Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, September sixteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we're hoping
Speaker 1: no one remembers our preseason takes.
Speaker 2: It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by
Speaker 2: Michael f. Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 1: Week two, Fellas, I feel like we say this every year,
Speaker 1: but it feels like it happens earlier in early Can
Speaker 1: we just turn injuries off?
Speaker 2: Yes? Florio? Please?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I want to unplug the season blowing in and
Speaker 3: plug it back in like like it's N sixty four
Speaker 3: cartridge or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, i was the Isaiah Pacheco guy and now
Speaker 3: I'm just sad. I don't know what else to really
Speaker 3: say about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which actually gets us into what we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about today. We do have the biggest takeaways from week two.
Speaker 1: Have our fantasy heroes. Will also dive into the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: which is going to be incredibly important for the week
Speaker 1: for a lot of fantasy managers. But let's start with
Speaker 1: some fantasy headlines. And as Michael lef Florio just alluded to,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco suffered a fractured fibula in Kansas City's win
Speaker 1: over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday Lakwan as of us
Speaker 1: doing this show, we don't know the official timeliner diagnosis
Speaker 1: for it, but all reports are he's going to be
Speaker 1: out for an extended period of time. It seems as
Speaker 1: though it's going to be unavoidable for him to go
Speaker 1: on injured reserve. So you look at that backfield in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Samaj p Ryan is there, Carson Steele was
Speaker 1: getting some opportunity. Is there anybody you have any real
Speaker 1: interest in in the Kansas City backfield or you have
Speaker 1: to look outside of case for running back help.
Speaker 4: I would look, you know, elsewhere first, but you can
Speaker 4: look inside for Sama JP Ryan Happy birthday. By the way,
Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, Carson Steele, he's going to
Speaker 4: be a guy that's gonna get touches. He's going to
Speaker 4: be in that rotation. But I think Samaj p Ryan
Speaker 4: plays as that third down back, you know, be able
Speaker 4: to bail out Patrick Mahomes back there and be able
Speaker 4: to turn and get field. That kind of what Jared
Speaker 4: McKinnon was, you know for Patrick Mahomes in the past.
Speaker 4: You know, I do feel like they're going to probably
Speaker 4: bring in another running back from off the street. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's not much out there. Latavius Murray, you know. I
Speaker 4: think Jared McKinnon you could bring back, and I don't
Speaker 4: think they want, you know, the other guy Kareem Hunt
Speaker 4: coming back there. But I just feel as though it's
Speaker 4: gonna be tough, you know, for this run game, with
Speaker 4: the loss of my Jersey brother, Isaiah Pacheco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned some of the guys there, Clyde Edwards.
Speaker 1: Hilaire started the season on the NFI list, so he's
Speaker 1: out for at least two more weeks before we could
Speaker 1: talk about him as an option. We'll see if maybe,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, they try to bring in a free agent,
Speaker 1: or if they try and I don't know, somehow engineer
Speaker 1: a trade for a running back somewhere. I heard people
Speaker 1: suggesting maybe Khalil Herbert getting him out of Chicago.
Speaker 4: DAI, But he's banged up with errorstring right now.
Speaker 2: So probably probably not the option that they want at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 1: Speaking of banged up in Los Angeles, it has been
Speaker 1: a rough start to the season for the Rams. Phuka
Speaker 1: Nakua is already on injured reserve and there are reports,
Speaker 1: as you hear La Kwan sign deeply reports that it
Speaker 1: could be a while that we might be talking about
Speaker 1: week nine or so before Nicoua is ready to go
Speaker 1: for Los Angeles then Florio. On Sunday, Cooper Cup leaves
Speaker 1: with what's being called an ankle injury. He was seen
Speaker 1: in a walking boot leaving the stadium, so we're waiting
Speaker 1: for more updates on his situation. But it was a
Speaker 1: rough day for the Rams offensively yesterday, Mike.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the the.
Speaker 1: Leading receiver was the Marcus Robinson two catches for fifty yards.
Speaker 2: Nobody really made a big impact.
