0:00It's the Harris Fantasy Football Podcast with your host, Christopher Harris.
0:04Hey everybody, welcome in. My name is Chris and this show has healthy levels of magnesium.
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0:16That's what I call it now. We finish off the Sunday morning live stream.
0:21The games begin 10 a.m. Pacific on Sunday. I vanish from the world below the surface for approximately 30 hours or so.
0:28I'm down in the submarine. I send out a Monday morning podcast from the depths, I guess way, way, way beneath the yacht.
0:35And then I watch the rest of the games and then emerge on Monday evening.
0:40And anyway, that's kind of what it feels like in order to get 14 football games watched all the way through in a day and a half.
0:49But it's also pretty fun. I'm not complaining. And I get to make this show for you, which I enjoy very much.
0:56Before we get started with the Monday night game, I wanted to mention, I think, depending on whether you're listening to this
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1:19It's possible we still get our wires crossed. As far as I know, it is still happening.
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1:36Tuesday, today, 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific. I will be on Instagram live on Rainn Wilson's Instagram account.
1:42All right. Let's talk about Monday night. I doubted the Chiefs.
1:46How dare I? They take the Broncos behind the woodshed with an ultra convincing win.
1:51And yet, this was very much about one player.
1:54You and I both know it. Kenneth Walker. Holy moly.
1:57Four straight handoffs to start that game. That first drive was all Walker.
2:01Patrick Mahomes, honestly, I think we can probably all agree, didn't play very well.
2:06The Denver defense theoretically is very good, but couldn't tackle at all last night.
2:11Mahomes did scramble for one touchdown on that first drive, had it overturned by penalty, then just scrambled again, and scored his rushing touchdown after all.
2:19Very, very impressive, given the knee ligament problem. However, Mahomes also began the game throwing 2 for 12 for 14 yards.
2:26And if Denver's offense hadn't been such utter garbage, which we'll talk about in a moment, you can imagine a world where
2:33maybe the lack of throwing might have harmed the Chiefs.
2:36But as it was, Walker, I think, did 14 carries, 89 yards in the first half.
2:42Then the first drive of the third quarter, the Chiefs have a fourth and one.
2:46They give it to Walker. Ho-hum. He just houses it.
2:5060-yard touchdown. I'm here to tell you, there are some runs on this film that weren't even super well-blocked, that were not
2:57easy, and Walker just made crazy moves. We've known for a long time he's a breakaway threat.
3:02We've loved him for a long time on the show.
3:06Josh calls him the Robert Pattinson of running backs.
3:09If your reaction coming out of this game was based on Walker's injury history, a team using him like they rented him
3:16and plan on returning him tomorrow, if you think that's going to get him hurt, I understand it.
3:22But they all can get hurt. I would personally love to take the guy who looks like that.
3:28Meaning, I was simply too low on him. I did not want Walker with the 11 pick, 13 pick, right around where he went most drafts.
3:36It was a little too rich for my blood.
3:39If I could do it again now, I think you'd have to say Walker would be a top five pick.
3:45And if you've got him, that probably feels pretty dang good.
3:49Pretty clear that the rest of the Chiefs offense didn't function very well.
3:53If that's because of the Broncos defense, I guess we'll find that out in due time.
3:59But, you know, if you want to get excited by Travis Kelsey catching a three-yard pass and running 60 yards after a missed tackle, you know, go ahead.
4:08Xavier Worthy, awful, didn't seem to be running the right routes.
4:11I think we can almost certainly chalk up Mahomes' interception to Xavier Worthy.
4:15Rasheed Rice, I mean, that was a scam inside a scam.
4:19That was a real inception of scamming. He was getting erased by, of all people, the horrendous Riley Moss, whom the Broncos
4:26still insist is a starting level corner in the league.
4:30But Moss couldn't tackle Rice right before halftime. Rice runs right over him and scores, has one other catch the entire night.
4:37Certainly want to see it all function against not Denver.
4:40But Walker doing almost 200 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns.
4:43That's the main thing that worked here and matters here.
4:46And yeah, based on what the rest of this looked like, it seems like the next teams the Chiefs will be playing
4:54are going to try and pay extra special attention to the run game.
4:58And then we'll see what the rest of it looks like.
5:02But the Broncos, wow. I mean, the defense is going to be kicking themselves.
5:06We all know they're better than that. Just so many blown tackles.
5:10Hard to even fathom everybody on that defense who's good having that bad a night.
5:15And for sure, Walker is a hard dude to tackle.
5:18The Patriots can attest to that from the Super Bowl.
5:21But not that hard. That was... I mean, there are plenty of other players, not just Walker, who Denver couldn't tackle.
5:28Evil movie dojo owner Bo Nix. Just a disaster of a night.
5:32We said something to this effect last week. Just because we don't know some of the Chiefs defenders' names, especially in the secondary, doesn't mean they stink.
5:41They definitely didn't stink last night. In fact, the high first-round pick, Delane, gets hurt making an interception, never comes back in.
5:48And it still doesn't matter. The Chiefs brought pressure from all over.
5:52The Broncos couldn't block it. And Bo Nix was simply rattled.
5:56Every play that you do, don't you know you're Botoxic?
5:59He was Botoxic last night. Running around, looking like, I'm trying to throw on the move, but then just often flinging out of bounds or taking a sack.
6:08He kept fumbling. Shotgun snaps. I think the interception was also a miscommunication, where Nix thought Cortland Sutton would break off his route.
6:16But the fumbles, I mean, it's a brutal offensive night.
6:19Buck and Aikman mentioned several times that Sean Payton had given up offensive play calling, and you have to wonder if he wants it back.
6:27After one game, five running back carries in a first half, where the Broncos were, of course, in it.
6:33It was 7-7 until very late in the first half.
6:36Nix's touchdown pass was a beautiful throw. It was to Evan Engram, so it didn't really help anybody.
6:42But it was Nix's best throw of the night, which is not hyperbole.
6:47I can't remember any other good throws. He had a red zone runaround play, where he just decides at the last instant,
6:54oh, I'm going to throw it, and it slips out of his hand for a fumble, and could have been a pick
7:01six, but the defender's foot was out of bounds.
