
Brock Bowers Had SURGERY?! Biggest NFL Week 1 Storylines, Predictions & Breaking News (Ep. 2180)
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NFL Week 1 is here, and Chris Welsh and Andrew Erickson break down the biggest storylines before kickoff, starting with the bombshell Brock Bowers injury news. What does Bowers' absence mean for the Las Vegas Raiders, Michael Mayer, Tre Tucker and the rest of the offense, and should fantasy football managers be worried about Bowers' long-term durability?
The guys also examine Kyler Murray's fit with the Minnesota Vikings and whether he can keep Justin Jefferson happy, Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills facing an elite Houston Texans defense, Malik Nabers' Week 1 outlook and the early questions surrounding the Philadelphia Eagles offense. Plus, they tackle several fantasy football lineup questions, including Michael Mayer, Juwan Johnson and Trey Tucker.
Finally, can Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos make an early AFC statement against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs? Welsh and Erickson discuss whether Denver could emerge as a legitimate Super Bowl favorite, plus their Week 1 predictions, upset picks and the NFL storylines that could define the opening weekend.
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Brock Bowers Injury - 0:01:38
Signed Todd Gurley Jersey Giveaway - 0:10:39
Kyler Murray and Justin Jefferson - 0:11:47
Bills vs. Texans - 0:16:19
Polymarket - 0:19:29
Chat Q&A - 0:20:31
The Eagles Offense - 0:23:53
Broncos: Potential AFC SB Favorite? - 0:26:38
Outro - 0:29:57
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We're going to talk about week one. What are the biggest storylines? And the biggest storyline just happened within the last hour. News that would have been good to know yesterday. Brock Bowers undergoes a meniscus trim. I've never even heard of a meniscus trim. He is undergoing a meniscus trim, which now might potentially be keeping him out for a couple of weeks. One to two weeks. Awesome to have known before. We now don't know it. There was a time, Erickson, where I had a topic for this show to be what is a more unwatchable game this week? Titans and Jets or Raiders and Dolphins? And this has now become more competitive because without the Raiders, how is this offense going to move? So talk to us about your reaction. What do you think about Brock Bowers and his meniscus trim? Absolutely. Absolutely. Bomb shell that was dropped here as we're putting the final touches on our season long fantasy football rankings.
It feels dirty, wrong to move Bowers because he's been tied in one all off season, leading up to drafts. Basically, most people have already drafted their team. So it feels disingenuous to be like, well, I'm going to move him down. Now he's going to miss a couple of games. Again, he can still be fantasy tied in one, even if he misses two games. And if we had known this a week ago, I still would have been targeting Brock Bowers. I think in fantasy drafts, even at the discount. So I'm not going to move him from my tight I want rankings and I will just, we'll just see what happens. Again, Titans can miss time. It's not like Tramik Bryant, of course, love and are immune from missing games this season. But yeah, this really sucks for anyone that recently drafted a fantasy. I'm actually looked at my Brock Bowers exposure. And among all my teams, the one team that I have him on is my wife's team. She's going to be pissed because it's her work league and I've convinced her to do it. And I said, well, let's give this a lead tight end. Let's go.
This would be great, honey. And it's going to be a unpleasant dinner conversation when I say, uh, babe. Yeah. So the tight end we took in round two. Yeah, he's, uh, we got to take him out a lot. Should be like, uh, bib, uh, the couch. It's right over there. She's going to get in the next two weeks. You're going to get learned. John's in. You're going to learn some Greg Dullsage potentially. I think the pivot is obviously going to Michael mayor, who was being talked up as having a role in this offense anyway, alongside Brock Bowers, which makes a lot of sense when you just look at the receivers on that roster. Trade Tucker is kind of the most established guy. Jalen Naylor, Jack Besh, second year wide receiver, who didn't really do a lot as a rookie. So that's kind of my take on like the Raiders and kind of what they'll do. It seemed like genty is trending in the right direction though. Islay. Um, he's practicing today. So what if you had to take, I mean, you just said obviously mayor, like, has a benefit. Unfortunate at day and two, Michael mayor, uh, for here's a fantasy press. Really unfortunate. But who do you think the biggest benefit series?
