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Speaker 1: Franky Snaffle. I am Greg Sausman. What's going on then? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm trying to figure out these headphones again. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: I'm getting something. I'm getting somewhere. All right. It's it's
Speaker 1: been a weird morning. Has it been for me? Is
Speaker 1: that I just didn't sleep? Well, it's just one of
Speaker 1: those days so far. I think I need to go
Speaker 1: see a doctor or something. I just have no energy
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, did you know that I
Speaker 1: have a hypothyroidism. Greg I take a thyroid pill every day,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's uh, maybe that's it, Maybe that's part
Speaker 1: of it. But I just I just feel tired all
Speaker 1: the time. So that is the first thing on my mind. Also,
Speaker 1: while I was walking up here, obviously we have game
Speaker 1: ma rency right outside the studio. He was down in
Speaker 1: the control room. I was thinking to myself, what do
Speaker 1: you think Game's reaction would be if, coming back from
Speaker 1: one of his breaks on Red Heat and Rage? We
Speaker 1: played the do Do do so you? So I've seen it.
Speaker 1: I've seen the reactions when you play music that he
Speaker 1: doesn't like. I didn't know he doesn't like that. Maybe
Speaker 1: he like it's it's not worth it? Man, he doesn't
Speaker 1: like third Well, we know he doesn't like Scott music,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. He doesn't know. Poor Michael Florio was
Speaker 1: the test subject for that one Imagine we played. Imagine
Speaker 1: we played games, man, you how that would go over?
Speaker 1: You'ld probably strangle somebody like in the Fandal Sports book
Speaker 1: while he's doing a show mentioned Michael Florio. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you miss Michael Floria very very much? I missed him too,
Speaker 1: Did you d m him? Yesterday, you have like your
Speaker 1: group text where we could just talk it out. Greg Well,
Speaker 1: I felt that he needed to be personal, you know,
Speaker 1: one on one. I had to make sure that you're
Speaker 1: you're feeling right. So you know what's interesting because Florio
Speaker 1: for years would take our computers and send direct messages
Speaker 1: to people like Gabe, like Scott Angele the King, Robert LT,
Speaker 1: Robert latal that was a popular one, that's very popular
Speaker 1: on my Floria. And yesterday I walked out of the
Speaker 1: room um for something. I think it was the film
Speaker 1: the video for fandel I believe, and I look back,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know what, my computers open today, but
Speaker 1: Frank go this length and send a message out and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, Frank and I had a really good
Speaker 1: relationship when it comes to this, We've been on the
Speaker 1: same team, the same side. He's not going to touch it.
Speaker 1: I did a double take and I walked out of
Speaker 1: the room and I came back to a direct message
Speaker 1: from my Florio telling me he misses me too, And
Speaker 1: I was like that bastard, And that's how I feel
Speaker 1: this morning. What bastard you me? Yes, do we have
Speaker 1: any interns in here yesterday or anything? Some interns, some
Speaker 1: some part time workers. I think you gotta talk to
Speaker 1: one of those guys. Greg. I think we gotta get
Speaker 1: down to this. It wasn't me. I believe it was you.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? It was you. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about, Greig. I think we had
Speaker 1: some interns snooping around looking at your laps up. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a fireball offense. You don't go around messing
Speaker 1: with an executives laptop. Greg, So do you think I
Speaker 1: should fire all the insurance this? This This is what you're
Speaker 1: asking me to do. But I think we have to
Speaker 1: have some kind of accusation process. Do you want me
Speaker 1: to fire the interns because you believe one of them
Speaker 1: did this? I didn't. You have to fire the man
Speaker 1: you want me to fire. To get down to this,
Speaker 1: I will fire them. That's what you think. I didn't say,
Speaker 1: fire them. Say we have to figure out who did.
Speaker 1: I think I know who did it. Look, man, if
Speaker 1: you miss Floria, just let him know I did. I
Speaker 1: told them. We have a group of text we you know,
Speaker 1: we share a lot of personal things together. Alex Collins
Speaker 1: and Kenyan Drake. You have running back rankings, Man, that
Speaker 1: someone just asking the chat alright eight four four eight
Speaker 1: four three six eight seven nine. Um, we did to
Speaker 1: the running backs on the show running back rankings. We'll
Speaker 1: do that throughout the program. Today we have Virginia Zakis
Speaker 1: from Inside Injuries. She will join us code up in
Speaker 1: about thirteen minutes from now. A lot of injuries popped
Speaker 1: up late yesterday early this morning. Virginia has you covered
Speaker 1: up to the minute with the latest and greatest information
Speaker 1: when it comes to these players. Before we continue and
Speaker 1: we start with the running backs, I want to go
Speaker 1: to the youth Frank for today's stead of the day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this was interesting after looking into it because we
Speaker 1: all saw in primetime Monday Night football the Jets absolutely
Speaker 1: tear the Lions apart on the ground with their defense
Speaker 1: special teams specifically on the ground. I looked into this
Speaker 1: right so last year, after Heloda Nada went down for them,
Speaker 1: he played the first five weeks, so from weeks six on,
Speaker 1: the Lions defense allowed twelve rushing touchdowns to running backs
Speaker 1: over their final eleven games. No Haladi Nada this year
Speaker 1: with the with the Detroit Lions, he's now in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They allowed a hundred and seventy seven rushing yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns to the Jets in Week one. What do
Speaker 1: they face this week? It's the San Francisco forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris had three rushing attempts within the five yard
Speaker 1: line in Week one. He did fumble and lose one
Speaker 1: of those, but I think he's a pretty good bet
Speaker 1: to get in the ends on this week. Greig buying it, yep,
Speaker 1: I like. I like both forty Niners running backs as
Speaker 1: flex options this week. So in one of our leaves today, um,
Speaker 1: we had our first waiver bids since the draft, Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris was available. I was I was actually putting uh,
Speaker 1: I was putting bids in in that league yesterday when
Speaker 1: I was down in the control room right might have
Speaker 1: left that page open for a little bit. Did you
Speaker 1: go snooping around? You think I went to Do you you
Speaker 1: go looking at my bids because you just barely beat
Speaker 1: me out for Alfred Morris the first waiver run, No,
Speaker 1: I don't, but I know that it was very close
Speaker 1: to what you had. This was the first waiver run
Speaker 1: of the year. This was a league where I lost
Speaker 1: Levian Bell, Jerick McKinnon and Doug Baldwin. Three of my
Speaker 1: first four picks, and I don't have James Conner, so
Speaker 1: this seems terrible. And you outben me by Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: by a very slim margin. So you're out here accusing
Speaker 1: people of stuff. Greg. I think that there's a chain
Speaker 1: that you went snoop into my CBS account and looked
Speaker 1: at my bids. So number one, it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: accusing me of something. You accuse me first, He was like,
Speaker 1: I caught you number one, you didn't number two? Can
Speaker 1: I Can I be completely honest with you? Yes? So
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and I saw a whole
Speaker 1: fight about fab bidding. I didn't go through whatever. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, I did it anyway or claims
Speaker 1: and I totally forgot. I was like, I forgot my
Speaker 1: bad is a bogus story shot. And he looked at
Speaker 1: my seem was like, oh cool, I have I got
Speaker 1: I think I have filiped door set. Maybe maybe that
Speaker 1: was not only I don't do any leads. Now you
Speaker 1: got filed. You think the filiped doors set right, And
Speaker 1: it was like, oh cool, I filped are set. And
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I also got Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris is awesome so I was really pompd about that.
