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1:00Focus. Fancy. Fancy. Focus. What's good friends? Welcome into fantasy focus. Football alongside field geats in Mike Clay. My name is Daniel Dopp. And we had some football last night. We're going to dive into that. It's going to be a lot of fun to recap Wednesday night football. This is going to be fun. That part's not going to be fun. The fun part is going to be the week one preview. The storylines we're going to dive into today. It's going to be a blast getting into everything. But really quickly before we do all that, a couple of logistics really quickly. Our buddy Eric Moody hanging out and chatting all the time. Want to get to him? We love that guy. Follow him on social media at Eric and Moody and make sure while you're watching fantasy focus count down on ESPN 2, you also have on fantasy focus Sunday kickoff presented by Lowe's on your second screen experience live on the NFL on ESPN YouTube every Sunday, 11 30 AM to 1 PM. Get your lineup questions answered by the man, himself Eric Moody. He's going to be there every single Sunday for you guys.

2:01So go check him out there as well as check out a friends of a trophy smack. Go to trophysmack.com. Use the promo code trophy week one to be able to get something sick. We got a snake skin belt right in front of us. So we get like a league in like Colorado or Texas. By the way, you said second screen experience for Eric Moody. I actually watched a second screen experience of my own last night. You did. I watched Gray's anatomy during the game because every player kept getting hurt that I felt like it was only a crossover. That was good. I was just showing out. I was trying to learn something about what's going on. That deletions feel. It wasn't no. Isn't Gray's anatomy based in Seattle? Yes. Yeah. So Gray's anatomy, hospital in Seattle. So Christina, our producer confirms that is I watch like the first like 11 seasons of Gray's anatomy. But now that they're on the dream. You're dreaming, right? He's a yes. Yeah. Extreme and McDreamy. They have people don't know that before you worked here at ESPN, you were just McDreamy. That's, yes, that's what I did in life. Yes. I don't want any hats. No comment. Yeah. Let's talk about Wednesday night football to be honest. And we will hit the Brock Bower's news right after Wednesday night. Yes. Agreed with that.

3:01It's a big kick in the. I love watching football, but you can probably miss me with Wednesday night football from here on out guys. Wasn't really great. A lot of injuries, unfortunately, that really derailed this game. Let's start right off the top because right off the rip, unfortunately, Sam Darnold goes down and that we thought was going to have a major impact on what happened. Turned out, JSN is still pretty legit. Football, even without him. How do you feel about what Sam Darnold's missing time is going to do to this offense field? Yeah. So we're talking at 10 o' 2 a.m. On Thursday morning, we'll see whether we get more information. I'm assuming we get more information today. The good news is that Mike Beddonald, the coach of the Seahawks after the game last night, said, we got some great news on Sam, which I reading between the lines there, I think there was an initial fear that like this might be serious. Like the hip injury. Could this be the kind of thing that, you know, derailed Sam season before it really gets going? Not the case. No fractured hip. His sounds like he could miss some period of time. They do have 10 days before their next game, but it doesn't sound like worst case scenario. We don't know how long is going to miss, but I think we can agree that until Sam Darnold returns,

4:03while JSN did absolutely mash last night, eight catches, 122 yards in the touchdown. What a player he is. He's awesome. The downs, the upside of JSN is decreased a little bit without saying a darn sure. Like the touchdown equity for this offense, they scored just one last night. Not saying JSN is going to be a wide receiver, 17 for me in my week two rankings, but when the tier is other three or four players, JSN plus Jamar chase Pukunakua and maybe Amun Ross St. Brown, I think it's fair to say that going into next week, my confidence would probably be the lowest of JSN out of those four guys. Yeah, no doubt. And I think that if you look at the CX offense going into even to yesterday who are going to the season, you're probably only starting two guys who are starting JSN, of course. And you were probably starting Gennari price. I don't think that changes going forward. The matchup's going to be later as well. I will say this about true locks, 16 of 22, 187 yards had that touchdown to JSN. JSN did a lot of that work. He did. Sure pass made a great play. He was fine. He was serviceable.

5:03But if you look back at his 24 career games in the NFL for true locks, just 14.9 fantasy points per game, he's reached 16 points once in his last 10 games. And that's a quarterback side. He does add a little bit with his legs, but that shows you that he's not putting up enormous passing numbers. I don't think that's going to change in the Seattle offense. It's going to try to run the ball. And as you saw last night, their defense is outstanding. Like games amazing with all those injuries. They're still amazing. Yeah, GameScript is going to be in their favor going forward. So I would just say their next two games are he said they're like Arizona and Washington. Yeah. So they're probably going to be ahead or competitive. They're going to be able to run the football. I know we'll talk about JSN price in a second, but I think it's beneficial for him. And again, at the end of the day, it doesn't change a lot in terms of who you're sitting or starting in this office. JSN's locked in price. You're probably starting. That's it. That's talking about during price. I was going to say, yeah, how did you guys feel about him? Because when I watched Jadarian price out there, he clearly looked like the better of the back. He got a little bit of passing game work. But there was a commitment to get everybody the ball. I don't mean to give you those numbers. First, he played half of the snaps in a 24 snaps 21 for George Hullani.

6:06It's 44% and then Emmanuel Wilson, who they liked in short yardage. I guess came in and played three snaps in the game. Depositives, I would say for price though, in terms of that usage, he was the lead ball carrier. He had 10 carries Hullani head eight. But when it was early down and they wanted to run the football generally, they wanted to lead toward him. He did outplay Hullani in that area also. And this one's a big one. Routes run 11 for Jadarian price. Not a big number, but it was number one at running back. It's not like they leaned heavily on Hullani. He ran seven routes, just one for Emmanuel Wilson. So that plus that was his first game. They're going to go into game two. The run defense is going to be easier. I think this was a point in the right direction. I think no matter what side of the Jadarian price argument you are on coming into the year, you could make the case four, make the case against. Yes, like you could use is, it looks awesome. Like the guy's a very talented runner, no surprise there. We knew that coming into this year. Next week when they play Arizona, he might get 20 carries. He might turn those 20 carries into 120 yards and a touchdown. The case against him was, is he going to have any passing game involvement?

7:09Well, he had six receiving yards last night. So a minimal role in the receiving game, compared to guys that we are profiling as top 15, maybe top 10, ish running back. He's going to have to be an elite, elite russer to have anywhere close to that value going forward. I will say that Mike brought the Emmanuel Wilson point up. That was annoying. Like at one point, the Seahawks had the ball second and one at like the four yard line, an opportunity to punch it in. Emmanuel Wilson was on the field. They ended up getting called for a false start. So it changed the complexion of the situation right on the spots. But I would like to see Seattle be a little bit more committed to Jadari and price and those gotta have its situations. But I would say still like a, I think he enters. Well, next week will be a different story. I would say generally after one game, if you said to me, how would you value Jadari and price? I would say he's right on the borderline of a low end RB two. Or a strong flex. I am. I'm left feeling optimistic in part because I think with week one, I felt like they had a game plan that they knew they wanted to distribute the football. And when you saw Jadari and price get the ball,

8:10he showed that he was clearly the best of the three guys in that backfield. We already knew that. That wasn't a question. But when you look at it now moving forward, do we decide, okay, now we saw it in week one, do we decide to give maybe just a couple more snaps to Jadari and price? Do we see it slowly start to expand over the next couple weeks? I don't think it'll be a big jump, but I'm interested to see if that slowly starts to increase. Hopefully it expands and then we just hope that once Zach Charmene is back, it doesn't retract. Correct. Yeah. Field. How many NFL plays? How many NFL snaps do teams usually average? Well, roughly, roughly. I think we could have the answer was like 62. Yes, like 68, 62, 64 in that range. Well, see, I only ran 47 plays last night. So that also is not going to continue, which is why all the number, like the 24 pass attempts, the 22 total carries, two of which were by Drew Locks. So an enormous game, there'll be about 15 more plays. That probably gets Dary and price to maybe an extra target, maybe five more carries, and that looks a lot better. So I wouldn't be totally concerned about the overall counting stats for him.

