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EPISODE 7: WEEK 1 RECAP!
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We recap week 1 of the NFL season, who stepped up and who disappointed as well as a few other trends that stuck out to us. We quickly recap how the matchups in our leagues ended up and then provided some advice on dynasty & redraft targets moving ahead into week 2!
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Introduction and Off-Season Reflections
00:00:08
Speaker
Welcome to the non-stop Fantasy Weekly Dynasty podcast. We are here with your hosts, Dave Reed, Ray Wilkinson, and Joey Gallo.
00:00:28
Speaker
one is in the books, boys. We did it. It's been a long off season. We've been waiting for this finally to happen. And it is in the books. I am Dave rejoin by my host, Ryan Wilkerson and Joey Gallo. We're here, boys. Football started. Yeah, we made it at week one in the books. Finally have some real football to talk about and happy we got Joe back as well.
00:00:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's good to be back. It's good to have a slate of games. Good to have some data points to make some decisions on for the remainder of
Week One Overview and Surprises
00:01:01
Speaker
the season. We're doing a lot of conjecture over the last couple of months. It's good to actually see some results. So although the results weren't exactly great, I think it was overall pretty mediocre week by touchdown volume. We'll see.
00:01:16
Speaker
Yeah, we were looking ahead at a lot of players that we thought stepped up and disappointed, which we'll get into later. It's a lot easier to come up with a disappointed list. But in general, no matter what, good or bad, having football back is a positive. But with that being said, I guess, looking at week one, what were some of the key things that stuck out to you? I don't know, Joe, if you have anything in mind that you wanted to start with. Yeah, I mean, I think overall, things started slow.
00:01:46
Speaker
Like the people that I was watching with, I remember we kind of looked at each other after the, it was almost the end of the first quarter across the board and there were no touchdowns to the point where we were kind of just like, oh, you know, we should have just known to smash the under in the first half of all these games because there was just kind of nothing happening. I think there were a couple teams that surprised me. I think there were,
00:02:11
Speaker
I'll be interested to see, there's a couple kind of unanswered questions that I have in my mind, and some of them relate to teams that played better than I expected, some of them teams that played worse than I expected, and plan on hitting on many of them over the course of the pod. But yeah, it was good to have football. It wasn't the highest quality football, but I think better times ahead.
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And Dave and I were talking about it earlier. I think it was just a bit of a disappointment from a fantasy perspective. A lot of the guys that you thought were going to go off or you talked about all off season didn't really do too much. And as Dave said, it was a lot easier to come up, come up with guys that disappointed then stepped up. And that just kind of shows you how week one kind of went overall.
Highlight Performances and Team Surprises
00:03:01
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And we're going to get into more detail on some of the players, but some teams just in general that, uh, that stuck out to me lines. Obviously they, they, uh, beat the chiefs on opening night. Uh, no, no Calcedon, but they did look good. And it was good to see Dan Campbell Campbell setting the tone early with that, uh, fourth down called going forward in their own territory, really set the tone for the game.
00:03:24
Speaker
The Rams overall, I think, and we'll get into more surprised. I think a lot of teams, as well as their opponent, Seattle, who did not step up as much. My bowl prediction for the Steelers is off to a rough start. We'll get into that later. But I think better days are ahead. I think Joey's bowl prediction is looking a little bit better than mine so far with the Packers. Giants don't look good so far.
00:03:51
Speaker
And I'm sure we'll get more into the Jets game in general. But that was quite the roller coaster ride. It was very exciting for the one single game. But obviously season long and going forward is going to be a little tough. But I guess let's start off with some positive things since it's been a very negative tone so far. What are some teams or players you guys think that stepped up? I don't know if you want to jump in first.
00:04:13
Speaker
Yeah, so one I did have was Jordan Love. I was a little bit skeptical coming into the season, but he looked pretty good. He had three touchdowns. He did fumble once, but they were covered. I mean, the Packers put up 38 points as a team. He had 28 fantasy points.
00:04:30
Speaker
That's a huge start to the season for him and for where he was being drafted. I think, you know, if he's on your team, you're feeling really, really good about that right now. Another quarterback I had whose name didn't come up really much at all was Baker Mayfield.
00:04:45
Speaker
Uh, the Bucks took down the Vikings on the road. He had two touchdowns, no interceptions, not saying he had an amazing game, but he did have 20 fantasy points. And he pretty much wasn't talked about at all before week one, unless it was about how he may not be the starter. So him as well, if you have him on your team, I think you're pretty happy after that game. And then Dave, I know you'll love this one, but Breece Hall, I think you have to mention him.
00:05:11
Speaker
Coming back from the injury, 10 carries for 127 yards. Looked really, really good. Didn't get into the end zone, but didn't need to. They still pulled off the wind. So you got to be happy with him as well. Pretty crazy to have an 83 yard rush. That was not a touchdown. Not a touchdown, I know. But he proves why his nickname is Bruce Lighten. The guy is incredible. He touches the ball and it's like 20 yards immediately. It's amazing.
00:05:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's nice to see the burst coming back off the injury, right? That was eating my words a little bit, saying that Breeze was going to potentially be a little bit of a bust at his ADP just because didn't really think he would have that kind of burst this early in the season, but he looked great. Took two carries to get over 100 yards in the game. It was crazy. Insanity. Yeah, for me,
00:06:06
Speaker
The thing that probably sticks out the most is is to a tug of a low on the Miami Dolphins. I think that all offseason I for the longest time I had been kind of.
00:06:18
Speaker
out with concerns over his inability to stay on the field. And then towards the end of the summer in one of my main redraft leagues, I ended up with Tyree Kill in the first round, and around the sixth or the seventh, I went for the two Tyree Kill stack.
00:06:41
Speaker
and ended up with the most points in that league for the for week one and starting to think right like what do you do in this situation right like Tua is now the odds on favor to win the MVP and it's it's all it's it's all based on just one week against a poor passing defense um you know is this a time to look to trade Tua like maybe you could like in a redraft Tua for someone like
00:07:08
Speaker
uh, Joe burrow kind of feels like the, you know, like if you could trade to her right now, it's probably, I mean, I'm not looking to, but that's, to me, that's the biggest question is, I mean, he looked fantastic. The offense looked fantastic. Tyree kills is unbelievable. And if he stays on the field, then that could be a league winning combination that, you know, a lot of people were potentially afraid of myself being front of that list.
00:07:35
Speaker
I think that's what it all comes down to, right? It's really a health thing. If he stays on the field and he plays an entire season, then yeah, you got a huge steal where you were able to draft him and he looks phenomenal. The health still is a concern though. And I think it's still yet to be seen if he's going to make it the full season, but if he does, yeah, he, he could definitely be a league winner. And we saw it last year too. Like this isn't like a flash in the pan. It's like,
00:08:02
Speaker
We saw this exact type of stat line multiple times last year. That was the discussion. You could get a discount on Tuah. He's a good target later on if you want that upside pick. He's great for best ball where you draft a couple quarterbacks. I got him in a few best balls as well. I still would be shocked if anyone would accept the burrow for Tuah trade-off for myself, but I would throw it out.
