BOLD Predictions + Patriots vs Seahawks Game Preview! (09/08 Fantasy Football Podcast)

0:00This is Fantasy Football today from CBS Sports. Swallow Play! Can you believe this? It's a no again. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. It's to the races, play stays, and it's beat. Just gotta go the distance. Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Hey, let's get bold today. Let's get preview-y today. Both predictions and Seattle, New England coming up. On Fantasy Football today, welcome. It is Tuesday, September 8th. It is time for week one. I know a lot of you are still drafting today, but most of your drafts have concluded. If you want to play in a league, I've been exciting opportunity for you, which I'm going to tell you about in just a moment. Good morning, Dave Richard. It's here, week one. Good morning, Adam. Thank you. Yes, good morning. Jamie, what do you think about this Wednesday, Thursday thing, instead of Thursday, Friday? Wednesday, Thursday thing? Well, the schedule.

1:00Oh, the games. I think it's fun. We get more days of football. Well, not really. I like the Thursday Friday that they did. Dude, how long was the break between the end of the stupid preseason to now? Get ready for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, for the shirts coming. Wednesday nights, a great night for football. Listen, people, this is really for the YouTube, the people on YouTube right now, the dedicated people who are here at 840 in the morning or earlier, if you're not on the East Coast, I've got two teams in the FFT open that were paid for, but never the invite was never accepted and the teams were auto drafted. Starting lineups are good. The benches are not. If you want to be in, put it in the chat or email me right now. First two people to email fantasy football at cbsi.com. Fantasy football at cbsi.com. If you want to manage one of those teams, you don't have to pay anything.

2:00You're just going to be in the FFT open. Send me an email right now. Fantasy football at cbsi.com. If you are listening, I'm going to tell you that based on the chat right now, the spots have already been filled. No need to, if you're just listening to the podcast later, no need to email me. Okay, let's start with one bold prediction. Dave, why don't you go first? So I gave these three bold predictions. I'll give one of them now, obviously, but if you want me to give you a couple of other ones that are a little less bold, I will add them. But let's just start with this one. Astgen Gentie, Jeremiah Love, Breeze Hall, all fail to average 15 ppr points per game this season. Astgen Gentie, Jeremiah Love and Breeze Hall, less than 15 points per game. Okay, who concerns you the most? Like how would you, most likely to score 15 points per game in that group? Jeremiah Love would be the one that's most likely too. Oh, no, that's not true. Astgen Gentie. And then Jeremiah Love and then Breeze Hall. So I guess Breeze Hall would be the one that concerns me the most. But they all concern me.

3:01You know, one thing that got lost along the way for Gentie on top of the injury and everything else is, I don't know how good the Raiders offense is going to be as far as scoring touchdowns. I believe that Brock Bowers will get a ton of targets. I think Gentie will get plenty of targets too. But once he got hurt, I think the door kind of cracked open a little bit for Mike Washington to take some work away from him. We know about Clint Kubiak and his track record with multiple running backs, certainly in Seattle last year. Does he kind of lean into that at least to begin the year until Gentie feels closer to 100 percent? I think that these are all realities that could keep Gentie from hitting his ceiling this year. Jeremiah Love, he's also got an injury that could hold him back early on in the year. And Arizona's offense, I think he'll take to the air a little bit too much. I think he'll catch some passes. And then Breeze Hall, that's just a Jets offense that I'm trying to avoid. The players that I'm taking in New York are either Garrel Wilson or

4:04Adden I Mitchell with like a final round pick, just to put on my bench to see what happens the first few weeks of the season. Yeah, I mean, people are obviously worried about Ashen Gentie with the Mike Washington thing, but they took Ashen Gentie top five, what was he? Top 10, whatever he was. Seven, I believe. Seventh overall. And Mike Washington, the fourth round, it'd be pretty unusual for like he's going to get some work, right? You're like, Jesse, sorry, starting here. Gentie can't get every touch, but I feel like Gentie's going to dominate that backfield. I know there's been, uh, Mike Washington's good. He should. He should. He should. He'll get the touches that matter. He should. You know, I hope that that's the case. I don't think it's going to be a deal where he's Kenneth Walker and Mike Washington is Zach Sharbinay. Right, right, right. So imagine Kenneth Walker taking on more of the Sharbinay role and Washington having a bunch of trap back snaps and touches. They're a little staying a little bit, but I think Gentie is,

5:05I worry about the injury and how he does come back for that. He was taking six overall, by the way, Adam. Six and a half. I think that it's, uh, it's, I don't think he'll be, and I didn't think it really much until, or I didn't really think much of it all during the off season. Yeah. Okay. Uh, just to move on, there actually been some pretty good round for running backs in recent seasons. Last year's Tutan and Cam Skataboo, the year before that, it was Bucky Irving. I love it. Tutan was. Yeah, that's true. Well, he didn't do that much. Uh, it was Skataboo. The year before that, it was Bucky Irving. Damien Pierce a few years before that. But most of them don't really do much. Oh, Woody Marx. Woody Marx was the other guy last year. Okay. Jamie, give me a bowl of production. Too much. Uh, there will be three tight ends to catch at least 100 passes this season with Brock Bowers, Tray McBride and Kyle Pits. And Bowers will break Tray McBride's record of catches last season at the position with 126. So he'll get 127.