Speaker 1: So the question becomes, without Nicua and if Cup is
Speaker 1: going to miss time, do we have to pull the
Speaker 1: plug on Matthew Stafford as a starting fantasy quarterback?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Peak behind the curtains, I've already wrote the quarterback starting
Speaker 3: to sit them for week three and Matthew Stafford is
Speaker 3: a sit for me one because no, like you said,
Speaker 3: no Cooper, no, no, no Cooper Cup, no Pooka Nakua. Also,
Speaker 3: they get the forty nine ers and Stafford has thrown
Speaker 3: two passing touchdowns in their last three games against the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers. What stood out to me yesterday, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to bully Lawan's team here, but he
Speaker 3: was getting sacked every play. It felt like anytime he
Speaker 3: stepped back, they were getting pressure on him. In fact,
Speaker 3: I believe the Cardinals had the highest secrate in the
Speaker 3: NFL right now after yesterday's game, which is pretty wild.
Speaker 3: But yeah, after that, then they get the Bears, who
Speaker 3: their defense has been shutting people down, then the Packers,
Speaker 3: the Raiders. I would anticipate this next month probably being
Speaker 3: just Kyrien Williams the only usable ram because, like you said,
Speaker 3: Robinson led the way, but he had all his production
Speaker 3: on one long catch. Every receiver not named Cooper Cup
Speaker 3: had four targets or less. Yesterday we saw two too
Speaker 3: at Well getting involved. We saw Jordan Winnington getting involved.
Speaker 3: When it's an all hands on deck approach and you
Speaker 3: have four receivers, you have no receiver that you could
Speaker 3: trust in fantasy.
Speaker 1: On top of it, it's a shaky offensive line right
Speaker 1: now for Los Angeles. So on top of not having
Speaker 1: real game changing targets, New Stafford also just not having
Speaker 1: a lot of time and protection to step back there
Speaker 1: and throw. It is not the start we were hoping
Speaker 1: for from the Rams offense. Things have gotten bleak in
Speaker 1: a hurry for Sean McVay and his group. There, I
Speaker 1: was gonna save you the pain. I'm having to talk
Speaker 1: about it out loud, the question.
Speaker 2: So we'll move on. Appreciate it, We will move on.
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram a surprise scratch just about an hour before kickoff,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars tweeting that Ingram injured his hamstring in pregame
Speaker 1: warm ups and was not going to play. We'll see
Speaker 1: how long term this might be in this offense. But LQ,
Speaker 1: I mean the Jaguar passing game looked pretty awful yesterday.
Speaker 2: They really struggled to put anything together.
Speaker 1: I know we like Brian Thomas Junior, but I mean,
Speaker 1: beyond that, Christian Kirka, I mean, how excited can we
Speaker 1: be about the pass catchers in Jacksonville?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: Man, it was a rough game, I would say. I mean, look,
Speaker 4: I tweeted the other yesterday. I mean, he had sixteen
Speaker 4: passing yards in the third quarter after five drives, and
Speaker 4: it's like without Evan Ingram is Trevor Lawrence falling apart,
Speaker 4: Like it's like only one touchdown, He's averaging one hundred
Speaker 4: and ninety one passing yards per game in these last
Speaker 4: two games, and like him and Christian Kirk don't look
Speaker 4: like they're on the same page as they were in
Speaker 4: previous season. Passed like there was a lot of deep
Speaker 4: balls going to Christian Kirk and it's like, man, did
Speaker 4: you run the wrong route or is it overthrown? Is
Speaker 4: the timing mess stuff Like I don't know what's going
Speaker 4: on in Douvall over there, but man, Evan Ingram was
Speaker 4: a scratch right before the game and then honestly look like,
Speaker 4: you know, the game plan just was not the game
Speaker 4: plan they were going into that game with. So there's
Speaker 4: not many other pass cutchers other than Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 4: that I'm honestly interested on a week to week basis,
Speaker 4: because we see Gabe Davis getting on this volume, but
Speaker 4: it's kind of pulling away he did in Buffalo, all
Speaker 4: this cardio and all these targets and not really making
Speaker 4: productivity out of those. So it's like a little frustrating that,
Speaker 4: you know, Trevor Lawrence is playing this way without Evan Ingram,
Speaker 4: like we need somebody to step up in this offense.
Speaker 1: If you saw some of the postgame quotes, whether it's
Speaker 1: Travis etn Trevor Lawrence. You can sense a frustration from
Speaker 1: this group with how the offense is going right now.
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson not willing to admit out loud, who's calling
Speaker 1: the plays?