Speaker 1: In then tell you the judies in the Fantas Football League.
Speaker 1: He's like, this, you might have mentioned it. You weren't listening, Okay,
Speaker 1: so did you actually tell me though? I don't know.
Speaker 1: So then how do you know that I wasn't listening?
Speaker 1: He said, He said, you might have. You might have.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyways, you using her first fantas footballer?
Speaker 1: Are you told me about the team name? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, you tell me. So she picked this
Speaker 1: week up. I think she picked the Brandon Marshall. It's
Speaker 1: a great pick up we have. We have Brandon Marshall
Speaker 1: inside my top thirty six at wide receiver. Um, wonder
Speaker 1: I'll start him. Um. And then somebody dropped Matt Brita
Speaker 1: after last weekend and I was like, huh so her
Speaker 1: quarterback is Drew Brees. Her backup quarterbacks Matt Ryan, and
Speaker 1: never was like, listen, you're never gonna play Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: over Drew Brees ever. Ever, ever, you shouldn't play him anyway,
Speaker 1: So she put in acclaim which I think goes through
Speaker 1: tomorrow now. Um, to pick up Matt Brita and drop
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, what do you think. Yeah, I love it,
Speaker 1: especially when you have Drew Brees. I cannot imagine a
Speaker 1: scenario outside of super Flex where you're starting Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: ever in a one quarterback league. Ever Ryan your quarterback
Speaker 1: rankings this week, because I know those are done probably
Speaker 1: close to you. Okay, you took out my rankings right now?
Speaker 1: Free article. By the way, it's really interesting. He said
Speaker 1: that I would never start him even in a super
Speaker 1: flex league. No, I said, outside of the outside. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: so I would use him in a super flex. I
Speaker 1: haven't met eighteen in a one quarterback league. I'm not
Speaker 1: a mid level qbt D pretty much that I don't
Speaker 1: feel good about no matter what the matchup is. Okay,
Speaker 1: so especially with Drew Brees, you can drop alright, So
Speaker 1: hopefully Judy will get her her river claim. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: goes through. How do you feel about me having Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris and Met Breeda both rank inside of my top
Speaker 1: thirty this week? Listen, Alfred Morris was on the goal line.
Speaker 1: He didn't convert, obviously, he fumbled. That was a disaster,
Speaker 1: but it was a really tough magic for both Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris and Matt Breeda like that it could not have
Speaker 1: been worse yesterday for these guys. So with with that
Speaker 1: being said, like I'm buying I'm buying alf I'm buying
Speaker 1: Matt Breeda right now, I'm doing it and the one
Speaker 1: and the running back snaps. For what it's worth, Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris had thirty four met Breeda had thirty, so it
Speaker 1: was very close to a fifty split. I think once
Speaker 1: they get down near the gold line, that is going
Speaker 1: to be Alfred Morris's job. But I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: based on what we saw in week one. And you
Speaker 1: don't want to just go chasing points, but this Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go chasing waterfalls either. Good job, Craig,
Speaker 1: uh you see you went and messed me up. The
Speaker 1: Lions are going to allow a lot of big place
Speaker 1: to running backs this here, and I really do believe that.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a chance that both Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: can score from inside the red zone, inside the ten,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, and Matt Breed has a chance
Speaker 1: to break off a long one here, and even if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, I think the yardage will be solid enough
Speaker 1: for him to be flex play at the running back
Speaker 1: position this week. So I like both forty Niners running
Speaker 1: backs against the Detroit Lions in San Francisco's home opener.
Speaker 1: Last week, obviously, the Niners played in the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: and this week the Vikings go degree May. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have old injury update on Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams
Speaker 1: when we talks are a mess when we talked to
Speaker 1: Virginia coming up in about seven minutes from now. But
Speaker 1: I have to ask. And Aaron Rodgers doesn't play, And
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy just came out this morning and he said, listen,
Speaker 1: this is no layup for Sunday. You know, the Vikings
Speaker 1: are a brutalizing defense. They're gonna go after Aaron Rodgers hard.
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer is a very very good defensive coach. That
Speaker 1: Rodgers doesn't play. You can't start anybody, anybody, right, anybody literally,
Speaker 1: anybody does include Jamal Williams. He will not he will
Speaker 1: not be inside of my top thirty six at running back.
Speaker 1: He's barely inside of it now. Okay, So with Aaron
Speaker 1: rod you wouldn't start any of them. Davante Adams assuming
Speaker 1: he plays too, because we gotta get an injury update
Speaker 1: on that the indre update there at least not from
Speaker 1: Virginia before what I read this morning. He was back
Speaker 1: at practice today. He was limited, but he was back
Speaker 1: in practice. He's going to be the guy who's even
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers doesn't play, he's a wide receiver three.
Speaker 1: You can't take him out. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: take him like well, if you have to, if you
Speaker 1: have three guys inside your top twenty four, like I
Speaker 1: love Agla this week, I love Kenny Stills this week.
Speaker 1: If you have those guys in your team and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers doesn't play and DeShawn Kaiser as the quarterback, I
Speaker 1: will use those wide receivers over Davanta Adams this week.
Speaker 1: It's fair to say, you know, it's funny because it's
Speaker 1: not like he has Brett Hunley. He showed a report
Speaker 1: with Bret Hunley last year. Definitely, it's not Brett Hunley,
Speaker 1: it's Shawn Kaiser. You know, it's funny. We preach a
Speaker 1: lot where people preach about like starting. You never said
Speaker 1: a superstar right when he doesn't have his quarterback, you
Speaker 1: gotta consider it. Davante Adams is the number one one
Speaker 1: receiver for many fantasy teams. My multiple mind included he's
Speaker 1: a top ten wide receiver or was drafted as such.
Speaker 1: Easily you still would mention without Aaron Rodgers this weekend. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it depends on that depends on your options. But if
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers doesn't play going up against the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: and Deshaan Kaiser is the quarterback, I mean, they took
Speaker 1: this game off the board right now. You can't even
Speaker 1: bet on it. So there's no lines, there's no over
Speaker 1: under because nobody knows what's gonna happen. If Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: doesn't play, this is a cakewalk for the Vikings. I
Speaker 1: don't care that they're in Green Bay. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: to me. Fair enough and that and that's larshly green Bay.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear Virginia exactly what the injury used
Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams and if there's cost
Speaker 1: for concern, and I a happy thing there is, So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited to talk to Virginia about that.
Speaker 1: Um Leonard Fournett did not practice yesterday. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's much of a surprise. I think he kind of
Speaker 1: just needs to practice by Friday. But it's funny because
Speaker 1: I've missed, like t J yelled at on my waiver
Speaker 1: wire multiple times this week, I didn't need to realize
Speaker 1: he was out there that that that was the end
Speaker 1: of the statement. Sorry, Ay and b. I believe he
Speaker 1: went for twenty nine dollars in the Flex League last night,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't the Leonard four Nett owner. That was
Speaker 1: to one of the uh. That was to the Tozie brothers.
Speaker 1: And I think you follow them at Legion Report. They
Speaker 1: like you, Greg, kind of waited on running back because
Speaker 1: I remember when you were drafting back to back with
Speaker 1: them in that draft, you were worrying about them taking
Speaker 1: your running back targets that you liked. So they waited
Speaker 1: on running back. They had Kamara and then their RB
Speaker 1: two was not good, so they spent up big on uh.