6:05Wow, Bowers. Wow, that'd be amazing. Matt, has there ever been three tight ends with a hundred catches? I don't think there's ever been two. There have been two. That was all you're right. It was uh, Bowers record season. Yes. Bowers McBride, 1211. Yeah. Okay. All right, that's that's a pretty big endorsement for Kyle Pits, Jamie. Well, I mean, the targets should be there. If you're into prop bets, I would take the over on his four and a half catches for this week. But Pits is going to be heavily involved as long as two as the starter. And I don't think even matters if two is not the starter because they're going to just this offense is going to feed Kyle Pits as long as he's healthy. So I don't think he's getting over like 105, 106, but I think he gets over 100. Well, you got 88 last year. So it's not like it's a huge leap for him to get to 100. Okay. And let's get to, I'll give you one here. And then we'll get into the news and notes because you probably saw yesterday, Christian McCaffrey was not seen in practice, of course. My um, actually he's, he's, we're in the future now. So he's was a practice. Yeah, I their time traveling.

7:07So we think McCaffrey should be just fine. Yes. Devonte Smith outscores Justin Jefferson, parentheses and Zay flowers. But the whole part is that he outscores Justin Jefferson. Devonte Smith played three games over the last two seasons. Huge sample size without AJ Brown. He had nine to ten targets in all three games. But he played 17 games in the last four seasons with AJ Brown, but without Dallas Goddard, with Brown, but without Dallas Goddard. And in those 17 games, he averaged 17.1 PPR fantasy points per game. I think it's possible he could do even better than that because that was without Goddard, not without AJ Brown. Last year, Justin Jefferson didn't come close to that. Jefferson average like 11 and a half 11, 11 point eight. The other point eight, other point nine PPR fantasy points. We get an obviously Jefferson usually smashes that 17.1 points per game. But you know, Dave has a bull prediction or I think no, we're doing superlatives. Do you have a bull prediction about Justin Jefferson?

8:07Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that he fails average 16 PPR points per game. So this would be this would be that too. Great. I'm with you on this. Yeah, I mean, I would still draft Jefferson ahead of Smith, but I think it's pretty, it's in the, certainly, well, it's not even that bold. The third round pick could outperform like a one to turn pick. But there you go. Devonte Smith set up for success. We love it. It's a for Heath. I think he does like Devonte Smith, but not as much as us. All right, news and notes, Christian McCaffrey's fine. Nick Boasa expected to play this game as Thursday in Australia. George Kittle trending in the right direction. But we'll see. Mike Evans said that his injuries and training camp were minor and he could have played through them. So he'll play and. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's you guys starting or sitting Mike Evans this week. Starting him and three C really sitting in two or three really. Yes, number three receiver. And Adam Schaefter says there's a real possibility that Pukka Nukuah avoids suspension this season.

9:08He says it doesn't sound like he's going to be facing discipline as of right now. But he was quick to say, you know, that's as of right now and sort of imply things can change. Also, Aaron Donald's status is uncertain for week one. Seattle wide receiver Tori Horton was limited in practice. They're playing tomorrow. Arizona optimistic about Jeremiah love playing in week one. Romo Dunez a mispractice. So we'll check on that one. Kamenangai though, he was back. Travian Henderson, we're not expecting him right now for week one. Sean Tucker's going to be a game time decision for week one due to an undisclosed injury. Jamar Chase and T Higgins look like they're going to be fine. A mecca Buka practice. You guys expecting a Buka as of right now? Yes, yes. How about Malik neighbors? Have you ranked him? Yes, yes. Oh, okay, cool. Michael Penex Jr. is going to be inactive and to a tongue by low is going to start week one. But we don't know how long that's going to continue. But it's clear that Penex does not is not fully healthy right now. I mean, they're not even hiding that. He's not quite ready to go to be full go.

10:10They start with Pittsburgh on the road then Carolina. That's Atlanta. Alec Pierce expected a play week one. Looks like the Colts had a lot of injuries like minor ones. Looks like everybody's fine. They'll be good to go. Zach Sharbinay, we know he's out at least four games, but he's making good progress. The jets are playing the Titans week one. They could be playing the Titans without their leading tackler from last year. Cedric Gray, who suffered a concussion. Hope he gets better soon. Chargers running back Keaton Mitchell practice. That's good to see. A lot of guys getting healthy here ahead of week one. Joey Porter, Jr. is another guy. He's got the health issues and the contract issues. But Mike McCarthy, Jr. expects his top corner back in Pittsburgh. Joey Porter, Jr. to play in week one. Again, that's against Atlanta. Dallas left guard Tyler Smith. Jamie, is this a big deal? Tyler Smith starting left guard, three straight probals. He's going to miss at least four games. He's on IR with a thumb injury. He's having surgery. Not good. But obviously there's time for him to get back and hopefully be a big part of what Dallas is looking to do as a team and what we need them to do for fantasy managers.

