the prettiest of decisions when he chose to scramble and how it was. It was happening, but we at least saw it. We saw seven rush attempts for 38 yards. They are big home favorites against the Carolina Panthers. I expect the Cardinals running game to get it going, but I also expect that like Kyler, you know, the two passing touchdowns with another 40 on the ground is. I think it's in the range of possibilities we had.

[Jason Moore]

Well, look, Kyler was almost my start of the week. I had him in there. But the guy I think will run more than Kyler and why I moved him into my start of the week was Justin Fields. He takes on Buffalo. We saw that incredible Buffalo Baltimore game last week. It wasn't just the legs against Pittsburgh that were great. He was also number one in completion percentage over expectation among all quarterbacks. Not something you've been able to look to Justin Fields for in the past, but he had the connection going with all of his receivers. 9.9 yards per attempt. It wasn't just dink and dunk stuff. And they play Buffalo this week. The jets do. Buffalo gave up the most yards per play in the NFL in Week 1. Yes, it was Lamar, but I think Justin Fields follows up a good Week one with a great Week two. And I'm excited to see what happens at running back.

[Andy Holloway]

I do not believe this will be a complete rest of season the way that I do think so with Justin Herbert, but it will be a week to success with Travis. ETN coming off a great performance against the worst run defense we've seen in our generation. The thing is, is he's the guy. Now there's clarity. He had 19 opportunities, 31% of the team's total rush attempts and targets. And then it was like, well, is it going to be him? Is it going to be Tank Bigsby? It's not going to be Tank Bigsby. They traded him. So, you know, maybe Tootin gets a little bit more involved, but this is ETN's backfield, especially right now, certainly in Week 2. And if you look at Week 1, how good he was, the Jaguars offensive line ranked fourth in adjusted yards before contact. Now again, that's the Carolina defense, but he gets the Bengals defense, which is pretty close, you know, if you could call it defense. So I think it's a great matchup for him. I don't think Tootin is going to work his way in enough right off the bat in week two. So yeah, ETN's good play. Fire him up. Make sure he's in your lineup.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going with Jordan Mason, Minnesota Vikings running back against the Atlanta Falcons. Aaron Jones had the highlight touchdown, but if you didn't pay attention, Jordan Mason was incredibly involved. He was the early down guy. Mason ended up 13, 469 and Jones was 7 for 21. And the thing that I find interesting about this is they tried at the beginning to have it be Aaron Jones. Like they gave Aaron Jones a couple carries that went nowhere and then Jordan Mason gets brought in and he is the power back. The Vikings are three and a half point home favorites against the Falcons right now. So I love that environment. And just for some more context, like my Dynasty team right now, I have Jordan Mason in my lineup over Kenneth Walker. So like that's the type of play that I'm talking about.

[Jason Moore]

All right, I'm going with Breece hall taking on the Bills. Yes. Back to back Jets. It feels so good.

[Mike Wright]

We're not done yet.

[Jason Moore]

It feels so good. Look, this is. It was very clear in Week one who the lead back was. Not just by opportunity but by talent and juice.

[Mike Wright]

He looked so fast.

[Jason Moore]

He looked great and the Bills just got absolutely gashed. Big Play after big play. And if you look at those Henry big runs, they had room. He had room to, you know, get to that second level. That's when Henry turns on the Jets. And so based on what I saw in week one, you know, the success Breeze had against the Pittsburgh defense, we expected to be a lot better. I think it was a lot about Breeze. I think it was about the offensive line getting it done. And so I think Breeze follows it up in week two.

[Andy Holloway]

My wide receiver start of the week is DK Metcalf in a revenge game. He will be at home, not in Seattle, but he's playing against the Seahawks. And I think he's got plenty to prove. Aaron Rodgers has spoke so glowingly of him this last week. We saw it right, 26% of his routes, he was targeted. He. He had seven targets. He didn't have a great game. Four catches for 83. That's. That's a pretty good game. No touchdown, but he had Sauce Gardner on him for a lot of that. He knows the Seahawks. He's working with Aaron Rodgers. Who. Aaron Rodgers hyper targets. His number one. He's always been. Whether it was Devonte Adams or Jordan Nelson or Garrett Wilson, he can make fantasy stars. And I think this is a perfect matchup for him against Seattle.

[Mike Wright]

Speaking of Garrett Wilson, three Jets in the starts of the week.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, gosh, what are we doing?

[Mike Wright]

What could possibly go wrong here?

[Andy Holloway]

He just.

[Mike Wright]

He was the alpha. 36% of the team's targets. Ends up 7 for 95 at 1. We mentioned the. He was a just a fraction away from a second touchdown. And maybe the Buffalo secondary bounces back because that was just Lamar and the Ravens. However, it was the third most fantasy points to the wide receiver position in week one, allowing 17 yards per catch. I think Garrett Wilson can have another big day.

[Jason Moore]

All right. I am going to go with Keenan Allen against the Raiders this week. That Monday night football game. The tandem with Justin Herbert, he was right back to the target machine we know him to be, which was cool to see in week one, you know, joining this team. He had a better than expected season with Chicago. 28% of his routes, he was targeted. And he has dominated the Raiders historically. I think Keenan is a great play.

[Andy Holloway]

My tight end start of the week, you just picked him up off of waivers. You had to. You had to spend quite a bit to get him good. It's Juwan Johnson against the San Francisco 49ers. You put him right into your lineup. This is probably their second target in their receiving game. Yes, he's their, he's their slot wide receiver. And you don't usually get that from a tight end. That's what we saw in week one. 34 of his 74 snaps were in the slot.

[Mike Wright]

They played so fast.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, 99% of team snaps is awesome, but the fact that he wasn't there to block, he was out there running routes. It was like 96% route participation. Unbelievably great. He was fifth most among all players in week one in those slot snaps. And he, he had a 24% target share, fourth highest among all tight ends. Now you've got a matchup against San Francisco where their defense is not the defense it used to be. The usage is so unbelievable that I'm not really worried about him falling flat. I think his floor is pretty high now. Will he get a touchdown and have a dominant like, oh my gosh, Juwan Johnson won me my week. I don't, I don't expect that with Spencer Rattler, but in a position where you're just not sure if you're going to end up with a point or five. I feel like the baseline here in any kind of half PPR league is like you've got a six point base where if he has a real bad game, it's going to catch enough balls. And if he breaks one tackle, does something special, you can get to double digits pretty easy.