7:04Sutton was open for a big one later in the game, and Nix couldn't set his feet and just make the throw.
7:11You know, you heard me talk about Jackson Dart, the surf movie bad guy, on Monday's show.
7:17That was a good, controlled performance from Dart on Sunday night that really showed me something, and these two guys are lumped
7:24in my head, but maybe they should not be.
7:27The Chiefs, that game was everything we worried about with Nix, even when the Broncos were winning last year.
7:33It did not seem better. It did not seem under control.
7:36Jalen Waddell, one catch for two yards, and a hellacious drop that could have kept a drive going.
7:42Sutton, nothing. The number one receiver might have been Pat Bryant, who got called for holding twice.
7:48R.J. Harvey and J.K. Dobbins basically split the backfield.
7:51We didn't have to worry about Jonah Coleman. The one time they had a full possession in the red zone, just like
7:58last year, Harvey appeared to be the choice, but he did not score, because nobody scored, and it was really bad.
8:05And it is back to the drawing board for Denver.
8:08Jags at home next week. We'll talk about the Jags later in the show.
8:13Their offense sure looked good, and that's a rematch of the game that the Jags won in Denver late last year.
8:20Meanwhile, the Chiefs on Sunday night will host the Colts.
8:23Today's kickoff. Okay, on today's show, we are going to talk about some more games from Sunday of week one.
8:29If you don't hear me talk about the game you're interested in, well, I have already watched it and talked about it,
8:37so you can hear that one by going back to Monday's podcast.
8:40For today, on Tuesday, I will have Saints Lions, Ravens Colts, Browns Jaguars, Dolphins Raiders, and Jets Titans, and then it's time
8:48to start thinking about week two, and that begins with the waiver wire.
8:52To help me with that, Brandon Funston from The Athletic will join.
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9:56Game film rewind. Let's get back to the Sunday games with the overtime game.
10:01The Saints go for the win at the end after a big comeback, but they fail on the two-point conversion, so the Lions win by one.
10:10It's never a bad thing to get basically five quarters worth of stats for your players, and of course it has the
10:17week's most controversial call, the Jared Goff non-fumble for a fumble six that was very early in the game.
10:23Would have mattered, would have changed the way the teams played the game, but in the end, I don't think that's why the result was what it was.
10:32The good thing for the Saints, because they were dead in the water, was that they got extra time, because for three
10:39of those five quarters, they're losing 21-0. Tyler Shuck, as in Duck, four for 15 to start this game.
10:45Let's not get carried away with that incredible yardage total, because man, he played bad, and without overtime, the numbers wouldn't look as good.
10:53He played much better after he was playing bad.
10:56Through an interception, I'm actually guessing the pick was Noah Fant's fault, running the wrong route, doing a Xavier Worthy, as we
11:03like to call it, but the Lions defense did play very well for the beginning of that game.
11:09They would certainly give it up later. Shuck got corner blitzed deep in his own territory in the third quarter, and took
11:16the sack, which is okay, but you can't fumble there.
11:20But, you know, down 21-0. He may have Bortles-ed his way into the hole, but he Bortles-ed his way back out again.
11:27The comeback started with a bomb to Chris Olave on a scramble drill.
11:31Game on. We'll talk about the Saints' backfield in just a second, but they score on that drive.
11:37Devon Vele draws interference in the end zone, and then Vele with a great diving grab catches the jerk-faced touchdown that made it 21-14.
11:45Vele's name will come up surely during waivers later.
11:48Next drive, Vele with another crazy leaping grab, full extension.
11:51This one for 30 yards. They kick a field goal to go down 21-17, and then they get it back down 24-17, two and a half minutes left.
12:00It's a fourth and 12. Another corner blitz. This time, Shuck somehow gets it off, hits the rookie Bryce Lance for a first down.
12:08Then Olave had been a little shaken up, but he returned, catches a bomb shot inside the 10.
12:14He was injured again, and yet returned again. The touchdown goes to Juwan Johnson to tie it.
12:19Then the Saints get it back again with 10 seconds left.
12:23Juwan Johnson makes a sick catch that gives them a 62-yard field goal attempt to win it, but the UK kicker can't make it.
12:31It's no good. After the Lions score in overtime, what can you say?
12:35Shuck does it again, a fourth down in overtime.
12:38Olave makes his 10th catch. Then Juwan Johnson does a double move down the right sideline, makes another sick sideline catch.
12:45Johnson gets an end zone target, almost scores. Then it's Noah Fant who does score.
12:50Then they go for two and don't get it.
12:53And, you know, we might look back and say, okay, in the end, everybody is running it up on a Lions defense
13:00that doesn't have most of its usual secondary, plus the Saints were in desperation mode and without a couple of kind of
13:07miraculous fourth downs were nowhere near the numbers they produced.
13:10But, hey, I'll take it the fact that they can if they Bortles their way in.
13:16You know, it's good they can Bortles their way out.
13:19So that was a good-looking environment in that second half.
13:22For the New Orleans backfield, I just want to say, you know, I think for the moment, I mean no disrespect, I'm
13:29going to keep pronouncing it Travis Etienne because this is a podcast.
13:33You can't see me. There are different players whose name is Achan, you may remember.
13:38And, you know, being audio only, you're not seeing the pictures of the players or my face as I'm saying the name.
13:45So I just don't want to confuse people. Plus, his brother Trevor Etienne isn't asking people to change that pronunciation.
13:52So just for clarity's sake, at least for the moment, that's how I'm going to roll.
13:57We'll see about the future. But yeah, Travis Steve, as a third-round fantasy pick or so, that wasn't very awesome in week one.
14:04Watching this tape on Monday morning, I immediately made a note.
14:08That's a lot of Kendra Miller. And so it was.
14:11In the end, Etienne only got to be part of the second half rally because they kept throwing him screens.
14:18And they were okay, pretty effective. But in the red zone, yeah, that was mostly Kendra Miller lining up in the backfield.
14:25And it was Miller who got the only short touchdown of the game.
