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1:01Fantasy. Fantasy. Focus. What's up friends, welcome to Fantasy Focus. Alongside Mike Clay, my name is Daniel Dott because Gil-Jates is gone. It's just a duo today. This is a full field taking vacation. I would never. Always taking vacation. I would never take a personal day. Yeah. You know me, I'm here. I'm ready to grind. You've never never once. I would never do that. Been accused. I would never do that. By the way, if you watch the show every day, you probably know it's at every time we start. I immediately go like this. Yes, you reach down. Why it when we're talking in here? And then the show starts and you start talking louder. And I'm like, oh no, my volume is so loud. I have to turn it down. Daniel, I was up to midnight last night. Come on, man. You mean both. We're going to talk about that. We got a very fun show plan for you today. Obviously we're going to dive into all the things that were the Monday night football game. We're going to talk about waivers as well, which is always big for us, a Rahim Sanders payoff. We've got the knockout league,

2:02which we're going to talk about as well and maybe a little overreaction. If we have some time, who knows? Mike and I are going to dive into as much as we possibly can, exactly. It's our first week recapping a week. So we're just kind of figuring it out on the fly here. With that, we're not figuring out on the fly. We did in fact have a show note and a meeting mic. Don't let Mike think we didn't. I wasn't there. But for what it's worth, in case this is your first time tuning in because maybe you don't have a fantasy show. You've been listening to when you want to come back and hang out. Let me tell you where you can find us really quickly as a podcast for available everywhere that you get your podcasts. And you can find us every single week. Monday through Friday 10 a.m. Eastern on the NFL on ESPN YouTube page. Go check us out there as well as on the ESPN app, ESPN fantasy app on the ESPN fantasy Facebook page. We're all over the place, Michael. And with that being said, why don't we dive into a quick recap? Yeah, speaking of a team that's still sleeping, and maybe didn't get good rest going into the week. There's a joke here somewhere, but the Broncos were not ready.

3:02The chiefs playing at Arrowhead were ready for this one. Yeah, the Denver Broncos lost 10 to 31 to the Kenneth walkers. Honestly, that's what that was the whole thing. They had more, he had more yards. I think than they're almost had more yards. Did he actually? Yeah, I think he might have. We had 190, one yards that looks like Denver and 131 passing and 50, 61 rushing, 190 to almost the same. That's almost the same. That's the same number. Incredible. Wow. Yeah, K9. This is a quick man. Of all the things that happened in Monday Night Football, which honestly, the biggest thing that happened is, you know, fields not here. Mike and I, he asked us to house it the house last night. And it was really fun. Mike broke into fields, fancy liquor cabinet. And obviously we had a bunch of the really expensive clear stuff. Yeah, it's really fun. And then when we, we filled it back up with water so that fields won't know, though the expensive glass waters that field keeps in the fridge that everyone knows about. But while we were doing that, Ken Walker, the third absolutely just smashed. I know that they were going somewhere else with that.

4:04I was waiting for you to decide. I thought there was a hook somewhere. I just, you never got there. But anyway, let's move on to Ken Walker. Wow. Wow. Uh, he was the only storyline. I mean, there was some negative story. He was the only positive storyline. The dude looked unbelievable. When you talk about first game with a new squad, this is what you're hoping happens. Ken Walker, the third was unbelievable. Mike, measure takeaways for you. Yeah. Let's talk about that. 23 carries 173 yards and a touchdown also involved in the passing game. 15 routes. And they didn't have to throw much only 27 pass attempts. Nope. Six targets, three catches 18 yards and another touchdown. And look, they didn't need to use them a lot in the fourth quarter. This game was pretty much in control for the chiefs or perhaps you might have done even more damage. We saw some Emmet Johnson, the rookie looked fine, especially in the passing game. He had two catches for 44 yards, but probably going to get a smaller share in the future. Certainly, you know, if the game script is a little bit different, they're not always going to be up by two or three touchdowns. So obviously, what Walker was, I like, I would also say something else that, you know,

5:08a positive for the chiefs is Patrick Maholmes running the football at a rushing touchdown early. Given for 23 and a touchdown, I believe you had three of his seven carries were scrambles, which is a good sign. So he looks good. That was our concern with him, right? We know he could throw the football. How much is he going to add with his legs? You look fine to me. Doesn't look like a guy tore his ACL late last year. Agreed. I'm with you on that. The one thing about Maholmes from a passing game perspective didn't disappoint, but he didn't really have to do a whole lot because there was a lot of running because of that. Yeah. His average depth of the three I believe is four and a half yards. I mean, it was clearly the game plan was, we're not bothering them with our wide receivers. I mean, we're sure you're right. If he isn't get break that tackle and score touchdown, it's basically a zero for me. Two for two for 19 in a touchdown, but only at two targets. But that was clearly the game plan. Yes. Snap the ball to Maholmes and immediately throw it to Xavier worthy or Walker out of the backfield or whoever's in the short area. That's not going to be the case most weeks, but they were protecting themselves against one of the best defenses in the NFL. They did an excellent job game planning and they just ran it through Ken Walker.

6:08And as long as he's running well, which he was in this one, 101 yards over expectation in this one for Walker. Wow. Just a surreal number. It was working and they just kept doing it. They did just keep doing it. Travis Kelsey is going to look like he had a nice day in this one, like 10.1 fantasy points. And most of that came on like one big catch where he had almost 60 yards on one play. So how are you feeling about the rest of this squad when we're just like looking ahead, right? Ken Walker, the third definitely going to be a start for us next week. Is she right? Still going to be a start. Those are the tough matchup. Exactly. He'll be fine. Not worried about that. He was still there worthy and rice for the one two punch. It received her pretty clearly. Do you think that Patrick Mahomes has worked his way up with the rushing that you've seen to potentially be in the starter conversation with week two when we talk Wednesday? Yeah. Yeah. He's definitely a borderline QB one. We'll see where he falls in our rankings. I have to look at who they are playing, which I'm looking at right now. They're playing the whole. So yeah, he'll certainly be playable. It looks like I'm going to have him right around QB eight through 10 right in that range. So he, we definitely feel better. Now that we know he's not going to have like one carry for two yards, we can feel better

7:11about him as a back end QB one didn't look limited looked like he was fine from that perspective that really helps alleviate a lot of fears. Let's talk about the other side because it wasn't very fun. So we were a Broncos manager. What positives did you see from the Denver Broncos from a fantasy perspective, Mike? Well, Jalen Waddle and Quirotland Sutton were one two and pass her out. Okay. Okay. Maybe that's it. I guess that. I think that's one of the first ones that I've ever played more than he did last year had four for 43 and caught a touchdown. That, you know, maybe he gets into the streaming conversation. I'm pessimistic because he went basically all of last year being fantasy irrelevant. So not super optimistic, but if you're in a tough spot at Titan, not the worst ad in a 12 team league, Pat Bryant looked good, but again, he was well behind Sutton and Waddle and Routes. And those guys are not going to go two for 11 and one for two. At all. I mean, that might be their both of their worst game of the season. They're going to have better games. Maybe this is a really good thing to make sure that everyone understands too. Because when you look at the box score, what you see is Pat Bryant, four catches for 42

