September 9, 2025 • 15 mins
Join Ryan Wormeli and Tera Roberts as they highlight 5 fantasy football moves you should be making ahead of the Week 2 action around the NFL!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Sell Travis Kelce - 0:01:20
Stream Juwan Johnson - 0:04:06
Buy Calvin Ridley - 0:06:37
Buy Mike Evans - 0:09:19
Betting Pros - 0:11:45
Buy Brian Robinson - 0:12:13
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everybody, Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I'm Ryan, warmly joined
by Tara Roberts. Tara, we have worked together on the
social side of things for a few years now, but
we're gonna be doing a regular weekly show here for everyone,
a short form talking about some moves to make each
and every week of the season. I'm very excited to
be doing this show with you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm excited too, I feel like this was a long
time coming. Finally, finally, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, finally, finally we get our opportunity here. So what
the show's gonna be is five moves is in no
particular order. This is in no particular format. These can
be buys, they can be seals, they can be players
that you were looking to cut this week. There can
be you know, players you want to pick up off waivers. Really,
just five moves to make. In general, we're gonna be
(00:42):
doing this on Mondays. It should be released on Tuesdays
each week, just to give everybody a sense of the housekeeping.
But this will be kind of our just immediate quick
reaction coming off of all the games Sunday. It is
recorded before the Monday night game every week, so if
there's news there that's why that's not included in these
And yeah, we'll just kind of go through and this
is for you know, folks in kind of regular week
you know, size leagues, right, you know, you know, half
(01:05):
ppr ish mindset. We're not doing anything too crazy like, oh,
if you're in mega tight end premium or a twenty
team league or whatever, you can get your own advice elsewhere,
So it would be kind of more standard avice for folks.
But yeah, that's we're going to do five moves to
make each and every week. Start us off with your
first move here, Tara, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You said nothing crazy, but people might take this one
a little bit crazy, but go with me on it. Here,
I'm going to start us off with the sell and
I want to break hearts here. Sell Travis kelce And
this is no no like, no insult to Travis Kelcey.
I think it's just a great opportunity to capitalize on
what's happening with.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The Chiefs right now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
They're in a dire physition from a past catcher's perspective.
Right We've got Rashie Rice just at the beginning of
his suspension. We've got Xavier Worthy dislocated shoulder, Now, the
Chiefs did say that he is going to try to
play through it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They qualified him as day to day.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We as fantasy managers know that when you hear day today,
that can transition to week to week real quick. So
when we're looking at Travis kelce this might be the
peak value to kind of swoop in and catch people
when they're thinking there's going to be this massive increase
in target Because when I look at his Week.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
One performance, I'm a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We got the touchdown that made everything okay from a
fantasy perspective, but on a day where Xavier Worthy went down,
we got no Rushie Rice and we've got Patrick Mahomes
just trying to denc and dunk to Hollywood Brown. Two
of four for Travis Kelcey saved by touchdown. That is
not exactly what I wanted to see and would call
a successful outing and where I would have expected him
(02:35):
to step up a little bit more. My concern here
is that again, even if the receptions do increase and
the targets do increase, and I do think they will,
even if we get into that area where he's in
that like eight to twelve targets, if we look to
last season, that range for him was often accompanied by
a little bit of yardage not.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Enough, and then not enough touchdowns as well. Last year.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We only got three touchdowns from him this season before
five touchdow. There's a clear drop off in production that's
happening on a year to year basis here, and why
not capitalize right now, especially when we look at all
of the waiver wire friendly tight ends that are out there.