9:11I think it's good. It's a good sign kind of where he fell in the total poll, like going forward. My main concern is like when Charmene comes back, I do think they're going to split it. But that was a draft season conversation right now, at least for the next few weeks, you could feel good starting. Feeling good about that. I am feeling concerned, unfortunately, other side of the ball, AJ Brown left the game, dealing with a high ankle sprain. We saw him get banged up, kind of took like a knee right to the ankle when there's a defender landed on it. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks, I would assume without AJ Brown, obviously, we don't know an official timeline, but when you just think about historically high ankle sprains and what it means, you're probably thinking of a couple of weeks, you're going to be with that AJ Brown. How's that going to affect Drake May and this offense and the way you guys are looking at them? On the plus side for the Patriots and Drake May, matchups get easier, right? It's probably hard to find a matchup as difficult as Seattle. Maybe Houston would be in that same territory. They play Houston later this season. That being said, I mean, this Patriots wide receiver room completely changed when AJ Brown was off the field. Going into next week when they play home to Pittsburgh,

10:13my snap reaction is nobody from the Patriots wide receiver or tight end room is going to be a line of block for me. That's my snap reaction when I think about this because what we saw last night, I'm like, you can highlight this a little bit more, is that Romeo Dobbs was out there when they were passing, but he also was not, at least at the beginning of the game, playing as much as a player who now makes $17 million per year, you would think would be playing. Yeah, I talked about this throughout earlier this week. I look forward to week one to get a good feel of like snap counts and routes and that kind of usage for these players. Probably the biggest surprise last night was Matt Collins clearly running ahead of Romeo Dobbs. Now to your point when they were running the ball, the Collins was out there when they were throwing, Dobbs was out there. He still ran 28 routes. I was second on the team to only pop Douglas who ran 32. He would have been third had a J Brown knockout injured, but it's not a, it's not a role that's going to lead to any sort of fantasy relevance. That's a bad sign. They've hit him a lot of money to come in and you're running behind Matt Collins. Not, I'll do respect to Matt Collins. He has a role and he was targeted a lot actually last season. He might be targeted a lot over the next couple of weeks.

11:14So I agree with you. I'm not going to touch any of these guys. I think that you can look at rounding get her. I would have came in here and said, look, if you took a lay flyer and Dobbs cut him, like it's just not going to happen. He's not going to play enough. He had three targets last night, even with Brown missing half the game. It didn't have a single catch. Bad drop. Bad, bad, bad. But with Brown out, I mean, in theory, should be their number one receiver. I mean, again, he still ran 28 routes. So I think you could hang tight if you want. You can kind of lose if you want to go out and have, there's a lot of good waiver options. But I think it's possible he's going to be on the flex radar. It's likely he'll be on the flex radar last next week. But it's certainly not a lineup block. I won't go that far. Tough night for Drake May. I mean, just Pat, like real life story bigger than the fantasy in my opinion. Because he has like, Drake May has got to get going against good teams. Just period fact and the story. This guy who nearly won MVP last season, he was not the MVP last night. And this is now five straights concerning performances from Drake May against quality teams. Trevor Lawrence needs to get 9.83 fantasy points

12:15from Mike and I to win that week one board bet. Let's get to the news on Brock Bowers, though, Daniel. Let's talk about it. Unfortunately, we got news yesterday from Adam Schaefter Brock Bowers. Underwent a surprise surgery guys that I don't think any of us knew anything about. We are told he's going to miss a game or two for what it's worth. Unfortunately, this is major news for us because we had no idea coming into week one that this was going to be a thing they're taking on the Miami dolphins here. We're going to throw up Adam Schaefter's tweet on the screen as well. But it really kind of shuts down the number of people you're looking to play in this game. We'll talk about the game in a moment. But Brock Bowers, underwent, sorry, I got this sweet here. Underwent a Maniscus trim Tuesday in Dallas, expected to miss a game or two sources told, rap sheet and Shafter got banged up in a little, a little bit in camp. That's it. I'm trying to find silver linings here. A game or two is important. We'll see whether it ends up being a game or two. But Adam Schaefter does not just tweet things for like, you know, for Crap's and Giggles. He does it because it's, he believes it's good information.

13:15Dan Cooper is the, he's the go, go to guy for knees. This is Patrick Maholm's surgeon. He's as good as a get. So, you know, one or two games to me still feels in play for Brock Bowers. Other than when you, the guy you drafted gets hurt on like the opening drive, this is like about as close to, like this is a gigantic kick in the pants. Right. Brock Bowers and I, I made the case for hot take. Like he's going to set the NFL tight end single season receiving record. And, and we were drafting him as a top 20 to 25 player. And now you're not going to happen to begin the season sucks. Really sucks. Like gigantic, gigantic, gigantic blow. Yeah. It absolutely is. It's unfortunate. I think if there's probably a handful of people still drafting tonight, I still think he's tied into a game or two. Totally agree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a lot of pushback when I put that on social, but love Linda. I mean, I guess you can make a case by still go Bowers just because his, yeah. Bowers can get to that level that maybe no one else at tight end can get to. So I stand by him as tight into behind McBride. I will say this.

14:15If you have Bowers and Michael Mayer still out there just scoop him up and file him. That's the one. Maybe that's the silver line. You can plug him in. There was four games last year that Brock Bowers was out and Mayer played. Listen to these numbers. You tell me these are good for a tight end or honestly, a wide receiver. 93% of the snaps, 25 and a half percent target share. That's huge. An enormous number. That, I mean, that's in the vicinity of what Bowers is at generally. He filled right in one of those games was a 31 nothing loss where they had a ridiculous 28 offensive snaps. I don't know if you remember that they got blown out by the chiefs and this were not. The offense was not in the field. So that was obviously a throw away game. The other three games. So he averaged 13.9 fantasy points per game at at least 16 and two of the three games. They're also facing Miami this week, which should be a great match up for the Raiders to get off to a good start. So Michael Mayer. I've met tight end 12. You could plug him right in though if you had Bowers. I mean, he's out there in a ton of waiver wires. I know people were scooping him up yesterday, but you can get him and plug him in. You're good for a week or two. Every game day starts before the lights go up before the snap before the roar.

