September 15, 2026 • 52 mins
It's Fox Sports Radio's official fantasy football podcast! Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon recap the Chiefs dominating the Broncos, whether or not the Bears offense can keep it up for fantasy purposes, and more recaps of NFL Week 1. The guys also go through their favorite Waiver Wire adds for Week 2.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is I Want Your Flex with Dan Beyer and
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the guys help you make those hard decisions. And now,
let's get your flex on. Here's Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's it for week one. He is Swollen Dome. Hit
him up at Swollen Dome. You can find me, Dan Beyer,
at Dan Beyer on Fox. It is I Want Your Flex.
Our executive producer is Brandon Deutsch. And, Mike, I'll tell
you what. I think the story of week one. is
the team from your backyard. The Chicago Bears putting up
(01:35):
59 in that win over the Carolina Panthers. Just one
of the many headlines we're going to discuss over the
next 30 or 40 minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Week one, lots of fun, records, scoring, all that. But
Ben Johnson came, you know, everybody was mad at him
a couple of weeks ago. He said, why would I
break all the scoring records?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
There's a nice start to it. Now, you still have
to fix the defense that gave up 37, but let's
talk about that another time. We'll talk about Bryce Young
and his heroics. But for Caleb Williams and this offense, look,
they ran the ball well last year. It's gotten another
year of work with Ben Johnson refining some of these
smaller points, getting the ball out, distributing it, except to you, Mr. Loveland.
(02:16):
And everybody got fed. Everybody... just marveled because there was
a break-in for another Bears touchdown every five minutes. Hey,
we got an update. Well, let's go back and watch
the Bears again.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It was crazy on how much of a pinball game
it actually was. And then the Bears were the only
ones playing for a little while as they ended up
pulling away. But I know there's a lot that we
can take. And even in that first window of games
that you had on Sunday, there were a lot of
points in a lot of different places here, there, and everywhere.
For a while, my points at Palooza, which we'll get
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to later in the show, but it was the Lions
and Saints. That was just at 7-0. But you had
the Bills and Texans doing their thing. The Jaguars were
running it up on the Browns. There was a lot
going on. and maybe no more so than what we
had in Charlotte. But to the point you said, if
the Bears don't fix their defense, it's even better for
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those who have DeAndre Swift and Luther Burden and those
that are trying to get Kalief Raymond because you can
have more games like this.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No, that's it. I think unless they go out and
make a couple of big moves and something Jason Smith
and I were kind of bandying about as we talked
through it on our show Monday night was, all right,
let's go– Well, Matt, the Raiders are 1-0. Do they
want to trade Max Crosby now? And then, you know,
Joey Porter Jr. is still floating out there. You could
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use some help in the secondary. So like it becomes a,
all right, let's start looking long term of what we got.
Pinball games are all fun and exciting, but from a
football standpoint. a change. But Caleb Williams, you know, we've
seen and marveled at it going back to his days
in college. But to see it getting refined, yeah, you're
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going to feast. The thing I fear, though, for fantasy
owners is it's going to be the which guy gets
fed when things normalize.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'll tell you something that kind of I started to
think of, and it wasn't just in looking back at
Ben Johnson's time in Detroit. It was also Just thinking
about other NFL offenses in the past 15 or 20 years,
and I go to the New Orleans Saints because we
look at the Saints with Sean Payton and Drew Brees
when they were together, and we know about Jimmy Graham.
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We know about Marcus Colston. You can play Devery Henderson
if you wanted to or Robert Meacham, and they're going
to bust off a 65-yard touchdown at some point. You
can play those guys, maybe not with a lot of confidence,
but they were always giving you points. But the Saints
were the best when they could run the football. When
you had Reggie Bush, when you had Pierre Thomas, when
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you had a running game and a running game that
you could rely on. And then even in the later years,
Mark Ingram, Alvin Kamara, they were so much better when
you had a running game. And we just think of
Drew Brees throwing it here, there, and everywhere. And I
feel it's the same way with Ben Johnson. When we
look at where the Bears are and we look at
what the Lions were, sure, Jared Groff's throwing it to
You know, throwing it to Amon or St. Brown and
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finding Sam Laporta. But it really was a Jameer Gibbs,
David Montgomery sort of deal. And now you go to
Chicago and you got DeAndre Swift and Kalmanungai kind of
being that one-two punch. And I think there's going to
be more of it. And I think it's all predicated
on that running game.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, 100%. You know, we talked about it didn't come
to fruition in what was the worst performance, perhaps, of
week one with the Chargers. Of course, if Hampton doesn't
fumble the ball off the offensive lineman's back, who the
hell knows what goes on in that game. But the
same idea with the Mike McDaniel offense, right? It's all
predicated on getting the ground game going, being strong, and
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then you get to pick your poison as you suck
up linebackers and create all that open space. you know,
we're seeing the trend across the league where we're seeing
guys under center more and learning to do that. What
does that mean? That means more use of the ground game, right?
It makes it an easier, all right, fake the handoff,
do all that, or get that ground game going. And so, yeah,
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for Chicago and what Ben Johnson wants to do, especially if,
you know, you're going to need both components if you
don't fix that defense, Dan. So I think, you know,
when you look at DeAndre Swift and one of the big–
takeaways going back to and this shows you the difference
in coaching and styles and philosophy right DeAndre Swift was
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an accomplished player in Detroit comes to Chicago in what
was that bastardized orphan year of Eberflus when the most
exciting thing was that he got a haircut for hard
knocks but That year, the offensive line, like nothing gelled there.
So DeAndre Swift was doing the poke and prod and
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kind of everything was trying to break outside. So he
looked like a shell and far less than what we'd
seen in Detroit going, well, what did you sign? Why
did they grab this guy? And you got plenty of
headlines that two years ago. And then you look at
what last year became. Now you get the huge contract
extension and you have this big bust out performance in
week one.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And then even on the heels of that, because he
had a pit stop in Philadelphia. Sure. Saquon Barkley has
the amazing year the next year. And you're like, oh,
it must have been DeAndre Swift. And that was the problem.
You know, apparently it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
No, clearly not. Clearly not. Figure out a scheme. Figure out,
you know, some way to actually... pay tribute to, to
what built this game in the ground game, get a
formidable five guy front and get after it. So here
we go.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to, I want to ask you guys, you
and Brandon, one quick question, curious on your thoughts on this,
and then we can move on to the other action
from week one. But if I gave you three pass catchers,
so that's wide receivers and tight ends from this Carolina
bears game, who would you take moving forward? Three from
both teams, like three, three combined. So it could be
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two Panthers and one bears, two bear and one Panther,
three or whatever. If you had to take three guys
who could catch passes, who do you have the most
confidence in the rest of the season? After what we saw?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, McMillan goes off the board first.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
There.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Kalief Raymond. No, it's part of the dilemma or that,
but I mean, that's where we go, right? Cause he's what?
Eight for 84 this week. You've got Burden and Uzunze.
I mean, Uzunze had one of the great catches that
you'll see, right, going back through the defender.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Coker's $ 1. 38. Right.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And two big scores. And Bryce Young pushing it down.
Go ahead, Brandon.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I would take McMillan and Coker.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And then Burden.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Or Burden or Loveland.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Because Loveland's a tough one, right? Well, he's going to
have huge games, right?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
It's just a matter of when.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
A lot of snaps, a lot of time on the field,
just no production this week. What do you got, Dan?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, no, I just think it's an interesting dilemma one weekend.
You know, because I was high on Roma Dunzey. And
then during training camp, and then all of a sudden this,
you know, calf issue or whatever he was dealing with
over the last couple of weeks were. His status you
weren't necessarily sure about, but he only gets three targets.
And if he doesn't catch that crazy deep ball that
he does, it's pretty much a bit of a skunker.
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We all love Loveland, right? I mean, like, who didn't?
I mean, behind Trey McBride and Brock Bowers. I mean,
you're like, yeah, sign me up. And then he got skunked.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Except for my head rolling around after the guillotine got me.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You had to. You're the worst luck I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
49 points a game or whatever the hell it was
for week one. None of it scored by my team.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I was telling Mike, like his team, when he drafted it,
it was like, it's such a great team. And it
just shows you it's one week.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And it's Chase plays bad, Loveland plays bad. Jamar Chase.
Everything came up snake eyes.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, lots of value out there for you guys to
pick off the carcass. Our guillotine league, to just finish
the thought, I had what might have been the worst week,
other than the people that picked the Chargers in survivor
pools because you saw 34% Of the big prize won
in Vegas is chopped after week one.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah. I tried to stay away.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We won't bring up my streamer defense from last week.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hey, we'll do the report card later, Brandon.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So are we settling on Tet, Coker, and you said Burden.
That's yours, Brandon. Those three. I would. You know what?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think Burton and Adunze are going to split. Even
though we got zero yards, I'm going to go with
Loveland for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
See, I think Loveland's going to lose out to Komet
on a bunch, which is why he's still there. Sure,
good point. So I think that's going to, you know,
as we talk about 13 personnel and whatever, and folks
can hear that Greg Cosell breaking that down every Sunday
morning there in terms of those kind of setups. But, yeah,
that third one is tough. I mean, the fact that
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we're now putting Coker in– Right. Because the hard part
coming out of this game, fellas, and I think we
can agree to this, you got two defenses that coming out,
and it's week one, and that's just it, right? Because
a lot of teams look terrible, right? If you come
out of this, you're like, all right, Denver's no good.
New England's no good. There's a bunch of squads that
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were supposed to be presumptive Super Bowl contenders that a
lot of folks are looking around going, eh, I don't know, right?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Maybe this may– and not that it was a bad
question because I think– No, I like it. Yeah, my
point was made. It transitions to this, and this is
where we can talk about other players. Do you scrap
your draft after week one? Like I still look back
at my draft and I say, okay, I'm not going
to overreact. I took so-and-so in the fourth round, took
so-and-so in the sixth round. You know, I took Roma
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Dunze higher than I probably should have, and I don't
want to overreact, and there wouldn't be a market for
him at this point. But I'm like, also, I'm like,
I just drafted the guy and he played 60 minutes
in one game. Like, should I really overreact? And so
I am one that holds on to the draft maybe
longer than others because of how, you know, we play
in our league and we've done it around so far. But,
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you know, how quickly do you move away from the draft?
Can you do it after week one?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm usually three to four weeks. I'm like the old
quarters thing that they preached for all those years. Right.
Let's let's separate it into quarters. Plus one. And then
you figure it out from there. I mean, cause you
get a lot of these marquee made for TV matchups.
Not that you don't have to play them, but we,
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we know that they don't play a lot of meaningful snaps.
I love the, you know, work joint practices and all
that stuff, but you're not rolling out a ton in those.