Speaker 1: T J yelled in and also on Phil Lindsay. So
Speaker 1: they're taking the shots there, um, But they didn't own
Speaker 1: either Leonard four net or Royce Freeman, so that's worth mentioning. Again.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a good matchup on the ground this
Speaker 1: week for whoever plays, if it's four net or yelled in,
Speaker 1: going up against the Patriots who allowed four point nine
Speaker 1: yards per carry in week one and they allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown to Alfred Blue, so they really did not They
Speaker 1: actually made Lamm look like he doesn't suck great. They did,
Speaker 1: and it was really interesting about that. Frank, Everyone's spending
Speaker 1: all this fab money on t J yelled in and
Speaker 1: were kind of leaked out. He was like, hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta get Corey Grant right, and he was like, well,
Speaker 1: he probably saw the the t J yelled in, y PC.
Speaker 1: I mean TITA yelled in. In In his career is typically
Speaker 1: not a great runner, like between the tackles, like he
Speaker 1: hasn't been in a fishing runner. He's a very good
Speaker 1: pass catcher. That's where TJ yelled in excels um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if Leonard Fournett doesn't play, I still think we're seeing
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen eighteen touches for t J Yelden. That's
Speaker 1: probably you know, twelve at least twelve rushing attempts in
Speaker 1: six receptions, and it maybe Corey Grant sees eight something
Speaker 1: like that. I think that's how the breakdow would be.
Speaker 1: Leonard for Nett obviously without question, constantly dealing with those
Speaker 1: lower leg injuries or just leg injuries, hamstrings and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and he can't get away from it. And it reminds
Speaker 1: me of another guy that turned up lane late last
Speaker 1: night or last one. That's Corey Davis, who battled the
Speaker 1: hamstring injury all last year. Yesterday he was limited in
Speaker 1: practice with a hamstring injury. Um and fantasone is freak
Speaker 1: cat seeing Oh my god, Corey Davis hamstring, hamstring, hamstring.
Speaker 1: Now we didn't sit out practice, he was limited, So
Speaker 1: maybe there's some costs for optimism there. I think you
Speaker 1: should be worried about this, And I know, can we
Speaker 1: dub this like an overreaction week? I think we could
Speaker 1: write like after week one. There are a few guys
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at right now after week one and
Speaker 1: it's irrational. It's irrational that I'm looking at and saying,
Speaker 1: you know, this might just be a wash here for
Speaker 1: this player and it's week one, like we're heading into
Speaker 1: week two. There are a few guys like Leonard Fournette
Speaker 1: is one of those guys where I feel, especially with
Speaker 1: a soft tissue injury like a hamstring and given the
Speaker 1: foot and ankle injuries that he's had in the past,
Speaker 1: where I'm just like, this might just be a thing.
Speaker 1: The entire season for Leonard Fournette. I feel the same
Speaker 1: way about Corey Davis. He battled the hamstring injuries last year.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, we already didn't feel good
Speaker 1: about the Titans offense based on what we saw in
Speaker 1: Week one, Greg, Marcus Mariota looked brutal. He's banged up
Speaker 1: as well. They have no Delaney Walker. The running back
Speaker 1: situation is a mess unless you own Dion Lewis. I mean,
Speaker 1: we still don't know how that's gonna breakdown. And then
Speaker 1: another player who I look at all my teams and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is gonna be a mess all year long,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, and I feel absolutely terrible. Somebody today asked
Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Sammy Watkins is a free agent in
Speaker 1: my league. I picked up Brandon Marshall. Do I drop
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshalls to pick up Sammy Watkins? I said no.
Speaker 1: I said no, there's a guy who were drafting in
Speaker 1: the six seventh round. Greg, it's been one week. We
Speaker 1: have nothing. We have no optimism to gain with Tammy
Speaker 1: Watkins right now. Based on the way he was using
Speaker 1: the preseason, based on the way he used in Week one,
Speaker 1: he was on the field much more than he was
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill, and he was targeted half the times.
Speaker 1: He had three receptions for twenty yards in a game
Speaker 1: where they put up thirty eight points. I feel terrible
Speaker 1: about Sammy Watkins right now. I just had to get
Speaker 1: all that off my chest and there you go, Sammy Watkins.
Speaker 1: Are we overreacting? I don't really think so. I've never
Speaker 1: liked Sandy Watkins. It's just the first time I've owned him.
Speaker 1: Doesn't feel great, not fun. Now, speaking of Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: guy that's always injured, we have a lot of injuries
Speaker 1: to get to and that's why when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're joined by Vitus jinia Zakas of Inside Injuries. Stick
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Speaker 1: Virginia Zak is from inside Injuries. Virginia, how are you
Speaker 1: doing well? Staying very busy with all these injuries. You
Speaker 1: stay in dry is most important. Yeah. I think I
Speaker 1: think we actually are going to avoid most of the
Speaker 1: bad weather here. So awesome that's that. That's fantastic to hear. UM.
Speaker 1: Let me start in Green Bay's it's one of the
Speaker 1: bigger stories of the week, the injury to Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: It calls him to be carded off. I immediately thought
Speaker 1: it was a broken leg for him. Um. Other people
Speaker 1: speculated it to an a c L. Of course, he
Speaker 1: came back to play in the second half of Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football, and if you read like Pro Football Doctor
Speaker 1: on Twitter, everyone kind of believes a sprained m c
Speaker 1: L for Aaron Rodgers. Mike McCarthy says it is no
Speaker 1: cake walk that he's going to play on Sunday. Are
Speaker 1: you hearing that it's a sprained m c L as well,
Speaker 1: And if so, what's the timetable should we expect Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers to be out there on Sunday? Yes, so we're
Speaker 1: showing it's most likely an mc L sprain, possibly a
Speaker 1: meniscus injury, but based on the mechanism of how his
Speaker 1: knee moved, it does look like an m c L injury. UM.
Speaker 1: If it's a mild sprain, it is realistic for him
Speaker 1: to play this weekend, but his mobility is going to
Speaker 1: be affected. UM, I'm sure you also noticed that he
Speaker 1: wasn't able to really step into those long throws. Of course,
Speaker 1: he had that incredible comeback, UM, and was great playing
Speaker 1: through the injury. UM, I'm gonna guess he fights through
Speaker 1: it and tries to play again this weekend. But I
Speaker 1: think this is something that's gonna linger for the next
Speaker 1: few weeks. And I think we're seeing um miss some
Speaker 1: practices or just getting a few limited practices each week.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good to hear. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw Virginia, but his postgame interview
Speaker 1: he seemed a little loopie. They gave him some serious
Speaker 1: happy pills at halftime too, to really relieve the pain.
Speaker 1: For anyone listening or watching out there who didn't see it,
Speaker 1: make sure to check that out because it was pretty funny. UM.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about another Green Bay Packer.
Speaker 1: His number one wide receiver in Davante Adams, yesterday popped
Speaker 1: up on the injury report. Really as a surprise. We
Speaker 1: weren't expecting this. So overall, the Packers are banged up
Speaker 1: here going into a Week two matchup against their division
Speaker 1: rival Minnesota Vikings, and whether or not Davanta Adams was
Speaker 1: healthy or not, he was still gonna have a tough
Speaker 1: matchup because we assume that he's gonna face Xavier Rhodes
Speaker 1: in that game. So how word should we be with
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury to Davantae Adams as he was a
Speaker 1: limited participant practice today and what will his availability be
Speaker 1: like for Sunday? So it's still looking like he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play in this one. We're showing
Speaker 1: only a one week optimal recovery time UM, but he
Speaker 1: is an elevated injury risk with the below average health
Speaker 1: performance factor UM, so he's going to be at a
Speaker 1: higher risk than normal of getting hurt this weekend and
Speaker 1: likely won't played quite as well. Very possible for wide
Speaker 1: receivers to play through mild shoulder springs, but it will hurt.