00:08:28
Speaker
tough I do think there will be better in general but it's hard to say was the better weapons actually when it comes down to it. Yeah, definitely interesting. Yeah, for sure. And I mean, the Rams look great. You got to give them credit. I'm not 100% sure that is not fool's gold there. But
00:08:47
Speaker
Yeah. We'll have to see, you know, me personally, especially going into next week against San Francisco. That's a little bit of a tough spot where a lot of guys are going to be looking to play Rams who just had a big week, but it was impressive. They, uh, they looked good. They got some of their young receivers involved. Uh, they were, they were, the offense looked very, very capable. Yeah.
00:09:11
Speaker
A couple other players who I thought stepped up. I hate to admit it. Mack Jones looked pretty good. What was supposed to be a very strong defense. He honestly, I don't know if it's more the Eagles were not at the level that they should be at or if Mack Jones really is starting to get more comfortable and step up. But in general, he looked a lot more competent and a better
00:09:33
Speaker
quarterback than he did literally all of the last year. I know I'll get some dispute on this next one. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked awesome. The turnovers, I don't believe were his fault. It bounced off of Tank Bigsby's hand for an interception and then the other one was a fumble from the blind side that Tank Bigsby was holding and then just didn't play, like, hold on to and it turned into a fumble for a touchdown.
00:09:55
Speaker
But in general, he looked great. And one of the main reasons why I think he looks so good and ready to step up is the addition of Calvin Ridley to the arsenal. He was targeting Calvin Ridley early and often. Calvin Ridley looks like he's going to be that. He looks like he hasn't missed a step. And we've seen this happen when you add an elite wide receiver to a quarterback. They level up. And I'm expecting the same type of level up for Trevor Lawrence this year.
00:10:22
Speaker
Anyone have any thoughts on the travelers before I move on to a couple of the guys that I thought stepped up? No, I have Ridley on my list, honestly, but I figured that I would lead the Jaguars. I appreciate that.
00:10:36
Speaker
The thing about Lawrence is seven or eight rush attempts. He ran a lot of Clemson. I think that was something that used to be in his arsenal a lot. If he does end up rushing for, if he's averaging five to 10 rush attempts and something like 40 to 60 rush yards a game, that is going to be a pretty big game changer in terms of his fantasy output.
00:11:05
Speaker
I thought he played an okay game. I thought that Ridley looked great. I think he looked about as consistent, as solid as he looked in the second half of last year, which is strong. I wouldn't say elite, I wouldn't say top tier, but he looked very good. Yeah, agreed. Yeah, and I swear this isn't piping up my team, but I also thought Anthony Richardson looked very good.
Disappointing Team and Player Performances
00:11:33
Speaker
should probably be one of the favorites for rookie of the year at this point. Main reason I'm calling this out now is because we'll get into the disappointed section a little bit. And I thought he was the only rookie quarterback who actually looked
00:11:45
Speaker
Uh, pretty strong, obviously not perfect by any means, but you show his rushing abilities, uh, come through for fantasy. Uh, it's pretty much just the rushing ability though. Right. Like he, he, what, what we thought about Anthony Richardson's accuracy and ability to overthrow receivers was, was confirmed on multiple occasions in the game.
00:12:06
Speaker
But the rushing adds a huge dynamic for both fantasy and the Colts offense. I don't disagree with that, but what I will say is I don't think he looked worse as a passer than C.J. Shroud or Bryce Young, who both looked horrible. He seemed like that's completely accurate. Yeah, so when you compare it to the rookie quarterback, which I was saying, and you feel the rushing, I thought he looked easily the best of the three. Gotta call out Zae Flowers looks like that dude.
00:12:34
Speaker
I think he had a 40% market share like first game as a rookie that's out of control and he looked good doing it and I believe he's a Boston College boy so I got to give Joey props to his alum. And finally, Brendan Ayuk, it's been, people have been talking about him potentially being a wide receiver one.
00:12:55
Speaker
And I'll get into this later as well. But Matt Harmon, who does reception perception, is a guy I trust a lot and I think is one of the best in business. He's always been saying that you could be wide receiver one. But obviously, there's a lot of other weapons there. Game one, he looked like it. He was making big plays, getting open, and blocking. I think he absolutely lit a guy up on the CMC play as well. So he's becoming a full rounded wide receiver. So I thought he stepped up big there.
00:13:25
Speaker
potentially could be one of the biggest breakouts this year. Yeah, he looked really, really good and, and definitely could make that, you know, upper tier of wide receivers going forward if he continues what he did in week one. So, uh, definitely very positive for him. And, uh, to that point, Brock Purdy.
00:13:44
Speaker
Really just didn't. Yeah, it's it's hard to discount. I mean, he was making some great throws all game and you know, I think I was what, seven for seven or eight for eight. That doesn't happen unless you've got a quarterback who's making pretty good throws out there too. So.
00:14:00
Speaker
party look great, actually. No one really talks about him as a fantasy option. He's always viewed more as a game manager, but he had some big kahone throws in there. One touchdown to AU where Scott, that was a big boy throw. I definitely see that. Especially coming off the injury, making plays like that already is pretty impressive. Completely.
00:14:24
Speaker
And for a less exciting point, let's talk about the laundry list of disappointments from this week. Joe, you want to start with this one? Yeah. I mean, I guess the one that's probably front and center for a lot of people's minds are the Bengals, Joe Burrow.
00:14:43
Speaker
T Higgins and Mark Chase. The biggest question to me is, is Joe Burrow healthy? I think that one of the biggest things that I'm looking forward to seeing, I know there's a rush right now to grab the Browns defense in fantasy and the Browns defense is getting a lot of credit, but how much credit are we giving the Browns defense for what transpired in that game?
00:15:11
Speaker
versus the weather and the fact that Burrow is likely playing on a bum calf. And from the first throw of the game, it just didn't seem like he was good. A couple of the guys that I was with was like, Burrow is not healthy, right? We all agree he's not healthy. But it doesn't really seem like that's being talked about very much. It seems like a lot of the credit for how everything went is going to the Browns D. So I'm curious.
00:15:41
Speaker
It wasn't good by any stretch, but even in instances where Burrow was not really feeling the heat, he wasn't making very good throws. I think the first throw of the game, he kind of made on two feet and it was like a duck. Like, I'm like, did it slip out of his hand? So he just, he didn't seem right from the beginning. It was really bizarre. So that was one, and obviously the Giants offense, I'll leave that one, the specific details there. I mean, they looked,
00:16:11
Speaker
completely inept. And again, curious, I was high on Dallas's defense coming into the season. And I'm not totally sure that this is in a situation where Dallas just doesn't have an absolutely elite defense. And if you're the Giants and you get behind very quickly and they can pin their ears back and Michael Parsons can kind of just come at you full speed, there's not really much you can do.