Speaker 2: Is at him?
Speaker 1: Or is it Press Taylor. It's a bad situation right
Speaker 1: now down there in Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: Seven straight seven, Yeah, it's fast. It is bad for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at some of the week's top scorers.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray went berserk two hundred and sixty six passing yards,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, twenty eight point five four Fantasy points.
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamaras stays hot.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty total scrimmage yards, four total touchdowns,
Speaker 1: three of them on the ground. That was good for
Speaker 1: forty four points. I know because I went against him
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Live. Well thanks Patrick Laybon. Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior the recipient.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of that.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray worked four catches, one hundred and thirty yards,
Speaker 1: a pair of touchdowns, twenty nine Fantasy points. I guess
Speaker 1: he's not slow. George Kittle had a good day for
Speaker 1: the Niners in the loss. Seven catches seventy six yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown that was good for twenty point six points.
Speaker 1: Austin Seibert seven field goals the command and beat the
Speaker 1: Giants without scoring eight touchdown twenty one points out of
Speaker 1: Austin Cyberts. And for the Bills, they were the top
Speaker 1: defense of the week. Two sacks, three i in T's
Speaker 1: a touchdown, ten points allowed eighteen fantasy points there. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna pick on some guys that we want to
Speaker 1: salute who maybe did not make this list, the laquand
Speaker 1: who was your fantasy hero in week two?
Speaker 4: Man, it has to be JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins.
Speaker 4: He is bawling right now. I look, I'll take this
Speaker 4: l early. I know last week I was telling Florial
Speaker 4: not the wave the flag, but I'm waving the flag
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 2: Man. JK. Dobbins is real.
Speaker 4: This is back to back games with over one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty rushing yards and I'm gonna ride this until
Speaker 4: the wheels come off. And crazy enough, he's still on
Speaker 4: the waiver wiring some leagues and like even with Gus
Speaker 4: Edwards nearly getting twenty touches, like just based on how
Speaker 4: efficient he is, he's still able to put up the
Speaker 4: big numbers.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: So I honestly think this is his backfield. He's out
Speaker 4: there running routes as well, so he's getting involved in
Speaker 4: like camani Vedel, he's a healthy scratch again, so we
Speaker 4: might not ever see him again unless you know, Ja
Speaker 4: Dobtins is you know, hurt or not playing at this
Speaker 4: high level he's been playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Vidal right now is on the
Speaker 1: back burner. If you got him in Dynasty, hang on.
Speaker 1: But I think if you're in redraft leagues you can
Speaker 1: probably make a move right now and move on from him.
Speaker 1: Just you know, it's just not really great. Uh, Floria,
Speaker 1: Who is your hero for week two?
Speaker 3: Trey McBride because coming not only did I have I'll
Speaker 3: take the little humble brack here, Trey McBride was one coming.
Speaker 2: In the year.
Speaker 3: But more than that, the thing is, look at the
Speaker 3: look at his peers who were in his running for
Speaker 3: tight end one Mark Andrews. We don't know if he
Speaker 3: is the best tight end on his own roster. Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3: I watched that entire game yesterday. I think Travis kelce
Speaker 3: had a little cameo in it, like he's not doing much.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then Sam Laporta, I am legitimately freaked out when
Speaker 3: it comes to Sam Laporta because Jamison Williams has surpassed
Speaker 3: him in the target pecking order two weeks into the
Speaker 3: season and not just like okay in between the twenties,
Speaker 3: like when they were in the red zone, they were
Speaker 3: making plays for Jamison Williams. So I am really And
Speaker 3: then you add in the running backs there, you could
Speaker 3: make a case and in some games San la Porta
Speaker 3: might be fourth in the pecking order for targets. So
Speaker 3: right now through two yesterday alone, I mean, Trey McBride
Speaker 3: with the fumble recovery touchdown because we play on NFL
Speaker 3: dot Com and we count those has more Fantasy points
Speaker 3: yesterday alone than any of those three tight ends having
Speaker 3: the first two weeks combined. So he right now, Look,
Speaker 3: it's only two weeks in. But if you went early
Speaker 3: tight end and you took McBride, you're feeling good. If
Speaker 3: you took one of those other three, you're probably not
Speaker 3: feeling great today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has not been good right in the tight
Speaker 1: end department, but Trey McBride certainly given folks a boost.
