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Andy Holloway
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Jason Moore
Welcome in Friday, September 12th. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, the Fantasy Footballers. Back with you, Deucers Alley is full of producers and we got a show for you today. We've got more matchups for week two. We have news to catch you up on. We have a game to recap and a lot's going on in the world of fantasy football. We're going to try to help you with your start sit decisions today and it's a good time to remind you that if you venture to our YouTube, YouTube.com the fantasy footballers, you can subscribe, watch the show and most importantly, click that bell so you know when Mike is live. One hour before kickoff.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
On Sunday as we prepare those final start sit decisions for week number two. How are you two gentlemen doing this Friday morning?
Andy Holloway
It was a. I thought it was a very fun game. I mean it was strangely one sided and yet the score, like the magic of football is that one team can feel like they're dominating and you're like, oh, they're down one touchdown. How is this even possible?
Jason Moore
And, and yet know that they Wouldn't win.
Andy Holloway
Yes. Yes. It was like both of those were true, of course. And I mean, some. Some big performances and unfortunately some big injuries.
Mike Wright
A couple of really sad injuries.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
You had Jaden Reed on a touchdown catch, which was a great touchdown that he sold out for. Caught, secured it, survived the ground. His body survived the ground. And then unfortunately for Fantasy, for him and for the packers, that was a penalty on the play.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Which a lot of times you see those and you're like, come on, come on.
Mike Wright
That was a penalty.
Andy Holloway
That's him in a full chokehold.
Jason Moore
I.
Andy Holloway
Okay, that's fine.
Jason Moore
Yeah. So he got hurt. That was very frustrating. And then Austin Eckler, even sadder Achilles tear at the very end of the game. He is going to be done. And we may not. We may not see Austin Eckler again.
Mike Wright
I would. I would doubt it. I mean, we've talked a lot over years about Achilles injuries specifically for running backs are darn near impossible to come back from. If you do, it's usually a, like a two year process before you look the same at 30 years old.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
I'm guessing. And Austin Eckler is a friend of the show. Absolutely adore him.
Jason Moore
Oh, you could see it on his face.
Mike Wright
He was just.
Jason Moore
He was just sitting there basically saying, like, come on, man.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, come on, man. Yep. Was a big.
Mike Wright
And you knew it right away. That's one of those injuries you don't always know with. With an acl, it can look like it or an mcl, but with Achilles, you don't. You don't need them to go. Usually you're like, you don't need them to go. Get an MRI to know exactly what happened. It's like, oh, that was an Achilles.
Jason Moore
It feels like I don't have any data, but it feels like a really bad year for Achilles. Like, it just feels like across all sports, like, we've had a lot of Achilles.
Andy Holloway
Oh, you like, like basketball.
Jason Moore
Other sports, like if they're. Yeah, basketball. And we just have had. We've had to see that quite a few times in athletes. I don't know if they're training different or it's just. Yeah, it's just what happens. Leading receivers for the Washington Commander, Zachary. Six for 64 and a touchdown on eight targets. Debo. Seven for 44 and a. Garbage.
Mike Wright
Do we have the button?
Jason Moore
Oh, we do.
Mike Wright
Yummy, yummy, yummy.
Andy Holloway
That was the stinkiest of garbage.
Jason Moore
We were in our, our.
Andy Holloway
Oh, man.
Jason Moore
In our live chat with the office and I, you know, Mike needed some garbage from Jaden, I wanted some garbage from Debo and we were begging for.
Mike Wright
It and we both got.
Jason Moore
We got that yum yum garbage in.
Andy Holloway
That dumpster head first.
Mike Wright
Gobble up all those nasty brown banana peels.
Jason Moore
We, we also should talk about the fact that this, you know, the Eckler injury happened late in the game. They could not run the football at all, including Jaden Daniels. I mean the packers defense is a swarming.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
It feels like they're playing with an extra three guys on the field at all times right now.
Andy Holloway
And Mike is still not full time.
Jason Moore
No, it's. It's wild.
Andy Holloway
Goodness.
Jason Moore
But one of the big stories we had kind of said on Wednesday we would play basically everybody over Bill. Just didn't feel like the matchup for Bill was good. Yesterday. Jason did come out and say that he. I'm going to. Let me just fill in the blanks here. You said that if Washington had a good game that you felt like Bill would have a good game. They did not have a good game. Bill did not have a good game.
Mike Wright
Well, Bill only got four carries. What kind of surprised me. And you saw this the week prior to, you know, against the packers where it's like the heavier running back is the one that you kind of need to use in this game. And so I was just surprised they didn't go to Bill a little bit earlier. Obviously you got down quick and then.
Andy Holloway
You have to loves his old guys.
Jason Moore
This is exactly what I expected for Bill in this game, that there was almost going to be no opportunity to run the football and third downs would be Echler and you know, we'll see brighter days ahead for Bill. Certainly Eckler's going to be gone. You might see Chris Rodriguez back to the active Robinson active.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. We'll sort through the mess as we get to the waivers, but seems like.
Mike Wright
They could use Brian Robinson pretty bad right now.
Andy Holloway
I mean it's like Jeremy McNichols will probably take on the pass catching role. So I. While the people who drafted Bill, you know, like are seeing a new opportunity in front of you. Just. We'll see. I'm going to pump the brakes on it of like everything goes to Bill and this team. Washington probably needs to trade for a running back.
Jason Moore
Yeah, they may do that. We have on the other side. Look, this game could have been much bigger for Jordan Love. He had 292 and two barely missed. Matthew Golden Goose who had two deep targets that were just barely misses. They would have been long touchdowns. I think you're going to see A lot of big games for Jordan Love this year. He was very close to my fantasy mvp. He was very close to a my guy.
Andy Holloway
They were chucking.
Jason Moore
That's why. That's the exact reason. The willingness to. The play calling in Green Bay is outstanding. The fact that, look, you can't expect Jordan Love and Matthew golden to be on the same page instantaneously. I think that changes over time, especially now the Jaden Reed is out and you're going to have to spread the ball around, but they just have so many weapons. Tucker Kraft, 24 and a touchdown, seven targets and really looks like a top five tight end candidate rest of the season.
Andy Holloway
Tucker Kraft. Look, we're only two weeks in, but I mean over the draft season it was like for me, the big three guys. And then after that I just wanted to wait on Tucker Kraft and that is feeling pretty good right now is that the dude is just, he is a yak monster. Like he is yards, he just, he goes rumbling and stumbling down the field. And number one, very hard attack, Number.
Jason Moore
One last year in yards after catch, yards after catch, per catch.
Mike Wright
He's very much. He's got that George Kittle in him of like, I'm, I'm just going to, I'm, I'm not afraid of any of you. I'm stronger. I'm going to hit you. I'm going to keep running. It's. It's great. Josh Jacobs obviously was awesome. And my favorite part, obviously they had to get more receivers involved once Jaden Reed went down. So you saw both tight ends get involved. You saw Don Tavian Wicks out there talking about hands. Dude, that's what I was going to bring up. The funniest, the funniest thing to me was in slack last night when you point out, you say what Don Tavion Wicks is on the hands team.
Andy Holloway
Like, that's right, people. The team believes that Wicks can catch, which he did. He got four of his six. He was four for 44. It was. This was the normal Green Bay Packers. It spread out. Jay, you said you're like, who do you think is going to catch the touchdown? If you bet Romeo Dobbs, then you won. You got your touchdown. We'll see if the targets are more consolidated a bit here, though, with the Reed injury.