14:29It's the NFL. There are usually other guys, no question.
14:33But it would be better if you have Etienne not coming out in short yardage.
14:37It winds up being 50 snaps for Etienne and 26 for Miller.
14:41And remember that Alvin Kamara didn't play. So I don't think Etienne's share of the pie is getting bigger.
14:48But I also don't think that just because this time it was Miller in short yardage, it will always be thus.
14:54But we will keep track. For the Lions, a sleepy first half for them where they moved the ball okay, but only scored seven points.
15:03Jameer Gibbs looked great. The backup in this one for Gibbs was Sione Vaki, for whatever that's worth.
15:08Vaki played 22 offensive snaps, but Gibbs got two one-yard touchdowns.
15:12Amon Rossi and Brown, two red zone touchdowns. Sam Laporta tried to get a jerkface touchdown of his own from the one right before Gibbs' second touchdown.
15:21Everything was pretty much as advertised, except our guy, Jameson Williams.
15:24That was not very good, kids. That was a bad game.
15:28And in fact, if I were going to accuse any single lion for being the reason this game wasn't a blowout by
15:35the third quarter, I think we'd have to look at Jameson Williams.
15:39His first grab was fine. In fact, a little bit snakebitten not to score.
15:44He was tackled at the one. But Williams had a deep over route where he was open late first quarter, dropped it.
15:51Then early second quarter, another drop. Duck hands. Then they gave him an end-around reverse carry.
15:56He dropped that, but recovered it, but lost yards.
15:59And there were a couple other targets that were missed connections.
16:03It's weird in the box score. I only, I saw four targets.
16:07I felt like there were other passes to Williams on tape that were over his head.
16:12And like, maybe they were just saying it was a throwaway, but I kind of don't think so.
16:18Williams did catch a deep out for 22 yards in overtime that got Detroit down inside the five and set up St.
16:25Brown for what would be the winning score. But that is very much not the way we wanted the season to start for that particular flag player.
16:34Officially, I believe he was credited with zero drops.
16:37That is malarkey. I watched it. James Williams had two drops.
16:40How about the Ravens going to Indianapolis and woodshedding the Colts?
16:44Coming out of week one, one of the offenses that you'd say, wow, they might be dominant.
16:49We can certainly talk about the Bears on Monday's show.
16:53We did, maybe. Also, maybe you could say the Ravens, except right now you might not say Zay Flowers.
16:59You don't say Zay Flowers. I mean, it started great for the number one flag player.
17:04First play from scrimmage for the Ravens is a naked boot.
17:08Deep ball, Lamar throws it to Zay Flowers. It's a 49-yard game, gets stopped at the two.
17:13They false start. The touchdown goes to Lamar Jackson on a read option keeper.
17:18Late first quarter, Flowers had two tight window catches.
17:21Mid-second quarter, my notes just say boom. I was very excited at this point.
17:25Right. Flowers lines up at running back on that play, runs a little angle route out of the backfield, and boom, indeed, he's gone for a 54-yard touchdown.
17:34It appears he is not allergic to the end zone.
17:38Is he, however, potentially allergic to stretching? A couple of minutes later, six minutes to go on the second quarter, Flowers catches
17:45a short cross, gets tackled on the left sideline.
17:48I've now seen the coach's tape this morning. You can see him grab his hammy and put up a finger, and he was done for the day.
17:56The score was 21-6, at that point, so I don't think you'd say, oh, you know, it's purely precautionary.
18:03I'm well aware of the fact that the Ravens told one of their national skin puppets that the hamstring is not considered serious.
18:10Easy for them to say. They don't have him on all these teams like we do.
18:15On the one hand, I think we'll take 150 yards and a touchdown in less than a half a football.
18:22On the other hand, hope that doesn't give you the stress farts.
18:26Get ready for a week of stress farts worrying about Zay Flowers' hamstring.
18:30New York City, tap water, Derrick Henry just kept flowing, had two bunny touchdowns from in close, plus late second quarter on
18:37the same drive where Flowers got hurt. Henry gets rumbling, stiff arms adue to the fiery depths of hell.
18:43That score made it 28-6. Lamar did have a sack fumble deep in his own territory in the second quarter, but much
18:51of the second half felt like an academic exercise.
18:54You had various Flowers replacements making plays here and there.
18:57The rookie, Jacoby Lane, actually scored a touchdown, but it was called back by holding whereupon Mark Andrews had a drop and they got stopped on fourth down.
19:06Andrews had a four for 49, but the first trip into the red zone, two other tight ends got catches.
19:13I don't know. Andrews looks like a turnaround and fall down guy to me right now, but he is still on what looks like a very good offense.
19:22Jacoby Lane apparently broke a bone in his arm, so I don't think he's going to be much of a waver ad.
19:29For the Colts, for one drive, they look like a very good offense.
19:33They came out play action and throw, throw, throwing.
19:36It was a great drive. Josh Downs immediately had two catches and his boosters were no doubt like, see?
19:42And unfortunately, those were his only two catches of the game.
19:46One on that drive also went to Keenan Allen and one went to Alec Pierce.
19:51And then inside the five, Jonathan Taylor got two cracks and scored on the second.
19:56They missed the extra point. We're actually leading this game 6-0.
19:59And then the next drive, Daniel Jones did throw a pick.
20:03It wasn't horrible. It was mostly a great play by Roquan Smith.
20:07But then third drive, nothing. Fourth drive, nothing. In the first half, it felt like they were not using Alec Pierce that much, kind of getting him acclimated.
20:16Then mid-second quarter, Jonathan Taylor had a nice game, but fumbled around midfield.
20:20Kind of thought his momentum was stopped. It could have been whistled, but it wasn't.
20:25Pierce was in there late second quarter, got a legit deep post that Marlon Humphrey defended really well.
20:31After the Lamar fumble, Taylor got a couple of carries.
20:34Keenan Allen got a catch inside the five, then Taylor converted.
20:38You know, last year, they said during the broadcast, when the Colts had first and goal inside the five, they were 20 for 20 scoring touchdowns.
20:46And they did it again twice on Sunday. Taylor looked really great.