00:16:36
Speaker
I think there'll probably be better days ahead for the Giants offense, but I also think that Dallas' defense is going to be a problem for whoever they face this year. If you took a picture of me watching the last Giants playoff game last year and picture me watching the first Giants game this year, it's the identical picture. I was just depressed laying on the couch from the start, like, this things, but I have to sit here for another couple hours with this game and knowing it's a disaster.
00:17:05
Speaker
So it was just gross. The whole offense show. There's no even point getting into any play. The whole team was a joke. Yeah, it did not look good. My bold projection of Daniel Jones finishing top three is definitely in jeopardy after one week. He did not look good, but I do think there are better days ahead for them. Like this week. Much different defense this week. Yeah.
00:17:29
Speaker
Yeah, definitely this week. And then another one for me was the Chiefs wide receivers. Obviously, Tony, a couple hit him right in the hands, dropped. One literally went for a pick six. They looked terrible. They looked lost without Kelsey, but they do get Kelsey back. So I don't think there's too, too much concern there.
00:17:53
Speaker
And then on the opposite side of the Packers game, the Bears disappointed. Fields just did not look good. One passing touchdown, interception fumble. You know, everyone had these high hopes that he was going to take this Jalen Hurts leap. And I know it was only one week, but it just didn't look like he was even close to taking it in the passing game. Still had 59 rushing yards, but I thought that was pretty disappointing for where he was being drafted.
00:18:22
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there's a list of quarterbacks that just were bad this week. I know you guys mentioned Burrow and Fields. Fields does not look like he's taken the step so far. But Josh Allen looked completely erratic last night. He made everything seem harder than it has to be on every single play. Hurts did not look like hurts of last season either. Don't have as many concerns there, but he just disappointed from a fantasy perspective. And he wasn't really running the ball that much.
00:18:51
Speaker
Lamar looked horrible. Like double. Yeah. Like looks bad. Zay was great, but aside from that, the Ravens offense, it was an easy matchup, but still, he did not look great. Gino, who's supposed to look like Gino of old, basically. Like it looks like last year was an aberration, but we'll see. He's got so many weapons. You hope he takes step up.
00:19:12
Speaker
Dak, more of a product of probably the fact that the Giants got trucked, but hard to say. And as I mentioned, two other rookie quarterbacks and Bryce Young and strategists, it looks like they were rookies, basically. After week one, who are you happy that you have as your quarterback? Is Tua the only one?
00:19:33
Speaker
Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence. And Herbert was okay. I'm not concerned about Herbert, so I still think Herbert had a solid game and looks good enough. Obviously, I don't think he was pretty mid-season formula, but I think you'd be pretty comfortable with him.
00:19:52
Speaker
Once it gets closer back, I think you'll be okay. I don't think you're worried with Mahomes, but it's a short list of who you're happy with. I'm not necessarily sure you're worried with Mahomes, but I think the thing that I kind of like...
00:20:05
Speaker
can't shake coming out of week one is between Kansas City and Philadelphia, both of them lost coordinators in the off season. And both of them looked kind of lost on offense and Philly on defense too a little bit in the second half of that game, but on offense, right? Like maybe we're just underestimating how much going and changing offensive coordinators of an impact that's going to have maybe even specifically early in the season.
00:20:33
Speaker
But you know, it's a lot of change for both of those teams and Lamar to new offensive. So I'm not 100% sure that I would.
00:20:43
Speaker
And Dak. After watching the Thursday Night Game with Casey and Detroit, I kind of walked away from that. Like, is this going to be Kansas City's offense this year where they're going to kind of struggle? And then every once in a while, Mahomes is going to make a couple of ridiculous throws, and they're going to score points in bunches. But I don't know that it's going to be the reliable, consistent production that it's been.
00:21:10
Speaker
historically with that offense this year. We'll see. We'll see when Kelsey's back, but. Yeah, I think I think Kelsey makes a big difference. It could be a step down, but I don't think we can make that judgment until Kelsey is back, because I really think he's that much of a difference maker.
Key Injuries and Player Struggles
00:21:25
Speaker
Oh 100%, but it does prove that wide receivers having talent there matters, which is sad when you see a team that has talent at wide receiver. Just not use him like Drake London.
00:21:36
Speaker
What is going on in Atlanta? I thought he was hurt, because I saw a zero there. I'm like, oh, that can maybe happen. But it was one target. I'm like, how do you have one target? I think they threw the ball 18 times. And he had no catches and put up a goose. I mean, T Higgins had a goose as well on eight targets. But that was more, it looked like Burrow was hurt. So like, well, maybe I'll write that one up. But one day, no, you got to be terrified this year if you have one. He's so talented. Hopefully things step up in the future. But this season,
00:22:05
Speaker
It's going to be rough down there. And as far as anyone, that's the worst thing. If you have Pitts or London or they won, they're happy with how things went. And that's twofold. That means that they're not going to change their philosophy moving forward. But they're also not going to be bad enough to draft a quarterback. So they're going to win a lot of games.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, I just don't know. I feel like they're going to be in purgatory forever.
00:22:38
Speaker
And because they had early job picks and they used it on running backs and wide receivers, tight ends and just, they don't use them, I guess. Like we'll get into the usage on Bajan as well, which I got a snake bitten with in my other dynasty league, but devastating, but not as devastating as what happened to Rogers and Dobbins. I mean, everyone knows at this point, both tore their Achilles, both devastating injuries for both players for separate reasons, obviously Dobbins,
00:23:06
Speaker
just got back from a terrible ACL injury last year. Started looking like himself was poised for a huge game, had a touchdown, should have had another one.
00:23:15
Speaker
And he's on the final game of his contract, and he's just never getting paid again, which that is just, you feel for it, a guy, because he was upset with his contract before the season started, and now you see why. And Rodgers, obviously, I don't think there's ever been more hype about a player going to a new team. He had hard knocks. And even so, with the Jets winning, they have talent everywhere. And it would have been so much fun. I don't think there is a single fan of football that was not excited to see what this team could do.
00:23:45
Speaker
And it just sucks for football to see Rodgers get hurt, but that's definitely rough. Yeah, absolutely. I think that Bill's Jets game, most surprising game of the week, it could be of the year. It had a ton of hype. Rodgers, Allen, Monday Night Football game starts. Rodgers goes down on the fourth snap.
00:24:07
Speaker
But then everyone's assuming game over. Zach Wilson's coming in, and Josh Allen throws three interceptions, fumbles twice, and all of a sudden the game's in overtime, and it ends with the Jets on a walk-off punt return, just an unbelievable game. But like you said, you got to feel for Rodgers and Jets fans there, because they have a defense that could take them to the Super Bowl.
00:24:30
Speaker
It seems like their plan will likely be to continue on with Zach Wilson. And I don't know if he can carry that offense there, but they definitely have the defense. Yeah, I mean, I am devastated, so devastated that going into that
00:24:50
Speaker
going into the game and going into the season, multiple times I had the thought of, I'm just so damn excited to see kind of how Rogers looks on this offense. And I hadn't thought to myself, you know, like, it'll just be a shame if he has to miss significant time or if any of them go down, if Garrett Wilson gets hurt early, if Rogers gets hurt early. And he got taken down on the third play of the game, too. And I was kind of just like, ooh, that was close, you know? It just...
