Speaker 1: Wow, Hey, everybody, welcome to the Stardom Sidham Show.
Speaker 2: This used to be a video show.
Speaker 1: Now they're doing it on audio because truly needs to
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Speaker 2: Anyway, it is the.
Speaker 1: Audio or ural a U R A L version of
Speaker 1: the column that Michael left Florioll writes. You can find
Speaker 1: it every week at NFL dot com slash starts Sit.
Speaker 1: How is it getting back in the groove of writing
Speaker 1: this thing because it is a behemoth of a column
Speaker 1: every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Week one is typically the easiest because I get
Speaker 3: I started it like a week and a half ago,
Speaker 3: so I can kind of spread it and I don't
Speaker 3: have to write it all in one day like I
Speaker 3: do in season. So I like this pace a lot better.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, It's like it's like being a recording artist, right.
Speaker 1: You guess your whole lifetime to write your first album,
Speaker 1: you get eighteen months to write the second one, you know,
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how it works. Anyway, I'm here
Speaker 1: with Florio, Lakwan Jones is here as well. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go through some of the starts and sits from Florio's column,
Speaker 1: and then we will nitpick at it or maybe tell
Speaker 1: him he's good, he's good and pat him on the back.
Speaker 2: So let's go with the quarterback starts. Who do you
Speaker 2: have this week, Floria.
Speaker 3: I have Anthony Richardson as a start against the Texans,
Speaker 3: Jared Goff as a start against the Rams. In that
Speaker 3: same game, I'm starting Matthew Stafford, and I think you
Speaker 3: could start Jaden Daniels this week as well. And then
Speaker 3: my sits Brock Purdy against the Jets, Herbert against the Raiders,
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers against the forty nine ers, and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: against the Steelers. You might notice a theme when it
Speaker 3: comes to some of these sits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a lot of you know, starting sitting guys
Speaker 1: against bad or agons good defenses. I should say, Brock
Speaker 1: perty Aaron Rodgers going against each other on Monday Night football.
Speaker 2: Lakwan.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna ask you about Matthew Stafford, especially
Speaker 1: by both Stafford and Goff, I mean because they they
Speaker 1: obviously played against each other in the playof are obviously
Speaker 1: going to be linked together for the rest of their
Speaker 1: careers because of the trade.
Speaker 2: But this does have the.
Speaker 1: Potential to be a really high scoring really entertaining game.
Speaker 1: It was a it was a really entertaining playoff game.
Speaker 1: I know your team came up short, but it's a
Speaker 1: fun game to watch. I think this game is gonna
Speaker 1: be equally as fun to watch this week.
Speaker 4: I like how you slid in there that we came
Speaker 4: up short. Like I didn't watch the game, but thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the pain.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be I'm trying to report factually
Speaker 1: correct information.
Speaker 3: That's all the Lions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here we go. But listen, I definitely think there's
Speaker 4: going to be a high scoring game. These are two quarterbacks, man,
Speaker 4: that you need to have in your starting lineups. Like,
Speaker 4: I really like that you got them in the column, Gloria,
Speaker 4: because man, people are sleeping on Matthew Stafford. Like people
Speaker 4: are not understanding we have a full healthy team. So
Speaker 4: therefore we have the Avengers have assembled because when you
Speaker 4: look at last season, man, there was a bunch of injuries,
Speaker 4: and Matthew Stafford wasn't himself in some games, and then
Speaker 4: you know he's battling through injury mid season. But once
Speaker 4: everybody came back together, Man, there was just no questions
Speaker 4: that Matthew Stafford might have been one of the best,
Speaker 4: you know quarterbacks in the NFL. So I'm pounding the
Speaker 4: table for a full healthy season that he could be MVP.
Speaker 2: Wow, MVP even wow, that's on paper, that's bold.
Speaker 1: So Flora, I know the other day on Fantasy Live,
Speaker 1: you you you did your starts and sits and you said,
Speaker 1: you know, Marcus used to put on earmuffs and you said,
Speaker 1: Brock Purty is a set Like I honestly, I was
Speaker 1: not offended because I'm like, yeah, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would start Brock Purty this week either, going against
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. Look, there are times to start Purty.