Like when we were talking during draft season, my personal
perspective was is we've got our big three, we got
(03:17):
a nice, massive gap, and then we look at guys
like Tucker Craft and Tyler Warren here coming in at
nice values for their ADP, and then stream if you
can't get a hold of those guys, and we've got
streaming options coming up here, So take an opportunity. Sell
Travis Kelce, get someone in another position, and stream a
tight end.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think it's a great point that it will be
very easy to sell this, not literally sell, but I
mean like to in negotiating, sell the upside case for
him to whoever it is you're trying to trade him
away to. Because of what you talk about with the
other injuries in this receiving room, it feels like there's
a very clear path toward him being like a PPR monster,
(03:55):
just because who else is going to catch passes? So
if you believe that's not the case, this is a
great opportunity to take advantage of the situation around him
and say, you know, let him be kind of someone
else's headache. Give me your next move here.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So I talked about streaming titans. I thought I would
make the case for one of the streaming titands I signed,
myself becoming particularly passionate maybe about promoting Juwan Johnson as
a waiver wire ad this week in a tight end
streaming option. It feels it feels weird because, like I said,
I was parsing through all of the options.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We've got Harold Fan and Jr.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Even a guy like John new Smith popped up and
got the touchdown and had that kind of interesting usage
from Arthur Smith that we were promised. So there's multiple
options that you can go with. But when I look
at Juwan Johnson, who has been in the league for
a while, right, and he's popped, but he's never really
sustained production at a high level for an entire season,
I'm very intrigued by what I saw from the Saints' offense,
(04:51):
particularly for him, because if there is one thing that
we know about Kellen Moore, and we didn't see it
as much last season because I feel like he was
held at check.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But go back to Dallas. The one complaint that Mike.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
McCarthy had in the divorcing of their relationship there was
that the pace was too aggressive, The past was too aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There just wasn't enough balance. And that's exactly what we
saw here.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We saw that true Kellen Moore in Week one here
forty plus I think it was forty six attempts for
Spencer Rattler. That's insane. It doesn't feel like that's sustainable.
But given Kellen Moore's history, I would not put it
past him. And when you look at the breakdown of
not just targets but snaps played routes on the field,
Juan Johnson played the most snaps of any Saints player
(05:34):
obviously other than Spencer Rattler there played the vast majority
of them. He ran the most routes of any single
Saints player. That's kind of seeing when you think about it,
but you start to wonder if Juwan Johnson being held
back was just the previous regime. And if Kellen Moore
just straight up likes this guy, wants to commit to
him as his single tight end, because that's been the
problem with Jawan in the past. We see the upside,
(05:56):
but it was just inconsistent the usage of other tight ends.
We had thatation of Taysom Hill and guys like Foster Morrow,
and it was just never an opportunity for Juwan Johnson
to really take over. But I'm willing to look at
week one's usuge and say, hey, maybe I can take
a chance here that this is finally going to be
the year that he hits because specifically of Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You are right about the forty six attempts by the
Spencer Ratler, which would be a big number for anybody,
but for Spencer Rattler is just like mind blowing that
he had that kind of opportunity and with all those
attempts they scored thirteen points. So that maybe we'll tell
you something about how this season is going to go
for the Saints. You've had on a couple of tight
ends already. What do you have for move number three?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Move number three?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Let's go back to trades here, and I want to
do a little bilo on Calvin Ridley because Week one
wasn't good, but that was expected. I don't think anybody
should have been expecting a good Week one performance out
of him. It was against Denver. Receivers tend to struggle
against Denver. There are outlier performances right every now and then,
but as a whole, we just expe there to be
(07:01):
these kind of struggles from receivers that are facing that
blanketing coverage, especially when you throw a rookie quarterback in
his first start facing that. Naturally the expectation there, I mean,
we shouldn't be shocked about the performance. Now, I will
say that I'm also kind of concerned that this week
might be an issue for him as well.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So while we would expect a little bit of an uptick.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We're looking at the long term effect here, the development
of cam Ward as the season progresses. Because while it
wasn't arguably terrible performance from him twelve.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Completions on twenty eight attempts, just over one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He didn't look overwhelmed, he didn't look like he was panicking,
he didn't look like he belonged, and the Saints offensive
line clearly or the Titans offensive line clearly improved there,
so when I'm looking at it, I can see a
reality where as the season progresses, he really comes into
his own. The targets were there for Ridley, they should
be a little bit better in terms of their connection
and better matchups. I'm willing to buil on Ridley because
(07:58):
at the end of the day, he is the wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
One of that offense.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Targets are going to be their volume, and we'll be
playing him as a nice low one Titan or low
and wide receiver two for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's funny that you bring up Ridley. Andrew Erickson and
I are going to be doing the Tuesday kind of
longer trade show on the feed this season, and we
have been talking for like a month and a half
at this point about how he was like, you can
already build the Week one you know, post week one outline.
