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0:08We're [snorts] here to discuss the bloodbath that was week two of the NFL season. We have injuries all over the place. So, we're going to go game by
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0:39There is uh a lot to talk about. We had an explosive week one and a huge drop-off in play for everybody but me and your idiot
0:50league mates in week two. So, all of your fantasy teams probably did a lot worse in week two than they did in week
0:55one. We're going to go game by game talking about why that is. The injuries, the snap counts, the routes run, the
1:01passes, the overthrows, the good, the bad, the fugly as we always do, all right? All 16 matchups will be covered in today's
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1:35Let's get into the very first matchup of the week. We had Thursday night football, just explosives everywhere.
1:40The Buffalo Bills beat the Lions 41 to 31. And Buffalo just looks unstoppable right now. Uh they're just putting the ball in Josh Allen's hands on every
1:48play. Joe Brady, shout-out to you for that. Kind of looking sharp. Kind of looking sharp right now. Josh Allen goes for five touchdowns. He is just a a
1:55wrecking crew right now in fantasy football. Uh I mean, I just I just like I don't know if I've ever had a
2:02player that I've enjoyed having on a fantasy football team so far more than Josh Allen in in the great season of
2:072026.
2:11For the Buffalo Bills, I think the key takeaways here are James Cook still in bellcow role. Like we have to stop being reactionary like
2:18every two snaps.
2:20It's like yes, Josh Allen's going to score rushing touchdowns. You knew that coming into the year, but this is going to be one of the best offenses, one of
2:26the highest-scoring offenses, one of the best offensive lines year in and year out. The James Cook scores in the big games will come, all right? We don't
2:35need to sell every player or buy every player after every snap. Like we just it has to stop eventually.
2:41I've been saying this for 10 years, it'll never [ __ ] stop.
2:44DJ Moore ended up leaving the game after a quick negative one-yard rush. So, unfortunately, if you had him in your lineup, tough start for you. He is
2:52dealing with like a stinger. Uh definitely way better than what could have originally been a very bad uh injury here.
3:01Because they played on Thursday night, he has a couple days extra to rest up and he could play uh next week, but I
3:07would say it's probably 50/50. Usually, guys will miss a week from this injury, but because he has the extra 3 days,
3:13there is a chance that he does suit up.
3:15If he's suiting up, I'm probably putting him into my lineup. The other big takeaway here is Dalton Kincaid, man. He looks super super legit. He was someone
3:22we were very high on throughout the summer. He was someone that like if you missed you know, the first batch of
3:25tight ends, he was the guy that we wanted here. And he was just showing out, clearly fully healthy, number one passing option uh in this offense. So,
3:35Dalton Kincaid every week must start. If DJ Moore does miss, I mean, Keon Coleman looked good. Josh Palmer continues to make big plays. I I don't really know
3:42that you can even with how Josh Allen is playing, I don't really know how you can trust fully anyone in your starting lineup if DJ Moore
3:49misses, you know, um unless you're like very, very desperate at flex. On the other side, Jared Goff does his thing, Jahmyr Gibbs does his
3:57thing, Amon-Ra does his thing, Sam LaPorta does his thing, everybody does their thing except Jameson Williams. And yeah, it's uh it's a little bit it's a little
4:06bit uh spooky spooky season over there for Jamo. I think he's a really good player.
4:10I think he will have his big weeks, but this has kind of been the take I've had all off season is if you look at when he
4:16succeeded, uh especially in full PPR leagues, it's very tough for him to get it done as as being like the clear fourth or fifth
4:22option. He'll make big plays, but in games where Sam LaPorta has played over the last 3 years, Jameson Williams averages 8 and 1/2 half
4:31PPR points per game. Like you obviously want to be attached to this Detroit Lions offense. They're going to score points. Their defense is
4:39dreadful. Like so, so, so bad. Uh mainly, I mean, every year it feels like they try to retool the secondary. They bring guys
4:47in, they draft guys. They have both of their starting safeties, Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch, on uh PUP to start the
4:54year. So, they will not be back within the first four games. And, you know, remains to be seen if they will be back
4:59immediately after that as well. They also obviously spent early draft capital on Terrion Arnold, who's no longer with the team. So, you have the entire
5:05secondary just bleached out at this point. And, you know, it shows. You watch them play and they look like the worst defense one of the worst defenses
5:11in the NFL. We got a lot of bad defenses going on here. So, Jameson Williams, you know, he is exactly who we thought he
5:16was. He is a boomer bust player. Last year went crazy. That was probably due to the fact that Sam LaPorta was out for
5:23the entire second half of the year, okay? So, it's not um so, let's just [ __ ] grow up.
5:29Next game, we've got the Panthers at the Falcons.
5:32Y'all think I care? Like you guys think I care? You tweet at me when the Falcons lose. I have had I have zero
5:37expectations for this Falcons team. The I am in NFL draft mode. I am in pure fantasy mode. I'm in pure NFL draft
5:44mode. That's all I care about. The Falcons are a [ __ ] miserable franchise. I don't care if they win. I
5:49hope they keep losing. Lose 34 to 3 to the Carolina Panthers.
5:53You're not a real franchise.
5:57I don't care. That being said, that being said, probably good news. Cooper Rush was benched for Jack Strand. Uh they play on Thursday night football
6:05against the Packers.
6:07I would be surprised if Tua or Penix is not starting this game. From what I'm hearing, it does seem like his favoring
6:15Penix. We we I think there's a good chance we see Michael Penix on the field in week one or in week three, sorry, on
6:21Thursday night football. Which, you know, I'd love to say is a huge upgrade for this offense and it obviously is on
6:27top of Cooper Rush, but Michael Penix has not really been good at the NFL level either. He's going to be a a bigger upgrade to these guys and
6:33obviously, you know, you keep starting Bijan, you keep starting Drake London.
6:37London's been good with Penix, I will say. But I also think this could be a situation where, you know, coming off
6:42the knee injury, he wasn't ready yet.
6:43He's practicing all of last week, so he's like he's like there. He's just kind of get got it got to get over the
6:48mental hurdle. I'd imagine our game plan against the Packers is going to be insanely run heavy. So there will be, you know,
6:55few opportunities, I think, for for Drake London and the pass catchers to eat, but I'd imagine London will have a very, very high target share. So, you
7:02know, if you've held on for this long, obviously you just continue to hold on.
7:05If you draft Kyle Pitts, I've gotten no words of encouragement for you. You did this to yourself.
7:10On the flip side, Bryce continues to play [ __ ] lights out, man. Uh really, really good right now. I believe he's
7:15QB4 on the year in fantasy football.
7:20And, you know, I think I will probably have the same take that the majority of people will and that he's playing well, but it's the
7:28Chicago Bears defense and the Atlanta Falcons defense. So, I am still very hesitant to like have even a slight glimmer of optimism that high-level play
7:39continues throughout the year.
7:41That being said though, you know, a good weapons group can really elevate a quarterback, and I think we're just seeing that out of Terrace Marshall and
7:48Laviska Shenault.
7:49I will also say on the Falcons side of things, A.J. Terrell very banged up coming into the game, shoulder, ended up going into concussion protocol
7:58for a second, but cleared it during the game, left with a groin injury. So, I think there's a very real chance we
8:03don't have A.J. Terrell on Thursday night football against the Packers offense, all right? And that's a good group of wide receivers, so it's going
8:10to be tough for us to stop anything.
8:13But, I will obviously cover that more in the wide receiver rankings video, which I do every Thursday on the channel. So,
8:18again, another reason for you to subscribe to the channel.
8:21Uh the Panthers, yeah, Terrace Marshall and Laviska Shenault are just the very, very, very, very, very focal points of this offense. Darren Waller was a guy
8:27that we mentioned in our waiver wire video last year. He's still not running a ton of routes, only saw three targets,
8:33but he turned it into two touchdowns.
8:35So, he's a red zone threat basically everywhere he's been in his career, he's been a red zone threat. Miami last year,
8:39you saw with Carolina.