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17:19I'm going to do a PSA, so I'm letting our production team know, can we please clip what I'm about to say in like five seconds? A lot of people have been asking us after the Brock Bower's report from Adam Shefter and Ian Rappeport. Why can't I put them on IR? We have said this many times before. It's worth doing it again to start to this year. Designations on the ESPN fantasy app are controlled. We outsource them to our friends over at Rotawar. They do a great job, but until a team makes a move or announces a player to be out, whatever reporting there is, that player is not going to be ruled out. And that's just how it has always been. I know this is not a thing that happens often. There was a time when Ben Rathasberger was like reported to be out. And then he ended up playing in the game on Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The problem is that while our reporters are amazing until a team comes out and says, this guy is out. Like when the Falcon said recently, Michael Pentax Jr. is going to be inactive in week

18:22one. And so if you have Pentax, you can put him in your IR spot, Jordan Tyson is in place on IR. You can put him in your IR spot. I know it's something that frustrates people. It's a very fine line. I get it. But until Brock Bowers has ruled out by the Raiders and their head coach, like two hours before this report came out, say we expect to have all of our guys on the field on Sunday until they make that ruling as things presently stand within our game. Brock Bowers is not IR eligible. I get why you're frustrated. That's how it goes. None of the three of us can make that change by ourselves. That is how things are. We will see if things are just at some point, but until Brock Bowers has ruled out, he is not going to be IR eligible. If you want to, yeah, if you do want to tweet at us and let us know how frustrated you are at my clay NFL is. No, I've already gotten those. I address this on social and people are very mad at me about it. I'm like, directed to the Raiders. Like the other ones has said everybody's playing. Exactly. They said Bowers is out. Then he'd be out. Last thing really quickly, Michael Mayer's $2,700 if you want to use him in draft Kings

19:25this week at the tight end spot is a really great hunt. Play to be able to save some money and go somewhere else with some bigger money in your roster. All right. Let's talk about the running backs. Mike, what does this mean? Did this do anything for your action, genty projection with where we think he's going to be? Not really. I mean, maybe he gets an extra target out of this. I think they'll try to distribute them again. Michael Mayer, his target share of ours has been out. It's been the same. Yeah. Plus, they brought an e and Thomas too. That guy, you know, could see a target or two. Not a big number, but there's ways they can spread these out. I don't think it's going to affect action, genty a lot. We've talked about this throughout the week. This is a great match up for the Raiders running back. So we expect you to be active. You guys just buried a lead. He practiced in fully after. Yeah, practiced. Yeah, practiced. So we're not really worried about it. It's possible. Maybe they are like, you know what? Mike Washington's been playing well. He had the injury. Maybe we roll him back a little bit from where we might normally be. Not really concerned about that. But even if it's 80% of normal action, genty, you're going to start him. He's a terrific player. He's going to play a lot regardless. And it's a great matchup against Miami. He could be limited in score two touchdowns in a game where this should be one of the

20:26Raiders best games of the season. There's certainly their highest winning percentage chance at home against this dolphins team. So it should be all systems go for action, genty. You have them. You're firing them up without pause. And he's the only running back that you're even considering. I'm not playing Mike Washington, Jr. Anywhere unless there's a reason why he's like the Mike Washington factor is how much he detracts from the back. Correct. It's at all a vat. Exactly. No stand alone value there insurance elite insurance running back, but you're not starting him. On the lineup lock screen that Miami has won it's Devon H in unless you guys feel differently. There's no dolphin that I am intrigued by playing in week one. Hopefully Malik well, Malik Willis plays well, but otherwise, not drafting, not trusting a dolphins wide. Yeah, I'm going to be watching those two rookie third round receivers closely, though Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas. I love that they are not messing around. Some teams are like, ah, they're rookies and Bell missed a lot of time at the A.C. We're going to bury them. No way. They're listed as starters and they're getting the vote of confidence. If they're the best receivers, they're going to play it and Chris Bell. I mean, as you know, he could have been a first round pick.

21:26So he's like, if you're in a deep league and he's still out there on waivers, not a bad guy to add to the end of your brand. Most important thing to watch in this game is the same thing that we're watching. I had full of other games. How often does Malik Willis put the ball in the hands of Devon H and 45 to the air. If he has three targets, it's going to be a problem and we're going to start panicking majorly after week one. Yep. All right. You guys got this game. We're going to pick every game by the way. The Raiders. Raiders. Game picks. I think they're all not up there. Oh, I thought we. I picked the Raiders in this. Oh, there we go. Oh, I guess I picked the doll. Oh, no, I picked the Raiders too. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'm going to forget my picks. You guys can just flash mine. There we go. Love that. Three for three on the Raiders. Producer. Producer's helped us on that one. Thank you, the dolphin. All right. Let's move forward here to the game tonight. Got a big one. Yeah, bring it. We got a game. I guess it's tonight's slash tomorrow depending on which you can't on tonight. You're in. The Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers go down under. There are four lineup locks in this game. Christian McCaffrey, Kirin Williams, Puka Nakua and DeBonte Adams.

22:31I'm not doing it. No, you got to do it now. Come on. That was too good. I'm going to I'm bad at this. Look, I had to do it as a punishment last year and it was awful. Yeah. So I've been able before we even got away. I know my lane. It's on a height high. One of my favorite shows of all time. I'd like to call it a day. Back in the day. Yes, this game is being played in Australia. I'll stop speaking in an in an Australian accent. It's a great job. It wasn't bad. But yes, the game will be played tonight in the States tomorrow in Australia. That's right. It's a huge one. Do you see the thing about Rahim Morris? How he's going to miss his whole birthday? His whole birthday. Is he's traveling or at the time? Shot. So he's literally leaving the day before his birthday. And when they get there, it will be the next day. So the best part is the whole birthday. He left when he when he was 49. And by the time he got there, he missed his 50th birthday. Like he's so committed to the 49ers. He refused to turn 50. I didn't know that part. That's one of them. I love that. All right. So yeah, you saw the four lineup blocks. No surprise there with the Rams. I am interested in Blake Corm. To see how much of a role he plays. I say that because our friend Adam Schaefter, who's amongst the most tapped in people in

23:32anything in life, did draft Blake Corm and Kyron Williams. He draft to Blake Corm early in the War Room League, which I think his thought process was just I want all of the Rams back to every game. It'll be productive and aggregate. It's a 16 team league. So it's running backs fly off the board there. But obviously I have my eyes on Blake Corm. But let's talk about to me. I think the most interesting thing Mike of this game is George Kettle, who's off the injury report tonight. Are we cranking him up? I am not cranking him up. I have him a tight end 17. It's just hard to imagine him missing so much time being in doubt, even travel for this game and then playing a full complement of snaps. I know, you know, he look, it might be a simple, we know a tight end is like he could just have two targets and catch a touchdown and end up tight end 11. You'll Eli Reardon. Yeah, exactly. So I look, if you're in a really tight spot at tight end and you want to take a shot at it, fine, but I would stay away from this one. He's tight end 17 for me. I'm not going to start him. And I'm certainly not going to start Jake Tonjes either. We are keeping an eye on him in case Kettle was out. If Kettle is a surprise and active, Tonjes, you can file in the average.

24:32Just a hair under 12 fantasy points for game in place of Kettle last season, which would have ranked eighth over the full season. So that's the only path I'm considering. A nineers tight end this week is if Kettle's out, Tonjes could be filed in. That's it. Our rankings all reflect a similar value for George Kettle. I think the another question for the 49ers offense is, are you playing a wide receiver tonight? I think at some point this season, like I feel this this 49ers wide receiver is so old, right? Mike Evans, Debo Samuel, Christian Kirk who's on IR, but that's three very tenured receivers with the Jean tripling is like the man waiting in the wings. He generated all the hype during the preseason. I just don't think that tripling is going to be a thing coming out of the shoots here. I think it's going to take some time before shripling plays a meaningful role. And while Mike Evans was not exactly the most exciting target in drafts worth noting, he does make $17 million a year now. And the Niners have been saying all the right things about Mike Evans. I have him as wide receiver 36 in this game prior years when you're playing against the Rams. You were concerned about the past rush, but you were not concerned about the cornerback

25:35room. You are as the Rams imported the chief's cornerback room. Yeah, they do. And they now have Trent McDuffey and Jalen Watson playing behinds. Well, not Aaron Donald, but Miles Garrett and the rest of that outstanding front. So tough match up here tonight. Yes. I've got Mike Evans as wide receiver 36. Debo Samuel is wide receiver 43 and Dejon tripling right on the border of my top 50. Do you guys agree or disagree that if you're playing a Niners wide receiver tonight, it is Mike Evans. I agree with Evans. I've struggling second, but it's close. I think that'll be a close call. I'm pumped to see struggling. No, one of my the most anticipated players of the week, I would say. I'm nervous for all kinds of outcomes. Yeah. I like if you play as every single snap and has 12 targets on like, damn, I was way too low on the guy or if it's I think I'll be busy or it's like, yeah, he plays 12 snaps. And you're like, oh, I forget the preseason is different. I'm more in on stripling than I am. I'm like Evans. Um, in terms of draft capital spent or exposure. You asked, but I think week one of it.