11:12But you never want to see some key piece of an offense. Certainly a key piece of an offensive line. Go down right before the start of the season. You know, there's never an ideal time for injuries. Not having enough practice time to find the right replacement is a little bit questionable. He had the seventh highest grade from PFF. This means something to you. Seventh highest grade and run blocking among all guards last year. So that's a big miss and that interior offensive line. I don't know if it's enough this week to lower expectations for Javante Williams, but there will be matchups coming up where well. Got the Giants Sunday night. Giants, I would expect to be a little weak against the run. They were terrible last year. They signed a bunch of like washed up defensive tackles. They drafted our Bel Ries. But I'd watch out for that game against Baltimore and week three in Houston and week four. Those could be uglier for Javante. Yeah. I would think that Matt Ibuki will be back by then for Baltimore. Probably not this week.

12:14Cleveland could have a package for rookie quarterback, tailing green is a terrific athlete. And the Giants release, Stereo Slayton and signed James Winston to a two year, 13 million dollar extension. All right, let's take a real quick break and we'll do our bowl predictions. We'll get those out of the way. We'll tell you who to start and who to sit when the Patriots and the Seahawks meet. These are two exciting teams with good players on offense. But unfortunately, they're running into buzz saws on defense. We'll be right back on fantasy football today. I'm going to talk to you right now about Omaha Stakes. And this is a perfect time for me to do it because just last night, I cooked four Omaha Stakes for my family and they were awesome and we completely devoured them. And tonight, Omaha Stakes burgers and hot dogs for the family. They also have seafood and side dishes. They have so many things at Omaha Stakes. If you want affordable, easy to make, delicious food, Omaha Stakes is honestly a no-brainer. This is like having a trusted butcher and gourmet shop in your kitchen.

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14:15You already know the Jefferson part of it. Rishi Rice fails average 15 PPR points per game this year. I'm going to point back to what he did in games where the chiefs were able to run the ball. Over the past, what is it? Two seasons, three seasons. They've done it. There have been 18 career games where chiefs running back is at 15 plus carries. Rice had 17 or more PPR points and eight of them. That's eight of 18. 14 PPR points in one game and 13 or fewer in nine of 18. So half the time he didn't even get to 14 full PPR points per game. We're all on board with Kenneth Walker having a big year. Sounds like Walker's also going to work in the passing game. That'll take those easy targets away from Rishi Rice. I am nervous about Rishi Rice finishing anywhere close to where expectations are. Okay. And Jamie, your second bowl prediction. So this is depressing if you drafted these guys or a fun if you drafted some of these handcuffs. But by week 10 and from week 10 to the end of the season,

15:18the top four running backs in the NFC West will be Hailey Black for the 49ers, Tyler Alger for the Cardinals, Zach Charbonne for the Seahawks, and Blake Korum for the Rams. Why am I smiling? I don't know if this is something that I want to hear, but it's interesting. It's interesting for sure. You can easily see it happening because you have Jeremy I love already banged up. You have the history of Christian McCaffrey after 400 touch seasons. You know what they're trying to do for the Rams. And if there's an injury to Kyrgyz Williams, clearly Blake Korum will be a potential superstar. And if Zach Charbonne comes back and is anything close to his best shape top form, he could be the best running back in Seattle. So don't love to see this happen if it does, but could see it happen. And if it, you know, some things go a certain way. Okay. My second bowl prediction is that Jamir Gibbs will average more PPR fantasy points than any running back in the last decade other than Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey's been around 29 fantasy points per game and on separate occasions,

16:20which is just amazing. He'd have, I think second best is somewhere around 26.5. I want to say it was Todd Gurley, someone, and maybe Levy on Bell or something like that, but yeah, I think the setup is just amazing for Jamir Gibbs since entering the league. He's played three years. He leads all running backs and fantasy points per touch. And he's done that with David Montgomery having the second most goal line carries in football in that three-year stretch. Montgomery's been their goal line back. Jamir Gibbs is going to be their goal line back. He's been amazing at the goal line. You know, one thing about Gibbs that I mentioned a long time ago that I haven't really mentioned since much anyway is that the guy who really, like people always talk about James and Williams benefited so much from the Laporta injury. The guy who really benefited, I think the most was Gibbs. His catches went berserk after the Laporta injury and he really wasn't on pace for that many catches before it. So it's one thing to keep in mind. It's the only thing that could hold them back. But he's an amazing player on an offense that we think could lead the NFL in scoring that doesn't have to share the touchdowns anymore.

17:22And when, man, I wish I had this thing, I think it was games where he's like over the last two years, he's played something like 17 games where he's had 15 or more carries and he's averaged about 25 fantasy points per game. I might be a little off on the numbers, but you get the picture. Jamir Gibbs is going to smash fantasy and it's going to be a little unfair. We've had a few years in a row where we haven't had a player that was just completely unfair. And you couldn't win if you played against him. Well, Jamir Gibbs is going to win everybody their fantasy league. Dave, round three for you. Let's, we've got a lot of correlated points. Yeah, sure do. This is another one. Jared Goff finishes top five in fantasy points per game. Lions finish first in the NFL in points per game. And so now you've got me thinking, if Jamir Gibbs is going to have a smash season, does that mean Jared Goff can have a smash season also? Yeah, because Gibbs could catch six, seven touchdowns. Well, sure, sure, sure. But now like, obviously, I don't have the research in front of me. But now I'm curious in all the years where CMC was awesome and

18:26girly and you can go back to Lydany and Tomlinson. How many of those years did the quarterback last year? How about let, look, your prediction is that Goff is top five in fantasy points per game. Last year, McCaffrey was number one and Pertie was number six per game. Oh, so I'm way off. Pertie obviously ran, but no, that's good happen. No, obviously. And part of the reason why you love Jamir Gibbs so much is because of what he can do in the passing game. And I'm, I feel okay about the Lions offensive line. And obviously, I love the Lions. Good for, he's been solid for a long time. I worry about that defense. I think they've got three good defenders healthy right now. I don't know what's going to happen if or when their safety's come back this year. They've got to find somebody a corner back along the way. I'm nervous about the Lions defense being, and they weren't great last year. They weren't awesome the year before. I'm worried about them being even just like league average this year.