Speaker 1: It'll affect his blocking, it'll affect his ability to go
Speaker 1: up and reach for a ball. So, UM, probably need
Speaker 1: to you know, limit our expectations a little bit for
Speaker 1: him this weekend, but I do think we'll see him
Speaker 1: out there. Well, they're already limitated with Aaron Rodgers being limited,
Speaker 1: so uh, the expectations are quite low out there in
Speaker 1: Green May in general, but we also mentioned to start
Speaker 1: off our show, Virginia, there's been a ton of injuries
Speaker 1: that have just kind of popped up on us out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, and Corey Davis was the latest one who
Speaker 1: battled a hamstring injury for much of Now's have a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury? Again? Is it the same hamstring? And how
Speaker 1: serious is this? So I do believe it's the same hamstring,
Speaker 1: although that's not confirmed. It also sounds like the Titans
Speaker 1: upset they're just trying to manage his ongoing hamstring issues.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I totally believe that because you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the preseason they didn't say anything about his hamstring,
Speaker 1: so it's likely pretty sore. Um. I do think he's
Speaker 1: gonna play this weekend, but again, he's gonna be at
Speaker 1: you know, a higher injury risk than most wide receivers
Speaker 1: out there. Um, we're showing an elevated injury risk right
Speaker 1: now with that hamstring strain, so we know how easily
Speaker 1: these are aggravated. Um, this could be something, honestly that
Speaker 1: we're looking at for the rest of the year. Don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he's limited, you know, every Wednesday, a
Speaker 1: lot of Thursdays, throughout the year. But I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna play right now. There's not a huge cause for concern,
Speaker 1: but definitely UM something to watch throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. If you own Corey Davis right now, do
Speaker 1: you try to trade him for seventy five cents on
Speaker 1: the dollar? I don't boy Davis anywhere either have him
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver three in one league, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have them in that range
Speaker 1: where at the flex wide receiver we were in that
Speaker 1: terrible we were in the league. I was telling you
Speaker 1: my my last draft two days before and to Rob
Speaker 1: Woods over Corey Davis, what are you doing? And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I'm not the Corey Davis guy and the
Speaker 1: Robert Woods guy, and you thought that was a mistake.
Speaker 1: The problem is, um, Marcus Mariota Virginia is also battling
Speaker 1: an injury, and he returned to practice yesterday, which is
Speaker 1: obviously good news. But up until then I hadn't heard
Speaker 1: anything on the injury. We know Davis is limited, what's
Speaker 1: the deal with Marcus Mariota? So the good news here
Speaker 1: is this actually sounds more like a nerve issue in
Speaker 1: his elbow than any sort of like a ligament strain
Speaker 1: or a sprain to the elbow UM, and that if
Speaker 1: it's you know, a lot of the time, it can
Speaker 1: resolve itself pretty quickly. He was a full participant yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you know they've said unless he has a setback,
Speaker 1: of course he's gonna play Sunday. So not too much
Speaker 1: concern here. He is an elevated injury risk, health performance
Speaker 1: factors below average, and um, we're also showing a two
Speaker 1: week Optimore recovering time. So if you can make it
Speaker 1: through the next two weeks without a setback, he should
Speaker 1: be good to go. No concerns going forward, but I
Speaker 1: would keep a close eye on his practice participation in
Speaker 1: the rest of the week and make sure he doesn't
Speaker 1: drop to a limited practice one day or anything like that. Virginia, No,
Speaker 1: the injury that randomly popped up on us yesterday was
Speaker 1: Rex Burkhead with a concussion. We know that he was
Speaker 1: already dealing with that slight tear in his knee before
Speaker 1: the season, and he actually looks pretty good in Week one,
Speaker 1: he didn't get in the end zone or anything, but
Speaker 1: now dealing with a concussion, this is huge news because
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle is still kind of battling his way back
Speaker 1: from injury. If both of those guys don't suit up,
Speaker 1: somebody needs to get the running back snaps in New
Speaker 1: England and it would probably be James White. And in
Speaker 1: a matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars where you know they
Speaker 1: have those strong perimeter cornerbacks, James White could see a
Speaker 1: huge workload in this matchup. So we need to know
Speaker 1: what's going on with Rex Burkhead and what are his
Speaker 1: chances of playing this week now the fact that he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a concussion. Yeah, so this one definitely did
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere. Um, he did take a really
Speaker 1: big hit late in the first half. UM, but that's
Speaker 1: likely when he got concussed, kept playing, which is obviously
Speaker 1: a big concern. UM. Good news is he was out
Speaker 1: there yesterday. He just died individual drills no contact, but
Speaker 1: that is a sign he's progressing through concussion protocol. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to watch him pretty closely. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't get cleared by Friday, I definitely would not UM
Speaker 1: plan to have him in your lineups this weekend, to
Speaker 1: definitely have a backup plan in place. But he was
Speaker 1: a high risk already. Now he's a very high injury risk. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're still going to be concerns about
Speaker 1: that need for the for at least the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: So I would plan to stay away from Rex Berkehead
Speaker 1: for a while. And uh, I'd say he's got a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty shot of clearing concussion protocol. I think, regardless
Speaker 1: of what happens with Burkehead or Sony Michelle, James White
Speaker 1: is a top twenty four running back here this week.
Speaker 1: I completely agree he's a one one running back in
Speaker 1: that offense. You know, Tom Brady's going to trust to
Speaker 1: Town a week one. Yeah, There's just there's no way
Speaker 1: they're gonna trust any mischie on pass protection early on.
Speaker 1: He's had that issue in college with him, certainly the fumbles.
Speaker 1: James White is the running back you want to own
Speaker 1: right now in New England, without question. Totally totally agree
Speaker 1: with that. Frankie, as we can send you all with
Speaker 1: Virginia zak Is from Inside Injuries. We mentioned um Letard
Speaker 1: for Nette earlier on in the show and Leonard four Nette.
Speaker 1: We knew about the well documented in leg injuries Virginia. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they didn't get any better and he left week one early.
Speaker 1: Everyone's kind of saying it's mild, but he hasn't practiced
Speaker 1: yet this week, and I don't know that he'll be
Speaker 1: out there today for practice. What are you seeing that
Speaker 1: the latest is on Leonard four net. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is not a good situation and they even if he
Speaker 1: starts to feel better, they should not play him this weekend. Um.
Speaker 1: Mild hamstring strings still come with an optimal recovery time
Speaker 1: of two weeks, So he shouldn't play this weekend. Um.
Speaker 1: He's one of those players we've warned before the season,
Speaker 1: don't waste a first round draft pick on him. He's
Speaker 1: always dealing with something, whether his foot or his ankle,
Speaker 1: now his hamstring injury. Um, he's a high injury risk.
Speaker 1: He was elevated already, He's probably going to be elevated
Speaker 1: the rest of the year, even if he recovers from
Speaker 1: this pretty quickly. So, um, you know, if he is active,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys you can't really say not
Speaker 1: to start him, but I just don't think you can
Speaker 1: trust him this week if he does play, and he
Speaker 1: really shouldn't play in Virginia. Something that we talk a
Speaker 1: lot about with you and DR is compensation, right, So
Speaker 1: if he's dealing with his hamstring injury and he's starting
Speaker 1: to compensate more on the other leg, that can lead
Speaker 1: to more foot ankle injuries, which is something that we've
Speaker 1: dealt with before with Leonard four Nett. Absolutely, the foot.