[Mike Wright]

He would.

[Jason Moore]

The mustache is worth the start of the week anyways.

[Andy Holloway]

Is he rocking a mustache?

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

I have seen this.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Hold on, hold the.

[Andy Holloway]

Stop the presses.

[Jason Moore]

He looks chiseled.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man, look at this guy with the mustache. I'm moving him up the rankings right now.

[Jason Moore]

I told you we look, some of our analysis is database, some of it is, wow.

[Mike Wright]

We have a very pro mustache.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm seeing a picture of him next to the character from Severance.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean it's, it's pretty stellar.

[Mike Wright]

The, the solution for poor quarterback play when we're talking about fantasy football is just an overabundance of snaps and plays. And that's what the Saints gave us last week, and that is what Kellen Moore has historically done. My tight end start of the week, it's Kyle Pitts. It is Kyle Pitts. Eight targets turned into seven for 59. That was the, was the tight end 12 on the week. I mean, finishing as a top 12 tight end where you're not scoring like that's. You'll take that because then you actually have true upside. He lined up in the slot on 49% of his snaps ran a route on 81% of the Atlanta Falcons drop backs, which would be. That's fourth in terms of the tight end position. And I expect that Minnesota is going to create a game script where they will have to throw. So Kyle Pitts, I'd stay with it.

[Jason Moore]

All right. I'm going to go with Brinton. Strange against the Bengals. This is a lot.

[Mike Wright]

I like this one.

[Jason Moore]

It's a little about Strange who was involved, very involved in week one, but it's a lot about the Bengals who, you know, until they prove otherwise, I'm going to believe that they don't know the opposing team starts tight ends because they were the worst.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, Harold Fannin, everyone like, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

And Najoka.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I'm saying, like, we're so, the world is so excited for Harold Fannin. I think justifiably so. But it's like he was playing against the Bengals.

[Jason Moore]

Last year the Bengals were dead last in fantasy points given up to tight ends and in week one they're 29th and they give up over 15 points to tight end. So I'm, I'm really chasing that. It's a great matchup, a great situation. The Bengals defense sucks and Britain Strange seems like he's needed and necessary for the offense. You know, he had 59 receiving yards in week one. That was a team high. He caught all four of his targets and he'll probably get another four to five, if not more with the red zone chance. I'm going to go with Britain Strange.

[Mike Wright]

If you lost Dallas Goddard, there's a chance that Bryn Strange was not picked up as everyone went after fan and Juwan Johnson.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Andy Holloway]

Fantasy forecast presented by Prize picks.

[Jason Moore]

We get to talk about that matchup right away. Jacksonville 1&OH travels to Cincinnati, who score who had seven total yards in the second half of their victory, who are also 1&OH and Vegas has Cincinnati three and a half point home favorites. The over under is 48 and a half.

[Andy Holloway]

Very nice.

[Mike Wright]

I believe it's the it's tied right now for the highest of the week. The Green Bay Washington game is also no.

[Andy Holloway]

50S.

[Mike Wright]

No, not yet. They're usually a little, you know, more, more reined in both because we don't know what's going on yet.

[Jason Moore]

Both of these teams were, they're one and oh and yet we were bummed mostly correct by both of them in week one that we thought, you know, we'd see higher scoring affairs. The Bengals offense was incredibly boring. Nothing explosive. They couldn't do anything. Burrow targeted his wide receivers a career low 39% of the time last game. So you had a lot of you had the tight ends involved, right? Noah Fant was getting passes and Kissicki and Chase Brown and then Lawrence, you know, he was okay, but Brian Thomas Jr. It just didn't work out. I think he was like, what did he catch? Two of seven targets or something like that. One of seven targets. Somebody looked that up. But yeah, he was seven targets. Seven targets, one for 11. So not good. And Travis Hunter, he had the most targets on the roster but nothing big. So we're supposed to see him play a little bit more defense this week. But let's start at the quarterback position. It should be. You're playing Burrow, a bounce back for Burrow and Justin Higgins, right?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, for sure. I mean Jaguars last year were ranked dead last against quarterbacks. This is, you know, they might look a little bit more scary if you're looking at your platform like, oh, the strength of schedule. It's one week and they played against Bryce Young who looked abysmal. So, yeah, no one is benching Joe Burrow after one bad week.

[Mike Wright]

But what about Lawrence?

[Andy Holloway]

Lawrence is to me someone that if you're really, really not confident in your quarterback, he is a waiver wire guy that you could put in there.

[Mike Wright]

So let's.

[Andy Holloway]

But he's primarily more of like a 2 QB. I think he's a good quarterback to this week.

[Mike Wright]

So Trevor Lawrence or Drake May.

[Andy Holloway]

Drake may.

[Mike Wright]

Bo Nicks against the Colts.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to stay with Bo Nicks another week.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. And I'll go one tier down. Let's go. JJ McCarthy.

[Andy Holloway]

That's interesting. Yeah, I think I go Lawrence there. JJ McCarthy had such an incredibly good football, but he still showed kind of the early game jitters. The rookie, that was a tough matchup.

[Mike Wright]

Against and now he's at home. Just saying. I think those two might end up closer than people would think.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, they are like back to back in my rankings.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, perfect.

[Jason Moore]

Is that true? NFL NFC offensive player of the week.

[Mike Wright]

He was. I thought it was a little egregious. I mean, he played great for a quarter and he led the team to a comeback. I get that. But someone else had to have been better.

[Jason Moore]

That's what I was trying to think about in the nfc. It's like I'm.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I'm kind of struggling to find something. Maybe that's. That must be why. I mean, nobody's jumping out.

[Mike Wright]

You're right. So it was a pretty blah week of football.

[Jason Moore]

Chase Brown games while the Bengals did not put up the points.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah. I would have gone. Daniel Jones.

[Jason Moore]

Jones is in the afc. Boy.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, God. Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Couple of idiots.

[Mike Wright]

Gotcha. No, that's Jason's fault. He's just throwing out names.

[Andy Holloway]

Derek Henry, guys. Goodness, you know how good he was.

[Mike Wright]

Jason and his conferences.