19:26And it just sets up for a bunch of high scoring games. And I think we're going to get our first one this week against New Orleans. Yeah, baby. All right, Jamie, what's your third bowl of prediction? I mean, you know, I've been excited about the Packers passing game since the Josh Jacobs news. And so I think it's going to be a fun year for Jordan Love, for the receivers and for Tucker Kraft. And so love will be a top 10 fantasy quarterback, Tucker Kraft will be a top three tight end. And Christian Watson and Jay and Reed will both be top 20 wide receivers. So I think we get a lot of offensive production in the passing game. We'll see what happens with Jacobs in the court case. And if that changes anything from a run game perspective, but I saw what Jordan love did in 2023. We all got excited about in 2024. They added Josh Jacobs. It wasn't the same. And now we're going to have I think a suspect run game four games, potentially without micro parts and three games without micro parts. And so we get we get 30 plus past times for Jordan Love. And that leads to a big season for everybody there because we get concentrated targets. What do you think about, you know, for people who are still drafting this sort of bold statement.

20:28The Packers Backfield is the best backfield to draft both guys in that's quite a statement. You sound like me. If you're going to draft both members of a backfield, the Packers Backfield is the best one to do it. I don't know if I've got to say it's the best. It's definitely a reasonable one based on cost. So did this in a draft last night? It doesn't matter. In fact, where it took March on Lloyd, I think in round six and Josh Jacobs in round 10. And so have both, you know, you could clearly see if Jacobs is ruled out for the or stays on the exemplest for the rest of the season. You could just pivot to Christopher Brooks, who's probably available in a good portion of leagues and we'll hopefully still be available in the next couple of weeks if we get the decision from the court case. But yeah, I mean, look, there's an easy path here for both two. You're going to have a backup running back on your bench anyway.

21:31Aside from the offfield stuff, what Josh Jacobs does on the field is still the chance to be top 20 caliber. I don't know if you still got top 10 caliber left, but top 20 caliber running back. You would stay on that type of lottery ticket anyway. You know, there's similar, I think I said the right, the right, you know, is that Charbonne? Is that Charbonne? I mean, like, you know, in terms of like, sit waiting for somebody to come back and be in an impact type of player. Yeah, but like if Charbonne comes back, he's not going to be like an every down back. He's not going to be a primary back. He's going to be a... Correct. It's not the same, but I mean, just waiting for somebody to come back and be a contributor to your fantasy roster. The difference is that Charbonne sits on your IR spot versus Jacob's taking up a bench spot. Yeah. So you hope to get some resolution soon so that you can either get that player back or get that roster spot back. Exactly. Yeah, because you know, you have to roster a player that's giving you literally zeroes as long as he's out. Okay, so my last bull prediction is about, of course, Jacobi Berset.

22:34Why wouldn't it be? Jacobi Berset will either be a top 12 quarterback or benched by week five. And we know we talk about offenses that could be good. Maybe the Cardinals could be pretty good because they're going to lose a lot and they're going to have to throw a lot. And we've already seen this formula. And Berset was basically a must-start guy for a pretty long stretch. Michael Wilson was setting the world on fire and Tramik Bride was one of the, you know, had one of the best tight end stretches we've ever seen. So could they repeat it? I think the issue is their schedule is so hard. But like Chargers and Seahawks to start and then at the Niners, at the Giants to Troy in weeks three through five, he could clean up there. But why I say he could be benched by week five. It's like, it's just so obvious. If he starts struggling and they want to look toward the future, maybe week five is a little bit too early. But, you know, obviously, Jacobi Berset could get benched for the rookie cars in back, which we would not want. But, you know, I think Berset entering the discussion as a streamer and basically the Cardinals putting up a lot of points because they have to throw and throw and throw.