And then you come out in week one, like we
had Denver and Kansas city thing. I'm nervous about is
all right. Is Bo Nick's not going to be able
to run. Cause when he did try to scramble one,
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he held the ball out like a loaf of bread,
which is not good for anybody, but he had a,
he had 30 yards in front of him and he was,
he looked like he was reticent to even make a
try on it. Right. But, but you got a made
for TV matchup there. You go on down. There's several
other of them where you're just like, all right, it's
week one, pretty good opponent schedule soft and schedule have
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his ebbs and flows. And, and maybe week one is,
isn't the be all end all it's like, I'm excited
about the Bears' offense, but I don't know, is Carolina's
defense any good? Right? So you're trying to take it all,
not to mention the fact that we averaged 45, 46
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points a game across the NFL this week. Are we
going to see that every week?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I don't think that you will. But I do wonder,
I mean, because I always felt that defense is were
stronger early on and then this offense is finding their
groove maybe it's week two or week three but there
was anything but and i don't know how many teams
are really investing in their defense um denver's i feel
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is one of them and we saw what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah i was curious about that.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
On monday night but uh yeah i i'll tell you
what i think i think that this could be a
sign of things to come. I'll even take Jacksonville. Jacksonville,
for example, I think when people were drafting their wide receivers,
Parker Washington's probably coming off the board first and then
maybe right after that, Brian Thomas Jr. And then Jacoby
Myers maybe at some point. And then when you look
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and see what Trevor Lawrence did, Thomas ended up having
a shoulder issue. He did return to the game, but
I think he's going to be all right in week
two if you end up coming back from what you did.
But they didn't necessarily need him. But now the conversation
seems to be, oh, it's Parker Washington all the way,
and then it's Jacoby Myers and Brian Thomas is odd
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man out. And I'm just not ready to go to
that point just yet. I think they'll need Thomas' playmaking duty,
and it was against the Browns, and maybe they didn't
need it in that spot. But I'm not ready to
now say Parker Washington is the clear must-have guy and
forget about Brian Thomas when they were so closely positioned
on draft boards.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, I mean, that's just it. You look at 10
different receivers in a game that became a 24-0 halftime debacle, right?
So Washington only finishes with six targets, Myers with two,
Thomas with three, the injury to the shoulder. So, you know,
you take it with a grain of salt and just, well,
what do we look at for this week? They go
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up against Denver.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's Denver after this week?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You can run on them. Evidently, you can run on them.
They also could be.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Smarting, you know, like maybe, you know, wants some payback.
It'll be a short week for them. They can get
that taste out of their mouth, be a road game.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And I don't think Bashaw Tootin is Kenneth Walker III.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
No, but I'll tell you what, that backfield, because we
thought maybe Rodriguez could get some looks, and instead it
was a lot of tooting. A lot of tooting. As
the Jags were tooting their horn.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, just six catches from Rodriguez, or six carries, I
should say, 23 yards, and Amir Abdullah outrushed him on
his four attempts late in the game.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, and you're not going to get the bronze every week.
And by the way, and I don't want people to,
Parker Washington is your number one guy that you would
take in drafts, but Brian Thomas was not very far behind.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No, he was probably four or five slots. Like, that's
the thing, right? It's still that separation, and we have
proof of concept. Now it's a couple years, a lost
season last year for Thomas, but we've seen him finish
as a top five guy.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Can I say something about Brian Thomas real quick?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
A hundred bucks, cash, no checks.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I just want to bring up, I think, a good
point that I've been telling people, too, like, btj i
think he averaged like 30 fantasy points or close to
it the last five games of his rookie year and
that was all with mac jones so like mac jones
supported his top five wide receiver finish he's never been
that fantastic with trevor lawrence at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Now you can only use five abbreviations through the entire
season okay so btj is going to be one of
them so you've got four more you can use brandon
okay Four more throughout the year, but BTJ is fine
with Brian Thomas Jr. I just like the overall talent
of Thomas, just as a player. And that's tough for
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me to shy away from. But to your point, if
the numbers are significantly better when it was Mac Jones,
maybe it doesn't shine. But I always bet on the
talent that it's going to be there at some point.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, they had some pretty monster games at the end
of that year. You go back to, but I'm looking
at opponents as well, which we take into account. Jets, Raiders, Titans,
and then a big game against the Colts. But also,
you know, the yardage was down, but he'd still scored
several touchdowns early in the year, too. So a little
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bit of an ebb and flow, but the point well taken.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
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Speaker 2 (19:04):
Welcome back to I Want Your Flex. He's Mike Harmon.
I'm Dan Baier. That's our executive producer, Brandon Deutsch. Mike,
the Baltimore Ravens put up 41 touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Against the Indianapolis Colts. 31 of those in the first half.
Zay Flowers was well on his day to a huge day.
He had a huge day. He just didn't play the
second half because of a hamstring strain. There were other
injuries as well. But Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson, and
Zay Flowers for that matter, showing up big in the Ravens'
opening win against the Colts.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Declan Doyle welcome to your next gig ahead of the
head gig eventually what is he 30 or 31 or
something like that makes me feel what did I do
with my life anyway 41 23 and final Lamar doing
a bit of everything good to see him back out
and running at the long of 1940 yards and a
score through for three 24, the curious curiosity though, right?
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Is it flowers with the hammy? Is he going to
be available for week two optimism that he will five
for one 50 before they, they salted this thing away,
but you also lost Jacoby lane. He was the, the
darling of the off season, right? He was going to
break through. Now he's got a broken wrist. So Chris
Moore had a 53 yard reception. Maybe he's one of
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those guys that you put in a little bit of a,
a waiver claim on Rashad Bateman still there, but only
one target in this one. But once again, it begins
and ends. And I don't know when that cliff's going
to come, but damn it. I hope it doesn't for
a while. Cause Derek Henry's still fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And I don't think it's going to, you look at
what they've got. They've got the saints coming up this weekend.
They've got the Cowboys in that Brazil game, the Titans
Falcons Browns. before they play a string of Bengals, Bills,
and Jaguars. And who even knows what those defense are?
Chargers are also a part of that as well. But
I think they're sitting there just staring at 6-0 right
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in the face. And I don't know of any team
that can stop that juggernaut. It's just a matter of
we saw the Saints come back against the Lions. They
can score points with them. So you'll need Derrick Henry
and Lamar Jackson. And we saw what happened with the
Cowboys on Sunday night against the Giants. So If you
load it up on Ravens, good on you because the
start of the season looks very promising.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, it looks like Mark Andrews is back in the
good graces. Although I know a bunch of Ravens fans
and they just kept going. Imagine if Likely was still here.
It's like he's gone.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He's playing and loving somebody else. You have to let
it go. Put the pictures away. Four catches, six targets,
49 yards for Andrews. he's going to have to play
a big role here this next couple of weeks, I think, because,
you know, the Flowers injury is also something you've got
to manage, right? If he's not right, as much as
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it pains you, you've got to figure out a way
to win without him early because you're going to need
him to, you know, hopefully open things up and be
there later on. It sounds like they avoided any major
catastrophe on this one, but we all know how hammies work,
so don't– Don't get cute with it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, on the Colts side of things, if you drafted
Jonathan Taylor, you were happy with what he gave you,
almost 100 yards and two touchdowns. But now you got
a Sunday night game against the Chiefs coming up, who
seem to be spirited against Denver. We'll see if that
carries over to the other ponies in the NFL and
the Indianapolis Colts. And by the way, I still think, Mike,
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I'm the only one who thinks the Ravens and Colts
is a rivalry game because of the Colts leaving over
40 years ago. I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
It's still there. There might only be 5% of that
crowd that knew that that ain't going to happen anymore.
But damn it, those 5% matter.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I even brought it up on my show on Sunday
of like, all right, this is there. Maybe it was Friday.
I can't remember. The point being is. Yeah, I still
think this is a rivalry because of the Colts leaving Baltimore,
but it was anything but.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Did you send the folks you were working with the
link to that documentary about it?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Just the grainy Mayflower videos of them moving out. I'll
tell you what, I was off base when it came to,
you mentioned Isaiah Likely, and now John Harbaugh's in New
York with the Giants. I was not a huge believer
in Jackson Dart, Cam Scadaboo. I wasn't buying any stock
of them. I was staying away from them in any
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fantasy draft and all one weekend looking pretty good while
the Cowboys in the other half. And I like to
buy some Cowboys stock, whether it be in Dak or
CB Lamb or George Pickens was a bit of a
flop in week one.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah. Very odd game. But you look at the giants
imposing their will and something we talked about as we
did the, you know, preview for the rest of the
week one and a little, a little bit of the
review of the, the first games. I was bullish on
the 49ers, right? Brandon, we've talked about this a lot.
You're a 49er guy. I don't know what it looks
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like in week 14 to 17, but for one week,
I like it. Same thing with the Giants. If Malik
Nabors is playing, and he did, and he gave them
six catches for 69 yards, a nice solid night, and
Scadaboo and Dart are cleared, I'm feeling good. Likely there, obviously.
We talk about him. But When you're getting into your
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fantasy draft, am I banking on them to be there
as a quartet for 17? The answer is no. And
that's why, for draft purposes, I couldn't get it. But
for one night, man, that was fantastic. Dart was tremendous.
Skadabo's running through people. Isaiah likely is running into the secondary. Like,
we remember Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates in their prime.
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Neighbors had a bunch of big catches, as we said. So,
I mean, it all came to fruition. Meanwhile, I mean,
Dallas scored on their only two possessions of that second half.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Good on them.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But that's the problem. They only got the ball twice
in the second half.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, CeeDee Lamb was laughing in the locker room when
they told him that. He didn't even realize it. They
told him. He's like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, they were efficient. Unfortunately, they couldn't get back
on the field. Five catches, 44 yards, and a score
from Lamb. Yeah, overall, you know, Javante Williams found the
end zone twice, so that's a win, 72 total yards
on his 17 touches. But Dak Prescott, 175 yards. That's
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not getting it done for you.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, it wasn't. One of the reasons why I took
an L this weekend in the longtime league.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Let's stay with the other team that's in the state
of Texas, the Houston Texans, who lost at home to
the Bills. Interesting game where C.J. Stroud, fantasy-wise, was fine
for you. David Montgomery welcomed well, but interesting, especially on
the Buffalo side of things, the biggest takeaway for me
is finally the emergence of Dalton Kincaid as that guy
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we've been waiting for year after year, but Texans and
Bills played a good one on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was one of the most fun games we're going
to get, 36-31. Josh Allen at least shook off some
of that stink of past games, right? Total of four touchdowns,
six carries, 23 yards, two scores, 334-2 by air, two
100-yard receivers. DJ Moore gets there and finds the end zone. No,
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that was exciting stuff because if you can go after
the Houston defense, and again, it's week one. But if
you're going to be able to put up that kind
of offense against them, you're feeling a lot better if
you've got some stock and invested in Bills players. James Cook,
I guess, would take the W that he only had
69 total yards in the game. So in terms of
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the studs and duds and those kind of things, there's
an opportunity. But David Montgomery ran well on the Houston side.
