Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, September ninth, twenty seed twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we'd like
Speaker 1: a do over on a couple of our drafts. It's
Speaker 1: me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, along with Michael F.
Speaker 1: Florio and Lakwan Jones and stuff. We are almost through
Speaker 1: the first week of the season. Still one more game
Speaker 1: to be played on Monday Night between the New York
Speaker 1: Jets and the San Francisco forty nine ers. Uh to
Speaker 1: this point, Florio, how are your teams looking not great?
Speaker 2: Week one?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 3: Uh is not being too kind to me. I have
Speaker 3: a couple of teams that I feel really good about.
Speaker 3: Some others that I felt really good about that did
Speaker 3: not come through. But it's only week one, That's what
Speaker 3: I keep saying. It's only week one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about you, LQ, how you feeling.
Speaker 4: I'm literally like half and a half. I just realized
Speaker 4: I'm in way too many leagues to where it's like
Speaker 4: I gotta like, yo, you gotta set this line up
Speaker 4: and get this guy off the WAI Like it's a
Speaker 4: little too much already. But hey, it's week one and
Speaker 4: we're having fun.
Speaker 1: I will say that Week one has been an unmitigated
Speaker 1: disaster for me. I think there are like two teams
Speaker 1: that actually did well. A lot of teams did really poorly.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys that I had high hopes for
Speaker 1: did not do very well or do much of anything
Speaker 1: at all in Week one. But we are staying the course.
Speaker 1: It is only week one. We are not going to panic.
Speaker 1: It is not time for overreaction theater. But coming up
Speaker 1: on today's show, we do have our biggest takeaways from
Speaker 1: what we have seen so far in the regular season.
Speaker 1: We'll have our fantasy heroes, and we will have some
Speaker 1: disappointments as well. But let's get started with some fantasy headlines.
Speaker 1: A big one, and I say this is not to
Speaker 1: poke at you, Lakwan. This is because it is legitimately
Speaker 1: a major headline. But last night in the Sunday night
Speaker 1: game between the Rams and the Lions, Pooka Nakula had
Speaker 1: to leave the game early.
Speaker 2: With a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Now, as of us doing this show, there is no
Speaker 1: updates on the severity of it, but we you know
Speaker 1: that you had to leave the field. They also lost
Speaker 1: a couple of bodies along the offensive line, so it's
Speaker 1: a frustrating night for the Rams, certainly, but Lakwan as
Speaker 1: the resident Rams fan here, the guy who watches this
Speaker 1: team closer than any of us. If Pooka misses time,
Speaker 1: does this mean it's DeMarcus Robinson's season?
Speaker 4: Man, I hope he's okay, first and foremost, but it
Speaker 4: could be DeMarcus Robinson season or Tyler Johnson, because you
Speaker 4: got to look at the situation how this offense was functioning.
Speaker 4: Like I want to say, first and foremost that you
Speaker 4: know Kuna matana, you know, no Pooka nakula. This offense
Speaker 4: is still going to function because it functions through Cooper
Speaker 4: Cup and you're gonna be able to have guys like
Speaker 4: Tyler Johnson and DeMarcus Robinson be able to step up
Speaker 4: with Cooper Cup still on the field. Now would be
Speaker 4: a little bit worried if it was Cooper Cup out
Speaker 4: and Pooko naku in, then you might not get the
Speaker 4: guys like Tyler Johnson, who was able to step up
Speaker 4: when his name was called. I mean, you look at
Speaker 4: the guy generating seven targets. Man, that's pretty impressive for
Speaker 4: a guy that's just coming off of the bench. That's
Speaker 4: not really ready to play for week one, so I
Speaker 4: would more so look at Tyler Johnson, because I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure everybody's already tucking in, stashing DeMarcus Robinson or your
Speaker 4: league mates going out there right now, grabbing them up,
Speaker 4: and you could just say, hey, Akuna matata, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get Tyler Johnson.