Jason Moore
You're going to see more Savion on the field as well. With Jaden Reed leaving, he looked explosive. Yeah, he's got. They'll probably get him the ball in some, get him some better cleats, some yak opportunities. All Right. It's Friday.
Mike Wright
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Jason Moore
Just to conclude the conversation, Jaden Reed was formally put on IR with a fractured collarbone. They expect six to eight weeks and back towards the end of the year.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Juan Jennings, still not practicing on Thursday. Shoulder injury, worked on the side. James Cook, good news. Upgraded to a full practice on Thursday. Just kind of got a day off and he's back out there with the hamstring. Same with Malik Neighbors. Upgraded to a full practice on Thursday. And well, this is kind of how we live our lives in Miami. But Mike McDaniel says Jalen Waddle should be available for week two, but not Darren Waller.
Andy Holloway
How many plays will Waddle be available for?
Jason Moore
How many plays?
Mike Wright
I'm going to guess three and a half plays and then the rest of the game once he comes back.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
What are you hearing about Xavier Worthy, limited practice?
Andy Holloway
I personally can't imagine that he plays this week. And honestly, if he plays, I would be really, really scared to put him out there. Get him, get at least another week of practice, get used to his new armor that he's going to have to wear on that shoulder. But it's overall, it is good news.
Mike Wright
It's great news. It means you don't expect him to miss four weeks. They're not putting him on ir. Obviously they don't have a designation of very limited in practice, but that would be, my assumption is that he was like there. But, you know, his, his injury would, I mean, it would be shocking to me if he plays this week.
Jason Moore
All right, what else do we have going on? We have Brock Bowers.
Andy Holloway
We're on Brock Bowers watch.
Mike Wright
Brock Bowers is serious. So they're on Monday Night Football game, which made it real tough. We had people saying, do I start Tucker Kraft last night? We don't have any information about Brock Bowers. I think the general wisdom was you wait for Brock Bowers and then it's like whoops. Craft goes off. However, because it's a Monday Night Football game, that means that yesterday's practice report, which was Thursday, is really just the normal Wednesday in the cycle where a lot of veterans or anybody banged up, you get the day off. I saw more information that led me to believe that it's possible this is a like a PCL sprain that could be a weeks long injury. So really, truly right now we're just on Brock watch. You have to if you've got Brock Bowers, you need to be on the waiver wire today, get someone to replace him and then keep in mind you might need to replace him on Sunday. Not knowing, you know, unless you want to, you know, take the shot at Myers or something.
Jason Moore
There is an injury blitz episode. We release it every week for JoinTheFoot.com supporters and Premier Tier and above. Matthew Betts, our injury expert, will go over that. It comes out this afternoon and you'll want to avail yourself of his opinions in terms of any breaking news and updates. Dallas Goddard did not practice again. Evan Ingram though was upgraded to a full practice. Evan Ingram maybe playing some football this week. We get to see another week. And then I just got this news coming through that Rashad Bateman was not present at practice on Friday.
Andy Holloway
Interesting, interesting.
Jason Moore
And we saw same with Patrick Ricard still missing time.
Mike Wright
The fullback there, Quinch on Judkins did participate in full practice on Thursday. So he's going to practice in full Thursday. On Friday. There was a report that he will play on Sunday without limitations. Really hard to imagine having the I'm.
Jason Moore
Starting to have the ability to imagine him playing a bunch.
Mike Wright
So I have him in two or three leagues and in one of those leagues it's a question now it's like, oh, because I don't have good options and so I don't sit there and go quinch on Judgins. You got to get him in your lineup immediately because what if he gets the workload? But if you don't have any good options.
Jason Moore
You want a bad question?
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Do you want to feel pain?
Mike Wright
Oh, that's all I want right now.
Jason Moore
How about I ask you Quinch on Judkins if he's active in starting.
Andy Holloway
Of course.
Jason Moore
Or Kenneth Walker.
Andy Holloway
I'd play Walker.
Mike Wright
I would play Walker as well.
Andy Holloway
No, we're not there yet with Kenneth Walker. Let's take it a little easy.
Jason Moore
Nick Chubb over Quinch on right now. Yeah. So he's still a desperation running play for week one.
Andy Holloway
I look process wise results may vary. Quinch on judkinshawn. Judkins may vary. He literally could have five carries and two touchdowns.
Mike Wright
Side effects include nausea, like vomiting, diarrhea, you don't know.
Andy Holloway
So I mean for me and my teams, I'm playing a guy who I know is going to touch the ball 10 plus times.
Jason Moore
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Mike Wright
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Jason Moore
Yesterday we covered the Jags, Bengals, Giants, Cowboys, Bears, Lions, Rams, Titans, Patriots, Dolphins, 49ers, Saints, Bills, jets and the Seahawks. Steelers ball game. So if you want to hear us break those games down for fantasy, just tune into yesterday's show and you can. It's just sitting there waiting for you. All right. Today we're starting off the Cleveland Browns with quinch on Judkins. Oh and one traveling to Baltimore for the battle with the Ravens who are Owen one and at home and awful loss. Angry, very angry and will really, really easily win this game. Vegas line Baltimore minus.
Andy Holloway
Oh come on.
Jason Moore
Eleven and a half.
Mike Wright
Oh man, that's do it, Andy.
Jason Moore
The over.
Andy Holloway
No, no, do it.
Jason Moore
No, not even close.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
I don't believe it.
Mike Wright
I'm taking them to cover though. 11 and a half.
Jason Moore
I'm not really.
Andy Holloway
I had it. I had it in there forever. In our, in our weekly picks. I'm like it's 11 and a half. You always take the points. And I went it's at Baltimore.
Jason Moore
I think It's a mike 11 and a half. The over under is 44. That gives the brown 16 points. It's a tough situation to be like, hey, I'm going to go chase Dylan Sampson or Judy Tillman Fannin. I don't like it. I really don't. I just you could have some targets, you can have some high passing volume. I think that is something you can bet on. But I'm not sure that they are going to have a lot of first downs in this game. You may see I'm just not on the brown side.
Andy Holloway
I'm still fine with the volume. Joe Flacco threw the ball 45 times last week. He's probably going to throw the ball before 45 would be the floor. I would say like this could be a 50 attempt Joe Flacco game. So there will be, there may not be touchdowns but you know, you're talking.
Jason Moore
Five how many attempts last week. So out of 45 attempts. We were not happy with Judy. We were not happy with Najoku. We got the touchdown for Tillman. We were happy with Tillman.
Mike Wright
We were happy with Tillman and Fan.
Jason Moore
And who no one started but now they're going to try to.
Mike Wright
Nijoku was fine. He was a little disappointing because we hoped for a big week. But then also you had fans. Fannin was. Was very good.
Jason Moore
He was 3 for 37. I'm not fine with that. Okay. And I don't think you should be either. Jason, I think. Where's your standards, man? Tied in 23 in week one.
Andy Holloway
Where's the Jalen Warren line for David Joe?
Jason Moore
Three for 37. Running back, three for 37. No, that's miserable.
Mike Wright
I didn't remember it was that bad. Okay, okay.
Jason Moore
Well, I'm correcting you.