Speaker 2: So the rosters I have abon, those are the ones
Speaker 2: I'm feeling better about right now. For sure.
Speaker 1: For me, it's Devonte Adams and the thing that you know,
Speaker 1: I think we all looked at the Raiders and said,
Speaker 1: I don't know the quarterback situation could hold him back,
Speaker 1: But so far through two weeks, it has not been
Speaker 1: the case. Week one, six targets, turned that into five
Speaker 1: for fifty nine yards. Yesterday twelve targets, which turned into
Speaker 1: nine yards for one hundred and nine catches for one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten yards and a touchdown in that surprise
Speaker 1: win over the Baltimore Ravens. And it was a thing
Speaker 1: that Adam Rank pointed out, we didn't like the quarterback
Speaker 1: situation last year. Davonte Adams still got a ton of targets.
Speaker 1: This is looking pretty much like a narrowly funneled passing game,
Speaker 1: but Davante Adams is still at the head of it.
Speaker 2: It's, you know, a lot of work for Brock Bowers.
Speaker 1: Jakobe Myers is sort of getting some in there, but
Speaker 1: it still kind of starts and ends with Davonte Adams.
Speaker 1: So if you took the shot on him and drafted him,
Speaker 1: certainly through two weeks, you feel good. I don't see
Speaker 1: that changing anytime soon. Speaking of things we took away
Speaker 1: from week two, Lakwan, what is the thing you learned
Speaker 1: after watching this week's games?
Speaker 4: This is gonna be my mini Rams rant. I mean
Speaker 4: the defense is bad. Like if you're looking for a
Speaker 4: bounce back to get back on track, you know you
Speaker 4: want to start your studge your wide receivers or you're
Speaker 4: looking for sleeper upside, start all your wide receivers against
Speaker 4: the Rams defense because we cannot stop anything. They were
Speaker 4: missing tackles, they were letting guys just break loose, looking
Speaker 4: like they were lost in that secondary. Like this is
Speaker 4: a young secondary with some veterans there like John Johnson.
Speaker 4: You're expecting a little bit more being that he's previously
Speaker 4: been with the Rams. And it's like, I don't want
Speaker 4: to go name dropping on here, but my takeaway here is, man,
Speaker 4: if you want to start your wide receivers, start them
Speaker 4: against the Rams for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That's not great now, at least it gives it's something
Speaker 1: they kind of target. We're's talking about sitting fantasy lineups. Florio,
Speaker 1: what did you take away from the week, Just.
Speaker 3: Real quick on the Kwalans, Brandon Ayuk bounce back and
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase Week three. My biggest takeaway is that Malik
Speaker 3: Neighbors is real and he is spectacular. I know it
Speaker 3: came in the best possible matchup for wide receivers, but
Speaker 3: what he did yesterday cannot be ignored. Sixty nine percent
Speaker 3: target rate, which means on almost seventy percent of the
Speaker 3: routes he ran, he was targeted highest target rate in
Speaker 3: any game in the next Gen Stats era. He had
Speaker 3: sixty four percent of the Giants total targets, sixty three
Speaker 3: percent of their completions, seventy one percent of their passing yards,
Speaker 3: half of their touchdowns, and he had one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety seven air yards, which led the NFL in Week two,
Speaker 3: and watching that game because I had a lot of
Speaker 3: interest in Neighbors. In Jaden Daniels, every big play third
Speaker 3: and something, fourth and something, it was a design play
Speaker 3: for Elik Neighbors. So I know Daniel Jones is not great.
Speaker 3: I know next week they get the Cleveland Browns and
Speaker 3: it's possible that Daniel Jones can look like he did
Speaker 3: when they lost forty to enough into the Cowboys last year.
Speaker 3: I don't see any way you could get away from
Speaker 3: Elik Neighbors given how talented he is, and how much
Speaker 3: volume he seems to get in this Giants offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just so much volume. I don't really care if
Speaker 2: the quarterback is good or not.
Speaker 1: If they're going to keep feeding him targets like that,
Speaker 1: he's going to end up being successful for fantasy sure,
Speaker 1: and certainly over the course of the year. For me,
Speaker 1: the thing I've learned that the Saints offense is this
Speaker 1: hashtag good. It was one thing in Week one and
Speaker 1: they put up forty seven points on the Carolina Panthers, Like,
Speaker 1: all right, that team is bad.
