Week 2 Fantasy Hits: Start, Sit, & Sleepers 🏈🔥

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(01:02):
First things first, Gens, how do we feel about week one?
Just like a quick little little recap of how we did,
how we felt.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's a nice sound bite. You're welcome, everybody. Well, it's
about how I felt about.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
It, don't you worry? It was it was weird.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean it was it's nobody who had zave flowers
in Quinton Johnston and the you know, all these guys
finishing at the top. The only the only thing that
panned out like it should have was the quarterbacks. Josh
Allenamar Jackson okay, cool, great, fantastic, Derek Henry great, fantastic,
and everything else was weird. Adam, what was the biggest
thing that stuck out to you?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Oh, biggest thing that stuck out to me.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
Uh, there's a lot of old players that I thought
did remarkably well, especially early in the season, where you
might think like guys who took a lot of time
off in training camp, guys who didn't play in preseason
who started off immediately, well, I mean Aaron Rodgers is
the obvious one.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Keen and who just joined the Chargers had a great day.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
Like a lot of old players who was like, oh,
maybe I'm ready to write these guys off.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
I performed and I was surprised.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
By yeah, you know what.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
And there's something to that with the preseason guys not
playing nearly as much in the preseason, and maybe the
older guys because they've already been in the league for
a couple of about of years or able to get
out to that faster start. Because yes, to your point,
we had some exceptions with the rookies but for the
most part, the young guys really did not come through
like we were hoping to. It's week one. Things will
get better moving forward. The biggest thing is stuck out

(02:33):
to me, that is Mike mc daniel's not going to
make it through September. That was the biggest thing that
stuck out to me in Week one. There's just there's
no way. They're just actually wanted to real quick. I
wanted to ask you about that because you were all like,
don't want to play Daniel Jones.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Coles looked like a freak of Super Bowl team after that, man.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
Well, yeah, but it's what you first said. That's the takeaway.
This is a Dolphins problem, not a.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'm happy.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
I'm optimistic though. We might have a Sam Darnold from
last year's situation. But I don't think it's any more
than that. I don't think that Daniel Jones is a
revelation so much as it's Dan. I think psyching can
hide a lot of those flaws.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
He's frankis coaching and not.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Doing whatever it was that he was off doing last season,
then we're having a much different conversation.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
He definitely looked like he was back to running his offense.
There's no doubt about that. Whether that that did stick
out to me more so than or not, I shouldn't
say more so. But along with how bad the Dolphins
looked like they were in December form already here in September,
that was that was strange. I mean, James, how you
feel about the Packers. I mean, they had a huge,
huge win over Division.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
What a beautiful game I did.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I didn't get to watch it because I was dropping
my oldest off at college, so I was driving across
the entire state.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I had it on the radio.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Uh so I didn't get to watch it live. But
what a beautiful game they they played. I mean, that
defense looked looked really nice against you know, the top
scoring team from last season, and they really looked like
they can be a complete team. I'm I'm cautiously optimistic.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now. There were a lot of people who are down on.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
The lines a little bit because of losing both of
their coordinators. I'm not necessarily so sure that their offense
is gonna be the you know, train wreck that it
looked like on Sunday. I think they're gonna be They're
gonna be better one than what they looked. You drafted
your lions. You're gonna get the points out of them
eventually here. But I was I was thrilled to see
how that Packer offense looked and the and the defense

(04:30):
the defense was was. It was so fun watching Micah
Parsons run around as fast as he is. He's a
different he's a different level. He's a different level out
there than anybody they've had on defense in a long time.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, forty seven million dollars man on limited snaps definitely
made his presence felt. So you got to feel good
about that and.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
That he they said he fought to get on the
field more than they were originally, Like how much they
used him was what he fought for, and so good
for him.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
He wants to be out there. Apparently injury can't be
that bad.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Well, and you're getting paid, so you better want to
be out there.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm glad the forty nine ers won, but I have
to say, after all the injuries, I have to like
remind myself that we won because I feel like we're losing.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
But you know, that's just where the forty nine ers
state is.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Take solace in the fact that you don't have to
deal with Jake Moody anymore.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Though, yes, that did make up for quite a bit
this week, although I don't know how much better Eddie
Panero is, but I'll take him over Jake Moody.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
That's fine, all right, So let's get into it here.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
We want to kick this off with some start Sick
questions of the week. Again, these are some of the
most popular Stark Sick questions that we have been seeing,
so we wanted to address them and get a little
fantasy info in here heading into week two, and we
have a showdown to kick off the first question. And

(05:44):
just for the record here, I won the showdown last
week over Jerry Judy top twenty four, not top twenty four.
I forgot to make the graphics, so Chase kind of
got off lucky on this one. This debate is going
to be between Adam and myself. Chase, I'll let you
kind of judge it a little bit here. But the
question that came in, and it's an interesting question, Travian
Henderson or our Mecca Abuka flex spot half point PPR.

(06:08):
I said Abuka, Adam said Henderson, So I'm curious. See
Adam Henderson, who maybe some questions about his usage didn't look,
you know, did okay, but didn't look super sharp. Abuka's
coming off a big game. Why Henderson over at Buka
in a flex spot a half point PPR league?

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Man, it's just the matchups. They both got the opposite
ends of the stick here. This is like worst case
scenario for Abuka. I have him in the thirties. Actually,
so I know I'm a little off consensus. See someone
we're going to talk about a little bit later. But
I really worry. I think that a candidly. I think

(06:45):
that having two Tampa Bay wide receivers against Houston in
your top twenty four is insane.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Like, I think that is wild behavior. I I just
can't do it.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Houston, if I recall, gave up thirty plus point I
means twice maybe three times all of last season. Uh
their pressure against the Rams now Rams offensive line nothing spectacular.
But at Atlanta's offensive line didn't perform or excuse me,
Tampa Bay's offensive line didn't perform all that well against Atlanta,

(07:20):
who was running out rookie edge rushers against them.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
And and like.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
If we're getting if Baker who was pressured on forty
percent of his drop backs and a week one that's
happening against Atlanta, who was one of the worst pass
rush in the NFL last year. Attedtude improved from the draft,
but these are NFL players in their first start. We
just talked about how the across the league that was
not necessarily a recipe for success. Now he was pressured