Speaker 1: I don't know that this is one of those opportunities.
Speaker 2: I think there are. Uh, there's so much going on
Speaker 2: with that defense.
Speaker 1: Now. Look, Hassan Redick may not be there because apparently
Speaker 1: he can't find his weight, like a big deal. Like
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick hasn't been to the facility yet. I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe his GPS is broken.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But either way, there's just a lot defensively that I
Speaker 1: have to be concerned about. If if I'm you know,
Speaker 1: Brock Purty, so I'm I'm totally with you on on
Speaker 1: keeping him on the bench.
Speaker 4: This is the starter's preseason. That's how it kind is,
Speaker 4: you know, guys that haven't played at all.
Speaker 3: No, the season did not go well for Brock Purdy
Speaker 3: e like it did not. It was rough and on
Speaker 3: top of the matchup with being Sauce Gardner and the
Speaker 3: Jets defense and everything. We did see Perdy struggle against
Speaker 3: top defenses last year, like the Ravens got to him
Speaker 3: pretty well. But even more than that, Trent Williams is
Speaker 3: just getting back. Brendon Ayuk is just getting back. I
Speaker 3: think the forty nine ers win this game, but I
Speaker 3: don't think they look like mid season forty nine ers
Speaker 3: just yet. I think it might take them a couple
Speaker 3: weeks to get to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a close game.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a relatively low scoring game
Speaker 1: compared to some of the other games we'll see in
Speaker 1: Week one as well. So I yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: It actually makes a lot of sense. Your starts running backs,
Speaker 1: what you got.
Speaker 3: Don't call me a homer. I am starting James Connor
Speaker 3: against the Bills. I'm starting a favorite of all of
Speaker 3: ours on this pod, and Raheem Mostert against the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to watch Davonte Williams, and I'm excited
Speaker 3: for both running backs in that one. But Javonte against
Speaker 3: Seattle Zamir White. I have a start against the Chargers,
Speaker 3: and then my sits. It pains me to say, but
Speaker 3: I'm taking a wait and see approach with Austin Eckler
Speaker 3: Jalen Warren against the Falcons. I have as a sit,
Speaker 3: and then I need answers for the Bengals backfield against
Speaker 3: the Patriots and the Cowboys backfield against the Browns. Both
Speaker 3: are in tough matchups and we don't know how the
Speaker 3: work is gonna look, so I need answers to those
Speaker 3: ones before I trust him in my lineup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people are getting excited about Rico Dowdell.
Speaker 1: I'm very much like I need to see it first
Speaker 1: before I sort of get on board with that one.
Speaker 1: I'm a Javonte Williams Stan Lakwan, I've made no secret
Speaker 1: about it on the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think I know how you've
Speaker 2: had Where do you come down on Javonte Williams.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, if you would have asked me this
Speaker 4: in May, I probably Like, yeah, I'm not touching him,
Speaker 4: but he looked good in the preseason, so like I'm
Speaker 4: okay with having him, you know, on my rosters now
Speaker 4: and the late draft that I did have, But I'm
Speaker 4: still confused of what this backfield is going to actually
Speaker 4: look like because they have so much talent back there,
Speaker 4: you know, and like this isn't a bad matchup for them, honestly,
Speaker 4: Like the Seahawks. Man, I understand they're this scary defense
Speaker 4: now with Mike mc McDonald there, But I really feel
Speaker 4: as though Javonte Williams, he looked really fresh, he look good,
Speaker 4: he look healthy. So if they're gonna give him the workload,
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna rock with him in Week one and
Speaker 4: to see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in on Javonte.