Speaker 2: That's not really a surprise.
Speaker 1: But the comeback of next week and drop forty four
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys means that Quick Kubiak has something
Speaker 1: working there. In New Orleans, Derek Carr has been fantastic
Speaker 1: through two games, five touchdown passes, just one interception. Maybe
Speaker 1: not high yardage totals, although I guess in a league
Speaker 1: where people aren't really throwing the ball all that effectively,
Speaker 1: the fact that Carr has two games with two hundred
Speaker 1: and more passing yards is notable. Then you have Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: who looks like the Alvin Kamara of old instead of
Speaker 1: just old Alvin Kamara. They're getting the ball out, they're
Speaker 1: spreading it around, and we've done this so far without
Speaker 1: really having a really huge output out of a guy
Speaker 1: like Chris Olave. Rashid Shaheed has been the big stud
Speaker 1: the four for eighty one. Yeah, it was nice for
Speaker 1: Chris o'lave, but I think we're still waiting for something
Speaker 1: in a kin to a big blow up game. But
Speaker 1: at the rate things are going in New Orleans, that
Speaker 1: big game for Olave is coming. Really all right, let's
Speaker 1: me holding the l for doubting the Saints on the
Speaker 1: Saints offense. We're all holding this one right now. Hopefully
Speaker 1: things will help us get better though, I mean going
Speaker 1: to the waiver why we will do that and give
Speaker 1: you our disappointments. Coming up after the break on the
Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show, let's take a look at.
Speaker 2: This week's waiver wire options. Floria. Where are we checking
Speaker 2: four in Week three?
Speaker 3: Derek Carr is a must ad right now, Sam Darnold
Speaker 3: the Gino Smith also quarterbacks with good matchups next week
Speaker 3: if you need a streamer. Zach Charbonay is the top
Speaker 3: running back ad, followed by the Chiefs guys samaj p
Speaker 3: Ryan and Carson Steele, Braylan Allen had a huge Week two,
Speaker 3: cam Akers because we saw Joe Mixon get a little
Speaker 3: banged up on Sunday Night football. Antonio Gibson was looking
Speaker 3: pretty good in Week two. Deonta Foreman had more run
Speaker 3: than we expected and has a good match against the
Speaker 3: Giants next week. And then some deep league players Marshawn
Speaker 3: Lloyd and Trey Benson just top handcuffs check to make
Speaker 3: sure if they are out there on your waiver wire.
Speaker 3: And then some wide receivers. Rashid Shaheed seems to catch
Speaker 3: a fifty yarder every single week, so he's in play.
Speaker 3: Alec Pearson Quintin Johnson built off of their big Week
Speaker 3: one yesterday. Greg Dors because he gets the Lions in
Speaker 3: Week three and the Lions cannot cover the slot. Jalen
Speaker 3: Naylor just because he might be the wide receiver one
Speaker 3: in Minnesota depending on health. Andre Eo sivas I probably
Speaker 3: might have said that a little wrong. But the Bengals
Speaker 3: wide receiver Jalen Tobert as well, who had big volume,
Speaker 3: and then a couple of tight ends Hunter Henry had
Speaker 3: elite volume in Week one. Mike Aseeki looked like a
Speaker 3: legit part of the Bengals offense, and then Lakwan's boy
Speaker 3: John new Smith, who finished as a top ten tight
Speaker 3: end in Week two.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, let's go back to the quarterbacks, though,
Speaker 1: Lakwan Sam Darnold heading into Monday Night Football is a
Speaker 1: top ten fantasy quarterback through two games.
Speaker 2: Is this just kind of a flash in the pan
Speaker 2: or is there some staying power here?
Speaker 4: No, there's some staying power. Man. That old line is
Speaker 4: perting him and he's going back in that pocket and
Speaker 4: he's just dishing it out and making huge plays with
Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson down the field, and hopefully he's going to
Speaker 4: be healthy enough to come back from that quad injury
Speaker 4: that he suffered in the game. But like, look at
Speaker 4: this pass, Like this is like Sam Donald just shining
Speaker 4: at his best right now. Like this feels a little
Speaker 4: bit different from the Carolina Panthers start in the early season.