(07:50):
on forty percent. Atlanta also blitzed forty percent of the time,
so they had to get some help to do it,
and because of that, Baker was able to do okay
when pressured. However, Houston is a much much different animal
in that regard. They only blitz like twenty something percent
of the time against the Rams, and we're still a

(08:12):
similar pressure rate, like forty percent of the time. I
worry about this being a game where due to both
quarterbacks potentially being under siege, very similar to that Rams
Texans game. We just saw that the game script just
becomes very short passed, very run heavy, and maybe the
volume just short passes does Helpagbuka not ruling it out,

(08:34):
I'm just worried. This is a game that I think
I mean over under. I believe it's at forty two,
and I could see this being a pretty solid underpick. Personally,
just I could the Texans are not gonna want to
drop back a lot, and if their defense is able
to force Tampa Bay to feel the same way, then
this could be a very slow, very low scoring ballgame.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
No, and that's fair.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
The one thing I will say in that Rams game
is that the Rams defense is much better than the
Tampa Bay defense. I think I feel pretty confident in
saying that, so I think that partly to do with it.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
But for me, it is Abuka.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I mean, first of all, it's hard to bench a
guy coming off a top three finish from the previous week,
and grants you, yes it was. It was coming down
to two touchdowns, but he played all all the snaps
that he played more than Mike Evans did, he ran
more routes than Mike Evans did, he had he had
more targets than Mike Evans did, so he was like
to go to one in that situation.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I'm not saying it's gonna be the case every week.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Definitely not. And on paper, I agree with you, Adam, Yes,
this is a tough matchup. The Houston Texans do have
a legitimate defense here, but Puka finished in the top
seven and he had like ten catches for one hundred
and thirty yards and Adams, Yes, I know he finished
his wide receiver forty five on the week, but he
had a pretty decent stat line in four catches fifty
four yards. It wasn't like he was held completely out

(09:54):
of it and came up big in some big stretches there.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
So Abuka, Who's.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Gonna be running patterns more similar in my mind to
Puka Nukul On top of it, I just don't see
this being an issue for him on the flip side
of that, And if anything, if you don't want to
take it out of the Buka's side, I don't feel
confident in playing Trayvon Henderson as a flex guy.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
I think that's the other part of this.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
So a book is in my top twenty four, Trayvon
Henderson is not my top twenty four of running backs.
I have him more as a high ENDRB three heading
into this matchup. And the problem is Henderson and I
knew this was going to be an issue in September, Like,
Henderson's going to be fantastic once we get past like
week six, but I knew in September Stevenson was going
to be a problem Stevens had more snaps played.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
In Henderson forty six to twenty five.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
He had more routes run with think surprises people given
Henderson out targeted him twenty three to eighteen. He out
played Henderson in situational football too, short down in distance
inside the five long down distance two minute drill. And
they're playing in Miami, which is a great matchup, And
I get it. Henderson just needs to break one, right,
and it's Miami could easily happen. He doesn't need all
kinds of touches in the world to break one. I'm

(10:58):
not going to argue that what's so ever, but it
could also just be a positive game script for the Patriots.
And they decided to run out the clock with morondjer
Stevenson too, I think you're also kind of running that risk.
I have no questions about what Abuka's going to be
playing time wise, so when it boils down to it
like that, that's why I wind up going with Abuka.
Chase will let you judge this one. I will before

(11:21):
we do. Hold on Ada, how we figure out a
little showdown wager here? How we have figure this one out?

Speaker 5 (11:27):
I mean, I think this one is simple it's just
who's scored more? Really one more?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Okay, we can go with that. I know we want
to go positions. That's fine. Who scores more in a
half point bpr? All right? That that settles that. All right, Chase,
go ahead?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
All right?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, Adam, you laid out some, you know, some pretty
convincing arguments. There was a reason behind why you picked Henderson.
But you're wrong, friend, So I'm gonna go I'm gonna
side with Dan on this now.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I did. Yes, I picked up Buka as well.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
This is not a case of where I think that
we're just overreacting to the nice performance last week. Like
dance yea, Buca played more snaps than anybody on that
offense outside of the offensive line in Baker he played,
He played more than anyone else on that team. He
took more snaps than anybody else. Like Dan said, he
looked like he was actually the number one like target

(12:15):
in that game, and the numbers bore that out.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
And then yeah, your argument about Stevenson and Henderson, and
I've said it before with Henderson. I've used Henderson and
Stevenson as an example where we all like the shiny
new toy. Everybody in fantasy wants that shiny new toy
we all think about, Okay, especially running back, we all think, oh,
the young guy, the young guy, the young guy. Sometimes
the guy that's there just has a handle on it,
or at least it has a handle on it temporarily

(12:41):
until the young guy gets up to speed. I agree
with you, Dan Henderson's going to have his time in
this offense. I just don't think it's quite yet, considering
the fact he was out snapped by Steve.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Stevenson almost two to one last week.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I have questions about how much we may or
may not see him, and it's purely a volume in
that regard.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Then if you want to look at it that way.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's not that I don't think Trevion Henderson can be successful,
you know, running the ball against Miami. I just think
he's going to have to compete a lot more with
somebody that plays his same position, and there's only going
to be you generally, there's only gonna be one.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Of them on the field at the same time.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Evans and Ibuka I know darn wall that they're gonna
they're both gonna be on the field. I think that
that's a game that Tampa Bay is gonna have to
keep throwing in, especially because.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
They're playing a tough defense like that.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
So I agree with you on the Ybuka thing. I
just I'm not comfortable with Henderson quite yet.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
All right, I like it. I like it, all right,
So let's move on. Here another question, and this one's
near and dear to my heart. And I had Kittle
at a bunch of places on top of being on
my favorite team. But let everybody in their moms sort
of figure out, all right, how do I play replace
George Kittle? And at first I was going to use
this question because one of the names in it is
David Nijoku, and Nadjoku's somebody that everybody should have been drafting.
But then I was, you know, I'm in like twenty

(13:57):
six leagues, and I went through and in half my
leagues people drop David Djoko this past week, so he
might actually be available in the way of a wire.
So I was like, all right, this might be actually
a valid question, or at least more so than I
thought it was.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So here here's the question. Boys.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
This guy's asking, all right, the replace George Kittle? Should
I go after Juwan Johnson? David Njoku, John news Smith,
Jake Ferguson, Dallas Goddard. So again, some tight ends. I
don't know if we are available everywhere. Maybe he's got
a couple of them. Doesn't really say. But if you
had the pick of the litter, which tight ends and
we'll start with Chase, which tight ends? Would you which