[Jason Moore]

Chase Brown, 52% of the team's total rush attempts and targets. Look at the workload. Not necessarily at the, you know, Bengals offense in week one that was slowed down frequently. Chase Brown is a must start. Travis Etn's Jason start of the week. Brian Thomas Jr. I said it. Seven targets, just one catch, had a rushing touchdown. He'll be okay. They'll figure out ways to get him the football. Chase and Higgins are in your lineup. Travis Hunter, is he a flex play this week? Would you play?

[Mike Wright]

I think because.

[Jason Moore]

Play him over, Judy. Ooh, Travis Hunter. Like I said, he led the team in targets. He had eight targets in this game. Just nothing. They could not break a big play.

[Andy Holloway]

He was really close to one big broken play. I'm fine. Having Brian Thomas Jr. And Travis Hunter both as like, just wash away week one and expect what you expect with great talent.

[Jason Moore]

That's wild that between them they caught four of 15 targets.

[Andy Holloway]

The thing is about Trevor Lawrence. I don't remember if I brought this up on air or if it was when we were watching football on Sunday or whatever, but he reminds me a lot of Kyler Murray in the sense that he is not a bad quarterback, but he will never be a great quarterback. And they all, both of them, they have their games where they just look, you go, wow, okay, he's figuring this out. Last week, it was not. Trevor Lawrence was not dialed in. But if Trevor Lawrence comes out and looks dialed in against this Bengals matchup, it's going to be a really, really.

[Jason Moore]

I don't know. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

No.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I feel it.

[Andy Holloway]

You're not.

[Jason Moore]

No, I feel it.

[Andy Holloway]

Feel deeper.

[Jason Moore]

I feel it.

[Andy Holloway]

Think more. Andy's almost upset of the week.

[Jason Moore]

Two weeks in a row.

[Andy Holloway]

It's a good sign.

[Mike Wright]

I don't mind it.

[Andy Holloway]

Two, six in a row. A little absurd.

[Jason Moore]

Week one, it hit, though. It covered. I mean, 17, 16 can't be more.

[Andy Holloway]

Of an almost upset than the team that absolutely should have won the game.

[Jason Moore]

Well, by one, I'm going to go with it. We talked about Britain Strange. And then there's too many tight ends in Cincinnati to care about any of them. The Giants are oh and one. They take on the oh and one Dallas Cowboys in a divisional battle. Now, what division is that, Jay?

[Andy Holloway]

That would be nfc. Okay. How about that?

[Jason Moore]

That's a conference.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's.

[Jason Moore]

I'm looking for the division.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, the East.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

How about this? How about this? How about this? Going Back to the J.J. mcCarthy or Christian McCaffrey.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, no, it'd be McCarthy for sure.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Mike agrees.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

That's ridiculous.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, accumulating a bunch of, like, short catches does not win you an offensive player of the week.

[Andy Holloway]

It wasn't even close in the whole offense. He.

[Mike Wright]

He did. But the impact of on the road first start coming back to the fourth, I would.

[Andy Holloway]

On the road getting a win. Yeah. Like McCaffrey.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, not even close. His performance, McCaffrey's performance was not special. No, he does that all the time. He should be at every week then. I mean. I mean, he does that every single week. If you had a breakaway touchdown run or you did something. Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Scored twice to get it.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I mean, Jaden Daniels deserves it over him last week for sure.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Jason Moore]

But you did get the right conference on that one.

[Andy Holloway]

Thank you.

[Jason Moore]

Giants owing one. Dallas owing one. Dallas four and a half point favorites over under his 44 and a half wild fact for you. Dak Prescott has won 13 straight.

[Mike Wright]

No way.

[Jason Moore]

Against the Giants.

[Mike Wright]

No way.

[Jason Moore]

That is 13 straight. That's insane. That is the longest win streak any quarterback has had against a single opponent since. And we can probably remember this one, Brady against Buffalo. There was a time when Brady won 13 in a row against Buffalo.

[Mike Wright]

That's blowing my mind right now.

[Jason Moore]

It really is. It's wild. He is. Yeah. Brian Dable is 0 and 6 against the Cowboys.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, that makes sense.

[Jason Moore]

Well, but Dak hasn't always been there. But they still managed to lose. Look the. On the. On paper right now, you got Russell Wilson starting this game. You know, Tyrone Tracy. If you want to. If you want to look at week one, this was a game where they played the Commanders. Tyrone Tracy dominated the touches and the snaps.

[Andy Holloway]

74% of snaps.

[Jason Moore]

74%. It didn't go anywhere. And Scatterboost didn't either on his limited touches. But Tracy is the workhorse right here, right now.

[Mike Wright]

So he is for now. The hard thing for. For Tracy is with over time, Scatter Boo I believe will eat into the workload. Maybe Tracy remains the 1A or whatever. But are the Giants, you know, as the transition of the Giants are moving from Russ to Jackson Dart, which will happen. I'm not sure which week, but it's like by the time that happens and then we have more hope for the Giants. Has Scatterboo taken into a 1B because if. If Tracy's still dominating the quarter just.

[Andy Holloway]

On this week, just against the Dallas Cowboys, I would.

[Mike Wright]

I don't want to start here.

[Jason Moore]

Here's the problem. We don't have a lot of options at running back in fantasy right now. People are throwing. People are playing Dobbins out there. Would you rather put Nick Chubb out tonight or.

[Mike Wright]

I would play Eckler.

[Jason Moore]

I'd play Eckler. What about Bill?

[Mike Wright]

No, I would play Bill.

[Andy Holloway]

I would play Bill.

[Jason Moore]

I played Tracy.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm starting to think Bill has a better game than Eckler tonight.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, this was after yesterday's. It was like everybody but Bill. Do you want a formal formally Bill Paul, this thing.

[Andy Holloway]

I think if the Commanders have a good game against the packers, it will be because of Bill Crosby.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, we're going to watch. We're going to see Javante Williams. Javante Williams had two touchdowns in Week 1. 33% of the team's total rushing attempts and targets anything over 30% on that numbers truly elite.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you just. If you have like I'd play Javante over Tracy. Oh, of course, the Javante. You'll be playing him. The thing to watch honestly is, is more. Is Jaden Blue still at healthy scratch? Because Jaden Blue is the. He is the threat to Javante. I don't think it's not going to end up being Miles. It's just how long does it take for Jaden Blue to get integrated into this offense?