8:13yards on six targets. Quirotland Sutton, only two for 11 on five targets. And Jalen Waddle only won for two on three targets. So Pat Bryant clearly was the biggest target getter and was the most, you know, productive from that perspective, but wasn't on the field. Wasn't running as many routes. Yeah. Don't expect this to be the thing we can week out. Clear cut number three receiver, but he played 57% of the snaps. Snaps compared to Sutton and Waddle were in the 70s. Numbers that may have been higher if they weren't just running out the clock. They actually kneeled out the game to end it because it was over. So that could change in the future. Similar in the back field as well. RJ Harvey actually led in snaps 25 to 19 over JK Dobbins, but it was Dobbins early on. He's still a primary ball carrier. Harvey, clearly the primary guy in passing situations, Jonah Coleman only played three snaps. So he is an insurance option at best. You know, you don't have to keep him on your roster. You can cut him. You can cut him loose, but Harvey and Dobbins are the one two punch. And honestly, we've said this several times this week already, dead zoni. Yeah. You know, they are in the dead zone.

9:14There's nothing really appealing about starting either of those guys. Maybe when the matchups really good, like if they're going to be a heavy favorite, which I don't know if they can be in the short term after the way they played last night. That's when they have a, you know, it's going to look like a positive game script for them. Maybe JK Dobbins is a little more appealing, but mostly you're going to avoid. Yeah. All right. Good call on this one. I think I took Denver in this one, which is a bad call. That's a bad call by me. Yeah. That was a bad call. The Broncos major let down. I'm frankly on both sides. Yes. Well, not being, they still stopped to pass. Well, both teams have very added a similar game plan offensively, which is like we're, we don't even have wide receivers. We don't care about them. Maybe maybe two yards away from the line of scrimmage. That's it. Otherwise, they for Denver was a disaster chiefs. It was just running the football, but disappointing for Davis Web in his first game, calling plays, but this is a very talented football team. I expect I'll bounce back quickly. Every game day starts before the lights go up before the snap before the roar, something's already at work cleaner, quieter, energy production running where the game lives.

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12:24We don't need to give you a hunter update on offense every week, right? If he's not an offensive factor, but now we know that. We got that out of the way in week one of something changes. We'll report back similar with waivers. We're going to roll through a bunch of names here and these guys might be borderline waiver ads every week. But, you know, once we say, hey, don't bother. Yes. We'll report back. We'll let you know when it's done. Any news on some of these guys. Let's roll through them. Exactly. All right. Let's start with Bryce Young. Score 31.4 points. Michael, how much of this do you believe is Bryce Young and is it worth considering on the waiver wire? And how much do you think it was because they played a team that scored 59 points? Yeah. It's definitely a big part of it. I guess looked a little bit better at times in that one. Had a couple good throws, but I'm not buying this one yet. This is not a guy I will be targeting on waivers this week, even though he's available in almost 90% of leagues. He's probably stay about that way. Look, this guy is yet to finish the season better than 20th and passing arts, 10th and rushing yards or 24th and fantasy points per game. And here's the thing. He had a big game and maybe I think, okay, maybe he's turning the corner, but Daniel,

13:28it's not the first time we've seen this before with him. Okay, I'll give you some examples. Okay. Week 18 of 2024, 36 fantasy points. He comes out in the season opener last year, 8.2. Then a week two, a 21 points next week, 12. Actually, a 12 or fewer each of the next three games. Week 11 last year, 31.8, very similar to what he did yesterday. Okay. Next week, 8.3. And then week 13 last year, 22 and a half. All right, we're going back to right direction. Nope, 15.4 the following week. He also had a rushing touchdown in this game. Yes. He had three of them total all of last year. So that's a little bit fluky to play Atlanta this week. I think he's still a mid to back in quarterback to, no, thanks. Just not not going to bother you're not going to start him every week. Agreed. I can do it. Unfortunately, if we start to see something and this materializes more consistently, but what you're, I feel like you're showing me peaks and valleys in his game. Well, I love guys like that. And that's not who you, especially with the depth of quarterback, you don't need to bother with that. Exactly. So unless you're in super flex, I just don't see the appeal of spending much fab on this. What about Tyler Schuck?

14:29Tyler Schuck, another guy that had a positive game script unfortunately struggled in the first half of that game taken on the Detroit Lions. Through for over 400 yards, three touchdowns clearly has a good relationship with Chris Olave worth maybe considering. Yeah. So Bryce shung's available on 89% of ESPN leagues. Shuck is about half of ESPN. Okay. There's a big difference in this one. He was drafted as a QB due quite a bit. If he is out there, yeah, I think he's a better QB two than Bryce shung. Yes. He lit it up. Most of it was in the second half and overtime, but a couple red flags here. First of all, it 56 pass attempts. And he averaged 7.3 yards per attempt. That's exactly where he was last year in New York's per attempt. So keep in mind, this is very inflated, not by efficiency, but by volume because of game script and overtime. Something else that's concerning, eat rushing yards and four carries. Correct. You need a little bit more from Shuck if he's going to get into the quarterback one conversation. And we kind of called a shot on this one coming into the week. He was in your start of the week. I mean, they were playing the Lions beat up secondary.

15:30Actually, it was really concerning how bad he started. First half was tough because of that matchup, but eventually it turned on and he got rolling. So definitely some concerning things here, but some positives as well. This week's the big test. They go to Baltimore. Obviously, the Ravens had a terrific week one defensively. So this is a big test for me. I think he's just leave him on your bench. Yep. Weak two. We'll see how it goes. If he looks good on me too, we might be having a different conversation. I think he's worth an ad and I as well would leave him on the bench against Baltimore this week, but I do like Tyler Shuck. Not often you can grab a guy off way, whereas it's leading the league in passing yards. So you know, week one is always fun. Yeah, no doubt from that perspective. By the way, a little bit of positivity. I want to say in this, he had 23.2 fantasy points. That is with basically no rushing like you would talk about. And he had two interceptions and a fumble. So that's six points that he lost there because of turnovers. If he cleans up the turnovers, there's even more ceiling available there. So like him as well, what about one more guy, one more person at quarterback, Jordan Love? I just think this part of this is like the narrative of that running game looked so

16:30awful. Mike, are you? Is this one of those things where it's like, they're just going to have to throw the ball a ton until we get more clarity on the Josh Shake of the show? I don't know. I mean, Matt LaFlaur's history is we're going to have a balanced slow moving offense to protect our defense. Stay fresh. And I don't know if that's going to change necessarily. It might be by force if the defense really struggles. At some point, Mike, a Parsons will be back. Maybe the defense gets cleaned up, but I don't know. In the meantime, I just, it's hard for me to see Love be getting into the quarterback one conversation. I mean, look, he was six in 2023. He's dabbled with it, but he's been 17th and 21st the past two years. He only had five top 15 fantasy weeks, all of last season. It's just hard for me to imagine a big change here. Keep in mind, he didn't have an especially great week one. He had 19 and a half fantasy points. He averaged 17 and a half per game last year. So it wasn't that big of a difference. And again, he was not good in fantasy. Also non factor with his legs, zero rushing arts on one carry in this game. They do have a good match up this week.