20:50You certainly do not exit this game worrying about him.
20:53Pierce kind of had a drop on a deep dig, clanged off his hands.
20:58Then most of the fourth quarter here was pure Basura.
21:01Pierce and Allen, a couple of pretty meaningless catches in the fourth quarter.
21:05Then Tyler Warren, who'd been really stymied and frustrated much of the game, scored a Basura touchdown for a rescue for him.
21:13I don't think anything particularly disastrous here for Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor looked great.
21:17It may just simply be that the Ravens are really, really good.
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22:38What does the film say? Let's wrap up three more games.
22:41Browns, Jags. I mean, we may need to add the Jags to that list I was making.
22:47Ravens, Bears, Jags. That was obviously a dominant effort.
22:50The question you'll have is simply, are the Browns really as bad as they looked in that game?
22:56Because they looked really, really bad. And if on Monday's show I said Cooper Rush was the worst quarterback I saw, well,
23:03I had not yet seen Deshaun Watson. Predictably awful.
23:06Throws a pick on the Browns' first possession. A third down on the second drive.
23:11Watson throws another one directly to a linebacker. The linebacker drops it.
23:15Third drive. Watson's getting sacked. Shocker. He drops the ball for a fumble, but Cleveland recovers.
23:20Fourth drive. Second play. The rookie Casey Concepcion fumbles away a screen.
23:24Just a very, very embarrassing half. And then when it was no longer competitive, you know, the second half mostly garbage, it
23:31took a long kickoff return to get the Browns down into the red zone, losing 31-0.
23:36Of course then, Watson does a delay of game.
23:39The walk. Harold Fannin didn't get a target until a minute left in the third quarter.
23:44Concepcion short was certainly a big part of the plan, such as it was.
23:49Denzel Boston gets a bomb touchdown with two minutes left for the dogs having been called off.
23:54Not that impressive. Quinchon Judkins 50 scrimmage yards and even that was merciful.
23:59He was still out there at the end racking up Basora yards.
24:03Mostly, I think you keep using Judkins. I think you probably give Fannin another week and see if the Browns correct that
24:10error of not throwing it to him, but that team did not look like one that we need to go much deeper on.
24:17The Jags, on the other hand, I definitely am aware of the fact that Brian Thomas made a few catches early and
24:24a couple of them were really, really good. One on the sideline, one a tight window throw, but also that he then
24:32re-injured the shoulder that was bothering him throughout training camp and sat out most of the rest of the game.
24:38But the story watching this for me was how good Parker Washington is.
24:42He's a stud. The first possession, a brilliant diving grab for a touchdown at full extension.
24:48Then in the first quarter, he also has a one-handed catch.
24:51He catches an over route. Then, unfortunately for all of them, rookie Josh Cameron scores the touchdown that puts them up 14-0.
24:58In the first half, Travis Hunter had a catch.
25:01Okay. You know, Brenton Strange catches a touchdown. He's a flag player.
25:05We will take it. But I think the thing that might gum up the works for anyone not named Parker Washington is
25:12that Parker Washington looks like a damn star. I am fully sold after watching this game.
25:18I don't love that he's out there returning punts, for heaven's sake, but I think he's a great player, and I honestly
25:25would do it over and put way more distance between him and anybody else in that receiving core in my summer ranks.
25:32Jacoby Myers, all credit to him for the long touchdown, but it was 24-0 in the third quarter, and also nobody covered him.
25:39He was by himself on a blown coverage that made it 31-0.
25:43Washington is the one that really stands out to me.
25:47Also, the Saluki, Trevor Lawrence, beyond reproach, he was great.
25:50The Jacksonville backfield, accordingly, is going to matter if they're going to be really, really good on offense.
25:56There were no running back touchdowns in this game.
25:59Basial Tootin had carries on the game's first two plays, but then Chris Rodriguez entered, immediately got the third and fourth carries.
26:06In the second quarter, Rodriguez had a snap at Wildcat quarterback for a first down.
26:11Tootin was kind of MIA for a lot of the first half.
26:15In the absence of LaQuint Allen, you had Amir Abdullah getting a couple of looks in the first half, which we don't love.
26:22Also, in the hurry up, it was Abdullah. But then, as they were pulling away and it wasn't that competitive, you're darn Tootin.
26:30Tootin had a misdirection screen that went for 22 yards, and when he gets in space, he is really fast.
26:36It's no joke. But the numbers are going to probably look like they skew a little too heavy to Tootin because for
26:43some reason they had him out there for the final two drives of the game up whatever it was, 31-0, 31-7.
26:50To that point, it had been seven carries for Tootin, five for Rodriguez, and then Tootin got eight carries just running things
26:57out at the end because this matters. We need to know this.
27:01That offense might be really good. Right now, you're certainly going to call Tootin best among equals there, but given the fact
27:09that Abdullah's production wasn't garbage time and Tootin's was, and also LaQuint Allen is going to be back pretty soon, there are
27:16probably some three-headed monster annoying weeks that will be mixed in.
27:19Dolphins Raiders, the debut of new coaching staffs on both sidelines, this game would seem to indicate Clint Kubiak far ahead of whatever Jeff Halfley has going on.
27:28I don't think you'd watch that and say, wow, the Raiders are a finished product, but for a week, definitely more good plays than bad.
27:37I think certainly importing a couple offensive linemen and also just getting even like bog average quarterback play out of Kirk Cousins will do wonders for that offense.
27:46I don't think you would say any of the play calling or schemes or pass catchers were, you know, amazing and wild
27:53and untamed, but Vegas didn't punt until the fourth quarter in this game.
27:57Early on, kind of everybody was catching passes. Jalen Naylor converts a third down.
28:02Malik Benson has a catch. Michael Mayer, two straight first downs.
28:05Trent Tucker, a catch in the red zone and then back-to-back grabs for Jack Besh, who scores the first touchdown.
28:12And after that, it was kind of just like Ashton Gentey.
28:15Very obviously, his ankle was not a problem. The Raiders had the ball 35 minutes and the Dolphins just really couldn't threaten them.