Because there's a part of me and I'm trying not to get too much of the fantasy brain is where you're going to get the right. I'm trying to have like a NFL focus on here, but like, I feel like the Raiders in this defensive match, buns for the dolphins defense. There's opportunity. There could be two plus Raiders that people are talking about in waiver wires. But who do you think the biggest beneficiary truly is? Does I know mayor is there, but like could the targets ago away, truly from Brock Bowers end up being trade Tucker? And he's got some big explosive of Jalen Rager as a possession guy. Do you think there's somebody that is going to have easy damage? Because I kind of lean like Jay here. I kind of lean like trade Tucker. I think this is an opportunity for a multitude of more targets to be going towards him. And he might be a guy. We're all like, what are we doing? Like he could start to show out. Yeah, I think that trade Tucker is probably the guy that would see the biggest increase in just total volume. Because he's going to be out there. He is the starting wide receiver on this roster where they were kind of rotating. And he's going to be able to do that. So that's something to also kind of just like store away in the mind that if they connect on a big play or touchdown,
that would probably be the reason why because he has Kirk cousins trust. But mayor, I think if you're not trying to overthink it, I would say though this probably changes their game plan significantly because in the most recent press conference. And this is shout out to the coach speak index discord Greg brain is does great work. I think that could be I was talking about. Yeah, Bowers were expecting to have him. So this was kind of like news to I think everyone on the Raiders. So I mean, this Raiders the last two weeks has just been nuts with a genty thing like he's going down for the season. And now Bowers is already going to miss one to two games. I would probably lean towards two games. Just also the terminology though like one's kid. I've been laughing for the last two minutes. One's coming just a little off the meniscus. Please like the way they're talking about that term. It feels like he went in to get like a fade and he's like, you know what? Let's just take a little bit off that menisky for me. Please. It's a little too tall tall for me. A little too tall in the meniscus. Yeah. We got to tighten that up a little bit. I like a number three on my meniscus. Can we go number three? Not a not a four.
One last thing on this. Interesting thought. The multitude. Should we start considering Brock Bowers is like an injury concern now on this very short career? I don't feel like we're talking about that enough, especially when you're talking about the top end of how amazing he is. And if the gap is shortening between guys like McBride and Levelyn. Are we overplayed like is Bowers potential to be a little bit of an overplay for a lot of people this season? I don't think so. We've seen a lot of tight ends. The first one that comes to mind Rob Grunkowski of tight ends that dealt with a ton of injuries and missed a lot of games. But when they're on the field. They dominated and I think Brock Bowers at least through two years has shown more of that type of career path where maybe it's not 17 games every single season has availability is in question a lot of the years. Maybe it's not a Jaden Reed type of scenario or excuse me, Jaden Reed, a Jordan Reed type of scenario, the Washington tight end that was a monster but always hurt all the time, which is very frustrating, but just dominated when he played.
So I think maybe that's Bowers path. So someone that when he's back in line up, you're going to be firing it up and you're not even going to be hesitant about it. I think that that is at least worth acknowledging that yeah, he has been dealing with a couple of these knee injuries been banged up in the fact that this happened something. I think the report was he was dealing with it during training camp and they wanted to get ahead of it. So this is the Raiders, at least being smart and proactive. I would suggest or think that based on the way they're treating this, they're going to be as cautious if not more cautious with genty. So the genty is playing in week one. He's good to go. We shouldn't be hesitant about Ash and Genty who's practicing today. So yeah, but the last thing before we get out the Bowers Dolphin, my line baby, I've been I've been bowl prediction and Miami Dolphin to the upset and obviously I didn't think this was going to happen, but that CLV. What's the moment look like? I mean, it's got to be. You can't say to me that you want to bet on the Raiders more because Brock Barrett is now out of the game. So no, but I don't like me over. I don't like the we talked about. I think it was on well, that's that's that's fits issue that he is.