He's your leader in the clubhouse, 2-1. carries over woody
mark so that's good nico collins even without a decided
number two still got his seven for 75 and one
they're going to need someone to emerge there uh for
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sure but uh eight targets for dalton schultz only four
catches not the percentage you want but certainly the the
count uh would mean that you're feeling good going forward
he'll keep a big role and for cj stroud in
you know one of those contract years dan we've talked
about that a bunch with guys looking at baker mayfield's
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55 a year and said okay i need some of
that uh pretty good start this is a fun one
i hope we see him.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Again yeah fantasy wise worked out well the turnover at
the end was a tough one but otherwise i mean
the texans kind of dominated the clock had the ball
for more than 36 minutes you know throughout that game
and that's a way to beat buffaloes to keep the
uh stars off the field but josh allen still with
334 in that game Bills have a short week, by
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the way, because Thursday they've got the Lions coming up
as they open the brand new Highmark Stadium. I want
to say something about these Lions and why I have
real concern, not only for this Thursday, but just for
moving forward. They get the win. They blow the 21
point lead. Saints come back, make it quite a ball
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game to go into overtime. But giving Jameer Gibbs 29
carries in week one. And I know the Pacheco deal,
and now Pacheco's out until at least December because of
a procedure on his back. I just think you have
to manage that better. And I would have thought that
they would have managed it a lot better with a
short week coming up. But I was surprised. Great if
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you have Jameer Gibbs on your team, but that's a
heavy workload for week one.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, it's pretty insane, right? Because you've got a couple
of games off the jump. We saw a bunch of
division games in week one. This was not one of them.
34 total touches, which means– getting smashed at least 34 times. What,
Vahki had two and Goff two for two. Yeah, that's
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not a winning formula, man, long term, especially if you're
expecting to compete because they were still the division favorites
so much as everybody lined up for the Bears or
started to stand for love and company there in Green Bay. But, yeah,
losing Montgomery, you figured you'd have a— second option and
i look gibbs we love watching him work and and
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appreciate what he's doing but you know serving the uh
short-term attempt to win a game long-term uh fail uh
most likely and again you're playing buffalo Now, I think
they'll show better defensively than they did in week one,
but short week, man, as you said. I don't know,
a hyperbaric chamber for 72 hours and he's banished?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I have no idea what they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
He IVs some food into him and he doesn't actually
get up?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean, it's just shocking that you wouldn't have. I
don't care if you just had somebody running into the
line and gaining no yards, you know, if it was
going to be Vachie. And again, you know, the Pacheco
injury hurts, but it's not so much of we don't
have Isaiah Pacheco. We got to give all these carries
to Gibbs. It's not just have someone else in there.
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Just take a little bit off. And they needed every
every carry, apparently, because they needed to get that two
point conversion stop in overtime just to win the football game.
But just to me, it doesn't seem like a recipe
for success. And then we look on the other sidelines
of the Saints shook throws for 400 of the comeback win.
I mean, Olave's 10 for a buck 82. Vele was
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someone I know that you touched on this past Friday
as someone to look out for. He got into the
end zone. Jawan Johnson was skunked for a while, but
ended up getting the touchdown late and added another big
catch along the way. So those Saints that we talked
about producing in a game against the Lions, and I
think you're going to see more of that playing games
in the Dome. We know Kellen Moore's an offensive guy, obviously,
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if you have the right matchup. I think we're going
to be seeing a lot more of this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Were you surprised the Saints didn't go for two at
the end of regulation? About a minute left on the
clock when they scored that touchdown.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
No, because of the minute. Yeah, I guess it doesn't
necessarily make a difference, but I was not shocked in
that instance. And I wasn't shocked that they would do
that in overtime. I think we all expected that as well,
because otherwise you're making the decision Basically, you're going for
the tie at that point with only 90 seconds left
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in the game because of the overtime. But I wasn't
shocked in that scenario. But maybe I should have been.
I felt they had the momentum. There you go.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
You also have a guy that, I mean, look, we
all have Supertoe running around. It's not just Sebastian Janikowski
anymore when we talk about long-distance field goals. Sorry. For
those unaware, the younger audience out there doesn't remember the
joy or actual pain of trying to play with those
super toe or super shot and all those kind of things, right?
Set the ball up and then try to slam the
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head of the little plastic guy to kick a field goal.
It's what I've always called the long range guys. Hey,
super toes out there. And then you break your hand.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Brandon, do you know what Mike's talking about? I do,
but do you know what he's talking about?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
There you go. Right there. I just announced myself old
on the day my daughter turns 21. I pronounced myself
officially old. Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Prost to her.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Happy birthday to your daughter.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, the 21. Did she call early because she's like, Dad,
I'm not calling late? Or was she like calling late
because she couldn't call early because of what happened overnight?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
No, she's stone cold sober. She doesn't drink anything but water.
And even getting the leaded caffeine water is a big push.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
As you guys know, I am a non-drinker. But I
did drink the night that I turned 21.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
What was the drink of choice to you?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
There were no drinks of choice because it was just
everybody giving me crap. Fair. Yeah, that's what it was.
But I kept everything down. Everything was down. Didn't need
to do it anymore. But, yeah. Travis, by the way,
getting back on track.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Travis... Etchen.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Etchen.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Sounds so good to say.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Whatever it is. Did have seven catches to go along
with his 46 yards rushing.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
That helped save the day.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
78 total yards. But if you got your extra 3.5
and half PPRs, you at least got to double digits.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That's tough. That's a tough one when you have almost
500 yards of total offense.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But I think better days are ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
For that, for sure. All right, we'll take a timeout.
Come back. Mike's got waiver wires. We'll do our report cards.
We'll also just touch quickly on some of the other
games from week one as well to give you guidance
for your fantasy team. He's Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier.
That's Brandon Deutsch. It's all next here on I Want
Your Flex.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
WaverWire ads to come, plus our report cards. Welcome back.
It is I Want Your Flex. I'm Dan Byer. That's
Mike Harmon. He is Brandon Deutsch. Mike, anything else stand
out from you as we kind of put a bow
on the action from week one and start to look
ahead to week number two?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Talked a little bit about the dud that the Chargers
put up overall. You know, 209, one and one from Herbert,
29 yards on the ground. O'Marion Hampton did find the
end zone, knife through butter, and you had five for
82 yards. and a score from McConkie. So while I'm
not saying they're out of the woods and this is
going to be a juggernaut, the fact that Jim Harbaugh
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is going, yeah, I think we probably should have worked
them together a little bit more. I don't know if
that's just him being glib or if it was telling of, yeah,
we got a lot of work to do. Now they
got the Raiders in week two, so the 1-0 first
place Raiders, I should say. But for the Chargers offense,
this is, I think, a good buy low opportunity for
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some of the principals.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I think the other sideline in that game was interesting
as well because Marvin Harrison Jr. had three targets, one
catch for 33 yards.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It was a nice catch.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You don't get fantasy points for nice catches, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
But the beauty of it is if you saw it,
you know it because it was the only one he made.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Trey McBride, you knew he was going to be there.
Michael Wilson, they just gave him the new deal too.
He had five for 56 yards. seven targets and kendrick
bourne comes in and is eight for 75 catching all
eight of his targets in a game that you were
you know at one point a double digit underdog and
you go in and you win by 12 and you
have this two-headed monster now a bit at running back
maybe it's not a monster but um algeria and love
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uh getting the carries algeria at 17 love at 11
there just doesn't seem to be the need to get
marvin harrison jr the football and uh i think the
cardinals are And for whatever reason, even he and Jacoby
Brissett can't get on the same page, couldn't do it
with Kyler Murray. And I'm just wondering at what point
is the time to cut bait? Again, I love the talent,
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just like I do with BTJ, as Brandon would say.
But this one is a little tougher to understand.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Go get yourself some Kendrick Bourne stock.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Hey, if he's going eight for eight, he's behind Wilson
and McBride, it would seem.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
There's a rapport there. Brandon, what stood out for you
in week one?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Look, a lot of people are going to have overreactions.
Marvin Harrison Jr. I am a little panicked about, though.
I really am, because this isn't just like this. With
Jacoby Bursette, he hasn't reached the potential that we thought
he was going to reach. For whatever reason, whether you
think it's deserved or not, Bursette has targeted Michael Wilson more,
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targeted Trey McBride more, and also likes to throw to
Kendrick Bourne. Now, maybe it'll change when Carson Beck comes in,
um you know halfway or later in the season if
that if the Cardinals end up not being as competitive
as they looked week one but I am concerned about
him someone I'm not concerned about Dan though is Devon
Achan interesting I'm not I'm not I mean he's gonna
get especially in PPR leagues because Malik Willis he was
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open like every play Malik Willis just decided to not
throw it to him I think that's gonna change I
do think he's gonna get more check downs in the
rushing may be an issue but in PPR leagues I
think he's a good buy-low candidate because he'll be down
the entire game, and I think him and Caleb Douglas
are just going to split targets basically the entire time.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
It's interesting with the Dolphins because there just is no
one else, and you don't think that they're going to
be playing this bad of football, but then you're like, well,
they played the Raiders. You don't have much expectation. That's
all that you can put forth. I was really high
on A-Chan and them having some sort of life, and
I thought maybe– Maybe there's new energy there, but maybe
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this is a team that hasn't hit rock bottom yet,
but to your point, Brandon, you actually are looking on
the upside of it is this could be a one-off
and that Malik Willis is going to need Devon Achan
if he wants to survive this season.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Yeah, that's how I was, you know, as we talked
about it, breaking it down and even, you know, I
got bold and had him atop the running back rankings,
obviously a big swing and a miss by me to
mix sports for a second, but it's the idea that
he would be in that double-digit check-down mode, just like
we saw how the 49ers deployed Christian McCaffrey. That's become
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the go-to standard of it, of how do we get
him more touches if we've got a depleted receiver room,
as the Niners did last year, and he went over
100 catches, finished with the 14, what, 413, 415, or
whatever the touch count was that we've referenced a couple
of times. But that's what I figured with A-Chan. You
paid him.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Use him.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I think they're going to use him like the Falcons
did Bijan on Sunday, you know where they just gave
him like eight or nine catches like just gonna have
to feed hn at some point and the oc is
gonna have to figure that that's the way to be competitive.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah they're gonna want to win a game right like
they get some point you just can't keep on trotting
out there and getting your butt kicked and he's their
best option to get the football to if they want
to win the game so don't panic this is brandon
on Devon HN. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What's yours, Dan?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, you know, I gave you a couple, you know,
the Marvin Harrison juniors was one of the things that
ended up, uh, you know, kind of standing out to me,
you know, the, the Minnesota situation with Carson Wentz. I
don't know if there's going to be an opportunity. I,
I've even speculated like Minnesota owes Kyler Murray, nothing. Right.