It's gonna be Calvin Ridley because we love him for
this season, but that first matchup is brutal. Everybody's gonna
(08:30):
be like, oh man, this guy that I heard was
this great, you know, not breakout Canada. That's the wrong
way to frame it, but like you know, this undervalued
receiver in drafts. Clearly he's terrible. I gotta sell him
that's not the case. So we are in strong agreement
with you. I can tell you will be talking about
that in more detail later this week for everybody who
is checking out the feed, because I get Ericson has
been talking about this basically since like mid July. It
(08:51):
feels like how Ridley's gonna be the best BILO after
week one. So John agreement there, and I'm with you,
Like I really felt like, I know the stat line
was very poor or for cam Ward as we should
have expected. I thought he looked like he belonged. I
was really impressed just with the eye test of like this,
this guy looks like an NFL quarterback who if they
can put a better situation around him and not be facing,
you know, one of the best defenses of football. I
(09:13):
expect brighter days in the future, for sure. What's your
fourth move for us?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We're gonna trade for another veteran receiver here. It is
Mike Evans and this is no negative to a Mecca Buca.
I'm very pro am Mecca here. I didn't expect that
big of a week. That was kind of a surprise there,
but I expected it to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Great opportunity wide receiver two playing opposite of Mike Evans.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What more could you ask for?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now that we've got this solidified hype and we're all
in and we're just obsessed right now, it's a perfect
time to swoop in and grab Mike Evans older veteran receiver.
People start to wonder, oh my gosh, are we just
seeing the transition of the offense away from him? Are
we seeing the regression in terms of age? We got
to remember this was well. Atlanta's defense as a whole
is not a difficult matchup. This was a difficult match
(10:00):
specifically for Mike Evans. I've got my Clemson stuff up here.
Aj Terrell is my boy, and that matchup just just
been difficult for Mike Evans. They've played faced each other
consistently and he is a good corner here, so it's
not odd that he would have still gotten.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Good targets there.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He got eight targets, just wasn't very productive with them,
and big day for a mecha Buca in the better
matchup in terms of the corner that he faced here.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So again, when we're looking at this offense.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean, because of his age, the perception of Abuca,
the looming return of Chris Godwin. I could see where
people would start to get a little bit panicked there,
and I liked what I saw from Baker Mayfield as well.
So I'm pro pro Mike Evans as a bye.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Where would you say, rest of season you have those
two ranked like relatives to each other, Mike Evans and
a Guka amongst receivers.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have enough dated rest of the season yet to
account for that massive increase from him, But I think
maybe very similar in terms of both low end wide
receiver twos. I would consistently look at him, both of
them kind of hovering around wide receiver twenty guys that
have good upside but also stable floors because of the
offense that they're in. So that's the key there for me.
(11:09):
These are receivers, both of them that are not going
to get blanked. And why even as in his first
game as a rookie, I was pro like, yeah, a
mecca for the flex. Yeah, we're good with that. We
feel comfortable with the volume here. Again, we got three
touchdowns from Baker. I know people are worried about that
regression there in terms of just his touchdown rate just
being so high but low and behold here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It is who he is, So I'm okay with leaning
into both of them as top twenty four receivers for
some season.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I was going to make a joke that he is
like a flexa Guka because we want to be starting
him in our flex, but he's actually better than that.
I want to be starting him out receiver in at
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Speaker 2 (12:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
What's your last move, Tara?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
My last move is a weird one, but I think
it's a critical one for very specific people. If your
roster Christian McCaffrey trade for Brian Robinson Now that would
have been very expensive to try and do last week.
But now we've got Christian McCaffrey on the field, Say, okay,
maybe that was just a little bit of a scare
with the CAF, it's not a major issue. McCaffrey played
the vast majority of snaps. He had twenty two carries.