(14:30):
tight end? I should say, would you use the most
of replaced George Kittle?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, this was an unexpectedly tough question for me because,
like you, I have Kittle in one of my home leagues,
and I was like, son of a gun. Now I
got to figure out a replacement for him. All of
the names that are that are listed there, I'm taking
David and Joku. I still think he has the highest
ceiling out of any of them there, especially like we've
talked about before he was Joe Flacco's bff towards the

(14:56):
end of twenty twenty three. I still think that there's
there's meat on the bone there for the chief and
of the names that you've listed, I like his ceiling better.
So I will take in joke who I will take
the ceiling shot there over Juwan Johnson, who saw it
a bunch of targets last week, John new Smith because
f Arthur Smith fas and you know, Ferguson. I'm I

(15:21):
like the Cowboys to pass more. I like that they're
going to I think that they're gonna have to pass
more this season. But I'm just I'm not so sure
how that's gonna how that's gonna play out this week here.
And Goddard, I'm just he's almost in Tyler Higbee territory
for me, where I'm just ready to be done with
him and never have to deal with him in my
line of skin.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
So I'm going.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I'm going and Joku funny being hus the number one
target a Dallas game, but I kind of agree with
you because I think people are overreacting to that. And Adam,
just to be clear, you also have the joke O.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yes, correct.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
I think it's as simple as if Joe Flacco is
gonna pass forty plus times in a seventeen to sixteen
like ugly game, then he's gonna throw a forty plus time.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
The one the one thing that did the one thing
that did cause me to pause, did make me pause,
is the Harald fan In factor that I don't think
any of us saw happening like it did last week.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I know, we all kind of liked fannin.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
And thought he was he was a pretty complete player
coming into the draft, coming.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Out of the draft, Trust number three. Okay, let's get
it from the tree here.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Right, But we all kind of agreed that we kind
of liked him, but to see him taking that kind
of volume, they deployed him all over the field. He
lined up in line, he lined up out, why he
lined up in the slot, he lined up as a
full back. He took a flipping wildcat formation run for
crying out loud. They used him all over the field
like he was their own personal debo.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
And Fannon was the slot receiver. That's basically boiled down
to exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
It's your point.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
They played a lot of twelve personnel, mostly because the
fannom was really kind of line up as a slot receiver.
The snaps were sixty five to fifty five in Favorite
to Joku. The routes run were forty one thirty one
in Favorite Joku. Yes, they were in and out target
of nine to five. I think the targets alone right there.
To Adam's point about the forty pass attempts, fourteen targets
go to the tight end position more times than not.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
I think that's going to be flipped.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
There was nothing wrong with what David Nijoku was doing
or playing, and I know, and I.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Still like, like I said, I still liking Joku as
a starter, But like like we talked about a couple
of weeks ago on our tight End show, I had
him as a top five option. I thought he was
going to be a locked in the top option outside
of the big three that everybody wanted to take in
the early rounds. I thought, if you wanted to wait
for a five round discount and taken Djoku, you were
going to get maybe commensurate value for him. I wait,

(17:41):
bigger value in fact, because you were going to get
commensurate production out of him. I think that knowing that
Fannin is there now essentially taking that number three wide
receiver role and running with it, I think that that
limits Djoku's ceiling a little bit more than what we
had thought he was going to have when it was
just him as Joe Flacko's best friend.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
So maybe maybe that was the only thing that gave
me pause.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Maybe maybe not Again, fourteen targets to the position and
still might be plenty left on the bone. I did
want to make a quick mention though, of Juwan Johnson,
because I think this is somebody is worth mentioning. I
think that somebody who could actually be a top twelve
tight end at least while Fosson Moroe and Taysom Hill,
who are both out and are hurt because the guy played,
and you want to talk about guys who played a lot,
he played an insane amount seventy four snaps like he

(18:29):
played the most besides the quarterback in that game, forty
seven routes run eleven targets out.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Of Jawan Johnson's.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Jawan Johnson's real problem always been in his career he
never played enough. If this is what he's going to do,
if he's a full time player now in this offense,
it's always going to be trailing. It's always going to
be a negative game script. I don't care if it
is Spencer Rattler or Tyler Shuck. We're talking about Juwan
Johnson as a at the very least a high end
tight end to a low end tight end one. So
while my answer is David Joku, I at least wanted

(18:56):
to make mention that Juwan Johnson needs to be on
your radar if you're looking to replaced the tight end position.
All right, let's get into the next question here where
you and Adam. Chase and Adam are going to kind
of go back hand in hand here and go back
and forth. So the next one was he needs two
wide receivers in a flex out of this group, which
was t Higgins, DeVante Adams, A Mecca, Buca, R J Harvey,

(19:18):
and Travis ETN. And I think we all agreed.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
R J.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Harvey kind of goes off the list here when you're
talking about this group of players. I thought the battle
in this question was going to be between Agbuka and ETN.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
But you two are different in a different way.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
So Chase, you have Higgins eat and at BUKA, but
Adam you have t Higgins, DeVante, Adams and Eattns.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
You both actually agree on ETN.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
And it's just whether it's Abuka or whether it's DeVante Adams.
So Adam why Adams?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, that.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
I think that the Rams situation was a byproduct of
playing the Texans. I think that's the the Texans is
going to be the common denominator, not necessarily the Rams
and not necessarily like any of the other hearts of it.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
I'm still cool with Adams. I thought Stafford.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Actually it's for as much concerned as I had coming
into the season with his health.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
I thought he looked a lot better than I expected
him to.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
That offensive line certainly isn't great, but the situation isn't
gonna get much worse than playing against the Houston Texans,
So I still feel good about Davante Adams. Puka also
got his you know, he'll be running with a questionable
tag for ever because he can't stay healthy. He'll be fine,
he'll play it, but like you know, I'm sure that