Speaker 1: I will say I didn't even realize Tyler Johnson was
Speaker 1: on the roster. It made me flashback to a few
Speaker 1: years ago, how there had been this Tyler Johnson hive
Speaker 1: when he was in Tampa Bay, and it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where I used to always say, look,
Speaker 1: there are people who are much more aversed in wide
Speaker 1: receiver talent evaluation than I am. But regardless of how
Speaker 1: talented he was, he was stuck on a roster with
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and it just never seemed
Speaker 1: like there was going to be an opportunity. Now in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, he's stuck on a roster that has Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup and Poopa Nakua. But with Nikua right now dealing
Speaker 1: with an issue again, we'll see how serious it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe there is an opportunity there for for you. Ask
Speaker 1: you real quick, because we saw a lot of Kobe
Speaker 1: Parkinson too. Is that somebody we're maybe interested in a
Speaker 1: tight end right now?
Speaker 3: Yes, only because tight end is what it is right
Speaker 3: now and it looks absolutely gross. After week one he
Speaker 3: had the five targets. But I do agree with Laqwan
Speaker 3: Tyler Johnson is who caught my eye last night watching
Speaker 3: the game because of all the yak he had, And
Speaker 3: that's Pooka's role on this offense. Like so, I think
Speaker 3: he is better suited maybe to run those Pooka routes
Speaker 3: than anyone else on the team. But the answer to
Speaker 3: the test is going to be Cooper cup twenty one targets.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was like last season when Cup was
Speaker 3: out and half the throws were going Pooka's way. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what I expect until Pooka comes back, which
Speaker 3: hopefully is next week.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys dominated the target share when they
Speaker 1: were on the field together. Is not gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of oxygen left for anybody else in that passing game.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup never even had that many targets in a
Speaker 1: game during his triple crown season.
Speaker 2: A couple of whiles. That kind of tells you what
Speaker 2: things are. But speaking of passing across the league.
Speaker 1: Passing numbers down bad in Week one, depending on how
Speaker 1: you slice it. If he's just looking at gross overall
Speaker 1: passing numbers, I averaged just a over two hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards per game per team. Rather in week one, if
Speaker 1: you factor in sack yardage would take some things away,
Speaker 1: you're looking at about one hundred and eighty seven yards
Speaker 1: passing per game. I mean, I don't even know, because
Speaker 1: like it's Week one, right, I mean I assume things
Speaker 1: are going to get better. I'm just going to sit
Speaker 1: here and just pound the table again. This is why
Speaker 1: starters should play in preseason. Just get a few more snaps.
Speaker 1: Just do so, because I feel like the teams that
Speaker 1: look better in Week one, where the teams where their
Speaker 1: starters actually played some more preseason snaps. I know everybody
Speaker 1: gets frustrated and wants to just move on from the preseason.
Speaker 1: I will continue to beat the drum that preseason is
Speaker 1: good and necessary and it just makes us all feel better.
Speaker 2: It makes us get better football. In Week one, that's
Speaker 2: all I got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eight eight quarterbacks through multiple passing touchdowns this week
Speaker 3: seven through multiple interceptions. And it wasn't just the lack
Speaker 3: of passing. It Like watching the games, it felt like
Speaker 3: every play had yellow flag being thrown and it's easy
Speaker 3: to blame the refs, but it's like, no, these these
Speaker 3: teams are out there committing these penalties because they're not ready,
Speaker 3: they're not in game shape, they're they're not synced up yet.
Speaker 3: Week one is always weird, but it felt especially weird
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 4: No, it definitely did it. It was business for usual for
Speaker 4: two of though. I mean, he's right now at the
Speaker 4: top of the board with three hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 4: passing yards number one, and he led last year in
Speaker 4: passing yards as well. So whatever Tua and the Miami
Speaker 4: Dolphins got going on, I mean probably don't need preseason,
Speaker 4: but there's a vibe down there where Tulla is just
Speaker 4: absolutely balling out.
Speaker 2: It's Tyreek Hill that there are.
Speaker 4: That's the answer.
Speaker 2: That's that's the vibe.
Speaker 1: Also, can they keep that vibe going later in the year,
Speaker 1: like you know, when it gets colder and they have
Speaker 1: to go go outside of South Florida, that's no, Winter
Speaker 1: is coming out. Winter is just like Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: Winter is coming that I have never seen. But yes,
Speaker 1: oh wa, guess we have a new offseason project for
Speaker 1: the pot.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting derailed. Well, let's take a look now.