If they go on a win streak, you might as
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well just keep on rolling with, with Carson Wentz and
the way that, you know, in the way that things
are going. I just am a little concerned if, I
think there are a lot of good vibes with everything.
Justin Jefferson is there catching touchdown passes. And I do
think that there could be a limitation with Wentz, but
with how good that defense is, they only need him
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to do so much. And so it's way better than
having JJ McCarthy on the field. I would just temper
my expectations a little bit on the Vikings and specifically
with Jefferson. But it was just so, you know, like,
we've waited so long to see Justin Jefferson be Justin
Jefferson again. Um, if Carson Wentz has to start for,
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you know, an extended couple of weeks and they got
your bears coming on the week too, Mike, you know,
so maybe, maybe there could be some opportunities, but I
would just temper it a little for a guy that
threw for a buck 33, maybe with more reps in practice,
it's better. Um, But, yeah, I'm just cautiously optimistic for
the return of Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
See if the defense can slow down. The juggernaut of
Caleb Williams. I have to say that now because I've
never said that about a Chicago Bears offense. So, the
juggernaut that is. 48.5 the total in that one. Bears
4.5 point favorites. For now, I think I fully agree
with where you're at. As much as you wanted Kyler
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Murray to have that redemptive arc, and I think Minnesota
did as they brought him in, thinking, all right, we've
seen half seasons where he's been fantastic. And in that September,
October MVP discussion, Carson Wentz had guys feeling good. They
got a big division win, 22 unanswered in the fourth.
to come and take that game from the Packers. If
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you haven't heard it, go back and find the last
couple of calls from the fourth quarter from Wayne Larravee
on the Packers radio network. Boy, I tell you what, man,
that might be sadder than any movie I've seen or
country song I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
There was no dagger for Green Bay. No. They had
it delivered to them. I'll say this, at least on
Green Bay, I mean, Matthew Golden and Christian Watson.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Watson was amazing.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah, sure looked the part. So that was a question
that we had coming in, were those two be able
to elevate now with no Dobbs and no Dontavion Wicks, who,
by the way, fared well. We didn't touch on Eagles commanders.
Maybe do that another day. But, yeah, for Matthew Golden
to step up and Watson to have that game. I
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think that Green Bay's got a lot of issues. I
said as much on our Sunday show. But for fantasy purposes,
what we're talking here, You couldn't expect more from what
you got for your receivers. And you still don't know
what's going to happen with Josh Jacobs. Running games seem
to be a bit of a mess. So you're going
to have to rely on those guys more.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
So on Sunday, did you start the flaming dumpster fire
and start calling for the head of Matt LaFleur?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I didn't call for his head. I just think that
this is. they're in a danger zone.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And the danger zone that I always say is when
fans become apathetic, that no matter what you do, even
if it's great, they don't care anymore because they just
they're done with you. They're over it. There was a
bit of that with Mike McCarthy at the end, but
he was also in a bit of a power struggle
with Aaron Rodgers and the team wasn't necessarily winning. So
there were a lot of dynamics there. I look back
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to the various Charger seasons, whether it be Brandon Staley,
whether it be Mike McCoy, where the Charger fans are
just like, we're done with this. We're sick of making
the same mistakes. Let's just move on. And at some point,
it's going to bottom out. And I feel they're close
to being there with Matt LaFleur. They got jobbed on
a couple of calls. There's no doubt. The roughing the
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passer call was rough. But then there's also Jordan Love
getting his head taken off by Dallas Turner at one point.
And that offensive line has got a question. And so
if you're going to make a change because you're not
going to make it with Jordan Love, where are you
going to make that change? And it's likely going to
be Matt LaFleur. And so that's where that's kind of
where I landed on it is. And it's why I
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didn't like Green Bay this season, because I picked them
last in the actually in the NFC North. because I
think that I can see a scenario where it goes downhill.
You don't have Micah Parsons for at least six weeks.
At least. We don't know if he's going to be
back after six games or not. So all of those
head questions, and I think that the way that Sunday ended,
especially to a rival in Minnesota, was not a great
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way to start. So that's where I land on the Packers.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Well put.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Let's get to our homework assignments. Brandon, how'd the streaming
defense go this week?
Speaker 4 (44:48):
It did not go well.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
It did not go well. It was the Chargers, right?
Speaker 5 (44:52):
It was the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well, don't worry. You weren't the only one. My points
of Palooza was Lions-Saints. And as we said, like one
point when everybody was scoring, that was 7-0. They got
it up to 61 for me. 31-30 is usually pretty good.
But when the Bears and Panthers scored 96 points combined, yeah,
tough to top that one. Plus, Ravens and Colts had
a pretty good day. And even the Bills and Texans
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outscored the Saints and Lions. So there were a lot
of points. scored. Heck, even the Packers and Vikings ended
up scoring 61 like the Lions and Saints did, so
I didn't hit on the points of Palooza, but if
you did listen to me on the Survivor, I told
you to take the Raiders, and a lot of people
were taking the Chargers with 34% of the circuit.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
34% in the big.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
One, yeah. I got in eight Survivor pools. I put
one entry into the Chargers. I wasn't a believer. I
liked the Cardinals with the points. I didn't think they
were going to win straight up, but Those wacky things
happen in week one, so I tried to stay away.
I did put a pick in on the Raiders, and
it came through. I hope you followed here on I
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Want Your Flex because I did hit on my survivor
pick for week one.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Well played, my friend. Well played.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
How'd the hot plays, cold sores, and rankings go for you,
my car?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Some good, some bad, some ugly, as it would when
you name as many of these foolios. Or maybe I'm
the fool. I don't know. Quarterback position, we had our
7-8 when we talk about Lamar and Hurds. Burrow gave
us nothing. Herbert, we've already chronicled that. And Goff was okay,
but not enough to rate a top-five play. In the
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running back position, we had Gibbs. Hampton scored early, thought,
big day, big day. No, no, not so fast. And
then he ran up the guy's back. For those that
didn't see the highlight of that, literally runs into an
offensive lineman and loses a fumble in the red zone.
Good times. A-chan, we've talked about him a bunch. Nothing.
Chase Brown finished as a top 15. Nothing exciting. Guys
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that I mentioned as also just outside the top five, well,
they all hit. That's where you go ahead, B. John Taylor.
and Henry, because we don't go full-on chalk here. Wide
receivers fared better. The five guys we named, four of
them finished inside the top nine. The guy that didn't
was on my guillotine team. Hi, Jamar Chase. Useless. But
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we did have Justin Jefferson, so I felt good and
took a victory lap over that one.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
I've been chopped in week one in the guillotine league
before in our Fox Sports one that we had a
couple of years ago I was on the verge of
being chopped, and then it was the Christian McCaffrey Monday
night deal.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Remember that? Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
And all of a sudden that popped up and ended
up surviving, only to be chopped later on in the season.
But it doesn't matter unless you win it, right? It
doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
I'd always run at least deep into it, so it
gave me great entertainment and the theory testing. This one,
everybody scored this week except the guys on my guillotine team.
Just really– Some next level stuff between Smith and Chase
and Loveland and Quentin Johnston and then Bo Nix. I mean,
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come on, man. That was bad. But either way, good
fodder and some nice players on the market for y'all.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well, let's look ahead to week two. As we mentioned,
we've got lines and bills coming up on Thursday night.
I think you're playing everybody that you normally would in
that game. But what about the waiver wire that's going
to be clearing here very soon?
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Well, as we go down through it, I mean, Tyler
Shuck was owned in fewer than 50% of leagues, so
we'll expect more heroics from him. Tough date against Baltimore.
Baltimore a heavy favorite at home, but let's go. Chris
Alave was fantastic. And you're seeing the secondary. We'll get
more of Etchen out of the backfield as well. So
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we get a little bit more love there. You got
Carson Wentz. We already talked about that spot play opportunity
there against the Bears. Bryce Young, if we like those
wide receivers, certainly like McMillan. But Coker going over the top.
They've got a date against Atlanta this week. And, well,
if nothing else, maybe they can play defense enough to
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take the ball away from Cooper Rush and company.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (49:09):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
And then everybody's mad at Baker Mayfield. Just don't fumble
going into the end zone. And life will be good.
But those are guys that are all virtually unowned. Now,
we talked Algier before. You got Sadiq. I'm curious what
happens in that workload behind Brees Hall because there's going
to be some carries to be had. Yes, I'm actually
talking about the New York football Jets. They're playing the
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Packers at home this week. Kalon Black, we talked about
him a bunch. Brandon came on the late-night foray, and
we lit candles and had the disco ball going and
everything in the late night. But if you look at
the touch count and the snap count he had for
the 49ers, they're going to be judicious about McCaffrey's usage
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as well. So there's an opportunity maybe to make some
hay there as well. Go a little bit deeper down
the road in terms of wide receivers. We've talked about
Vele and Douglas. They're unowned in a lot of leagues.
Khalif Raymond, Coker, Kendrick Bourne, the 8-for-8 that we saw
certainly gets into the mix. Evan Ingram is interesting. Had
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the big touchdown catch early for the Broncos. I hang
a star on it.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
We didn't see much from the passing game as the
game wore on. But we also didn't see a lot
of Jalen Waddell, who can't get out of this podcast
without me at least mentioning his name. Mostly a no show.
And then when they did throw it to him, it
went straight straight through the wicket on what would have
been a big first down reception. So big opportunity fail there.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
When you are one catch for two yards, it's not good. Now,
Devonta Adams has had those, but they're usually touched on reception,
so it could save your day, but with your Jalen Waddell,
and you may have been on the air, but Troy
Aikman even pointed out that for as great as Waddell
was for the Dolphins, this was one of the things
that was an issue, and it popped up. Wouldn't have
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changed anything, but At least in his debut, I think
we expected more from Waddell.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Yeah, no question about it. And then we talked about
that Bears offense and referenced it briefly. But if you
are still in leagues where you start a tight end,
there are going to be days where Cole Komet is
going to be like he was in week one. I
know Loveland's going to be there. And over the course
of the year, I would expect it's still a two-to-one
reception situation. lead for loveland but they're going to be
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games especially as we're talking tight ends 9 through 12
where you're going to want to start the second bear i'll.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Tell you yeah there's plenty of points to go around.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
Everybody eats just pick the right guy on a given
sunday i guess becomes the question
Speaker 3 (51:49):
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Speaker 3 (01:15):
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Our executive producer is Brandon Deutsch. And, Mike, I'll tell
you what. I think the story of week one. is
the team from your backyard. The Chicago Bears putting up
(01:35):
59 in that win over the Carolina Panthers. Just one
of the many headlines we're going to discuss over the
next 30 or 40 minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Week one, lots of fun, records, scoring, all that. But
Ben Johnson came, you know, everybody was mad at him
a couple of weeks ago. He said, why would I
break all the scoring records?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
There's a nice start to it. Now, you still have
to fix the defense that gave up 37, but let's
talk about that another time. We'll talk about Bryce Young
and his heroics. But for Caleb Williams and this offense, look,
they ran the ball well last year. It's gotten another
year of work with Ben Johnson refining some of these
smaller points, getting the ball out, distributing it, except to you, Mr. Loveland.