(20:33):
they're monitoring his situation closely. I guess is what I'll
say with Puka. So I just feel a little bit
more confident about Davante Adams. I think at the state
of his career, he's a pretty weakly consistent wide receiver
two type of guy that I'm gonna peg in that range.
And Ibuka was someone who last week I was one
of the few people that had him as a wide
receiver too, and I guess this week I'm one of
the few people that does not.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
I've just been playing matchups with him I'm going to continue.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Doing it until he has put up the sample size
of I'm a matchup outlier.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
I do not care about matchups.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
I think that you earn that, and I'm not going
to not move you because of matchups at this point
in his career, because he was someone I raised last
week because he had a good matchup.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean, Tennessee, they played really good defense against Denver.
Bon It sucks, all right, Sorry.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
That part, that part, I'm not I don't think that
was a Tennessee thing that happened there.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
I had to get that off my chest because it's
sitting pretty all right, Chase, So why do you go
Egbuca over Devonte Adams? Adams, even though he's older, he
didn't look like he was missing much of a step.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
To me, No, it didn't look like he was missing
much of a step. He played well in fact, I
mean we had obviously there was a little bit of
an injury scare there for Nicula, but he played the
most snaps off any of the receivers on that team,
which I think was a little bit of a a surprise.
Honestly to me, it was a little bit of a
surprise that Adams played the most snaps of anybody on
that in that receiver corps. Being the new guy, yeah,

(21:56):
part of me worries maybe a little bit that he's
not quite on the same page yet with Matthew Stafford.
I mean, he he saw eight targets in the game.
If he continues to see eight targets the game, Devanta
Adams is going to get his. And I agree, he's
a wide receiver. Two he only caught four of them
fifty one yards. It wasn't it wasn't that great at
a game, and you talked about the idea that, Okay,

(22:17):
it might have been the Houston defense that limited DeVante
Adams last week. Yeah, but we just talked about it earlier.
In fact, Dan brought it up, and I agree with him.
I think Abuka is much more Pooka Nakua in against
that Houston team and in the in the Tampa Bay offense.
And Pooka Nakua himself had ten catches for eleven on
eleven targets for one hundred and thirty yards and actually

(22:37):
was a wide receiver one last week. So just between
the two of them, I still think that I like
Buka's you know, I like the way A BUKA matches
up with them, I think they're going to have to
keep throwing there. I'm a little worried that maybe Adams
isn't quite on the same page. And I'm a little worried,
to be that honest with you, I'm a little worried
that maybe they won't have to quite throw as much

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against Tennessee, and they don't have to throw as much,
then Adams isn't going to be seen as much.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
It's close for me, it really is.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
I have DeVante Adams ranked at wide receiver twenty one
this week, and I've got a book at wide receiver nineteen.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's not like I've got a ton of space between them.
It's just between the two.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm willing to take the upside on in Buka this
week based on honestly, weirdly enough reverse of Adam based
on the matchups.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So I'll be the tie breaker here. I'm exactly in
line with Adam here. I also had t Higgins, Devonte Adams,
and Travis et And mostly because of this reason, Chase,
you mentioned the matchup.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
How much are they're going to have to throw?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Tennessee's not a team you can run easily on, Like
I don't think Kyrin Williams is going to have much
of an efficient day. He might always he might get
a touchdown because they always seem to get Kyra the
ball inside the five yard line, come hell or high water.
But so he'll be fine for you get fantasy wise,
he's still like I think he's a top thirteen twelve
running back for me still this week regardless.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
But the move the ball against Tennessee is better if
you can throw it.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Vonte Adams just looks so good to me. Now now
to your point, I think I have maybe three spots
of space between Adams and Buka Abuka as wide receiver
twenty one. I got Devonte Adams at wide receiver eighteen
for the week, so it's it's real close. I got
both inside my top twenty four. For me, I thought
this was going to be again about Travis Etn or
a Mecca Abuca, and I kind of wanted to mention

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Travis Etn here real quick. I mean, we had the
news about to take Bigsby traded. First of all, that
does wonders for this backfield because now we know it's
Travis Etn until base Jall Tuton gets some work in
and that might still be a minute before that really
happens because base all tutan can't pass protect. So until
he can at least be somewhat competent in that area,
I don't know how much he definitely takes over. Maybe

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they do do something along the lines that Cohen did
last year, where they just let to and play early
downs and let Travis ZTN be the Rashad White of
that team. But after the way SCN ran last week,
and I get it was against Carolina, but there's no
way he's losing touches after a performance like that, and
when I'm looking at SCN like he's my run back sixteen.
So he's going in for me over ATBUKA. But Adams,

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I do have him playing a little bit there. Okay,
So let's talk about another tight end question, and this
was start Travis Kelcey or sit him and go with
either Dallas Gotter or Juwan Johnson.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
I just want to say.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
This, Look, I get it, Travis Kelcey didn't look great.
He did not look like he was in the shape
of his twenties, says Andy Reich. Tried to have you
believe in the offseason. Okay, but if you had a brain.
You knew that wasn't going to actually be the case.
To me, I think it gets a little bit better
this week. Going into it knowing that you had the
game plan to have Travis Kelcey be more heavily involved

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with Xavier Worthy, I would have to suspect.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Most likely to miss.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Make sure you tune in tomorrow with my episode with
doctor Brian Scott. We'll talk about the Xavier Worthy injury.
So I think he's gonna get worked in a little bit.
Like I don't think you can keep just targeting Hollywood
Brown fourteen times a game and think that's going to
be okay. If your only weapon, Kelsey was still out there,
Like he played fifty eight snaps, He had thirty eight
routes run. He could have had two touchdowns had he

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not stopped running on the one crossing pattern that Mahomes
had him wide open on, so he could have even
had a bigger day. And get this, guys, as much
as Travis Kelcey didn't look good, didn't play well, he
still finished the tight end three last week.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
It didn't do anything.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
So you drafted Travis Kelcey, you played Travis kelce I
think you just stick with that, Chase and Adam, you
both agree it is Kelsey for this conversation.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
So let's move on to the defense. Here.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
This person's thinking about dropping the Vikings defense for the
Rams or the forty nine ers defense this week. And
I think this is a twofold question. One, I mean,
would you do that for this week? Which one do
you prefer? But also two, you drafted the Vikings defense.
You probably did it before that fifteen to sixteenth round.
You probably did thinking that they would be your defense
throughout the year and you wouldn't be streaming defenses like