Speaker 1: It's some of the week's top scorers from Week one
Speaker 1: heading into the Monday night game. Josh Allen your top quarterback.
Speaker 1: Four total touchdowns, two on the ground and flurial. He
Speaker 1: did have one that was called back, could have had
Speaker 1: a third rushing touchdown as well, thirty one points for him.
Speaker 1: Going back to Friday a couple of year top scorer
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley three total touchdowns as Giants fans got indigestion
Speaker 1: watching that game down there in South Pollo. Thirty three
Speaker 1: points for Saquon another thirty three for Jayden Reid. One
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one total yards, one rushing touchdown, one
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown. Back to Thursday night for your top tight
Speaker 1: end Isaiah Likely nine catches, a buck eleven and a
Speaker 1: tuddy there, twenty six points for him. Chris god Chris
Speaker 1: Boswell six field goals, three of more than fifty yards,
Speaker 1: twenty four points there, and the Bears defense which snatched
Speaker 1: victory from the jaws of defeat. Twenty two fantasy points
Speaker 1: for the Monsters of the Midway again Will Levis and
Speaker 1: the Tennessee tightened.
Speaker 2: So real quick.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jaden Reid, are we certain Lakwanda, he is
Speaker 1: the wide receiver one and everybody else is just playing
Speaker 1: for second place in Green Bay.
Speaker 4: I think he's the most explosive man. We kind of
Speaker 4: have to give him that title as the wide receiver
Speaker 4: one just based on the performance he gave us. I mean,
Speaker 4: the dude had over one hundred yards and this is
Speaker 4: like something that you want a guy as explosive to
Speaker 4: be able to help out your quarterback to do. And
Speaker 4: that's the yards out there to catch and creating separation,
Speaker 4: and he has the ability to take it to the house.
Speaker 4: So I think honestly we can say he is the
Speaker 4: alpha wide receiver one. But until then we need to
Speaker 4: know timeline on Jordan Love because it may not be
Speaker 4: wide receiver one production from Jayden Reed and moving forward.
Speaker 1: Just don't tell Matt Laflores that's gonna make him sick
Speaker 1: to his style. Olio as the resident Bill's fan here,
Speaker 1: I mean, is this not Yes, they was a huge performance, right,
Speaker 1: but can they survive with Josh Allen being a DIY
Speaker 1: specialist every sing week?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, there will be downs like he will have turnovers,
Speaker 3: but when you're asking him to be he literally accounted
Speaker 3: for like seventy four percent. I believe it was of
Speaker 3: the Bill's yardage yesterday. So when you're asking one player
Speaker 3: to be your entire identity. Because they also gave up
Speaker 3: a special team's touchdown, they gave up a bunch of
Speaker 3: points on defense. Yeah, like, there's gonna be some bad
Speaker 3: plays and stuff, but I mean, he was uber efficient
Speaker 3: throwing the ball, and it kind of felt like the
Speaker 3: Bill's whole game plan was just to run the ball
Speaker 3: because they knew the Cardinals couldn't stop it. That's why
Speaker 3: I'm not freaking out about Kincaid yet or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I think there'll be better days for the Bill's pass catchers.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a number of different ways this offense
Speaker 3: could beat you now, which is not what they had
Speaker 3: in past years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very curious to see how things Expand you
Speaker 1: mentioned Dalton Kincaid, I have a since we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to him a little bit later on in the show,
Speaker 1: but let's get some more big takeaways from week one
Speaker 1: and La Kwan, I hope you stretched up the hamstrings
Speaker 1: because you get a chance to take a victory lap.