(02:16):
And everybody got fed. Everybody... just marveled because there was
a break-in for another Bears touchdown every five minutes. Hey,
we got an update. Well, let's go back and watch
the Bears again.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It was crazy on how much of a pinball game
it actually was. And then the Bears were the only
ones playing for a little while as they ended up
pulling away. But I know there's a lot that we
can take. And even in that first window of games
that you had on Sunday, there were a lot of
points in a lot of different places here, there, and everywhere.
For a while, my points at Palooza, which we'll get
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to later in the show, but it was the Lions
and Saints. That was just at 7-0. But you had
the Bills and Texans doing their thing. The Jaguars were
running it up on the Browns. There was a lot
going on. and maybe no more so than what we
had in Charlotte. But to the point you said, if
the Bears don't fix their defense, it's even better for
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those who have DeAndre Swift and Luther Burden and those
that are trying to get Kalief Raymond because you can
have more games like this.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No, that's it. I think unless they go out and
make a couple of big moves and something Jason Smith
and I were kind of bandying about as we talked
through it on our show Monday night was, all right,
let's go– Well, Matt, the Raiders are 1-0. Do they
want to trade Max Crosby now? And then, you know,
Joey Porter Jr. is still floating out there. You could
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use some help in the secondary. So like it becomes a,
all right, let's start looking long term of what we got.
Pinball games are all fun and exciting, but from a
football standpoint. a change. But Caleb Williams, you know, we've
seen and marveled at it going back to his days
in college. But to see it getting refined, yeah, you're
(03:58):
going to feast. The thing I fear, though, for fantasy
owners is it's going to be the which guy gets
fed when things normalize.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'll tell you something that kind of I started to
think of, and it wasn't just in looking back at
Ben Johnson's time in Detroit. It was also Just thinking
about other NFL offenses in the past 15 or 20 years,
and I go to the New Orleans Saints because we
look at the Saints with Sean Payton and Drew Brees
when they were together, and we know about Jimmy Graham.
(04:30):
We know about Marcus Colston. You can play Devery Henderson
if you wanted to or Robert Meacham, and they're going
to bust off a 65-yard touchdown at some point. You
can play those guys, maybe not with a lot of confidence,
but they were always giving you points. But the Saints
were the best when they could run the football. When
you had Reggie Bush, when you had Pierre Thomas, when
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you had a running game and a running game that
you could rely on. And then even in the later years,
Mark Ingram, Alvin Kamara, they were so much better when
you had a running game. And we just think of
Drew Brees throwing it here, there, and everywhere. And I
feel it's the same way with Ben Johnson. When we
look at where the Bears are and we look at
what the Lions were, sure, Jared Groff's throwing it to
You know, throwing it to Amon or St. Brown and
(05:14):
finding Sam Laporta. But it really was a Jameer Gibbs,
David Montgomery sort of deal. And now you go to
Chicago and you got DeAndre Swift and Kalmanungai kind of
being that one-two punch. And I think there's going to
be more of it. And I think it's all predicated
on that running game.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, 100%. You know, we talked about it didn't come
to fruition in what was the worst performance, perhaps, of
week one with the Chargers. Of course, if Hampton doesn't
fumble the ball off the offensive lineman's back, who the
hell knows what goes on in that game. But the
same idea with the Mike McDaniel offense, right? It's all
predicated on getting the ground game going, being strong, and
(05:51):
then you get to pick your poison as you suck
up linebackers and create all that open space. you know,
we're seeing the trend across the league where we're seeing
guys under center more and learning to do that. What
does that mean? That means more use of the ground game, right?
It makes it an easier, all right, fake the handoff,
do all that, or get that ground game going. And so, yeah,
(06:13):
for Chicago and what Ben Johnson wants to do, especially if,
you know, you're going to need both components if you
don't fix that defense, Dan. So I think, you know,
when you look at DeAndre Swift and one of the big–
takeaways going back to and this shows you the difference
in coaching and styles and philosophy right DeAndre Swift was
(06:34):
an accomplished player in Detroit comes to Chicago in what
was that bastardized orphan year of Eberflus when the most
exciting thing was that he got a haircut for hard
knocks but That year, the offensive line, like nothing gelled there.
So DeAndre Swift was doing the poke and prod and
(06:56):
kind of everything was trying to break outside. So he
looked like a shell and far less than what we'd
seen in Detroit going, well, what did you sign? Why
did they grab this guy? And you got plenty of
headlines that two years ago. And then you look at
what last year became. Now you get the huge contract
extension and you have this big bust out performance in
week one.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And then even on the heels of that, because he
had a pit stop in Philadelphia. Sure. Saquon Barkley has
the amazing year the next year. And you're like, oh,
it must have been DeAndre Swift. And that was the problem.
You know, apparently it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
No, clearly not. Clearly not. Figure out a scheme. Figure out,
you know, some way to actually... pay tribute to, to
what built this game in the ground game, get a
formidable five guy front and get after it. So here
we go.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to, I want to ask you guys, you
and Brandon, one quick question, curious on your thoughts on this,
and then we can move on to the other action
from week one. But if I gave you three pass catchers,
so that's wide receivers and tight ends from this Carolina
bears game, who would you take moving forward? Three from
both teams, like three, three combined. So it could be
(08:04):
two Panthers and one bears, two bear and one Panther,
three or whatever. If you had to take three guys
who could catch passes, who do you have the most
confidence in the rest of the season? After what we saw?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, McMillan goes off the board first.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
There.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Kalief Raymond. No, it's part of the dilemma or that,
but I mean, that's where we go, right? Cause he's what?
Eight for 84 this week. You've got Burden and Uzunze.
I mean, Uzunze had one of the great catches that
you'll see, right, going back through the defender.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Coker's $ 1. 38. Right.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And two big scores. And Bryce Young pushing it down.
Go ahead, Brandon.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I would take McMillan and Coker.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And then Burden.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Or Burden or Loveland.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Because Loveland's a tough one, right? Well, he's going to
have huge games, right?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
It's just a matter of when.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
A lot of snaps, a lot of time on the field,
just no production this week. What do you got, Dan?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, no, I just think it's an interesting dilemma one weekend.
You know, because I was high on Roma Dunzey. And
then during training camp, and then all of a sudden this,
you know, calf issue or whatever he was dealing with
over the last couple of weeks were. His status you
weren't necessarily sure about, but he only gets three targets.
And if he doesn't catch that crazy deep ball that
he does, it's pretty much a bit of a skunker.
(09:24):
We all love Loveland, right? I mean, like, who didn't?
I mean, behind Trey McBride and Brock Bowers. I mean,
you're like, yeah, sign me up. And then he got skunked.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Except for my head rolling around after the guillotine got me.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You had to. You're the worst luck I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
49 points a game or whatever the hell it was
for week one. None of it scored by my team.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I was telling Mike, like his team, when he drafted it,
it was like, it's such a great team. And it
just shows you it's one week.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And it's Chase plays bad, Loveland plays bad. Jamar Chase.
Everything came up snake eyes.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, lots of value out there for you guys to
pick off the carcass. Our guillotine league, to just finish
the thought, I had what might have been the worst week,
other than the people that picked the Chargers in survivor
pools because you saw 34% Of the big prize won
in Vegas is chopped after week one.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah. I tried to stay away.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We won't bring up my streamer defense from last week.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hey, we'll do the report card later, Brandon.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So are we settling on Tet, Coker, and you said Burden.
That's yours, Brandon. Those three. I would. You know what?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think Burton and Adunze are going to split. Even
though we got zero yards, I'm going to go with
Loveland for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
See, I think Loveland's going to lose out to Komet
on a bunch, which is why he's still there. Sure,
good point. So I think that's going to, you know,
as we talk about 13 personnel and whatever, and folks
can hear that Greg Cosell breaking that down every Sunday
morning there in terms of those kind of setups. But, yeah,
that third one is tough. I mean, the fact that
(11:10):
we're now putting Coker in– Right. Because the hard part
coming out of this game, fellas, and I think we
can agree to this, you got two defenses that coming out,
and it's week one, and that's just it, right? Because
a lot of teams look terrible, right? If you come
out of this, you're like, all right, Denver's no good.
New England's no good. There's a bunch of squads that
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were supposed to be presumptive Super Bowl contenders that a
lot of folks are looking around going, eh, I don't know, right?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Maybe this may– and not that it was a bad
question because I think– No, I like it. Yeah, my
point was made. It transitions to this, and this is
where we can talk about other players. Do you scrap
your draft after week one? Like I still look back
at my draft and I say, okay, I'm not going
to overreact. I took so-and-so in the fourth round, took
so-and-so in the sixth round. You know, I took Roma
(12:02):
Dunze higher than I probably should have, and I don't
want to overreact, and there wouldn't be a market for
him at this point. But I'm like, also, I'm like,
I just drafted the guy and he played 60 minutes
in one game. Like, should I really overreact? And so
I am one that holds on to the draft maybe
longer than others because of how, you know, we play
in our league and we've done it around so far. But,
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you know, how quickly do you move away from the draft?
Can you do it after week one?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm usually three to four weeks. I'm like the old
quarters thing that they preached for all those years. Right.
Let's let's separate it into quarters. Plus one. And then
you figure it out from there. I mean, cause you
get a lot of these marquee made for TV matchups.
Not that you don't have to play them, but we,
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we know that they don't play a lot of meaningful snaps.
I love the, you know, work joint practices and all
that stuff, but you're not rolling out a ton in those.
