Plays of the Week - The Podfather's Top Sleepers & Must-Starts

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1:02This is Justin Herbert. Terrell Loans. Pugacua. Bech Autune. Tanya Dale. Jonathan Taylor. Coach Luho. This is Rashi Rice. RJ Harvey. Michael Wilson. This is Zach Taylor with The Simpsons Out of the Bengals. When you're listening to the best in a business, my man the pod father, he knows things. Oh, it's happening. The place of the week, the chalk, the sleepers that you need to know for week one coming at you. Yes, yes, yes, yes. This is the first time I've been talking to you solo without Cody coach. One of the deep minds of the fantasy football industry coming on to the mind of mansion program, like John Paulson, Rich Rebar. We had a great summer.

2:02But now week one is here. It's already happening. We'll talk a little bit about the Patriots, a little bit about the Rams, the 49ers, especially later in the show. But we got to get to the best plays for this Sunday slate. The guys you need to be plugging into your lineup one way or another, whether it's an obvious play that you just need to reassurance on or deeper sleepers to fill out your roster. We got them all coming up right here when I start with quarterback. It's going to be Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray. He's not a top five highest owned player on the slate. There's a lot of DFS grinders that they want to wait and see on Kyler Murray. I'm not going to wait and see on Kyler Murray. I know what Kyler Murray is. Kyler Murray is in his prime. Kyler Murray is trying to resuscitate his career. He wants to reestablish himself as a franchise quarterback. And he's going to go out there and dig up with some of the best weapons that there are. Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Joanne Jennings, TJ Hawkins and Aaron Jones. He's got optimal weapons at every level of this passing game. It's perfect. When he drops back, he has first read of Justin Jefferson and his third, fourth read is TJ Hawkins.

3:08I'd have that he could check it down to Aaron Jones. Think about this. The perfect situation for him. He came in saying all the right things changed his whole approach to the sport. Think about that. I mean, look at him. Look at him. I got him up on the screen here. If you're listening to the podcast, this is Kyler Murray working out sweating with a tank top looking very serious. It's not about the tank top, right? It's about the look on his face. The look on his face says, I'm here for business. I'm a business man now. That's the difference. He's a business man now and he's going to go out there and he's going to do business. He's going to look for the open guy. If he's not there, he's going to run for the first time. That's the beauty of the Konami QB. That's why we love Konami QBs. They get there one way or another now with this specific matchup against the Packers. Well, the Packers are a poor run blocking team that is going to force Jordan love to drop back and that will surely ramp up the pace of play and the pass rate on the

4:12Packers side will then that necessarily then increases the pass rate on the Viking side. The more your opponent's passing, the more you're likely going to have to pass. Now, the Packers are great down the middle. They're anchored by Xavier McKinney. They had this all pro safety, good linebacker play, slot corner play. It's their perimeter corners that are the problem. Well, that's the strength. We can talk about Jennings and Addison and Jefferson. That is these signature strength of the Vikings is their perimeter receivers. So this is just, this is a matchup that is ideally suited for Kyler Murray week one, where the Viking strengths they line up against the Packers weaknesses. So it doesn't matter. I'm playing Kyler Murray. You're stacking Kyler Murray in DFS and single quarterback leagues even. You're plugging him in there. You got to get you get him in there. You'll be very happy. Now in Superflex and two QB leagues, I'm playing Geno Smith. This is a tricky one because I understand there's only 17 and a half implied points assigned to the jets this week.

5:14But I have also said this is the one team Vegas misunderstands. They don't understand how good Geno Smith is. And most people don't. Most people think Geno Smith is dust that he's terrible. And it makes sense because he began his career as a boss. He had an abysmal year last year. And whenever you're putting together content, whether it's literature or podcasts, anything, the beginning and the end is what people remember. And so people remember Geno Smith as a bad quarterback. They don't remember those middle years where he was actually good. I think that's what we're going to see. We're going to see good Geno this year. Geno is similar to Kyler Murray in that these are two quarterbacks that are in new situations. They're trying to at least reestablish a reputation for being able to win games at the NFL level. Geno Smith's career is beyond resuscitation. He's not ever going to be a franchise quarterback. Kyler Murray could be. At least Geno Smith, he wants to reestablish and fix his reputation. So he can retire as a quarterback that people remember as being good. And if you close out your career with a good year, you can do that. And I think he's going to be de-gaft too.