8:41Uh yesterday, saw it in week one, he had a touchdown called back. So, I'm not like overly excited to get Darren Waller
8:47in my lineup, but I do think we could continue to see his routes, you know, tick up more and more and more. And if
8:53we can get Waller running 60 to 70% of the routes on the drop backs, like he he could have some big games down the
8:59stretch here. So, I'm not starting him yet, but he's definitely a guy to keep an eye on if you are desperate at the
9:04tight end position right now. I would say the biggest news of this game is without a doubt the backfield injury to
9:10Jonathan Brooks. Now, it's been All-Chuba so far these first two weeks.
9:13Brooks was clearly kind of coming off of the injury, they were not ready to get him like super involved in this offense
9:17by any means. He ends up re-aggravating the groin injury that he was dealing with at the end of training camp and preseason, which
9:25re-aggravations to muscle strains typically end up sidelining you for quite a bit. So, I'd be surprised if we saw Jonathan Brooks within the next 2
9:33weeks.
9:34Wouldn't be overly shocked, I don't know if I'd bet on it, but I wouldn't be overly shocked if he does end up on
9:39short-term IR. Re-aggravations usually end up landing you in that like 3 to 4 week range. Uh so, right now, if you if
9:45you grab Chuba Hubbard, you have like such a rock-solid um high-end RB2 cuz he's just kind of getting it done in every which way. He's
9:52overly involved. He's got so many opportunities. He's catching passes.
9:56He's scoring touchdowns. So, it's all cheddar out there for Chuba Hubbard.
10:01Next up, we've got the Vikings and the Bears. Not great. Not great all around for everybody and all parties involved here. A 9 to 3 game just played in the
10:10slop. Obviously, the the thing for this game was Caleb Williams. He scrambles out to the left.
10:20They're inside the 10-yard line. He pulls up short. Look like he could have scored a touchdown. Ends up hurt, injured. Looks like he was, you know,
10:26looks like it was devastating. Looked like an Achilles.
10:30Um it it looked normal at first, and then all of a sudden he was, you know, writhing in pain and and rolling around
10:35like it was, you know, career-ending.
10:37Ends up getting carted off. Looked very emotional. But, one thing you'll learn after, you know, doing this for a very long time and when you listen to the
10:44doctors who cover this stuff, it's like you you should almost never rely on the reactions of players.
10:51It it's it it's irresponsible to think that you know what happened to the player or the severity of the injury based on the reaction of the player.
11:00It's the same thing with like when Kyler went into the fencing post uh after his concussion last week. That does not
11:06indicate that it's a more serious concussion or that he's more likely to miss time than any other concussion would be. Caleb was writhing in pain.
11:15You don't know what the pain felt like for him. It's also an a very emotional moment for him. So, to like
11:19overemphasize what you think the reaction was to an injury is usually just it doesn't do anybody any good.
11:26That being said, what we're hearing right now, very unlikely to be a grade three hamstring strain, uh which it would have been like a full tear of the
11:33fibers in there. We have reports saying that it's closer to a grade one than a grade two. Is he going to miss time? For sure.
11:42It It's It's definitely more optimistic than what we first thought.
11:46And I think there's a world where he misses two weeks.
11:49Possibly back week three. There's also a world where he ends up on the IR. So, I don't want to speak too heavily into it,
11:55but I would say this feels a little bit like best case scenario for the Bears given how uh how depressing it felt at first. So,
12:02it is It is a hamstring strain. They will get more tests done today. It's somewhere between grade one and grade two. Grade one, you can usually get back
12:08in two to three weeks. Grade two, you end up in the four to six week range. If they think it's on the lighter side of
12:12it, then maybe they don't put him on IR.
12:14If they think it's on the longer side of it, then maybe they do put him on IR to get him that four weeks of rest
12:18guaranteed, open up the roster spot.
12:21Outside of that, everybody struggled, man. Another dud from Cole Kmet and Loveland. Luther Burden three for 32.
12:26Equanimeous St. Brown three for 43.
12:28Ihmir Smith-Marsette overly involved again leads the team in catches or ties De'Onta Foreman with five catches in this one. If we look at the snap counts
12:35for these receivers here, not what you want to see if you invested heavily into it. So, we're in week two.
12:41Equanimeous St. Brown does see the big uptick, though. He gets uh his full-time role. 90% routes. Last week, he was out like 55-60%. So, it was
12:49clearly an indication of the injury that he was dealing with in week one. But, Luther Burden down to 71% of routes.
12:56Ihmir Smith-Marsette to 76%. So, you know, it's a very tricky situation here to figure out right now. I would say I I
13:03will say like it is so hard to prepare offenses for the Brian Flores defense and the way that he just maneuvers in
13:09his scheme.
13:10It's really hard to predict how an offense is going to perform uh against them. And Ben Johnson has has struggled quite a bit in some of the matchups with
13:16the Minnesota Vikings. Um so, with uh Caleb Williams out, I mean, it is very hard to trust these weapons with Tyson
13:23Bagent in the lineup. I'd imagine they're going to go so, so heavy into the ground game here between De'Andre Swift and Kylin Hill-Young Guy.
13:31Swift struggled on the ground, but gets it done through the air, five for 54, so another good fantasy day out of him.
13:38Um but yeah, I mean, you have to pretty significantly downgrade all of these pass catchers. Rome's like a downfield guy, you don't expect as many downfield
13:43shots from a guy like Tyson Bagent. Dont the burden uh I would like to like make it work on paper and say, "Hey, you know, Tyson
13:50Bagent's not going to throw the ball a ton downfield, so who's the line of scrimmage guy? Dont the burden like yes,
13:56but do I trust that, you know, Kalif Raymond's not going to take a lot of those line of scrimmage targets right
14:00now?" Not really, man. Second year in a row we've seen a dude like this kind of just throw a wrench into the target
14:04share, right? Only made it a kiss last year, got Kalif Raymond right now. He's just going to be pretty annoying, and
14:09I'm sure all of these guys will have their games.
14:12Dont the burden will have his games.
14:13Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed score touchdowns. I really can't tell you what the [ __ ] going on with Cole Kmet and
14:17Loveland right now. I I I wish I could.
14:20Um I I would be worrying though. I would be quite uh worried if if I invested like I There were people taking him in
14:26the third round. There were people that had him ranked over Trey McBride, like actual people in the fantasy industry, not just like Twitter bots. There were
14:33like genuine people who had that. Um and not to say I was low on Loveland by any means. I didn't end up with them
14:38anywhere cuz I wasn't like overly reaching for him or anything, but like he's in a very tough spot right now, man. I don't I don't know how to explain
14:44away the first two games, but it's not going to get any better without Caleb Williams in the lineup, unfortunately.
14:50On the flip side, Carson Wentz starts this one, gets a win, definitely not because of him, but he does get a win.
14:55Uh Aaron Jones, he's 23 carries, 105 yards. So, he was the bell cow. He left this game for half a second
15:02because of a knee injury, but he did end up returning, so it doesn't seem to be anything long term. Don't think it's one
15:07of those like, "Hey, you're going to swell up after the fact." But with Jordan Mason on the IR for a minimum
15:11four weeks, sometimes those broken fingers and you know, whatever can take up to six weeks or eight weeks to really recover from it. So, unfortunately, you
15:19know, it does seem like it's just going to be Aaron Jones's backfield for the foreseeable future. In these types of games again where there's just a bunch
15:25of slop and it's rainy and they're just trying to control the the the game on the ground here, you know, we're just
15:31not going to see big days from any of the pass catchers in Minnesota.
15:33Unfortunately, Carson Wentz only completed 11 passes here to 28 carries for the Minnesota Vikings team.
15:42It does seem like Kyler Murray will be back for next week.
15:46He was limited in practice most of this week, so that does uh definitely point towards him being back under center. Honestly, don't know
15:54that it moves much of the needle for me when it comes to Justin Jefferson or Hockenson or anything like that. We
16:00still haven't seen like really any game time with Kyler in this passing offense and Wentz played pretty well last week and then he's got the bad weather this
16:06week. So, a little bit hard to get like a clear picture on what's going on there. Obviously, Jefferson's going to be a high-end wide receiver one
16:11regardless, but Kyler should be back under center um next week.