Speaker 1: I like Julia McLaughlin's kind of a deep sleeper this
Speaker 1: week as well, because I think he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of targets and like I know, a lot of
Speaker 1: teams made defensive changes ready to bringing in new people,
Speaker 1: new coaches. I feel like it's gonna take a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks for these to come around. Like maybe Mike
Speaker 1: McDonald gets this thing going in Seattle I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: know that they gets going in Seattle in Week one exactly,
Speaker 1: so I'm in with Javonte. I'm also well, maybe it's
Speaker 1: because I have a fourteen team league where I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of options. I'm starting Austin Eckler. I'm
Speaker 1: choosing to believe. I'm choosing to keep Hope alive against
Speaker 1: Ecklers because I think I just think the pass catching
Speaker 1: upside keeps him afloat in a game that could be
Speaker 1: high scoring, in a game where Washington could be trailing,
Speaker 1: that means two minute real work. He's past catching work,
Speaker 1: and so hopefully that keeps him sort of relevant. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to speak this into existence because again, I have
Speaker 1: a fourteen team league where I him.
Speaker 3: I have Austin Eckler on so many of my benches,
Speaker 3: Like I took him in as many drafts as I
Speaker 3: can because he was going so cheap, but he's usually
Speaker 3: more is my army and a deep league like that,
Speaker 3: Marcus for sure start him fourteen team anything like that. Uh,
Speaker 3: But I was looking over my rosters and I was like, ah,
Speaker 3: like I always felt a little bit better safer with
Speaker 3: my RB two, and that's kind of how but look,
Speaker 3: if you want to swing for the fences, I think
Speaker 3: Eckler still brings all the pass catching upside that you
Speaker 3: were just talking about. So I'm hoping we even get
Speaker 3: an air guitar show.
Speaker 2: That'd be great, that'd be fantastical.
Speaker 4: If that, I'm sure you'll text me if he scores so.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you'll you'll know.
Speaker 3: I won't even have to say anything and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's true, very true.
Speaker 5: Let's move on to your start wider receivers. Who do
Speaker 5: you got avoiding players who play on Thursday? We got
Speaker 5: Calvin Ridley, who I am super bullish on against the Bears,
Speaker 5: Terry McLaurin going up against the Bucks, and then I've
Speaker 5: been talking him up a lot this week, Malik Neighbors
Speaker 5: against the Vikings.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to watch his NFL debut. Roma Dunsday
Speaker 3: is a sit for me against the Titans. Keyon Coleman,
Speaker 3: I think is a sit against the Cardinals. The Bills
Speaker 3: just slow play their rookies early in the season. And
Speaker 3: then Jordan Addison. I want no parts of him. I
Speaker 3: didn't want to draft him and I don't want to
Speaker 3: start him in Week one.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know on our Thursday show, Lakwan said
Speaker 1: that he thought Justin Jefferson was going to be a
Speaker 1: week one dud. So if if Jefferson's a week one dud,
Speaker 1: I really don't know what hope Jordan Addison is going.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be ugly for that boy.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be ugly. Yeah, Melik Neighbors, I'm totally on
Speaker 2: board with you.
Speaker 1: Mentioned Terry McLaurin, and we all love Jayden Daniels, and
Speaker 1: so I don't understand why it is that we haven't
Speaker 1: talked more about McLaurin.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's because, you know, like he's had
Speaker 1: He's had four straight years over a thousand yards.
Speaker 2: I know that none of them have ever been huge.
Speaker 1: Like I think we always had bigger hopes for him,
Speaker 1: but he also has had just a not.
Speaker 2: So great group of quarterbacks throwing the ball at him.
Speaker 2: I went back and looked.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, you know, case Keenum and Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke and Sam Howell and you know, just hasn't been
Speaker 1: a great group of quarterbacks. So I'm hoping that having
Speaker 1: Jade and Daniels can elevate him. I think it starts
Speaker 1: week one. I also like the the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's going to play against type and actually move
Speaker 1: his ex receiver around and not just leave him standing
Speaker 1: on the left side of the formation the whole time.
Speaker 1: So that's exciting to me. Lakwan where are you at
Speaker 1: on Romodoon day? Because I know flooryo Is is just
Speaker 1: kind of being patient. I'm like, let's just dive into
Speaker 1: the abyss and go where are you on Rome this week?