Mike Wright
That being said, I do think you look at last year, the Ravens defense would you say was good last year? Yeah, they have a good defense, but for fantasy purposes, because they've got such a great offense, teams have to throw a lot. They were 23rd against quarterbacks, 28th against wide receivers. And so if Joe Flacco goes out there and throws the ball 50 times, someone's catching those balls. Whether it's Tillman, I think is a pretty fine play. Judy, okay, Najoku, I'm still probably starting all of those as kind of. Najoku is probably in and the wide receivers are flex options that you've just got to look at. Who else you have. The real question here is people spent hard on Harold Fannin and that one feels a little scary for me to throw right into the lineup after one week against the Bengals, who we knew going in are historically bad.
Jason Moore
I would play Fanon over Najoku.
Mike Wright
You would play Fanon?
Jason Moore
Yes, I would. Because I think the way they utilized Fanon in the types of little designed stuff in the. In the flats and out of the backfield. It's just the junk, little guaranteed targets. And I feel better about that right now.
Andy Holloway
I don't hate that take. I'm. I would. I'd still play Najoku, but I like. I think they are Both playable as top 12ish tight ends.
Jason Moore
All I know is that, yeah, you're right, somebody's going to have a. There'll be a couple players have a good game for the Browns, but not all of them, right?
Mike Wright
Yeah. No, certainly you're not going to be happy with Judy Fannon, Najoku and Tillman. So the question is now running backs. You've got Dylan Sampson last Week had eight targets. If you're in a full ppr, you're off. You're off everybody.
Jason Moore
All of them this week. I'm off all of them this week. We're not. We're not going to get the run. To run the ball that much. I mean, you could. You could roll the dice with Sampson hoping you get targets, but I don't know what the Judkins utility will be. I feel like it's a wait and see weekend for Cleveland.
Mike Wright
Yeah, I would. I would prefer that route. If I were to start one, including Judkins, it would be Sampson. I mean, Sampson last week was the running back. 16 in half PPR. You know, when you get eight receptions, eight for 64 is a good wide receiver.
Jason Moore
Yep.
Mike Wright
So they're going to have to throw the ball a lot. I'm fine starting Sampson.
Jason Moore
You play Lamar, you play Henry, you play Zay Flowers. But is that the end of the story for Baltimore this week?
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Isaiah likely is practicing. We will see what his status is going to be, but with.
Mike Wright
I don't think he was.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I think he's working on the side.
Mike Wright
I think he had his helmet, which was like a big deal.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Mike Wright
So I don't think he's, like, practicing.
Andy Holloway
Those things are pretty heavy.
Mike Wright
They're pretty heavy. Especially if you put that Guardian cap on. You know what?
Jason Moore
In front of some people, NFL needs.
Mike Wright
To institute a universal everyone must wear a guardian cap rule because honestly, it might be better for players, but when no one else does and one guy does, you just look so stupid. You just look so stupid out there.
Jason Moore
And Dobbs did it.
Mike Wright
Yeah. So we just want. I want them all. Because then it's like, hey, you know, you're all looking the same.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Or just. Can we just get a better helmet? Can we just get a better helmet?
Mike Wright
Right. I think they've been trying.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Denver.
Andy Holloway
I think if we had a path to that, the NFL after concussion cake, they would have figured it out.
Jason Moore
I'm not sure the Guardian caps are.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
I don't know.
Jason Moore
Are effective.
Andy Holloway
I don't know if they are.
Mike Wright
We don't know.
Jason Moore
I remember reading some stuff. There might be some marginal tiny bit of data difference, but I feel like.
Mike Wright
They can make them look better, though. Like the same exact guardian cap. I feel like they're doing a bad job with the logo on it or something.
Jason Moore
I don't know. I think it's because they have giant heads.
Andy Holloway
It's bumpy.
Mike Wright
Right.
Andy Holloway
So they have to, like, put a sheet over the bumpiness and they're doing their best, Jason. They're trying to protect their brains.
Mike Wright
I'm just telling them to protect all of them.
Jason Moore
All right, we are. We're going to take a break. We'll be back. The rest of the matchups coming up, starting with Denver.
Andy Holloway
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What's up, Foot Clan? This episode is brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube TV. Watch every game, every Sunday all in one place. And now get NFL Sunday Ticket month to month and Cancel anytime@YouTube.com fantasy footballers local and national games on YouTube TV NFL Sunday Ticket for out of market games excludes digital only games. Base plan required. Renews every month during the 2025 regular season. Only your membership for the following month can be canceled anyt time before your renewal date. Terms, restrictions and embargoes apply. Commercial use excluded. No refunds. The Denver Broncos limped to a victory in week one. They are one and o they traveled to Indianapolis who looked great in week one. Also want to know? Vegas has Denver one and a half point road favorites over under a 43 and a half. Didn't get the offensive performance from the Broncos we were hoping for in Week 1. But the Colts got everything they could have ever dreamed from Daniel Jones, who was very, very, very good in week one.
Andy Holloway
So this Johnny Taylor disagrees.
Jason Moore
Johnny Taylor disagrees that Daniel Jones was good.
Andy Holloway
No, he disagrees that Daniel Jones got the production that everyone wanted, right? He stole. He stole from Johnny Taylor right at the goal line.
Mike Wright
You know I would have made a bigger deal about that because I've got Jonathan Taylor and two touch vultured. Really, really upsetting. However, Jonathan Taylor had two opportunities to get the touchdown before they gave Daniel Jones and that second one it was like he I couldn't believe Jonathan Taylor didn't get in and one guy tackled him. So shame on you for allowing that. Tackle Daniel Jones. It was a punishment and a deserved punishment.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Daniel Jones. Two touchdowns on the ground, 22 for 29 through the air last week. Tough task facing the Denver defense, certainly. By the way, the last time Jonathan Taylor played the Broncos, he had that huge long touchdown run where he fumbled it.
Andy Holloway
Oh.
Jason Moore
Dropped the ball backwards before he crossed the goal line. He does not want to get in there. Yeah, but I did. I did. I look, I said it would be Tyler Warren getting some of these tush pushes. It was Daniel Jones that got them. That will be something in play all year long when you have Daniel Jones, because, hey, they worked. They worked and that's what happens. But Jonathan Taylor did look good in week one. Let's talk about the quarterbacks. Bo Nix, a lot of people drafted him fairly high. Is he right back out there completely giving him a pass on the disappointing week one? Is that your approach, Mike? Are you looking to find somebody else? He was the quarterback, 27 in week one.
Andy Holloway
There were two different questions.
Jason Moore
Sorry, go on the.
Andy Holloway
I am putting him right back out there. I am not giving him a pass of like. That was a really pathetic opening performance of just all these trick shots of Bo Nicks.
Jason Moore
A bunch of dude, perfect stuff.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Like he's on the run. He's like, check this out. You're like, zoom, bro. Set your feet. Set your feet. You're not Patrick Mahomes yet. Just.
Jason Moore
It really felt like he got full of himself.
Andy Holloway
Set him. Get your mechanics in and make a good throw. So I'm not giving the pass it, but I am going to play him again this week.
Mike Wright
It'll be really interesting to see how. Because the Broncos look terrible and the Colts looked great, but the Colts also played the Dolphins, who look terrible.
Andy Holloway
So it's like tbd.
Mike Wright
Is the. Is the Colts defense somewhat responsible for what we saw against the Miami Dolphins? We don't really know yet. We didn't expect the Colts to have a great defense, but I think there's an opportunity here for them to present difficulties for the. For the Broncos in the Colts. This is. They were. They were in Indy. So this is. They stayed home, home and home here for Indy.