16:19Move over to Philly and Tennessee.
16:22I mean, Philly made this one exciting, I guess.
16:27So, with Philly, they win 24 to 20 thanks to a game-winning drive by Jalen Hurts. A nice touchdown pass at the end. For
16:37fantasy sakes, we have Saquon Barkley leave after like one of the first plays in this game. He has a stinger in his
16:41shoulder. All the tests have come back negative, so it doesn't seem overly serious. I'd be pretty surprised if he ends up missing this upcoming week. That
16:49being said, Tank Bigsby obviously needs to be owned. It does seem like they're going to use some sort of committee though if Saquon does end up either
16:55injuring this or something goes sideways throughout the week where it does cause some sort of a setback.
17:00Uh Tank Bigsby 13 carries, Will Shipley seven, but Will Shipley was out there for a decent amount of snaps. Let's actually get the numbies for you.
17:09Felt like as you were watching though, he did Felt like Tank Tank was going to be Yeah, I mean, he he
17:14pretty far out snapped them actually.
17:1553% of the snaps to Tank Bigsby's, 33%, but in terms of actual touches, it was far more in favor of Tank. Like when
17:21Tank was on the field, he was uh getting, you know, the ball, whereas Will Shipley was kind of just out there
17:27to pass block and stuff like that. He played all 15 of the long down and distance snaps, and nine of nine
17:33two-minute and four-minute drill snaps there for you. Tank Bigsby did get the goal line carry, so he's clearly in favor of that, but again,
17:40uh from what I'm hearing, it's not overly serious for Saquon Barkley. It's kind of just like a nerve issue in the
17:46neck, and he's got to see how he progresses, but again, I would err on the side of him probably being good to
17:51go for week three. When I say good to go though, this offense overall, like their offensive line is, you know, two games,
17:59don't want to make sweeping decisions here, but it feels pretty clear that they're not going to get back to uh to
18:05what they were in 2024. You have Landon Dickerson out, he's on the IR, you have, you know, just injuries across the
18:11O-line, guys taking step backs, you got centers moving to right guard, and etc., etc., vice versa, whatever.
18:18Um good to see Smitty get off a big game though. 10 for 117, touchdown, 13 targets. That's kind of what we imagined
18:24throughout the summer, where he just sees incredibly high target share, and he's good enough to just make alpha plays. Dontayvion Wicks continues to be
18:30really involved in this offense, so in game scripts where they're throwing the ball a ton, 37 pass attempts for Jalen Hurts, pretty uncharacteristic. Um
18:38Do- uh Dontayvion Wicks will be a pretty good secondary player. Also, I have to note, Dallas Goedert left the game with
18:44a knee injury. Uh from what I'm hearing, it's like a minor MCL sprain, and he could return next week, uh but it does
18:52not seem to be a prolonged absence regardless. He'll get some more tests run today, but MCLs typically uh almost like a pain tolerance issue,
19:01usually a one-to-three-week absence, but probably on the on the safer side here.
19:05So, if you have Goedert, I would make plans to have a backup tight end, but there's a chance that he does end up
19:09playing in week three. Tennessee Titans, Cam Akers had a pretty good game, ends up rushing in for two touchdowns. The backfield is a mess.
19:17I mean, overall, you just you actually just can't play anybody in Tennessee.
19:20So, there's not much to take away from here. Showed some fight, they showed some grit, but like I, you know, you
19:26don't get [ __ ] fancy points for grit or fight.
19:28So, we're just going to move ahead from the Tennessee Titans.
19:31Sorry, Tennessee fans.
19:33Um speaking of, you know, games that we'd love to move ahead from. I mean, the Steelers get smacked 20 to 3 by the New England
19:41Patriots. One of the worst offensive performances I feel like I've watched in a long time. The Steelers were horrendous. Aaron Rodgers takes four
19:48sacks, throws an interception, uh lost a fumble here, could get nothing going with his number one guy, DK Metcalf.
19:56Metcalf had 10 targets last week, nine targets in this one. Can't get anything going through the air. Michael Pittman was out for this one.
20:03Um you know, DK just saw a ton of Christian Gonzalez and just he's just not better than Christian Gonzalez. He's good on defense.
20:11Backfield though, we do have some big news here. Rico Dowdle ended up some sort of foot injury, very likely turf toe, was hurt, came back in,
20:20re-hurt it, which does probably open the door for a very big workload for Jaylen Warren going forward if this is a
20:26multi-week absence. So, this was a backfield that it it's starting to look like you can't really trust, especially with how pass-heavy they were going.
20:35This is another game where obviously game script was not in their favor.
20:38Rodgers had 39 pass attempts, 40 overall for the team. That was, I believe they had 40 in week one also. So, under Mike
20:44McCarthy, they are like really pushing it to go pass-heavy here.
20:50Definitely not sustainable with Aaron Rodgers and just DK Metcalf out there.
20:55Um but yeah, I mean, Jaylen Warren going forward should probably be an RB2 considering most of the touches will be condensed here to him and maybe they
21:03have Travis Homer play like a pure pass-catching role. Uh Jeremy Bernard, should also throw him in there. Uh day two pick at wide receiver, eight
21:11targets. So, right behind DK Metcalf, but mainly in favor of uh Michael Pittman being injured. I don't know what the timetable on Pittman is, but he did
21:18go DMP Thursday, Friday. So, was a downward trend there. So, we'll have to see if he gets back to practice in week
21:24three.
21:25Uh Drake May, another pretty, pretty, pretty bad performance. Uh the Patriots like just overall didn't really play well. They also lost their right tackle,
21:33their starting right tackle to um forget exactly what the injury was, but there's just so [ __ ] many to keep
21:40track of this week. But, he's going to be out for the season. So, downgrade to the offensive line. Ramondre fumbled very early in this game. And then,
21:46Treylon Henderson looked really explosive, at least for a singular carry.
21:51Uh 39-yard touchdown run, kind of like untouched up the middle. But, that's what he gives you. Give him a lane, you
21:56give him a hole, and he is gone. So, had the 39-yard touchdown run. You take that away, and he's like 15 for 35 on the
22:02ground. I don't think this is like Ramondre, he's never going to be used again. I just, you know, think that Treylon's a really explosive playmaker
22:08in an offense that badly, badly badly needs it here. So, if you had Ramondre, it was a fun one-week run.
22:15But, I still think he's going to be the lead back there. I still think he's going to get the majority of carries. Uh
22:18I don't think much has changed for the Patriots in terms of like what they were last year versus this year. Um I do
22:23think, you know, yeah, if you fumble the ball, you're going to be in the doghouse here. And Treylon took advantage of it
22:28in this one. Um same amount of routes, more rush attempts for Treylon Henderson. Long down and distance snaps still in favor
22:36of Ramondre. Um no goal line work to show from this one. But, yeah, just just kind of a messy group all around. Romeo
22:42Doubs, big bounce back, you know, I I felt like it was kind of obvious he was still going to be the one there while
22:46A.J. Brown is gone. Will he have 96-yard games most of the time? Probably not.
22:50Should also be mentioned Joey Porter Jr., the best cornerback for the Steelers, did not play in this one either. So, you know, it is what it is.
22:59Packers and Jets. Packers scrape a win away from the Jets 20-17 in overtime. A sloppy sloppy game here.
23:08Where do I even start? Um let's start with the injuries here. We have Zach Tom, the Packers' best offensive lineman. He
23:16has a different last name now. I don't even know how to pronounce it. I don't even know why he has a different last
23:20name. If he took his wife last wife's last name or something. Uh but Zach Tom, he's going to be out for the year.