17:31They're playing the jets who allowed second most fantasy points in week one to the opposing quarterback. So, uh, is that right? How they playing week one? That doesn't sound right. They played Minnesota. Now the the jets, the jets play the Titans in week one. Yeah, they, I don't think cam word of this was QB two. He was that's wrong. I don't know why he said that. Uh, I don't know. It's, it's apparently my, uh, my excel sheet is also in. Oh, no. I don't know what that's about. I don't care for it at all. But I will investigate and figure that out in the meantime, though. Uh, yeah, I mean against the jets, uh, which I view, I mean, let's just be frank. We don't have a lot of data on defense is yet. I think they're a mid range defense. They're a lot better than they were last year. So I'd consider this a neutral matchup. He's probably, he's my early QB 20 for the week. Not buying it here. Yeah. I understand if, especially in a super flex league, I would want to add him just because I think that the running game is so bad. There's a chance for high volume, but I'm not, I don't think there's necessarily a lot of production.

18:31Uh, I don't know. It was why the sea was looked really good. I got to give why because I have been out on Watson. You know that they look good again. If he's going to have any run a little more, look, he's not going to zero yards, but, you know, it didn't, I'd feel better if you're like, all right, he had, you know, six carries for 27 yards or something. One carry for zero yards is a big difference. And again, he didn't even get to 20 points. So this one does not appeal. All right. Let's talk about some running backs then Mike. This will be quick. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. I know that reference. Hey, good company man right there. That's right. That's right. That's right. Uh, we're going to start with Tyler Alger because Tyler Alger 17 carries Michael 61. Okay. Already on the 17. Oh, okay. Okay. 61 yards, two carries, two catches for nine yards, only nine fantasy points, but this is just as much in my estimation, a conversation about maybe another week of having nice flex value with where Jeremiah love is at as well as potential insurance back for the rest of the season. Uh, he's my early Arby 50 for the six.

19:32Hey, Michael. So no, uh, look, he's first of all, this guy is, uh, rostered about a little over 40% of leagues. He still doesn't have much stand alone value to me. Still insurance back. They play Seattle this week, which first of all tough matchup is very tough. It's going to be hard to justify this guy. He did hold an engine carries by six over love 17 to 11, but he was already behind in the passing game department. Love 14 to 12 and routes had that edge and four to two in targets. Yes, Algera, the, the engine carries and snaps, but they spent the third overall pick on Jeremiah love and he looks, I you, you awesome. He looks awesome. If his role doesn't just progressively increase some, there's a problem with decision-making, I feel like I don't know why that wouldn't change. Um, Malaflor did say that love is not on a pitch count necessarily, but it was kind of how the game is going. They were ahead in this game surprisingly. Yep. And that led to let's just lean on Algera down the stretch and a game that was not. Oh, not really competitive once they got control of that game. I mean, the chargers couldn't score like it just the Cardinals had control of it.

20:36So I think as a game is a more competitive, you're going to see more and more Jeremiah love. I'm projecting him for a slight edge and carries this week and obviously, uh, to continue leading in the passing game department. But again, very tough matchup for both backs. Yes. Not going to be great either way. I would push back and just say that I think he needs to be rostered again as one of the most important insurance backs. If anything did happen or Jeremiah love or to retweek an ankle, he looks to me at least after week one. I, I hear what you're saying. I think that there is a big, huge pile of like borderline, rosterable guys. A lot of them are insurance running backs and you kind of just have to say there's five insurance running backs. I'm just going to pick one and it's a lottery ticket for the end of my bench. And I think he fits that bill. Uh, I think the. I think the problem with some of those guys too is like, yeah, Al Jier might week to week's outscore like, I don't know, Braille and Alan or Caleb Lackers or Ray Davis, but are you ever going to start him? And I don't think that you're going to be on my left hand. Yeah, right. But that's what I'm saying. He's, yeah, he doesn't have standalone value.

21:37So your bench is just for those guys who have someone else goes down. They become startable, but he just doesn't have, he just doesn't have standalone value. Let's talk about Caleb Black then because you mentioned him. Yeah. With the way that CMC looked and the split that they had, do you think the Caleb Black is at least worth a dart throw here on the waiver wire? Yeah. So I think he's very much like Al Jier. He's fine for your bench. Okay. We did get new information when we react, we, when we initially reacted to this game. Like why was CMC not, we have to carry in the first half? He was dealing with cramps going into the game. So that's why Kill and Blank Black got more runny. It's important. Harry's just one target in the game. So he does not have standalone value at this point. You're going to see more and more CMC as the year goes on. He's just not going to be limited like that as he was as a Russia. The good news is, you know, much like the Bears and week one, you might have two fantasy relan running backs on this one. They're playing Miami here at home. So they're both going to be busy. And if they're in control, you might see Caleb Black a little extra in the second half

22:38of this game, the reverse of last week. So I'm not going to start him. I have him at 43. So you'd have to be in a deeply determined near flex. I just think you have more reliable options. And I still feel better about back in San Francisco. Nothing bold there by any means. But again, Adam to the near the front of the long list of insurance running backs. I have Kaelin Black in a handful of leagues because of my concern about CMC long term. I definitely think he should at least be rostered. And if he's not rostered, at least be on your Doppler radar as you move through these weight. Doppler radar. Yeah, 15% too low. I would agree with that. You're at 15% rostered for black. We're at 42% for Al Jir. They should be closer. Should be much closer. Yeah. Yeah. Let's have it as a wide receiver. It's wide receiver is where it gets tricky, Michael. Because we had a lot of big guys in week one that we could consider. Let's start with Jalen Coker because Jalen Coker much like with Bryce Young had a massive game against these Chicago Bears eight catches 138 yards.

23:40Two touchdowns. 33.8 fantasy. That seems good. This guy's been a sleeper and he's been on the sleeper radar for a while. A name that has been on the, you know, we're waiting for him to potentially do more is week one, the coming out party or you still holding out hope. Is he at least worth adding? Let's start there. Is he at least worth adding off of waivers? He's available on half of ESPN leagues. Certainly a guy that scores almost 34 points. You want to add to your bench at the very minimum. Am I starting him yet? Maybe I have a 33 in my initial rankings. We'll dive into that more tomorrow. But borderline top 30 option. He was very impressive in this game and also cemented as I'm going to say the number two receiver. I know he outscored and out targeted. Teteromic mill and Teteromic mill was in early first round pick last year. The guy was it was very impressive as a rookie agreed. They both were the, there are only two panthers to get to five targets in this game. So Macmillan wasn't his day per se, but it might be his day next week. I think both guys are our fantasy.