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everybody else. So I think this is also a philosophical
question from that standpoint too. So Adam Will kicked this
to you.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yeah, personally, I would consider cutting them. My reason being
is you've got Cincinnati next week. If it was just
tanking the one week, then I would probably want to
not lose my value. But at this point, it seems
like you're just going to be in the whole three
weeks because you're probably not gonna want to play them.
If you don't want to play them this week, you're
not gonna want to play them against Cincinnati.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think that's gonna be the reality of the situation because.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
The Joe Burrow and the Bengals offense we saw this
past week, they normally get over that by the time
we had Week three, Like that's I've made the mistake
of forgetting that Joe Burrow can't do anything week one,
and that's been the case for the last.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
I think the week one Joe Burrow's just sucks and
week one Zach Taylor sucks, so that that's a different
conversation point being I think the Bengals would be back
to normal by that point, and I just the Vikings
are tough, the matchups are tough, great defense to draft them,
but ultimately I think it's a case of sunk and

(28:03):
cap cost fallacy, Like you just gotta let it go.
If you're not gonna play them this week, you're not
gonna let play them next week. You don't want two
defenses on your roster, Take your your lump, now get
it over with. Win the next two weeks, and if
the Vikings sucks or Vikings defense sucks the next two
weeks because of those matchups, they'll probably be available because
nobody's gonna go roster the ranked twenty second defense.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
No that is that is fair? So which one real
quick Rams forty Nineers are you dropping them for?

Speaker 6 (28:34):
I would probably want to go with the Niners.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Rams.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I think are probably a little bit better this week,
although just barely, and really that's just because the Saints
throws so much.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
That makes it a little funky.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
As much as I think that they're probably gonna get
some turnovers, like the points can get weird, but I
think on the whole, i'd rather have the Niners.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, and Chase, I think you agree with this what
I was going to say. First of all, I'm a
guy who streamed defenses. It's also the one position when
I am drafting and it get to that point, I
will really pay attention to strength of schedule because if
I can grab a defense, you know that's gonna be
the first few weeks I feel like I can play
them without having to worry about it, then great, all
the merrier, Adam, I'm in total agreement with you. I

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think the Rams right now actually are my number two
defense on the week. Forty nine Ers are my fifth though,
so it's not much of a gap. But here's what
you're dealing with after that, Like the is a lot better. Yeah,
exactly like you got the Rams. So they played Tennessee
this week, right, and then forty nine Ers play the Saints,
so you have that that's going on really well. But
then the forty nine Ers play Arizona and then they

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even play Jacksonville, who against Carolina.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
While they won that game, didn't.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Necessarily look super sharp. Trevor Lawrence still looks like he's
going to be a bit of a turnover machine.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
The Eagle.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
I mean, the Rams play the Eagles week three, and
then they play the coltsweek four, which if the the
Colts can just a balance that could be interesting in
and of its own right, although daland Jes can give
up some turnovers. So for me, I'm looking at San
Francisco Chase real quick. Which one would you take here?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
For the week?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Like I said, I'm a streamer at DST too, so
I wouldn't have drafted the Vikings in the first place.
I'd probably be looking elsewhere anyway. But the Rams are
a one week solution.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I like them. This week I have them ranked at
number two.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
I have the forty nine Ers ranked at number three,
So for the week, I'll take the Rams. But I
agree that the Niners might have multiple week juice here
instead of just being a one week wonder.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, and my mic is trying to attack me while
we're while we're doing a move in here.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
All good?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
All right, So let's we got to the questions. Keep
those questions coming. We'll go through that segment every single week.
Let's talk a little bit about where we're different versus ECR.
This week, gentlemen, Chase, I'm gonna go right back to you.
Who's the number one guy that you have a big
difference with ECR this week in your rankings?

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Number one guy.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
And I know some people will accuse me of being
a home we're here, but my number one guy that's
different from ECR is Romeo Dobbs from the Green Bay Packers.
I have him at wide receiver thirty six, so I
have him as a fringe wide receiver three. But the
entire rest of the world thinks that he's down in
the fifties somewhere. So I'm sixteen points over ECR with

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him there.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I just think, you.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Look at Romeo Dobbs, he is still the He's still
the top receiver on that team. He's in terms of
playing time, in terms of snaps in terms of looks,
Romeo Dobbs is still the lead receiver on the Green
Bay Packers until and unless Matthew Golden or a healthy
Christian Watson, which we may never see until someone takes

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that title from him. Romeo Dobbs, even with all his
head case problems, even with all his head trauma problems,
is still that number one wide receiver in Green Bay.
So I think that he has the ability to just
score some points there.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Like I said, I've got him as a fringe wide receiver. Three.
I don't see big things of Romeo Dobbs.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
I still don't want any of the Packers wide receivers
or frankly any of their past catchers on my roster
or in my starting lineup at least, But Romeo Dobbs
is my biggest discrepancy there.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, so I'm trying to find it here because I
don't think we're much well.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I have him at forty five, so I have him
as a wide receiver for but if you're playing through receiver, well,
still might be a flex. The point is that he
played the most, and this is what we knew about
Romeo Dobbs as far as actual stable snap playing time.
We knew he was going to be the most stable
out of all the Packer wide receivers. Matthew Golden is
not on the injury designation list now, but he was

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a little bit so he got a little bit banged up.
He only played one more snapped into the TV in Wix.
That was the disappointing point there. We'll see if that changes.
But this commander secondary is one that I definitely think
you can take advantage of, so I'm not going to
argue with that one too much. Adam, what's the biggest
difference you're finding yourself on besides Euka because you've already
hammered him into the ground.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Yeah, we've had that conversation. For me, it is Kenneth
Walker with ECR still having him as I.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Can pull it up really quick.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
I believe it was twenty four and I have him
at thirty. I think they have him like eight spots
ahead of Sharboney, who outsnapped him like thirty to twenty one.
I think that is bizarre. I liked Walker a lot
coming into the season, and I'm not killing him completely.
I still have him, like I said, at thirty, so

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nothing crazy, but to have him significantly ahead of Sharbonay
at this point, Like, I just don't think there's any
evidence to do that. Realistically, I'd be concerned that it
flips even further, just given the snapcount went the way
that it did, and Kenneth Walker is actually the one
that had the better receiving workload, which I don't think
any of us would think that that is sustainable. I

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think if if sharbon Ay takes the job, he gets
receiving two because I realistically he's at least the better passboker,
if not the all around better receiver. So that situation
is one that I'm going to be monitoring for at
least the next month.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
They think there's a lot of ramifications there, But yeah,
I think confidently playing Kenneth Walker as an RB two
this week is a little much for my blood personally.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
So this one hits kind of close to home. So
I'm going to ask you a question on the fly here, Adam. Yeah,
because I have a league where I have Kenneth Walker
and I have Zach Sharbonay. Now because thankfully it sounds
like Drake Lennon's gonna play, I have Jamison Williams as
a potential flex and then We're talking about Kenneth Walker
and Sharbonay in the flex.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
So between those three, what would you do?