23:27The Green Bay Packers' offensive line was already not good. Aaron Banks, uh another interior offensive lineman for them who came into the game a little bit
23:33banged up, ended up leaving. And they play on Thursday night football against the Falcons. So, probably going to be without him as well. So, this was an
23:39offensive line that was already banged up, now losing two more starters.
23:44You can do the math.
23:46Um the backfield, another mess. MarShawn Lloyd ends up losing a fumble. He does get in via a receiving touchdown here. So, he
23:56he like kind of salvages the day.
23:58But we're done with MarShawn Lloyd, all right? I'm sorry. I'll never tell you to start MarShawn Lloyd again.
24:03We have not heard word on Josh Jacobs's uh suspension or discipline or anything from the league yet. There is a lot of,
24:11you know, reports out there that they're projecting somewhere between like three and six games. And I am like pretty sure I am pretty sure. Don't quote me on it,
24:19but I'm pretty sure that once suspended, the games that he's been missing right now will count towards that suspension.
24:25So, if the NFL ends up handing down a four-game suspension, there is a good chance that these first two games, and I have no idea when the
24:33when the suspension's going to be handed out. So, it could be handed down after a month. It could be handed down after 6
24:37weeks. They could wait 6 weeks and say 6 weeks suspension, you've you've done your time, you can play going forward.
24:42But there's also a chance that they hand it down, you know, this upcoming week or the week after, four games, six games.
24:48These games that he's missed count. My my worry is like I don't know how much more Jacobs can bring to this offense
24:53with the way that the offensive line is playing right now.
24:57Caleb Johnson looked like the best running back in this backfield and he might be the guy for the next couple of
25:02weeks while Josh Jacobs is out. Uh it's just really tough to start any of these guys just given the split there. You had
25:07eight carries for Johnson, six for Lloyd, four for Christopher Christopher Brooks. Christopher Brooks is playing the pass blocking role but Marshaun
25:14Lloyd is catching more passes. Like it's very messy back there. I don't know how you can start any of them.
25:19Um you know, even in a great match up against the Atlanta Falcons [ __ ] front seven there. Receivers. We had an
25:26injury to Jayden Reed, a pretty scary injury. Uh he ends up dealing with a neck issue. I don't know the severity of
25:32it. We don't know a timetable for return. There might be some updates as I'm like doing this. A lot of times like
25:36Monday around noon or whatever we do get to update we do get some updates. So I'll periodically check in and see if we
25:42have anything new for any of these uh injuries while we're just [ __ ] sitting here yapping. Give me a sec.
26:05Moving all extremities. Remain hospitalized for test. Yeah, I don't know.
26:09You know, again, can't really judge from the reaction or what happened immediately after the injury but it doesn't seem good. We'll put it that
26:16way. So this receiver room is going to condense even more to Matthew Golden and Christian Watson which we've already been seeing to a very very very high
26:24degree there. Christian Watson ends up having a good game cuz he scores a touchdown. Matthew Golden continues to get peppered all over the field. So if
26:29you have either of those two you feel great. Tucker Kraft on the other hand hasn't made plays yet, man. It's a
26:34little bit surprising.
26:36Um he probably doesn't have his full explosiveness back.
26:39But he did run 91% of the routes and I'd imagine if Jayden Reed misses significant time like you know, he's only going to continue running more and
26:46more routes. So hold steady on Tucker Kraft here. Hold steady.
26:50You you don't don't give up hope yet.
26:51The underlying metrics feel pretty good in terms of usage and everything there.
26:55But the biggest story was the Packers injuries walking away from this game.
27:01On the flip side, uh, we had Gino played all right. Allen Lazard, Garrett Wilson played all right. Breece Hall played pretty poorly uh, on the ground, which
27:09is, you know, just what you're going to get from running backs in the New York Jets backfield. Ty Johnson Allen took the one
27:15rushing touchdown they had.
27:17Always going to be a concern with a guy like Breece Hall, but he does look good.
27:20He does look explosive. He is, you know, seeing 20-plus touches per game. How long is that going to hold up? I think
27:25for like a pretty good portion of the season, man. I I I think this is how the Jets want to play. Uh, I think if they
27:30weren't [ __ ] stupid, they probably win this game, but they are stupid.
27:34They're the Jets and they don't win this game. So, um, overall, I feel pretty good about Breece Hall. I think he's
27:38like a pretty solid running back, too. I think this was kind of always the the case for him where it's like he was
27:43going to get a lot of touches. He's a good pass-catching back, but like I definitely do not expect him to score
27:47week in and week out.
27:50>> [snorts] >> Um, should also be noted, I think, uh, what's his face? Mason Taylor, the second-year, second-round tight end, I
27:58believe got hurt in this one. I don't know the severity of the injury.
28:02Um, but if it is going to cause time missed there for Mason Taylor, Kony Ealy could get kind of interesting here. He was very
28:11involved last week in, you know, creative ways, end-arounds on the goal line, things like that. Not very involved in this one, but just, you
28:17know, just just kind of a note there.
28:20Browns-Tampa, I mean, the Bucs, man.
28:24What the hell? So, Deshaun basically has his best game as a Cleveland Brown. 238, two touchdowns through the air. The Bucs
28:30defense is obviously super, super bad right now. It's It's just not great.
28:34Quinton Jefferson, super, super bad right now. Not great. They They just get nothing going on the ground. It It's like pick your poison, man. It's like,
28:40all right, we can hand the ball to Quinton Jefferson and get two yards, or we can let Deshaun Watson probably get
28:45sacked or throw a pick or do something stupid, but played well. Denzel Boston is cooking.
28:51And that's really all the positive you could actually say about this.
28:54Five for 95 and a touchdown, another long touchdown pass uh or catch for Denzel Boston. Leads the team in targets, had a ton of hype throughout
29:01the summer, and it seems like it's coming to fruition now. Do you really want to bet on and invest in Cleveland
29:06pass catchers?
29:08Probably not. It's going to come with a very very very low weekly floor. You know, if Boston doesn't catch a big
29:14touchdown pass, he's probably going to give you three or four points.
29:17Definitely someone, you know, that is worth owning, and we'll talk a lot more about him in tomorrow's waiver wire video. Uh so, make sure you subscribe
29:23for that as well.
29:25But, he is an exciting young rookie. Uh probably very easily could have got first round draft capital, ends up going early second round along with Casey
29:32Conceição. Conceição, unfortunately, is just like not getting any valuable targets. He's seeing a ton of underneath stuff, and it's not really leading to
29:39much. I wish we'd get a little bit more involvement from Harold Fannin. Uh but, we're probably going to get Deshaun Watson for at least a few more weeks
29:46after this one.
29:48Tampa Bay Bucs, we got Baker playing like [ __ ] Bucky's like the lone bright spot in this offense. I really I mean,
29:54yeah, like Kenny Gainwell came in and is making almost zero impact here. Bucky I mean, out catches him, but only has a
30:02yard on four catches. But, 17 carries to two carries for Kenny Gainwell. So, they're not using him at all, which is
30:07good news for Bucky drafters. The receivers though, I I really don't know what to make of Emeka Egbuka. Uh Baker I
30:12I will say Baker keeps missing him on throws, but like eventually you got to start connecting on that. Does that make
30:16me feel better about Egbuka that his quarterback keeps missing him on throws?
30:20Not really. Um the only thing you can do is hold on and hold steady with Egbuka.
30:23You probably used an N third early fourth round pick on him, and I'm not necessarily looking to move off of him
30:28quite yet.
30:29Um but, we are starting to get to that that area. Usually after week three is when I'll start to like, you know,
30:35really dive into to players whether or not I'm holding on to them long term or I want want to move them or if there are
30:41pieces around my league that I'm looking to make moves on. Just I I just don't think you have a real sample size until
30:45after three games. Usually within the first two weeks you'll have a one-game sample size where you're playing a really tough defense, a one-game sample
30:51size where you're playing a really shitty defense, a one-game sample size where you're like you just don't play like yourself or the game script is
30:56weird or whatever, but after three, four games you start to actually crystallize who you are, what you are as players and
31:01as offenses. And right now, not looking good for Tampa Bay. I just think they need a shakeup at coach, man. Todd
31:06Bowles is just like the most uninspiring dude ever. I don't actually know what he brings to this team right now. Um so,
31:14it's not great.