Andy Holloway
Right. So wide receivers for the Colts. Michael Pittman's last three games, 9 for 109 with a score 6 for 72, 6 for 80 and a score. Now, the Denver Broncos defense is different. Do you have Jay, you're kind of now the resident Michael Pittman.
Mike Wright
I am. I've got him. I've got him. I go to you. I believe in him. I think he's Yes. I think he's going to be a wide receiver to this entire season.
Andy Holloway
He's still a player.
Mike Wright
He is not going to be in my lineup this week.
Andy Holloway
Okay. Who are you putting in over so.
Mike Wright
Currently and this is my league of record roster. I have Pittman on the bench. I have Keon Coleman and Cedric Tillman in the Broncos defense is really, really good. Passer Tan came up on the injury report with a groin so I'm monitoring that. But assuming certain is there with the Broncos defense, I think Pittman is going to be great this year. This is not a matchup.
Jason Moore
I'm looking at playing him.
Mike Wright
I think I go Pittman there. Stefan Diggs didn't even play half the snaps.
Jason Moore
He's got targeted.
Mike Wright
Yeah, no, he was. Well, sure. But Pittman had a better game last week.
Andy Holloway
Sure.
Jason Moore
Keon Coleman.
Mike Wright
I would continue putting Keon Coleman in ahead of Pittman. That's one of the players I have in my lineup ahead of him.
Jason Moore
I made you a trade offer for him.
Mike Wright
I did see that. I have not rejected it. But I'm going to reject it. But I haven't yet. It was a fair offer. Well, I was going to look at countering, but I left it there to.
Jason Moore
You're good. Yeah, I thought it was okay. People probably want to know what it is.
Mike Wright
I don't remember. Do you?
Jason Moore
I believe I offered you Travis Hunter.
Mike Wright
Oh. It was the third round pick.
Jason Moore
And Nick Chubb for Keon Coleman in the third round draft pick.
Mike Wright
Yeah. The third is way too. People might not understand the value of our league, but a third is way too much for that. But it was a fair trade. I don't think it was bad.
Jason Moore
Way too much or fair. It's a tough. It's tough.
Mike Wright
It wasn't.
Jason Moore
Is that what you were laughing at?
Mike Wright
Exactly what I was thinking.
Andy Holloway
When I say It's a real 5 to 10.
Mike Wright
When I say it's a fair trade, I mean it was not.
Jason Moore
Well, let's see if we can get something done.
Mike Wright
It was not an egregious offer.
Jason Moore
No. I mean Travis Hunter. If I offered you Travis Hunter for Keon Coleman straight up, what would you do?
Mike Wright
I. Oh, man, that's interesting because we know.
Jason Moore
We know what the draft is.
Mike Wright
What week is Waldron fired? Okay. That's my biggest question, man. That's a good question.
Jason Moore
I thought about it and then I was like, I don't know if I want to do this.
Mike Wright
I don't either.
Andy Holloway
Wow.
Jason Moore
So I didn't.
Andy Holloway
Don't ask me.
Jason Moore
Mike.
Andy Holloway
What do you Think I'm not involved.
Jason Moore
All right. Jonathan Taylor, you play him. Dobbins and Harvey, I would expect to see pretty much the same thing as last week. Personally, I think Dobbins will be a good play when he scores for Denver and Harvey will be a limited snap high upside player. Do you have any difference of opinion from week one to week two, Mike?
Andy Holloway
I don't think so. There was some press conferences where they were talking about we had some disappointments on offense and then highlighting that they were very pleased with RJ Harvey. That doesn't mean he's going to get in there more. It's, it's, it's bidet like six targets in the first half. If that's really what Sean Payton's going to do for the time being, which is bizarre. But this is how he's going to run the offense. And until Harvey's a sketchy play, until we see that transition to being Dobbins and R.J. harvey at the top.
Jason Moore
Cortland Sutton a 24% target share in week one. Play him. But do you play Franklin, Mims or Brian or just wait?
Mike Wright
I think you wait.
Andy Holloway
I think you have to wait. The Marvin Mims snaps of the preseason did not continue and he was down to a halftime player. So I mean look, 53% of snaps for Mims, I guess is.
Mike Wright
It's still an upgrade.
Andy Holloway
That's an upgrade over last year. But it was not the, it was not the hope that we saw in the preseason.
Mike Wright
And you don't know if that's him still coming back off that injury he suffered late season and he's getting worked back into the role that he had prior to that injury or whether this is. It's basically Cortland Sutton and then packages with everybody else. And honestly that's what I expect going forward. Unless someone just demands that they are winning on every route. I think it's going to be Mims and Franklin and a little bit of Pat Bryant until, you know, we only.
Jason Moore
Got one touchdown from Knicks last week too. So if we can get a better performance for the offense, we'll have this discussion.
Mike Wright
Those guys are best ball players.
Jason Moore
Tyler Warren is a dog.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Jason Moore
Play him and then Evan Ingram or Johnny Smith this week.
Mike Wright
What would you do, Johnny?
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I don't think.
Jason Moore
I don't want to mess around with the injury. Right.
Andy Holloway
Correct.
Jason Moore
Carolina's own one. They travel to Arizona one zero Vegas line. Arizona minus six and a half at home over under 44 points gives Carolina 19 implied points. Arizona 25 and a half. You'll be happy. The game's in a dome. We've got. Well, maybe. Maybe they'll have the roof open, but probably not because it's hot.
Andy Holloway
It's a little hot.
Jason Moore
It's a little hot. All right, we're home. The Cardinals are home. The Panthers. Everything that happened in Week 1 for the Panthers was depressing to me.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
There just wasn't any semblance of what we saw at the end of the year with Bryce Young. It's, you know, the Cardinals are heavy favorites in every game where they're six plus point favorites. Here's Kyler's numbers. 251 passing yards, 71% completion percentage. And the Cardinals covered the spread in eight and 12. Eight of 12. So hopefully he looks better. He was very sick last week. We are going to take solace in the fact he was sick because we were sick when we watched him. There is some good indications that maybe they're going to use Marvin Harrison a little bit better this year so far through week one.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Kyle tweeted out. The Borgogan tweeted out the difference in his routes and the uptick in crossers in crossing routes was. Cross your fingers that, that. I'm sorry. Yeah, I know I can't power through. I'm sorry for that. But we need that to stick. That was the problem with Marv last year is everything they drew up for him was difficult and we need him to get easier. Just pitch, catch and then let your top five talent do what he does.
Mike Wright
I think it was really heartening. Like going back and looking at his utilization made me excited for Marv going forward. And I think in this matchup you could pretty much start every single Cardinal. That's questionable. Kyler is a great start this week. James Connor, goodness gracious. The Carolina Panthers are the worst run defense we've ever seen at this point in time. Marvin Harrison is locked in and while I don't.
Jason Moore
Trey McBride.
Mike Wright
Yes, Trey McBride, of course. Well, I wouldn't sit there and recommend, hey, start Trey Benson.
Andy Holloway
I think in a pinch.
Mike Wright
Yeah. If they're. If you're like on a. If you're a 0 RB team that has to start someone, you can easily see how it could get done in this match.
Andy Holloway
I agree.
Jason Moore
33% of snaps, that is the tied for the highest snap percentage of his rookie year. Trey Benson, Chuba. You play him because he's a good running back and it just works out for Chuba no matter what happens. Tet McMillan. The targets were there, the production.