That's a fishy problem. Not a by way, I really hope you guys hang out with us in season. We had a ton of fun. Eric's and Fitsy and I we have now three shows on the tailgate every we have now it's going to be the breakdown of the week. We're going to have this live stream and then we're going to have the predictions for the coming week and in the predictions, Fitsy was like over on the 50 points isn't even enough and it's like, I'm not so sure about that. This news did our boy Alfredo Brown extremely dirty because on the latest tailgate show you won't hear this, but we had a segment where he was projecting a career game for Brock Barrett. They had to cut it. They had to cut it. They're going to yeah, it's it's poor one out. It sucks because the analysis was great from Alfredo and made a lot of sense that this dude was going to absolutely smash because the Dolphin secondary. Again, I like the Miami Dolphins of the upset. Their secondary is a joke across the board, which just shines a light on some of these Raiders wide receivers should make some noise. And if they don't, that is very telling of the talent that the Raiders have on their offensive roster and hey, good luck, her cousins.
See how you do without Brock Barrett and trade Tucker as wide receiver one over on betting pros. I looked at betting pros plus three dolphins still so you can get them on a few. So what's the money mine? Oh, yeah, I'm going right for the jugular here. I don't want. I'm not taking the points. I'm just taking the Miami Dolphins with the upset. Malik Wills is going to have a day. Okay, let's see. Sorry. Had to change all that though. Money line is survey says plus 140. Yep. Okay. Lock it in there. Lock it in, baby. All right. We got some more storylines to cover, but I want to give you guys something awesome. I want to hook you guys up with autographs. I love autographs around here. How would you like this bad boy? You can win an autographed Todd Gurley Jersey on us. Here's what you've got to do. It's pretty simple. Subscribe to the tailgate YouTube channel. Do it right now. If you're in conjunction with fantasy pros, people are seeing this on fantasy pros and on tailgate. Go to tailgate tailgate NFL subscribe to the channel. Then make a comment. And that's it.
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I was a little bit more optimistic just because of how bad it was. It's a gym McCarthy. It can't possibly be worse with Kyle Emery. And I still believe that. But what does that actually translate into Alfredo Brown and D-Bro on the last show we did talking about predictions for week one. They both like the green May Packers against the Minnesota Vikings. I was more on the Viking side of Minnesota winning in week one just because no Micah Parsons. And the Packers didn't win a single game last year after they lost their star edge rusher. But Kyle Emery is going to be put into a interesting position in capital colonel's offense where he's going to be doing a lot of things that he's not traditionally done in the past. I know that Alfredo Brown mentioned that when he was charting Kyle Emery a lot of stuff just over the middle kind of turning into a check down artist not really pushing the ball to the outside. And is that going to keep Justin Jefferson happy? Maybe it's more Justin Jefferson is Luke warm.
Having Kyle Emery as his quarterback and not pissed because that was clearly the case last year when James McCarthy was quarterbacking again. It's not very the lead here. Did you McCarthy? He'll be three on the Minnesota Vikings death chart. So for all the haters out there that made fun for taking Carson Lents and a super flex draft a couple weeks ago with Tom Stracken. You can still be fun of him. But I still make it for taking a backup for the Vikings who could still make it. Yeah, but in a super flex and then round 20. Well, I mean people were taken. I was taking Brandon. I you care two months ago. That's an even worse pick. Okay. Why were you taking Brandon? I mean, hey, at the time we didn't know. No, we know we knew we didn't know he was going to go absolutely insane against the commanders. Oh, no, Jay. I know. So I'm pretty sure every moment the first show I did on tailgate on this on this channel was railing against Brandon. I you and saying he would never play in the NFL again. So that's a few problems.