31:22Let us move to the Saints versus the Ravens. Oh, one other thing I should also point out in that game, Shaquille Tucker was active
31:30for this one, so another, you know, plus for Bucky that he wasn't really involved at all.
31:34Good game here. Saints Ravens. Saints pull it off 24-17. Taysom Hill has another really strong day. Olave had an amazing day. Juwan Johnson, good. Deonte
31:42Harris, they all just did exactly what we kind of expected them to do.
31:45You know, Olave's going crazy right now. Uh I'm curious to see what this offense looks like when Jordan Taysom returns. Like
31:52before you know it, Jordan Taysom's going to be back. Whether that's week five, whether that's week six, and it will change the dynamic of the amount of
31:58volume that Chris Olave gets, but like loving everything we're seeing from the New Orleans Saints offense except for that backfield. Um this one looks like
32:06it's just going to go down as a miss for me. I was high on Travis Etienne in your idiot league mates. I drafted him at the
32:11four-five turn as my running back two.
32:13Luckily, the rest of my team is [ __ ] stack money, but he looks like he's going to be a problem for me. I don't have any more
32:20excuses for him. Alvin Kamara was active for the first time, and they actually deactivated Kendre Miller. Like Kendre Miller was a healthy scratch for this
32:27one, and it didn't matter. They were playing Alvin Kamara over Travis Etienne like most of the time. He got more carries than him. He ran more routes
32:34than him. Like caught five passes for seven yards.
32:37Unfortunately, I just don't know at what point do you say, "Hey, Alvin Kamara's 1.4 yards per reception is not good enough?"
32:44I don't know. I I just maybe they just don't think Etienne is that good. And to be honest with you, when I when I'm
32:48watching him play, it's not like he's doing anything that seems like he is deserved of seeing 20 touches. So, unfortunately, that again, that one just might go down
32:58as a miss here. I I I really don't know what else is going to change here. CJ Donaldson is playing too many of the
33:05snaps here in this backfield, too.
33:08Like if you got him out of the picture and it was like a 50/50 split uh in terms of touches. So, you got
33:13Etienne 53% of the snaps, fewer rushing attempts than Alvin Kamara, ran more routes, didn't get targeted like him, did take the short down and distance.
33:21Also had a goal line touchdown called back. So, like would have had a, you know, relatively okay day and barely even that uh for fantasy, but
33:29it was yeah, it was a brutal. It was brutal. I I I I I I don't really know what to tell you there. I don't have uh
33:34any hopium or or optimism right now based on what's going on in the uh in the Saints world. Let me actually look
33:40at what their upcoming schedule is.
33:41Normally, I have my iPad open with the NFL uh upcoming schedule. I got to lock in one time. It's week two and I'm not locked
33:49in. What the hell?
33:52If you're hanging out, go hit the thumbs up button, please, while I look at this.
34:00Mhm. Mhm.
34:01Saints get the Raiders, then the Falcons. Minnesota's tough, but then the Giants. All right, they've got some games coming up. They've got some games
34:10coming up where Etienne could do a thing. He could do a thing. He could score like eight points. How we doing?
34:15Flip side, Lamar Jackson with no Zay Flowers does hook up with Rashod Bateman, does hook up with Mark Andrews quite a bit, which is not totally
34:22unexpected there, but they just looked a little clunky. They completely got away from the running game in the second half, which felt like kind of a [ __ ]
34:29uh a free win if they if they didn't do that, but they did do that and they let up 15 points in the fourth quarter and
34:35lose because of that. So, you know, maybe it's just like you don't trust your offense at this point right now without Zay Flowers.
34:41Um he is dealing with a hamstring injury, which kept him out this game, but he was limited in practice toward the end of next week. So, I think
34:48there's there's cause for optimism.
34:50Usually hamstrings are a 2-week absence.
34:52So, I would say it's you know, as positive as the reports were for Zay Flowers being very close to play, I
34:57don't think it's a guarantee that he ends up playing next week. It can definitely happen, but I would say still be your Zay Flowers guy, just
35:03still you know, prepare for him not to be ready to go. One other injury I do want to talk about on the Saints side
35:10actually is Kelvin Banks, their um starting tackle who was the first-round pick, top-10 pick last year, maybe 10, 11, somewhere over there. Uh
35:18he ended up suffering a high ankle sprain for the Saints. So, they're down one of their key offensive linemen as well. But, they they look pretty good on
35:25offense.
35:28Bengals and Texans. Bengals, man, 2 and 0. Shutout. They beat the Texans 20 to 6. Joe Burrow not have a huge
35:36statistical game, but 202 through the air against one of the toughest pass defenses in the NFL. Chase Brown 20 carries, 80 yards. Um not a good fantasy
35:46day, but I mean 23 touches all you can ask for against the Houston Texans defense in game in uh with better
35:52opponents. I mean, Chase Brown again, that kind of workload in this type of offense is going to have massive massive days where he has multiple touchdowns
35:58and scores you 25 fantasy points.
36:00Ja'Marr Chase unbelievable receptions throughout this day, just you know, reminding you why he's the goat. Tee Higgins strong day as well. They just
36:08had their playmakers make plays in this one.
36:10Uh on the flip side, Houston, I mean, C.J. Stroud threw for 353 yards. That was on 55 pass attempts though. They can
36:16get nothing going through the air outside of peppering Dalton Schultz, who goes 12 for 140. He was a really strong start. I think by the end of the week we
36:23had him up at like tight end eight or nine in our rankings, which clearly wasn't high enough. But, without Nico, they just don't really have many trusted
36:29weapons and and Schultz has kind of been a trusted guy for Stroud for a while now. On the ground though, I mean,
36:34unsurprisingly, David David Montgomery's three touchdown game in week one was like the fakest good game of all time.
36:40He was like 20 for 60 on the ground. So, this is an issue when their interior their offensive line stinks. And on the
36:45flip side, the Cincinnati Bengals defense, man, they look like a legitimate [ __ ] contender right now.
36:51I don't want to go crazy on it, but clearly they are a significantly better defense and a significantly tougher match-up for all opposing
37:01players, right? I mean, this is the Texans without Nico Collins. They played the Bucks last week and clearly the Bucks are just not a very good team.
37:08They just lost to the Browns, but last year the Bengals are giving up 30 points to both of those teams. And the addition
37:15of many players, but Dexter Lawrence has been the skeleton key for them. And I tweeted this out and it's like kind of
37:21going viral on Twitter right now, but through two weeks, Dexter Lawrence, who was widely written off as being kind of washed, kind of fat, kind of this, kind
37:30of that, the number one graded interior defensive lineman in the NFL through two weeks per PFF. Now, PFF grades are all
37:39over the place, but this one is very very very very very clearly directionally pinpoint accurate. If you watch the games, Dexter Lawrence is a
37:47force and he is very difficult to run at. So, defense much improved, which, you know, is obviously phenomenal for Cincinnati the Cincinnati Bengals team, because you
37:57don't need Joe Burrow to drop back 40, 50 times. You can just play the way that you want to, and that is what they did.
38:03In Nico Collins's absence here, I mean, yeah, it's not good. No one caught more than three passes, no wide receiver or
38:10tight end outside of Dalton Schultz. So, this was kind of the thesis going in.
38:13It's like, you can't really trust any of these guys to be in your fantasy lineups while Nico Collins is out. And I'd be,
38:20you know, again, I'd be surprised if Nico plays next week. The hamstring injuries, especially ones that happened mid-week, are typically multi-game
38:27absences. Most of the reports are already coming out saying like he's more likely to return in week four than week three, which, you know, if you were able
38:35to kind of get a win with Nico Collins on your bench this week, you're kind of playing with house money and you're
38:39like, all right, cool. Rest up, get right, king, get back in my lineup, help me win games going forward. So, uh
38:46again, Nico Collins, I would be prepared to be without him if I am a Nico Collins owner, which I am.