24:43Starting caliber options, but Macmillan's still the better play. I will say this though. Much like what we talked about earlier with Bryce Young. We've seen this from Jalen cocker. We have if young comes back to Earth, cocker may as well. I look back at his career so far. Cocker 22 career games in which he played over 50% of the snaps. He said 14 fantasy points eight times, but has been held under eight points 12 times, even more so. But he's really, you know, since he's gotten healthy lately last season, he's been good. He has 16 plus fantasy points at three straight games going back to last year. Laylanda this week. It's a secondary. I think you can get behind and make some plays against big divisional game for the Carolina panthers. So yeah, when it comes down to it, I think he is. Very much now in the wide receiver three slash flex discussion. Super talented wide receiver that I agree once you get into the if he's in the flex consideration now, once we get into bi weeks, that means he could bump up even a little bit higher as you're taking guys out of the player pool. I think he's one of the bigger ads based on what he did. The wide receiver spot this week.

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26:45Whether you meal prep or meal panic, Instacart's new shopping assistant, Clementine is here to help. Now you can generate a recipe in seconds at everything you need to make it to your cart and have it delivered in as fast as 30 minutes. Plus you can plan a meal for any occasion, get meal ideas for the week and reorder your faves with just a few taps. That way you can spend less time figuring out what to make and more time enjoying it. Download Instacart and try Clementine today. What about Devon Valey? We saw him also do really well. Seven for 69 and a touchdown on nine targets, 19.9 fantasy points. Again, some of this is the game script that we talked about with the Saints going into overtime, having to catch up with the Detroit lines until Jordan Tyson comes back, though, did you see enough from him as the wide receiver to that he might be worth it for fantasy managers? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, this is one of my weird ones where last week we were saying all the positive things about Valey because we kind of saw a good game coming for him. And now you have to like kind of bring people back to earth. You know, I like to do that.

27:46If you're too, I'm going to bring you here for too long. I'm going to bring you here. Right. So that's what I'm going to do. Yes, he played 78 snaps in week one. Most teams that have 78 snaps, they had 86 did the Saints because of the overtime situation, nine targets. But that's important context here. Okay. Nine targets, 86 snaps. That's a 17% target share. Did he have that's not an especially good number. That's like that's maybe a flex, but 17% need some, you need that proper context there. Did fine. You had seven for 69 in a touchdown. Remember last year he had an eight for 93 in a touchdown game. That was his only game of 12 plus fantasy points last. It was. They only played basically six healthy games as a number two. But still like we've seen this from him before, to playing the Ravens this week, much tough for matchup as we noted earlier. So for me, going to be borderline top 50. I'm going to say in 12 team leagues, deep ones. Maybe he's in your flex, but probably not. And I would say it would be tough. Once Jordan Tyson comes back and as long as Jordan Tyson stays healthy, there's a big if with that statement.

28:48It would seem like he would probably fall back into the third or fourth pass catcher role. Has he's only going to have a short term value for you if you do pick him up. He won't, he won't be startable in that scenario. So now's the only time you can maybe take advantage. But yeah, he's available in about 87% of ESPM leagues. You can add him to your bench if you want. I think he's fine to add to your bench, but I don't think he's going to be usable much this season. So I'm not going to spend much there. Let's let's put two guys together that led their teams in receiving just like we expected. Our Henry born now we're going to the good stuff. This is going to be fun. Kendrick born for the Cardinals who smashed and obviously outperformed both Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison, Jr. Had 15 and a half fantasy points and Khalif Raymond who led the bears in receiving as well with eight catches in this one in week one. Are either of these two veterans given the other mouth, the number of mouths to feed in their offenses worth putting a dart on him the way. I have a lot to say here. I why'd you combine them? We have a long time to go bring plenty of time.

29:48No, no, all right. Then let's start with Kendrick born. Well, yeah, we'll start with Kendrick born. I was half half getting here. First of all, born did play a lot in this game. You look at pass routes. McBride 33, Marvin Harrison or she's me. Let's start with Wilson. Michael Wilson 35. Yeah. McBride 33, Marvin S and 32 Kendrick born 28. So he was out there plenty when they were throwing the football, but okay. Look, he had a 21 percent target chair in this game. It's the 13th highest he's had in a game and is 134 game queries 31 years old. That's going to come down. Also remember, he played a pretty big role for the 49ers in the first half of last season. The average four and a half targets and 8.8 fantasy points per game. Yep. During that span, this guy has never been consistently fantasy relevant. You know, he said runs here or there during certain seasons, they're going to Seattle or they're hosting Seattle this week. It's hard for me to imagine that this guy is going to be a flex option, let alone worth adding. He's 0.1 percent roster. I mean, I'm not putting claims in for Kendrick born.

30:48I'm with you on that one, especially with all the other options in this offense. It feels like they have if when you just go through the pecking order of who does Arizona want to put the ball in the hands of Jeremiah love, Traynick bride, Michael Wilson, who they paid $75 million to Marvin Harrison Jr. who they just want to be good at football, please. I'm with you. Unfortunately, this was more of a pass. If this continues and they just stop, they're just not going to throw it to Harris and it all then they might as well trade them. Like what are you doing? I mean, there's no way the game plan is just not to use Marvin Harris. It's not going to go that way. That might be what Marvin Harrison needs is just like a change of scenery, new place. Let's try to get into a new dude. Maybe, but again, I mentioned this all off season in those four games last year with Michael Wilson, Traynick bride, Angiacobi, percent, the four games they played and Harrison was involved as well. He outscored Wilson in all of them and his fantasy production was pretty good. He averaged like around was at 14 fantasy points of games. So I'm not giving up on this one yet. I think, you know, Harrison's less of an appealing start this week, but I'm going to,

31:49I think there's a chance he's back. All right. Michael Clay is not giving up on Marvin Harrison Jr. And Johnson not giving up on Khalif Raymond. Okay. Give up on him in Detroit. So why would he not, but then he brought him to Chicago and of all the people that could lead the bears in receiving. It wasn't Luther Burton. It wasn't Roman Dunes. It wasn't Colston Loveland. No, it was the safety blanket. Khalif Raymond, my, again, let's talk a little bit about usage in this game. Let's talk about it. Colston Loveland led the team with 32 pass routes. He's going to be fine. Luther Burton was second with 25 Roman Dunes, a who was limited a lot in the first half of this game. He was not playing a lot, which certainly helped Khalif Raymond. He was still fourth with 21. Khalif Raymond, yes, 8384 and nine targets in this game. He is 32 years old and a career depth player. He's never had more than, I'm just going to be saying numbers here. Please. I don't want people to waste fab on this one. I don't feel my disagree, but he's never had more than 652 scrimmage yards in a season.