Speaker 1: The foot may have caused the hamstring, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's in vice versa. I mean, if he continues to
Speaker 1: run with his hamstring and starts leaning on the other
Speaker 1: leg or you know, trying to compensate for it, that
Speaker 1: can lead to more problems with his foot and ankles.
Speaker 1: That sounds correct, right, Virginia, Yeah, definitely. And you know
Speaker 1: when we say these players are elevated or high risk,
Speaker 1: that doesn't just apply to the current body part that's injured.
Speaker 1: Of course, that body part is that a higher risk
Speaker 1: of getting um either re injured or you know, made
Speaker 1: much worse. But you know, like you were saying, these
Speaker 1: players overcompensate um and the foot injury or the ankle
Speaker 1: injury definitely could have led to this. And uh, even
Speaker 1: if those feel fine now, playing through a hamstring string
Speaker 1: could put more stress on any other part of his
Speaker 1: lower body and lead to another injury. Great, someone asked
Speaker 1: me yesterday, if they're a for neet owner, should they
Speaker 1: trade Peyton Barber to get t J yelled on on
Speaker 1: their team? And I said, yes, Really is that crazy?
Speaker 1: I don't like that because I think Corey Grants can
Speaker 1: have a role in this offense. Yeah, but I still
Speaker 1: think if Leonard Fournett's out, we're gonna still get that
Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty touch for t J Yelden. You might,
Speaker 1: I mean they lean on him again in week one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling Corey Grants just wasn't one
Speaker 1: of the game plan. And even if he's thinking inside,
Speaker 1: you know, the red zone, Corey Grants more of like
Speaker 1: the smaller Spiezer type guy. T J. Yelden is gonna
Speaker 1: be the one scoring touch on Leonard Fournett's out. On
Speaker 1: a huge t J. Yeldon supporter I always happen why.
Speaker 1: I like him the college Alabama and I just thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna be awesome. I thought would be one
Speaker 1: of these running backs, which is awesome. I said the
Speaker 1: same thing that Jamal Charles Texas. I was like this
Speaker 1: t J. Yelden, dude is amazing and he was the
Speaker 1: second round pick and I just thought he was would
Speaker 1: be great hasn't really worked out yet, but I do
Speaker 1: like t j Yelden Virginia. Another running back I need
Speaker 1: to ask you about someone that I kind of want
Speaker 1: to strangle Greg Susman for making us draft in the
Speaker 1: G S T Draft is DeVonta Freeman. We took him
Speaker 1: in the second round of that draft. He has multiple
Speaker 1: things working against him this week. He's going up against
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers front seven, which is very stout. They're
Speaker 1: tough against the run. Uh. And not only that he
Speaker 1: has his knee injury now that he's dealing with. We
Speaker 1: saw he really sat out the second half of that
Speaker 1: first game against the Eagles. What worries me most about
Speaker 1: this is that they played on Thursday last week and
Speaker 1: he's still not practicing. Now He's going to have that
Speaker 1: you know, ten day time period to get ready for
Speaker 1: this game, and it still sounds like his um chances
Speaker 1: to play are in doubt. So what's going on with
Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman? Does he play this week? And how serious
Speaker 1: is this knee injury with him? So as a Falcons fan,
Speaker 1: this one really hurts. Unfortunately. Freeman is also one of
Speaker 1: those guys we warned about earlier in the year he
Speaker 1: started an elevated injury risk because he suffered that PCL
Speaker 1: and m c L sprain last year. Um didn't undergo surgery,
Speaker 1: but missed most of the off season. UM likely not
Speaker 1: dealing with a tear. But when you deal with a
Speaker 1: significant injury like he did last year, the ligaments do
Speaker 1: get stretched out and leave you more susceptible to an
Speaker 1: injury like this. Um. It didn't seem like there was
Speaker 1: one play where you know he suffered a really bad
Speaker 1: knee injury, but UM, it doesn't take much, unfortunately, when
Speaker 1: your ligaments are stretched out like that. Obviously didn't practice yesterday. UM,
Speaker 1: I don't think things are looking good for him this weekend.
Speaker 1: We're showing he needs at least two weeks to recover.
Speaker 1: But again, because this has been a long lingering injury,
Speaker 1: it's not like in two weeks he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: percent even if he takes the next two weeks off.
Speaker 1: So he's at a very high injury risk. He shouldn't
Speaker 1: play this weekend. Um. Again time, Well, I think we'll
Speaker 1: see a lot of Keevin coleman. Um. But this is
Speaker 1: gonna be if you're a DeVante Freeman owner, this is
Speaker 1: definitely not a good sign for this week and really
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. You're gonna get me killed.
Speaker 1: Do you hear that, Greg? You hear that? Greg? And
Speaker 1: I hope Michael Florio is listening and watching too, because
Speaker 1: when good old Frank over here was saying, Hey, let's
Speaker 1: not take DeVonta Freeman in the second round, Let's double
Speaker 1: down on wide receiver. We have Antonio Brown, let's get
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, and then we'll figure out the running back position. NA,
Speaker 1: no position, Scarce. We gotta get a running back. We
Speaker 1: gotta take DeVonta Freeman. This is another guy that I
Speaker 1: feel like this could just end up being a washed
Speaker 1: season for him. And maybe it's an overreaction, but you
Speaker 1: just heard it from Virginia. The ligaments in his knee.
Speaker 1: It feels like at any point something even more serious
Speaker 1: than this can happen throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 1: And if that does happen, Tevin Coleman is instantly a
Speaker 1: top twenty running back. Greg, Virginia, what Frank didn't tell
Speaker 1: you was in another draft. He's like, we gotta draft
Speaker 1: Doug bald And I'm like, no, we really want Doug Baldwin.
Speaker 1: He's back. He's back towards the top of my leaderboard.
Speaker 1: He had the second two three turn. I really want
Speaker 1: Doug bald in there now. He didn't mention that because
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin not only was was battling an injury coming
Speaker 1: in these week one, but he couldn't even survive Week one.
Speaker 1: How bad is the current leg injury to Doug Baldwin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this new one is a right MCL spring um
Speaker 1: m R I showed a Grade two injury, which means
Speaker 1: that there is a partial tear to the ligament. The
Speaker 1: good news is the m c AL typically heals on
Speaker 1: its own unless it's a full thickness tear, which this
Speaker 1: this one is not. UM but we are showing he
Speaker 1: needs a minimum of four weeks to fully recover. UM.