6:15I think he's convinced that I'm just going to go out there and just sling the ball around. I'm going to cigarette hanging out of my mouth like Jake Kotler and take advantage of those weapons. The similarity between the jets and the Vikings is that they both have optimal weapons at every level of the offense. They have an alpha receiver you built in a lab in Garrett Wilson in Justin Jefferson. It outside field stretcher whether it's Jordan Addison, whether it's Ed and I Mitchell in New York. They got a slot receiver in New York in Omar Cooper is a perfect slot receiver. The perfect move tight end in Kenyon Sedeek. A two-way tight end that can catch passes, especially in the red zone in Mason Taylor. It's the most underrated skill position, offensive skill position units in the league. If not the one-off, the most underrated skill position units in the league. I can't think of a more underrated one at the moment. Let me know, let me know in the comments. If you like the show, like it, right? Hit the like button. If you have a like button available for the show, like it.

7:17If you don't have a like button, if you're listening to the podcast, share it with someone else. Like, hey, this guy knows what he's doing. Support me turning the camera on, just flicking it on and just talking to you directly. Because I loved, I started doing that at the very beginning more than 10 years ago. The Mighty Mansion program. And we're continuing with the plays of the week. Just flicking on the mic and talking about these players. And I know it's a bad process generally to stream a quarterback with 17 and a half implied points. I get that. And that's why I'm not advocating stacking jets. I'm not stacking jets this week. Play Ad9 Mitchell as a one off. Play Geno Smith as a one off. Of course, you're playing Garrett Wilson. I think Garrett Wilson, Geno Smith stacks are the one stack that I think is legitimate in any kind of managed league, especially a managed Superflex 2QB league. Sure. Right. But it would have to be a better matchup with a better quarterback on the other side. Someone better or more trustworthy that we know is going to put up points. We don't know if Cam War is going to put up any points. We don't know if Cam War can push the jets at all.

8:18So because of that, I'm not doing like one of these like Geno Smith Ad9 Mitchell value stacks. At first, I thought that might be fun. But given the implied total, as skeptical as I am about how Vegas views the jets, that's still a very important data point. And it's not a headwind I want to go rushing out into. More thinking about the jets as one off pieces that you can plug into lineups. Typically, it would be a total stay away. This offense would be a total stay away. But because I disagree with the overall assessment of this offense, I think that you can use these pieces. You can use Geno Smith at quarterback and Superflex. You could absolutely plug in an Ad9 Mitchell inflex if you're questioning that. At running back, the good shock this week is Deandre Swift. Deandre Swift is the clear good shock. There's no better situation to play Deandre Swift. Because Monanguy's coming back from the hyper-accented knee. He's got the great matchup against Carolina. The only problem is he's on the road. But I mean, we're talking about a bottom tier Rush defense in Carolina. A lot of 123.3 Rush yards per game and 4.4 yards per carry last year.

9:21Swift also had a top 10 EPX explosive play rating on player profiler. So for a bunch of reasons, he can give you big plays. But also there's going to be a lot of touchdown equity available this week for Deandre Swift. So this is the week to play Deandre Swift. And even in the DFS contest where you can just play superstars, like for example, fast draft, live on fast draft is the quick six superstlant. We can just pick any six guys playing on Sunday. Any six running backs, wide receivers, tight ends. Deandre Swift is actually a guy that you would consider playing. Because he's in that bear's offense, the upside is so big for him, I think you can consider creating a lineup in the superstlant that has Deandre Swift. I don't see why not. Right? I think the upside is that high. Now, I wouldn't say Rico Dowdell has that kind of upside because he's splitting touches with Jalen Warren. However, just like with Deandre Swift, if there was a week to play Rico Dowdell, it's this week at home against Atlanta. Atlanta 126.2 yards per game allowed last year on the ground. So that was bottom five in the league.