[Jason Moore]

Javante over Jaylen Warren. I'm fine with that.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I'm fine with that.

[Jason Moore]

Tony Pollard against the Rams defense. You guys talked up the Rams defense. I'd probably play Javante.

[Andy Holloway]

That one's really tough because Pollard looked so good. But the Rams defense is good. Eileen Pollard there, I don't want to get fooled by two touchdowns from Javante. Week one. And also the snap percentage was absolutely elite for Javante. But remember they brought in Miles Sanders and then he fumbled the ball and then they think he got benched.

[Jason Moore]

One carry, it would be two too many.

[Andy Holloway]

But my point is I wonder if the numbers were just inflated week one. If they benched Miles Sanders for losing the fumble there, they should keep benching him. Well, sure, but maybe they don't.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, okay. CD Lamb, George Pickens, put them back out there. Jake Ferguson, it was a big dud in week one. Five for 23. The targets are there. Should have caught a touchdown though. I think you can go right back to him.

[Andy Holloway]

He always should have caught a touchdown, man. It is his, it is his superpower. The way that Jalen Waddle gets injured every game and then comes back every game. No one ever has more in zone red zone targets than Jake Ferguson with no touchdowns. Like you can't just for dude's tired.

[Jason Moore]

Of getting blown up.

[Andy Holloway]

You can't forever say like oh man, if you look at the behind the scenes metrics, he should have like his expected touchdowns is like 800 more than he has.

[Jason Moore]

Well, are you playing him?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, sure.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I mean I think you know the targets, the offense, the. I presume they are favored. Yeah, they're four and a half point favorites. Yeah, he's a fine low end start but honestly a lot of the guys like Juwan Johnson, I would play over him.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I can agree with that.

[Jason Moore]

Malik Neighbors limited on Wednesday. That's probably going to be a thing all season long, but he's going to play. Wandale Robinson. Did not practice on Wednesday. He should be able to play, but not for your lineup. And then Theo Johnson. How disappointed were you in the drops, Jason?

[Andy Holloway]

I was very. I was playing on price picks and I had a projection of one and a half and he didn't hit it. He didn't. He didn't get more.

[Jason Moore]

He should have.

[Andy Holloway]

He certainly should have. He just had two super drops. I mean like, like the guy's never caught a ball in his life. Looking drops.

[Jason Moore]

Those are still probably better than the ones where Judy and Tillman throw it up in the air. Those drops are.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. When you drop it, let the ball go to the ground.

[Jason Moore]

They just bat it down.

[Mike Wright]

That's a, that's like a pop.

[Andy Holloway]

That's a pop.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Chicago, we got to watch them on Monday Night Football. They go to Detroit to take on the also winless Detroit Lions. The Vegas line. Detroit minus six at home. The over under 48 and a half. Ben Johnson's return. Do we think it'll be a good one for Chicago?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man, this game is fascinating.

[Jason Moore]

We did talk about Caleb having good numbers against Chicago fantasy wise last year.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I don't think this is going to go well for the Chicago Bears. The Detroit Lions were borderline humiliated by the Packers. They were dominated at least by the packers in Week one. The coaching staff came out, they were talking about it. Morton was talking about that. We've got, you know, our job is to fix problems. We've got to be better. This is a matchup that I think will tell the Lions we need to run the ball a lot more. I expect the Lions to run. You saw what happened when the Vikings turned to the run in the second half as the Bears started getting, you know, a little bit tired and they, you know, Aaron Jones wasn't working so they brought Jordan Mason and he just started gashing them. That's the heart of the Lions at home. I think they're going to run all over the Bears.

[Jason Moore]

DeAndre Swift received 100% of the team's running back carries in week one. Played 81% of the snaps. The Lions defense normally pretty stout against the running game. DeAndre Swift, you just start him because the workload is going to be there.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's a.

[Jason Moore]

And the passing game, it's a floor.

[Mike Wright]

Play, but he'll get you, he'll get.

[Jason Moore]

You close to 10 in week one. Gibbs saw a lot of work, not a lot of production. Montgomery had 11 attempts for 25 yards, four catches for 18 yards played on 37% of snaps. If you look back to last year. That's about what he does. I mean 38% two years ago, 34% last year, 37% in week one. It kind of seems like Detroit Monty is Detroit Monty, which is play him and if you get a touchdown, you're happy. And this is a game he probably scores.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Is that fair?

[Andy Holloway]

I think that's. Yeah, I think that's very fair. I would not move too far off of Monty from a bad performance last week in this matchup at home. Favored against a run funnel defense.

[Mike Wright]

This the matchup here, you know, just to zoom out, I think we're, we're going to get some answers here of if one of these teams, whichever team, lays an egg, should one of them do it?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, they'll be on to the.

[Mike Wright]

But the panic like if, if Chicago goes and upsets the Detroit Lions on the road. Oh yeah, like that is that will be panic in the streets. Or if the Bears with all everything they put into it and they start owing to. Then you're just going to be like, what do you do with these? What do you do with these, these fantasy players like the wide receivers for Chicago. If, if they put up a game very similar to week one, it's going to be awful.

[Jason Moore]

Well, let's talk about the wide receivers on both sides, starting with Jameson Williams. He played 97% of all snaps. He was out there, had the four catches. I think it was just 23 yards. Are you kind of Jason, with your, your view on Green Bay, how they performed in week one at Lambeau. Are you just kind of whatever you were going to do in week one with Detroit players, you're doing that in week two with Detroit players.

[Andy Holloway]

I think you probably are. Jameson Williams, to me they're. You can, you might have a better option. Right. This is not a good matchup. The Bears passing defense has been really good last year, really good this year. And they should actually be healthier in week two than they were in week one.

[Jason Moore]

What about Debo?

[Andy Holloway]

Or at least they could be Debo tonight.

[Jason Moore]

Debo tonight or Jameson.

[Andy Holloway]

I would play Debo.

[Jason Moore]

Interesting.

[Andy Holloway]

I think that Jameson is just a little on the cusp and the matchup isn't great here. Obviously he's got talent. You could throw him in your lineup and just have an explosive single play that wins your week. But he is a flexible sensation.