(12:35):
Efficiency wasn't spectacular, but my god, I mean he had
double digit targets and was very productive with them. And
I think you can expect that moving forward given all
the injuries that we have into that receiving core for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So McCaffrey was fine.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is just the perfect opportunity for you to scoop
in and get your handcuff and not have to pay
an arm and a leg if you would have tried
to get him last week when CMC popped up on
the injury report, because apparently it was just a scare,
But the scare is real, and I think it kind
of brings into the panicuff that's your RB one and
typically I'm very pro like diversified, you don't have to
have the handcuffed. If you're starting running back. You want
(13:13):
to have whatever upside you need to get on your bench.
But when it comes to Christian McCaffrey in that situation,
I'm okay with having the direct handcuff there for CMC.
And you wouldn't have had that opportunity before because of
the trade being so late and maybe Robinson was already
on someone else's roster.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Now you've got the.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Opportunity to go in there, sneak it in and know
that you've got somebody who will step into a role
if CMC goes down where he arguably will have a
three down roll.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
He does have a little pass catching upside.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He doesn't have stone hands there, and we know that
anyone that steps into that forty Niners running back room,
they get on the field and their opportunity when CMC
goes down.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They thrive one hundred yards all the ground because that's
just what the offense does.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So I'm pro going ahead and grabbing your handcuff there
if you've got CMC.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And just to kind of jump on that point too,
in terms of the efficiency that you mentioned on CMC,
just while we're talking about him, I expect Seattle to
be one of the best defenses in football this season.
Like we saw what Mike McDonald did in year two
as the defensive play caller for the Ravens. This is
now year two for him in Seattle. The defense is
going to look more like what he wanted to look like.
I think a lot of players at a lot of
positions are gonna have inefficient days against Seattle. Maybe, I'll
(14:22):
you know, defense is tricky to predict year to year,
but I have pretty high hopes for the Seahawks as
a defensive unit. So I wouldn't you know, whether thinking
about Robinson, you know, he himself he was averaging under
four yards to carry, like said McCaffrey, barely over three
yards per carry. I'm not really worried about that. I
think that was more matchup driven than anything else, truthfully,
so I think it's a great call. Also, those were
Tara's five moves to make here as we get ready
(14:43):
for week two in you know, just about a week
here obviously, So like I said, we'll be here recording
this every Monday, with some of our immediate reactions moves
to make here coming off each and every week, so
we sure stick with us throughout the season. For Tara,
I'm Ryan.
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Hello, everybody, Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I'm Ryan, warmly joined
by Tara Roberts. Tara, we have worked together on the
social side of things for a few years now, but
we're gonna be doing a regular weekly show here for everyone,
a short form talking about some moves to make each
and every week of the season. I'm very excited to
be doing this show with you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm excited too, I feel like this was a long
time coming. Finally, finally, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, finally, finally we get our opportunity here. So what
the show's gonna be is five moves is in no
particular order. This is in no particular format. These can
be buys, they can be seals, they can be players
that you were looking to cut this week. There can
be you know, players you want to pick up off waivers. Really,
just five moves to make. In general, we're gonna be
(00:42):
doing this on Mondays. It should be released on Tuesdays
each week, just to give everybody a sense of the housekeeping.
But this will be kind of our just immediate quick
reaction coming off of all the games Sunday. It is
recorded before the Monday night game every week, so if
there's news there that's why that's not included in these
And yeah, we'll just kind of go through and this
is for you know, folks in kind of regular week
you know, size leagues, right, you know, you know, half
(01:05):
ppr ish mindset. We're not doing anything too crazy like, oh,
if you're in mega tight end premium or a twenty
team league or whatever, you can get your own advice elsewhere,
So it would be kind of more standard avice for folks.
But yeah, that's we're going to do five moves to
make each and every week. Start us off with your
first move here, Tara, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You said nothing crazy, but people might take this one
a little bit crazy, but go with me on it. Here,
I'm going to start us off with the sell and
I want to break hearts here. Sell Travis kelce And
this is no no like, no insult to Travis Kelcey.
I think it's just a great opportunity to capitalize on
what's happening with.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The Chiefs right now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
They're in a dire physition from a past catcher's perspective.