10:22And if you look at Rico Dowdell, look at Rico Dowdell on player profiler. It's interesting, so consistent, the most consistent. I mean, one of the most mirror image seasons in the history of football by a running back, same number, Russia temps, 235, same rushing yards, 2024 to 2025, 175, same yards per carry, 4.6, 39 receptions both seasons. It's creepy. It's actually creepy how similar these two seasons were. Now, he had more receiving yards and more touchdowns last year than in 2024. But that's about it. That's the difference between 12.7 fantasy points per game in 2025 and 12.4 fantasy points per game in 2024. I mean, that's it. The guy is consistently good, just a good player. And if you're at home against the Falcons, this game could be a blowout. This came, it could get out of hand for the Steelers, because it's Tua and Tua doesn't want to be there. Tua doesn't want to be a professional. He's done being a professional NFL quarterback.

11:23He peaked in college with Nick Sabin, college football hero, and that's it. Right, he came to the NFL. He was out of his depth and he's like, I'm not built for this. I'm left handed. I'm not built for this. And so every time we open the news, playerprofile.com slash news, you see a new problem with Tua. Now it's his back or is it a hip? What is it? A wrist? Who know? Every day. It's something new. He's trying to get out of it. He doesn't want to be there. Okay. That's the thing with Tua. So because of that, it could get ugly and that means rico-dotto. That's what that means. And by the way, if you like our news from clever headlines, we've got Eric and a bunch of other great, great people over there at the news desk. Podfather at rhodowonderroll.com email me. And when you get you on the news desk, you can start your career as a fantasy writer today. Just email me and we'll make it happen. Now another play of the week, a week where if not now, never, it would be Kenneth Gainwell. Kenneth Gainwell, this is the perfect fantasy points cocktail where they go on the road, their road dogs in a shootout,

12:23the game total is 15 and a half. So you know that Tampa is going to have to throw. And if they have to throw, it's going to be Kenneth Gainwell. And Kenneth Gainwell is electric in space. He offers big plays and he's going to soak up targets. I mean, if there was a team where I think you could have multiple plays of the week from the Buccaneers, this would be the week. And stay tuned for our wide receiver plays of the week if you like Buccaneers because, yeah. So Gainwell is a smash. I he's one of those guys where I would play him over, even if maybe an established starter, or guy that you think, hey, I can't, I can't imagine playing Gainwell over Oh, Quinshaw and Judkins, right? But look at Quinshaw and Judkins. Quinshaw and Judkins, there's no implied points for the Browns. They're, they got, DeShaw and Watson under center. They're eight and a half point dogs on the road. This is not a good week to play Quinshaw and Judkins. This is the week to play Kenneth Gainwell. So you want to play Gainwell over Judkins.

13:24Sounds hot, wild. I do it. I do it. I love it. It's both an upside play and a floor play because the floor that Gainwell gives you in the receiving game is there. But then there's also the upside of him being a big play guy. So it's perfect. It's just there's no better week to play Kenneth Gainwell. If not now, never. You want a Hail Mary play? A Hail Mary play at Running Back. It's hard to find Hail Mary plays. A lot easier to find Hail Mary receivers. It's a lot harder to find. I mean, finding out, just looking around, what Running Back's that no one's talking about that aren't starters could perform well. The one guy I found on the slate is C'mon Eve at all. So C'mon Eve at all is a good player. We know he's a good player. He played well last year. He has size. He has athleticism. We pull him up on the screen. I mean, he's good. C'mon Eve at all is. Here he is right there. Look at that. C'mon Eve at all. How about that? So C'mon Eve at all. Look at him.