00:25:18
Speaker
It just sucks. Like Dave said, if you're a fan of football, you kind of want to see when a bunch of offensive talent is assembled like that, especially after first play of the game, Breece Hall rips off a 26-yard rush, and you're just like, damn, this offense is going to be awesome. And that's it. It's over before it even starts. And then on the other side of the ball, just to kind of piggyback, too. You made a comment earlier that kind of resonated in terms of Dave, in terms of
00:25:47
Speaker
Josh Allen looking erratic. I'm not really sure exactly what's going on with Josh Allen, but he didn't look himself and I'm wondering if it's one of those situations where you're playing a video game and you make it
00:26:06
Speaker
really really far you almost beat the final boss right but then you die and you gotta go back to like the beginning and then you play it again with like a little less focus but you're just like oh and he's like a break before you start doing it again too i'm gonna do this right and then you you get you get close to where you got the first time but then you die again by the third or fourth time you're just kind of like
00:26:27
Speaker
fuck this just going balls at balls to the wall just kind of like running through just like because you can't be bought. Maybe that's a situation where Allen's just like starting to get a little impatient with the fact that they've come so close and they've had these teams that are Super Bowl caliber teams and they they keep coming up short.
00:26:45
Speaker
Um, you know, he's got a mindset. He's got to get the mindset right because it seems like the hero ball, like not only the throws deep, but just kind of like laying his body out there, which has been necessary. Yeah. Like, I mean, every single year we go into the season with
00:27:03
Speaker
with, you know, Bill's coaching and management saying, you know, Josh isn't going to run as much. And then, you know, he throws himself out there like he's going to end up being the next one suffering a major injury. So just not not great vibes in Buffalo. But, you know, credit to the Jets. They're a great team. And
00:27:21
Speaker
We'll see what they can do without a quarterback. And speaking another just overall bad team, from week one at least, the Steelers just looked real bad. I think that, again, better days ahead, but they did also lose Deontay Johnson to a pretty bad hamstring injury for at least a month. He was the lone bright spot. I thought he actually looked pretty good to start the game.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, he went down and that's unfortunate as well because I was high on him in this year so that really stinks. Yeah, and that might just be a 49ers thing. You know, the 90s might just be that good but, you know, Kenny Pickett did not look great.
00:28:03
Speaker
either so yeah I think they'll be better but yeah not the Niners defensive them no no favors in that one and I guess some final notes just a couple surprises for me the Bajan Algier split so I own Bajan another dinosaur league I was playing against Algier and I lost by 0.12
00:28:23
Speaker
uh because Algier got all the freaking work and the touchdowns in there but Bajan got more of the receptions and I'm not overly concerned about Bajan but the fact that they are still going to give this much work to Algier I guess is because they're just not thrown into London um but it definitely shows that Algier will have some value and it's just overall infuriating if you have Bajan in general because
00:28:44
Speaker
If you got all that work that you thought the job would have had the biggest day of the week of any player out there. And Gibbs too, just on payback and the rookies. Not when I get a little bit more, but just seeing these highly drafted running backs, you thought they'd get a lot more usage than they would in week one. But I get it. It was an opening night prime time game against the defending champ. So I get why you stick to the bet. But those are just two more call outs I want to throw out there.
00:29:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the, the Bajawa is just concerning cause it was a foregone conclusion by everyone that Algier would barely touch the field and was nothing more than a handcuff insurance policy. So, you know, he did rush for a thousand yards last year and to see them use him this much in week one, you know, long-term, I think, you know, Robinson's still a highly thought of, but it could definitely be a little concerning this season that it's much more of a timeshare than people thought it was going to be.
00:29:46
Speaker
Yeah, it reminds me a little bit of the beginning of last season for Breeze Hall, where he was kind of sharing the work, but he obviously looked like the more explosive back and not to take anything away from the way Algier looked, because honestly, he actually did look really good. I'm not as concerned about Bijon going forward. You know, he's got, he got by far the most targets on the team. So, yeah.
00:30:14
Speaker
Yeah, would much rather own him than anybody else in that offense. And his touchdown, that was an incredible play. Yeah, it really was. You saw the flashes of greatness there, and you know he's going to be good. Yeah.
00:30:28
Speaker
Well, now moving on, this is a league-specific podcast initially. So do want to quickly give a run-through of how our league results ended up for the week. So I'm just going to quickly run through our scores here. So in week one, some of the matchups that we had had myself against Harrison DaCosta. I came out on top by a margin of about 20 points.
00:30:52
Speaker
Mattie Rowe beat the Clark and Clark brother-in-law if you will. Canales came up just short against Kaffer and Mike Williams. Ryan, we'll get into this in a bit, but Ryan and his brother
00:31:07
Speaker
Not a great game. It got beat down by Adam Cohen. It was a massacre. Yeah, it was a massacre. And one that I think we're going to be referencing for most of the season.
Fantasy League Insights and Humor
00:31:20
Speaker
Slooted, edged out Joey. And Joey did put up a pretty good fight. I think he was right in the middle of the pack as scoring goes. And Scott came up short against Crope, who I think, who I believe was the top dog. But there is, I think I mentioned this in our
00:31:35
Speaker
our league chat. There were four teams separated by less than 0.4 points. Two teams, actually me and I think the Clark Bros have the exact same score. So it was kind of weird the distribution of points in there.
00:31:48
Speaker
But main reason I want to call that out. So I know a lot of leagues that do weekly highs. But for us, rather than paying at the high score each week, at the end of the season, whatever team scored the highest score of any week gets a payout for that. So we're going to track whoever has the highest score every single week. And for this week, it was Cropa who had 128.34 points.
00:32:13
Speaker
But the wrinkle that we also have in this league is that whoever scores the lowest points in any given week for the entire year, whoever has the worst week, they are going to be funding our toilet bowl championship. So we have our toilet bowl. And if you win that, it's a way for the teams who miss the playoffs to still feel like they're playing for something. They do have a cash prize for winning that. And it is funded by whoever has the worst week of the entire season.
00:32:39
Speaker
And so it makes it a little fun because each week you're going to be hoping you're either the highest score or if you have the highest score that no one beats yours. But if you have the lowest score, you hope someone beats you on that or that you never get anywhere near there.
00:32:51
Speaker
For our first lowest score, it was the Wilkinson brothers. At a very lowly, this would be a great golf score, 63.14. And mind you, we have three flex and two quarterbacks. So there's 10 roster spots. So they averaged 6.3 with two quarterbacks on the roster.
00:33:14
Speaker
definitely going to be one that I think might be sticking around for multiple weeks and definitely will provide a lot of entertainment for the league. So if you're listening, this is just fun. Michael, maybe you can throw it into your lease going forward as well, but we'll keep you updated on how it's trending. But right. Any, any words on that?