Andy Holloway
He dollied it. He had nine Targets. He caught five of them.
Mike Wright
Okay, I like it.
Jason Moore
Yeah, okay.
Mike Wright
I like it. Redemption.
Andy Holloway
I had to put.
Mike Wright
He was working.
Jason Moore
He's one of eight first round wide receivers to see nine plus targets in their first game. We knew he would be the guy. Jason, you admitted yesterday you have you went from Xavier legged apologist to despiser in 24 hours.
Mike Wright
I mean in 22 seconds. Just watching the game like I really.
Andy Holloway
Wanted that one play was, was just preposterous of the like all wide receivers dragged the feet and he was just like doodle do. I'm going to stroll through this catch.
Mike Wright
He had five yards.
Jason Moore
Yes.
Mike Wright
To get that second foot down and he's just. I'm gonna run right out of bounds. He's not a good wide receiver. I mean I, I wanted.
Jason Moore
He's not.
Mike Wright
I want to. He's a great athlete.
Andy Holloway
Athlete.
Mike Wright
He was so impressive his final collegiate year. He's a first round NFL draft pick. The opportunity is in front of him going into year two. He reminds me situationally a lot of Keon Coleman.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Mike Wright
And it's like okay, I'm going to bet on those guys. I'm going to take shots. And I drafted a lot of Keon Coleman. I drafted a lot of legate and I feel like one weekend we've got our answer. One of them stepped forward and one of them stepped out of bounds.
Jason Moore
Yankee, I was hoping you'd go there. Philadelphia one and oh taking on the Chiefs in Arrowhead. Chiefs are owing one Vegas line here. Philly minus one and a half road favorites. I don't know if we have an answer to this question. Kyle, if you're listening, I mean when have the Chiefs been home underdogs like.
Mike Wright
In the Patrick Mahomes era.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Like have we had that in years?
Andy Holloway
That has to.
Jason Moore
He's going to look it up. I don't know if it's ever happened at least in several years. This is the super bowl rematch and we've got the Eagles as favors favorites. So 46 and a half point over under. This is. You know, Patrick Mahomes was pretty good in week one from a fantasy perspective. Right. He was 24 for 39. He ran a ton six for 57 on the ground. We don't know if we'll have Xavier worthy or not. We think we probably won't. Hollywood Brown dominated target chair in his absence. Juju will be involved. I've already told you. TYQUAN Thornton will 42 yard for a 42 yard touchdown in this game.
Mike Wright
So that means you're starting him over most questionable pieces.
Jason Moore
See, I was asked that question and what I what my.
Andy Holloway
Because that is a guaranteed 10 points.
Jason Moore
It is a guaranteed touchdown. But when I make a touchdown guarantee that is really. It's a really a heart decision. So if you want to move them up in your ranks via your heart and believing right. You can do.
Mike Wright
It's not. Not your analytical ranks.
Jason Moore
Yeah, a touchdown guarantee. I mean this is. He's also going to catch a pass on the first drive. Just so you know.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
If you need that.
Andy Holloway
Is it the touchdown?
Jason Moore
No, no, just a catch.
Mike Wright
See the first touchdown of the game.
Jason Moore
We'll find out. I got something to watch in this one. So I wonder what we'll see from Travis Kelsey this week.
Andy Holloway
Man, it was week one is like. It's devastating, honestly. The fact that worthy goes out immediately and then Travis Kelsey ends up with four targets, two for 47. Yeah, he caught the touchdown. But that is an 11% target share for Travis Kelsey For a team that then fully featured Hollywood Brown.
Jason Moore
It was early. It was early when it happened to Worthy. So you can look at this and say, hey, let's design some stuff to get Kelsey involved again.
Andy Holloway
Well, I mean that's the. But the thing about Kelsey is you don't even fully design it. It's the. Okay, here's the route. We know we're going to go to Kelsey and go do something like.
Jason Moore
They got shut down. Yeah, they got shut down.
Mike Wright
Most recent example, obviously these teams played in the super bowl. In that super bowl you had Xavier worthy who had 8 for 157 and two was the star and Travis Kelsey over there 4 for 39 in the super bowl. Obviously this is. I mean he's a low end start for me. There are guys I would play Juwan Johnson over Travis. Kyle Pitts, I play Pitts over Kelsey.
Jason Moore
Hawkinson, I play Hawkinson over Kentucky Strange.
Mike Wright
That one I'm. I think I would. I think strange's floor is higher but Kelsey's I would go Kelsey over.
Andy Holloway
Did you say fannin?
Jason Moore
Nope.
Mike Wright
I would play Kelsey. I'm not as bullish on fan and after one week I am super bullish on fan and rest of season. But this, this week I'm not confident enough yet.
Jason Moore
Isaiah Pacheco. Do we have a pacheco problem? Since returning in week 13 last year, six games played total, he scored 26 fantasy points, 3.7 yards per touch. He has not looked like the Pacheco of old.
Mike Wright
Those I think on a per touch basis he's okay. But he is not Getting the utilization. I mean he had five carries. They are splitting this work up three ways. Now if they just split it up between him and Hunt, you cannot play him. If they're splitting it up three ways, you certainly can't. And if you're playing against the Philadelphia Eagles, he's like a must bench. Like honestly, I think Trey Benson is a better play than Pacheco.
Andy Holloway
This I was going to say. I feel like we have a pretty good barometer of Ken Walker versus yeah, Ken Walker. Ken Walker or Pacheca. Okay.
Jason Moore
The, the answer by the way, they have not been home underdog since 2022. So it's been a really, really long time. Mahomes or Herbert?
Mike Wright
Oh, I'm Herbert.
Andy Holloway
I'd play Herbert.
Jason Moore
Baker or Mahomes? Baker plays Houston.
Andy Holloway
In Houston, I would play Baker.
Mike Wright
Me too.
Jason Moore
Justin Fields against Buffalo Fields on the other side. Simple enough. Jalen hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. brown, Devonte Smith. Put them in your lineup. Dallas Gutter might miss the game giving some more targets to the wide receiver position.
Andy Holloway
Historically they have done very, very, very well.
Mike Wright
At what point would you pick up Dotson? Like let's say you come out and.
Andy Holloway
Dotson is morning in my guillotine. It had to be done.
Jason Moore
Wow. I was going to say probably never.
Andy Holloway
But maybe for context people, three catches a guillotine league is. Are we 17 or 18 teams?
Mike Wright
17 teams.
Andy Holloway
So that is a very, very deep roster. But I think the I think Goddard being out is at least interesting for Dawson.
Jason Moore
Sunday night Football The Falcons at oh and one taking on the one and o Minnesota Vikings Vegas line has Minnesota minus three and a half. The over unders 44 and a half. One thing I noticed this week was the, you know, J.J. mcCarthy was not a high draft pick in fantasy but man was that fun to watch. And so people I've noticed really, really want to start him. They really want to find a way to get him into their lineup.
Andy Holloway
I you know, I think this week it's okay. I'm not going to force him into my lineup. But I think that the BO Nix or JJ McCarthy I think is a fair and interesting question.
Mike Wright
He's a consistency score of an A who 100%, 100% of his game.
Jason Moore
How was the first half consistency score?
Andy Holloway
That doesn't matter. It's how you finish, brother.
Jason Moore
Offensive player of the week.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Just outpacing Daniel Jones from the afc.