28:23So they could be very patient with Gentey, who didn't make a lot of big runs, but you know, you can clearly
28:30see a difference about what happens when he's not met in the backfield on every other carry the way he was last year.
28:38Gentey got rhythm going with nice cuts. There's one really good outside zone where he cut on one foot, exploded north-south.
28:45I love that run. As a running back, it was definitely more of kind of a grinding effort rather than one big
28:52run and a bunch of little stuff. And then as a receiver, Gentey runs an arrow route out of the backfield in
28:59the red zone for one touchdown catch. And then when Miami closed it down to 17-13 after a bad Kirk Cousins interception,
29:06he led them right back down again. Tucker had a big gain and then a play-action screen to Gentey and he houses it, his second receiving touchdown.
29:15A pretty unimpeachable game for him and a team that might wind up being okay or as we keep saying, it just
29:22might wind up that the Dolphins turn out to be just that bad.
29:26Those Dolphins, I mean, they're throwing a bunch of young bodies at the problem just seeing if someone sticks.
29:32Malik Willis' shoe kept coming off. Willis had some okay throws.
29:36It just looks a lot like his Titan days to me.
29:40You can squint and see good plays. He made good plays, but then just you wouldn't know when it was coming, but he would lose it.
29:48For example, on Sunday he just sometimes sets his feet and has no pass rush around him and appears to see somebody
29:55open and just absolutely misses the throw. Or a couple of times he would make a nice scramble, but then just throw
30:02directly into double coverage against his body or commit delay of game on a fourth and seven with four minutes left in the game.
30:10Devon Achan is the only Dolphin anybody is feeling good about starting, and they certainly gave him all the work he could
30:18handle right away, including a nice catch on a fade route on the first series, on a third down.
30:24But on a third and one in the second quarter during a good drive, Miami lines it up in a power look
30:31and like a big formation, but they have Achan in, and I just, don't they know that's just not his game?
30:38Predictably he gets stuffed, they kick a field goal, it winds up just sort of being a wet fart of a game.
30:45Achan 66 yards, never really got close to the end zone.
30:49This was not the worst offense that I watched in week one.
30:52Like, the Browns were worse, Cooper Rush was worse, but yes, for sure things are going to need to get better for Achan to pay off his ADP.
31:02Caleb Douglas woke up a little bit late second quarter with a few catches to set up a different field goal before the half that made it 17-6.
31:11Then Chris Bell caught a deep over route in the third quarter, setting up a touchdown run for Willis.
31:17But then, with a little hope, Willis throws that really rancid interception.
31:21While Douglas had the stats, I can't see that I'm going to have any Miami receiver very close to starting position for week two.
31:29Although, we're going to talk about adds later. Douglas certainly adding him is an okay idea.
31:34And if the Browns and the Falcons weren't week one's worst offense, you know, it might have been the Titans.
31:40But it was almost hard to tell because the Jets on Sunday were just so darned competent.
31:46Not exactly the adjective we usually use to describe the J-E-T-S, but they were good.
31:51They were controlled. Once again, the schedule will reveal itself, and we will learn if this was more about the Titans.
31:58But for one afternoon, it was believable that the Jets have created a stable environment that really started with their offensive line, I thought.
32:06Both Jets running backs had really good running lanes.
32:08Geno Smith had plenty of time. Never really had to play too much out of structure where he is such an unbelievable disaster.
32:16Awesome work up front for an offense that, if its intentions were revealed in week one, probably doesn't want to be wild and crazy.
32:24They played it pretty close to the chest. The first Jets drive was great.
32:28Omar Cooper made a big play to get it down in close, but suffered a high ankle sprain, had to be carted off the field later.
32:37And then Kenyon Sadiq would get a Jets sweep for a close-in touchdown run.
32:41Brees Hall moved great right away, and as the game wore on.
32:45I thought third quarter Hall had some awesome runs.
32:48Looked kind of like what Kenneth Walker looked like if you got to see Monday night.
32:53I thought that's what Brees Hall looked like, where he got good blocking, but then made some plays on his own too.
33:01Braylon Allen was playing a fair amount while the game was still competitive.
33:05He had room to run. He also had a drop in the flat to end the season's longest drive so far.
33:12An 18-play, almost 11-minute drive for the Jets, and they just kept it going.
33:16There was a fourth and two on that drive where Garrett Wilson ran a slant.
33:21That was brave. Took an absolutely massive hit. Held on.
33:24Got up. Really gutty. The first half, I believe, had two attempts for Geno Smith that traveled 10-plus air yards, which I
33:32think probably hints to us that if they have their druthers, they're probably going to play it conservatively.
33:38That could lead to some up and down games for Garrett Wilson, but it sounds really good for Brees Hall if the
33:45offensive line winds up being as good as it looked on Sunday.
33:49And the Titans, it was rough. The Jets probably controlled the line of scrimmage when they were on defense too, but sometimes
33:56you couldn't tell because Cam Ward would get enough protection to at least pause at the top of his drop and then
34:03just start running around and then usually wing it way out of bounds.
34:07Tennessee was losing for this entire game and yet Cam Ward still couldn't make himself let go of the ball.
34:14You got an untimely third quarter drop from Tajay Spears that had the crowd booing.
34:19I mean, the Titans had the ball for 18 plays in the first half.
34:23First drive was okay. It was pretty good. They got a field goal.
34:27That was the only points they scored during the competitive portion of the game.
34:32Just not enough first downs and therefore not enough total plays run.
34:36Very hard for Tony Pollard to live on eight touches.
34:39Not like any other running back played anywhere near as much as he did, but they were just really conservative losing.
34:46They punted seven times and right after that 18 play drive where the Jets kicked that field goal, Chimre Dike fumbled away the kickoff.
34:54To the Tennessee defense's credit, they immediately made a stop and the Jets missed the ensuing field goal, but the meaningless Elik
35:01Ayo Manor touchdown at the end does not change anything.
35:04We certainly need to see more from the Titans before we start believing in that environment at all.
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36:22Today's guest. It is Brandon Funston. You can find him, you can find him, but he's not really like out there.