23:38Happened last year? Could happen this year. I think we should be a little bit worried about what happens if the Cardinals start O and five and they do make a switch to Carson back and whether or not Beck can be even remotely as effective as Jacobi Berset. And it's one thing for Carson play well in college and then look good in the Hall of Fame game. I'm very nervous about Carson back against a first team defense and what it means for the receivers there. And so I can sit here and tell you that I expect the Cardinals offense to have better play designs and the receivers to just have better route combinations and to be open a little bit more frequently under Michael the floor. But I think things get harder for everybody involved. Less so McBride, more so the wide receivers because McBride is such a good short area target in the event that Jacobi Berset gets benched. There is a wild card to all this though that he could still get benched and they go to Gardner Minchue. Yeah. And so if they go to Minchue, we've seen what that's been like, which has been

24:40good. You know, so it's not like it's a huge step down for all of these guys if they just feel like Beck is not ready because of the rib injury or they just want to give him some more time and just presets things because that could easily happen as well. And that started to happen down the stretch a little bit last year. Also that preset was not playing at the same level from just a production standpoint. He was still getting a fantasy production, but he was just not playing as well. And so I think the one thing that you look at here is to me, it's twofold. It's the schedule is drastically different and tougher than what we saw last season. Yes. And the run game's going to be better. I don't know if that means they are a great running team, but you know, they had nothing last year when everybody was injured. And now you have love and Alger and maybe Connor at some point healthy. So like it could just take some of the high end production for all these guys off the table. Well guys, it's time to preview a football game. Do we have a theme song for this?

25:40Oh, you can't do it. That's for Thursday. This is Wednesday night football. It's got to be a different song, Dave. Okay. Let's hear it. I don't know. I mean, I don't have one, but I did a little boop at the boop, pop pop pop pop. Why don't you, you know what you should do? This is what you should do. Go back and get Dan's version of fantasy. I was so bad. I know, but so what? He was. I don't know what that is, but I already love it. When we did, when we did the show and for Lauderdale, the male bag and for Lauderdale, Adam didn't have his mixer. So they both tried to sing fantasy fantasy cops name and I nailed it. Oh, I was a something nailed to your club. By comparison, Dan, you nailed it. By comparison, the Dan you wrote it. You know, so it was a Dan's just toned up. Yeah, he really is. And the thing is because you know him and his false bravado, he's not false. Yeah. He thought he was better than me until people told them like, no,

26:41you were absolutely horrible. By the way, he drafted with me and my softball team last night, we did the auction and he was online. It was online. And he just was like trash talking me the entire time. I was like, who is this guy? No one knows him. He's not the people who listened, but they were like, why is this guy killing you? His team name is anti-aser. He did have a good auction. He and I, he had a better auction than I did. It was it was a weird one, man. Auction lesson learned. If everyone is going for more money than you plan on, than you are comfortable spending, well, you better get in on the spending or you're just going to be left out on all the elite players. And that's what happened to me. Oh, I knew England at Seattle. You say that your softball team is better at drafting now than you are as a softball player or have they have the two things haven't caught up yet. No, I think I think I'm better at as a softball player. Like the $100 budget, I think the first I nominated Josh Allen to start the thing and I think he went for $25 or something like that. Wow. Yeah. New England at Seattle. The two great defenses from last year. Patriots didn't really

27:49face great competition. Seahawks did, but the Seahawks do I actually do we have an update on Nicki Minaj worry. Did not practice on Monday. Neither did their new safety also tie a car. How about a car? I thought it was limited on Monday or yeah. Even your answer. Humanity was limited. O'Cottah did not practice. Right. All right. So again, they're already without two players from their secondary from last year who are on different teams. Now they might be without a starting safety and maybe another safety. Seattle won the Super Bowl 29-13. They dominated time of possession. 33 minutes, 11 seconds. They had six sacks, but Will Campbell was playing hurt in that game. Static the game. I guess would be for both of them is that both teams had amazing run defenses last year. The Seahawks fourth best against running backs. 3.57 yards per carry to running backs. They allowed only five carries longer than 13 yards all season including the playoffs. The Patriots were arguably even better when they had Milton Williams. That was weeks one through 10, week 18 and the postseason. They were an arguably they were better.

28:49Running backs in those games average 3.1 yards per carry and scored two rushing touchdowns by far the best in the NFL. So are you guys feeling good about these, you know, round five, round six running backs from Andre Stevenson and Jadarian Price, Jamie? Stevenson more so than price. Obviously not the best start for him. However, doesn't appear like Trevor on Henderson is going to play. So giving him all the touches, you know, which is seems like he's going to get then that gives him the chance to I still think be a number two running back. If you're looking at YouTube, I think Keith is very aggressive with it at number 12. But, you know, again, we love workload opportunities and the talk about him being involved in the passing game should come to fruition. You know, there's Hassan Haskins is most likely the number two running back right now or Kiner, the running back that they that they took off of Arizona's roster. So I don't expect him to come off the field very much and that's a huge plus. So in looking at Stevenson, I would start him

29:53in looking at price. If you can find another alternative, I would do so because we just don't know how they're going to use the other backs, most likely George Hullani. So when you have a tough run defense and then you have this very ambiguous situation because it's not just that there's no sharpening it's they they still plan to use other guys in manuals since banged up right now. So C.A.P plays, but I think just looking at it as if he comes off the field in a touchdown situation, like that's going to really piss a lot of people off clearly. And if he's not going to be heavily involved in the passing game, I think that'd be a surprise. But if I shouldn't say it should be a surprise, if he's not involved in the passing game because we've seen them in the postseason, you know, when it was just Ken Walker, like he got passing down opportunities, but will they trust price in his first NFL game to pass, protect in key situations. So I'm just a little bit concerned about price. So I would say flex at best. Stevenson low end number to running back. How about the Steelers running backs against Atlanta? Would you start the Steelers running

30:53backs over the running backs in this game? Stevenson over both easily. If you want to say that there's an obvious Steelers running back, then I think that would be easy. But the fact that again, we just don't know. So they're all essentially back to back. I would lean doubtful first in this game because I think the Steelers are playing with a win, a playing with the lead. And that probably helps him in terms of a carry perspective. Like I'm going to like Warren Moore when there's more probably shootout or chasing points scenario. So I think you go if anyone doubtful over price. But again, right now, I think just in the early run of rankings for me, I have it if I remember correctly price. And then both Steelers guys almost back to back to back. All right, Dave. Let me throw some wide receivers at you compared to these running backs. Luther Burton at Carolina. Believe I have burden ahead of all the running backs if it's full PPR. How about Parker Washington against the Browns? You know, I'm going to take Parker out of them.