Mike Wright
Yeah, it is interesting. This is a matchup you certainly can roll the dice with. So if you want to play and have fun, I think I think JJ McCarthy is a fine play. The Falcons defense is not nearly as good as the Bears defense that he faced last week. This is their home opener. They're favored by three and a half. They're projected for 24 points. A lot of, you know, feathers in the cap of being a fine start.
Jason Moore
So Jefferson's in, Hawkinson's in.
Mike Wright
And I think Hawkinson's important to say like he had a terrible first week and I am holding.
Jason Moore
Oh my gosh, I hope his numbers are better than Nijoku. Oh, they're very similar. Three for 15. That's. That's worse. You're right, that's worse. Big week. Sorry. Go on.
Mike Wright
No worries. But Hawkinson, I've got to give it at least another week. I will have him in my lineups if I drafted. They were.
Andy Holloway
Their rate of passing was much lower compared to what we're normally seeing with Kevin o'. Connell. It might take a couple of weeks to get that back up to speed.
Jason Moore
We did not see anything from Thielen. He had no catches. He had a two by conversion. Jordan Mason was Mike start of the week. Aaron Jones was the RB 12 on 11 opportunities. If you were staring that decision down, a lot of people probably took Aaron Jones and maybe got Mason later. Who would you start, Jason?
Mike Wright
I would start Aaron Jones. Still. I think he's the vet. I also.
Jason Moore
Oh, I know he's the vet.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Mike Wright
I think he gets the veteran treatment and will have the first opportunities. This run defense I think is still even a little softer. And then the passing work to me is still what scares me on the Jordan Mason side. Jordan Mason, I think has a higher probability of getting a rushing touchdown in this game and would be a great start for that reason. But outside of like if he doesn't get a touchdown, he could end up with 70 yards, have a great game, look great, and you'd be really disappointed in fantasy if he doesn't catch the ball, you know. So that's where I'd rather have the more ways to score for Aaron Jones.
Jason Moore
Let me ask you a question. If you had to rate the Falcons offensive performance in week one, one is the biggest sad face possible and 10 is. You're grinning from ear to ear. On the count of three, I want to hear the number that you would define from what you saw on film. So 1 to 10.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Mike Wright
Can we use decimals or. It's got to be whole numbers here.
Jason Moore
Whole numbers. Whole numbers. 3, 2, 1, 5. Okay, so we're kind of in the middle. Did you not participate oh, no, I was setting you up. I'm the host. Sorry.
Mike Wright
Do you want an answer? I would love your answer.
Jason Moore
Five.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
Okay. So, Bijon, let's talk about Bijan for a moment because we may have seen the reception mask something interesting. In week one, he was amazing in the passing game and if that continues, you're never going to have a problem. He was 6 for 100 through the air, but he was only 12 for 24 on the ground. And the bigger thing that has been brought up, or maybe not brought up enough, he really split the work with Tyler Algier in the backfield.
Mike Wright
He split the rushing work.
Jason Moore
Just to be clear. It's stupid.
Mike Wright
It is stupid to. I wonder how much of that was game plan. Obviously, they. They know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers very, very well. They know Vita Vea. They know how difficult it is to run on the Buccaneers defensive line. And so during that game, Bijan wasn't sharing the field that much. He was 83% of snaps. You love to see that. He was just half the time he was a wide receiver and then he split the running back carry. So this will be really interesting test to see if. Does it go more 70, 30 rushing attempts or is it still more 50, 50 rushing attempts, which would then be very, very well.
Jason Moore
They are facing a terribly, terribly difficult rushing defense. Probably worse than last week. I mean, you're going to have Jalen Carter back and Sweetie don't like running on the Eagles. Oh, I am a Vikings.
Mike Wright
You scared me. Oh, I was. I was wondering why Carter got traded.
Andy Holloway
They are.
Mike Wright
The Vikings are a good run deep for sure.
Jason Moore
Last year they were six against the run and I put Philadelphia in their place.
Mike Wright
Yeah. In week one, they were sixth against the run. Last season they were third against the run. They're. They're a very difficult run team as well. So hopefully the nice thing that we saw from last week is that if you're in a difficult matchup for running backs, then just throw him the ball. Just get him out in space. So I. There is, you know, a piece of me that can see how that could be worrisome, but I think it's a beneficial thing. It's like Devon H.N. you, you don't have to worry about how good he is on the ground usually because he's used as much as a wide receiver is.
Andy Holloway
And it wasn't that they were 50, 50 in carries at the end of last year. Talking Algier and Bijan, but Algiers still in a lot of those games after the bye week got a lot of attempts. I think that what happened was Bijan was very ineffective, and they said, okay, we'll try Algier. And then Algier was very ineffective. The. It comes down to catching the ball. So Bijan's still fine.
Jason Moore
Kyle Pitts is your start of the week, Mike.
Andy Holloway
Yep. In a. In a world of needing tight ends, I think that he. He should be an okay play. Now it's I with the news. That sounds like Darnell Mooney might play. That does create a downgrade in my mind to Kyle Pitts.
Jason Moore
Mooney and London were limited on Thursday. We'll follow the injury reports today, and we'll take a break. I'll try to remember which teams are playing each other. Tron.
Andy Holloway
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Mike Wright
I would like you to meet Ares, the ultimate AI Soldier.
Jason Moore
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Andy Holloway
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Jason Moore
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Andy Holloway
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Jason Moore
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Mike Wright
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Jason Moore
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Mike Wright
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Andy Holloway
Because it's spread out.
Jason Moore
7Pm Eastern, 10pm Eastern.
Mike Wright
East coast get wrecked.
Jason Moore
Wait, I want to ruin your Monday. Oh, guess what you get Monday night.
Mike Wright
Is it Tuesday morning? Tuesday morning football.
Andy Holloway
Is everyone canceling work on Tuesday?
Jason Moore
How do east look? We're west coast guys.
Andy Holloway
Best.
Jason Moore
Thank you. And I don't. I really don't know that. How does this work? I mean. Hold on. Is Kyle on the microphone? Can we record Kyle? He is, yeah. Kyle, you're back in Georgia. East coast, where Jalen Carter played. And how do you survive? I go to sleep. Oh, you don't watch it?
Andy Holloway
Big football fan, Kyle.
Jason Moore
I watch in the morning before you guys wake up. Okay?
Andy Holloway
Yeah, but you don't get to live in the.
Jason Moore
I just thought maybe East Coasters just. They just always stay up three hours.
Mike Wright
Later than Most of them do. Kyle is a very responsible father at 10pm start.
Jason Moore
That's wild.
Mike Wright
I am happy that it's a. That it's a double header. Mostly because I am worried about watching the Texans this year. For fun's sake.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, like they. For funsies.
Mike Wright
For funsies. They've got such a good defense and right now their offensive line looks so bad that I'm worried that whether they can move the ball or not. And so I think you're going to end up with a lot of really ugly games. Not that like if I'm a Texans fan, I'm not pessimistic on my season outlook. I'm just speaking solely as entertainment of football. It's worrisome.
Andy Holloway
Thankfully this is. I mean, at least last year the Bucks were a team we would exploit through the air.