14:25Now, Isaiah Pacheco had a year there where everyone was in on Isaiah Pacheco. Everyone's excited about Isaiah Pacheco. So that's not like the greatest comp, but it's a very accurate comp. It's a very accurate comp. And C'mon Eve at all is 213 running a 446. That's an 87th percentile speed score. So the guy has athleticism. And then last year, he was more efficient as they gave him more carries. And then he also caught 16 passes. So he showed himself to be an all purpose workhorse back. And in this particular game, think about it. Think about this game. Think about the game script. Think about how this is going to play out. It's the cardinals. This could be a total blowout. We know the chargers are stacked. They've had a relatively healthy off season. Keaton Mitchell is not 100%. He's been limited in practice. Vidal is going to rotate in. And Vidal could be the guy in the fourth quarter in clock killing mode. And could come in and score a touchdown, put up 15 fantasy points easily.

15:26Everyone's looking back on, yeah, that was actually a pretty straightforward play. It's like, yeah, yeah, come on Eve at all this week. If you're very fringe running back that you can plug in in DFS, again, this is not a guy you're playing in traditional formats. You don't need to play him. But there's very deep formats that I'm in. I've took over some dynasty orphans with lots of flex positions where I'm like, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel and I'm putting Vidal in the lineup. I'm starting him and I am. It's crazy, but I'm doing it. And so yeah, and you can check our rankings. See where we had these guys and you can learn a little bit more about the rankings right now. You know, I get asked is AI ruining fantasy sports? And the answer is absolutely not. We've had consensus rankings available for a long time. But people subscribe to the player rankings at playerprofiler.com for Superflex, Titan Premium, Best Ball, even offensive line rankings. Of course, you're rookie rankings, you're dynasty rankings, those are all available in the ranking service for playerprofiler.com. Password protected so the bots can't get to it

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17:28Now available in Canada and the UK too. That's q-u-i-n-c-e dot com slash player. Now go to quince.com slash player. Tch-tch-gah! Let's just get to Chris Godwin. Chris Godwin, Chris Godwin, Chris Godwin. God plus win equals fantasy points. Egbukas playing through Turf Toe. He's gonna play, but remember, Godwin is as healthy as he's been in three years. He's teed up to be the number one wide receiver in all of fantasy this week. He's dripping with upside. This is the game you want. This is the situation you want. If there's a week where you're playing Godwin, it is this week. 30 fantasy points very much in his range of outcomes with a 50 plus point total. This is it. You don't need me to tell you, Godwin's a great play. Pretty obvious, but what I'm telling you is, no matter what the format is, even if you're just picking superstars, right? If it's a salary cap league and you can pretty much get anyone you want, Godwin needs to be on the docket.

18:29Needs to be a choice. It's like, okay, Jamar Chase. Okay, who's next? Oh, Chris Godwin. Chris Godwin. He'll outscore Drake London this week. Like, think of what were guys are drafted, right? Judkins was drafted five rounds before Kenneth Gainwell. I don't care. I'm playing Gainwell because week one is not the full season. Godwin, I'm playing Godwin over London because week one is not the full season. And then you go Josh Downs. This is this there's no better week to play Josh Downs. This is the Raven secondary ranked number 30 in pass yards allowed per game last year. Alec Pierce, not 100%. He's gonna be on a snap count. He's barely moved around at all in preseason. Like he wasn't involved in practices up until the end of August, finally getting in these limited sessions, finally working out on the side, ramping up, making sure it doesn't have a setback. But he's not gonna be operating at full capacity, right? No, it's all about Josh Downs. It's all about Josh Downs. I like, I prefer Daniel Jones Josh Downs stacks