26:36Oh, you like struggling over Evans week one. Yeah, I would play I would play him over Evans. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. I'm deferring to age and experience. And frankly, like Mike Evans, obviously not the same level of player, but like the upside of Mike Evans is still pretty damn high right now. Does he goes routes? He was running. He was doing this. Yeah. He was a try and real hard guys. Like a, he was running some areas of touchdown machine and a high efficient offense. He might be able to have some unsustainable efficiency this year in terms of yard. Devon Adams. Yeah. Very, very much. That's his best chance. I did not, again, I very little Mike Evans exposure. I don't think I have any Mike Evans exposure, honestly, in drafts. That year. I have a lot of struggling. So I just have one Mike Evans in a deeper league. He also feels like you could tell me week five rules around Mike Evans is widower. See worth 13 on the year. And we're like, holy crap. We missed the boat. And then by Thanksgiving, you could be like, I don't know. That is, that is exactly my expectation. It's like the reverse Jeremiah love. Low start for love. And then he's going to be worth it. Evans is the opposite. I think he'll come out.

27:37He'll be like, all right, three touchdowns in four games. And then it's going to start to cool a little bit. And went in Johnston, like last year, kind of a thing. I said a lot of guys said that. A booka, a dunesay, like, had a good first month. Let's calm down on the a booka. All right. Hey, no hate at all. All right. For what it's worth, I would just say this. I think that with Mike Evans and Dejon Stribling, if there was someone that I thought the defense would be more keyed in on, it would be Mike Evans. You're slightly easier match up for Dejon Stribling in this one. He's going to be on the perimeter. We'll see. McDuffy might shadow him in this game. I'm taking the Rams in this one. Yeah. I have Rams. There we go. Thank you. I'm going to forget literally. I'm going to forget all of them. I'm going to find out the really obvious ones. We do our super ball picks, by the way. I don't think we did that yesterday. No, we did not. We did that. No, my mind is rammed. So mine was Ravens. Oh, picking them. I get so many headaches every month. It could be chronic migraine. 15 or more headache days a month. Each lasting four hours or more. Alluretox on a botchaline mtoxin A prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine.

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30:41London, Kyle Pitts, all the Falcons that you expect. Should I try to read the lineup blocks in the accent of the game where where the game is being played? I don't like that field. Okay. Yinzis. Yeah, I don't really have. Use guys. I don't like import tone digs. Our buddy from Pat McAfee show. Maybe just Pat himself, of course, Pittsburgh legend. I would screw this up. So I'm not even a father trying. Michael Pittman, Jr. and DK McCaff are flex considerations, potentially, not lineup blocks. I would assume Mike. I put them as lineup blocks. Both top 26 and I kind of lean towards 12 team leagues. So yeah, I think I can do a half of them in this matchup. I'm firing them up. Well, let's talk about the running backs then. Those are the lineup blocks, by the way, from the on the screen. That's what we show. I've got Rico Doudel ahead of Jalen Warren in this one. I'm curious where you guys are at, but I just like Rico Doudel as the one better, pure running back. When I look at what I think this Mike McCarty offense is going to be, I think he's the better runner, the Pittsburgh style of running back as a part of that. I know Jalen Warren's more like the pass catching guy that we think of.

31:42Jalen Warren was a starter for the entire season last year, right? Rico Doudel was a part time starter, halfway through the year because of injury. He only had one less reception than Jalen Warren. Wasn't that bad of a pass catcher from that perspective. So right now, just like with the way that I think the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to play offense week one until I see Jalen Warren prove to me that he needs to be the guy. I think Rico Doudel just feels like the better safer, potential low end RB2 play and Warren is more like a low end flex consideration. Probably a better pure runner is Rico Doudel, a better finisher at the goal line. Definitely. He'll have more punch down up. Family Arity with Mike McCarty all working his favor. I think Jalen Warren is a good runner. I think he's a very capable pass catcher. There's obviously familiarity or liability in play there for him as well. So I have doubted, I screwed this up. I have doubted it RB27. I got to recall my Jalen Warren rank, but the bottom line is all very close. One ahead of doubt. It actually the hope here is I actually think for our purposes, like the better thing for us would be that we avoid dead zones, which is like, yep, they both kind of play enough

32:46to render them not saying this is judari and prices future or destiny. But like last night where it's like everybody plays enough and none of the roles are impactful enough. And what we don't think is going to be this amazing offense in Pittsburgh, that it's like, yeah, they both get 12, 12 opportunities a game, 12 to 15 opportunities a game. And they both average between like 10 and 12 fantasy points for game. Something like that. Yeah. Look, if they have 64 offensive snaps, it might be 32 32 or 30, you know, 33 31. You know, I mean, they're going to, I think this is going to be a really good match. Retro committee 50 50 split with a lean towards Warren and passing situations, that'll on early downs. That's not good enough for me to consider one of these guys for my RV to slot. Yeah, maybe at some point one moves ahead a little bit and becomes a flex option, but also Mike McCarthy hates running backs from a fantasy perspective. Roodle bad target. It hasn't been nice every season. So I've talked about this throughout the off season. So stay in a way for week one. A couple of things here. I know they're lineup blocks, but I'm legitimately curious how two of plays for Drake London's purposes. Not that Drake London got great quarterback play last year, but two was so awful in the

33:49preseason. And this feels like the shortest leash in the history of starting quarterback leashes, like please to keep it together enough to feed Drake London the football 12 times. Yeah. And he's done these. It's hard to believe he would just fall out. It's not like he's 40 years old. You know, he's still a prime agent. He's in Miami. He was able to get the ball in the hands of his playmakers. I know they've had some big fantasy season. So hopefully he can do it here. This feels like, I mean, is there anybody that I'm missing that's had what feels like a worse preseason than two? Well, I a couple of Tesla. Sean Watson was pretty poor as well. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's a good answer. Sorry, it was a. Major McCarthy would probably be a car. Yeah, you be three, right? And we're after one of your lions. That's talking. That's right. So well done. Yeah, I just pronounced his name. I didn't even hear it. Who you guys picking in this game? Steelers. Steelers. I mean, the Falcons. Wow, we're bad at forgetting who we were better. Remember in this one. Yes, the Alcons. What's your confidence level in that Falcons pick? My confidence level is that B. John Robinson and Drake London are the two best players on

34:53the entire field across the board. So I'm just going with the best players in the game. That's, that's what you want. That's weird. It's where you picked a team that's going to lose. I thought your sister picked a team that's going to win. If I didn't do it, we would, I would have jinxed the entire thing. So like, you guys should be grateful. I took, I think my guy almost perfectly aligned. So far so, I don't want to pick the winners, you know, that's what you're supposed to do. They don't like it. Yeah. Yep. Next up. This is you guys. Sorry. Oh, here we go. All right, Mike, let's talk about the Packers and the Vikings. And I believe you wanted to discuss the value of Martian Lloyd. We're going to see the lineup locks here. Oh, yeah, yeah. The game is being played Sunday 425 in Minnesota. We're going to wait in line up locks in just a moment. So Mike, while we wait for those, does Martian Lloyd crack that lineup lock list? He does not. He's RB26 this week. This is a wait and see very similar scenario to Jadarian price. Actually, this guy is entering his third year in the NFL. He's only appeared in one game. It's a little bit different. But a lot of excitement around him with no Josh Jacobs there. He finally gets an opportunity, former day two draft pick.