00:33:30
Speaker
I mean, what can I say? It was a rough first week of Dynasty. First Dynasty League ever. Definitely did not go as planned. I knew we were in trouble when Thursday night ended and we had, I think it was 0.3 total points from two players. I knew we were in trouble, but then it just got even worse on Sunday. Really, no one did anything. Jalen hurts a little bit.
00:33:55
Speaker
Josh Allen looked terrible and was all over and still was one of the highest scores on our team. So that shows you how rough it was. I'm sure the both of you have some stuff to say, though. So I'd love to hear what your thoughts are. Yeah, I just want to point out the ironic fact that is, do you know who on on Ryan's entire roster, both starters and bench who his team's high scorer was for the week?
00:34:27
Speaker
Kyren Williams. That's the long, bright spot. We at least have him on our bench somehow. I was going to let Joe talk about him later, but yes, that is ironic. It's not a terrible, terrible situation. We know
00:34:45
Speaker
It's pretty bad. Likely that there's a brighter future ahead for Allen and Hertz. You know, Lazard, maybe not so much, actually. That's a tough break there. Yeah, I mean, it definitely wasn't positive. Lazard, you know, loses his quarterback.
00:35:07
Speaker
You know, it was just one of those weeks. It was just one of those weeks in our other dynasty that I referenced a couple of times where I have, you know, two out of three years champion with, uh,
00:35:22
Speaker
with Josh Allen and Joe Burrow. I'm pretty sure I put up a similarly paltry score in that league this week. It's just, you know, sometimes it happens and maybe we'll be able to shake it off. You got to get Kyron in the starting lineup. He will be totally up from here. That's the, that's the positive.
00:35:39
Speaker
I guess that's a great segue, because it's our next part of some Dynasty targets, and these could also be waiver targets in Redraft.
Dynasty Targets and Waiver Wire Picks
00:35:46
Speaker
But in Dynasty, waivers are pretty thin. There's basically no one on there to really acquire. So when you're looking at it in Dynasty, you should be looking more at who can acquire cheap from other teams' benches. Although when you are looking at Redraft waiver-wire advice and other websites or content you're getting out there, those are pretty good references to kind of see what players you could be targeting
00:36:08
Speaker
because those are likely guys on the bench of other teams that are now starting to have a path for opportunities on the playing field. So that's where you can get a lot of additional content that may not be dynasty specific. But Joe just referenced the big one, Kyron Williams. So you know what, Joe, give you, because you've been banging the Kyron drum, I've been
00:36:29
Speaker
complete disbeliever, and I ate it this week. Still don't think he's great, but at running back, it's all about opportunity, and he's getting the opportunity, so it's hard to really argue against you right now. Yeah, I mean, I've been big on him just for the possibility that Cam Akers doesn't really have the juice anymore this year. I was surprised that he was able to
00:36:55
Speaker
put it together as well as he did towards the end of last year and, you know, produce as much for fantasy and for the Rams as he did. You know, I think it's interesting right now with Williams and Acres because they're at San Francisco next week.
00:37:12
Speaker
Either way, they're playing against San Francisco. Doesn't really matter where it is. And again, right? What's I guess promising about Kyron is that he's a good pass catcher. He got the pass catching work, but he was also getting carries early on in the game too.
00:37:33
Speaker
That being said, Sean McVey is extremely erratic with his running back usage. If this coming Sunday against San Fran, it was acres for the first three quarters, I wouldn't be surprised at all. I think the thing with Kyron is
00:37:56
Speaker
You know, like you said, the opportunity is clearly there. I was happy to see that he did something with it. And, you know, maybe we got ourselves somebody who can be a, you know, RB2 flex-ish player for the majority of the season. That would be nice.
00:38:12
Speaker
My only concern with it and you kind of touched on it is, is I feel like just because this happened in week one, it's not guaranteed to happen with Sean McVay. I mean, cam acres had zero points in week one last year, if I'm remembering correctly. And then, you know, second half of the season, he was a league winner. So I'm happy to have Kyron, but still a little concerned that it's going to kind of be all over the place throughout the season.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, the one point I guess in Karen's favor, McVay clearly hates can makers. They hated each other all last year. That's why he was not getting any work. And then they like, seemingly made up but it was more of just like, there was no one left. So they're like, I guess we got to use can makers. I believe Karen was hurt most of the last year. So like, that's why he wasn't really in the mix. So
00:39:00
Speaker
This year, maybe we should have realized, whatever, maybe he just hates can makers. There's just no way around it, I guess. But I guess sticking with the Rams, if you look at any like waiver column, Pookanuku is going to be the top name on the list. He had 15 targets, Domme, he's a rookie, and you don't
00:39:25
Speaker
really see rookies dominate like that. And you earn targets. So to get 15 targets and to dominate with them is pretty huge. But honestly, in Dynasty, I doubt you're going to get him unless you overpay because he's a rookie. In our league, he's probably in a taxi squad, which makes it even harder to sell. But when you draft a rookie, especially as late as Puka went in drafts, he was probably at best third round, maybe even later.
00:39:52
Speaker
you become way too infatuated with hitting a player like that. But I do think if you own him, you should definitely listen to offers in case someone is willing to overpay for him. But I will say, again, I mentioned Matt Harmon, reception, perception. Love the guy. He has got a good podcast. If you get any of his content, I highly recommend it. He was high on Pukka going into pre-draft. And he actually sees a lot of similar traits in Pukka that Cooper Cup has. Not saying he's Cooper Cup, but he has a lot of similar traits in the way he plays.
00:40:22
Speaker
which obviously McVeigh knows how to utilize. So who knows how long Cup is out but it does seem like Pukka should be getting a lot of work in at least the next three weeks and who knows what happens when Cup comes back. So it's almost this weird balance where like it might be okay to overpay depending on what it is because he's definitely going to get work but I don't know what your guys' thoughts on Pukka are. It's interesting because I feel like everyone kind of wrote the Rams off when Cooper Cup
00:40:48
Speaker
you know, was out and injured and no one really thought about, you know, the other receivers and kind of thought it'd be a dumpster fire like it was last year, but they looked really, really good in week one. And, and now you have a guy like Puca that's, you know, potentially taking over that Cooper cup role while he's out. And, uh, we've seen how valuable that can be. So like you said, I think it would be really, really hard to get him if I had him.
00:41:14
Speaker
I wouldn't be giving him up, but yeah, see what someone offers. Never know. Yeah, it's tough. From a redraft perspective, because obviously, I think everybody's doing the same move tonight, where they're trying to determine how much they're bidding for guys in redraft and whether to burn high priority on some of these guys. I might want to see it again.
00:41:41
Speaker
before I were to invest. So let's put it this way. I don't know that I would be going to blow 20% or 30% of my fab to acquire a guy who is, like Brian said, he's in an offense that we weren't really, especially high on going into the year. And Cooper Cup should come back. And so who knows what his role looks like once a cup's back. I also say, if you're going to wait one week, it's a bad week to still see how he does it, because they are playing the 49ers, as we've mentioned. Right.