Right We've got Rashie Rice just at the beginning of
his suspension. We've got Xavier Worthy dislocated shoulder, Now, the
Chiefs did say that he is going to try to
play through it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They qualified him as day to day.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We as fantasy managers know that when you hear day today,
that can transition to week to week real quick. So
when we're looking at Travis kelce this might be the
peak value to kind of swoop in and catch people
when they're thinking there's going to be this massive increase
in target Because when I look at his Week.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
One performance, I'm a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We got the touchdown that made everything okay from a
fantasy perspective, but on a day where Xavier Worthy went down,
we got no Rushie Rice and we've got Patrick Mahomes
just trying to denc and dunk to Hollywood Brown. Two
of four for Travis Kelcey saved by touchdown. That is
not exactly what I wanted to see and would call
a successful outing and where I would have expected him
(02:35):
to step up a little bit more. My concern here
is that again, even if the receptions do increase and
the targets do increase, and I do think they will,
even if we get into that area where he's in
that like eight to twelve targets, if we look to
last season, that range for him was often accompanied by
a little bit of yardage not.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Enough, and then not enough touchdowns as well. Last year.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We only got three touchdowns from him this season before
five touchdow. There's a clear drop off in production that's
happening on a year to year basis here, and why
not capitalize right now, especially when we look at all
of the waiver wire friendly tight ends that are out there.
Like when we were talking during draft season, my personal
perspective was is we've got our big three, we got
(03:17):
a nice, massive gap, and then we look at guys
like Tucker Craft and Tyler Warren here coming in at
nice values for their ADP, and then stream if you
can't get a hold of those guys, and we've got
streaming options coming up here, So take an opportunity. Sell
Travis Kelce, get someone in another position, and stream a
tight end.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think it's a great point that it will be
very easy to sell this, not literally sell, but I
mean like to in negotiating, sell the upside case for
him to whoever it is you're trying to trade him
away to. Because of what you talk about with the
other injuries in this receiving room, it feels like there's
a very clear path toward him being like a PPR monster,
(03:55):
just because who else is going to catch passes? So
if you believe that's not the case, this is a
great opportunity to take advantage of the situation around him
and say, you know, let him be kind of someone
else's headache. Give me your next move here.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So I talked about streaming titans. I thought I would
make the case for one of the streaming titands I signed,
myself becoming particularly passionate maybe about promoting Juwan Johnson as
a waiver wire ad this week in a tight end
streaming option. It feels it feels weird because, like I said,
I was parsing through all of the options.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We've got Harold Fan and Jr.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Even a guy like John new Smith popped up and
got the touchdown and had that kind of interesting usage
from Arthur Smith that we were promised. So there's multiple
options that you can go with. But when I look
at Juwan Johnson, who has been in the league for
a while, right, and he's popped, but he's never really
sustained production at a high level for an entire season,
I'm very intrigued by what I saw from the Saints' offense,
(04:51):
particularly for him, because if there is one thing that
we know about Kellen Moore, and we didn't see it
as much last season because I feel like he was
held at check.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But go back to Dallas. The one complaint that Mike.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
McCarthy had in the divorcing of their relationship there was
that the pace was too aggressive, The past was too aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There just wasn't enough balance. And that's exactly what we
saw here.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We saw that true Kellen Moore in Week one here
forty plus I think it was forty six attempts for
Spencer Rattler. That's insane. It doesn't feel like that's sustainable.
But given Kellen Moore's history, I would not put it
past him. And when you look at the breakdown of
not just targets but snaps played routes on the field,
Juan Johnson played the most snaps of any Saints player
(05:34):
obviously other than Spencer Rattler there played the vast majority
of them. He ran the most routes of any single
Saints player. That's kind of seeing when you think about it,
but you start to wonder if Juwan Johnson being held
back was just the previous regime. And if Kellen Moore
just straight up likes this guy, wants to commit to
him as his single tight end, because that's been the
problem with Jawan in the past. We see the upside,
(05:56):
but it was just inconsistent the usage of other tight ends.