Speaker 1: I guess the only good news here is it's going
Speaker 1: to give other his left knee a little bit more
Speaker 1: time to heal. But again, I think that's also going
Speaker 1: to be an issue that lingers through the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. They haven't said it, but we believe it's
Speaker 1: a meniscus tear, which will most likely eventually require surgery
Speaker 1: if that's the case. So obviously he's a very high
Speaker 1: injury risk right now. Um, definitely don't think he's going
Speaker 1: to play in the next two to three weeks, but
Speaker 1: we're sharing again at least four weeks he needs to miss,
Speaker 1: but probably closer to six. Yeah, I don't know how
Speaker 1: you can feel any positivity or optimism with Doug Baldwin
Speaker 1: right now. Again, another one of these players, even more
Speaker 1: so than anyone else we've talked about today, Greg where
Speaker 1: I feel like it might just be a wash season
Speaker 1: four Doug Baldwin, which is why we were aggressively going
Speaker 1: out and adding guys like Brandon Marshall and Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: who seemed to be the top two targets in this
Speaker 1: passing game. Virginia, we've been getting a lot of questions
Speaker 1: about mark He's Goodwin this week, A guy who is
Speaker 1: dealing with a quote fib brews, a deep fibrews. What
Speaker 1: what more can you tell us about that? For a
Speaker 1: speed s there like like Marky's Goodwin, who obviously meets
Speaker 1: his legs underneath him to be able to get downfield
Speaker 1: and get behind defensive sounds like he needs a deep
Speaker 1: tissue massage, which sounds lovely. So normally when a player
Speaker 1: has a quad contusion. We'd call it a soft tissue injury. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they should be fine within a week, but
Speaker 1: this one we're actually showing a Grade one injury, which
Speaker 1: does kind of confirm that it really is a pretty
Speaker 1: deep contusion. Optimal recovery time is three weeks, so um,
Speaker 1: you know, probably a lot longer than you might expect
Speaker 1: for this. His health performance factor is also below average.
Speaker 1: So again, like you said, for a speedy wide receiver
Speaker 1: like Goodwin, playing through any sort of a quad injury
Speaker 1: is really going to affect him on the field. So
Speaker 1: I think he's probably very questionable for this weekend. But
Speaker 1: if he is active, I wouldn't put him in fantasy
Speaker 1: lineups for right now. Yeah, so Mark's COO win, maybe active,
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of weeks. You're hearing Dante Pettis his name,
Speaker 1: step up, Travis Taylor and Pierre Gars home right now.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about Dante Pettis here. Yeah, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about that possibility because if you look at the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus cornerback wide receiver matchups right now, they
Speaker 1: have Pierre Garson matchup with Darius Lay. Darius Lay left
Speaker 1: in Week one against the Jets, but he is expected
Speaker 1: to play in week two. I think he would be
Speaker 1: on the same side as Pierre Garson. If that happens,
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis will be matched up with Nevin Lawson who
Speaker 1: got absolutely torched in week one. So I really really
Speaker 1: like that play. If if it's confirmed Sunday morning that
Speaker 1: Marcus Goodwin is out, Dante Petis is going to be
Speaker 1: inside my top thirty six wide receiver this week. Greg,
Speaker 1: There you go, Dante Petterie aggressive on him intentionally a
Speaker 1: top three wide receiver, top thirty six wide receiver rather
Speaker 1: for Frankie Virginia. Final question, and it doesn't really have
Speaker 1: to do with the player that's hurt. And that's in Detroit.
Speaker 1: We saw the Garrett Blunt go down with a bad
Speaker 1: knee injury. There's a lot of very anxious and excited
Speaker 1: carry on Johnson owners. How serious is the injury to
Speaker 1: the Garrett Blunt. We have under ammituted remaining so we're
Speaker 1: actually showing a soft tissue shoulder injury. But he was
Speaker 1: a full participant practice yesterday, also showing the Grade one
Speaker 1: knee even though they didn't report that on the injury report. Um,
Speaker 1: he's an elevated injury Restrecht right now, so not looking
Speaker 1: great um, but not a long term concern here. Optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time around two to three weeks. So the question
Speaker 1: will be will we see enough of carry on Johnson
Speaker 1: to make him via viable starter this week? Frankie, I
Speaker 1: currently have him outside my top thirty six. I just
Speaker 1: don't see how you can trust the situation. Even if
Speaker 1: he goes off this week. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: kick yourself for it because we don't really know what
Speaker 1: his usage is going to be at least nine weeks two.
Speaker 1: And there you go. Virginia Sky Is from Inside Injuries.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time as always, Thank you. Absolutely, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Virginia and not Day and the crew means
Speaker 1: LDE Injuries next week when we come back, Frank's giving
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Speaker 1: millionaires are made. Literally. Okay, Frankie, do you have any
Speaker 1: any bets you like as far this week during micon
Speaker 1: pulled an executive move right there. The ones that I've
Speaker 1: been paying to at tension to most so far are
Speaker 1: three underdogs that are like It's Carolina Panthers. I believe
Speaker 1: there are plus six against the Falcons Daily Roading Machine,
Speaker 1: let you know. I mean, look, I crush it with
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Rams last week you did did um.
Speaker 1: I also like the Seattle Seahawks plus three and a half.
Speaker 1: I actually like both of those guys as potential upset
Speaker 1: wins money line, but I mean, if you're gonna take
Speaker 1: the spread obviously, um and then the Giants. The Giants
Speaker 1: is my least confidence of those three. But plus three
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, I mean, the Cowboys just didn't look good.
Speaker 1: The Giants defense actually really really strong and gonna have
Speaker 1: there's no confidence rating yet, but they had to choose one,
Speaker 1: they would choose Dallas minus three. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about that? I disagreat Uh, you said you're like Caroline
Speaker 1: as well. I believe yes, plus like Carolina plus six,
Speaker 1: Um so does the algorithm? Yeah? Those store confidence there,
Speaker 1: but they do like Carolina. Is your other feel very
Speaker 1: strongly about that. Seahawks on Monday Night against the Bears
Speaker 1: plus three and a half. They like Seattle plus three
Speaker 1: and a half as well. No start confidence rating, however
Speaker 1: a lot. They're at plus one sixty on the money
Speaker 1: line right now. I feel pretty good about that, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, betting against Russell Wilson. I know they're on
Speaker 1: the road. Offensive line is shaky um going up against
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack obviously, but betting on Mitch Robinsky to beat
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, I don't know. I think the bet I
Speaker 1: like the best Man the Pan the Cardinals plus thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half. It's really like Philly minus three in Tampa.
Speaker 1: I like that. Like that. What sucks is you could
Speaker 1: have got at minus two earlier in the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of like the Redskins, but it's a lot
Speaker 1: of points. What is that six now? Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why I love Adrian Peterson this week, Greg,
Speaker 1: you know what I else to do. I also like
Speaker 1: the Chiefs a lot again. That's five, right, I like
Speaker 1: that call. Yeah, I can see that game of field
Speaker 1: goal I like, I like, I like Chiefs again. Disrespect
Speaker 1: from a man, Patty Mahomes, What do we get? What's
Speaker 1: the Panthers money line at this week? Plus one? I
Speaker 1: guess the Falcons? The Falcons, It not look good, man,
Speaker 1: if they were out Devonse Freeman. Two. All those injuries
Speaker 1: in the secondary now Dion Jones, conn and the Panthers
Speaker 1: have a shot here. Dude's gonna go off this week.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. And I think Ian Thomas is a sneaky,
Speaker 1: sneaky play. I have him as a solid tight end too.
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't push him much higher than that
Speaker 1: up in the rankings, but I think he's sneaky. If
Speaker 1: you're hurting it tight end eight four four eight four
Speaker 1: three sis Sevenine's frank, He's running back rankings. In just
Speaker 1: a moment, we want to start questions for tonight for
Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Ravens. Will give your pick before
Speaker 1: the end of the show today. But I want to
Speaker 1: start off the phone lines and I go to Eric
Speaker 1: in Florida for our first call today at four four, three,
Speaker 1: six seven nine. Let's go on, Eric, what's going on? Guys?
Speaker 1: Not much with your question. I have a I have
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and I have these quarterback tis who's from?