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Mmmmmmm. I think for me it's between. I think i'd
want to go Jamison.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
The thing with Walker and Sharbonay is I'm just I'm
still not one hundred percent certain it will be Sharbona.
I'm not killing off Walker, So I just have them
RB thirty and thirty one.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
I have them off on the road. I'm like, one
of you is probably going to be the guy.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
One of you is gonna beat this, but I can't
compantly say which one yet, So I'm just gonna put
you over here. Jamison. I think is gonna have a
bounce back week. I think Detroit's gonna have a bounce
back week. They're at Detroit or they're like in Detroit,
their home in a stadium. I think they'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, I tend to I tend to lead that way
for me personally.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Look, with the Kenneth Walker stuff, some of it could
be Look, he did not practice a lot throughout training camp, right,
he kind of really just got back into practice for
week one, and some of that was well, we didn't
know how injured he really was, whether just being careful
with him. But regardless, he clearly didn't have his legs
under him, you know so, and they they Kennth Walker

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started the game, it was just he wasn't able to
really get going here. Sharbonay, while not overly successful, was
more successful. But then I look at what the Jets
did to the Steelers, and I look at what Breece
Hall did, and I look at the type of runs
that they attacked the Steelers with which Breece Hall was successful.
That fits more what Kenneth Walker does in that in
that offense. I also think Seattle has a Koubiac in particular,

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has a bit of a balance back in week two
because he did not call a very good game in
Week one either with his with his play calling.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
So I do kind of go back and forth.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
But I'm with you right now, just based on we
saw in week one, I still think Kenneth Walker is
the lead guy in this backfield when it's all said
and done. But for week two coming up right now,
there's really no telling either way. To your point, I
don't have him one space apart, but I only do
have three spaces apart both a RB three's this week
Kenith Walker twenty eight, Zach Sharpada of RB thirty one.

(36:31):
So I'm kind of with you on on that standpoint.
It's a little crazy for them to be too far apart.
It's a little crazy to be too confident in either
one or the other two. And the Steelers, I gotta
think run defense wise, we'll be better on what we
saw in week one.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
Two.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
The defense is too good to just be run on
all over. Let's get into my guy.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
So my top guy is actually Caleb Williams, and I'm
shocked because Williams, especially from a fantasy standpoint, was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You know, fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yard on the ground, a touchdown, yes, most of it
came with his legs, and only two hundred and ten
yards passing and one touchdown there. But he finished the
QB nine on the week and yet ECRs ranking to
mat QB seventeen.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
I got him at QB eleven heading into this one.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's it's a well coached, good Minnesota defense that he
came out firing on at least throwing the scripted part
of the game. But what stuck out to me the most,
and this was the big all off season long between
multiple people, was Ben Johnson who loves playing on time
going to allow Caleb Williams to be a playmaker and

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a dual threat.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
And we got the answer.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
The answer was yes because to me, and I don't
know if you guys agree with this or not, but
Caleb Williams looked like he had actually gotten faster this
year as a rusher, and I don't think he actually
got faster.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
What I think the difference was is that he got
more decisive.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
And that's kind of from the coaching staff because when
the lane was open, he did not hesitate to take
it and take off and run. That means the coaching
staf is not in your ear telling you to play
on They're not telling you to not scramble around. That's
coach saying like, look, you don't see it. You see
a lane, got ahead and take it. If Caleb Williams
is suddenly going to become a dual threat, which he
is capable of doing, now we're talking about a whole

(38:11):
new ceiling, the floor ratio with Caleb Williams coming into this,
beyond the Ben Johnson offense, beyond the weapons that Chicago
has this season.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
And with the tough schedule they have to start, that could.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Be the difference between Caleb Williams finishing as oh, I
don't know, potentially at QB six or QB fifteen this year.
So I like Caleb a lot in this game too,
going as Detroit Detroit, who I think in Detroit will
have a little bit of a comeback. I think this
is going to be a little bit more of a
higher scoring matchup, another divisional matchup, and you know, Ben
Johnson's looking his chops to prove himself against Dan Campbell,

(38:43):
so I think we'll have a few extra things up
his sleeve. Yeah, Caleble is somebody I'm starting as a
top twelve quarterback. You guys can react to that.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Ooh, okay, I have him.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I have him ranked at nineteen. I have him just
below his ECR. Yeah, he finishes as QB nine. I
think the biggest reason I have him ranked around ECR,
maybe even a little bit lower, is not necessarily a
Caleb Williams thing, as it is a everybody else thing.
I don't think Joe Burrow is going to continue to

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be quarterback twenty five. I don't think Jared Goff is
going to continue to be quarterback twenty three. I don't
think that you know, Drake may Brock, Perty Kyler, Murray,
Jayden Daniels, all these guys are going to continue to
be as low as they are. I think they raise
up and I think that, you know, especially this week
against Detroit. Yeah, could he have a great game. He
definitely could. He looked pretty good the other night. You're right,

(39:38):
he did. He looked pretty good the other day. But
I just I don't know. I need to see a
sustained effort from him. I need to see it happen
over multiple weeks before I'm ready to buy completely into
Caleb Williams as a starting caliber option in the top
twelve superflex.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
I love him to death.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
I've got him in several of my Dynasty leagues and
I'm starting him in all of them. But I'm not
necessarily sure he's ready for that kind of prime time
and that QB nine. Like I said that QB nine
ranking last week, there's a lot of context there between
you know, all the names that were behind him, Baker
Mayfield and Gino Smith looked really good last week, and

(40:18):
I think he can have another good game. I'm I'm
not ready to go there yet with him.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Looks some of those names you mentioned yes, they're not
going to finish as low as they did in week one.
But at the same time, Caleb scored twenty four points.
It was legit the amount of points that he put
up in So I think what we have here, Let's
do it again.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Chase, let's do it. Let's let's see double or nothing.
Let's see right, So.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
If if Caleb's are number one, if Caleb's and if
caleb is is a QB one this week.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Oh hold on, because you've got all down a QB
nine team. I got a QB eleven. It was a
back end one. Let's not get a little carried away. Right, Well,
let's top fourteen. If he's fifteen or less, he's you top.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Fourteen, he's me.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
How about that? I think that's fair? All right, all right,
we'll take that.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think that handicaps towards you a little bit, but
but I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I'll take it. I'm willing to go there.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
I'm giving you more.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
It's response lower than my rankings, and you're getting four
extra spots.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
It's more towards you of anything. Chase is back walking it.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I'm not backwalking. I'm saying no, Okay, where do you
have him ranked.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Where do you have him ranked?