Speaker 4: Here, let's go Greg Dortch, wide receiver one for the
Speaker 4: Cardinals on Sunday, and listen, I don't want to be
Speaker 4: that guy to say I told you so what I
Speaker 4: told you, sough Man. I'm looking at it at Greg
Speaker 4: dors can possibly be though one or two target of
Speaker 4: this offense, because what has shown is that he was
Speaker 4: the most reliable target for Kyler Murray. I mean, Michael
Speaker 4: Wilson didn't touch the ball after he scored that touchdown
Speaker 4: in the first quarter, and you look at the second
Speaker 4: half of Marvin Harrison, he didn't generate a target. So
Speaker 4: when it came down to it the ending moments of
Speaker 4: the game, when we saw they were trying to come
Speaker 4: back and beat Michael Florio's I have to say your
Speaker 4: whole name for that for the Bills. But I feel
Speaker 4: like Greg Dorsch was always available for him, even some
Speaker 4: of the targets that Kyler Murray was trying to fit
Speaker 4: in those windows for him, it's the fact that Kyler
Speaker 4: didn't look anywhere else. He looked exactly where he needed
Speaker 4: to go, which was his number one wide receiver, his
Speaker 4: most reliable wide receiver, and Greg dortch.
Speaker 2: Ah, you're right, he had a great week.
Speaker 1: I am not ready to proclaim that he is the
Speaker 1: number one target in this offense.
Speaker 4: Number one wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I said, though, that that's that they still think they
Speaker 1: have Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 2: It's one game.
Speaker 4: I'm flexing for week two. I'm flexing for two.
Speaker 2: All right, that's fine. Seven plays in too. I I
Speaker 2: just Junior past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, I'm I'm look, it was not a
Speaker 1: great game for the first game. I'm just I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to just proclaim. I'm not ready to crown
Speaker 1: Greg dors yet before you are crowning somebody down in
Speaker 1: Tennessee right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tony Pollard, he just dominated the volume for the
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it got like you even when they were trailing,
Speaker 3: you'd be like, all right, maybe there we're gonna this
Speaker 3: is where we see u Tajy spears more. And it's like, nope,
Speaker 3: it was all uh Tony Pollard pretty much the entire game.
Speaker 3: He he led them in snaps, he let them and carries,
Speaker 3: he led them in targets. I'm trying to here it is.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find it in my many list of
Speaker 3: tweets that sixty two percent of the snaps six he carries.
Speaker 3: He ran the same amount of routes, say the same
Speaker 3: amount of targets. He was more productive in every aspect.
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard is the RB and I think we learned
Speaker 3: this about a number of teams yesterday. Like Zach Moss
Speaker 3: is the clear cut RB one right now in UH
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, Devon a Hen is looking like the RB
Speaker 3: one in Miami. I think. I know it's only one game,
Speaker 3: but when the work goes so heavily to one player,
Speaker 3: I think that means And this is what we saw
Speaker 3: from the preseason with the Titans as well, in the
Speaker 3: litmited action. We saw with the starters it was Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard getting all the work. So I took a couple
Speaker 3: of shots on Tase Spears. I don't see any way
Speaker 3: you could.
Speaker 2: Start him until we see this change.
Speaker 1: I am probably a little bit overweight on ta J Spears,
Speaker 1: but you're right, I can't put him any lineups right now.
Speaker 1: Just want to see sort of how things go. If
Speaker 1: it's going to even out, that's what we heard is
Speaker 1: gonna be even snaps. That was not the case this
Speaker 1: past week against the Chicago Bears. For me, the thing
Speaker 1: I beg that I took away Anthony richards is going
Speaker 1: to be so much fun. I mean, just we saw
Speaker 1: we saw the rushing of Bill. We knew that was
Speaker 1: going to be there, and yeah, there are times when
Speaker 1: he is going to be inaccurate. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: sort of live with the ups and downs. But man,
Speaker 1: when it is right, it is so much fun. You
Speaker 1: saw the throw that was circulating all throughout social media,
Speaker 1: backfoot on like the thirty one yard line and tossing
Speaker 1: up a dime to the end zone to Alec Pierce.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: If you did take the plunge and spind up to
Speaker 1: get Anthony Richardson, you were not disappointed by what you
Speaker 1: saw on Sunday, and I.
Speaker 2: Think this is just going to be the beginning. The
Speaker 2: only thing we can ask is just to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: His physical running style is always going to mean he's
Speaker 1: going to take hits, He's going to take some physical punishment.