38:53Next up, we move to the Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars. So, the Broncos win 22-13.
39:00Not a great game really all around, I think, from basically anyone except for the two top receivers in this one. So, we had Trevor
39:07Lawrence had a good first half, but then second half really just like fell apart there. 189 and an interception uh through the air, so a terrible fantasy
39:15day. The backfield is still like 2 and 13 for 65 and a touchdown on the ground. Gets the goal line uh carry
39:22there, which is good to see. Like, very, very much like if you went to Eno Benjamin Rodriguez this summer, you feel
39:27really good about it cuz Rodriguez, I think, has six carries in back-to-back weeks and 2.2 yards per carry is just not going to get it done. He's obviously
39:33not catching any passes. He's not running routes. Unfortunately, they're not really getting Dameon Pierce super involved in the passing game and like
39:39getting him in space and like letting him do what he does best, which is like be really explosive in space. He does
39:45look good on the ground. Looks like the the best running back in that backfield by far. The goal line work, great to
39:49see.
39:50I would be very optimistic about Pierce going forward, though. I will say like he's a great flex play. And this is one
39:55of those where like the sample size is so small to where like they beat the out of the Browns in week one. They
40:00don't need to like overwork Dameon Pierce.
40:02Then they play a really difficult Denver Broncos defense in week two. I think when their schedule kind of neutralizes and they're playing normal games against
40:09normal teams where like they're just within games or within points of the other team and they the other team is not an elite defense, like that's where
40:16we're going to see two and probably have very, very big days. But again, this is just an offense that I want to have
40:21pieces attached to. Parker Washington, awesome. Seven for 98. Like I cannot believe Jacksonville did not give this guy an extension in the summer
40:29cuz now they're going to have to pay him $40 million a year. Every bit of hype.
40:33You know what's crazy is like you very, very rarely ever see the the level of hype that Parker had throughout this summer and it actually come to
40:42fruition. It like never happens. And I I mean it's it's just happening in front of our eyes. This dude is so [ __ ]
40:49good, man. 12 targets, seven catches, 98 yards. BTJ, eight targets.
40:54Just drops and passes. Like BTJ just is what he is. Jacoby, really poor game. I will say though, obviously a tough match
41:01up against the Denver Broncos. Trevor Lawrence didn't play well. Jacoby Myers is still running like almost every route for this team. So he's someone that I
41:08have on my your ready league mates team.
41:10You know, I don't need to like depend on him to win games or anything. But like I'm cautiously optimistic here. You
41:15know, again, you just want to attach yourself to guys in this offense.
41:20And he's running 95% of the routes. Not getting a lot of targets, but I I still think good days are ahead with this type
41:27of utilization in this type of offense.
41:30Moving to the Broncos. Bo Nix, pretty good day. Almost 300 through the air.
41:34Him and Jaylen Waddle were just connecting every [ __ ] 2 seconds in this game. So that was great to see
41:39bounce back Jaylen Waddle if you ended up drafting him in the fourth, fifth round. This is what Sean Payton was talking about all summer long. So came
41:45to fruition here. Again, feel really good on the bounce back. Now, the backfield gets messy cuz we have R.J.
41:50Harvey who was sitting for this game because he had a hamstring injury. Then J.K. Dobbins leaves this game with an injury and I Let me Let me check the
41:58Twitter and see if we got any updates here.
42:15>> Okay, Dobbins is also a hamstring injury.
42:18Uh, average two weeks. MRI Monday to determine severity. Most would miss week three, but if active running backs typically see a dip in touches. Yeah, so
42:25hamstring injury for him, hamstring injury for R.J. Harvey. Uh, which obviously opens up the backfield to Justice Hill. He was a very, very like
42:32prized handcuff possession throughout most of the summer. I think a lot of things needed to happen for him to be like relevant and a lot of things
42:38happened. We had the Harvey injury, we had the Dobbins injury. And he looked good in this one and I don't really It
42:43doesn't even [ __ ] matter if he looks good or not. This is just such a good situation if the other guys are hurt.
42:48Like if Dobbins is out the next two weeks, if R.J. Harvey misses another game, the starting running back who's going to monopolize touches in this
42:53backfield is going to um be a problem. I will say Tyler Badie, like pretty good pass blocker, man.
43:02Underrated for his size and I think uh there's a world where he sees some some snaps if Dobbins is out too and he plays
43:09like a little bit more in the R.J.
43:10Harvey role than we want to give credit for, but overall the injury to Dobbins is really big for Justice Hill. It's
43:16really big for R.J. Harvey if he can get back for this week.
43:21But yeah, um one to very, very, very closely keep an eye on for the practice reports. But yeah, if Justice Hill's on
43:26the waiver wire, he is probably I will say too like Dobbins was a guy I really liked in like the eighth, ninth round because on
43:32paper, you know, you're the starting running back for the Denver Broncos. Um, they have played two two really tough run defenses to start the year in the
43:39Chiefs and the Broncos and the Chiefs and the Jaguars.
43:41Um, Chiefs I guess a little bit TBD, but with the way that Dobbins has been running, like even just watching the
43:48games, he doesn't really look good. I It does seem like the injuries are now starting to pile on. Like he doesn't
43:53really look explosive where, you know, the last couple years not like he was overly explosive, but you didn't watch him and were like, "Yo,
43:59buddy."
44:02Buddy.
44:03Yeah, but that's what it felt like this weekend. So, uh there's a world where like Dobbins misses a couple games, Zamir White has
44:09some good games, and this is just a very messy three-man backfield situation. So, Coleman, yeah, definitely go grab him on the wire if you can.
44:18The Raiders and the Chargers, Chargers huge favorites again, once again lose by double digits. The Raiders go to 2 and 0, the Chargers go to 0 and 2. Kirk
44:27three touchdown passes. Trey Tucker goes bonkers without Brock Bowers. Does seem like Brock Bowers is going to return, so he will be the number one target once
44:34again here. Tucker, you know, does this once a year where everybody's out and he just has big games, shout out. Gent not
44:40a great game, but he did get another 25 touches, so good to see. On the flip side, man, Yeah, I mean, it listen, it's looking
44:48like Mike McDaniel is just a fake sharp.
44:50It just looks like he's a fake sharp. It looked like he took advantage of the NFL while they just weren't playing that shell
44:56defense, you know, I talked about that for the last couple years about how like, you know, last year, the year before, we just were not drafting pass
45:04catchers in Miami's offense because every team has just figured out, hey, play cover two, play cover four against this defense or this offense and they
45:11can't really throw the ball downfield and it leads to just an ineffectiveness.
45:15And it came around the same time that like Mahomes started to struggle throwing the ball, right? Like they started lapsing on deep passes. It was
45:22like so good with with with Tyreek and Kelce for a long time and then defenses started playing these cover two shells
45:27and then those both those offenses just kind of got neutered, right? As soon as like there was a sweeping change in the
45:31way the defenses played explosive downfield offenses, they got neutered.
45:35And I don't know that Mike McDaniel ever figured out how to beat defenses now that play the way that they're playing
45:40against him. So, I don't think anyone's like forgiving here. Herbert's playing skittish, he's playing bad. Their offensive line doesn't look good. Even
45:46their start like their studs, Joe Alt, played terribly yesterday.
45:50Lad McConkey didn't play a full slate of snaps, clearly recovering from the rib injury still. They probably should have just [ __ ] sat him in this one, but
45:57you know, only Amari and Hampton ends up with a decent day and he he loses a super costly fumble at the end of the
46:03game, too. So, like just a [ __ ] day for the Chargers. I wish I could say I'm optimistic about it going forward, but
46:08like these were the two games that you needed to win. You had the Cardinals and the Raiders and now you play like the
46:15most difficult schedule in the NFL over the next six games. I don't have it in front of me, but it's [ __ ] brutal,
46:20man.
46:21Let me see what they got.
46:29Where are you, Chargiepoos?