32:50He's been held under 300 yards. Each of the past two seasons. One of those was with Ben Johnson in Detroit. Yes. He might hit for the occasional big play, especially in this offense, but he's so far down. This guy is, he's played 10 seasons, Daniel. How many touchdowns do you think he has in 10 seasons offensively? I was going to say offensive touchdowns, maybe four, which one per season. Okay. He's really bad. Really bad. He is not a, he, I watched him a lot when he played for my Detroit lines. He is that guy that when he needs to step in, the coaches love because he'll be in the spot that he, you tell him to be in, he runs his routes. He's really good about that stuff. But no, he's not going to be like a consistent contributor where he will be a consistent contributor. He's usually on special teams. He's a really good returner. Yeah. And that's not going to do anything for us here in fantasy. More often than not, I've watched him return a number of kicks for touchdowns. But I am with you, unfortunately, with all the other people in this offense as much as I love Collie Freeman. And now we saw this in week one. If this happens again, it means things have gone terribly wrong in Chicago.

33:53Yeah. Exactly right. You just have too many mouse to be not, you know, you have the running backs. You have Caleb Williams running in addition to passing and then you have burden, Odunzay and Loveland. There's just no path here. There's no path for Raymond to be a consistent fantasy option. You're right. If you put in up flex numbers, there's a problem. Something's going on. So again, much like born, I'm not spending a penny on Collie Freeman. If I'm wrong, I'll take the L on it. And by the way, they play Minnesota this week, which, you know, they're outstanding. Against white severs. I mean, it's going to be, I know they weren't in week one. The couple guys got behind them. But this is a very good defense. They shut them down last year. So what about someone younger than? All right. You don't like the old guys. Let's talk about Caleb Douglas. We're talking Caleb Douglas was exciting. He was already like a low end sleeper. We who's going to be the guy that emerges in this Miami Dolphins receiving core five for 94 and seven targets, 14 and a half fantasy points in week one. Did you see enough to make him at least a waiver target for you? Yes. Maybe my favorite target other than Jalen Coker on this list of guys. We're going to talk about that. This is the guy I'm going after.

34:53The Dolphins are looking for a number one wide receiver. And he had a 26% target share in this game. There's a clear one, two puncher receiver. It was Malik Washington who he's not going to emerge as fantasy relevant. And then Caleb Douglas who perhaps could he's looked the part and I didn't a little digging because I was like, man, first NFL game, not season, first NFL game for a third round receiver. When you came in, you looked like you'd been out digging. I happen. I've been out digging. I tell that's what I was doing late last week. Oh, okay. Even like Clay Frayman and Kendrick Bourne just like digging up random stats about why these guys are there and we've read. Yes. But I looked at Caleb Douglas's production in this game. He had 94 receiving yards. How does that compare over the past decade to wide receivers in their first game? And look at this list on your screen. This is the most receiving yards by rookie wide receivers in week one over the past decade. Here's the list. Mark East Brown is one. Terri McClearn hook and a Kua, Jamar Chase, AJ Brown, Caleb Douglas, DK Maccab, Z Flowers, Cooper, Cup, Drake London. Find me one guy on there who's a bad fantasy option.

35:55Wow. Her voice been a bad fantasy. So he was he had the sixth most receiving yards ever as a rookie wide receiver. That's incredible. 14 and a half fantasy points was really legit as well. I mean, imagine if this offense had found the end zone or was in more head more scoring opportunities available to them. What that could have meant as well. I know. But I mean, look at the guys around him. That's a good list. Mike. Exactly. All of these guys are we in a fantasy starters right now except well, the weakest one is at the top. And yeah, Hollywood Brown one. But again, Hollywood Brown, the next what five years after that was a weekly fantasy starter. So if that's an indicator, that's a really good sign. If he doesn't turn out to be a good NFL player, then he's an exception to that rule. So that gives me a point in the right direction. As is the fact that he played 45 of 50 snaps in this game, led the team in he was not used up there. He was second in targets to Malik Washington in this game. But only two receivers from Miami play more than half to snap. So it was Washington and Douglas to my earlier point. Much tougher match up this week. Yes.

36:56To play in the Niners. Remember, they held a staffer to 155 yards and no touchdowns in week one. So temporary expectations. Douglas still a borderline top 50 play not going on my flagship. But Daniel, he's available in 84% of ESPN leagues. We talked about him as like a late round flyer during draft season. We already liked him. And so that remains the case. This guy should be on benches. All right. So let me ask you this question then because with it being week one, sometimes the hype really helps or hurts a player or managers when they're trying to make a decision, right? Because you kind of get emotional about what you think a player can be. When we're talking about fab and not everyone uses fab, we're talking waivers, but give me fab and and the order of that you would do it. We've seen Jalen cocker at times flash. We know what he can bring to the table. Would you prioritize him and spend a little bit more on him? Knowing that he is also potentially the number two in that offense or would you go with the young flashy rookie and Caleb Douglas, who is a chance to be the wide receiver one of his squad? All right. You know what I don't like about this is we're in a lot of leaks together. Yes, I know. I know. Trust me. People listening.

37:57So the people in our ear. So is those field who's probably out there listening somewhere. This is great information for the people is what I want to tell you. Can I talk to you tomorrow? No, you can't talk me tomorrow. Can I whisper? You don't listen? Yeah. Look, cocker. I'm going to as I just said, he's more of the priority, but I'm not going to get too carried away. I think he does cap out as a wide receiver three. So I'm probably looking in the 15% range. So $100, $15, Douglas, probably more like $5. Again, I'm still worried about this offense over. For sure. I don't know if Douglas is going to get to weekly flex or wide receiver three. It's possibly certainly the best bet right now from this group. Maybe in the $8 range for Caleb Douglas. Okay. It also depends on my situation. If it's in a 10 team league and my bench is like, I have a 10 team league that are a FFC league where Roma, Dunezays on my bench, I think of like Debo. Like I have a lot of good guys. I don't have to spend a lot there. I need that capital for other positions potentially.

38:58So I might not be as aggressive. But 12 team leagues, yeah, it might be a little more aggressive, especially if you start three receivers and a flex like we do in a lot of our meds. All right. Let's talk about a couple more rookie wide receivers really quickly. Antonio Williams found the end zone. Are you by? I mean, that was not a lot looked great. Unfortunately for the commanders in this one, you buy an Antonio Williams potentially. I like the four for 64 and a touch. That was nice. That was really good. The problem is we talked about this yesterday. He ran 10 pass routes into this game. That was fourth, not third, fourth. I receiver. Wait, doesn't that mean that he was targeted on 40% of his routes? That's why didn't you start with that stat? Yeah. Well, if he plays 40 snaps then that's. Then that's notable. But Terry McClarne's fund date still the one two punch. There's a car and added dud game. That's, you know, he very well could bounce back in a big way. And we too in Williams disappears. But also, Diamey Brown was third in line. Now, if Williams is able to leap Diamey Brown, then you think maybe, but then you're like, wait, but they still have Terry McClarne and Stefan Diggs and Jebgo Conquo missed some time in this game. He'll be healthy. Jane and Daniels is still going to add a lot with his legs.