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Welcome that I'm eleven.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
You have him at eleven, I have him at nineteen.
And we're talking, where's the line when.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
We drew fourteen.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
If he's fourteen or higher, he's me. If he's fifteen
or lower, he's you.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
So he had Yeah, Okay, well.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
That's pretty fair.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Me go, I'll take it.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
I'll take take it over a drink on the happy hour.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
That I can agree to, I can definitely do that,
all right. So yeah, hey for the DFS cocktail this week. Huh, Well,
you know, we made a couple of raat calls last week.
I guess I was right on Cedric Tillman being the
being the receiver to have off of the off of
the Browns there. It was just such a weird week
league wide though, you kind of have to throw all
the uh, throw all the numbers out the window from

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last week. So we look at the slate this week,
it's it's kind of a low scoring week. I don't
Vegas doesn't see he seem to see a lot of
points being scored this week. The highest highest over under
that I've got based on the numbers over at Sharp
Football Analysis, there is the Jacksonville Cincinnati game at forty
eight and a half in terms of the UH, the
Sunday early slate and through the Sunday nights late there.

(42:43):
So yeah, not big lines there. Chicago, Detroit's at forty seven,
Philadelphia Kansas City are at forty seven.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm not necessarily sure we see all of that happen.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Uh. And there there there are although a couple of
touchdown favorites here. In fact, there's one real big favor
here in Baltimore Cleveland. Baltimore is an eleven and a
half point favorite over Cleveland. But of the other games
that are touchdown games there, we've got the Jets and
the Buffalo Bills. The Bills are six and a half
point favorites, Detroit is a six point favorite over Chicago,

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and Dallas is a six point favorite over the Giants.
And then there's a six and a half point favorite
in the Desert as Arizona hosts the Carolina Panthers. So
I want to look at these these higher numbers, these
higher over under totals for our past game on our
DFS cocktail, we are going to go with and start
things off with mister Jalen Hurts, a quarterback for sixty

(43:37):
eight hundred. He is not the most expensive quarterback on
the on the dock at this week, but if you
look at what he did last week, I mean, nineteen
out of twenty three is very efficient. One hundred and
fifty two yards only he was kind of a checkdown
merchant last week.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Didn't throw a.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Touchdown pass, but again fourteen rushes sixty two yards, two touchdowns.
The tush push thing is alive and well which means
that Jalen Hurts the fantasy prospects are alive and well
there when you look at what they did last time
they played each other in the Super Bowl. There Jalen
Hurts seventeen out of twenty two two hundred and twenty
one yards, two touchdowns. He had an interception, but eleven

(44:12):
rushes seventy two yards and that score. Last week, Kansas
City Chiefs allowed three hundred and eighteen pass yards to
mister Justin Herbert.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
There.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
I don't think they give up that many passing yards
this week. But the big key is they allowed him
to also run seven times for thirty two yards. If
they can give up seven rushes and thirty two yards
to Justin Herbert, I got to think the Jalen Hurts
can can do some damage on that offense. So I'm
very comfortable paying the sixty eight hundred for Jalen Hurts
this week at quarterback, so that I'm going to want
to take one of his wide receivers there and stack

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on top of him.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
And I am going to take not mister A J. Brown.
I'm going to take Davante Smith.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Davonta Smith back in the Super Bowl against them last year,
four out of five sixty nine yards in his score.
He was actually their leading receiver yards wise. Their leading
receiver in terms of looks and in terms of catches
was actually Saquon Barkley out of the backfield, but Smith
was Smith was the one who had the most Arder
had the nice big long forty I think it was
a forty six yard of there too as well. But

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the Chiefs did allow the most points in the league
last week to the Chargers wide receivers. I mean Quentin
Johnston and Keenan Allen and Lad McConkie ran all over them.
They were all wide open. I'm going to take Devonte
Smith at fifty six hundred. He's a little bit cheaper
than AJ Brown. And I think that he can he
can find some open spots in that line up there.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
We are going to take a Brown in this game.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
We're going to play back against him on the other
side of things for the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
With Hollywood Brown at fifty two hundred. I love Hollywood Brown.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
This week you mentioned he had the absolute you know,
monster game target wise last week with the Worthy injury
button hooking us all right off the bat there, Hollywood
Brown ten out of sixteen last week ninety nine yards
didn't score, but ten out of sixteen. If he's going
to continue to see double digit targets, somebody see targets
in this offense. Somebody has to. And with Rashi Rice out,

(46:04):
Xavier Worthy is not going to go on the aisle.
It doesn't look like but he's He's not gonna play
this week. And if even if he does play, he's
not playing anything significant. There's no way that he plays
a significant enough role in terms of like what they
actually throw to him. He'd be running decoy routes. I
like Hollywood Brown in this game a lot. Last week,
you talk about what the Eagles did. They allowed Ceedee

(46:26):
Lamb to go for seven catches in one hundred and ten yards.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Ceedee.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Lamb actually was having a pretty decent game until that horrific,
you know drop at the end that kind.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Of cost them.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
But I think Hollywood Brown finds open spots against this Chiefs,
against this Eagles defense. I like the idea of this
if this does turn into the shootout that that Vegas
sees it as. I like Brown and Smith, you know,
in a kind of a little guy duel there. And
then we're gonna round things out for our lineup here
with Jamiir Gibbs of the Detroit Lions. We're gonna pay

(46:57):
up for him at seventy four hundred. I think he's
a sixth most expensive running back on the flat league.
But his last time out against Chicago, he had twenty
three rushes one hundred and nine yards in a score.
He had wanted one more catches for forty five more
yards there.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
I think he has to have a bounce back week.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I think if they're going to be successful against the Chiefs,
I think against the Bears that Gibbs is going.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
To have a good game.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
He's going to have that bounce back game. It's not
like he didn't get the usage last week. It's not
like he was. He saw the same amount of you
always sees. Last week, the Packers just shut that entire
offense down. Now, there's offensive line problems in Detroit, but
I think that that they're going to have to They're
going to have to use Gibbs. I think he has
a bounce back, you know, a bounce back game. The

(47:43):
Bears allowed the eighth most points to running backs in
the league last week. Jones and Mason combined for eighteen
rushes ninety one yards. They caught all four of their
targets for fifty one yards, and of course Jones had
that big touchdown towards the end of the game there
to kind of turned things around for them. So if
that's what they're going to do to no offense, I
love Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason, but they're not Jamiir Gibbs.