I still stand stand by that. I don't think I'll play in the NFL again. I mean, I got this. He's figuring it out. Like what's the he's not going to play this year. It's going to be a year removed. I don't I mean, maybe you know, there'd be some big cathartic thing. He's not playing this year. So that's a that's a no brainer. So Fitsy on the points. That's a you problem with the brand and I you. But Justin Jefferson, by the way, he was doing my favorite thing. He was doing the like, I'm not going to say this is a problem. If I were if I were a bad friend, I would say this, this, this, this, this, and this would be a problem. He was literally telling us he's like, I didn't want to complain about it. But if I wanted to complain, I would say all these things. I think it's a dicey road. I think Justin Jefferson's going to have to come out hot. I think there's going to be a lot of eyes because it's not just Jefferson's ability to be happy. It's Kyler Murray also unseeding McCarthy down to the three spot and maybe ending. Because if if if if Kyler's a disaster here, you think really people are going to be screaming about wanting Carson wins in the lineup. No, it's going to be in the Carthie stuff.
It could be a circus. This team could be a circus. So I think this week one is really, really important. That's just how I take it. I like the matchup overall against the Packers defense. And then I'm pretty sure the Vikings play the Chicago Bears in week two. So if he does have a productive game against Green Bay without their best defense player, the Bears defense is buns, cheeks. I think that Bryce Young could have a decent game against them in week one, especially with the Bears playing on the road. So Kyler we know is at his best at the beginning of seasons, right? Before he gets banged up before teams kind of figure out what he's doing. That's usually when he's as most productive. So I am on the more optimistic side that Jefferson can at least start the season out hot. And I think to Kevin O'Connell's dumb, he's going to move Jefferson around to make things easier for Kyler. So even though it doesn't really seem like it is a perfect fit between O'Connell's offense, what we've traditionally seen from it and Kyler Murray, O'Connell is also smart enough of a head coach to realize, okay, I do need to bind and change my offense a little bit around to fit Kyler Murray
and what he can do successfully to obviously make the offense go potentially. Hopefully go there. Hopefully Jefferson, they want to connect. Hopefully Jefferson's a cod guy they can get locked into it. All right, let's go to number three here and I almost pulled an ultimate welshism. The phrase is the unstoppable force meets the movable object. I think I wrote the unstoppable object versus the movable force, which it sounded correct. But the unstoppable force move versus the movable object. That is the Buffalo bills versus the Houston Texans. My buddy Bogman cannot stop screaming about this Texans defense. I think the bills are clearly just built around DJ Moore opens back up this offense, one of the best offensive players in James Cook. So I think a huge storyline, one of the best games that we are going to be. Obviously the Wednesday Thursday fun stuff, but you want to talk about a great game this weekend. It is the unstoppable force versus the movable object. Talk to us about the bills versus the Texans.
They can say it's going to be tough slut for Buffalo. They have very similar offensive pieces in place against the Houston Texans defense that has had their number, especially in the last two matchups where Josh Allen has struggled immensely against this elite Texans defense. Now adding DJ Moore is the big acquisition that the bills made this off season to get them over the hump. Obviously moving Joe Brady from off to coordinator to head coach. How will that kind of change the dynamic of maybe they are more aggressive throwing the football against the Houston. Maybe they don't try to be as conservative and try to win a lower scoring game. I'm expecting this game to be a rock fight. I think that CJ Stroud and Solvets of Lyon are still kind of figuring things out. One of their starting offensive tackles, Braden Smith, I believe is already on short term injury reserve. So it's going to be my guy former Patriot Trent Brown out there at right tackle, which I don't love for the Houston Texans offensive line. So I think that this is going to be a lower scoring game and who do you like the deals game?
I like the Texans there underdogs at home said to bottom their underdogs at home. That's the side that I would rather be on, especially given though they've been able to stop Josh Allen. Look, there are certain quarterbacks and defensive matchups where even the best of the best quarterbacks, there are certain defensive schemes, personnel packaging and. That they just don't play well against even the greatest quarterbacks of all time with Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. There's always been certain teams that have matched up really well against what they do well and they don't ever beat those teams or they struggle. So I like the Texans they're playing at home against Buffalo on the road. Buffalo has a really tough schedule to open their season. There you have a short week, I believe they're going to play on Thursday night hosting the Detroit lines unveiling their new stadium. So that'll be a fun look ahead game in week two to kick things off. But for week one, one o'clock PM, I think that the Houston Texans are going to throw a lot and I think that their defense is going to perform very well in the spot.