19:30to say, Geno Smith, Edna Mitchell stacks. I mean, that's obvious. I mean, clearly. But if you were to go down the board, what I'm saying here is, I'm gonna put fringe value stacks. I think the fringiest value stack on the board is Jones Downs. I think that's where I, that's as low as I go. I'm trying to create value at quarterback and wide receiver and use it elsewhere. I think that's as low as I would go. Now, I was very, very pleased to see in the Roto Grinders projected ownership, Devon Vela, top 15, because he's cheap and he's in a great game situation, right? This is what we want. We want great game situations. Saints go into the lions, right? Bucking ears, they're on the road. They're going to Cincinnati. The Saints are going to Detroit. That's why the highest owned wide receiver, in terms of projected ownership and DFS, Chris Olave. But you also need to be playing Devon Vela and later we'll talk about Joanne Johnson. I mean, these are just Joanne Johnson, Olave,

20:32these are no brainers. Vela though, he's old and he, he was a late breakout and almost like, the latest breakout in the history of NFL wide receivers ever do anything, but there's no Jordan Tyson. Again, there's no better week to play Devon Vela. Why have him on your team if you're not going to play in this week? So play him. I went on serious XM Thursday afternoon to talk about fantasy spin, because fantasy spin has a bunch of new contests. They have team fantasy, just cool. You can just pick any six teams and you get all the fantasy points for all those teams. You use code fast and you get a free one V1 this week on fantasy spin with code fast. It's a promo they're doing to get a free roll. Free rolls are always fun. So on serious XM, talking to the road of wire guys, talking to the fantasy alarm guys, talking about Stribbling, who I called Swindling. And it's the nickname I came up with on draft day when he was selected by the 49ers before anyone thought he was going to be drafted.

21:33And that's what John Lynch does. Surprise is a solve. Sometimes it's a good pick, like, Kaelin Black. So all last night, Kaelin Black, but he looked like a third-rounder. That looked like about right. Good job, John Lynch. Stribbling, we'll see. We'll see with Stribbling or Swindling. And my position was Vailay and Stribbling are similar prospects in that they were never that productive in college and both very old when they were drafted and relatively old when they were drafted. So these are actually, they have similar athletic profiles. These are similar players. One guy's just been in the league a lot longer than the other guys are rookie. That's it. But one guy is a starter until Jordan Tyson returns and the other guy's the clear number three on a team that wants to play heavy formations. So for that reason alone and the experience, Vailay should outscore Stribbling this year. So that's what I said. I said, hey, my bold prediction is Vailay outscore Stribbling. That's cool. Cool. Right.

22:33And last night, right, the injury happens. And, you know, I'm posted on Twitter and referring to him as a Swindle. And I think my comment was, it's official that electric substations also exist in Australia because of this, this, this, the Stribbling injury. And I can't hold these comments back. Like, I'm really disappointed in this. This, this is the worst. I hate this post. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you not, what are you not like about it? Right. You're victory lapping injuries. Congratulations. Stay classy. But what are we, what? I'm not victory lapping anything. What are you even talking about? His nickname was Swindling on the day he was drafted and everybody, everybody's reflex response to seeing an injury to a 49er is electric substation. I thought I was going, I thought it was in my mind. I was like, wait, they're accusing me of victory lapping an injury. What is happening? So I went to the Shifter Tweet and the My Sports Update Tweet that came out even before that.

23:36And it was all electric substation jokes. And I'm like, okay, so I guess I'm not original and everyone else is having fun with this. Why am I the only one that has to be super serious about injuries? What's happening since when? Can't I play with everybody else? Am I not allowed to make electric substation jokes and give nicknames to players? I'm like, what happened? I was like, you people are crazy. Have some fun. Cheer up. It's sports. Cheer up. Yes, he's injured. He's going to be back. Okay, it's not the end. Just like it's not the end for tank del. That was a truly catastrophic injury, right? I think we've learned by now that just because a player is carted off, that doesn't mean it's a catastrophic, he's done for the year. You have to wait. Even if guys are taking a knee in prayer, you have to wait. Don't overreact and think automatically, this is catastrophic. And look for the Tweet where the guy was referring to electric substations and that it was a swindle.