Speaker 1: We just need him to stay on the field because
Speaker 1: if he does a huge season, huge season is in
Speaker 1: the works. By the way, I also feel like maybe
Speaker 1: I was one year too soon. On Alec Pierce. I
Speaker 1: drafted him a couple of times last year and it
Speaker 1: didn't work out, And now now I'm wishing guy had
Speaker 1: drafted him a little bit more this year.
Speaker 2: All Right, we are.
Speaker 1: Just getting started. We still got plenty more to do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the guys who broke our heart
Speaker 1: art in Week one and give me some waiver wire picks.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next on the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
Speaker 1: So we talked about the guys who went big earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. Now it's time to talk about the
Speaker 1: guys who let us down, and that could be a
Speaker 1: pretty extensive list. We talked about the lack of passing
Speaker 1: numbers across the league in Week one, and certainly the
Speaker 1: pass catchers, wide receivers and tight ends took the brunt
Speaker 1: of that. But we went and picked out some specific
Speaker 1: disappointments for Week one and Lakwan who was the guy
Speaker 1: who most left you feeling empaty this week?
Speaker 4: Oh? Man, I'm sitting on my couch watching this game. Man,
Speaker 4: I'm like, Man, I just was in here in the
Speaker 4: studio saying this guy's gonna be a top seven wide
Speaker 4: receiver and he threw it doud it was just three
Speaker 4: fantasy points. Is the ghost of Arthur Smith still in
Speaker 4: that building and with the Falcons because Drake London did
Speaker 4: not show up and show out? And also, man, we're
Speaker 4: looking at Kirk Cousins. He was struggling in that game
Speaker 4: as well. So I'm just going to chalk it up
Speaker 4: that the Steelers had a really good defense and or
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins is not one hundred percent fully healthy. But
Speaker 4: having Drake London having a one point eight target separation
Speaker 4: is kind of what we know that he can't separate.
Speaker 4: But Kirk Cousins never even gave him a chance. He
Speaker 4: never threw the ball deep and nothing went past you know,
Speaker 4: ten plus yard. So it's like, come on, man, we
Speaker 4: got to get Drake London involved. Ray Ray McCleod should
Speaker 4: not have a thirty percent target share, by the way,
Speaker 4: seven targets like that should not happen. Ever, when you
Speaker 4: have Drake London as your wide receiver.
Speaker 1: One the good news for Kirk Cousins and the Falcons
Speaker 1: is that they won't have to deal with t J.
Speaker 1: Watt every week because he was He was wrecking the
Speaker 1: house against Caleb McGarry pretty much all day Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's a good news.
Speaker 1: They won't have to deal with that next week, so
Speaker 1: hopefully things get better because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: us were left wanting more by Drake Lundon. I'm but
Speaker 1: at least uh, at least Kyle Pitts scored a touchdowns.
Speaker 1: We all have that going for us, So that's good news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Floria. Your your disappointment. I am in a guillotine
Speaker 1: league and I just beer by the skin of my teeth,
Speaker 1: survived in part because I was watching your big disappointment
Speaker 1: do really nothing on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I went back and forth between which disappointment I wanted
Speaker 3: to go with, because coming into the afternoon games, I'm like,
Speaker 3: all right, I got Amari Cooper and DK Metcalf and
Speaker 3: a bunch of lineups and neither one of them did anything.
Speaker 3: But Amari Cooper to me is disappointing.
Speaker 2: Although I think.
Speaker 3: When you dive a little deeper, there's reason. There's fifty
Speaker 3: percent of me wants to believe, and fifty percent of
Speaker 3: me wants to cry for taking so much of Marik
Speaker 3: Cooper already because he had nine targets and one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy five air yards, which was the most going
Speaker 3: into the late game last night any player had in
Speaker 3: Week one in terms of air yards, and he did
Speaker 3: have one that hit him off the hands. It was
Speaker 3: a little too out in front of him. But if
Speaker 3: he catches that one scores a touchdown, obviously we're not
Speaker 3: talking about him as a disappointment. That is the optimism
Speaker 3: in me. The pessimist in me is like Deshaun Watson
Speaker 3: has been the worst deep ball thrower sent a member
Speaker 3: of the Cleveland Browns awful, Like, let's just get to
Speaker 3: the point of the year where Watson stops playing football
Speaker 3: and Jamison Williams comes in, sorry Jameson, Jameis Winston comes
Speaker 3: in and is the hero that we need to save
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper, because man, the only quarterback I'm more worried
Speaker 3: about right now I than Kirk Cousins is Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I look, you said.