And then you come out in week one, like we
had Denver and Kansas city thing. I'm nervous about is
all right. Is Bo Nick's not going to be able
to run. Cause when he did try to scramble one,
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he held the ball out like a loaf of bread,
which is not good for anybody, but he had a,
he had 30 yards in front of him and he was,
he looked like he was reticent to even make a
try on it. Right. But, but you got a made
for TV matchup there. You go on down. There's several
other of them where you're just like, all right, it's
week one, pretty good opponent schedule soft and schedule have
(13:30):
his ebbs and flows. And, and maybe week one is,
isn't the be all end all it's like, I'm excited
about the Bears' offense, but I don't know, is Carolina's
defense any good? Right? So you're trying to take it all,
not to mention the fact that we averaged 45, 46
(13:51):
points a game across the NFL this week. Are we
going to see that every week?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I don't think that you will. But I do wonder,
I mean, because I always felt that defense is were
stronger early on and then this offense is finding their
groove maybe it's week two or week three but there
was anything but and i don't know how many teams
are really investing in their defense um denver's i feel
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is one of them and we saw what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah i was curious about that.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
On monday night but uh yeah i i'll tell you
what i think i think that this could be a
sign of things to come. I'll even take Jacksonville. Jacksonville,
for example, I think when people were drafting their wide receivers,
Parker Washington's probably coming off the board first and then
maybe right after that, Brian Thomas Jr. And then Jacoby
Myers maybe at some point. And then when you look
(14:43):
and see what Trevor Lawrence did, Thomas ended up having
a shoulder issue. He did return to the game, but
I think he's going to be all right in week
two if you end up coming back from what you did.
But they didn't necessarily need him. But now the conversation
seems to be, oh, it's Parker Washington all the way,
and then it's Jacoby Myers and Brian Thomas is odd
(15:04):
man out. And I'm just not ready to go to
that point just yet. I think they'll need Thomas' playmaking duty,
and it was against the Browns, and maybe they didn't
need it in that spot. But I'm not ready to
now say Parker Washington is the clear must-have guy and
forget about Brian Thomas when they were so closely positioned
on draft boards.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, I mean, that's just it. You look at 10
different receivers in a game that became a 24-0 halftime debacle, right?
So Washington only finishes with six targets, Myers with two,
Thomas with three, the injury to the shoulder. So, you know,
you take it with a grain of salt and just, well,
what do we look at for this week? They go
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up against Denver.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's Denver after this week?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You can run on them. Evidently, you can run on them.
They also could be.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Smarting, you know, like maybe, you know, wants some payback.
It'll be a short week for them. They can get
that taste out of their mouth, be a road game.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And I don't think Bashaw Tootin is Kenneth Walker III.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
No, but I'll tell you what, that backfield, because we
thought maybe Rodriguez could get some looks, and instead it
was a lot of tooting. A lot of tooting. As
the Jags were tooting their horn.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, just six catches from Rodriguez, or six carries, I
should say, 23 yards, and Amir Abdullah outrushed him on
his four attempts late in the game.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, and you're not going to get the bronze every week.
And by the way, and I don't want people to,
Parker Washington is your number one guy that you would
take in drafts, but Brian Thomas was not very far behind.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No, he was probably four or five slots. Like, that's
the thing, right? It's still that separation, and we have
proof of concept. Now it's a couple years, a lost
season last year for Thomas, but we've seen him finish
as a top five guy.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Can I say something about Brian Thomas real quick?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
A hundred bucks, cash, no checks.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I just want to bring up, I think, a good
point that I've been telling people, too, like, btj i
think he averaged like 30 fantasy points or close to
it the last five games of his rookie year and
that was all with mac jones so like mac jones
supported his top five wide receiver finish he's never been
that fantastic with trevor lawrence at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Now you can only use five abbreviations through the entire
season okay so btj is going to be one of
them so you've got four more you can use brandon
okay Four more throughout the year, but BTJ is fine
with Brian Thomas Jr. I just like the overall talent
of Thomas, just as a player. And that's tough for
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me to shy away from. But to your point, if
the numbers are significantly better when it was Mac Jones,
maybe it doesn't shine. But I always bet on the
talent that it's going to be there at some point.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, they had some pretty monster games at the end
of that year. You go back to, but I'm looking
at opponents as well, which we take into account. Jets, Raiders, Titans,
and then a big game against the Colts. But also,
you know, the yardage was down, but he'd still scored
several touchdowns early in the year, too. So a little
(18:16):
bit of an ebb and flow, but the point well taken.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
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I'm Dan Baier. That's our executive producer, Brandon Deutsch. Mike,
the Baltimore Ravens put up 41 touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Against the Indianapolis Colts. 31 of those in the first half.
Zay Flowers was well on his day to a huge day.
He had a huge day. He just didn't play the
second half because of a hamstring strain. There were other
injuries as well. But Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson, and
Zay Flowers for that matter, showing up big in the Ravens'
opening win against the Colts.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Declan Doyle welcome to your next gig ahead of the
head gig eventually what is he 30 or 31 or
something like that makes me feel what did I do
with my life anyway 41 23 and final Lamar doing
a bit of everything good to see him back out
and running at the long of 1940 yards and a
score through for three 24, the curious curiosity though, right?
(20:14):
Is it flowers with the hammy? Is he going to
be available for week two optimism that he will five
for one 50 before they, they salted this thing away,
but you also lost Jacoby lane. He was the, the
darling of the off season, right? He was going to
break through. Now he's got a broken wrist. So Chris
Moore had a 53 yard reception. Maybe he's one of
(20:36):
those guys that you put in a little bit of a,
a waiver claim on Rashad Bateman still there, but only
one target in this one. But once again, it begins
and ends. And I don't know when that cliff's going
to come, but damn it. I hope it doesn't for
a while. Cause Derek Henry's still fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And I don't think it's going to, you look at
what they've got. They've got the saints coming up this weekend.
They've got the Cowboys in that Brazil game, the Titans
Falcons Browns. before they play a string of Bengals, Bills,
and Jaguars. And who even knows what those defense are?
Chargers are also a part of that as well. But
I think they're sitting there just staring at 6-0 right
(21:18):
in the face. And I don't know of any team
that can stop that juggernaut. It's just a matter of
we saw the Saints come back against the Lions. They
can score points with them. So you'll need Derrick Henry
and Lamar Jackson. And we saw what happened with the
Cowboys on Sunday night against the Giants. So If you
load it up on Ravens, good on you because the
start of the season looks very promising.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, it looks like Mark Andrews is back in the
good graces. Although I know a bunch of Ravens fans
and they just kept going. Imagine if Likely was still here.
It's like he's gone.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He's playing and loving somebody else. You have to let
it go. Put the pictures away. Four catches, six targets,
49 yards for Andrews. he's going to have to play
a big role here this next couple of weeks, I think, because,
you know, the Flowers injury is also something you've got
to manage, right? If he's not right, as much as
(22:09):
it pains you, you've got to figure out a way
to win without him early because you're going to need
him to, you know, hopefully open things up and be
there later on. It sounds like they avoided any major
catastrophe on this one, but we all know how hammies work,
so don't– Don't get cute with it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, on the Colts side of things, if you drafted
Jonathan Taylor, you were happy with what he gave you,
almost 100 yards and two touchdowns. But now you got
a Sunday night game against the Chiefs coming up, who
seem to be spirited against Denver. We'll see if that
carries over to the other ponies in the NFL and
the Indianapolis Colts. And by the way, I still think, Mike,
(22:48):
I'm the only one who thinks the Ravens and Colts
is a rivalry game because of the Colts leaving over
40 years ago. I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
It's still there. There might only be 5% of that
crowd that knew that that ain't going to happen anymore.
But damn it, those 5% matter.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I even brought it up on my show on Sunday
of like, all right, this is there. Maybe it was Friday.
I can't remember. The point being is. Yeah, I still
think this is a rivalry because of the Colts leaving Baltimore,
but it was anything but.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Did you send the folks you were working with the
link to that documentary about it?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Just the grainy Mayflower videos of them moving out. I'll
tell you what, I was off base when it came to,
you mentioned Isaiah Likely, and now John Harbaugh's in New
York with the Giants. I was not a huge believer
in Jackson Dart, Cam Scadaboo. I wasn't buying any stock
of them. I was staying away from them in any
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fantasy draft and all one weekend looking pretty good while
the Cowboys in the other half. And I like to
buy some Cowboys stock, whether it be in Dak or
CB Lamb or George Pickens was a bit of a
flop in week one.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah. Very odd game. But you look at the giants
imposing their will and something we talked about as we
did the, you know, preview for the rest of the
week one and a little, a little bit of the
review of the, the first games. I was bullish on
the 49ers, right? Brandon, we've talked about this a lot.
You're a 49er guy. I don't know what it looks
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like in week 14 to 17, but for one week,
I like it. Same thing with the Giants. If Malik
Nabors is playing, and he did, and he gave them
six catches for 69 yards, a nice solid night, and
Scadaboo and Dart are cleared, I'm feeling good. Likely there, obviously.
We talk about him. But When you're getting into your
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fantasy draft, am I banking on them to be there
as a quartet for 17? The answer is no. And
that's why, for draft purposes, I couldn't get it. But
for one night, man, that was fantastic. Dart was tremendous.
Skadabo's running through people. Isaiah likely is running into the secondary. Like,
we remember Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates in their prime.
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Neighbors had a bunch of big catches, as we said. So,
I mean, it all came to fruition. Meanwhile, I mean,
Dallas scored on their only two possessions of that second half.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Good on them.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But that's the problem. They only got the ball twice
in the second half.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, CeeDee Lamb was laughing in the locker room when
they told him that. He didn't even realize it. They
told him. He's like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, they were efficient. Unfortunately, they couldn't get back
on the field. Five catches, 44 yards, and a score
from Lamb. Yeah, overall, you know, Javante Williams found the
end zone twice, so that's a win, 72 total yards
on his 17 touches. But Dak Prescott, 175 yards. That's
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not getting it done for you.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, it wasn't. One of the reasons why I took
an L this weekend in the longtime league.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Let's stay with the other team that's in the state
of Texas, the Houston Texans, who lost at home to
the Bills. Interesting game where C.J. Stroud, fantasy-wise, was fine
for you. David Montgomery welcomed well, but interesting, especially on
the Buffalo side of things, the biggest takeaway for me
is finally the emergence of Dalton Kincaid as that guy
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we've been waiting for year after year, but Texans and
Bills played a good one on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was one of the most fun games we're going
to get, 36-31. Josh Allen at least shook off some
of that stink of past games, right? Total of four touchdowns,
six carries, 23 yards, two scores, 334-2 by air, two
100-yard receivers. DJ Moore gets there and finds the end zone. No,
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that was exciting stuff because if you can go after
the Houston defense, and again, it's week one. But if
you're going to be able to put up that kind
of offense against them, you're feeling a lot better if
you've got some stock and invested in Bills players. James Cook,
I guess, would take the W that he only had
69 total yards in the game. So in terms of
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the studs and duds and those kind of things, there's
an opportunity. But David Montgomery ran well on the Houston side.