24:37And it sort of call him out as being insensitive or not unclassy. I am the definition of class. I couldn't believe that one. That was the one that got me. That's right. I wouldn't even be talking about this today. If I hadn't got the dagger, the dagger, it's unclassy. I don't. I think it's funny and it's certainly classy. My commentary. Because it is a swindle. In the end, it's a swindle. AJ Brown with a high ankle sprain is a swindle. Whether a guy underperforms or he gets injured, either way, if we draft him with any kind of premium capital, in the case of AJ Brown, it's like top 20 pick. And in the case of stripling, at least in the last few weeks, it's a top 100 pick, that is a swindle, whether it happens with an injury, or whether it happens with underperformance. And it sure as hell was not in any way a victory lap. If anyone, other than those that are massively exposed to stripling, was upset by the injury, it was me.

25:40It was me. Because for at least the first quarter, I'm looking at going, wait a second, he's not even in the game. He could put up a zero. And yes, if stripling had went out and played precious few snaps, which was what he was trending to do for the entire game before he got injured, and then put up a zero, I would be celebrating today. I would absolutely be victory lapping. Dance party, probably not. And I'm not doing dance party on a stripling zero. That's not reached levels of dance party, but certainly I would say told you so. I can't even say told you so because he got hurt. I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the aggrave party here. Not over sensitive Twitter guy. Can't take a nickname or electric substation joke. I was so ready to victory lap. And now I can't. That's been stolen from me. I can't make a real out. So it's just the, I was like, man, it would be nice. Wouldn't it be nice if I could victory lap this? You're accusing me of victory lapping,

26:41which I'm not doing. And I would love nothing but, but I've been robbed. Been robbed of the victory lap. But the thing is, no matter what happens, AJ Brown, the Patriots losing in a truly catastrophic way, a throw that very few quarterbacks would make, Drake May, an MVP candidate last year, just inexplicably just throwing it up for grabs when you could at least go to overtime. I was perplexed. My daughter stayed up. We had a, it's been very interesting in my house. My daughter has helped me rediscover my Patriots fandom. I was talking to Andrew Cooper on the fantasy alarm show and I was like, he's like, hey, we got room for you. We got room for you. We can get you back on the bandwagon. If you run, run and jump. We'll catch you. We'll bring you back. We got one spot left. We'll bring you back. Cause I like listen, man, when I was a kid, I was chairing for Steve Grogan, Andre Tippett. I got some Patriots like Boomer Street cred here. I should be allowed to come back and Cooper,

27:42who's, you know, from the Boston area, welcome me back. So I'm highly respected. I'll take it. I'm back, baby. And the feel good story is that I'm back because my daughter is this raging Patriots fan. She wasn't supposed to stay up that late. I took all the bride took all I shielded her from the wrath of her mother, right? My wife, I got in the way. I said, it's my fault. I let her stay up. Even though she was like sneaking around, I took it, man. Dads, you know, once in a while, when you just, you feel like it's okay, you get in the way, you step in, you step in, you shield the child so they can watch sports late at night. I did that. And I did that because I was so enjoying just being a pure fan of a single team again, not cheering for fantasy teams and fantasy outcomes. And because she knows these players and she's analyzing them and she cares so much about the Patriots and doesn't care about any other team, I learned from her. Like she is still very much damaged.

28:45Two days later, by these dobs drops, but even more so, the fact that we dumped all this money, wasted all this money on dobs, could have had, you know, Joanne Jennings had much better value and then not lost Kashon booty. One of her favorite players was Kashon booty. She was very hurt by that. In a way that I'm never hurt by NFL transactions, does she see someone genuinely hurt by a trade, moved me? She's like, I love booty. I don't even like dobs. I think it was a waste of money. And I was like, yes, everything she says about the Patriots is dead on. I've stopped. I've outsourced all my Patriots analysis to her. And then I get to tell her how all the other 31 teams are doing. It's the perfect setup. It's great. It's great. And so I'm back. I'm back Patriots fans. I'm out there in the open. Like we're going to games. We're going to go to the Jets games. I want to see the Jets because of fantasy. But anyway, that's about it. We're going to crush the Jets. Or no, it'll be a shootout. Geno will spark some kind of comeback in the third quarter and then Drake May will crush their dreams.