Speaker 1: I know you had a slip of the tongue there,
Speaker 1: but at this point, I think if your Browns fan
Speaker 1: Jamis and Williams running RPOs might be a better option
Speaker 1: than Deshaun Watson, you know, Like, I know we're not
Speaker 1: doing panic or patients on this show, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you that I am panicked about Amari Cooper, literally
Speaker 1: panicked about Amari Cooper. I don't I want to have
Speaker 1: the optimism that you do. I just I just don't.
Speaker 1: A guy that I'm not panicked about, but was disappointed
Speaker 1: in on Sunday is Dalton Kincaid. I figured he was
Speaker 1: going to be the number one target in this offense
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. He had a ton of targets last year.
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs has gone, Gave Davis has gone. It just
Speaker 1: seemed like Kinkaid was ready to ascend to the top
Speaker 1: spot on the trust tree. That didn't happen on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Just two targets, one catch for eleven yards. Floria, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the fact that the Bills seemed adamant about running
Speaker 1: the football, trying to just carve up the Cardinals defense
Speaker 1: on the ground, So maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Over the long haul, I'm still.
Speaker 1: Very confident that Dalton k and Kaid is gonna be
Speaker 1: a large part of the passing game. So this is
Speaker 1: one in a week where tight ends generally let us down.
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid was certainly high on that list as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not freaking out about it yet. Now, if we
Speaker 1: are in week three or four and this is still
Speaker 1: the same situation. I reserve the right to change my
Speaker 1: mind and revisit this conversation, but for now, I think
Speaker 1: we're okay with with what we got with Dalton kinkaid
Speaker 1: It it was just an off game and we're just
Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. So anyway, if you had
Speaker 1: guys on your roster that had off games and maybe
Speaker 1: you need to make a change, we're here for you.
Speaker 1: It's time now for the waiver wire Floria. Who should
Speaker 1: folks be targeted for a free agency this week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, quarterbacks is let down in a big way. But
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield looked every bit like late last season Baker
Speaker 3: Mayfield and he has a good matchup in Week two.
Speaker 3: Gino Smith surpassed Adrian Peterson for the oldest person in
Speaker 3: this millennium and have a thirty plus rushing yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: He looked good.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr, I don't want to trust him at all
Speaker 3: next week against the Cowboys, but I liked what I
Speaker 3: saw usage wise and how that Saints offense was operating.
Speaker 3: Sam Darnold started off really hot as well. If you're
Speaker 3: in a deep league, JK. Dobbins, I believe is the
Speaker 3: number one running back ad right now. Julia McLaughlin is
Speaker 3: in there as well, Bucky Irvin Addison, Madison played, Alexander
Speaker 3: Madison played more snaps than Zamir White, Justice Hill, Zach
Speaker 3: Charbonay just because Kenneth Walker was a little banged up.
Speaker 3: And then Emmanuel Wilson because the Packers are probably gonna
Speaker 3: running the ball a whole bunch. And then some pass
Speaker 3: catchers DeMarcus Robinson gotta put Lakwan's boy, Greg Dorchy oh One,
Speaker 3: Tyler Johnson, who again I am excited about, Rashid Shaheed
Speaker 3: Jala Jalen McMillan, who came up really big for the
Speaker 3: Bucks down the stretch, Wandel Robinson, a couple of Colts,
Speaker 3: and Alec Pierce, Adonne Mitchell, and then some tight ends
Speaker 3: Isaiah Likely obviously a huge one to grab, but Kolby
Speaker 3: Parkinson just in case Pooka's out and he could get
Speaker 3: an uptick in volume.
Speaker 1: Definitely a couple of names of interest on this list here.
Speaker 1: I want to start at the running back spot, Floyd
Speaker 1: because you mentioned Alexander Madison playing more snaps than Zamir White,
Speaker 1: I mean when he got signed to the Raiders. Nobody
Speaker 1: really thought anything of it, considering last year was not
Speaker 1: great for him in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Do we need to revisit this conversation?