[Mike Wright]

Abuka, I'd go Jameson Williams.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It'd be really hard to sit two touchdown in Buka for week two and play Jameson after a tougher week one. I hope to see the Detroit Lions at home golf and Jameson and Amon Rod get things going. The running game get things going on the other side of dunes. They did have nine targets. He was 6 for 37 and a touchdown. That was the target high for the team. D.J. moore had five, but they gave him three carries. He's been used in weird ways. I still like a dunes a more myself, but I blame anybody for going. D.J. moore.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I'm not even sure who I like more, but I like neither. I mean, yeah, I want to see more from Caleb before I can confidently start receiving options there. You know, you might have Luther Burton more involved, you might have Colson Loveland more involved. If you take away the unbelievably great touchdown design.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man. Like that play that was so.

[Andy Holloway]

Those, those, those specific situations are what Ben Johnson like, you know, you're missing Those on your 4th and short or whatever. That play design on the goal line was just brilliant to let a dunes a be. No, you're on the goal line.

[Mike Wright]

Caleb can't miss him.

[Andy Holloway]

You're on the goal line and no one's within five yards of you in the end zone. I don't know how that's possible. Obviously he could do it again and again and again, but he only had 37 yards is my point. He led the team in target, so it's hard for me to trust any receivers there.

[Jason Moore]

Colson Loveland is a cut candidate for you.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I, I had him in a league where I chose to hold on for one more week, but absolutely he was, he was on that bubble of like, if I, if there was another waiver wire ad out there that was worth it, I would have cut him.

[Mike Wright]

We need more snaps and everything before we get into that.

[Jason Moore]

And pay attention to Caleb Williams rushing totals. Week one, six for 58 and a half. Touchdown. So almost. He almost had two touchdowns that turned into the Odunze throw. But he was, he was able to get out of the pocket and take off and you know, it seemed to me when watching this game that the prescription for Caleb was like, if those big plays aren't there, like, quickly look underneath, quickly look to Swift in the. In the flats, quickly look to the tight end position. Try not to hold the ball too long because that was it. He was setting records, taking sacks last year.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, you saw in the beginning of the game, he came out and they had a plan, they had a script. Drop back, get the ball out. Looked awesome. And then as the game got more competitive and the script went by, by then it looked like rookie Year Caleb.

[Jason Moore]

The Rams at 1 and O traveled to the Tennessee Titans who are owing one the Vegas line here lost Angeles minus five and a half. The over unders 41 and a half. That gives the Titans just 18 points. You know, Brian Halley, Brian Callahan had the very embarrassing press conference not understanding that an elbow does equal two feet. Sean McVeigh obviously gets it going on offense for Los Angeles. Cam Ward pretty tentative in week one. They were 28th in pass rate on first downs. They were, they were doing the boring, boring handed off every single time. Problem with that plan is you get behind and then you look even worse and you just. It kind of was the opposite of what we saw with JJ McCarthy struggling in the first half. I feel like they just went hyper conservative with Cam Ward and needed to give him more opportunities. I had a lot of people jump out and you know, get all over us for saying, hey, he wasn't inaccurate. There were a lot of drops by his receivers.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

It kind of depends on the, the metrics you look at.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure. Like catchable target rate which was very bad.

[Jason Moore]

That one was. That one was bad. But there were.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he wasn't good. He was and I don't blame him in his first game against the Denver Broncos defense, but he wasn't.

[Jason Moore]

He only completed 1 of 12 passes over 10 yards.

[Andy Holloway]

So that should tell you 43% passing completion rate and he threw a lot of short ones.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, blame, blame who you want, but Cam Ward. It was a debut performance against the tough defense and we seem to, you know, the Rams are probably a tough defense as well.

[Andy Holloway]

He's got a follow up performance against a tough defense. Now he's going to be at home, which might be a little bit nicer. But the Rams looked awesome. They completely shut down CJ Stroud and I expect them to completely shut down Cam ward. They scored 12 points last week. I don't think there's anyone outside of Tony Pollard that I would want to play in this game. Tony Pollard is not a great play.

[Mike Wright]

Still no Ridley then?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think so.

[Jason Moore]

No. I think you just watch Ridley and you watch I.O. manor.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm not dropping. I would, I would have signed I.O. manor. I would certainly keep rostering Ridley. This isn't the matchup for him. I'm just going to watch.

[Mike Wright]

I mean we love the 32% target share for Calvin Ridley, but need more catchable.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And then I am an was at 37% of first read targets. Puka, Devonte, Adams play them always. Kyren play him and There you go. That matchup's not very complicated.

[Andy Holloway]

I love the Rams. I love the Rams. Every week, here's what we say. It doesn't matter the matchup. We just say, go ahead and start Kyron, Puka and Devonte. Then like, let's not.

[Jason Moore]

We never say Stafford.

[Andy Holloway]

No, because Stafford because. You want to know why? Because Kyron Williams gets a touchdown on the goal line every week no matter what, no matter how inefficient, ineffective. When they get down, there they go. I know what works. Kyron at the goal line. And it works every time. And that means Stafford doesn't.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, my gosh. He did do that in week one, didn't he?

[Andy Holloway]

100%. He just.

[Jason Moore]

For some reason I forgot it. I was like, except for week one. But no, he did. New England. Owen one. Miami. Owen one. The Vegas line. Miami minus one and a half. They are favorite in this one.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, all right.

[Jason Moore]

The over unders 43 and a half. That's not a lot.

[Mike Wright]

Did that change because we had talked about the New England? They were favored in so many games. Did that flip or was this already?

[Jason Moore]

I imagine Miami State favored at home in this one. It's close though.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Kyle's confirming it was already this. Okay.

[Jason Moore]

New England two has had their number seven and oh against New England in his entire career. TUA had a brutal week one. I imagine it gets better in week two at home. It couldn't have looked worse in week one. So I think, you know, we've seen enough of tua. Not every game's been like that. I think it gets a lot better. So that means better things for Achan, for Waddle, yes, for Tyree Kill. But it's really a matter of where you slot those guys in compared to other options now. It's not an auto start situation anymore for either of those guys. I mean, I was more like Tyreek Hill. We've seen. The trajectory wasn't shocking that it was a tough week. It was much more disappointing to have Jalen waddle sitting at 4 for 30 in a game where and go out half hurt again. I mean, it's just I'm kind of getting done with that song.