Speaker 4: So that we know this wide receiver course stacked. So
Speaker 4: it's like one of those things that I kind of
Speaker 4: want to wait and see before I put the rookie
Speaker 4: in my starting lineups, Like I feel more confident put
Speaker 4: in like a Keenan Allen or a DJ Moore. I
Speaker 4: need to see that he doesn't end up you know
Speaker 4: Shane Waldron's JSN version where he's just used as a
Speaker 4: gadget and he's utilized in some design plays and then
Speaker 4: he kind of fades away in a third and fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: So like, I need to see if he's going to
Speaker 4: be consistently used. And obviously, like I said before, Kayla
Speaker 4: Williams is the winning here in fantasy where he has
Speaker 4: all these tools that he can use and be able
Speaker 4: to be like a Fantasy stud in week one to
Speaker 4: make a splash. So Roma Duneesa, I'm just on the
Speaker 4: wait and see list. You know, I'm kind of like hesitant,
Speaker 4: you know, to put him in this week.
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't have him in enough spots
Speaker 1: where I can really truly make that call, like the
Speaker 1: places I have him, like, I've got other guys that
Speaker 1: are like locked in for sure, for sure. I just
Speaker 1: have this feeling he's gonna go big now, mind you,
Speaker 1: Adam Rank, So take this with you know, multiple shakers
Speaker 1: of salt, and I heard that projected him on Thursday's
Speaker 1: episode of Fantasy Life for twenty points.
Speaker 2: Oh this week.
Speaker 1: But it's also because I will say this. We were
Speaker 1: doing a segment about rookies and he had projected Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison for eighteen.
Speaker 2: I had Mick Neighbors for seventeen.
Speaker 1: And he's like, do you think I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: have Romo Dunze for fewer points than these other two guys?
Speaker 2: You're crazy?
Speaker 3: He will have fewer than those two guys. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: have one lineup conundrum where I have two flex spots
Speaker 3: and four options. It's a donsay Shakir, Jerome Ford, Cuba Hubbard.
Speaker 3: I keep going back and forth on those ones.
Speaker 1: Dunja Shakir Hubbard, who was the last one, Jerome Ford,
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford. Maybe because I'm crazy like I might do odonsay,
Speaker 1: I might, I just really might throw. Or it's Cuba Hubbard,
Speaker 1: which is a wild thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my co manager wants to play the two running backs.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of like, let's have fun and play the receivers.
Speaker 2: Me in the middle. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Last one. We got tied into your starting sits this week.
Speaker 3: Please everyone stop calling it the Arthur Smith revenge game.
Speaker 3: It is the Pile Pitts revenge game. He is a
Speaker 3: must start tight end for me. He is going to
Speaker 3: show the world it wasn't me the last two years,
Speaker 3: it was you, Arthur Smith. I think Jake Ferguson, who
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure we all love on this show. I
Speaker 3: am very excited for what he is going to be
Speaker 3: this season, and I think it starts in week one.
Speaker 3: Dallas Goddard I think is just undervalued right now. I
Speaker 3: think with the new OC there, we're gonna get more passing.
Speaker 3: And then I think Tyler Conklin is sneaky because Roger's
Speaker 3: gonna try to get rid of the ball quick and
Speaker 3: he is going to be the safe, secure target over
Speaker 3: the middle. David and Joku is a sit for me.
Speaker 3: Forty three percent of his fantasy points last year came
Speaker 3: in a five game span with Joe Flacco brock Bowers.
Speaker 3: After missing so much practice this summer, I want to
Speaker 3: see it first. And then two tight ends that are
Speaker 3: buried behind three wide receivers in Dalton Schultz and Cole Comet,
Speaker 3: I need more, say volume to get them in my lineup.
Speaker 3: In Week one.
Speaker 1: The Tyler Conklin drum beats have gotten very loud, very loud.
Speaker 2: Are you are you? Are you pounding the drum for
Speaker 2: Tyler Conklin LQ?
Speaker 4: Not Week one, but I do agree that he's a
Speaker 4: sleeper on the season long look, but not Week one, man, Like,
Speaker 4: I really need to see, you know, how Rogers look
Speaker 4: and how this offense is gelling together because we kind
Speaker 4: of were cut short last season, you know obviously with
Speaker 4: the injury. So I don't even know what Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: forty one years old looks as a jet you know,
Speaker 4: with this offense. Can this O line still protect him?