36:29I mean, essentially is, is runs the athletic, the entire website, really the entire athletic.
36:34And like that makes a guy busy. So when you're the CEO of the athletic, which I just invented for him, he only does one podcast.
36:43It's my podcast. Hi, Brandon. Yes. I am not looking to be found unless it's by you, of course, and the Harris podcast.
36:50So good to be back. How are you doing?
36:53I'm good. I got to see you. We got to hang out during the book tour, the very first day of the book tour.
37:01How fun was that? We had a great time.
37:04I actually got, I got sucked up into a league.
37:07I was happy to do it. Met a bunch of your, a bunch of the Harris fans, the stands out there and
37:14they're a bunch of good people and I'm in a league and it, you know, I feel like I'm kind of a
37:21part of the, the Harris culture now. Yeah. You're a yacht possum.
37:25You're a yacht possum. That's, that's, I've been, you've always had, I have, I have a shirt, which, you know, I guess
37:32is my official identification as a possum. And a copy of the book.
37:37And you got to hear me, you got to hear me read the book.
37:41Yeah. And that was lovely up there in Tacoma.
37:44We had such a good time. We got to hang out, played poker with Sam and his friends for like a few hours.
37:52That was fun. It was good. It's good. Yeah.
37:55I think I, I think I was, I came out like $28 richer.
37:59I came out a little, like $5 poorer. I think you got some of my money.
38:04Damn it. Um, all right. So week, week one is over week two, uh, is, is about to be commencing.
38:11Of course, the waiver wire is where we're going to make our first adjustments.
38:15Can I tell anybody that there's a, you know, an absolute must add, you know, like sure.
38:21If you're in a league where Romeo Dobbs is available, like about half a leagues in on Yahoo, sure.
38:27Adam, but we're generally speaking about 12 team leagues where people are paying attention.
38:32I'm assuming Romeo Dobbs is drafted in most of those leagues.
38:35So our constraint as always for this list of waiver ads is 33% of Yahoo rosters or fewer.
38:41And there are still good names that you could speculatively add.
38:45I can't tell you that I'm positive there's anybody you're going to be add to starting for week two.
38:51You? No, I don't, I don't think so. Um, maybe, maybe one or yeah, maybe one or two.
38:57Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll get to the names as always.
39:00Please don't crash your car. We'll put all the names we mentioned in today's show notes.
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39:51Uh, we will count them down. Who's your number five waiver ad for week two?
39:56Oh, I went back and forth on this one.
39:59A lot of vacillating, um, between three different running backs.
40:03I ultimately settled on one that I, I might get a, I will see what, we'll see what happens.
40:09I'm going to throw them out there. Alvin Kamara.
40:12Um, I think he, he practiced in full on Friday.
40:15Um, look at, there's, there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of handcuffed backs.
40:20I think Kamara actually might get some run. I mean, watching the way they, they utilize their backfield with Etienne and, uh,
40:27Kendrick Miller, if Kamara's back, I think, uh, there's a possibility that he takes the Miller, the Miller touches, um, maybe gets,
40:34maybe gets some deeper league flex appeal. If he's working in the passing game, I'm just, there's no, there's no quick fix at running back.
40:42I'm just kind of interested in if he would, I would, it's more like rolling the dice that maybe he comes in.
40:49Miller got nine carries, got some work. If they want to give that to Kamara when he gets back and maybe use
40:56them in the passing game a little bit. I like the offense cause they play fast.
41:02They, they run a lot of plays. They run, they ran a lot of plays in week one, but they were, they
41:09were a fast paced team last year. So there's a lot of potential for touches in this offense.
41:15And so I'm just going to say maybe, maybe in like an, you know, late stage, kind of how we were with
41:22Austin Eckler a couple of years ago in Washington, where we were kind of like, are you really going on like this for five minutes about Alvin Kamara?
41:31Sorry, I have to interrupt you. No, I know.
41:34That's fair. That's fair. I've just tried. Just like try to justify it.
41:38Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, I think you're going to talk about maybe one of the other running backs that I thought about, but I don't know.
41:47I just don't, there's just not a lot to go on.
41:51You're still talking about Alvin Kamara, still talking about him.
41:54I know. We'll hit the stop button here. You can do an hour on Kamara.
41:59You can tell my conviction level for my number five pick is pretty low.
42:03Me thinks thou doth protest too much, basically, is what you're saying.
42:07You know, the Saints were horrible for three quarters and then got an extra quarter for extra plays, so I'm not like
42:14that excited about the offense, but yes, they at least showed they could go to the races when they needed to when they were down three touchdowns.
42:23That's a fair point. I did put one of the other speculative backs at number five.
42:28I put Chris Brooks 2% rostered. I don't, again, we're not, we're kind of in the business here at the nether regions
42:36of the waiver wire, not telling you guys to pick up and start, but just guys to like, huh, I wonder if,
42:43and Kamara definitely falls under I wonder if, for sure.
42:46Chris Brooks also does, got the first carry. It was maybe the best running back carry of the day against the Vikings,
42:53and I thought Marshawn Lloyd looked slow, so maybe things bend a little bit in Brooks' direction.
42:59Who's your number four? A.D. Mitchell. Also my number four.
43:02Okay, yeah. Just, and it, you know, I've kind of hemming a little bit on him as well, hemming and Han, but,
43:09you know, the fact that Omar Cooper is now being called week to week with the high ankle sprain, you know, makes
43:16one, and I thought he looked good for a hot minute there as well.
43:21One play. Yeah, for one play, he looked good.
43:24Yeah. But we know Mitchell has the athleticism, and, you know, it's, he's a little bit of a problematic receiver, but the
43:31athleticism and the ability is there, and if he's got the opportunity and he can kind of just stay focused, say, I
43:38like the potential, but he's got that opportunity right now, so I would roll the dice on him at this point.
43:45I love, he's a bit of a problematic receiver, and it's so true, but it's such a funny way to say it,
43:52but it's so true, it's the perfect way to say it.
43:56Two deep balls in that game I just reviewed against the Titans, and I kind of like sifting through the receiver options,
44:03I could, I don't want to say other names because you might have them, I'll mention them in honorable mentions.