We had thatation of Taysom Hill and guys like Foster Morrow,
and it was just never an opportunity for Juwan Johnson
to really take over. But I'm willing to look at
week one's usuge and say, hey, maybe I can take
a chance here that this is finally going to be
the year that he hits because specifically of Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You are right about the forty six attempts by the
Spencer Ratler, which would be a big number for anybody,
but for Spencer Rattler is just like mind blowing that
he had that kind of opportunity and with all those
attempts they scored thirteen points. So that maybe we'll tell
you something about how this season is going to go
for the Saints. You've had on a couple of tight
ends already. What do you have for move number three?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Move number three?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Let's go back to trades here, and I want to
do a little bilo on Calvin Ridley because Week one
wasn't good, but that was expected. I don't think anybody
should have been expecting a good Week one performance out
of him. It was against Denver. Receivers tend to struggle
against Denver. There are outlier performances right every now and then,
but as a whole, we just expe there to be
(07:01):
these kind of struggles from receivers that are facing that
blanketing coverage, especially when you throw a rookie quarterback in
his first start facing that. Naturally the expectation there, I mean,
we shouldn't be shocked about the performance. Now, I will
say that I'm also kind of concerned that this week
might be an issue for him as well.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So while we would expect a little bit of an uptick.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We're looking at the long term effect here, the development
of cam Ward as the season progresses. Because while it
wasn't arguably terrible performance from him twelve.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Completions on twenty eight attempts, just over one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He didn't look overwhelmed, he didn't look like he was panicking,
he didn't look like he belonged, and the Saints offensive
line clearly or the Titans offensive line clearly improved there,
so when I'm looking at it, I can see a
reality where as the season progresses, he really comes into
his own. The targets were there for Ridley, they should
be a little bit better in terms of their connection
and better matchups. I'm willing to buil on Ridley because
(07:58):
at the end of the day, he is the wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
One of that offense.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Targets are going to be their volume, and we'll be
playing him as a nice low one Titan or low
and wide receiver two for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's funny that you bring up Ridley. Andrew Erickson and
I are going to be doing the Tuesday kind of
longer trade show on the feed this season, and we
have been talking for like a month and a half
at this point about how he was like, you can
already build the Week one you know, post week one outline.
It's gonna be Calvin Ridley because we love him for
this season, but that first matchup is brutal. Everybody's gonna
(08:30):
be like, oh man, this guy that I heard was
this great, you know, not breakout Canada. That's the wrong
way to frame it, but like you know, this undervalued
receiver in drafts. Clearly he's terrible. I gotta sell him
that's not the case. So we are in strong agreement
with you. I can tell you will be talking about
that in more detail later this week for everybody who
is checking out the feed, because I get Ericson has
been talking about this basically since like mid July. It
(08:51):
feels like how Ridley's gonna be the best BILO after
week one. So John agreement there, and I'm with you,
Like I really felt like, I know the stat line
was very poor or for cam Ward as we should
have expected. I thought he looked like he belonged. I
was really impressed just with the eye test of like this,
this guy looks like an NFL quarterback who if they
can put a better situation around him and not be facing,
you know, one of the best defenses of football. I
(09:13):
expect brighter days in the future, for sure. What's your
fourth move for us?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We're gonna trade for another veteran receiver here. It is
Mike Evans and this is no negative to a Mecca Buca.
I'm very pro am Mecca here. I didn't expect that
big of a week. That was kind of a surprise there,
but I expected it to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Great opportunity wide receiver two playing opposite of Mike Evans.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What more could you ask for?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now that we've got this solidified hype and we're all
in and we're just obsessed right now, it's a perfect
time to swoop in and grab Mike Evans older veteran receiver.
People start to wonder, oh my gosh, are we just
seeing the transition of the offense away from him? Are
we seeing the regression in terms of age? We got
to remember this was well. Atlanta's defense as a whole
is not a difficult matchup. This was a difficult match
(10:00):
specifically for Mike Evans. I've got my Clemson stuff up here.
Aj Terrell is my boy, and that matchup just just
been difficult for Mike Evans. They've played faced each other
consistently and he is a good corner here, so it's
not odd that he would have still gotten.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Good targets there.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He got eight targets, just wasn't very productive with them,
and big day for a mecha Buca in the better
matchup in terms of the corner that he faced here.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So again, when we're looking at this offense.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean, because of his age, the perception of Abuca,
the looming return of Chris Godwin. I could see where
people would start to get a little bit panicked there,
and I liked what I saw from Baker Mayfield as well.