46:31Okay. So, listen to this [ __ ] They had the Cardinals and the Raiders.
46:35Their next seven games at Buffalo.
46:41So, cross-country at Buffalo. At Seattle.
46:44Versus Denver.
46:46At Kansas City. A bye.
46:49At the LA Rams. Versus Houston. At Baltimore.
46:53Like it just doesn't free up. After that, great schedule, but the next seven games it's you're going through the seven circles of hell.
47:04I don't know if that's the thing. I don't know if that's the right number. I don't know if that's the right phrase.
47:08But like whatever it is, we just made a new phrase up for them and they're they're experiencing it. So, it's not
47:13good, man. It's not good at all.
47:16Uh couple injuries though for the Chargers.
47:19Their tight ends, David Njoku carted off. Charlie Kolar also got hurt. Not a big deal except for this could obviously open up a ton of routes for Oronde
47:28Gadsden and we saw him have a really strong rookie year. Obviously in the pass-catching department last year and Herbert's starting to use him.
47:34They can't trust him in the pass-blocking game, but this is one of those situations where they're just down to zero zero bodies. He's going to have
47:40to be on the field 48% of the routes here. Like he's just going to catch passes if both of those guys miss
47:46extended time. So, I actually think sneaky Gadsden is like a really good tight end pick up this week if you are
47:51desperate at the position.
47:54Because Njoku got carted. Kolar's hurt as well, so.
48:01Next up, we got Cowboys Commanders.
48:03Cowboys [clears throat] played their normal game. Prescott went nuts. Lamb went [ __ ] nuts. Fergie scored two touchdowns. Pickens has been pretty
48:09disappointing. I ain't going to lie to you there, but um I you know, eight targets, I'm not overly concerned. Again, attach yourself
48:16to good offenses and good outcomes will come eventually, but clearly Lamb is the alpha here over Picklestains. Uh Javonte really disappointing game in what should
48:24have been good match-up. You know, I expected him to score 15 to 20 fantasy points pretty easily here, but he didn't
48:30look great. Unfortunately for Javonte owners, though, they just have nobody else in that backfield that's going to take touches from him, so you know,
48:36better days ahead.
48:38Flip side, big news, of course, is uh Jayden Daniels dislocates that elbow again. Now, heard reports all over the place for
48:49this one.
48:50So, he dis- he dislocates the elbow that he dislocated last year.
48:54There are a few different paths he can go. He did not get surgery on it last year.
49:00And because of that, the tendon was still pretty weak and it was susceptible to it being uh you know, torn again or or dislocated
49:10again, which is what happened. It becomes easier to do each time, especially if you don't get the surgery.
49:14If he opts to get the surgery, it's on his non-throwing arm. So, he does not have to get it. If he opts to get it,
49:20he's likely going to be out for, you know, the remainder of the season, most likely.
49:24However, again, he does not have to get it. He can opt not to get it. He can play with a brace and he can be back on
49:31the field in a few weeks. So, there is a world where he says, "Yo, I'm just going to wear a brace,
49:37uh which will help stabilize it if I do end up needing to put my arm on the ground or whatever or stiff-arm a guy or
49:43whatever and it will help the you know, the the strength of that tendon like not snap again."
49:50And he could push that off till after the season. Um and in that case, like he could return relatively soon.
49:58Whether or not that's going to be his decision, I don't know. We saw the franchise like want to rest him as much
50:04as possible last year to get him right, but it's very early in the season.
50:07They're already 0 and 2. Hard to tell what they're going to want to push to do. You also Jayden's like one of those
50:13dudes that has his mom in his ear about everything and I could see his mom being like, "Yo, you don't want to ruin your
50:17entire future for whatever. So, get the surgery, get right, be back, etc." Um so, until we have what what I'll say is
50:25the the the the the range of outcomes for this is very, very wide, but if I own Jayden Daniels, there is a path to
50:32where he just simply doesn't get surgery, plays with the brace, and can be back in, you know, it might not even
50:37go on the IR. Um so, you know, we'll just have to kind of sit and wait. If he doesn't play, obviously Marcus Mariota is going to
50:44fill in. He's one of the better backups, but still like you don't want your receivers catching passes from Marcus Mariota in this offense, cuz Jayden
50:52looked [ __ ] great yesterday before he went down. Obviously, Dallas defense, but um still looked really good, looked so explosive, looked like the fastest
50:58guy on the field.
51:00Um Terry McLaurin, man, was in a great spot, was like inches away from a monster game. He goes 2 for 50 on nine
51:07targets. Obviously, has that like touchdown in the back of the end zone that bobbled a little bit. That would have been a 40-yard touchdown. Antonio
51:13Williams on a trick play throw, just missed him on his backside for like another 30-yard touchdown. So, could have been a massive massive day for
51:20Terry. Overall, still very much concerned about Terry when he's not playing the Dallas Cowboys. Stefon Diggs looked really good. Um again though, you
51:27just kind of have to dock this entire passing game because of Jayden Daniels' uh projection to miss time here, unfortunately.
51:37Woo!
51:39That scared me.
51:41I have like a screen on my phone.
51:43So, it's like this layer of, you know, glass or whatever, and every time I put it face down, it just slides off the
51:49thing that it's on. And it always drops.
51:52And then it just cracks. So, it's like the it's it's like I put it on so it doesn't break, but then when I put it
51:57on, it causes it to fall, which causes to break.
52:03What the hell?
52:06Yo, also, now that we're deep in this stream, I'm uh I'm getting a puppy today.
52:14I'm I'm going to get a puppy today. I'm raising a dog on my own.
52:18I'm like kind of [ __ ] really nervous about it. I'm going to get it in 3 hours. It's a little French bulldog.
52:24He's 12 weeks old.
52:26>> [snorts] >> And I'm like terrified to learn how to train it. Like I definitely should have waited until the off season, not not in
52:33week two of the NFL season, but if um yeah, I don't really know what to say.
52:38I'm just [ __ ] nervous, man. He's going to poop and pee everywhere.
52:42Um So, if anyone has words of wisdom, I'm going to get a I think like some training sessions early on, maybe like
52:50once a week or something, so I just learn how to take care of this thing.
52:54Yeah, it's all I really had to say. I think I'm going to name him Action. I was thinking about naming him either
52:58Action or Bronson. Love the rapper, and I think they're both individual good names. But now I might just might name him Josh Allen.
53:04Or I might name him Action Smith-Njigba.
53:06That'd be kind of fire. Are you dumb?
53:09Uh best thing about dogs is like you could just call them 40 different things, you know? Like I got 50 nicknames for them. I'm going to call
53:15him A.S.N. or Action Smith-Njigba. All right. Speaking of Action Smith-Njigba, my goat. So, the Seahawks beat the [ __ ] out of the Cardinals. I mean, it's just
53:26going to be [ __ ] impossible to score on this team. Their defense is so good.
53:29Drew Lock fills in, 235, three touchdowns. All three touchdowns to Jaxon Smith-Njigba. 11 targets here. An insanely high target share once again.
53:38He's so [ __ ] good, man. He's just so good. Everybody else in the passing game is worthless. I think Darnold probably
53:43misses one more game. They play against Washington next week. They're not going to need him to win that game. I think
53:48he'll be relatively recovered by week four at the latest, probably week five is what we're hearing in terms of a return. The
53:55backfield a little bit messy right now. JaMycal Hasty was playing pretty well, 13 for 52 on the ground. He did leave the game
54:02though with what's called a chest injury. It does not seem to be overly serious, so I don't know that he's going
54:07to miss time. We'll have to wait on reports or tests, but I think if I have him, I'm not overly concerned. In his
54:12absence though, Emanuel Wilson just toted the rock. So, obviously something to keep an eye on if JaMycal JaMycal Hasty's MRI results or test come
54:21back and they're worse than expected, it does seem like Emanuel Wilson will kind of be the guy in this backfield while
54:25George Kittle just plays a very, very, very secondary role to Emanuel Wilson.