39:59It's hard to see Williams getting to the flex conversation. I agree. Like him in dynasty, not there in season long. I say to add him, I would need an injury to McClarne or Diggs. What about with David Boston? David Boston. Denzel Boston. Apologies. Yeah, Denzel Boston. You're not the first person to do that. Casey Kisepzione is there, Harold Fanon is there. He did have 13.9 fantasy points, but only at two catches. And it was just because of that touchdown. You buying into it potentially. I'm not there yet. The touchdown was in clear garbage time. Yes. I mean, the game was added in the game. Sean Watson was horrendous until then. Maybe when Shador Sanders gets there, the good news for Boston is, he was their number one receiver in this game. Easily in snaps. He ran 24 routes. Judy ran 20. Concepts you own ran 15. So is it clear edge for Boston is the number one perimeter option? I don't know if Watson's going to get him there. Watson's going to start in week two. It sounds like Todd Mock said there was some good things on tape. I'd like to weigh in. Watson's not going to get him there. That's just I'll put that out. Yeah, I don't I would agree with that. I think Shador Sanders.

41:00If he plays a little yolo ball, maybe. Exactly. You can get it done for him. But Boston is available in 75% of ESPN leagues. I'm fine to leave him on my bench. I think he's. I still think it's conception is in terms of why prefer. He was drafted earlier. But more importantly, they manufacture touches for me. Three carries in the game in addition to his target. So conception on still my preferred browns receiver. But Boston. I think there's a good chance he's the real deal as a football player. So that's enough for me to just keep guys like that on my bench. What we need is for Cleveland to give the car keys, obviously to Shador Sanders and let Shador play the yolo ball that you talk about. And we need to have like the Jamest Winston type season out of Shador Sanders. I hope so. Like that's what I if I could comp him, especially with what this browns team is going to be. They're not going to be super competitive. He's going to have to throw the ball a ton. Unfortunately, it might cap some of the running back value that we have in Quintan, Judkins. But that's what we need to happen for both of these wide receivers is just

42:02let Shador be a young kid slinging it because this offense doesn't have a whole lot else anyways. Yeah, and they go to Tampa Bay this week. It's going to be very similar to Jacksonville. I think the situation will be similar probably if Tampa Bay jump ahead in this game. The Cleveland defense is not as good as it used to be. They're going to be playing for me. I maybe get some garbage time, but then maybe when they come back home, maybe you see a switching quarterbacks if watch struggles. But this is not the week to start a Cleveland pass catcher. Can you imagine maybe fanning, but probably not? You have Harold Fanon, who's unbelievable. You just drafted two first round wide receivers and Quintan, Judkins, and the guy that you put out there to lead the entire thing is just not taking advantage of any of the weapons that you put in there. Yeah, I mean, they're trying to make it work so bad. I, you know, we talked about this a couple weeks ago. I think the plan there was that you can't really do it the opposite way. I know. If Sanders struggled, you got to start this way and then you have to take a look at Watts and I think you just kind of get it out of the way with these two early road games. And if he, you know, if he surprises and does well, good. If he's, if he doesn't, everyone's been ready for should or Sanders for a while.

43:05So you make the switch. So I think it's coming pretty soon. Mike, this is a two part two or false question. Part one, true or false, Dantavian Wicks, wide receiver one in Philly. Part two should be considered on waiver wires. False and maybe again, there's just so many names. It's like, how you can only keep so many guys in your roster. Yeah. Again, I kind of stand by what I said in the off season. And maybe even more so now can the Eagles support a second wide receiver, especially with another good Dallas Godter game. That guy's not going anywhere. You're barkly. You have Godter. Do I take Smith? Will I have many better days? I don't know if there's room for anyone else. And the reason I say even more so now, first of all, you'd four targets in this game. Yes, 73 in a touchdown. He's been boom, boom, buster at his career. That sounds like a stat line from Green Bay right there. He did run 24 of 28 pass routes, but Smith ran 25 and McIleman, who missed a lot of the off season, 23. So he's already a factor in this offense and use a first round pick. So at some point, you would expect his role to continue to increase in terms of targets

44:09or touches per snap. I'm pessimistic on this when they go to Tennessee, maybe he can get behind a corner and get another long touchdown. But I have them. My early ranks have them at 60. So obviously I'm not prioritizing a guy that's available in 90% of ESPN leagues right now. I would agree. This feels like I've seen this movie before kind of a thing. And then if it becomes more consistent, he'll be one of the guys that's just on my radar as a part of it. But until I feel like there's something more there, it's just this feels like a classic Don Tavian wix game. He would have to cement the number two job. And I think week one showed us that that's not going to happen. Lemons there. He's a factor. There's just too many mouse to feed in the Eagles offense. Isn't as good as OSF years ago either. Yep. You know, that's scoring three, three point three touchdowns a game. It's not as good. So yeah, not buying it. Let's talk about a couple tight ends here really quickly. Kenyan Sidiq found the end zone as a ruster. Sure did. We've been waiting for rookie tight ends. Not maybe not waiting, but we've seen a lot of rookie tight ends be valuable.

45:11He wasn't really drafted because we didn't think he was going to be a guy. Didn't have a lot of time in the offseason here. Did you see enough in week one from a usage standpoint, maybe consider adding him? Yeah, definitely. Again, he, I would put him on my top five waiver ads here. If he's bailed my waiver top, I'm going to go through and we'll prioritize him. Yeah, I'll put a couple bucks toward him. Remember I talked about this in the offseason. The last, I think it's six tight ends draft in the first round finished top 12 and fantasy points as a rookie. Kenyan Sidiq of course was the first round pick for the Jets. And I was, I felt pretty good about his usage. Considering he also missed a big chunk of the offseason. It looked like with Jeremy, record there and obviously Mason Taylor involved that Sidiq probably wouldn't be a factor at all in week one. And instead he plays over 41% of the snaps, 46% of the pass routes. Again, I thought for week one, that would be much lower. It was not three targets, 21 yards there had the three yard rushing touchdown, which is good. He did run four fewer routes to Mason Taylor in this game. Keep in mind a rare game for the Jets in which game script very much was in their favor.

46:14Works for them. Yeah. They're playing the Packers this week. You would expect them probably to be competitive or trailing in this one. And that's going to open up more and more for Sidiq as the year goes on. So yes, a player of this caliber that is massive receiving upside. That is what your bench was built for. Okay. It says in biweek, Daniel. No, you don't need, you don't need depth. You don't need like, I don't know, wide receiver 45. Like, because you need to plug them into your flex for the week. It's built for upside, especially this point of the season. He's available in about two thirds of ESPN league. So I would skip scoop up Sidiq. All right. What about Micah Sidiq? Obviously the number one wide receiver. Okay. Passing on Micah Sidiq. I'm okay with you just saying that because we can move on. Honestly, just keep in mind. He played 33% of the snaps a lot of targets. But he had last year he played more than this and average five and a half fantasy points, bringing him in the same offense. And he just doesn't, he scored exactly two touchdowns down three. No. Yeah. Apparently Micah Sidiq is not the new Jamar chase. No, he isn't. No unsubscribed to that. Here's the thing.