He's your leader in the clubhouse, 2-1. carries over woody
mark so that's good nico collins even without a decided
number two still got his seven for 75 and one
they're going to need someone to emerge there uh for
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sure but uh eight targets for dalton schultz only four
catches not the percentage you want but certainly the the
count uh would mean that you're feeling good going forward
he'll keep a big role and for cj stroud in
you know one of those contract years dan we've talked
about that a bunch with guys looking at baker mayfield's
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55 a year and said okay i need some of
that uh pretty good start this is a fun one
i hope we see him.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Again yeah fantasy wise worked out well the turnover at
the end was a tough one but otherwise i mean
the texans kind of dominated the clock had the ball
for more than 36 minutes you know throughout that game
and that's a way to beat buffaloes to keep the
uh stars off the field but josh allen still with
334 in that game Bills have a short week, by
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the way, because Thursday they've got the Lions coming up
as they open the brand new Highmark Stadium. I want
to say something about these Lions and why I have
real concern, not only for this Thursday, but just for
moving forward. They get the win. They blow the 21
point lead. Saints come back, make it quite a ball
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game to go into overtime. But giving Jameer Gibbs 29
carries in week one. And I know the Pacheco deal,
and now Pacheco's out until at least December because of
a procedure on his back. I just think you have
to manage that better. And I would have thought that
they would have managed it a lot better with a
short week coming up. But I was surprised. Great if
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you have Jameer Gibbs on your team, but that's a
heavy workload for week one.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, it's pretty insane, right? Because you've got a couple
of games off the jump. We saw a bunch of
division games in week one. This was not one of them.
34 total touches, which means– getting smashed at least 34 times. What,
Vahki had two and Goff two for two. Yeah, that's
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not a winning formula, man, long term, especially if you're
expecting to compete because they were still the division favorites
so much as everybody lined up for the Bears or
started to stand for love and company there in Green Bay. But, yeah,
losing Montgomery, you figured you'd have a— second option and
i look gibbs we love watching him work and and
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appreciate what he's doing but you know serving the uh
short-term attempt to win a game long-term uh fail uh
most likely and again you're playing buffalo Now, I think
they'll show better defensively than they did in week one,
but short week, man, as you said. I don't know,
a hyperbaric chamber for 72 hours and he's banished?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I have no idea what they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
He IVs some food into him and he doesn't actually
get up?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean, it's just shocking that you wouldn't have. I
don't care if you just had somebody running into the
line and gaining no yards, you know, if it was
going to be Vachie. And again, you know, the Pacheco
injury hurts, but it's not so much of we don't
have Isaiah Pacheco. We got to give all these carries
to Gibbs. It's not just have someone else in there.
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Just take a little bit off. And they needed every
every carry, apparently, because they needed to get that two
point conversion stop in overtime just to win the football game.
But just to me, it doesn't seem like a recipe
for success. And then we look on the other sidelines
of the Saints shook throws for 400 of the comeback win.
I mean, Olave's 10 for a buck 82. Vele was
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someone I know that you touched on this past Friday
as someone to look out for. He got into the
end zone. Jawan Johnson was skunked for a while, but
ended up getting the touchdown late and added another big
catch along the way. So those Saints that we talked
about producing in a game against the Lions, and I
think you're going to see more of that playing games
in the Dome. We know Kellen Moore's an offensive guy, obviously,
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if you have the right matchup. I think we're going
to be seeing a lot more of this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Were you surprised the Saints didn't go for two at
the end of regulation? About a minute left on the
clock when they scored that touchdown.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
No, because of the minute. Yeah, I guess it doesn't
necessarily make a difference, but I was not shocked in
that instance. And I wasn't shocked that they would do
that in overtime. I think we all expected that as well,
because otherwise you're making the decision Basically, you're going for
the tie at that point with only 90 seconds left
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in the game because of the overtime. But I wasn't
shocked in that scenario. But maybe I should have been.
I felt they had the momentum. There you go.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
You also have a guy that, I mean, look, we
all have Supertoe running around. It's not just Sebastian Janikowski
anymore when we talk about long-distance field goals. Sorry. For
those unaware, the younger audience out there doesn't remember the
joy or actual pain of trying to play with those
super toe or super shot and all those kind of things, right?
Set the ball up and then try to slam the
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head of the little plastic guy to kick a field goal.
It's what I've always called the long range guys. Hey,
super toes out there. And then you break your hand.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Brandon, do you know what Mike's talking about? I do,
but do you know what he's talking about?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
There you go. Right there. I just announced myself old
on the day my daughter turns 21. I pronounced myself
officially old. Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Prost to her.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Happy birthday to your daughter.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, the 21. Did she call early because she's like, Dad,
I'm not calling late? Or was she like calling late
because she couldn't call early because of what happened overnight?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
No, she's stone cold sober. She doesn't drink anything but water.
And even getting the leaded caffeine water is a big push.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
As you guys know, I am a non-drinker. But I
did drink the night that I turned 21.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
What was the drink of choice to you?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
There were no drinks of choice because it was just
everybody giving me crap. Fair. Yeah, that's what it was.
But I kept everything down. Everything was down. Didn't need
to do it anymore. But, yeah. Travis, by the way,
getting back on track.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Travis... Etchen.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Etchen.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Sounds so good to say.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Whatever it is. Did have seven catches to go along
with his 46 yards rushing.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
That helped save the day.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
78 total yards. But if you got your extra 3.5
and half PPRs, you at least got to double digits.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That's tough. That's a tough one when you have almost
500 yards of total offense.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But I think better days are ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
For that, for sure. All right, we'll take a timeout.
Come back. Mike's got waiver wires. We'll do our report cards.
We'll also just touch quickly on some of the other
games from week one as well to give you guidance
for your fantasy team. He's Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier.
That's Brandon Deutsch. It's all next here on I Want
Your Flex.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
WaverWire ads to come, plus our report cards. Welcome back.
It is I Want Your Flex. I'm Dan Byer. That's
Mike Harmon. He is Brandon Deutsch. Mike, anything else stand
out from you as we kind of put a bow
on the action from week one and start to look
ahead to week number two?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Talked a little bit about the dud that the Chargers
put up overall. You know, 209, one and one from Herbert,
29 yards on the ground. O'Marion Hampton did find the
end zone, knife through butter, and you had five for
82 yards. and a score from McConkie. So while I'm
not saying they're out of the woods and this is
going to be a juggernaut, the fact that Jim Harbaugh
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is going, yeah, I think we probably should have worked
them together a little bit more. I don't know if
that's just him being glib or if it was telling of, yeah,
we got a lot of work to do. Now they
got the Raiders in week two, so the 1-0 first
place Raiders, I should say. But for the Chargers offense,
this is, I think, a good buy low opportunity for
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some of the principals.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I think the other sideline in that game was interesting
as well because Marvin Harrison Jr. had three targets, one
catch for 33 yards.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It was a nice catch.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You don't get fantasy points for nice catches, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
But the beauty of it is if you saw it,
you know it because it was the only one he made.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Trey McBride, you knew he was going to be there.
Michael Wilson, they just gave him the new deal too.
He had five for 56 yards. seven targets and kendrick
bourne comes in and is eight for 75 catching all
eight of his targets in a game that you were
you know at one point a double digit underdog and
you go in and you win by 12 and you
have this two-headed monster now a bit at running back
maybe it's not a monster but um algeria and love
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uh getting the carries algeria at 17 love at 11
there just doesn't seem to be the need to get
marvin harrison jr the football and uh i think the
cardinals are And for whatever reason, even he and Jacoby
Brissett can't get on the same page, couldn't do it
with Kyler Murray. And I'm just wondering at what point
is the time to cut bait? Again, I love the talent,
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just like I do with BTJ, as Brandon would say.
But this one is a little tougher to understand.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Go get yourself some Kendrick Bourne stock.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Hey, if he's going eight for eight, he's behind Wilson
and McBride, it would seem.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
There's a rapport there. Brandon, what stood out for you
in week one?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Look, a lot of people are going to have overreactions.
Marvin Harrison Jr. I am a little panicked about, though.
I really am, because this isn't just like this. With
Jacoby Bursette, he hasn't reached the potential that we thought
he was going to reach. For whatever reason, whether you
think it's deserved or not, Bursette has targeted Michael Wilson more,
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targeted Trey McBride more, and also likes to throw to
Kendrick Bourne. Now, maybe it'll change when Carson Beck comes in,
um you know halfway or later in the season if
that if the Cardinals end up not being as competitive
as they looked week one but I am concerned about
him someone I'm not concerned about Dan though is Devon
Achan interesting I'm not I'm not I mean he's gonna
get especially in PPR leagues because Malik Willis he was
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open like every play Malik Willis just decided to not
throw it to him I think that's gonna change I
do think he's gonna get more check downs in the
rushing may be an issue but in PPR leagues I
think he's a good buy-low candidate because he'll be down
the entire game, and I think him and Caleb Douglas
are just going to split targets basically the entire time.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
It's interesting with the Dolphins because there just is no
one else, and you don't think that they're going to
be playing this bad of football, but then you're like, well,
they played the Raiders. You don't have much expectation. That's
all that you can put forth. I was really high
on A-Chan and them having some sort of life, and
I thought maybe– Maybe there's new energy there, but maybe
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this is a team that hasn't hit rock bottom yet,
but to your point, Brandon, you actually are looking on
the upside of it is this could be a one-off
and that Malik Willis is going to need Devon Achan
if he wants to survive this season.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Yeah, that's how I was, you know, as we talked
about it, breaking it down and even, you know, I
got bold and had him atop the running back rankings,
obviously a big swing and a miss by me to
mix sports for a second, but it's the idea that
he would be in that double-digit check-down mode, just like
we saw how the 49ers deployed Christian McCaffrey. That's become
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the go-to standard of it, of how do we get
him more touches if we've got a depleted receiver room,
as the Niners did last year, and he went over
100 catches, finished with the 14, what, 413, 415, or
whatever the touch count was that we've referenced a couple
of times. But that's what I figured with A-Chan. You
paid him.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Use him.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I think they're going to use him like the Falcons
did Bijan on Sunday, you know where they just gave
him like eight or nine catches like just gonna have
to feed hn at some point and the oc is
gonna have to figure that that's the way to be competitive.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah they're gonna want to win a game right like
they get some point you just can't keep on trotting
out there and getting your butt kicked and he's their
best option to get the football to if they want
to win the game so don't panic this is brandon
on Devon HN. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What's yours, Dan?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, you know, I gave you a couple, you know,
the Marvin Harrison juniors was one of the things that
ended up, uh, you know, kind of standing out to me,
you know, the, the Minnesota situation with Carson Wentz. I
don't know if there's going to be an opportunity. I,
I've even speculated like Minnesota owes Kyler Murray, nothing. Right.