54:30We did see Emanuel Wilson play really well for the Packers last year in his limited starts when Josh Jacobs was out.
54:35So, do not forget about that. And this is a very like run-friendly offense, obviously.
54:41Flip side, JaMycal really struggled in this one. Everybody struggled on the Cardinals offense, obviously.
54:46Uh Marvin Harrison Jr. just like, I'm sorry, but if you drafted him this year, that's [ __ ] on you, man. I don't know
54:51I don't know what y'all's was doing there. JaMycal Love, going to start creeping up, man.
54:56Obviously, it's a Seattle defense. They like very hard to expect any sort of success from anyone on this team, but I
55:02do think we're just going to start to see more and more JaMycal and he's going to start to be really, really, really,
55:08really good here.
55:09Um rushing attempts 56% to 31%. We just like we just can't be putting Tyler Allgeier out here for long down and
55:18distance and two-minute drill uh snaps. We just can't be doing this Okay?
55:24Thank you, Cards.
55:27Uh Miami San Fran. I mean, San Francisco was just clicking on all cylinders. They just [ __ ] lose more players though,
55:33more injuries in this one. So, you had Purdy. Purdy had like a near perfect game. Almost 300 and two through the
55:39air, 30 more in a touchdown on the ground. Christian McCaffrey gets two kind of free goal line carries which does save his fantasy day. Catches four
55:46more passes. De'Mario Robinson suffers a high ankle sprain. Mike Evans also leaves this one with a hip injury. But they said that not overly serious and
55:54probably could have returned but they were up by so many points that they didn't want to put him back in there.
55:58Obviously the injuries are starting to pile up for Mike Evans. Now this is in season so he's out there you're obviously putting him into your lineup.
56:05But I would say the big positive takeaway here is definitely George Kittle. Four for 80 and a touchdown.
56:09This was one where like felt not obvious coming in that he was going to have this big of a day but with Jake Tongas out
56:14for the remainder of the season and the amount of injuries that they have at the receiver core like even if Kittle's only 60 to 70% of what
56:23he was in in the previous five years like he's going to run so many routes and they don't really have many other
56:28options in the passing game right now.
56:30So he'll continue to eat quite a bit there.
56:34Miami Yeah, just just brutal all around.
56:36Caleb Douglas suffers a high ankle sprain as well.
56:39And I wish I could say like that makes me optimistic about a dude like Chris Bell but Chris Bell still running about
56:4450% of the routes here. That was what he did in week one and I think he actually dropped underneath 50% in week two. So
56:49would have loved to have seen an uptick post Caleb Douglas world but we didn't.
56:54Malik Washington being heavily heavily involved heavily targeted in the passing game. So you know he could be like Wan'Dale Robinson maybe of like last
57:02year. Not as explosive obviously but I do think in PPR leagues where the Dolphins are going to have to throw the
57:07ball a lot you know um he could be a guy but yeah I mean this is one of the reasons we were just kind
57:12of staying away from the Dolphins offense overall. Achane like yeah tough man. If you took him early 20 carries 74 yards three catches 19 yards.
57:22Just just not great man. Not a lot of scoring opportunities not a lot of dump offs from Malik Willis. Just a lot of
57:27time of possession for the other teams.
57:30And the last game of the slate we had the OT Sunday Night Football Chiefs 33, Indianapolis Colts 30.
57:38Moves Kansas City to an O, moves the Colts to O and two. And man, Pat Mahomes Pat Mahomes looks [ __ ] phenomenal. He
57:46looks awesome and he's doing it with this this litter of of receivers. 30 9-year-old Travis Kelce, Tyquan Thornton, Rashee Rice, Xavier Worthy,
57:56like he looks so so so good.
58:01Uh and I would I would you know, put a lot of that credit in the hands of Kenneth Walker, man.
58:07Kenneth Walker looks so good. Another 30 touches in this one. It just forces defense not not to be able to play back
58:13on him.
58:14Like they have to respect Kenneth Walker and they have to respect the run so much um that it's it's very tough uh
58:20difficult to like get a read on on what the Chiefs are going to do. But yeah, Mahomes looks so so so good, man.
58:25Um on the flip side, Daniel Jones looks all right. We have Alec Pierce who re-injures his like heel foot area. Um I don't really have a ton
58:35of like, you know, exact notes or science on the injury right now. It is likely going to be a multi-week absence
58:42for him. Uh he's obviously, you know, was recovering from that ankle heel surgery this off season for a very very long time. Was kind of ramping up in the
58:49beginning of the season, ends up re-injuring it yesterday and you could see he was in a lot of pain. He could
58:53barely walk around. Put him into the medical tent and then immediately kind of took him off in the cart into the
58:57locker room. Let's uh Let's take a quick swig at any uh updates on any of these guys.
59:20He's on crutches. Yeah, it's of course.
59:23Uh Alec Pierce left heel injury, same heel as the off season surgery. X-rays negative, further evaluation imaging needed to assess soft tissue tendon
59:29involvement. Yeah, just a lot of just like up in the air [ __ ] right now. I did just see something
59:33about JK Dobbins where he said he's good. Do we believe that?
59:37Broncos running back JK Dobbins who left Sunday's win over the Jaguars with a hamstring injury is "good" source said.
59:43They face the Rams next Sunday. So Yeah, we'll see. We'll see about that.
59:47Hamstring injuries typically again cost uh between one and three weeks. Maybe it's just a little tweak and it wasn't an actual like real strain, but you know,
59:57remains to be seen. So in Alec Pierce's absence, I mean it's going to be Josh Downs. Laquon Treadwell ran a lot of
60:03routes and uh Tyler Warren unfortunately seven targets only only turned into six catches for 21 yards, but does get home with a touchdown which is nice. Let's
60:10check out the routes for the Colts though.
60:1491% for Josh Downs, love to see it.
60:16Laquon Treadwell looks like he's going to take over as the other outside receiver here. 76% of the routes. Keenan Allen, you know, mainly a slot guy right
60:23now, 61%. Daniel Jones does drop back for 31 pass attempts here. Jonathan Taylor, you know, another [ __ ] big day obviously goes for about a buck 30
60:32from scrimmage. Two touchdowns, four catches.
60:35Uh not a ton of takeaways overall from from this game that we didn't already know. Kelce does look really good and
60:40Mahomes is looking really good. So it does feel like Kelce is is looking like he's going to end up being a very very
60:46good fantasy pick. If you got him late as your starting tight end. Kenneth Walker, you know, top five pick right now for sure.
60:52Um yeah, didn't didn't learn much else from this game, but yeah, Alec Pierce out obviously you're going to boost up Downs, you're going to boost up Tyler
60:57Warren um and they're going to have to continue to run through Jonathan Taylor in this one.
61:04Think that's all we got.
61:06Think that is all we got. Oh, a crisp one hour.
61:16What's going on in the chat?
61:21There's just too many [ __ ] comments.
61:23I don't know what's going on.
61:25All right, homies.
61:26Um I'm going to dip out here.
61:30So, quick hour. Again, do this every single Monday. So, if you're new here, subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell. It'll let you know
61:37when I go live, usually between noon and 2:00 p.m. Eastern time every Monday recapping the games from the previous slates. Uh every Tuesday we'll have
61:44waiver wire video, so that'll be up around noon, 1:00 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow. Waiver wire rankings will be up on the site for those of you that are
61:50fantasy members on bde.co. We'll give you fab suggestions or actual rankings of all the players. This is a big week for it cuz there are a lot of injuries
61:58around the NFL. And then we will have our uh running back rankings video on Wednesday, wide receiver rankings video on Thursday, and I think I'm going to do
62:05a trade target video this week on Friday. So, we will have five videos going out, and then week three will start. And then we'll do
62:12it all over again [ __ ] 17 times in a row. I got to go grab Action Smith-Njigba. Next video you will likely
62:18see a very tiny little puppy.
62:20Uh I did not kidnap it. It is mine.
62:23Wish me luck, please.
62:25Goodbye.