[Mike Wright]

And he has the Chicago boys or the Miami boys.

[Jason Moore]

I kind of lean the.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm on the Miami boys side. I. We've seen.

[Jason Moore]

No, I'm going to take Chicago.

[Andy Holloway]

We've seen. All right, let's think about this.

[Jason Moore]

To be clear, all of this displeases me.

[Andy Holloway]

Total receiving fantasy points. These are what has total receiving fantasy points. Dolphins versus Bears. Me versus you.

[Jason Moore]

Wait, wide receivers or are you talking about tight ends?

[Andy Holloway]

Tight end.

[Jason Moore]

Just a tandem.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. Just the tandems?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, more.

[Andy Holloway]

Just more on a dude.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. That's hill and tight. You don't feel so good no more.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't feel great about it.

[Mike Wright]

He was trying to sneak.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I wanted a chance number something.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andy Holloway]

That's why I said receiving. But I'll take. I'll take the two pack.

[Mike Wright]

The two pack of Miami 2v2. Oh, man.

[Jason Moore]

All right. I want to hear you say go Dolphins. Then I'll hit the button.

[Andy Holloway]

Go Fins Waterbed.

[Jason Moore]

All right. A chance. Definitely a start. Where are we with Travion? I believe that Mike Vrabel came out and said, look, we need to get him into space. Last week you saw that as you know, he had six catches, but it was for 24 yards. Didn't have enough space after the catch.

[Mike Wright]

No, he really did not play 35% of snapshots. The Henderson.

[Jason Moore]

Is he a buy?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think you can, but I think you can. He absolutely is a buy. Go see if you can get him.

[Jason Moore]

Ask if you could buy Caleb Johnson.

[Andy Holloway]

When we were watching. Yeah, you can. I mean, you could just buy him off the waiver.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. If you got like two fab, you can get.

[Jason Moore]

If you're disappointed in a player like people drafted Travy on high. It is possible to leverage a high performing week one player for a low performing week two player.

[Andy Holloway]

Especially if you did not watch the game. When you. When you look at the underlying metrics and you're like, well, Ramondre was the dude. You know, he was playing so many more snaps, got so much more work, which. Which he did. But when you watched the game, there was. It was like, oh, it's coming. It's. You just watched each handoff and go, yeah, it will not be long until Travion Henderson is at least 50, 50. And that's, I think, all he needs to be a regular fantasy start. The question, do you start him in this game? I think so.

[Jason Moore]

Henderson, you can flex Henderson?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

If you're in a half or a full.

[Jason Moore]

I play him over Ramondre, I'll tell you that.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, Ramondre played 65% of the snaps, had 10 opportunities. Trayvon had 11. And it was just, I mean, Ramondre 7 for 15 on the ground. Henderson's 5 for 27. It's a matter of time.

[Jason Moore]

I have a league where I have to play Ramon Dre. I actually have two leagues that I have to play Ramon Dre if sleeper let put in retired players, I would play a retired. I'd play.

[Andy Holloway]

Which one would you.

[Jason Moore]

I'd play a retired Ronnie Brown.

[Andy Holloway]

You wouldn't go to, like Aaron Foster? You're.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, sure.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

I think he's trying to say how low I would go.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I would play a retired committee back.

[Andy Holloway]

All right.

[Jason Moore]

Right. So, I mean, Joy Bell, welcome to the lineup.

[Andy Holloway]

I miss Joyk Bell. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

That was like a fun year.

[Jason Moore]

Stefan Diggs was not very involved. Kayshawn Booty continued to be heavily involved.

[Andy Holloway]

He's probably one of the number one guys I'm keeping my eyes on this week. I picked him up. I paid a lot to pick him up. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm starting him this week, but if he comes out and leads the team in targets the way that he did the second half of the year with Drake May and the way he did in week one, then from here on forward, I will see him as the.

[Jason Moore]

Do I need to speak to a therapist about Ronnie Brown's name coming into my head that quickly? Is that a problem?

[Andy Holloway]

What did you think when it came into your head? Why?

[Jason Moore]

I did say why. Yeah, Wildcat Ronnie Brown.

[Mike Wright]

I like it.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Your RAM just fired off it. Found something.

[Jason Moore]

My ram?

[Mike Wright]

The. What do you guys think? So Stefan Diggs ran 33 routes. You know, he's on the field for 41% of the snapshot, but in that time, he did see seven targets. He caught six of them for 57 yards. So the.

[Jason Moore]

Pay attention.

[Andy Holloway]

It's.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he didn't really look like himself in those targets to me. He looked more like just kind of an underneath option.

[Mike Wright]

Later career of taking like it's going to take Stefan Diggs some time to recover from the knee injury. I just wanted your.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he was 6 or 57. I mean, that's not.

[Andy Holloway]

It's not bad on 40 some odd percent of snaps. If he works his way to 70, 80% of snaps and becomes the number one for this team, that wouldn't be shocking. It would be fine for a PPR league, but I don't think he has the ceiling hopeful upside that someone like Booty might have.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's take a break. We'll jump into some more matchups.

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[Jason Moore]

What's left of the 10 49ers take on the New Orleans Saints, who are also 01 San Francisco 3 point road favorites over under is just 40 and a half points. We're going to get Mac Jones and.

[Mike Wright]

That'S Shanahan finally gets his guy.

[Jason Moore]

It's going to throw a little bit of concern into the mix, I think, for expectations for San Francisco's offense. Saints are at home. Christian McCaffrey did not practice on Wednesday. They're resting the calf.

[Mike Wright]

He should literally sleep from now until 10 minutes before the game kicks off. However long it takes him to stretch and warm up.

[Jason Moore]

That's when he should just be in like a chamber. Yes, that's a funny idea because this can't get hurt if he's just in a sleeping pod.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I mean, don't tell him what he can't do. I mean, Jason can hurt himself sitting.

[Andy Holloway]

I have to imagine the way he was able to handle 31 touches last week.

[Mike Wright]

Was it really 31?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I mean he was, he was a. He was Christian McCaffrey. He was just the entire locomotive of the train here and he has been clearly siphoning the health of other players. It and he's going to run out of players to take help from. It's draining too fast.

[Jason Moore]

So Jennings, Kittle and Purdy were three. So 31 touches. That's the three he took from.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And so I'm happy Pearsall's out wide. You know he's a little further away from the running back position.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you're saying it's a proximity thing.