00:42:11
Speaker
So that's the thing, right? If you are sold on him and you want to go in, you have to also know that it's, it's probably not, you're probably not going to want to start him this week, right? I don't want to pay $30 or $35 a fab to pick up somebody just to stash them on the bench either. So, you know, I'm, I'm not necessarily saying that I'm out from a dynasty standpoint. I'm, I'm definitively in, um, like you said, I'd be more, if I owned him, I'd be more in a listening mode.
00:42:38
Speaker
Um, you know, I don't know that I'd want to go and try and acquire after just such a small sample size and to do out well with pretty good to van Jefferson. I mean, I don't know what the hell's going on with van Jefferson, but yeah, he's one of the guys that has had so many chances to do something and just never does. Yeah. So, uh, you know, uh, I might not ever happen for him. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, I mean, he, he.
00:43:08
Speaker
Yeah, another guy who I actually personally love. But again, this is leaning more into my Steelers. Calvin Austin, especially now, I don't know if you guys get me on him. Obviously, as I mentioned, Deontay's out. So Calvin's role should grow. He's fast. He had a great preseason. Everyone was hyping him up. And he actually ended up this past week six for six on six receptions, six targets, and 37 yards. Obviously, a rough defense.
00:43:36
Speaker
Think that's actually pretty good stats coming in as the third wide receiver from that from the Steelers offensive week But I think you could be poised for a ton of work going forward and they get the I think they should have much easier matchups going forward So again Deontay should be out multiple weeks He's someone who I think you could probably still get a little cheap in dynasty And I don't even think people are gonna be blowing that much money on him and read your app So you could probably get him for like a couple bucks Or maybe even free on waivers, but that's just someone who I liked
00:44:06
Speaker
I don't even know if I should wait to hear if you guys have any thoughts on what they all throw at. What do you guys think about Kevin Austin? You know, I was grabbing him, a couple of the guys on, you know, fantasy footballers and some of the other, you know, guys that I follow on Twitter were recommending him as like a last round pick and best ball. So I was grabbing him and I really only knew of his existence as we were getting closer to the season for that reason. Perfect dynasty grab. Yeah.
00:44:35
Speaker
But that being said, you know, those targets are going to have to go to somebody. I know AB is trying to get the attention of the Steelers, but that's not going to happen. So, you know, I, yeah, that being said, right? Like he's a smaller guy. I wonder, I mean, I guess maybe he slides right into the Deontay role. It was interesting to see, I was expecting a little more from, from George Pickens week one. Maybe they get him more involved, but
00:45:02
Speaker
Yeah, I think I'm with you. I'm similarly intrigued. I think there'll be a good opportunity for him and he will likely be a much bigger part of the offense with the update not out there.
00:45:13
Speaker
Another guy I like, I grabbed him actually in another dynasty, I think it's that dynasty best ball that I did with Joe and other best balls I'm in is Shaheed from the Saints in New Orleans. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that correctly. He's like the wide receiver three out of New Orleans. He was showing flashes at the end of last year for some long touchdowns.
00:45:35
Speaker
And he actually had five receptions for 89 yards and a score this past week. So he's definitely still getting involved. And you feel like Michael Thomas is probably going to get hurt eventually. And he'll probably slide into the wide receiver two spot eventually, and he'll really get a bigger role. But even if he doesn't, I still think his wide receiver three, he's going to be a pretty useful player and someone who probably shouldn't demand too much of a big offer to get back on your roster. So I don't know if you guys have any thoughts on Shaheed.
00:46:04
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's on a lot of pickup lists for this week after week one. Like you said, if something happens to Michael Thomas, then that could be a huge stash for now, even if you don't start him. So he's definitely got some value there.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I thought Michael Thomas looked good, but yeah, he looked good too. And he was getting his, his receptions. The majority of them were downfield, right? I think he had like of his five catches, his, his, it was like almost 20 yards per catch, which is nice. So you love to see it. And then a few other guys, this is where you started getting grimy, but these are guys that are definitely hot names on the waivers and redraft.
00:46:45
Speaker
they were likely sowing on your bench who you were debating if you should cut or not. But Justice Hill and Gus Edwards, obviously the Dobbins going down and Josh Kelly from the Chargers with Eckler potentially hobbled. I want to get your guess, your thoughts on those three players, how you rank them because obviously in redraft people are trying to figure out the waivers. But if you're trying to target any of these guys, the biggest issue is like,
00:47:08
Speaker
We don't know if these guys are actually valuable or not or what they're going to do there. I personally think the Ravens are going to add another running back at some point. So it's hard for me to go big on either one of these guys. We want to get your thoughts. So I actually had Josh Kelly on my, my sleepers list that we're going to talk about in a little bit. So out of the three, I would go after him. Uh, I mean, he had 16 rushes for 91 yards in a touchdown in week one. And that was with Eckler out there.
00:47:34
Speaker
I don't know exactly what's going on, but it seems like Ekler could be a little hurt. Regardless, he's a huge handcuff and the sky's the limit for him if Ekler does go down and miss any time this year. I think he is a must-have if you're in a redraft league. He's definitely someone you should think about stashing on your bench.
00:47:55
Speaker
Agree with you on the Ravens. I think there's definitely potential that they go out and grab someone else. So I'm not Confident spending a ton to get either one of those guys Plus who knows between the two who ends up being the go-to guy that you want to start every week. So Yeah between the two Ravens backs. I would prefer Edwards. It seems like he's more likely to be the
00:48:19
Speaker
Uh, the every down back, I think justice Hill has historically profiled a little bit more as a pass pass catching back. He did get the touchdowns last week, but between the two, I think Gus probably has a more secure workload going forward. I agree. I would put Josh Kelly first. I think he, I mean, the charters have been saying for years that they're trying to reduce Eckler's volume. Um, he's known to be somewhat injury prone.
00:48:44
Speaker
And he's also kind of getting up there in age. He's getting very, very dangerously close to that running back cliff in terms of age. I think he's 28, which is 27, 28, 28 generally like the cliff. So I think he's kind of at it right now. So Josh Kelly hasn't always impressed me. I've had a couple of dynasty leagues, so I've kind of been paying attention to him.
00:49:10
Speaker
I feel like week one was by far his best performance that he's ever had. But, you know, I think of all of those guys, I think realistically, and I'm not saying this to be funny, I think I'd probably rather have Kyron Williams than any of those guys. I think that he probably has the easiest or the most
00:49:33
Speaker
he has a pathway a more secure pathway to kind of like a stranglehold on a lead back roll with touchdown upside with pass catching without really needing anybody to get hurt ahead of him so i think i'd probably prefer and if he's available i think i'm in on uh i hate to say it but i think i'm in on kenneth gainwell which
00:49:52
Speaker
is tough because I was completely out on the Eagles backfield going into this season, figuring that there were going to be, uh, you know, it was going to be six or seven carries for gain. Well, and six for swift and four for Boston Scott. And turns out it's a lot of gain. Well, and he looked pretty good. I mean, granted, I think he's there. They've been holding them out of practice the last two days, but I, he's a guy that I think
00:50:18
Speaker
I'm, I'm considering there's one league where he's available where I'm considering dropping a 20 or 30% of fab on because it's worth the shot that if they're going to give him the lion's share of the carries, you know, you could get, you know, fourth, fifth round, a fourth of like an early to mid round running back.