Jason Moore
Tampa Bay takes on the Houston Texas Tampa one in week one. Houston lost. The Vegas line is Houston minus two and a half. The overrunners 42 and a half. This is the early game. So yeah, I mean it was not encouraging in week one. C.J. stroud and company like not having Joe Mixon finding their way on the run with the running game. Like I think they do need to commit to somebody a little bit more. They seem to be saying that they're going to do that with Nick Chubb, who actually was pretty good on the ground. When you think about the game script and the fact that this team was, you know, they lost a really low scoring, nasty game 14 to 9 against the Rams. They finally started giving him the football. He ended up 13 for 60. They talked about him needing to get going. I think this will be a really defining week for whether Nick Chubb is a viable fantasy player rest of season.
Mike Wright
Well, the utilization will be there for Nick Chubb. They did figure that out. They came out afterwards and said they need to get him more involved. If you look at the rushing attempts broken up over the course of the team, yeah, Chubb only had 48%. That was still the vast lion. Like Daria goomba. Walley had 7%. Damian Pierce had 11%. Woody Marks had 11%. So it was mostly Chubb. The issue here is again, this is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Vita Veer and Jalen Carter. So how can you possibly stop.
Andy Holloway
This is the team that just like they on the ground. At least they stopped Algier and Bijan.
Mike Wright
So. Right. Yeah. And they have for years. They've been a tough team to run on. So Nick Chubb, that style. Stylistically, I don't love it. I do Think he'll have the work? I'm not going to after this week. Use this week's success as a barometer for whether Nick Chubb will be a good fantasy option. I think he'll have better days ahead.
Jason Moore
Mike Evans, one weekend. Just play him and see how it goes.
Mike Wright
Yeah. Mike Evans has never been honestly the most consistent wide receiver. Even over the course of years. When you go back to when you had a wonderful. My guy pick of Mike Evans finished awesome. Still had so many down weeks. He had eight targets, 51 yards. It wasn't, you know, it wasn't great. But certainly you're going to keep playing him.
Jason Moore
Emeka Abuka, two touchdowns every week. I think we know that'll always happen forever.
Mike Wright
I do have him.
Jason Moore
He's on pace for 34, right?
Mike Wright
34 touchdowns. That's what my projection has.
Jason Moore
Good. Bucky Irving, 76% of snaps higher than any single game from his rookie year, including involvement in the passing game. I think it's going to be a really nice week for Bucky.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, you needed to. If you drafted Bucky, you just after week one was not what you hoped for. I mean, it ends up not being the worst fantasy output, but you can at least wrap yourself in the blanket of his usage.
Mike Wright
Oh, man. Rashad White had three opportunities in the game and Sean Tucker had one. This is Bucky's backfield.
Jason Moore
All right. Kate Otten, don't worry about it.
Andy Holloway
No, Baker, he's still, he's still fine. As a top 12 play.
Jason Moore
Nico Collins did not see a single deep target. They were, you know, Stroud was really under fire in that game. I mean, they scored nine points.
Mike Wright
I do think they're going to. You know, when you watch film, a lot of this was on Stroud, and I don't necessarily blame him. I mean, if I were taking the snap, I would just start running the other way every time I got the ball. The offensive line is, is so, so bad. This is a good defensive line across from them, so there's some worries there. But you can throw on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I expect Stroud to figure some stuff out, step up in the pocket, look better. Nico is obviously still going to be in your lineup. I mean, he, he should have been one of our starts of the week. Just to make sure people are confident and not over worried with a bad week.
Andy Holloway
Why don't you do it?
Mike Wright
Okay. He's my start of the week. I've got two.
Jason Moore
Okay. Jaden Higgins had his first game. 11 routes. We'll see what happens in week two, he's a wait and see and watch and hopefully, I mean, we all want to see the Texans offense give a sign of life. Right now they seem like they just never, never showed up.
Mike Wright
I'm hoping for over 60% snap for Jaden Higgins.
Jason Moore
They have not topped 23 points scored since week 12 of last year. The Texans.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
I mean, that's how it feels.
Mike Wright
It is how it feels. Their offensive line is such a problem. I feel like it's offensive. They need to, they need to just be running with two tight ends every single play and let Nico go figure out double coverage.
Jason Moore
All right. The Chargers and Raiders, they're both undefeated. Los Angeles heads into Las Vegas to take on the Raiders Vegas line. Chargers minus three and a half. The over unders 46 and a half. Both offenses look good in week one. You know, Gino was 71% completion percentage, 362 passing yards. He's got players to take deep shots with. Right. With Thornton and Trey Tucker. He's got the underneath guys, Myers and Bowers. And we'll see what happens with Bowers this week. He had a 10.6 yards per attempt. If you compare that to. Look, I said Caleb made some good plays. I think he was at 6. So it's nice to. I like it when players are willing to chuck it.
Mike Wright
So Jacoby Myers is such a good play. And what we saw in week one, especially with the immediate departure of Amari Cooper, you know, that that gave me a little bit of worry of like, okay, well, Brock is the one. He's the number one target. Jacoby is probably the two. But now you've got Amari Cooper. Amari Cooper's gone. Jacoby goes out and has 10 targets, catches nine of them. I think he's going to be excellent this season. This week you might not have Brock Bowers. So Jacoby Myers becomes extremely important.
Jason Moore
Does that make you have some confidence in starting somebody else as well when they're at home and like you can't run on the Chargers. You couldn't last year. You probably can't this year.
Andy Holloway
If you're going to wait on Brock Bowers, we don't. This is very, very hypothetical. So I apologize if the news you already have, it is perfectly fine. If you're going to be approaching Monday and you're not 100% sure that he's going to play, are you? Would you wait on him and then just play Mayor if Brock doesn't go?
Jason Moore
I'd be willing to do that.
Mike Wright
I am willing to do that. Yeah. Mayor had four targets, four receptions for 38, which is obviously, as we've established a great line for a tight end. And he did that while Brock Bowers was very involved, obviously. So if you. If Bowers is out, I think it's worth going with Mayor.
Jason Moore
Yeah. You know, just. You watched the game last night. You said Jordan Love chucked it deep. He was 9.4 and attempt last night. That's how good Gino was in terms of downfield targets. He was at 10.6. Herbert, it was awesome to see in week one. He's Jason Start of the week on the road here in week two, who also got talked up on the dyno pod. This week I'd play Herb over Dak for sure. This week I'd play him. Him and Fields, I would probably play Fields, but I think either one's fine. You can flip a coin. What do you think?
Mike Wright
I've got Herbert one spot ahead of Fields, but Fields is my quarterback. Seven on the week, so both are good plays to me. Justin Herbert is a great quarterback and Justin Fields is not. And they both can have great fantasy output. So I would rather play Herbert.
Jason Moore
All right, we have Najee Harris. Maybe he gets more involved. Amari and Hampton, where are you with him after one week?
Mike Wright
I'm very encouraged by his utilization. 80% of snaps, 17 opportunities. We knew going in last week that Kansas City was going to be a very, very difficult matchup. And, you know, I don't see the Raiders as a pushover, but they're certainly not like an unstoppable defense by any means.
Jason Moore
I have Hampton at 17 right now in my weekly rankings.
Mike Wright
Feels appropriate.
Jason Moore
Kenan Allen's my start of the week at wide receiver. Quentin Johnston can be played in this game. Lad McConkey as well. I think this is going to be the, you know, Kyle will be asleep, but I think this is going to be the game you look forward to.
Mike Wright
Oh, yeah.
Jason Moore
And I think it's going to be a lot of fun. The fact that it's in Las Vegas after that week one performance by the Raiders where, you know, I saw some things I really liked. I hope Bowers can play to make this because I think they're going to really, really need him.