[Andy Holloway]

That's right. That's what I'm saying.

[Jason Moore]

And he sucks.

[Andy Holloway]

Probably going to be an O lineman. It's going to be an O lineman issue. How is any O lineman injuries right now going on soon? Okay.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. McCaffrey, you know, he was not great on the ground last week. No 3.1 a carry on 22 carries. He was great in the passing game. And you will have Mac Jones behind center. I mean, I. It doesn't change how you're playing Christian McCaffrey. It just. I think there'll be a few. A couple fewer targets personally, because I think Purdy just. He's got that internal clock that goes straight to Christian McCaffrey after a certain amount of time in the pocket. But Mac Jones, if he was wise, would do that. I think we've only had one game in the last three years where Purdy wasn't on the field and McCaffrey was. And I think McCaffrey had a couple fewer targets in that one game. It's not a good sample. So that's just my speculative.

[Andy Holloway]

This is the guy Shanahan wanted. Mac Jones over Trey Lance. The speculation that that was originally his target, now you get. You might get the chance to see how that works out. Ricky Pearsall was going to be my start of the week. I think his. His metrics have been really great the last four games dating back to last season. He's number three in the NFL in total yards. It's scary with Mac Jones there, but Mac Jones did hyper target Brian Thomas Jr. Last year. To me, that says I'm going to go after the most talented guy on my roster and just see what happens. And if that's the case, I don't think that's hyper targeting Ricky Pearsall, who's good. I think that is actually just constantly checking it down to Christian McCaffrey.

[Jason Moore]

We also saw Brian Robinson's acclimation. It was 24% of the snaps and 11 opportunities. You could see that go up a little bit. I don't know if 31 touches is going to be frankly sustainable for McCaffrey.

[Andy Holloway]

It won't be sustainable, but it'll go north. It'll be like 45 this week. Just everything. I'm surprised he's not playing quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

So if you took an over under on 31 touches, I'm going to take the under.

[Andy Holloway]

No, you take the undertake the under because that's an absurd number. But but he will get way too much work.

[Jason Moore]

I don't think you're playing anybody else on that team. I think it's Pearsall, CMC and that's it.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Juan Jennings on the other side. You're starting the week at tight.

[Andy Holloway]

You're not going to throw out Tonjas McBasketball.

[Jason Moore]

Tonjas MC basketball will not be out there.

[Andy Holloway]

I just need to get the name in.

[Jason Moore]

Alvin Camara. Play him. Close your eyes, don't watch.

[Mike Wright]

Correct.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

I hope he gets more work in the receiving game. That was the only thing that was concerning. He looked good on the ground, had a great touchdown run and shockingly like his. His snap percentage blew me away. I thought this is the year where he's going to be like 50% of snaps but heavily involved in the receiving game. And it was like, nah. How about you play 80% of the snaps?

[Jason Moore]

Camara, Olave, 13 targets.

[Mike Wright]

I think Olave, I feel like you have to whisper it, but Olave, I. If you can buy him cheap, I.

[Jason Moore]

Will find some start sits for me with Olave.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, how about him versus both the Dolphins and the Bears?

[Mike Wright]

Guys I would play.

[Andy Holloway]

I feel like a lobby is a better play than the four of them.

[Mike Wright]

I would chase the volume.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Buffalo is one and oh, they take on the 0 and 1. New York Jets. The jets, who have three starts of the week despite being six and a half point home underdogs. The over under is 46.

[Andy Holloway]

For the record, I have none of them.

[Jason Moore]

You would like it on record?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, noted.

[Jason Moore]

How about your dynasty team? Do you have any of them?

[Andy Holloway]

I might have Breeze Hall.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, we've got Fields, hall and Wilson. It's a consolidation in New York.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it really is.

[Jason Moore]

That's what makes you. And the fact that they can move the football and that Buffalo was willing to let people move the football on them. We did get the news that James Cook was limited with a hamstring injury on Wednesday. So we're monitoring that. Keon Coleman still limited. He was dealing with the groin injury. They're going to protect him. I imagine he'll play. He played 94% of the team's routes. He only averaged 69% last year. And so Keon Coleman or Pittie City? After what you saw in week one from both of them, Keon Coleman was. He was really good.

[Andy Holloway]

They're both, I think going to be 11 targets weekly. Important assets. That being said, Pittman against Denver, we'll have a much more difficult week. So I would go Coleman here.

[Jason Moore]

Jerry Judy against Baltimore, Keon Coleman Mike.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man.

[Jason Moore]

I think I'm really chasing Coleman.

[Mike Wright]

I think I would go.

[Andy Holloway]

Coleman not chasing him that much. Let's talk about a trade offer I made to Andy and see how you go.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, fine. Let's air it.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, let's air this out. It's not. So you've always hated Travis Etienne. Say he sucks. Yeah. We went into week one saying we're going to see who the starter is, but we're not going to overdo the production because it's Carolina.

[Mike Wright]

Sure.

[Andy Holloway]

But then he's the running back three and he produced a lot.

[Mike Wright]

I feel like we're really hard selling Travis etn.

[Jason Moore]

Right? Yeah. This is him signing.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm trying to buy Travis etn.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he is.

[Andy Holloway]

I offered Keon Coleman the wide receiver two from last week.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. And what else?

[Andy Holloway]

And Austin Eckler. Austin Eckler and Keon Coleman. Travis ETN for Travis etn. How do you feel about that? That was the trade. That was the whole trade.

[Mike Wright]

How loud was his laugh? In your face.

[Andy Holloway]

Really? This way. I want you. So. So that means. Mike. Yes. Fantasy hitman.

[Mike Wright]

You believe I told you guys in etnac, I said I have to be in on etn, and that sucks.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, that makes me feel so glad that that's on air.

[Mike Wright]

I. I admit it. I admit when it's wrong.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but you admitted it in Slack. Now it's on air.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I would.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I would have.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I did turn it down. I did turn it down, Mike.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. I just.

[Jason Moore]

I've got wide receivers I needed. I needed a running back.

[Mike Wright]

Well, yeah, that's part of the issue too, is everyone needs.

[Andy Holloway]

You said to me, do I need running backs? You need wide receivers. That's why. That's what started the whole thing.