31:57Okay. How about Carl Tate against the Jets? Would rather wait against or I would rather wait with Tate. I'm not trying to be cute words. I just would rather wait with him and not using this week. Marvin Harrison Jr. or a running back in this game. I've got MHJ behind Ramondrey. Another tough call in this game might be Drake May. How are we feeling about Drake May, Dave Richard? I think it's a top 10 quarterback. I lowered him a little bit, but don't see him as a total liability. Went back and forth with him versus Jared Goff because I expect Goff to obviously put up a lot of points, higher scoring game. I recognize this is a tough Seattle defense, but it's just a better situation for him this time around. You mentioned Will Campbell being healthy. He's not going to be a turn style like he was in the Super Bowl. The receiving court is obviously better. And I just feel like I feel like the Patriots are actually going to win this game and mail be a significant part of it. We drafted him to be our starter. Seattle's defensive, especially their past rush. I think that

33:01stays the same from last year. I worry about the secondary for the reasons you brought up. They're not going to be the same back there. And because the Patriots made such huge additions, I think that pays off for them. And I think that Drake May will be okay this week. I think okay is the right word. I would actually start Baker May filled over Drake May this week, just giving the potential shootout between the Bengals in the box. So I was just thinking of somebody that had ranked, that we drafted lower that had ranked higher. So he's outside of top 12 for me. Again, I'm not probably going to the waiver wire to pick somebody up to start in place of Drake May. I think kind of what you got from him in the Super Bowl, which was 21.5 fantasy points is the ceiling. Did not play well in that game. Three turnovers in that game. Two interceptions in a fumble. The safety are definitely an issue for the Seahawks. The receiving court is definitely a plus for the Patriots. I still think that pass rush is going to be an issue for Drake May. So I don't think we get a huge ceiling game from him. So if you are concerned, there probably are some guys

34:03on the waiver wire you could pivot to if you want to go to Tyler Schock, for example, who's going to be in a shootout with the Lions. If you want to go to Malik Willis, I wouldn't do that personally, but just looking at guys that have good matchups or good situations this week. This is just one still a very tough defense. It's a very tough environment to go play in. They're getting their Super Bowl accolades here in this game. It's a spotlight game. So you know May wants revenge. And clearly the Patriots game plan this off season was to help offset some of the things that they struggled with in really the playoffs, but including the Super Bowl. So I think May will be okay. I just don't think you're going to get a big game from. So you know, you asked Jared Gough. Jared Gough started the week. He's top five quarterback. Drake May is outside the top 12. Okay. AJ Brown, you're going to start. This is not an easy matchup. Seahawks last year. They held Nico Collins, DK Meck, half Devonte Adams, Debo Samuel, Justin Jefferson, Ricky Pier saw once, Teterola McMillan, Jawan Jennings twice, and Stefan Diggs to 41 or fewer yards and 11 or fewer fantasy points. So look, this is the way fantasy goes. You have great players. Sometimes they have bad games. If AJ Brown does not do well in week one, do not hit the panic button.

35:07You make trade offers. Jackson Smith and Jigba. He, I think he'll probably destroy, but he might get shadowed by Christian Gonzalez. And he might struggle in this game, but you're obviously going to start him. Is there anyone else in this game? Am I forgetting anyone? We got the tight ends. We got the other wide receivers. We got Darnold. Am I forgetting anyone in this game? Dobbs would be the closest thing, I think, to the next starting option in the passing game for most fantasy managers. You know, you want to take shots on Shaheed or maybe Cup or maybe Demaro Douglas. You know, he's got some late camp buzz, especially once they moved on from Kaishton Booty. Like, I don't know, the tight ends to me just seem a little onyxp uninspiring in this game. You know, Barnard may catch a touchdown. Henry may catch a touchdown. A touchdown. It just feels like this could be a low scoring field goalfest. My favorite, I mean, Dobbs you drafted. You're not going to cut him. Keep him on your bench. I like Holani as stash. Jamie's been talking Holani is a good early season stash for a few weeks now. Shaheed, I guess, if like, if you want to just stash somebody from this game,

36:09Barnard is one other guy. One of those two will end up doing something decent that'll get some attention on Thursday morning. Okay. My dynasty team is hoping that Elijah Royo is good. So let's figure us for that. We talked about the fantasy cops earlier. I think David has to self-report himself to, yeah, he has to turn himself in. It's also team name Tuesday and we've got your emails. Start the DST's in this game, by the way, right? Yeah. Okay. Wait, I just pay, where are the Patriots? DST for you? Still top 10, but toward the bottom of that. Okay. So I suppose you like you'd start the Jaguars over them. Jaguars are my number one DFNs. Yes. So, oh, yeah. Okay. Chase the Browns every week. Go pick up the bucks right now. I'm telling you they get them next week. It's just easy thing to do. It's a good idea. Be the way, Roy. All right. We'll be right back with the rest of the show. Team name Tuesday, fantasy cops and more when we come back. Sweet sound of the fantasy cops. I got it right nailed it, right, Dave?