29:46That's what's going to happen. I can't wait. So I'm just very excited for the season. I haven't been this excited for a season in many years. I'm going to be doing the top 10 take away show again. The top 10 take away show is a lot of work. But I just, I'm fueled with the passion for football in sports. And I haven't felt this in years. And I just want to share that with you. You all have been on this journey with me for so many years, some of you 10 plus years. And I am as energized as I've been in recent memory for this season. So this is going to be great. I'm very excited. And I'm also energized by the fact that my daughter made varsity. So even though she stayed up late and was sleep deprived, after practice that next day. So she stays up past 11 o'clock. We have this family feud in the living room. And it wasn't good. But she got up on time. She made it to school on time, had soccer practice. And then after the practice was over, a coach comes up to her and says, you made varsity.

30:47And as a defender, a center back, sophomore, they have these two seniors that are going to be the news. You're not going to start. But I was like, this is pretty interesting. I didn't know. I was trying not to think about it because I'm so invested in her success, particularly with soccer because it's a sport that just never came natural to her. And she said it worked so hard, practicing. And for that to pay off like this, it brought me to tears when she told me. I still get, you know, she's inspiring. Her Patriots fandom is inspiring. And how hard she works at sports to be good. She just loves competing. And she loves these kinds of little achievements, like making varsity. And I told her, I was like, think about it. Did Matt Collins think that going into the season, he was going to be the go-to guy on a potentially game time, game winning drive? No, but injuries happen. Things happen.

31:48You never know. Things can, it's not just injuries. Just things can happen. And when you're the primary backup, when the coach has told you, hey, you're the primary backup, you're not going to get a lot of playing time because these two girls, these are our rocks back there. But when you're the next person up, things can break your way. And you can find a way to contribute to the team. And I'll just keep you updated. I'm going to keep everyone updated on how things go with the season. There probably will be a moment where she gets thrust into a situation like Matt Collins was, where it's very uncomfortable. And we'll see how she performs. But I mean, I'm just so proud of her. And in her honor, in Vivian's honor, this play of the week is dedicated to my daughter, Vivian. I'm starting case on Booty this week. Booty is the clear number two option in Houston. The Texans, they generally, we've talked about this all summer. They're going to want to take the air out of the football, but they can't do that against Josh Allen. Because they can't do that against Josh Allen, Booty's going to make the Patriots regret choosing dobs over him.

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33:53That's q-u-i-n-c-e.com slash player. Now go to quince.com slash player. They let booty go to an AFC competitor and he's gonna make him pay. He's gonna make him pay. So starting booty, starting Valle, those are the two sleeper wide receivers. Drafted in the, not the end of the draft, but late in the draft that you could play this week. A guy that was drafted at the end of drafts, a rookie that all else equal, like Valle, if they were all healthy, would have outscored, struggling as well as Malachi fields. Malachi fields is a play this week. There aren't many rookie receivers, especially not first round pick rookie receivers you wanna play. It's usually total sucker move to play a rookie receiver and week one who's not a first round pick. But Malik neighbors has been, oh what's the term Malik neighbors? What's the term? Wishy washy, right? I think he's been wishy washy. So neighbors probably plays, but the fact that he hasn't come out as confidently active in week one

34:55has me questioning what his involvement will be. Calvin Austin's on IR, Darius Slayton was cut, quietly cut. Who's left? Malachi fields, big slot Malachi fields. Power forward Malachi fields. He is gonna, if I had to pick one receiver that's gonna be a dynasty riser after week one, it's Malachi fields. And you can play him, play him this week in deep leagues. Now at Titan, we talked about Joanne Johnson. This is just, you don't overthink it. Just remind yourself, fantasy football doesn't have to be hard. Actually, it can be quite easy. You play your saints this week. Don't worry about it. Go ahead. Joanne Johnson, I think we have him at Titan 11. That's just because there's no bi weeks, but I mean, you could argue of like Titans after Titan 780. He, you could argue his best case outcome, his maximal upside is higher than even like a cow pits. I mean, cow pits is given us some of the biggest spike weeks in the history of the Titan position. That's a, that's high praise. But the situation is just so perfect.