If they go on a win streak, you might as
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well just keep on rolling with, with Carson Wentz and
the way that, you know, in the way that things
are going. I just am a little concerned if, I
think there are a lot of good vibes with everything.
Justin Jefferson is there catching touchdown passes. And I do
think that there could be a limitation with Wentz, but
with how good that defense is, they only need him
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to do so much. And so it's way better than
having JJ McCarthy on the field. I would just temper
my expectations a little bit on the Vikings and specifically
with Jefferson. But it was just so, you know, like,
we've waited so long to see Justin Jefferson be Justin
Jefferson again. Um, if Carson Wentz has to start for,
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you know, an extended couple of weeks and they got
your bears coming on the week too, Mike, you know,
so maybe, maybe there could be some opportunities, but I
would just temper it a little for a guy that
threw for a buck 33, maybe with more reps in practice,
it's better. Um, But, yeah, I'm just cautiously optimistic for
the return of Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
See if the defense can slow down. The juggernaut of
Caleb Williams. I have to say that now because I've
never said that about a Chicago Bears offense. So, the
juggernaut that is. 48.5 the total in that one. Bears
4.5 point favorites. For now, I think I fully agree
with where you're at. As much as you wanted Kyler
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Murray to have that redemptive arc, and I think Minnesota
did as they brought him in, thinking, all right, we've
seen half seasons where he's been fantastic. And in that September,
October MVP discussion, Carson Wentz had guys feeling good. They
got a big division win, 22 unanswered in the fourth.
to come and take that game from the Packers. If
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you haven't heard it, go back and find the last
couple of calls from the fourth quarter from Wayne Larravee
on the Packers radio network. Boy, I tell you what, man,
that might be sadder than any movie I've seen or
country song I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
There was no dagger for Green Bay. No. They had
it delivered to them. I'll say this, at least on
Green Bay, I mean, Matthew Golden and Christian Watson.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Watson was amazing.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah, sure looked the part. So that was a question
that we had coming in, were those two be able
to elevate now with no Dobbs and no Dontavion Wicks, who,
by the way, fared well. We didn't touch on Eagles commanders.
Maybe do that another day. But, yeah, for Matthew Golden
to step up and Watson to have that game. I
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think that Green Bay's got a lot of issues. I
said as much on our Sunday show. But for fantasy purposes,
what we're talking here, You couldn't expect more from what
you got for your receivers. And you still don't know
what's going to happen with Josh Jacobs. Running games seem
to be a bit of a mess. So you're going
to have to rely on those guys more.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
So on Sunday, did you start the flaming dumpster fire
and start calling for the head of Matt LaFleur?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I didn't call for his head. I just think that
this is. they're in a danger zone.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And the danger zone that I always say is when
fans become apathetic, that no matter what you do, even
if it's great, they don't care anymore because they just
they're done with you. They're over it. There was a
bit of that with Mike McCarthy at the end, but
he was also in a bit of a power struggle
with Aaron Rodgers and the team wasn't necessarily winning. So
there were a lot of dynamics there. I look back
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to the various Charger seasons, whether it be Brandon Staley,
whether it be Mike McCoy, where the Charger fans are
just like, we're done with this. We're sick of making
the same mistakes. Let's just move on. And at some point,
it's going to bottom out. And I feel they're close
to being there with Matt LaFleur. They got jobbed on
a couple of calls. There's no doubt. The roughing the
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passer call was rough. But then there's also Jordan Love
getting his head taken off by Dallas Turner at one point.
And that offensive line has got a question. And so
if you're going to make a change because you're not
going to make it with Jordan Love, where are you
going to make that change? And it's likely going to
be Matt LaFleur. And so that's where that's kind of
where I landed on it is. And it's why I
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didn't like Green Bay this season, because I picked them
last in the actually in the NFC North. because I
think that I can see a scenario where it goes downhill.
You don't have Micah Parsons for at least six weeks.
At least. We don't know if he's going to be
back after six games or not. So all of those
head questions, and I think that the way that Sunday ended,
especially to a rival in Minnesota, was not a great
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way to start. So that's where I land on the Packers.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Well put.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Let's get to our homework assignments. Brandon, how'd the streaming
defense go this week?
Speaker 4 (44:48):
It did not go well.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
It did not go well. It was the Chargers, right?
Speaker 5 (44:52):
It was the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well, don't worry. You weren't the only one. My points
of Palooza was Lions-Saints. And as we said, like one
point when everybody was scoring, that was 7-0. They got
it up to 61 for me. 31-30 is usually pretty good.
But when the Bears and Panthers scored 96 points combined, yeah,
tough to top that one. Plus, Ravens and Colts had
a pretty good day. And even the Bills and Texans
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outscored the Saints and Lions. So there were a lot
of points. scored. Heck, even the Packers and Vikings ended
up scoring 61 like the Lions and Saints did, so
I didn't hit on the points of Palooza, but if
you did listen to me on the Survivor, I told
you to take the Raiders, and a lot of people
were taking the Chargers with 34% of the circuit.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
34% in the big.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
One, yeah. I got in eight Survivor pools. I put
one entry into the Chargers. I wasn't a believer. I
liked the Cardinals with the points. I didn't think they
were going to win straight up, but Those wacky things
happen in week one, so I tried to stay away.
I did put a pick in on the Raiders, and
it came through. I hope you followed here on I
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Want Your Flex because I did hit on my survivor
pick for week one.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Well played, my friend. Well played.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
How'd the hot plays, cold sores, and rankings go for you,
my car?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Some good, some bad, some ugly, as it would when
you name as many of these foolios. Or maybe I'm
the fool. I don't know. Quarterback position, we had our
7-8 when we talk about Lamar and Hurds. Burrow gave
us nothing. Herbert, we've already chronicled that. And Goff was okay,
but not enough to rate a top-five play. In the
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running back position, we had Gibbs. Hampton scored early, thought,
big day, big day. No, no, not so fast. And
then he ran up the guy's back. For those that
didn't see the highlight of that, literally runs into an
offensive lineman and loses a fumble in the red zone.
Good times. A-chan, we've talked about him a bunch. Nothing.
Chase Brown finished as a top 15. Nothing exciting. Guys
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that I mentioned as also just outside the top five, well,
they all hit. That's where you go ahead, B. John Taylor.
and Henry, because we don't go full-on chalk here. Wide
receivers fared better. The five guys we named, four of
them finished inside the top nine. The guy that didn't
was on my guillotine team. Hi, Jamar Chase. Useless. But
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we did have Justin Jefferson, so I felt good and
took a victory lap over that one.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
I've been chopped in week one in the guillotine league
before in our Fox Sports one that we had a
couple of years ago I was on the verge of
being chopped, and then it was the Christian McCaffrey Monday
night deal.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Remember that? Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
And all of a sudden that popped up and ended
up surviving, only to be chopped later on in the season.
But it doesn't matter unless you win it, right? It
doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
I'd always run at least deep into it, so it
gave me great entertainment and the theory testing. This one,
everybody scored this week except the guys on my guillotine team.
Just really– Some next level stuff between Smith and Chase
and Loveland and Quentin Johnston and then Bo Nix. I mean,
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come on, man. That was bad. But either way, good
fodder and some nice players on the market for y'all.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well, let's look ahead to week two. As we mentioned,
we've got lines and bills coming up on Thursday night.
I think you're playing everybody that you normally would in
that game. But what about the waiver wire that's going
to be clearing here very soon?
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Well, as we go down through it, I mean, Tyler
Shuck was owned in fewer than 50% of leagues, so
we'll expect more heroics from him. Tough date against Baltimore.
Baltimore a heavy favorite at home, but let's go. Chris
Alave was fantastic. And you're seeing the secondary. We'll get
more of Etchen out of the backfield as well. So
(48:45):
we get a little bit more love there. You got
Carson Wentz. We already talked about that spot play opportunity
there against the Bears. Bryce Young, if we like those
wide receivers, certainly like McMillan. But Coker going over the top.
They've got a date against Atlanta this week. And, well,
if nothing else, maybe they can play defense enough to
(49:05):
take the ball away from Cooper Rush and company.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (49:09):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
And then everybody's mad at Baker Mayfield. Just don't fumble
going into the end zone. And life will be good.
But those are guys that are all virtually unowned. Now,
we talked Algier before. You got Sadiq. I'm curious what
happens in that workload behind Brees Hall because there's going
to be some carries to be had. Yes, I'm actually
talking about the New York football Jets. They're playing the
(49:32):
Packers at home this week. Kalon Black, we talked about
him a bunch. Brandon came on the late-night foray, and
we lit candles and had the disco ball going and
everything in the late night. But if you look at
the touch count and the snap count he had for
the 49ers, they're going to be judicious about McCaffrey's usage
(49:52):
as well. So there's an opportunity maybe to make some
hay there as well. Go a little bit deeper down
the road in terms of wide receivers. We've talked about
Vele and Douglas. They're unowned in a lot of leagues.
Khalif Raymond, Coker, Kendrick Bourne, the 8-for-8 that we saw
certainly gets into the mix. Evan Ingram is interesting. Had
(50:16):
the big touchdown catch early for the Broncos. I hang
a star on it.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
We didn't see much from the passing game as the
game wore on. But we also didn't see a lot
of Jalen Waddell, who can't get out of this podcast
without me at least mentioning his name. Mostly a no show.
And then when they did throw it to him, it
went straight straight through the wicket on what would have
been a big first down reception. So big opportunity fail there.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
When you are one catch for two yards, it's not good. Now,
Devonta Adams has had those, but they're usually touched on reception,
so it could save your day, but with your Jalen Waddell,
and you may have been on the air, but Troy
Aikman even pointed out that for as great as Waddell
was for the Dolphins, this was one of the things
that was an issue, and it popped up. Wouldn't have
(51:04):
changed anything, but At least in his debut, I think
we expected more from Waddell.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Yeah, no question about it. And then we talked about
that Bears offense and referenced it briefly. But if you
are still in leagues where you start a tight end,
there are going to be days where Cole Komet is
going to be like he was in week one. I
know Loveland's going to be there. And over the course
of the year, I would expect it's still a two-to-one
reception situation. lead for loveland but they're going to be
(51:32):
games especially as we're talking tight ends 9 through 12
where you're going to want to start the second bear i'll.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Tell you yeah there's plenty of points to go around.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
Everybody eats just pick the right guy on a given
sunday i guess becomes the question
Speaker 3 (51:49):
All right well we hope things fare well for you
on sunday we always appreciate you listening to i want
your flex we got more episodes coming up plus our
week two preview later on in the week so for
my carmen and brandon deutsch our executive producer i'm dan
byer we're going to call it good on this one
and talk to you next time here on i want
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