Mike Wright
Who scores more fantasy points in this game, really think about it. Amari and Hampton or Ashton Genty? Because Genti is going to be higher in everybody's rankings. He obviously drafted higher, but the touchdown opportunities and the passing work seemed like they both favor Omarion Hampton. The passing work, the receiving work. I mean, not like dropping Back to pass. But I mean Ashton Genti caught two passes last week.
Andy Holloway
So did Hampton.
Mike Wright
Well, Hampton's. Wasn't his route participation better?
Andy Holloway
Maybe he was too. I had just.
Mike Wright
I mean they were both extremely, you know, they're on the field all the time. And granted I will say that the one caveat to that, they could be working Najee more and more in. For all we know, come week four, Amarian Hampton is going to be down at, you know, 55% of snaps. Thank you.
Jason Moore
So what is. What is the answer?
Andy Holloway
I'd still go Genty.
Mike Wright
I think Hampton scores more points.
Jason Moore
Okay. I'm having a hard time. I will go with my rankings. I've got Genti up ahead of Hampton, so it should be fun. There's a lot of fantasy relevant players in this game and it's, you know, a pretty close line.
Andy Holloway
What's the level with for huge? Of what? What type of names are you willing to play him over?
Jason Moore
Yeah, let's hot waiver Ad Casea Booty or Quentin Johnston?
Andy Holloway
I'd play.
Mike Wright
I think they're both. They both have some question marks. So I will go upside of Quentin.
Jason Moore
Jalen Waddle or Quentin Johnston.
Mike Wright
Quentin Johnston.
Jason Moore
Keon Coleman or Quentin Johnston?
Mike Wright
Keon Coleman.
Jason Moore
Michael Pittman or Quentin Johnston?
Mike Wright
This week, if certain is active, I'll go huge.
Jason Moore
All right, that'll do it for the matchups, but we still have the face off.
Mike Wright
Fantasy Face off presented by prize picks.
Jason Moore
What do we call this? Getting our feet wet? Is that what this is? Yeah, we're just warming up, getting our wigs on.
Mike Wright
We had testing the water.
Jason Moore
Every week we build a lineup based on the prize picks projections, and if you get that pick correct, you get to put on a crown. If it's incorrect, you. You look like Mike and Jason this week. And if one of you stands alone as the loser will spin the wheel of shame, which did not happen this week. I feel like a winner. I was not a winner. I took DK Metcalf.
Andy Holloway
We should get it. We should get a tie.
Jason Moore
Oh, that's really.
Mike Wright
That's a good idea.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Anybody got a spare tie laying around?
Mike Wright
I don't think we do.
Andy Holloway
I forgot mine today.
Jason Moore
This is good.
Mike Wright
Will a bow tie count?
Jason Moore
Pre.
Andy Holloway
Sure.
Mike Wright
You put a bow on it.
Jason Moore
Bow tie. Yeah, I tied. So I am not in the clown outfit.
Mike Wright
Speaking of Ash and Jinty's two receptions.
Jason Moore
You knew that number intimately.
Mike Wright
I knew that number intimately because throughout the about the second half of the game, the Falcon let us know that he had three. And so I was A king.
Jason Moore
Except for he didn't.
Mike Wright
Except he was wrong and he finished the game with two.
Jason Moore
James Conner's rushing projection last week was 69 and a half yards. He only ended up with 39 yards in.
Andy Holloway
That was really in that match. Disappointing.
Mike Wright
So you're Trey Benson.
Jason Moore
You're in a clown wig now. So our week two picks, I'm going to go Jackson, Smith and Jigba. There are a few players that I was more impressed with in week one and their utilization, where they were on the field and how they looked more than 61.5 receiving yards.
Andy Holloway
61.5 is shockingly low.
Jason Moore
Yeah, well, I'm taking more.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I totally agree.
Jason Moore
He had 83% of his teams receiving yards last week, so.
Andy Holloway
Oh, and I think on the show I exclaimed like yeah, because he had a 50% target share. It was 59.
Mike Wright
Oh yeah.
Andy Holloway
So I apologize for my inaccuracy.
Mike Wright
All right. My, my pick this week I think is, is pretty fun. I love Zach Charbonnet. I think he's going to be involved. I think he's perfect for this offense.
Jason Moore
This is an interesting one, but the.
Mike Wright
Projection is 12 and a half yards for his longest rushing attempt. So his breakaway run, will he hit, you know, 13 yards or more? I am going to say no. I'm taking less than 12 and a half rushing yards and here's why. Well, first of all, last week his longest was seven. But look at last year. Last year he only did it three times. 13 of 17 games he did not have one single rush attempt that was more than 12 and a half yards. And in those three games, those just so happened to be the three games where he had over 80% of snaps and was basically alone. So he's going to split 50, 50 here this week with Walker and so he's just not that type of a breakaway runner.
Jason Moore
All right, Mike, your projection here.
Andy Holloway
All right, so I'm going with Russell Wilson. His projection is 217 and a half passing yards and I am taking the less.
Jason Moore
And I see a reason here in.
Andy Holloway
A bullet point reason like Andy Jason, they laid out some real good statistical.
Mike Wright
96% of Zach Charbonnet's carries went for right. Fewer than 15 yards last year. Bottom fifth percentage. There is data here.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Check this out. Russ stinks.
Mike Wright
That's.
Jason Moore
That's your reasoning?
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Less than 217.5 passing yards due to.
Andy Holloway
He stinks.
Jason Moore
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Episode: Week 2 Matchups + Start/Sits, Delicious Garbage
Date: September 12, 2025
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike “The Fantasy Hitman” Wright
This episode delivers the hallmark "Fantasy Footballers" insight, breaking down Week 2 fantasy matchups with keen analysis, humor, and must-hear start/sit guidance. The trio reacts in real-time to player injuries, depth chart shifts, and game recaps, ensuring listeners have up-to-date advice for lineup decisions. The show leans into both statistical trends and gut calls, peppered with memorable banter and signature “delicious garbage” moments for the fantasy football community.
The crew recaps a lopsided but competitive primetime game featuring several impactful fantasy performances and unfortunate injuries.
Major Injuries:
Delicious Garbage: Segment celebrating “garbage time” production:
| Section/Discussion | Timestamp | | --------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | Game Recap & Key Injuries | 02:55 – 07:25 | | Packers Offensive Analysis | 07:50 – 10:11 | | Week 2 Injury Updates | 11:13 – 14:39 | | Browns @ Ravens Breakdown | 16:06 – 21:47 | | Broncos @ Colts Analysis | 23:21 – 31:22 | | Panthers @ Cardinals Preview | 31:39 – 35:13 | | Eagles @ Chiefs Deep Dive | 35:13 – 40:13 | | Falcons-Vikings; Bijan/Pitts Usage | 41:15 – 47:20 | | Buccaneers-Texans | 50:04 – 54:30 | | Chargers-Raiders; Jacoby Myers, TEs | 54:30 – 59:48 | | Fantasy Faceoff Player Picks | 59:57 – 63:36 |
The episode maintains a lively and irreverent tone, mixing advanced stats/strategy with memeable moments and honest, human reactions to real-life events (especially injuries). Analysis is sharp but never dry, filled with inside jokes and accessible analogies. Speakers often acknowledge their own emotional biases (“that’s a heart decision”) and invite listeners to disagree.
For full context, refer to the timestamped segments above.