Speaker 1: Is Zamir White maybe not the workhorse back we thought
Speaker 1: he would be for the Raiders.
Speaker 3: I think we do need to revisit this. Zamir White
Speaker 3: is clearly going to lead them in carries, and he
Speaker 3: did yesterday more than doubling up any other running back
Speaker 3: on the team. But Madison again played more snaps, ran
Speaker 3: Moore routes, and had waym or targets. I think this
Speaker 3: is going to be like the Ravens backfields. When they
Speaker 3: are winning, we're gonna see a bunch of Zamir White
Speaker 3: like we will Dereck Henry. But when they are trailing,
Speaker 3: we're going to see more of the secondary running back.
Speaker 3: And next week the Raiders play the Ravens, I expect
Speaker 3: them to be trailing most of, if not all, of
Speaker 3: that game, which means I am not trusting Zamir White
Speaker 3: in my lineups in Week two.
Speaker 1: And if the Raider defense that we saw on Sunday
Speaker 1: is the same one that shows up against the Ravens
Speaker 1: next week, I mean we saw JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins run all over the Raiders.
Speaker 1: That bodes well for Derrick Henry and maybe not so much,
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much for Zamir White and his potential
Speaker 1: to get on the field. I want to ask you, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: because Isaiah likely obviously is gonna be one of the
Speaker 1: top waiver wire targets of the week. If you are
Speaker 1: in a league with FAB, how much of your FAB
Speaker 1: budget are you blowing? Unlikely You're You're not blowing the
Speaker 1: whole thing on this now.
Speaker 4: I'm not busting the whole bank open for but I'm
Speaker 4: gonna spend a probably a chunk in the early season
Speaker 4: just to get him, just based on what we saw.
Speaker 4: I think Mark Andrews is still banged up. You know,
Speaker 4: he's just coming back from a car accident. So I'm
Speaker 4: not too sure we might get the Mark Andrews that
Speaker 4: we known in love in the past. So I will
Speaker 4: be making it top priority if I need a tight end,
Speaker 4: because if you're somebody like me that just locked Jake Ferguson, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna need myself some Isaiah likely who's going to
Speaker 4: be getting that volume and gonna be able to produce
Speaker 4: every Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Jakes Ferguson dealing with a knee injury
Speaker 1: right now. The Cowboys say he is weak to weak.
Speaker 1: There is a chance he could play in Week two,
Speaker 1: so that's something to monitor. But if you have Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 1: you will need to get yourself an insurance policy just
Speaker 1: in case. So likely in Parkinson could be some guys
Speaker 1: out there to keep an eye on. A couple other
Speaker 1: names of a note from this list. You mentioned Justice
Speaker 1: Hill and the situation with the Ravens when they are
Speaker 1: in past situations, it's gonna be Justice Hill. We saw
Speaker 1: Derek Henry sitting on the sideline's helmet in hand but
Speaker 1: not getting anywhere near the field. So on those occasions
Speaker 1: that we see the Ravens and hurry up, Hill's going
Speaker 1: to be the guy that you and Wondale Robinson and
Speaker 1: you and I tweeted a little bit about this yesterday.
Speaker 2: O La Kwan twelve targets for Wondale.
Speaker 1: Know that the A dot, the average depth of target
Speaker 1: is never going to be deep. It's always going to
Speaker 1: be about five to seven yards downfield. That's always gonna
Speaker 1: be what it is. But he could be kind of
Speaker 1: an outlet for Daniel Jones, especially if they continue to
Speaker 1: struggle to get the Baltom Leak neighbors the way they
Speaker 1: did on Sunday. So Wandale Robinson understand that the ceiling
Speaker 1: is probably low, but the floor putting on how this
Speaker 1: Giants offenses could be fairly steady for Robinson this year.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: That is our look at the waiver wire. Of course,
Speaker 1: you can check out NFL dot com slash Waiver Wire
Speaker 1: for more names and more in depth analysis of the
Speaker 1: guys that you can find to fill out your roster
Speaker 1: for next week and the weeks to come.
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