35:56Everything is lining up just so well. And he's one of those quiet, quiet producers in preseason, but mostly camp. He didn't play a lot in preseason because he's, you know, a key member of the starting unit. But praise was quietly rolling in. Whenever you would hear the notebook, read the notebook from one of these beat writers, usually was some comment about a Joanne Johnson play down the middle, down the seam, having a great camp, playing well, leadership, all the things, no injury concerns, right? Clean, quiet camp for Joanne Johnson, but little little tidbits, little nuggets here and there where he was standing out in practice, standing out in practice, standing out in practice, throughout preseason, you saw that. So Joanne Johnson, his upside is enormous in this particular game. I also like just on a target conservation play, Greg Dolsich. So Greg Dolsich is interesting in that this is not a game

36:59that you would typically target to bad teams, right? 40.5 point total, not good, not good at all. But what I'll say about Dolsich is he is probably the most explosive veteran pass catcher they have. It all else equal. I'd throw the ball to Dolsich before I'd throw the ball to Malik Washington and you should be excited about Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell, get excited, permission to get excited, get excited about Malik Willis. There's a little bit of, there's just a little bit of pizzazz here. There's a little bit of sleeper pizzazz here. There's a little bit of some reason to get jazzed up about these dolphins permission to just get slightly, slightly perked, just get perked. It's a little perked, we perked up with these dolphins. Yeah, I think there's a little more there with the dolphins and there is with the Raiders passing game. There's a thing, you have a super mobile quarterback. You have these rookies playing big roles. They're gonna be trusted. They're both in the official starting lineup

38:00for the team, Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell. The one guy, I think the steadying force, the anchor of this passing game, the veteran anchor, is actually, it's not gonna be Malik Washington. It's gonna be Greg Dolsich. And so I think you play him, but you also play Michael Mayer. I think you Michael Mayer and Dolsich, they're right there with John Johnson in our rankings. John Johnson has the sort of efficiency upside. He could go with big plays, but Mayer and Dolsich are gonna command the targets. These are target conservation plays. Next man up from Michael Mayer, right? Michael Mayer is a top 40 pick in the NFL draft. He was a dominant college producer. He's a good player and there's some touch-to-neckwoody there. I say with Dolsich, they have touch-to-neckwoody. They're the guys, they're gonna be targeted in the red zone. So if it's a low total, I am more willing to play players at the tight end position in low totals, because the tight end position is a lower bar. You don't need huge volume. Basically, you get a couple red zone targets, you're happy. Because generally the tight end will cash in one of those. Like Eli Raritan, Eli Raritan. My daughter, very excited about Eli Raritan.

39:01We finally have an answer at tight end, she says. I'm like, what happened to Hunter Henry? She's like, oh, he dropped a pass in the playoffs. He's dead to me. Like, oh no, I love it. So if it's a low total, I'm still fine streaming tight ends. Like this year, you'll probably see me streaming Darren Waller on the Panthers. These are the types where you just need to know they're probably gonna get some red zone looks and that right there, that can be good enough. And but otherwise, yeah, I mean, not excited about playing. I'm not ready to stream these rookies yet. I wanna see, I'm very excited to see what Chris Bell looks like. So with a lot of these other, the receivers on the Raiders and the Dolphins, just wait and see. But the tight ends in particular, play those guys with confidence. You know those pieces in your closet, you find yourself wearing on repeat.

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