Speaker 4: Like this feels like this is a Sam Donald's team. Man.
Speaker 4: Like we see the Vikings going out there and putting
Speaker 4: up these plays like this, and it's like really refreshing
Speaker 4: to see that they don't skip a beat. You know,
Speaker 4: where Kirk Cousins down in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I thought last year when Donald signed
Speaker 1: with the forty nine as everybody laughed and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: somebody could fix him. It might be Kyle Shanahan. The
Speaker 1: other guy who could possibly fix him is Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1: And two weeks in, it looks pretty good for Sam
Speaker 1: Donald Florida real quick, because Braylan Allen was on your list.
Speaker 2: He scored two touchdowns yesterday for the Jets.
Speaker 1: If you have Breis Hall, I mean you're not totally panick,
Speaker 1: but should you at least be a little concerned. I'm not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a little bit. He had seven carries, which
Speaker 3: was half as much as Breze Hall, had four targets,
Speaker 3: half as much bres Hall had, and he became the
Speaker 3: youngest player in NFL history to score multiple touchdowns. Look,
Speaker 3: I thought before this, like he's someone you want on
Speaker 3: your roster because if something happens to Breece Hall, we
Speaker 3: know he's next in line.
Speaker 2: A top handcuff.
Speaker 3: But now seeing that he's getting work like this, he
Speaker 3: might even have standalone value. If you have Breis Hall,
Speaker 3: I think I'd be willing to up my bit a
Speaker 3: little bit on him. But even if you don't. He
Speaker 3: is the kind of running back you want on your
Speaker 3: bench because he's one injury away from being top twenty
Speaker 3: with even more upside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, teams as though handcuffing running backs is coming back
Speaker 1: into fashion again across fantasy and it looks like Braylen
Speaker 1: Allen's gonna be the guy you.
Speaker 2: Want if you went out and drafted Breeze Hall.
Speaker 1: Let's get to some of the guys that disappointed us
Speaker 1: this week across fantasy football, and we all got pass
Speaker 1: catchers here on the list, because the big story in
Speaker 1: the first two weeks is that passing numbers are down
Speaker 1: across the board. And Lakwan, you have concerns about a
Speaker 1: guy in Indianapolis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael Pittman. Man, it's not been good man like
Speaker 4: you would think a player of his size, his dynamic
Speaker 4: and where he's aggressive at the catch, like Anthony Richardson's
Speaker 4: not targeting him downfield. Only one target of twenty plus
Speaker 4: yards last game. And I feel as though, like Alec
Speaker 4: Pierce is getting a little bit too much love. But
Speaker 4: guys that drafted Michael Pittman in those first three round
Speaker 4: of drafts, we're kind of wondering, where's this elite wide
Speaker 4: receiver one that we know he possesses, and it's like
Speaker 4: unfortunate at this point where we just kind of have
Speaker 4: to sit and wait to see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just the passing game has not come through yet,
Speaker 1: and you're right, it has not been a lot of
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. We just thought volume would went out and
Speaker 1: he hasn't had the volume so far. Speaking of pass
Speaker 1: catchers who aren't getting volume, we were worried about Aman
Speaker 1: Ross Saint Brown Florio, but maybe we were worried about
Speaker 1: the wrong Lions pass catcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know I touched on tight ends earlier.
Speaker 3: But yesterday was a game where the Lions through fifty
Speaker 3: six passes. Jared Goff through fifty five of them, three
Speaker 3: with Sam Laporte's way, twenty of them went to the
Speaker 3: top two wide receivers. Then you have both running backs
Speaker 3: getting more targets than Sam Laporta as well. If you
Speaker 3: drafted Sam Laporta, you have to relax. There's no look
Speaker 3: at the tight end position. You're not finding anything better
Speaker 3: on waivers. You need to continue to start him. I
Speaker 3: still think he'll have some blow up weeks. He's still
Speaker 3: going to be utilized in the red zone. But the
Speaker 3: floor is very very concerning now because it is certainly
Speaker 3: much low. We thought maybe he could take a step forward,
Speaker 3: and so far two weeks in he has taken like
Speaker 3: three steps back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Jamison Williams really does look like he's
Speaker 1: not going away in the context of the Lions offense.