44:10The one of the group that plays with Geno Smith, and I, you know, the Jets clearly did everything that, I just
44:17talked about this, I don't need to go on and on about it, but they clearly did everything they could do to not have Crazy Geno come out.
44:26That was a very controlled offensive game plan, and so Crazy Geno is sort of what you would need for Adonai Mitchell.
44:33You would need more deep shots, but those are a couple really good plays on those deep balls.
44:39One of them was kind of merciless, the game was pretty much over, so yes, I have him at number four also.
44:46He's 16% rostered, definitely fine if you want to like shuffle deck chairs a little bit with Adonai Mitchell.
44:52I got no problem with it. Who's your number three?
44:56This is Devon Vele. You know, he's a limited receiver, but I liked, you know, they've got the ball on the two-yard
45:03line, they looked to him at the goal line, they gave him another end zone target.
45:08I think he drew the pass interference on that one.
45:11He did? A lot of short area stuff, but again, I think there's room for that.
45:16Working with Chris Alave right now, it's not a lot of mouth to feed with Jordan Tyson out, so I don't think
45:24this is a long-term ad, but while Tyson's on the IR, I think there might be some usability here.
45:30He got a lot of volume, so I'm going to go with Vele.
45:34He's my number two for the reasons that you said.
45:37I don't really feel super comfortable adding him to start him in week two.
45:42I think I just need to see a kind of broader sense that the Saints, who we've already talked a lot about,
45:49you know, aren't going to be losing by three touchdowns every week.
45:53Like, that's how they wound up producing a bunch of numbers.
45:57That's why Tyler Shuck is the NFL's leading passer right now.
46:00Like, okay, fine. I don't think that's going to happen long-term.
46:04You know, I look at, like, I have a team, like a 12-team league that started Jaden Reed in the flex, and
46:11like going into week two, you know, if I'm picking a Vele, I'm probably throwing him in there over Jaden Reed.
46:18I think there's people like that out there where he would make sense for people in week two.
46:24That's a fair point by you. I didn't realize that's how bad a drafter you were, but, you know, hey.
46:30Those Yop Possums. Ultra Competitive Leagues. I only play in Ultra Competitive Leagues.
46:34Right. Well, the Yop Possum League, I know those guys all didn't draft Jaden Reed, so that's, they left him for you.
46:42But I'm with you on Devon Vele. He's my number two, and you can kind of interrupt me, because we're going to have similar names here.
46:50I'd much rather hear your voice than mine when it comes to anything, frankly.
46:55My number three was Michael Mayer. Did he make your list?
46:58Oh, you went tight end. Interesting. Okay. No, I did not.
47:02I did not. Honestly, if I was going to go tight end, I was kind of interested in Kenyon Sadiq, just because
47:09they gave him the carry at the goal line.
47:12They did. And it looks like they're, you know, they're trying to get him involved.
47:17And, well, he has like three catches, but Mayer's interesting as well.
47:21I just didn't, I decided to keep it at running back and wide receiver.
47:25Sure. And you're right that people probably shouldn't be jumping off the tight end that they believed in enough to take after one week.
47:33I think if you, like, I find myself in a league with complicated ad drop stuff where I had Bowers, but couldn't,
47:40couldn't like reserve him or anything after week one.
47:43And like, I could use Mayer. There's no other tight ends available.
47:47And this is a 16 team league. Like, I can probably use Mayer.
47:51But you make a really good point, which is most of these waiver ads this week are kind of with the long view in mind.
48:00Like, ooh, if I get to week 10 and Kenyon Sadiq is healthy from the sports hernia surgery and, you know, has overtaken Mason Taylor.
48:08Like, he was obviously on a snap count for week one, but longer term, 100%, of course, you're right.
48:14Sadiq is a better ad than Mayer. Mayer is much more of a maybe right now kind of dude.
48:20And I was sort of, you know, I don't think he's special.
48:24He's fine. He's much more of the inline tight end once Bowers is back.
48:29They'll both play a bunch. But while Bowers is out, Mayer kind of has to fill both shoes so I could see
48:36him as a, you know, as a one week, two week, however many weeks this is going to be.
48:42Raiders fill in. The Raiders think he's special. They just gave him a nice deal.
48:47So I don't care about that. You know, I don't care about that.
48:51Money is fake. The money is fake. Who's number two on your list?
48:55Number two is Caleb Douglas. And, you know, it's kind of we were all sort of waiting to see what the Miami passing game look like.
49:04Look at I think, you know, I didn't watch the game from start to finish.
49:09It was on red zone in the afternoon, though.
49:12So it was on a decent amount. Then I went back and watched Caleb Douglas's catches.
49:17He didn't have to work too hard for a few of them.
49:21It looked like, you know, maybe the Raiders were kind of, you know, worried about keeping Willis contained and following HN.
49:28And so there was a lot of kind of like underneath the coverage kind of stuff where he just found gaps and
49:35was catching stuff that wasn't really contested. But the athleticism showed how I thought he showed decent hands and body movement a
49:42couple times catching balls on the on the boundary and looking pretty natural doing it.
49:47So, I mean, got good volume. They're going to, you know, someone's going to have to be valuable in in this.
49:54First of all, I think Malik Wilson is is is a better quarterback than like Cleveland because there are there are teams
50:01where someone doesn't have to be valuable because they're just that bad.
50:05I don't know that Miami is going to be just that bad.
50:09So I think someone's going to have some value.
50:12And I think right now it's looking like Caleb Douglas is is sort of the one I'd be I'd be rolling the dice on.
50:20He would have been my number six. You can add in the fact I just talked about that game a few minutes ago on the show.
50:28You can add into the fact that I mean, Malik Washington had a really bad game.
50:33If anything, I was like Chris Bell looks like a better ad than Malik Washington at this point.
50:39I mean, I of course doesn't necessarily mean because he had one bad game.
50:44They're punishing him. But I mean, it was rotten and part of why they lost the game and Caleb Douglas looked like the one you would want.
50:53So he was my number six. My number two was Valey.