Speaker 4: But Tyler Conklin is definitely a season long sleeper, being
Speaker 4: that the last three seasons he generated eighty seven targets
Speaker 4: eighty seven targets, eighty seven targets, and he's kept a
Speaker 4: seventy percent you know catch RaSE. So he's one of
Speaker 4: those reliable targets for Aaron Rodgers. But out the gate
Speaker 4: Week one, I'm a little hesitant.
Speaker 1: I would give him a shot this week, especially if
Speaker 1: you if you punted on the tight end position in
Speaker 1: drafts that you waited a little bit longer and you
Speaker 1: took Conklin, you know, I would give him a shot.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's opportunity for him. The Niners were
Speaker 1: not great against tight ends last year too. I think
Speaker 1: that's something to kind of keep in mind. And I
Speaker 1: think Loreo's point, did you want to get the ball
Speaker 1: out quickly?
Speaker 2: You know I don't.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see any his bootleg rollouts where you
Speaker 1: know Rogers got hurt last year, It's gonna be him,
Speaker 1: you know, three step, drop and throw scrapped.
Speaker 3: The funniest thing in the world could happen. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Jets that other Achilles.
Speaker 1: We don't want for injuries, but I'm not wishing it,
Speaker 1: but man like Jets, you have to.
Speaker 2: You would have to do a welfare check on your
Speaker 2: Jets fans friends.
Speaker 3: I have the reason. I have so many Jet fan friends,
Speaker 3: and last year when it happened, Oh my god, the
Speaker 3: group chat was they were like it was it was
Speaker 3: even it was I don't even know how to describe it.
Speaker 3: It was like pain denial all at once, and it
Speaker 3: kind of just made me chuckle. Even though the Bills
Speaker 3: lost that game, I came away from it being like, well,
Speaker 3: the division's up no longer up for grabs.
Speaker 1: All all the stages of grief I'm sure at one
Speaker 1: time for Jets fans. At that point, I brock Bauers
Speaker 1: just real quick. Yeah, I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: excuse me, I'm all choked up now. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have the stones to start him this week.
Speaker 1: But I'm very keeping a very close eye because I
Speaker 1: started to buy into brock Bauers as draft season went along.
Speaker 2: So I will be watching that one very.
Speaker 1: Closely to see how he's used versus how Michael Mayer
Speaker 1: is used as well, and uh, you know what sort
Speaker 1: of opportunities he gets in that game may not be
Speaker 1: a lot of points in that one either between the
Speaker 1: Raiders and the Chargers.
Speaker 2: If we're being completely honest, so so so we'll see
Speaker 2: for sure. Uh, there it is. Those are the starts
Speaker 2: and sits for this week.
Speaker 1: For a little more in depth analysis, you can go
Speaker 1: and check out Florio's column at nfl dot com slash
Speaker 1: Start Sit. We'll be with you here every Friday, sort
Speaker 1: of breaking them down. Column comes out on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Mike Wednesdays. Every varies on time, but it'll be early afternoon.
Speaker 1: Can I can I tweet at you and ask when
Speaker 1: it's out repeatedly I'll tell you people.
Speaker 3: Ask me for ETAs and I'm like, listen, man, I
Speaker 3: send this to the editors today.
Speaker 2: Once I once I hit Sin on the email, i
Speaker 2: am no longer in control anymore.
Speaker 3: Is the best feeling for me every week is hitting
Speaker 3: Sin on that email for the week it is? It
Speaker 3: is wrapped up?
Speaker 2: Yep, No, I'm sure that's an absolutely great feeling.
Speaker 1: So, uh, there it is. We got football on Friday night.
Speaker 1: It is the Packers and the Eagles from South Paulo, Brazil.
Speaker 1: A full slate on Sunday, a Monday night game. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with you with our normal podcast on Monday
Speaker 1: as well, so I look forward to that. We'll be
Speaker 1: recapping everything that happened over the weekend. But that'll do
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