Speaker 1: If I want to sit them on? Case Keenum and
Speaker 1: he Donton and Joe Slacka, what do you guys think
Speaker 1: I should pick up? Do not start any quarterback in
Speaker 1: tonight's game? Whatsoever? Case Keenum is the easy call for me.
Speaker 1: Greg totally totally agree. I think Case Keenum up in
Speaker 1: flex today. Actually as a backup quarterback, saw that solid.
Speaker 1: It was just a good quarterback to have on the team.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Eric, I can't make that move al right. First,
Speaker 1: thank absolutely. Um let me get a marvelous in Chicago.
Speaker 1: What's that marvelous? How you guys doing doing? Great? Man? Awesome? Man?
Speaker 1: I gotta I got this um this league, I kind
Speaker 1: of just kind of trash. I drafted Jerem M MacKinnon
Speaker 1: and I need help. Do I have no idea what
Speaker 1: to do with this? Mine? Not? Um? So right now
Speaker 1: I'm in a defense, so I'm gonna have to drop
Speaker 1: one of these bench dudes. I just wanted to read
Speaker 1: him off to you. See which one of these guys
Speaker 1: do I dropped. I got Birkhead, Lynch, Baldwin, Watkins, carry On, Johnson,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, and Dez Bryant. Hold on. Let me stop. Okay,
Speaker 1: unleast the greggy He named your whole bench, and everybody
Speaker 1: has one thing in common except one player. You know
Speaker 1: what that is. They're all on football teams. They are
Speaker 1: all on a professional football team in the National Football
Speaker 1: League except one player. That's the one that probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: be on your team. You know what, the the slick
Speaker 1: gentleman next to you. I was watching his podcast and
Speaker 1: he was actually the one that told me to pick
Speaker 1: up Dez Bryant because of that later draft. Nobody else
Speaker 1: is going to be seeing that many targets. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of why I held down to him, and I
Speaker 1: got him in like two of my leagues right now.
Speaker 1: But I feel like I should I should probably drop
Speaker 1: this guy. Man. You know, you should have learned. The
Speaker 1: slick gentleman to my left is the idiots you should
Speaker 1: have That is not true, for I was an advocate
Speaker 1: for taking that. Look, you can take this Brian the
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen round of your draft. There's no harm in
Speaker 1: doing that. If he signs in the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and whatever, maybe you potentially have a wide receiver three.
Speaker 1: But at this point, no interest, not on a team.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. He's the guy dropped. Okay. Brandon Marshall
Speaker 1: was also on the waiver around this. Should I be
Speaker 1: thinking about him or no? I got Kenny Stills in
Speaker 1: my flex like we like, we like Hanny Stills a lot.
Speaker 1: So I think the question is we thank you for
Speaker 1: the call, marvelous that it's the same question you had
Speaker 1: earlier on Twitter. Do you drop Sammy Watkins for Brenda Marshall? Right,
Speaker 1: that's that's ultimately the question that wasn't the question. This
Speaker 1: is a little bit different because that person picked up
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall and then Sammy Watkins got dropped, So it's
Speaker 1: would you drop the same thing? Different? Different? Can I?
Speaker 1: I can't drop Sammy Watkins yet, it's not the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's not the same thing. Greg, Like, I wouldn't drop
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins yet, but if I saw him out there
Speaker 1: on free agency, I also wouldn't go out to pick
Speaker 1: him up. There's a difference. No, yes, there is, there's not.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand all psychological. No, it's psychological with you.
Speaker 1: Let me have the running back rankings rank. I'm a
Speaker 1: fantasy psychiatrist. You're running back right. He's are available right
Speaker 1: now over at road to experst dot com. They have
Speaker 1: been made free, so as we talk about them, you
Speaker 1: can follow along over at road to experts dot com. Um, Frankie,
Speaker 1: is there anything specific that that you rank? Because I
Speaker 1: can just find it um very differently, but I haven't
Speaker 1: check it out. I have, I have it opened. I
Speaker 1: have the half point where you'll say on the side
Speaker 1: ec R. Now I know that's why say I could
Speaker 1: pull it up. What do you like? What do you like?
Speaker 1: What you don't want? So here's where I wanted to start.
Speaker 1: I actually wanted to start, not so much in your
Speaker 1: top ten. I think it's you know what I will
Speaker 1: start in your top ten because you're number three overall.
Speaker 1: Running back is James Conner this week. You're basically slotting
Speaker 1: him in where you would have been using half PPR. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, so half PPR is again it's that thing
Speaker 1: where it's like joint they automatically changed it. I was told, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I can't actually go and change three different rankings.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of greg right, just now use
Speaker 1: my standard. No standards are the ones that they used
Speaker 1: for the Expert Accuracy rankings. But PPR is very popular.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to PBR regardless. James Conner is the
Speaker 1: top three running back this week. That you're basically ranking
Speaker 1: him as Levy on Bell is what you're doing. He
Speaker 1: is Levy on Bell. Yes, why wouldn't you based on
Speaker 1: everything that we saw in week one thirty five plus
Speaker 1: touches um and in the matchup against the Chiefs, we
Speaker 1: just saw Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler absolutely tear them
Speaker 1: apart in the passing game. So whether it's standard PPR,
Speaker 1: the guy played of the snaps in week one as well,
Speaker 1: so I think he's a lock to get twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty plus touches again. He's gonna see at least five
Speaker 1: five receptions. I can see that, you know, six or
Speaker 1: seven targets. With all that being said, I mean he's
Speaker 1: got to be a top three running back. I love
Speaker 1: him in DFS. He's like seven thousand on Fandal this week. Again,
Speaker 1: you can't get away from that price. You just can't.
Speaker 1: I think it's ballsy for sure, like top three, Like
Speaker 1: I get how good he was last week, and I
Speaker 1: get how much they gave him the rock, but let's
Speaker 1: remember like weather was pretty terrible UM in Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't as terrible as many people expected it to be. UM.
Speaker 1: But the fact is that you have them above guys
Speaker 1: that we really like that Christian McCaffrey and Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: and and even Ezekiel Elliot, who I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about a moment um. I just think it's a lot.
Speaker 1: Who else behind him is touching the ball thirty five times? Greg,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott could, right, Zecue Elliott could. There's probably nobody
Speaker 1: on this list that's gonna touch the ball thirty five times.
Speaker 1: Not he. It's your best option. I would say, he's
Speaker 1: your best bet. He has to choose one in the field.
Speaker 1: By the way, so is Zakie Elliott is Spranks seventh
Speaker 1: rains running back this week, which is fine. Um. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of questions about Ezekiel Elliott that we've
Speaker 1: gotten this week because they saw how bad the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were in Week one. And while Zacre Elliott was fine,
Speaker 1: there's concerns about him going forward. How nervous are you
Speaker 1: about Ezekie Elliott going forward? With everything that you just said,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys scored eight points in their offense look absolutely
Speaker 1: atrocious and it was a bad match up against Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: The one bright spot which still Zekiel et fifteen carries
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards in a touchdown. We even saw him
Speaker 1: with four targets in the past game, three receptions for
Speaker 1: seventeen yards. I actually expect the targets to increase. I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think there's a chance in this matchup,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott carries the ball at least twenty times and
Speaker 1: could see you know, five six targets in this game.