50:56So who's your number one? Kalen Black. Is he your number one?
51:00Me too. Yes. Yeah. I mean, 15 touches. It went back and looked.
51:04Nine of his touches came when they were either losing tight or up by three.
51:09So it wasn't like, you know, these weren't like garbage.
51:12Yeah, he wasn't. They weren't garbage time. He was in the mix.
51:16And who knows? I mean, who knows if that continues going forward.
51:20But all we really care about is who is who is the guy that you want to back up Christian McCaffrey.
51:27And just going back and watching his tape. I mean, he got it.
51:31It felt like he got the yards that were there and nothing more seems a little bit like he's kind of like
51:39once he picks his direction, there's not a lot of change of direction, but I think it's going to be serviceable.
51:45And if McCaffrey were to get hurt, then it's going to be more than that.
51:50Yep. Kind of like a missile, like a short, stocky missile, but like very committed to one direction and very, very physical.
51:57And of course, we'll take it. And it seems like a real role.
52:02Like if the Niners are going to be an absolute wagon, it seemed like a real role in that one game where
52:09even if McCaffrey is healthy, you might be able to use Black as a flex once the bye weeks come along.
52:16So he's 27% rostered. So it might not be available in all leagues, but did qualify for our list here.
52:22The question people are then going to ask is, okay, if I have McCaffrey and nobody has Kaelin Black, what should I be paying in terms of fab?
52:31I think I probably would not say like 75%.
52:34I don't, I think if, you know, I might say like 25% of your fab.
52:39Is that a fair number or would you go higher?
52:43I don't think I'd go higher because the first number that came into my head was 20.
52:48And then, okay. And if you're in the actual league and you're actually worried that someone else might get him, then I
52:55could see myself going, well, maybe 25. Oh, maybe 29.
52:59You know, start playing around. But I think in the 20s range is about where I would settle.
53:04Me too. Because if someone really, I mean, let's not, we're singing a guy's praises, but we don't want to go overboard.
53:12There are going to be other situations where it's going to be more obvious that you can actually get a real starter
53:19out of nowhere in the first month of the season and you don't want all your money to be gone.
53:25So, right. I mean, go ahead. Oh, sorry. I was just going to say, look, I like Caitlin Black.
53:31He maybe has some flex appeal working with CNC, but you're really also just like what happens if he's not there.
53:38I mean, Braylon Allen's out there. Emmett Johnson's out there.
53:42Both of those guys offer the same thing. I don't know if I overpay for Caitlin Black because those guys are out there as well.
53:50And, you know, Kenneth Walker and Brees Hall could certainly get hurt as well.
53:54Yeah. Yeah. And the point would be like if you have McCaffrey, I think you probably should be willing to pay a
54:01little bit more to make sure you got it all locked up there because that offense looked very good in Australia.
54:08And if you don't and you want to take a shot, I probably wouldn't pay 25.
54:14I'd probably take the shot for 10 or 15 and just see if the McCaffrey owner is asleep at the wheel because
54:21it isn't that valuable as a standalone. You're going to have to, you're going to get to the bye weeks and you're
54:28going to be looking at Caitlin Black on your bench and going, I could really use that roster spot.
54:34I can't, I don't feel comfortable using him. So you don't want to, I think, overpay if you don't have Caitlin Black.
54:41But he did seem like the number one guy to me as well this week.
54:46The three receivers I was going to mention as honorable mentions that I picked Mitchell over, Caleb Douglas, you nailed one of them.
54:54The next one was Dontavia and Wicks. One deep ball and then one other good play.
54:59Good. It was good stuff. I don't think that offense looked fixed.
55:03And then, oh, I can't believe I'm doing it.
55:06But in a deeper league, Rashad Bateman, only because I mentioned Jacoby Lane broke his wrist or arm or something.
55:12And then Zay Flowers, I don't think he plays.
55:15I don't, you know, they're talking real optimistic. But I think they'll be careful with him.
55:20So like, Rashad Bateman might actually get work in week two.
55:24So in the short term, you could take a look at him.
55:28Well, Brandon, thank you for doing this. Go back to your CEO duties.
55:32Please let the people on the news desk that they should do a better job.
55:37But you on the sports side are doing wonderful.
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56:20And so if you find yourself with a need and you remember that they were a sponsor of the show, you want
56:27to reward them for sponsoring something that you like using the codes and URLs really does help.
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56:38That's going to do it for this Tuesday episode.
56:41I am proceeding to go do ranks here in a little bit for week two and then the Yacht Club episode with
56:48Andy Barron's on Wednesday will consist of some ranks talk and probably just some reaction talk from week one.
56:54Looking forward to hearing what Andy thought of the various games that we have talked about here on the show for the past couple of days.
57:03And then we'll all be back here on Thursday.
57:06I'll have two guests. We'll have Dave Kluge from Football Guys to talk about week two ranks and Jake Trowbridge returns from his sojourn to the Northeast.
57:14We'll ask him all about what New England was like because I didn't go there this summer.
57:20And then of course we'll also do week two in DraftKings.
57:23Let me remind you, Pound Foolish is still a thing that's out there and as a fun bonus thing, I now have text confirmation during the show.
57:32It came in while I was talking to Brandon from Rain.
57:36I will in fact be on Rain Wilson's Instagram live at 1 p.m.
57:40Pacific, 4 p.m. Eastern today. That's the 15th of September.
57:43We're going to talk about all kinds of stuff.
57:46I really honestly don't know, but some of it will be Pound Foolish for sure and then also probably just fantasy stuff because Rain really likes fantasy.
57:55We're in a league together and I lost this week in that league so I'll probably get a little teasing but should be very fun.
58:03So if you're available at 4 o'clock Eastern, 1 o'clock p.m.
58:07today, you can go over to Rain Wilson's Instagram page and we should be on there live right about then.
58:13Until then, thanks again so much for listening. Your hat is awesome.
58:17You're awesome for wearing it. I will talk to you next time.
58:21The Harris Football Podcast's opening theme is Under the Gun by Apex Manor.
58:25The closing theme is Say Yes by The Wellspring.
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