So I'm pro pro Mike Evans as a bye.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Where would you say, rest of season you have those
two ranked like relatives to each other, Mike Evans and
a Guka amongst receivers.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have enough dated rest of the season yet to
account for that massive increase from him, But I think
maybe very similar in terms of both low end wide
receiver twos. I would consistently look at him, both of
them kind of hovering around wide receiver twenty guys that
have good upside but also stable floors because of the
offense that they're in. So that's the key there for me.
(11:09):
These are receivers, both of them that are not going
to get blanked. And why even as in his first
game as a rookie, I was pro like, yeah, a
mecca for the flex. Yeah, we're good with that. We
feel comfortable with the volume here. Again, we got three
touchdowns from Baker. I know people are worried about that
regression there in terms of just his touchdown rate just
being so high but low and behold here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It is who he is, So I'm okay with leaning
into both of them as top twenty four receivers for
some season.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I was going to make a joke that he is
like a flexa Guka because we want to be starting
him in our flex, but he's actually better than that.
I want to be starting him out receiver in at
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Speaker 2 (12:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
What's your last move, Tara?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
My last move is a weird one, but I think
it's a critical one for very specific people. If your
roster Christian McCaffrey trade for Brian Robinson Now that would
have been very expensive to try and do last week.
But now we've got Christian McCaffrey on the field, Say, okay,
maybe that was just a little bit of a scare
with the CAF, it's not a major issue. McCaffrey played
the vast majority of snaps. He had twenty two carries.
(12:35):
Efficiency wasn't spectacular, but my god, I mean he had
double digit targets and was very productive with them. And
I think you can expect that moving forward given all
the injuries that we have into that receiving core for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So McCaffrey was fine.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is just the perfect opportunity for you to scoop
in and get your handcuff and not have to pay
an arm and a leg if you would have tried
to get him last week when CMC popped up on
the injury report, because apparently it was just a scare,
But the scare is real, and I think it kind
of brings into the panicuff that's your RB one and
typically I'm very pro like diversified, you don't have to
have the handcuffed. If you're starting running back. You want
(13:13):
to have whatever upside you need to get on your bench.
But when it comes to Christian McCaffrey in that situation,
I'm okay with having the direct handcuff there for CMC.
And you wouldn't have had that opportunity before because of
the trade being so late and maybe Robinson was already
on someone else's roster.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Now you've got the.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Opportunity to go in there, sneak it in and know
that you've got somebody who will step into a role
if CMC goes down where he arguably will have a
three down roll.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
He does have a little pass catching upside.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He doesn't have stone hands there, and we know that
anyone that steps into that forty Niners running back room,
they get on the field and their opportunity when CMC
goes down.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They thrive one hundred yards all the ground because that's
just what the offense does.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So I'm pro going ahead and grabbing your handcuff there
if you've got CMC.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And just to kind of jump on that point too,
in terms of the efficiency that you mentioned on CMC,
just while we're talking about him, I expect Seattle to
be one of the best defenses in football this season.
Like we saw what Mike McDonald did in year two
as the defensive play caller for the Ravens. This is
now year two for him in Seattle. The defense is
going to look more like what he wanted to look like.
I think a lot of players at a lot of
positions are gonna have inefficient days against Seattle. Maybe, I'll
(14:22):
you know, defense is tricky to predict year to year,
but I have pretty high hopes for the Seahawks as
a defensive unit. So I wouldn't you know, whether thinking
about Robinson, you know, he himself he was averaging under
four yards to carry, like said McCaffrey, barely over three
yards per carry. I'm not really worried about that. I
think that was more matchup driven than anything else, truthfully,
so I think it's a great call. Also, those were
Tara's five moves to make here as we get ready
(14:43):
for week two in you know, just about a week
here obviously, So like I said, we'll be here recording
this every Monday, with some of our immediate reactions moves
to make here coming off each and every week, so
we sure stick with us throughout the season. For Tara,
I'm Ryan.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We'll see again next time. Thanks for listening to the
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