Speaker 1: There's a chance that you know, he's around that twenty
Speaker 1: five touch range. This week, he's easily a top seven
Speaker 1: running back. I mean even on the year, he's still
Speaker 1: top five. For me, I'm not downgrading him. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: need to get more creative with their offense, with their
Speaker 1: play calling. They need to get Michael Gallut more involved
Speaker 1: in this offense, more of a vertical threat, and then
Speaker 1: I think once that happens, that will just open things
Speaker 1: up for Zeke. I'm not worried about him. Okay, So no,
Speaker 1: no worries about Ezekiel Elliott. One person you are buying into,
Speaker 1: according to your rankings available now at road Westport dot com,
Speaker 1: is Joe Mixon, who's safely at number eleven. It's where
Speaker 1: the consensus has them as well. Joe Mixon, everybody's loving him.
Speaker 1: He plays tonight, gets tough Ravens defense. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: this is kind of the battle of two immovable forces.
Speaker 1: Right after Week one, the Ravens defense looked as great
Speaker 1: as it did. You have to take that with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. They were going up against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: They had a huge, huge lead. Nathan Peterman looked absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen came in in the second half. There was
Speaker 1: just no chance for Loshawn McCoy to do anything in
Speaker 1: that matchup, and then we even saw his backup in
Speaker 1: that matchup, um getting more touches in the second half.
Speaker 1: So you can't really take that. But they were good
Speaker 1: against the run last year. UM, so it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what happens. But I think based on the
Speaker 1: usage that Joe Mixon saw in Week one, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he had you know, a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: total yards and a touchdown. You have to rank him
Speaker 1: as a low and RB one, high and RB two.
Speaker 1: This week, Greg Frankie has James White inside his top seventeen.
Speaker 1: He's ranked number seventeen. That has eight spots higher than
Speaker 1: than the consensus. We already talked about how much we
Speaker 1: like James White. That makes sense. Lamar Miller sneaks in
Speaker 1: there as well. You know Franks like glutton for punishment.
Speaker 1: Um Race Spreeman, you have at number twenty in your
Speaker 1: PPR ranks this week. I have a team where I
Speaker 1: have owned in Carton's League. I own Royce Freeman is
Speaker 1: my r B two and I'm wondering if I should
Speaker 1: start him or i should start Alfred Morris. You have
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman ranked at number twenty, and you have Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris a thirty three. Usually Freeman pretty easily. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel very very strong about Royce Freeman this week. When
Speaker 1: I meanted to you the other day, Greg, uh the
Speaker 1: fact that he saw the highest percentage of eight plus
Speaker 1: defenders in the box in week one and still managed
Speaker 1: to rush fifteen times for seventy one yards. Um. And
Speaker 1: then you look at the matchup against the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: They allowed five point four yards per carry against the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, obviously it's Todd Gurley. He went off,
Speaker 1: but Todd Gurley did his thing in the passing game
Speaker 1: as well. I'm not sure how much we see from
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman in the past game overall, but I do
Speaker 1: think there's a good chance that he rushes for at
Speaker 1: least seventy eight yards in this game. And I think
Speaker 1: he gets an end zone as well. All right, and
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Speaker 1: phone calls A four three nine. Let's go to Stephen Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: What's up, Steve? Hey, Greggy, What's what's up? Stevie? How
Speaker 1: you doing? Man? Um doing all right? I actually have
Speaker 1: can I actually have a question. It's about my ten
Speaker 1: team league. UM. I listened to you guys. I listened
Speaker 1: to you guys talk about the injuries about and I
Speaker 1: have like Aaron Rodgers for Net and Doug Baldwin, and
Speaker 1: I was just one because like the Seattle, they haven't
Speaker 1: like took took him out yet. I was just wondering
Speaker 1: should I try to pick up like maybe like a
Speaker 1: running back like a for NET can't go because right now?
Speaker 1: So right now, UM, I have Aaron Rodgers starting Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris either for NET or J. J. Yeldon and Lamar Miller.
Speaker 1: And as far as like the receiver replacement, I have
Speaker 1: like Kenny goll Day in there, so like I guess,
Speaker 1: like what should I what should I do? As far
Speaker 1: as like those guys go down, should I try to
Speaker 1: put in like Grandon Marshal or something. Let's think a lot.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I think it's fine as well in ten teams,
Speaker 1: I mean the replacement value is always going to be better.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you have a ton of injuries here, um,
Speaker 1: but you have t J. Yells in four four NET.
Speaker 1: I like Alfred Morris a lot this week. Uh Lamar Miller.
Speaker 1: While he doesn't have a ton of upside, he's a
Speaker 1: top twenty running back weekend and week out because of
Speaker 1: his usage. UM. And Kenny Golladay looks great in week
Speaker 1: one and he has a pretty good matchup this week
Speaker 1: against the San Francisco forty Niners. I think Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy matched up with Marvin Jones.
Speaker 1: So I still do like Kenny Golladay and I love, love,
Speaker 1: love Golden Tate this weekend Slot love him? Okay, cool?
Speaker 1: So Golden Tate a popular target this week for frank
Speaker 1: tonight the Bengals and the Ravens. What is this spread?
Speaker 1: Curly at Frankie, we have it as the Ravens minus one,
Speaker 1: so it's been going back and forth. This is according
Speaker 1: to the FanDuel sports books. So I know the Bengals
Speaker 1: yesterday were minus one. I think they were as high
Speaker 1: as like minus one and a half, right, so they're
Speaker 1: the home team in this game. But a lot of
Speaker 1: money coming in um on the Baltimore Ravens and now
Speaker 1: they've shifted to minus one. Baltimore, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Um wow? I mean look, I think I wouldn't touch
Speaker 1: this game. First of all, I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence either way. If I had to choose a
Speaker 1: team in these a f C North matchups, They're so close,
Speaker 1: hard hitting, they don't like each other. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the home team. I don't. I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in it, but I will go with
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. Uh. They got off to a slow start
Speaker 1: last week. It was it was a really weird game
Speaker 1: for them, but then the defense showed up. They had
Speaker 1: that fumble on Jack Doyle which they ran back to
Speaker 1: the house for a touchdown. I think the getting Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon involved the way that they did is going to
Speaker 1: completely change the complexion of this offense. So that's going
Speaker 1: to give the Baltimore Ravens defense some fits. The Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens defense that is still without Jimmy Smith. We know
Speaker 1: he suspended the first four games, so a j Green
Speaker 1: is going to be a handful for them. It's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to trust Andy Talton in prime time on
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game. But if I had to choose one,
Speaker 1: I will take Cincinnati. The bet that I feel strongly strongest, Uh,
Speaker 1: the bet that I feel strongly about most here is
Speaker 1: the under at forty four four to the last four
Speaker 1: five times. I know Gabe has mentioned this between the
Speaker 1: Bank and the Ravens, this has gone under the numbers.
Speaker 1: So that is the bet that I feel strong most
Speaker 1: strongest about. He was also mentioned. The last two times
Speaker 1: these these two teams played, the Buffalo Bills were pumped
Speaker 1: about it because it was the way Andy Dalton was
Speaker 1: able to complete a pass across the middle uh and
Speaker 1: send Buffalo into the playoffs. Now we'll that happen to
Speaker 1: night No, because Buffalo's not going to the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: But Andy Dalton in Baltimore, I think it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I think people have kind of underestimated myself very much
Speaker 1: included Cincinnati coming into this year. And the winner of
Speaker 1: this game has as a nice leg up on that
Speaker 1: and a f C North which Hittsburgh and Cleveland tying
Speaker 1: in Week one. I'm gonna do with the whole team. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't think Baltimore is as good as they were
Speaker 1: last Weekend's Buffalo for sure, but I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what they really are. I like their defense like Cincinnatis defense. Also,
Speaker 1: the bet if you happen to Bette is the under
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