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All right, let's take a look at where some of you guys are at. Let's see where you guys are at here with some questions. I'm getting killed with all of the with all of the Brock Bowers and Titan stuff. How about this with Matt you fire up neighbors. How you think neighbors is going to perform this weekend. I think they're still no, we got a report that said that he's going to play. So I'm relatively what is it cautiously optimistic is the phrase about neighbors. I think we talked about the snap count looks like. But what do you think the snap count ends up looking like because I think neighbors is like a diff. Honestly, this could have been one of the big top storylines. I think this works as a storyline is like what does neighbors look like for this team because I think the other one said the giants are going to live and die by Malink neighbors, but if neighbors is not a hundred percent. They don't have much of a wide receiver room. Yeah, I guess we need to talk about on the last one, but any other expectations on neighbors. I think it'll probably find right it's always is it going to boom is he going to bust when in reality, he'll probably just have like an okay game a decent game. I think that it's probably aggressive to assume 102 Tuddies going to go absolutely nuclear against the Dallas defense, which I think is passing proof from last year.
Their weakness is still there perimeter cornerbacks. And they obviously had a Caleb down to help with their secondary. They have a really good pass rush. So I'm just what's the same with his giants offense really like that is by biggest question. I think we talked about it to where on the prediction show. They only have four wide receivers on the roster. So clearly Malink neighbors got to play or else it's they're doing pony personnel. They're doing 13 personnel with heavy tight ends and running back. So I think by default neighbors are going to be out there a lot. And I think that makes him a wide receiver to that if he's really healthy, then you can obviously see a higher upside case. 40 million questions about tight ends for people I have seen I mean just I'm going to put out some there's John Johnson there's this one there's this one. I mean, John Johnson, I think it would be the biggest no brainer and fantasy pros. He's ranked as like a top 10 tight end this week. I think I'm going to get a bit nine. Don't you have my like seven or something. I moved him up to I have a minute eight. And if you want to know where I have Michael mayor, I moved him up to 11. I think that he's a auto start this week.
Okay, so then John Johnson and then mayor mayor over the dulcich over quite a few of the tight ends. I feel like people are throwing that there's no fire for anything like that. Who is mayor right above? Travis Kelsey. Oh, Kelsey. I haven't made any moves because obviously this just happened. But you think trade Tucker should be a top 36 wide receiver this week. I know you're talked about him. But now I'm just thinking about the sell top 36. We need to go through the Miami dolphins secondary. It's it's so bad. You have to go watch the tailgate show with Alfredo. He does a great job because the dolphins are his team. He outlines it because you got to give Alfred throw them a bone because his Brock Bauer segment got newt. So go give it a listen. He broke down the dolphin secondary. Actually, wait, no, it's not going to be broken down anymore because that park got newt on the show. Oh my god. So we got to go through it then. See you up in secondary. Okay, the second area. There you go. All right, let's let's bring through our last two and then we'll save any last questions. Number four big storyline. And I think our boy Callie. This is his. I think Callie just left to this is going to upset him.
Well, mom be proud of the Eagles. This is actually supposed to be offense. So he's not going to be proud of that. But is is is will the Eagles make mom proud this week and he wrote defense. It's meant to be offense because that's been the big question. They couldn't move the ball. And I think everybody's kind of hyper focus. I had multiple people texting me, you know, drafts this week, friends of mine. A couple of them took Jalen hurts and they're just like fingers crossed. This is going to look good. They lose AJ Brown, but not defense like that screen says, well, mom be proud of the Eagles offense this year. I think I think so. But yeah, you don't say he don't sound like a proud Papa. I'm just not the biggest Eagles bowl in terms of hurts and Sean Manian and this combination working. I think it could be okay. I don't know if it's going to be back to the glory days of Saquil Barkley rushing for 2000 yards. The offensive line is fragile in my opinion, just because of the age of Lane Johnson and whenever he misses time, it's similar trend Williams where the team just ceases to operate at a functional level and things collapse when one offensive tackle is out of line up. So that is always a big concern for me. And I don't think that the Eagles offense is better without AJ Brown.