00:50:39
Speaker
Um, and you know, like, that's just kind of how it goes, right? Like after week one, every year, there's always a couple of guys who were like, Oh, well, we didn't really know that guy was going to be the guy, but he is. So.
00:50:49
Speaker
Uh, he's probably, I don't know if you guys agree. I'd be curious to get your thoughts cause I'm kind of waffling a little bit, but I think, I think we actually in a redraft would, uh, I took him with the last pick. Uh, and I said, I can't believe he started running back for the Eagles is still available in the final round and snagged them. Uh, Penny was a healthy scratch and swift got, I think one target maybe, or one, right? Like.
00:51:15
Speaker
Wasn't involved at all. So it wasn't even just that Kenny got a lot of work those other guys were just not even options So I feel pretty confident about going for him Yeah, I mean Swift played 19 snaps. I had him on my stay away list. So Yeah, you got to be super happy if you have gain well and and if it stays like that going forward there's huge value there I guess you'd have to assume there is a little concern about
00:51:40
Speaker
that some of those other guys do get some more snaps. They were listing all of them at starters at one point. I don't know if that was just a gimmick or if they were really thinking that way, but after one week, I don't know if I would go crazy for him, but it does seem like he's the guy. Crazy that a starter was a healthy scratch. That was definitely a posturing.
00:52:03
Speaker
Gain well or Algier at this point, rest of season, if you have to choose right. Algier probably, just based on the offense. Yeah. Because they're going to, they just run so much. And he doesn't have the factor of his quarterback potentially. Exactly. I think touchdowns from him in the red zone. Yeah.
00:52:20
Speaker
Yeah. And a couple other names, these are rookies. So again, they're a little tougher because people still have the emotional attachment on them from, from dropping them, but they didn't really smash week one. So I think there is some opportunity to potentially prime away, but I think Roshan Johnson, Sean Tucker and Tajay Spears all have the potential to really get a lot of work going forward and like potentially taking over the job. Obviously Tajay Spears is going to be more
00:52:45
Speaker
based on injury, but Derek Henry, as Joe mentioned, did not look great week one. And Taji Spears, I think, out snapped him this week. So that was pretty big. Rashad White looks like a jacket, like just an average guy, which is what I've been. I didn't stay away from Rashad White, because I just did not believe in him. And Rashad Johnson looked legit. And he was the backup in college, but he was the backup to Bajan, which apparently Algier is better than Roshan. But Roshan should still be useful there. But I don't know if you guys have thoughts on those three rookies.
00:53:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'm curious, Ryan, what your thoughts are on the shots being fired at Rashad White, your RB2. My team's taking a lot of shots over here, but it's well deserved after our performance in week one. Yeah, I mean, look, it's concerning. Sean and I did want to grab Tucker in the rookie draft. He ended up
00:53:37
Speaker
getting picked. Syracuse and Lums. Yeah, Syracuse fans. So we were hoping to grab him. It's definitely concerning. I'm not sold that he completely takes over the role at any point this year. But it's not great. I'm not going to lie. The most surprising one to me, though, was Derek Henry and Spears. I didn't pay a ton of attention to that game. I don't know if you guys noticed anything more. But I mean, he out snapped him. That seems pretty crazy to me.
00:54:06
Speaker
It didn't get a ton of touches, but he was on the field a ton. Yeah. Yeah. They looked very, very poor. Yeah. It's just going to be I'm not sure. I don't know. I mean, I'm less confident in that offense now after seeing week one. And if the offense is bad and they're not winning games, how involved is Derek Henry going to be? And it might just be a situation where kind of what we feared about Henry might be might be coming true. Yeah.
00:54:36
Speaker
And before moving on to our concerns, one final guy who I would potentially target. He's not on Waverly because this guy's universally owned, but I still think his perceived value is lower than what I think it should be is James Cook. I think he was on the field ton. He was clearly going to be the lead workhorse back for the bills. And that game was bad for the bill. So I think that kind of suppresses his value.
00:55:00
Speaker
So I think if you were going to pounce on an opportunity to upgrade your RB2 to someone who will be potentially a high in RB2, I think James Cook should be a good target there. Yeah, I actually agree with that one. He looked like he's going to have a bell cow roll this year, so that's huge. Yeah, he looked great. He evolved in the past catching, getting a ton of carries, and he looked explosive against the Jets defense. That's very, very quick, laterally. And I was encouraged. Yeah.
00:55:29
Speaker
And then finally, some concern players. I think we hit basically all these players as well. But just want to re-list them again. I guess, Ryan, I know you have a couple on your item, and then Joey can hop in. But who are some guys that you're concerned about and you kind of want to cut bait on?
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we touched on a lot of them already. So some of the guys I'm concerned with, not cutting bait on, but Josh Allen, we've talked about it. He just looked all over the place and didn't look like himself. Again, Robinson, I'm just a little concerned with Elgier there. I do kind of agree with what Joe said, though. I think as the season progresses, it could sway a little more towards Robinson. So we'll see. But a little concerning. And then we talked about Drake London.
00:56:15
Speaker
I mean, you got to be super concerned that Ritter's going to be the quarterback the rest of the year, and I just don't see how he can can get it done if if that's his quarterback. Yeah, for me, Gino Smith, I have Gino Smith in a couple of different places and. In one league, I'm starting him in another two leagues. I have him as a backup drafted to Sean Watson, who I was less confident in, and I'm I'm.
00:56:43
Speaker
And, you know, in those leagues where I have other quarterback options, I think I'm probably cutting him right up for waiver wire guys this week. Um, it's a little concerning because he has a whole career of data, you know, proceeding last year where he was mediocre to average. And last year obviously was well above average, but.
00:57:07
Speaker
We'll say that could just be a knee jerk reaction. I'm also concerned about Damien Pierce and it's not necessarily a Pierce thing, but it's more so like if CJ Strab can't move the ball, is Damien Pierce going to be able to, you know, score
Quarterback Concerns and Week Two Expectations
00:57:24
Speaker
touchdowns? And is that the type of, you know, is that the type of back that like he was not really, he wasn't on the field a ton once they were down.
00:57:34
Speaker
And, you know, I was big on him. His touchdown scorer prop was, I think like two to one to score. And I was kind of beating that drum hard all Sunday morning. Like, you know, he's the, he's the most likely person to score touchdown on their whole team. How could he possibly be two to one? And that was exactly why he was two to one because they barely moved the ball. They barely got into there. No one's going to score touchdown on that team. It was, it was, it was bad. So we'll see, right. Just one week, but.
00:58:05
Speaker
Yeah, those are the two that come to my mind. Yeah, it appears like I get, I have them in redraft. I still think it'd be good. The Ravens D is not an easy matchup, but the Texans offense look putrid. So it's a little worrisome there. I mean, for me, we've said it many times with Drake London.