[Jason Moore]

I have. I have Dobbins and Chubb. If you want them, they're available.

[Andy Holloway]

Ah.

[Jason Moore]

So, yes, I have quantity. But I would like the quality of ETN over those two guys.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. If that was Chubb Hubbard, then yes, but it.

[Mike Wright]

I. It is. It is a crying shame that it is not, because that name is awesome. Chuba is still a very great name.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

But if you could walk around saying my name is.

[Andy Holloway]

We'd have some good audio drops for that.

[Jason Moore]

Fields, Hall, Wilson play them.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

Josh Allen. Of course. Keon. Yes. Kincaid. Do you buy in? Would you play Kincaid or Juwan? That was.

[Mike Wright]

I played Juwan.

[Jason Moore]

Frequently asked question.

[Mike Wright]

I'd play Juwan. I would play Ferguson. I'd play Fannin.

[Jason Moore]

Last year, the jets defense was real bad against. Or I guess that was Last week. Last year they were very good against tight ends. Last week they were bad. But Kincaid. Yeah. The targets aren't going to be what Juwan's will be.

[Mike Wright]

Four targets in a complete.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. No, we got to move on from Kincaid as a guaranteed, you know.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. You can stream him.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. You're playing pits over him. Obviously.

[Mike Wright]

I would.

[Jason Moore]

If James Cook was somehow out due to the hamstring. Is Ray Davis the play? Is it?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. If he was out, Ray Davis would be the play. I don't expect him to be out at all. He finished this game. This was a Wednesday. If he's. We'll, we'll see. If he's.

[Mike Wright]

If you have James Cook, are you hitting the wire and picking up Ray Davis right now?

[Andy Holloway]

Personally, I mean, if I've got an extra roster spot, sure. But I'm probably not going to have someone on my roster I would be willing to drop for him if. If it. I mean, right now we'll find out soon before waivers run tomorrow. If James Cook, if he's, you know, not practicing on a Thursday. Yeah, I'm definitely making.

[Mike Wright]

I'm with you that I believe that Cook does play. I'm just saying of the. Not just holistically. If.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, he'll be limited today.

[Mike Wright]

Again, if your guy has a hamstring injury going into the weekend, would you prefer to put the. Because Ray Davis. If James Cook doesn't play, Ray Davis would be incredibly sought after.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. One more game here. Seattle, Pittsburgh games in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is one and oh the comeback win. Seattle oh and one. Pittsburgh is three point favorites, 39 and a half point over under. That is low. Very low. Two good defenses or at least supposed to be two good defenses.

[Mike Wright]

Steelers defense is good anymore.

[Andy Holloway]

They certainly weren't against the jets last week. But they. I will say this. They have personnel to be good. They've got coaching to be good. So I do believe they'll get that figured out.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was. It was a really rough week one for the Pittsburgh defense. No question about that. Last year they were top half in fantasy. Points given up to quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers. DK Metcalf was your start of the week. Jason Jackson, Smith and Jigba should be everybody. Start of the always seems like it. And when you look at the running back situation, this is when you kind of, you know, Jaylen Warren, I think probably is the running back you'd feel the safest with in a home matchup where you're favored of all. Of all the running backs on both sides.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

But for sure. But I mean, beyond that, you know, you're not playing anybody else in Pittsburgh. Kenneth Walker, I can't imagine anybody feels like there's nobody that feels good about putting him in their lineup this week.

[Mike Wright]

No, it would be.

[Jason Moore]

I'd play Charbonnet over him.

[Mike Wright]

I think I would, too.

[Andy Holloway]

I would play Charbonne over him, but I'm not looking forward to playing Charbonne. I don't think he's going to. This. This appears to be a 50, 50 spot.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, Bruce hall had a good time and I found real good time last week.

[Andy Holloway]

Kenneth Walker is to me, much more the Breeze hall style of back, where it's like you get that little crease and then you go versus the Charbonnet. Charbonnet is more like the Braylon Allen type of back where it's. I'm the big guy that's going to move the pile. So stylistically, Charbonnet's. I don't think he comps to Breeze. If looking at last week, I'm just.

[Jason Moore]

Looking at the yards given up to running backs.

[Mike Wright]

Matt Williamson had pointed this out on X that the Steelers have allowed 27.6 points per game since week 13 of last year.

[Andy Holloway]

Like, it's been total fantasy or like, score, score. Oh, okay.

[Mike Wright]

I'm saying of the. Like, are. Are the Steelers still a good defense? I know that's not the, you know, like. Well, we're not forever since week 13, but it's like that's a. That's a sample at the point where you have to start asking a question.

[Jason Moore]

Well, to be fair, if you look at the schedule.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Who is Philly, Baltimore, Kansas City, Cincinnati.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's. That's tough.

[Jason Moore]

So those are probably the four best offenses in football, but if you are.

[Mike Wright]

If you're a great defense, that's not happening.

[Jason Moore]

Well, this game, Seattle's only projected for 18.3 points and they're not missing a starting quarterback. You know what I mean? They have their full allotment of offensive weapons. So we'll see if this game ends up just disappointing for fantasy all the way through. It kind of feels like it might. That's, you know, one week into the season, Seattle, they did a pretty good job on the defensive side against White.

[Mike Wright]

House, 5 to 20 defense.

[Andy Holloway]

What about John? Who? Smith.

[Jason Moore]

I'm just watching.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Jason Moore]

To see if he's more involved. People wanted us to talk about Calvin Austin's first week performance. They felt like we missed out on that on the waiver show.

[Andy Holloway]

He had a good performance. He seems like you're going to need a big play. Touchdown. You know, a similar stylistically player not, not the body wise at all. But like Rashad Bateman. We're going to get a few targets. You're going to get a bomb or two. You could have a big play in a great fantasy day, but I think very low floor and this is a low over under. I'm not going to chase it here.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he was 15.2 a catch last year. That's on the higher end. 17.5 in week one. That fits the Bateman style that you're talking about. Quick temperature check here on Sharbs. Would you play Sharps or Dobbins against the Colts?

[Andy Holloway]

I've got Dobbins one spot ahead.

[Mike Wright]

My gut says Dobbins.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

Enjoy the football, everyone. See you tomorrow. Goodbye.

[Andy Holloway]

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[Mike Wright]

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