Speaker 2: And you know, I saw a tweet.
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from the very wise, very intelligent
Speaker 1: Dwayne MacFarland that maybe now Sam Laporta is more like
Speaker 1: George Kittle. There's a lot of similarities between the Niners
Speaker 1: and the forty are the Alliance and the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers offense, and so laporter will still have some of
Speaker 1: those high ceiling blow up games, but the week to
Speaker 1: week volatility might get a little more well volatile with
Speaker 1: a guy like Laporta, especially because Jamison Williams is becoming
Speaker 1: a really big part of the the Detroit passing game.
Speaker 1: For me, it's Terry McLaurin, and for similar reasons to
Speaker 1: what Lakwan talked about with Michael Pittman in Indianapolis, McLaurin
Speaker 1: looks like the number one wide receiver. He has all
Speaker 1: the skills of a number one wide receiver. But right
Speaker 1: now he has a quarterback that's not really getting the
Speaker 1: ball out to him, and it's certainly not getting the
Speaker 1: ball down field. It was a better showing in week
Speaker 1: two than it was in week one. That's not saying
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I mean, this is a Washington team
Speaker 1: that had to win on the strength of seven field
Speaker 1: goals over the weekend against the New York Giants, and
Speaker 1: so now it's like Terry McLaurin isn't getting a whole
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's talk about it, guys, because we mentioned
Speaker 2: the waiver wire here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not moving on from Pittman, you're not
Speaker 1: moving on from the Porter, you're not moving on from McLaurin.
Speaker 1: But what do you do because you probably spent a
Speaker 1: relatively high pick Lakwan on these guys and.
Speaker 2: They're not really giving you anything. I mean, how long
Speaker 2: can you afford to wait? Man?
Speaker 4: I mean, at least with Michael Pittman, I'm giving in
Speaker 4: a week or two because I really feel as though,
Speaker 4: you know they're gonna get it together. It might be
Speaker 4: a blow up game win more. Harrison Junior May we're
Speaker 4: panicking a little too soon. But he's still a great
Speaker 4: wide receiver for that Colts offense where I think he
Speaker 4: can bring a lot more out of Anthony Richardson if
Speaker 4: he's going to be utilized more, you know, downfield.
Speaker 1: We will see how this thing turns out when it's
Speaker 1: all said and done. Let's talk about one of our
Speaker 1: favorite moments from the past week.
Speaker 2: We've talked about JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and his blow up to start the season, and
Speaker 1: he tweeted this over the weekend. He says that check
Speaker 1: the jersey out. It's a young JK. Dobbins rocking a
Speaker 1: Ladanian Tomlinson jersey. That's it's a great jersey. I will
Speaker 1: say this Florio through two weeks, he's run a little
Speaker 1: bit like LT in that Charger offense.
Speaker 3: He might not have the high end speed of LT,
Speaker 3: but he's getting the same results. He's looking the part,
Speaker 3: he's playing as their RB one. He is there RB
Speaker 3: one and more than that, he is someone that I
Speaker 3: think you can trust with confidence moving forward and just
Speaker 3: just hope he stays healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean you mentioned you mentioned that, you know,
Speaker 1: taking the l on JK. Dobbins, does this means we're
Speaker 1: done with Gus Edwards. Does he go back to waivers
Speaker 1: or we just hanging on to him.
Speaker 4: A look, man, I've dropped Gus Edwards. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: lie to you because I think this is K's back.
Speaker 4: But that that picture, man, how old is he?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Is he got shoulder pads on? Or is he just
Speaker 4: that Jack as a.
Speaker 2: Kid likes.
Speaker 1: Shoulder pads on like he's what maybe six seven years old?
Speaker 1: You know, like, oh man, But good stuff there from JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins. It's been a great start to the season.
Speaker 1: And whether or not you drafted him or you faded him,
Speaker 1: if you were just a fan of football, uh, it's
Speaker 1: great to see him come back after a couple of
Speaker 1: really tough years in terms of injuries, going to come
Speaker 1: back and play well the first two weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: So hopefully everything stays good for him. He can sees
Speaker 1: to be productive and more importantly, just stays on the
Speaker 1: field because it's been fun watching.
Speaker 2: He broke the curse. Let's go so far, so let's
Speaker 2: find out. We will see. But thank you for hanging
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