00:58:25
Speaker
I am trying to get whatever I can for him in dynasty. I am actually looking to see if I can get it because he still has pretty high perceived dynasty value. But as I mentioned, I don't know when the quarterback situation is going to get better there. I don't know when the offensive philosophy is going to improve there.
00:58:42
Speaker
He has a talent and I think that's how you sell it, but I would probably try to sell it for someone who has similar talent, but a much better opportunity. I wouldn't be selling him at like 50 cents on the dollar, but I would definitely be looking to see if I can get someone who I could actually use and has a decent future outlook.
00:59:00
Speaker
I don't really know if you can get anything for him right now. You just got to kind of wait and hopefully he has a good game here and there and then try to flip him. So that's more of a hold. But if you can get anything for him, I'd start trying to get feelers out there. And Fields is someone who I still think you could probably get a good return on.
00:59:20
Speaker
because people are viewing him as like a top seven, top eight quarterback. And he's going to have broke gains, but I just don't think he's ever getting better from where he is. Like I truly think he's kind of not a great passer. He'll be a good rusher, but I also don't know.
00:59:36
Speaker
If the bears are going to stick with them, uh, long-term for, from a dynasty perspective, cause they, I think is 11 straight games they've lost now. Um, so they don't care about fantasy points. They care about production on the field and winning. So I do have a concern that fields, maybe not a long-term quarterback for the bears. And then you got to be in a weird situation holding the bag on that. Um, I don't know if those are spicy takes for any of you guys, but that's just kind of where I'm at.
01:00:02
Speaker
I think that's a really good point with fields. They're not winning real life games, right? So at some point, they're going to have to do something. And if fields can't actually win a football game, he has all this upside and fantasy because of his rushing ability. But if that's not winning them the football games, there's some real concern there that something happens to his job security at some point. They debated treating him and keeping the first pick too. So they ultimately traded the pick, but
01:00:30
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sold to him long-term. Yeah, I agree. I would also throw out anybody on Carolina's offense. She said, yeah. And the team is just bad. And we've talked a lot about Denver on this pod. I'm a Russell Wilson owner. I thought they looked barely passable.
01:00:57
Speaker
could have been a lot worse, could have certainly been a lot better. So I'm hoping to see a little bit more from that moving forward, too. Not exactly cutting bait yet. Well, in my situation with Russ, I'm kind of
01:01:14
Speaker
I'm riding them out at this point with Kyler still on the IR. Yeah, don't want to have other options. Yeah, unfortunately. And if you're in redraft and you're starting Russ, then you could probably find better options. Yeah, I hope it's like a 20 team league if you have Russ as your starting quarterback after the draft.
01:01:29
Speaker
Um, but I guess, uh, I guess looking ahead to week two, obviously, uh, we got some, uh, some data points from week one. What, what are you looking, what are you guys thinking or excited to see from week two? I mean, for me, I'm expecting a couple big bounce backs from a number of teams that really disappointed. I think the giants should bounce back to play on the cards. I think they're four point road favorites, potentially, uh, the Seahawks get the lines. I want to see that offense get on track.
01:01:55
Speaker
the bills get the raiders i think the bills are going to be very motivated and i think they could go uh... but a lot of points on the raiders and the ravens they get more hope should be getting mark anders back so hopefully that often starts clicking a little bit uh... also i'm very interested to see how is that wilson handles the cab boys who just dismantled my giants i think that is going to be a bloodbath uh... and as far as like watching things josh kelly's usage we we've got it alluded to that before kinda see if that is uh...
01:02:25
Speaker
fools gold or not, and kind of how the Ravens backfield shakes up. I don't know if there's any other thoughts you guys have for week two. Yeah, we touched on most of what I had. The only other thing that I wanted to mention is I feel like there were a lot of concerns for Kenneth Walker going into the season. I think Dave, even at one point, you were a little down on him, but it seems like that was kind of overblown. Charbonnet only touched the ball three times in week one, and it seems like he's going to be the guy there.
01:02:53
Speaker
I think that's something to keep an eye on. And the rest of it we've mostly touched on throughout this pod. I'm really interested to see in what quarterbacks step it up in week two. It just seemed like such a down week for fantasy quarterbacks. Yeah, I would say most intriguing match. Well, from a fantasy perspective, I'm curious to see how the Rams offense, how their weapons end up looking coming back this week.
01:03:20
Speaker
against San Francisco, a much more formidable defense. Does Kyron, my man, does he come through again with another productive day? Does Puca end up repeating his double digit targets? And does Higby get more involved? And does Van Jefferson get, you know, brought back from the dead? So it'd be interesting to see. I'm also. Van does not. Yeah.
01:03:46
Speaker
Another guy who tragically died before the beginning of the games this weekend that I'm hoping to see come back next week is Dallas
Episode Conclusion and Future Outlook
01:03:53
Speaker
Goddard. So hopefully Thursday night. Another goose we forgot about. Yeah, I mean like it's crazy. I'm glad that I picked him early in our tight end premium dynasty league just for him to give me a big fat goose and potentially, yeah, I mean, if I had to point the finger at one specific person on the squad who blew it against Schluter this week,
01:04:15
Speaker
It's clearly him, so. Yeah, that's one thing we forgot to mention. Tied ends across the board were just bad. Like, it didn't really matter who you started, which was fine, because you didn't really lose an edge against anyone, I guess you played against. But it would just disappoint, especially if you used, like, high or early round draft capital on, like, it got a good eric or a good eric, or I don't know how pronounce his last name. But yeah, that's because, like, I think Hunter Henry was, like, the tie down won this week, which
01:04:43
Speaker
I did have them in basketball, but I don't think it was in any, uh, true redraft teams. Yeah. It was interesting to see Kelsey and Andrews were out, you know, who else, you know, who, who else do you start? And, uh, it turned out basically it didn't matter. Not Isaiah likely. And I had my hopes for Dalton Kincaid and how many.
01:05:02
Speaker
freakin balls are we gonna throw to Dawson Knox Dawson Knox caught what five balls last night and I just don't understand why you use that draft pick on Dalton Kincaid and have him out there constantly just to throw the ball at Dawson Knox nine times so that the high profile rook is like I don't rise to talk about sharpener like all the early run of us they just they're like easing everyone in like they're just except for you if you get someone like a puka you're just like no hammer him just like yeah the ball a guy you got what's like the
01:05:26
Speaker
fourth, fifth round. Um, yeah, it was definitely weird uses, but tied down with Donald Parham got all the looks and the charge, like it was whatever. No, no one did good in tight end this past week. So hopefully better days ahead there. Yep.
01:05:42
Speaker
Well, with that it, that is our pod. We got week two coming up. We'll be on the pod again a week from today. But thank you guys for listening. Good luck on your matchups. Good luck on your waiver pickups and any trades. So thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thanks, everyone. All right, guys.
01:06:12
Speaker
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