47:14Micah Sidiq had more targets, more receptions, more receiving yards, more touchdowns, and more fantasy points than Jamar chase. Antigons combined. I doubt that happened again. Chase that and he looked to your fantasy season. What about David and Joku? David and Joku in a new home. Now over in LA, Mike, did you see something there? Because we don't really have a number one tight end. Yeah, he, I mean, he was the leading pass catcher there. He initially was listed third on their depth chart, which was like, maybe actually is behind gas situations. That was not the case as our colleague here, Michael. F Flurry, oh, points out led the charges tight ends with 29 snaps. So it was 57% snap share also lead in routes. And with targets around a gatson just eight snaps. So gatsons guy, if you took a late flyer on him, I mean, I could not have been more out on that guy in the offseason. Kind of cut him loose and Joku's the guy that you can keep as a tight end too, but not startable. Charlie Coler's going to have a big role as a blocker as well. Ladma Conkey, we have to keep an eye on that.

48:16We actually didn't mention that yet. We'll get into that this week. Ladma Conkey is not fully healthy. He's considered day to day. Right now, I expect him to play this week. But if he's out, maybe and Joku sneaks into the top 15 to tighten, but I wouldn't prioritize in Joku on waivers. Yeah. What about that? That's fine with family end zone. Being that nice blanket for Aaron Rogers. Worth it at the tight end spot. Yeah. This one is definitely more interesting to me than Gassicki. Five for 46 and a touchdown in this one. It was his best fantasy game since he had 20 points in week seven last season. That was the only game of 12 points all of last year. So that might say. That might tell you to stay away. However, he was only on the field for 54% or as route participation. Because sometimes your pass blocking is a tight end. His route participation was 54% last year. 72% in this game. That's a big number for a tight end. So when they're throwing the ball over 70% of the time, he's running around. That is a good sign that maybe he can get back into that tight end one conversation. So for me, mid range tight end two for now,

49:17but he's going the right direction. Possibly could get into that top 12 conversation. So as far as week one goes, I just want to run through really quickly. Priority targets at each position. If we were at the quarterback spot, Mike, we would both agree. Tyler Schuck would be the guy that we would be going after. From the running back spot, Caleb Black or Tyler Algerier, which one would you go in with or neither of them? I would lean toward Black, I guess, but it's really the answer is not. No scandal about you. Okay. For the wide receiver spot, it sounds like Jalen Coker and Caleb Douglas are the two obvious at the top. They're the top two overall as well. Those are the guys I'll be looking at. Agreed. And then at the tight end spot, Kenyann Sedeek, because of what we saw and the pedigree where they drafted him and what he could potentially be in an island position for us. Yes, agreed. Sound good? That's it. Love that. Not the strongest waiver. We've had post week one, but there's some okay names. There's some names and there's enough names that we had to mention given what they did in week one. Like we said, the waiver wire will be tighter in the following weeks. We just want to make sure we get to as many people as we can. If you forget to do waivers in week one, you're like, Oh, it's, you know, we're back here. It's the first week. Oh, no, I forgot to do waivers.

50:17You're not going to, it's not going to crush you. Correct. You'll be all right. Other years, it would be a problem. Not this year. Let's have it in the mail bag. Shout out to our buddy, Eric Moody. Always holding it down for us. This one comes in 5D. Mike, Mr. Dad joke. Wix ADP will sour with lemon. Oh, that's good. Oh, that is a good one. Should I have that one? Should I have that one? I'm not the best in the business. Yeah. Progress, you know, then Bengals boys. PTO doing fantasy football season. Yeah. You know, who would do that? Who would dare at least I say mine for preseason. Oh, is that okay? Yes. Like some people. Yes, exactly. Eugene's 203. Should I be worried about having Devonta Smith in two leagues? No, he'll be okay. He's going to have a big target share. They're going to feature him. They're going to move around the formation. Definitely will. He will not panicking on Devonta Smith's just yet. No. And they're scheduled, by the way, remember the regular season is outstanding. Yep. It does get very tough in the fantasy playoffs. So keep that in mind. After maybe a few good games, I mean, it's like your trade deadline and he's crushing it and he's wide receiver nine for the season or something.

51:19That's your time to maybe sit or if you're going for a title run. Agreed. Shout out to everybody in the chat, by the way, that joined us me and Eric Moody, mostly Eric Moody on Sunday, fantasy focus Sunday, kickoff was a ton of fun being able to hang out and answer questions from you guys. In check, go back and check it out again. As a part of the second screen experience, another one we have here from the mailbag, birdmatic wants to know, do I panic on Drake London or his panics coming back? Stat. That is one guy we have not talked about yet. Really, and Drake London. I mean, he was certainly clipped by the quarterback. This isn't Drake London's fault. Are you panicking going into week two if they don't have someone else under center? Week two. Yeah, probably a little. Okay. The spirit that came across your face as you thought about it. It depends who the quarterback is. If it's two, I feel fine. Two, uh, do you want to mount him? He's at least able to get the ball in the hands of his basket. Agreed. Michael Penix if he's back, which I thought if you look at the projections now for week two, I penics in there because initially it sounded like you might go this week.

52:21Now it's sounding a little more pessimistic. So we'll see if it's, but again, if it's two or a panic, some fine, if it's Cooper Rush, I'm going to have to move them down a bit because that was. That was really bad. That was not not great from Cooper Rush last week. And again, he didn't even really try to get it to him. He was just like, Bajan, Bajan, Bajan, literally over half to time. So not good. Panic long term, no panic. Sure. If Russia is the quarterback yet, we're going to eventually. Yes. Yeah, I'll with you on that. All right. One more question we have here from our chat. This one comes from Carnivore lifestyle. Too many words. They didn't all put on the screen. I want my knockout league by point three points avoiding elimination. Save your worthy. Well, I don't want to have you panic and move your day, but just keep in mind scoring, scoring adjustments come tomorrow morning. Oh no. Make sure you check tomorrow. Oh no. Although how does that work? Wait, how does that work for knockout? That's a good question. All of your players were cut loose for the other team. So maybe scoring corrections are a non factor in knockout.

53:22Good question, Michael. About that. Well, we'll have to look into it a little bit. That is interesting. But anyway, in other leagues, if you won by a couple points, yeah, scoring corrections Wednesday morning. You know, one of the people that might have helped you win by a couple points was one Cole commit who was chosen as a Rahim Sanders fund of the week. Rahim Sanders monopoly fund. I took Cole commit found his way into the end zone, rostered in less than one percent of leagues. We are already starting out on fire. Honestly, even with the rest of these picks, believe Raymond didn't find the end zone, but he was so heavily utilized. We talked him out of the waiver wire section. Hutchinson was the two for Houston as well. He played a ton of snaps as we thought, which is why I went that direction, but he did not get near the end zone in that one. No, unfortunately, not three great picks. Good call though. Yeah. We held it coming out firing. We loved that. Some reaction on social because people just get it. Like we just continue to hit these. You know, if we, I'd say if we get one every other week on average, that's a pretty darn good hit rate for these because they're usually like what, 10 to one or 15 to one.