(48:03):
I think Jamiir Gibbs has a lot that he can
do there. So while I mix up this drink that
we are going to call the domination depth Charge, I'm
going to leave you guys to to look and talk
about the idea of, you know, of.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Going with some of these names here.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Hurts Smith Brown, Gibbs is there anybody else that you
guys want to add in there, or that you would
like more than those guys. Do you disagree with me
on any of that, But you go ahead, I'll mix
this up and then I'll explain what drink I'm mixing
as we uh after you're done.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Well, well, Adam, This what jumps out to me first
is that Jalen Hurts in DFS is not a quarterback
you have to stack. And because of the way this
Eagles offense functions where you really never know who it's
going to be. It could be devoted to Smith, that
could be a j. Brown, it could be Dallas God,
it could be a Saquon Barkley week. But I know
Jalen Hurts is going to score points. I don't feel

(48:55):
like he's somebody. We got a stack, and if you
want to stack a runner, we'll the guy I feel
confident about stacking would be Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson.
Fields to sitting at fifty seven hundred, Garrett Wilson sitting
in sixty five hundred. Field's made it clear. Look, I'm
gonna gun into my number one guy like he made it.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
Clear DJ More.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
He made it clear last week so if youre looking
for a runner quarterback to stack, I think that's the stack.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I'm kind of leaning towards. I also want to make
sure we add in.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Ricky Piersoll here to the mix, because he might be
in the same vain as a Hollywood Brown. He's only
one hundred dollars more fifty three hundred compared to Hollywoo
Brown's fifty two and Jawan Jennings may play in this game,
may not. At best, he's gonna be banged up. No
George Kittle, mac Jones might be playing this game. Mack
Jones' lok gonna throw the ball of one guy. He's
not gonna be making the rounds to anybody else. He's

(49:40):
not gonna mix it to Kendrick Bourne and all whatever
nonsense they would have. He's gonna be throwing at the
ball to the one guy. And it's the playing against
the Saints. So I think Ricky Pearsall is really in
line for a big game too, and I like his
matchup maybe better than Hollywood Browns. I still think Brown
probably comes way more volume because I think the Chiefs
will throw the ball more, but he might Piersall, who
was super efficient last week, might have a really efficient
game again this week.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
So those are some of the things that jumped out
to me.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
What jumped out to you, Adam, Yeah, you mentioned Garrett Wilson.
He was someone who, as I was looking with the
money left over from some of your guys, Garrett Wilson
was someone that I was like, well, if I go
cheap with like a Dylan Samson, then I can have
Garrett Wilson as an extra receiver and feel really really
good about it. So either way, I think Garrett Wilson's
a great player.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Like him. Chrisol is a good mention. Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
No, I like all of those names.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I can't. I'm not going to argue with anything you
said there. The thing that I liked about the Core
four that I just kind of threw out there was
that they were affordable and they did allow you to
spend up at some of those other positions if you
wanted to. So Smith and Brown, I mean that's a
you're only you're not even spending eleven your for your
wide receiver, you're starting for two of your starting wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
I like that idea.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yeah, So I'm not gonna argue with any of your
points there. So the domination depth charge real quick here
before we before we end things, if you guys have had,
if if any of you have had the old school
Jaeger bomb or a lunch box or or a depth charge,
a real Irish you know, depth charge, or they used

(51:10):
to call it a different name, but we won't mention
that on air.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
It's a little insensitive.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Uh, it's one of those it's this is one of
those shots. It's a drink, it's a shot. Actually it's
meant to be taken as a shot. But you're gonna
fill your glass.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
With a stout.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
And so for this one, for the domination depth charge,
we're going with Dragon's Milk. Some of you guys, if
you've seen my stuff, if you watch my Baseball Show,
if you've seen me on other shows, you know the
Dragon's Milk is one of my favorites. It's a bourbon
barrel aged stout here eleven percent alcohol by volume. It's
a heavy, heavy beer. So this is not one that
you need to, you know, sip by the pool all

(51:45):
day long. But you're gonna fill up your glass with that.
Then you're gonna take just an old school regular shot glass.
You're gonna fill that most of the way with a bourbon.
I told you that the dragon's milk is a bourbon
barrel aged out, so I'm gonna use a bourbon. I'm
using actually Border Bourbon, which is a local bourbon here
from northeast northwest Wisconsin. But you're gonna fill up a

(52:08):
shot glass most of the way with that, and then
on top of that, we're gonna drop some Jackson Morgan
Southern cream brown sugar and cinnamon liqueur.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
This is this is kind of like a I mean
in the same vein.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
As a ramchada, as an Irish cream, but this one
is made with Tennessee whiskey and it's brown sugar and
cinnamon flavor. So you're gonna top the shot glass off
with that. Then you're gonna take that shot glass off.
You're gonna drop that into the drink. Here. You're gonna
drink that all in one shot. Here here goes the
operation domination depth charge.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Chop Chop chop chop.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Very nice, well done, sir.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Don't let that sit in there too long because that
cream will curd along you. But they're the domination depth charge.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
On the podcast, h Chase's Hugged in the entire like
whiskey glass full. So that's not a shot. So good
job by you, buddy. That's gonna wrap up the show.
Hope you guys enjoyed it. Make sure you come back.
I'll be with doctor Brian Scott tomorrow talk about the
injury inquiries heading in the week two and then we'll
be back on Saturday with Chas Florida Sports Betting Weekly
talk about some of our best bets of the week.

(53:20):
Catch my article will be dropping the week two player prop.
I'm gonna have one prop per game block on that
article on the Huddles, go to the Huddle dot com
and make sure you check that out for me.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
You should be dropping Saturday morning at some point.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Guys has always download Operation Domination your favorite podcast app
and check out the video content here on the YouTube
channel the Fantasy Football Advice and Network at FF advice Net.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Good luck and we'll see you soon.

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