I think AJ Brown is a great player. So that's something that I'm always trying to keep in mind. Maybe once they get the Kylin up to speed and he is firing on all cylinders. I think that can be a big boost for this offense. But I think it's going to take some time. I know that we noted this when we had our I think it was our discord episode from the extra point about going to Patriots training camp and the Patriots were running very, very fast in terms of their pace of play because it was drake May 2nd year in Josh McDaniel's offense. Whereas with the Eagles, they were running much slower because they were really fast. It was clearly an offense and team that was installing a new off the play collar. By the way, I just want to point out that episode you just talked about was also a nuke episode. Don't you remember that? See, this is why you come to tailgate live because we talk about all the nuke episode. It was my fault. It was on the extra point. We do a show where it's kind of like this. If you guys want to interact with us on the fantasy pros discord fantasy pros.com slash chat. We are there every Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern and it was the one show all season. I was messing with audio settings to make it so cool. And I totally screwed it up and that episode got nuked and it was like eight minutes of Ericsson talking about the Patriots and I just sat back. And then I was like, oh, hey, I'm back in the episode. It was great. But you missed it unless you were in there with us.
The final one. This is a this was a me citric one. And I know there's part of it like people are already be locked into. But if the Broncos go into Kansas City, they show off this new pass catching side with Jalen Waddle. Maybe the run game makes a lot more sense and they win and they win handedly. Not only are they super bowl contenders, but are they the clear cut super bowl favorite out of the AFC if they go in and dominate Kansas City or is that just saying a little too much and giving a little too much credit to Kansas City. I think it's going to be pretty telling I'm for one I'm surprised that they are underdogs against the chiefs because to me the chiefs feels like a reset year for them. I don't think it's real listed to expect the homes off his ACL injury with the influx of the chiefs receivers trying to figure out who is going to be the top guy, but I think that's the expectation is even worthy. He's been banged up throughout the off season Travis Kelsey is another year older bringing Ken Walker. I think was a great addition to this team, but when you just stack up the rosters Denver versus the chiefs, I get that it's my homes and you feel dumb anytime you bet against this guy, but it's interesting. I think Andy Rea was talking about how yeah, it looks like my home except he's wearing his brace on his knee.
Yeah, like that's the big difference because he's coming off a torn ACL. I think that that matters significantly. So I think the Broncos are being disrespected. I get that they're on the road here, but their defense should be top five. I expect bonics to take another step forward adding an explosive playmaker like Jane LaWattle, the biggest thing with the Broncos last year, they had all of these comeback wins and it's right that you're expecting that not to repeat. It's really hard to do that. So how do you avoid having to rely on all these second half comebacks play with the lead in the first half of games getting explosive playmaker like Jane LaWattle so that you're winning in the first half of games and you don't have to come back in the second half. So I think the Broncos did a great job addressing their roster during the off season and bonics not another biggest bow lever. Never been, but I think at this point he's being underrated, especially with how well he has played in Sean Payton's offense for last two seasons. I think hiring Davis Web as an offensive coordinator, I think is actually going to help this Broncos team go up another level potentially.
I love it. We're going to do just a couple, there's a couple quick, you only get a sentence, if not a word, okay, even if it's a big question here for you, Erickson, I'm going to just do just a couple and then we're going to be getting out of here. Do you believe in the cult offense to get back where they were before the day in the Jones injury. So to one sentence now, I think I know you're going to do not going to let you do it one sentence, trade Tucker over Chris Bell. Yes, we go on, we go on. Okay, where is the other one I wanted? I want someone was trying to yell at you about, I'm not you. No, it was about I can't find maybe got declic but I'll pretend to be the person, but Michael Mayer did nothing when he was in replacement of hours before. The Raiders offense didn't do much of anything last year. So that's it. That's all the only thing I want to say about all that's the only sentence you get. All right, there you go. That is a good stuff there.
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