37:17Sort of. What'd you do while you're turning yourself in? I made a trade in my Keeper League during the draft and it wasn't allowed. Apparently, we had passed a rule two years ago that I wasn't allowed to, or not me, but anybody was not allowed to make a trade during the draft. I'm pretty aggressive in my Keeper League. The rest of the league doesn't like that. I'm as aggressive as I am. So I pulled off a trade. We had to stop the draft. I'd like to know what you guys would have done as commissioner, and then I will compare it to what the commissioner in this league did. I mean, I would have done the wrong thing. Which is? I would have brought. Oh, I know I would have reversed the trade. I mean, if you're not allowed to make trades during the draft, and I was a stop was two years ago, you can't do it. Yeah. Why is that the wrong thing? Because that's the rule. And what am I missing here? I thought you were saying as a commissioner, you're doing the wrong joke. A joke because I always suck at being a commissioner. Jamie, do you have any other sentiments?

38:19No, I mean, if the rule is you can't make trades, then you have to stop the draft and reverse the trade. So this draft stopped eight picks after the trade. So I had made the trade. I had taken the player that I wanted. And then eight picks later, everybody decided we need to stop and back this up. So that's exactly what we did is we reversed the trade. And the player that I took it was Jordan Mason in round, I think it was round eight. Maybe round seven, who cares? And so players that took a player after the trade had the option to take Jordan Mason. Mason was gone two picks after we reversed the trade. And the draft went on is normal, but I got quite a, what do you call that? Like a chat lashing? Yeah. It's not a verbal lashing, but I got my ass whipped in the chat for that one. That's tough, but that, you know what? It seems like you guys handled it well and kind of moved on quickly, right? I mean, we'll see. I'm pretty sure everybody in the league is going to name their team after me and how I'm trying to break the rules. Well, Dave, we appreciate

39:24you. And we're gonna kick you out. Your integrity. I'm glad I was kicked out. That's one of your, one of your favorite leaks. Shout out Jonah Amstetter. Love Jonah. Great guy. He's awesome. Yeah. The whole, really good at fantasy for someone as young as he is. How old is he? He's 10. All right. It's his dad was in the league, but he's the brains behind the operation. So a 10 year old reversed your trade and, no, he's not the commissioner. He was in bed for the draft. No, but we had our, I had my advantage. His dad did the drafting. Had my first father's son draft the other night was super fun. It's great, right? Yeah, it was cool. I really, he's, I said, like, who do you want on your team? You know, before we do the draft, and he said he wanted McCaffrey, he wanted Barclay. I forgot who else he said. And we had the first pick. And I was very nervous. He was gonna take Barclay with the first pick, but he took Gibbs thing. Did you, did you said any parameters for when he's what, seven now? He's eight. He's eight. So did, did he make multiple picks or did you have him just, he made pretty much

40:29every pick. That's great. Yeah. I mean, I would tell him stuff like you already have a tight end, so you don't need another tight end or whatever, but he made all the picks and pretty, I think pretty much all the, I was not expecting Israel, Abana, Canada to get drafted in the seventh round, but these things happen. It's fun. I had my, my 14 year old, which is obviously the first one that I started with. So now they're all doing it themselves completely. And, you know, discussing a lot of, there was a lot of trash talking and a lot of, uh, uh, we used to do it for no money. Now they're, they're just throwing money left and right. So it's gonna be interesting to see how you rollers. Yeah. Let's go. It's great. I'm just like sitting there and like, that's right. New generation of fans of listeners cultivating an audience for now. Do you, do you have the, the time to help both your wife and your son and their fanatics, you like, you know, my wife won the league last year. So I'm just, she's on her own now. Of course you did. I mean, of course she did.

41:29But you know what she did, which was really cool. You know, we have the draft board now on the app. And she cast it to the TV. So, which like, okay, this is, I'm sure people are doing this. But this is the first time I've ever done that of like casting a draft to the TV. It was very fun and seeing the draft board as it all unfolded. Uh, team name Tuesday, you know, so many of the good ones are ones I can't read on the air, but I'll read some Laporta Purdy. That's pretty good. Toot, yeah, Basial Toot has been a real gift, but toot and up a storm. As my guitar gent, genty weeps, uh, it's good, but it's while my guitar. But that's either way while my guitar genty weeps is good. Beast of burden, another classic rock song, never gonna give you up with the Rick Asley meme. Thank you for never gonna let you down. There you go. There you go. Um, Mar Barrow, man, which was M-A-R-R, Barrow. It was drafting both Chase and Barrow. That was pretty good. And then let's say I got some new ones here. Do you believe in Jim Miracles? Um, that's clever. Oh, these are,

42:35I cannot read these. What's wrong with you people? The bigstefan ski is good. We're naming teams after coaches. Yeah. All right, I think I probably have to stop there. Love it to Hampton in. It's not bad. Um, okay. These are laughing at all the ones you can't say. They're disgusting. They're just all disgusting. Can you try and rephrase? To say and bleep out the bad parts. The whole thing is a bleep. No, they're, they can't all be bad. No, send one to me and I'll, I'll rephrase it for the show. I promise not to curse. No, no, these ones are like offensive. I can't read these. Oh, that's not a bad one for Mike if you want to show it. Oh, it's not in the chat. Yeah. Let's see. Where is it? Jackson that one. Yeah, it's not bad. Chase. So this is one about, uh, human function involving Jackson, Darden, Cam, Scatapoo.