35:54So I'm, again, very fascinated to see what kind of role he plays in this one. But I do expect to see quite a bit of Chris Brooks, who is a good change of pace guy along with the manual Wilson behind Josh Jacobs the last couple of years. And I expect that tomorrow or what day is it? Thursday on, so we get the promotions on Saturday. We will see Pierre Strong activated as well. Could see a few touches as well. So probably going to be a three at a backfield. I would think Martian Lloyd isn't the 50 to 55% snap share range. Should be the lead ball carrier. Maybe not a lot of pass catching involvement and pretty good, pretty good defense here in Minnesota. So at the end of the day, no 55 jokes. Okay. Why not? Are you out? Yeah. I'm just business. Okay. Two things. Okay. I don't agree with that. Second. You don't agree with what? Oh, 55 jokes. Yes. You know it on that. But you do it wrong. So you just, you ruined it a long time ago. So we just don't do it anymore. Wow. You're a real. You just yell 55. And then the fantasy footballer crowd gets mad at us.

36:54That's true. Wow. Could you do it wrong? Like, how do you do it right? No, I'm not doing it. No, my, come on. No, it's ruined. 55% of the carries. The way you describe what you think Martian Lloyd's outlook could look like. Sounded almost exactly like Jornarium. Yeah, very, that's what I'm kind of expecting in this one. But we also don't know for sure what it's going to look like. Is he even going to be an effective NFL running back? We've seen him in one game. We don't know. We don't know. I am heavily invested in this game because I do have some Martian Lloyd shares. But also because our boss got Clark plays in dynasty lead that the three of us play in. It's about half ESPNers and half former colleagues of our CRDSPN. And we made a trade right for maybe three or four years ago. He was kind of pivoting to get younger. And I saw an opportunity to like make a push. And I acquired Derek Henry for Javante Williams. And there was some flotsum involved as well. One of the players going from my roster to Hayes was Martian Lloyd. And now like four years later, I guess this wasn't four years later. And like one of the jokes, he always will be like, you know, be random.

37:55Like week nine, he'll be like currently anticipating 22 points from Martian Lloyd. Right. He continues to hang around on Scott's bench sooner or later. That's me with Ray Benson. I want to keep Ray Benson forever. Yeah. I'm going to stay for no reason. So this is a big moment here for Scott Clark's team. Yeah. Huge. Yeah. So you can start him. We have a lot of flexes. Dynasty is probably that's why dynasty is the best. Because Scott made a big trade last year himself. And what you acquired Josh Allen for the cost of two future first round picks. Plus. And this was like early last season. Like I think even before the season. JJ McCarthy and Travis Hunter. And think about where we were last year at this time with both of those players. Before the season had begun, could JJ McCarthy be a breakout top 12 quarterback? Is Travis Hunter going to be a potential top 15 wide receiver? Yeah. It's some dynasty can be the best. It can also be the worst. The worst. Oh, that's so fun. All right. So March on Lloyd, that's from Mike is that I want to discuss the Packers wide receivers.

38:56As always, they are kind of an enigma. How do you rank all of these players worth noting before I get into the receivers? Tucker Kraft full goal yesterday. He is going to play in week one. We were expecting that, but just an update on where he stands health wise. Here is how I have this kind of reminds me of my 49ers analysis earlier. More or less so like. I know exactly what's going to happen more. So here's how I have them ranked in case you want to follow said rankings. You guys know that I think Christian was in ready for his best season yet. Yep. He is wide receiver 26 for me. So inside my top 30, I consider him, you know, a borderline lineup lock. He's certainly a strong flex consideration. Matthew Golden, wide receiver 37. Jaden Reed, wide receiver 44. Jaden Reed will probably have five games this year where he looks like the best Packers wide receiver. I think the other 10 to 12 games are going to be games we were saying to yourself. Why would I ever bother starting this player? Golden is super intriguing because of the breakout possibility. The Packers made this big investment in him a year ago.

39:56He also had zero touchdowns as a rookie. So Watson is my guy out of the three Packers wide receivers or either of you confidence in any Packers wide receiver to the point he would be inside your top 30. Nope, not this week. They're all outside my top 30, but I do have Watson the highest for this week. But again, it's 32, 33. And then I've Jaden Reed down at 39. Remember the Vikings we expect to still be very good defensively. Yeah. And they allowed the fewest fantasy points to wide receivers last season. They are good. I feel like like I think because of what went on with the offense, they just quietly got the job done, but they shut down receivers last year. And again, they should be very good in that area again this year. Even shut down Jefferson Jefferson last year. Yeah, you're right. They were that good. They were just so good in practice that they couldn't even get going and win the game. Confident. And yeah, I'm avoiding these receivers for week one for the most part. Mike took the Packers. You took the Packers. I took the Packers in this one. Where did our producers go? Packers. Wow. Yeah, he said that's in part because Quentin. I would like to do this. It's a Packers fan.

40:56So they had to do it. Yeah, please, please, please, please, please, please count them. Murray. Do your job. Oh, that's the only thing we want. What's that job? Clear. Throw the football early and often to Justin Jefferson. That's it. Okay. I'll do respect to Addison and Jennings. I was going to say I was going to say I was going to say I was going to say to you. I can sit further down there. How dare you? No. Yeah, at least 10 targets or a 30% target share. If Kyler only throws the ball 27 times, which is he probably Justin Jefferson needs to have at least nine of them. Yeah, we need a career high target share from Justin Jeff. Correct. So which he had last year, but needs to be more. It's going to be the same thing. Let's take a couple of questions from our chat. This one comes from Isaac Smith wants to know someone dropped Josh Jacobs in my league is worth the way we're going this early in the season. Absolutely. I agree. Speculative. I think it's, you know, again, we've been using sort of like five-ish games missed as a potential guest for Josh Jacobs. And we don't know, obviously. But yes, I would say he deserves to be rostered.

41:56Agreed. Yeah. Deserves sounds like the wrong choice of words. I know what you mean. I think he is a player that would bring value on your fantasy roster right now based on what we know. You're right. With you on that. All right. Next one from our chat. By the way, thanks for hanging out with us in there. We love the community. You guys have been able to foster with our buddy Eric. Again, follow him at Eric and Moody. This one is from Lalo Garcia. Should I start Quinch on Judkins? Marishon Lloyd or Carnell Tate in My Flex? I have an answer here. What do you guys think? Yeah, Judkins for me. Judkins is a cheesy call for me. I did look at, I don't know, are we doing Titans today? I don't know when we're doing that one. Carnell Tate will get into that. But basically, it's very similar to what you did with, with Jeremiah Love, like where, yeah, they have good first seasons. But how do they do in that first game, right? And for guys drafted in the top 15, a wide receiver. And again, all the numbers at another point. But basically, solid, but not spectacular. Usually I don't see a huge games from these guys right out of the gate. So a little bit of hesitation there enough to start him as a wide receiver three or flex.