54:22So agree to long longer shots in that. So we're going to keep it all. We'll do it again on Thursday. I'm very excited about that. By the way, Thursday, we got a Lions and Bills. It's going to be a ton of fun. Thursday night. Yeah, I can't wait. That's a good good good first. That's the old Thursday night game. The season opener is a little different, but this is the first like normal. Agreed. We're in the regular season cadence. Thursday night football game. And usually it's like Browns and Jets or something. Yeah, not this time. No. What about the knockout league? We're going to do this real quickly. And next segment. Oh, no. You know what? This isn't. I know it's named after fantasy focus, but oh, oh, that was me. Oh, no. Oh, good. All right. Field Jets NFL knocked out with 56 points. I don't know why this might be under there too. The team name is Field Eats NFL. I don't know who changed their field name. Their team name to Field Jets NFL. No one would have definitely changed that immediately after being eliminated. Oh, pain. Yeah. Yes, you know what? I don't care for the fact that I have to talk about one of my four knockout leagues.

55:25And the other three, it's so good. But this one. Absolute weak one. Disadstaff. I don't know. That's bad. My roster, but I think actually, you know, I think it's one. CMC. You had CMC taken on the Rams in Australia. All right. He was my only. It's on the screen now. My only double digit point score with CMC. And that was the first guy that played. Holy smoke. Got like, okay, well, my other, my other guys will pick up the the scraps here, right? Nay. That didn't happen. Let's start at the top. Yeah. Stafford with the dud four points. Quinchon Judkins seven. Rishi Rice last night. He made the play to get me in the end zone. He did. I thought I was going to get that. That was it. Tristan and agreed. It's because, uh, but he only had two targets. It was really disappointing. DK Medcalfe eight. Sam Laporta. Nine point eight. Quinten Johnson. Wow. We were hoping for that one long pass. Seriously. What's the reason? Coming in this game. Our buddy Joe Fortenbach called the long that, uh, you know, the longest pass for Herber will be over what? 34 and a half yards. That never came to fruition either.

56:25Yep. And he let me down. I thought he was a good week one flex. That that was kind of the strategy going in. Yeah. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. You have short starting lineup. So if you're, you, you're guys let you down a little on week one. It's over in a hurry and, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm done. How many, how many points did you lose by? Like one, one and a half, one, something like that. Uh, I was, uh, Tristan. It was me or Tristan. Never going to check K Dobbins any snuck by. So if you had started K. On black over Quinten, Johnston, you would have survived. Obviously you would have never made that decision. By the way, if you check my bench to see you, I'll say I had, oh yeah, they were all bad too. That's what I was gonna. I was looking to see if you, like could you have made a decision? Oh, yeah, but not a real one. No, no, no, you wouldn't have done that. No one would have played both of the, uh, 49ers running out. I did Rod Riegas over Johnson. I just, you know what I did? I drafted poorly in this one. That's what I did. You know what? Apparently drafting on live on air is not my thing. It makes it tough, doesn't it? Yeah, it's because I lost in the, the regular focus league as well. I mean, I did win that one last year.

57:25So difference between this league and the regular focus league, Mike is that now, unfortunately, that you have lost as the first team out in a knockout league, all of these players go out and hit the waiver wire for the rest of us in the league to be able to put in some bids on. So we have CMC and Rashi, Rice and Quinchon Judkins available. Oh my gosh. All right, that's rude. Keep my, now we got, we just threw this up on, I got to say this for audio listeners at home, our production team threw up a quick tweet. I wait on you. This is from our YouTube chat, actually, at ball, ball knowledge. My mom drafted a better team than Mike's knockout. Keep mind is this an 18 team league. So I thought coming out of this. You don't know how big of a team. Not a big of a league, that guy's mom then. Yeah, you know what, you're right. She could be an expert. That's right. I don't, I think this team would have been fine after week one to be on a CMC. I think so too, after week one, Stafford would have been much better. Steakame, I've had a ton of targets in that game. It's just I mean, this is the game. This is the game we play. You have one bad week, one horrible week. It's over there. Matthew Stafford will honestly,

58:26you will never have another game close to four point one points. This year and that was you had it in the wrong. I've been CMC's worst game. His rice is worse game. Shotkins worst game. Maybe I could see, but a lot of these guys, Stafford certainly. Most, that's the game. Most available players, and I don't have the list in front of me. We'll see it once it actually officially comes out. Most available players in knockout leagues, you got to think the Colston Loveland is also going to be on that list, probably. Yeah, the other two leagues, the other two leagues are like our company leagues that were in in knockout, Drake May and James Cook are both. Drake May and James Cook. They were both the options. On both of the teams that got knocked out, one was Rich Eisen's team actually, and the other one was Tristan as well. They both had those two players. So this is a fun thing about knockout leagues, is that you get these superstars available on waivers, and then you've got to decide how much do I want to go out and spend the life there? I leave the waivers for 15 minutes. Okay, okay, Michael. So jokes on you, sir. Do you have any final words as you depart,

59:27the fantasy focus knockout league, Michael? I'm going to get to bed five minutes earlier than you. Tonight, because I've won less league to do waivers. Oh, no, I'm mad about this team. I'm mad about this team. I thought it was fine. I thought it was fine, and would get me through week one. I'm mad at the chiefs for not calling up a few extra plays for Richie Raist. The last night I was watching that one closely. You know what, though? You know what I will say about knockout leagues? It's fun. Tell me. Usually the first month or two of this season, I'm not sweating matchups too hard, because you're like, all right, if I take it all this week, I'll bounce back next week, I'll get rolling. I felt like I had a layoff matchup last night, against Tristan, like I had the sweat of like a fantasy playoff matchup, because it seemed like you lose your out. It was the sweat of a fantasy matchup. And you don't really get that early in the season. And that's what I had last night. So that was one of the fun things about this format is as you get closer in, and you start getting closer to the playoffs too, you get these super teams that are forming and it's a very fun format to be able to have a suit. Luckily, I have a bunch of other ones, so I will continue to do my best and see if they go better.

1:00:31I just want to ask you though, you're in that league. How much are you bidding on CMC tonight? Bad question. I'm probably not going to bid a lot on CMC, then I'm a, I will bid on Kaelin Black though, because he was on your squad. And I might even be able to get him for free to be honest in a league like this. We'll see. Maybe there's 17 teams, so you're bidding against 16 others. That's what's so difficult. And how much do you want to do? How early do you want to do it? Do you want to like load up to make sure you're good in the middle rounds? Are you just trying to be, we all think that we're going to be a little bit better than whoever the last place team is. Someone's unfortunately going to be last. Someone will spend most of their money on CMC, I would bet. Well, and this week against Miami, I mean, great matchup this week here in week two, so. All right, hey, fun show, Michael. Give me a fist bump. Yeah. That was awesome. All right, that's enough. Okay. Okay. Thanks for hanging out with Mike and I. I feel it's going to be back tomorrow. We'll talk week two rankings, a bunch of fun conversations as we try to figure out what was real and what wasn't real from week one. Don't forget to let each other and be kind to yourself, you guys, you deserve it.

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