43:38I'll read it. Jackson, Sharton, Cam, Scatapoo. That's good. When I saw a long campali in theaters, Ed's Philips, Zibor Hoffman, Settie Sharland, right? I mean, that is an introduction of something that that will never go away. We're going to be saying that for decades. I saw, I saw, you know, some clip pop up, um, you know, crediting him for, for that. And it's just amazing. Yeah. I would love to know the origin of that. If it was written, if it was improv, or what? Well, it's just, I mean, everything about that movie is, is so like underratedly funny with the basketball scene. Yeah, oh, the bad rain dance. Yeah, that's a great scene. That's where she said is pretty funny. Um, it's not like amazing, but it's good. Okay. Thank you for your team names. Good luck this year, of course. So you're telling me there's E T I E N N E C is the best or N N C E is, is my best one. We don't have any Dan indigestion. Got a lot of submissions. A lot of those.

44:43All right. emails fantasy football at CBSI.com. I'll read a few here. No name on this. Dave Husses from, oh, this is from Adam. But where's he from? Adam is from Beaumont, Texas. I am in an archaic 12 team touchdown only league. Would you rather have Chris Rodriguez or George Hullani? C rod. Yeah. Maggie says we haven't talked enough about Stefan Diggs. And I think she's right. Do you think Diggs will, do you think McClure and will far outscore Diggs or Diggs will command an equal number of targets or at least enough targets to be relevant? The latter, yes. Far outscore Diggs. Far, um, McClure, I don't think we'll far outscore Diggs. I think it'll be relatively close. And Diggs will definitely impact McClure. Two, two and a half PPR points per game difference, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's a lot. Yeah. I, you know, what he did last year, what Stefan Diggs last year did, sorry, did last year. I think at age 30 coming off a torn ACL, it was really

45:45impressive. And he definitely made McClure and a less appealing fantasy option. It's also the offensive line. Like, you know, McClure is going to, when he does well, make plays down the field. And if Daniels doesn't have the same time to make plays down the field, then Stefan Diggs should have bigger opportunities. And if you think about it, it was why, like, Chico Conco, was Wiseakerts was very good in 2024. It's, you know, that underneath player is something I think that Jane Daniels will lean on. And I think that's not Diggs. I would just add that I would expect McClure and's role to change drastically from what we've seen the last two years. And they know that their offensive line is going to be great. And McClure and we'll start to get some layup targets. I hope so. It's got to be Diggs was 31 last year. He's 32 now. He'll be 33. He'll be 33 late November. Too old. Yeah, that is old, but he's a slot guy now. And that's an easier, I don't know about that either. I think you line up all over the place. Well, yeah. But the last like two or three years of his,

46:45two years, I think of his career. He's been a slot guy, like 50%. I would worry about the A dot for Jane Daniels overall. All right, from Shane, I need two flex spots for this week. Chubah Hubbard against the Bears, Jake Ferguson at the Giants, Romeo Dobbs at Seattle, Dejan Stribling at the Rams in Australia. The first two, especially at Brooks's outer limited. Okay. And then for another, so that'd be Chubah and Jake Ferguson for another team. But I put Stribling in over Ferguson. That was the, when I responded this, I was like, I think I'd go, I definitely Chubah and I was like, I'd go Stribling, maybe Ferguson. I would only go Stribling if Evans or Kittle do not play. I don't think Kittle would you start Chubah over Stribling if Jonathan Brooks plays? It doesn't sound like Brooks is going to be like the workhorse guy that he may have been if Chubah was out. So I think Chubah is going to have a pretty significant role.

47:46Do we know if it's a PPR that just makes it easier for me? No, I don't know. If it's, if it catches count for anything, Stribling and Ferguson should be over Chubah. I just wonder how much Stribling is going to play week one with plus against that matchup. I wonder how much Kittle's play with. Yeah. Another flex spot, Luther Burton at Carolina or Parker Washington against Cleveland. I think I have Washington higher. It's easily Burton if O'Donzeh is out and it's tougher if O'Donzeh plays. I would still probably lean Burton, but they're close. Beast of Burton. That is it for today's show. I mean, if you can find a way to get both them in your roster and your lineup, that'd be great. That would be pretty cool. The fact that you're asking that question means you've pretty good options. Thank you all for watching and listening. We've got, so I lied about something. I thought we were on CBS Sports Network today. We're not. We're still recording a show. We will be on most Tuesdays. We're still recording a show in a layer on CBS Sports HQ and you'll be able to see it on YouTube, but that show's not going to air on CBS Sports Network.

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