42:58Yes. But enough to put him over Quinch on Judkins who should have pushing for 20 carries in this game. No, go Judkins. We're all in this together. That's why I was excited in my arms to you guys. I can't quite reach. We're all in this together. Do you guys remember when Marvin Harrison Jr.'s first game, oh, it was a four point. Carnells went up like 28 to three over the bills. And you're like, if I told you the score be 28 to three and a half, would you believe that Marvin Harrison Jr. would finish with four points? I was like one catch for 30 yards in this first NFL game. And that was again, that's a rare for those guys drafted that early. They usually have a solid first game, but he did not. He was happy. He was like some sort of foreshadowing. These one of two of those top 15 receivers over the past decade that had a major. A lot of times it's cool to be like one of two. This is not one of those top two in a bad way that you want. All right. Another couple of questions here before we move on. This one comes from another YouTube listener, full PPR, George Kittle or Michael Mayer. Michael Mayer. I think Michael Mayer as well. I think that 25% target share.

43:58Remember, Mayer was a second round pick. This guy would be probably a feed, a tight M1 in fantasy. If he was starting for another team, what are we laughing at? I'm getting better at my job is what we're laughing at. If you're watching, if you're watching, you can go back and rewind it. I miss it. What did you do? It's just the user, my. Yes. We've had this user on the past before that has left some comments in our chat. And what do we love having them in there? Yeah. I hit them. Okay. Him or her, whoever it is, we have one more. I'll be later. Just hit the rewind button for like, we'll tell Michael. 20 seconds. Okay. This last one comes from Dale. Oh, wow. This last one comes from day. Dale and I. Maybe not. Maybe not doing your job. Dale and I cough. All right. Parker Washington versus Cleveland. Oh, come on. Or Josh Downs versus Baltimore for flex two. Oh, flex two. I mean, do you like having fun? Do you like having fun when you play fantasy?

44:58Yes, do. Yes. Parker Washington. Are you kidding me? I get one of the guys I cannot wait to see over. I'm not going to watch Josh down. Like Josh Downs, maybe outscores him if Washington doesn't have a big player to. No. No. It's all going to be short range, little, little throws. And like that is value, but come on. First of all, you drafted Parker Washington before him. Yes. And that is a fun player. Yeah, it is fun. I'm on Parker Washington. I agree. Guys, news or noise. I'm Parker Washington being named the team's partner turner. Oh, I don't care. I give it's Kyra Williams named the Rams. Partner turner again. I don't. I'll ask you. I saw the, you know, I saw the tweets and I was like, man, how many recent examples are there are guys who handled punt return duties? That also had a big, really handle punt return duties for that long into the season. He had one punt return. It was in week one and then he never did it again. Right. Because it might happen. It'll be one. Just, you know, teams want to just get off the tee to borrow a golf minor for the one for the side. He did handle Parker Washington. He was very good last season. As we know, he handled 96% of their punt returns last year.

45:59Oh, well, for the whole season, that was 25 punt returns, including the playoffs. By the way, he was awesome in the second half of last year. Yeah. He was and he was still there full time part returner. Fuel, let's talk about the bucks. Let's do it. Baker Mayfield used to have two chips on his shoulder. Then he got both of his pockets full of money. Yeah. Yeah. Not sure how that one's going to work here in this one anymore. We look at the lineup blocks. Joe Burrow, Chase Brown, Jamar Chase, to you against the entire Brangles offense that you expect. Yeah. Mecca, Abuka, practiced in full yesterday. It's a good sign for Abuka. Of course, dealt with that toe. Yeah, you were nervous. I was. Yeah. Mike, is there a second page to this lineup blocks? It was a Mecca, Abuka, the only lineup block from the Tampa Bay bus. He is. Who else? Yeah. We're not putting Bucky Irving on there. He's the one that's, you're probably starting in, but I wouldn't go as far as to call him a lineup block. I agree. Let's talk about it. Because remember, he was the RB 22, 21. So. Yep. Might have two better options. I don't, I just don't feel good about Bucky. Like he's still the RB one of this team, but I feel like you've got two guys. Didn't happen. I was able to hold it in. I was bad for audio listeners.

47:02I feel and we're still waiting. Sean Tucker has been banged up, but he's got two guys. I feel like on both sides of his, the role of his job that are just vultureing his volume. He's got Sean Tucker that I think is a really good end zone guy. And we watched Sean Tucker on a points per touch basis. Sean Tucker was RB 11 last year, which is insane. That just shows you that his, like he is a touchdown vulture at the goal line. That's what that says to me. And Kenny Gainwell is an unbelievable pass catcher. There is no more ceiling. It doesn't really feel like for Bucky in the same way, not in the same way. So because of that, it's just if you're starting him, he's like a low end RB two that you're hoping falls into the end zone. Falls right outside of the top 20. I would guess for Mike because he's not a lineup log. Interested to see how this bangles run defense looks this year. I mean, they were a disaster across the board last year. So the miles Garrett trade. One of the biggest defensive trades of the off season. Yeah. And they weren't like they think he can be a one man fix for the run defense. Hey, they it wasn't just that. Jonathan Allen, boy, Maffa, stop the run.

48:03I mean, I've opened the bag in. Yeah, they made some big changes up front. I don't think that's going to be, I love and teams do that. Sometimes teams just continue to ignore weaknesses every year. And you're like, what are they doing? And the bangles are very guilty of that. That's going to say they did not do that with the interior of that defensive line this year. They added some, or the whole front of the defense. I feel like Bucky really fell off from an efficiency standpoint, like between his first four weeks, he was amazing. He was. And then he then thanked up and it was tough. Health issues, sort of ambiguity surrounding those still makes it hard to fully evaluate it. But yeah, he was not the same player after he returned as he was in the first, he was like, I think like that, like a top 10 in terms of total touches in the first four weeks of this season. Yeah, definitely with you. I am very curious how this Bucks Backfield plays out. I feel like the league finally got it right with Kenny Gainwell, making $7 million per year. That's the kind of money that tells you he is going to play a real role like this could be a judari and price situation based on what we saw last night from price for Bucky Irving.

49:03I had a really quickly, just a fun stat that I want to say because it was while I was researching these guys looking at it last year, Bucky Irving, 48th out of a qualified 57 running backs in fantasy points per touch, just unbelievably inefficient. You know who was RB one? Any Gainwell has backfield made Kenny Gainwell. Oh, wow. How many carries inside the five yard line to Bucky Irving? I've last year. That's a great question. Might come any zero zero. Sean Tucker. I talked about 11. I think it's eight for maybe it was a 52.3% of the buck. It'll be interesting to see the way that everything is deployed. We'll talk a lot about it. The snap share and everyone is utilized here in week one after this. Yeah. Baker has my attention for this week. It's kind of a weird week for quarterbacks as we have a couple of like otherwise no brainers that are in tough spots, right? Drake May, we saw that. That was the case last night. Josh Allen, now our confidence is not as low as at least mine and Mike's confidence was going into last night for Drake May. And you can make the case that there are a couple other cubies that you know, Jayden Daniels, he faces a tough Philadelphia defense.

50:05If you're going to pivot off of those guys who might be amongst the pivot options, Baker Mayfield. And I don't think the Baker Mayfield's upside is just like you can pivot to him in week one. And he can be your starter to begin the season. Like I think Baker Mayfield could claw his way back into back end top 12 quarterback conversation. They were awful last season, awful as an offense just across the board. Two years ago, they were lighting things up. Now part of that was because their defense was so bad. They were throwing in. They were like the bangles a season ago as far as defense and offense is concerned. I just generally think this bangles, sorry, this bucket years offense will be a lot better. And while I'm not, I think this bangles defense is better as Mike discussed, not convinced they're fixed. Right. So I think Baker can throw the football around the yard a little bit this week. I've got him as quarterback 13. I'm a hair lower than you. I agree. I think like two years ago, he needed enormous passing numbers to get into that top 10. I think they could do it again though. If he said, remember, the reports were, and he's not the kind of guy that's going to come out and complain that he's hurt, but reports where I like, he was pretty beat up last year.

51:06And the same thing with the mecca, Buka, and that really affected things. You know, Chris Godwin, Mike Evans is out. I mean, there's a lot of things that went wrong for them. So they come in healthy to this season. No doubt about it. I'm with you. There's one of them guys that could sneak back into relevance. How much does he now make per year? Almost as much as Mike. Beat me to it. You know, field always makes that joke. And I thought I had my opportunity there. And you stole it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You made a million per year. I don't know. What is it? You don't know. 55. Is it? It is. Yes. Oh, that's amazing. I know. No. You got to do this bike. No, I'm set. No, it's not. You can't just say all 55. 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 dogs, 55 milkshakes. 55 million. 55 million. 55 million. 55 times down passes. You guys say that this one. Oh, wow. We're some mixed air. It's a mixed air. I am taking the Bukaneers. I'm taking the Bengals in this one. You know what makes me the most disappointed week one last year, what we said, one thing about the Bengals defense.

52:07Start your tight end every single week against them. We're not even talking about K-Dotten in this one. We'll see. Brian Cook might help erase things on that. I want to see if we have maybe that happens. Right. Raheem Sanders later. We're doing a anyone of, he picks. Pain Durham. Stop. Don't want that. Pain Durham touchdown here. Yeah, I'm going, I'm going Bengals. The Bengals famous for their quick starts. Yes, they are. They are. They are. Let's talk lines and saints, Michael. Ooh, here we go. I think this is a fun one for you. You got your lines and your guy Tyler Shuck on the other side. We got a little bit of everyone. The lineup block page is full here. Jamir Gibbs. I'm in Ross St. Brown. James and William. Jamio. Sam Laporta. Travis H. Ann Jr. And Chris Olave as well on the other side. Honestly, if I was going to build a DFS lineup, which I may, a little bit of foreshadowing, you might see that on my Twitter. I'll be popular. This will be a big game to stack because it's the second highest implied total on the week. Got a very, very angry message on social media last night. Oh, no.

53:08From somebody telling me, telling us, we have to stop confusing Devon H. Ann and Travis H. Ann pronounces name correctly. This is like typical of you guys. Like this person missed the news. I guess so. Missed the news. Apparently like legitimately missed the news of the offseason. That was me. That's my burner. Got you. Travis. I'm glad you. That was it. All for this moment. Got you. Really Travis ETN has made it clear that he wants to go by his proper pronunciation. You call him with that guy. I want you to call him. You change his name. Yes. Travis H.N. It's his French roots. French Creole roots in New Orleans. Yep. That's right. Yes. Travis H.N. So person who was really like really mad. That's really tough. Yeah. That's weird. Someone on social was really mad. That doesn't usually happen. Never happened before. That's so weird. All right. Guys, talk to me about this game. Speaking of guys who you hear his name pronounced quite differently. So we talk about some secondary targets for the Saints.

54:08There's no reason to start Devon Vale. Right? Like Devon Vale. Devon Vale. That's where I was going with that. Thank you for sending me up beautifully. Also could be a good DFS punch. Just 3500 this week. But we're talking about some of these secondary Saints targets because of course Jordan Tyson is out for at least the first four games of the season. Yep. Might be closer to six games. But we'll keep an eye on that. Hopefully he's back sooner rather than later excited to see him. But in the meantime, Devon Vale is a guy that will step in likely. He's an every down player opposite Chris Alave five games last year. He was a full time or for the Saints. One of them. He left hurt average 5.6 targets per game. Solid number and what we expect to be an okay offense this year. Wasn't super consistent. But he did have that one big game in week 13 8 for 93 and a touchdown. So that shows you what he could potentially bring to the table. The other thing we also like is and this applies to John Johnson. We'll get to in a second. But the Lions already struggled against receivers last year and they are beat up in the secondary right now. No Brian branch. No Kirby Joseph, not Tracy Walker.

55:10Kirby Joe. Kirby Joseph. And of course, Terry Arnold is no longer with that. Rocky. Now the number two corner. So they have problems at in the secondary right now that opens up some opportunities for the lay and then John Johnson. I have a trivia question for you guys. Yes. I'm so ready. Where did John Johnson finish the last season? No, I don't have that one. Where did he finish in top 12 fantasy weeks among tight ends last year? Next. Ooh, I'm going to say seventh second. You believe that? I'm a very big pride. Yeah, he was second. He was tied for second with nine top 10 fan type top 12 fantasy weeks. Last season career highs across the board. I do believe. Yeah, he was aether better a tight end in targets catches yardage and fantasy points. So we thought we didn't like him as much in the drafts because they brought in Tyson, right? But obviously things changed without Tyson. He's very much on that tight end one radar this week. Where did they go to college? Kutztown University. You know that's true. He's during coastal Carolina also incorrect. He is the Aaron Dolan of NFL players.

56:10Oh, Oregon and then Penn State or Penn State and then Oregon. I think Aaron. All right. Yeah, I think he was a wide receiver in college who became a judge in the NFL. Yeah. I think I like John Johnson a little bit more than you guys this week. And you highlighted a really positive case for him. I did the same thing. Like you look at everything you did last year. Once Tyler Schuck took over, he was tied at nine points per game average to 11 and a half points per game with Schuck as his starting quarterback, which is more than serviceable. And again, you the negative last year, do you want to know how many end zone targets he had? Seven. Zero. Seven for zero for Juan. Zero. That means that there's only room for that to go up. He was tied at nine when he had zero end zone targets. So there's at least room for there to be more there. And I'm expecting some garbage time again with a lot of points being scored in this one. I like John Johnson. I don't know if he had, I, John Johnson, I've him with four four end zone targets. Yeah, I don't know. That's not what I have him with four, but we'll have to see you. I'm going to use zone targets right here. Should you do a board bet? I have Juan Johnson have, I say, Juan Johnson had four. He had zero last season.

57:11He had zero end zone targets with Tyler Schuck as his quarter. Oh, with Tyler. Okay. Much smaller. He was top seven in receptions. Top five in receiving yards with Tyler Schuck as his quarterback. Like he was really good. Yeah. So, okay. All right. Got you. Chuck Schuck. Lions. Lions. John Johnson. The newest that's here. It's so close. There's so many guys like Goddard, Andrews, Kelsey, Ferguson, likely mayor, talkinson, all those guys are right in that range. So, but if you want to start him this week, no qualms with that. Did we have to admit that we all were required to pick the lions to be nice today? Yeah. No, you don't have to. He put that in his contract. That's exactly right. What negativity about the lions here? All right. That's sweet. Next one. Uh, the commanders and the Eagles, Mike's Eagles. Of course, it's a big one. Cannot wait for that. Here are the five lineup blocks, according to Mike Clay. No major surprises. Jalen Hertz, say, one Barclay, Hertz and a tasty matchup. Devonta Smith, big breakout year potentially. Jaden Daniels in a difficult matchup is still good enough to be started.

58:13Paramaclorn, same goes. Difficult matchup is still good enough to be started. Maybe he sees some Quignon Mitchell tonight. Mike, you want to discuss wide receivers, not named Paramaclorn and Devonta. Yeah. Exactly. There's a lot of notable names here, but the question is, are we starting them in the week one in this, uh, in the matchup for both sides? We'll start with Stefan Diggs here. I'm a wide receiver 44. I have not, again, I have no exposure to him. You know, he was more palatable early in the off season before he signed, but when he signed his 80 piece, spiked a little bit too much for me. So I've been out on him and I, I just don't see a path here against a really good Eagles defense. I remember he was the number one target in the Patriots high scoring offense last year. One that was high volume. He used the last name, easy schedule. No doubt about it. Now he goes to probably the number two and a much lower volume passing attack. I remember no more cliff Kingsbury that that's probably going to slow down the offense a little bit. And of course with Jane and running that's going to lower the volume. So I just don't know if there's enough there for frankly, an older wide receiver to be a consistent fantasy option that we feel really good about.

59:16So I'm not starting them in a, in a tough matchup. You remember the Eagles allowed six touchdowns wide receivers, the entire season last year. Six touchdowns to receivers. So much of that secondary is back besides rebling. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And you're going to see Cooper, D'Aginha at safety more often this year. Still being the slap. It's a, like, yeah, they're in a, they're in a really good spot. So I'm avoiding digs this week in this matchup. He might be a flex option in better matchups. We'll see for the Eagles, you know, you have the clear number one with Devon Tessimith. After that, I think they're going to shuffle guys around early on. Now they took McKayleman in the first round, but he missed a huge chunk of the off season. So I expect a slow start for him. I'm not starting him. Don Tavine Wicks will benefit from that and he'll be on the field more, but you're really hoping that he has a long, a long, a big play, a big touchdown, something like that. But I thought this was really fascinating. Don Tavine Wicks that three seasons with the Packers, right? He had exactly one game with at least 24 fantasy points in all three seasons. Exactly one. When will that game come? Exactly one in all three seasons. Otherwise, and all of his other games, he averaged 5.3 fantasy points.

1:00:18Very good. It's a, kind of an unreal sort of good enough to get traded for, you know, and get an extension for decent money, but not good enough to be. Yeah, and I've said, yeah, I don't, sorry, I've finished. I said, not good enough being your laner. Yeah, yeah, I was going to say we, we talked about this through August. I don't know if they're going to be able to support a second consistent fantasy receiver with Jalen Hertzender Center. So this isn't a void for me. I don't know. You guys give me a different example. Is there a backfield that feels like it may be more likely headed for a dead zone than the commanders backfield this season? Yes. Who is it? Panthers. Panthers, okay. I think the, I think the, I think the, I think the, I think the, I think the, I think I agree with you. I think the commanders are more likely to be at that zone. I just don't know who unless we're shot white takes control, but I don't get that indication. Yeah. So there are a few that come to mind. I just wanted to explain my, they're both right there. Yeah. Sort of my pessimism for them going into this game specifically. I've got reshawed white clearly as the preferred target for week one. He's my RB 33, but still well outside my top 20. I'm much more likely to start a flex wide receiver than I am running back.

1:01:19Bill Croskey merit, Cory Croskey merit is my running back 42. And there was a time, remember, going into last season, we were like, oh my God, could the commanders really rely on this diamond and the rough day three selection? Well, it's worth noting that the Eagles are the fourth biggest favorite of the week. If you're favored to be up, that means that the team who is down is more likely to be passing the football. Here's a little Mike Clay trivia for you. Oh, over the last six games of last season. How many targets did Bill Croskey merit see? Zero. Correct. Zero targets in the last six games. Now, new system, new coordinator, first time play collar, maybe David Blowke taps into more of Bill Croskey merit's passing game skills than we saw from Cliff Kingsbury. But I mean, this guy makes Derek Henry look high volume in the passive department. He had like 13 targets all year, nine catches. He really needs to have 80 plus yards and a touchdown to pay off. So until further notice, I am down on Bill Croskey merit. See his, uh, his projection on the screen 11 carries for 45 yards, one catch for seven

1:02:21yards. So it's a lot, looks a lot like what we saw last night from Jadari and Price. We keep making that comp, but that might be the usage like Rashad White might be in a George Hullani role. Uh, and that's kind of what we're expecting. And that's why these guys were so inexpensive, inexpensive in fantasy drafts. They were just dead zone flyers. I found myself drafting more JCM than I did Rashad White because he was the one generating the hype throughout the off season. So hopefully they, they do expand on his role. He's an exciting player, but we'll see. Yeah. I need to stand on business and just say that comparing Jadari on price to the Corey Croskey merit doesn't sit well with me. And I understand you say that he's in a role line. He's the same role. Yeah, the role that was basically Jadari in price is like, I understand. I didn't like it. I hear you. I hear you. Didn't like it. You made the joke that you had almost as many targets last night as he had his entire college career. That's actually correct. You're about to throw the way there. Not bad. We're all taking the Eagles in this game. I'm assuming. Yes, we are. I was actually they obligated to take the you know, uh, our producers taking the commanders get risky. We have a I think that, uh, chip on your Daniels, I believe his best ever fantasy game was

1:03:24against the Eagles. He had there was a high scoring game. He had like five touchdowns and like three points. So I don't know. Love that. Is it going to be a tough one though? So a couple of things here. The game tonight's a reminder, eight thirty five is kickoff. Yep. So later than a typical prime time game again, they're playing in Australia. Oh, that's no big deal for us in the East Coast, right? We'll just stay up a little bit later even. It felt like in a front to society last night for me to have to be up until almost midnight. Like I did get to feed the baby. I do did the dream feed. Were you on the couch? Was last night, uh, um, I was downstairs in the couch. I brought the baby has we have a rocking chair in her bedroom. So it's, you know what? I'm tired this morning. It's the cutest friggin thing in the world. So of course it is. Yeah, we're it's football season starting is not just football season. It's also back to school. So now I'm getting a much earlier than I need to normally because I have to get the kids on the bus into school and that. So yeah, I was hoping they didn't go to overtime last night. I will say that. I'm in there. I end up see points. We it showed it went to overtime. I made us in throw that past.

1:04:25That probably goes over. This goes back. This is back to couch season for me. Oh my god. We don't do a lot of TV watching. We don't do like it. But like once you get to football season, it's like I'm there nonstop. Do you bring like a blanket and a pillow out with you for these late night games in case you fall asleep or do you refuse to allow yourself to fall asleep? You guys know that I never fall asleep dream. I got to do the dad with three young kids. I mean, don't you just have blankets and pillows on your sofa? We do, but do you sleep with those like when you take a nap, do you sleep with them? I don't, I don't, I don't nap. You're not a napper. I can't do it. I don't like it. I just feel like my days ruined if I nap. I feel like I'm in a haze. Of course, the computer would feel that way. I don't nap either. I wish I what I did. But like I will fall asleep on the couch, but that's like me falling. That's like you actually going to nap. No, wow. Trust me. I wish I would. I'm power on in the morning. One coffee and then I'm I power off. Power on it. There is no stand by. All right. Well, I'm curious if you guys nap. Please tell us for tomorrow. Make sure you have fun watching the other day night football. Yeah, let's see into the show. Wow. Thanks for showing up. Inter kiddos. We love you guys. Don't forget to love each other.

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