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We welcome into them Felt Fantasy Live podcast James go here with you back on this beautiful Thursday, joined alongside by the magical Beer to Fantasy.

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We have what was Virginia's finest, the wide Receiver, Park Dostigator himself.

We have Matt Harmon, what's going on?

Oh man, I'm I'm excited about today's podcast.

Our good friend who is unfortunately not on the show with us right now, Marcus Grant too famous, He's too famous to be on this piss ant little podcast with us.

But he said yesterday He's like, man, I really forgot just how aggressive the week one?

Like overreaction is this is an important podcast, Like we gotta do good for our people here because we gotta, you know, set him right or at least try to beautiful to talk about overreactions?

Man, oh god, Twitter is ridiculous.

Over reactions are the best I know.

You specialize in overreaction, but as a measured level head and overreaction column this week.

I love it, Kenny.

It's going to get a thousand yards and ten touchdowns.

I'll just cop to this.

I haven't read it yet.

Shocking.

It was published on your day off in your Yeah, exactly, and yesterday was really busy.

So he can't get eight more touchdowns in fifteen games.

I know.

I think that's fair.

It can happen.

Shocking the whiskid from Alex gilhar Wow, too early the beginning.

I don't have coffee.

I'm running late.

I've been sitting in an hour traffic.

It's too early for this crap.

Still early for this crap.

We got the wiz kids from guss Up, I get do you are?

You want an outpouring of sympathy from us in the podcast that's gonna be.

We got fantasy to talk about.

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We do, we do.

Indeed, we also have you together, bro, get your mind right, get your body right?

All right?

We got producer Chris in the building as well.

What's going on?

Good morning fellows?

How you do I'm doing good?

Man?

How you doing good?

I think we should just stick with Chargers corner.

By the way, I know you threw out several of the names on the pers corner.

Is is that sounds kind of James?

Is he c with PC?

Yes?

I like a wire for Harry.

My goodness, I love it.

Come on, what does happen mean?

I know, I know, I don't know.

We're about to get hay wire with Hayry.

It's also good, I mean charged up, charged up?

You know what I mean?

Charged up with Chris is better.

I like that sneaky, sneaky like vanity move by by producer Chris there, who's a very nice fellow.

But you know it's like, oh, I like the one with with my name in it.

Yeah, that's very good.

I mean, shoot, I would have done it.

I don't understand why this podcast is an NFL harm in lite of yet, but we're working on that's ridiculous.

What wow wow, just saying so it's smart move by Chris.

That's great.

Show in front of us here today we will uh, we're gonna have producer Chris talk to us about the chargers we're working on.

The title I don't know, charged up with Chris.

That's that's okay, that's okay.

Hey, whyre with Hey, we're gonna throw out some names here.

Maybe we'll throw it out to Facebook Live and our Twitter followers and see uh an appropriate name for this segment.

But we'll also talk about deep sleepers slash early week three pickups.

What does this mean?

Usually means probably a pretty good idea.

If you can kind of look ahead to week three.

If you see a matchup you like, go ahead and pick up that guy right now.

But we'll talk about some of our favorite picks.

Uh.

There, I haven't even looked ahead to Friday, much less week I know.

I'm like, let's say a week too.

Well, as a real professional, I just got as a real professional, I just got a pretty good idea.

Okay, great, I have two names.

I'll let you guys steal one.

I've got a name.

Okay, I'll pull something out of lovely hat, out of a hat.

This is this is great Facebook Live.

I can't I can't say what other expression I normally would have said, out of a hat, a packer's hat, as an oversized packer's hat.

At that, we will do E D G every damn game, covering every single game in week two minus the Thursday games.

But we start your show, as always with your top headlines, the camera highlights in the world of sports, breaking, breaking news, breaking, continue to follow, breaking news, your wife.

All right, we'll start in Arizona.

Sadly God, David Johnson resurgery place that I are anticipated to miss anywhere between eight to twelve weeks.

Kerwin Williams was named the starter.

Andre Ellington is the backup and is expected to get passing down work.

Newly re signed running back signed and cut and signed and cut and signed again.

It's Chris Johnson.

He's gonna get some work as well.

Also Rando running back two pound.

Elijah Penny is there and he's just oh man, he is just begging for that helps no one score, just begging for one.

It's gonna be Kerwin Williams getting all the way down the five and here comes Elijah Penny pounding it in for six.

Sounds like a mess that I want nothing to do with.

Alright, franchise break it down for me, man.

I mean, he just did Bruce Arians.

I don't know.

He seems to have a a little bit of a warm spot in his heart for Kerwin Williams was talking him up a little bit.

I don't know if it's just coach speak, But is there something to draw from that?

I don't know, man.

I just think without David Johnson there in that offense in general is not going to be as productive he was.

What was he like fifty more than of that offense by himself last year between him and Larry Fitzgerald.

And I just don't think any one of these guys, or all of them combine, can equal what David Johnson did last year.

Had a hundred, twenty targets, eighty catches, twenty touchdowns from scrimmage.

And if this is all going to be split up by four guys, good luck guessing who does what in which game.

Uh.

If there's two like, the two guys I would target are Kerwin Williams and Chris Johnson, just because he has so much experience and we he was kind of the only guy in the way there I had of David Johnson and his rookie year, and he was productive until he got hurt.

I just I don't know Kerwin Williams.

I think his max out at two receptions uh in his career in as any given season.

So he's definitely not a pass catcher by any means.

That's what Andre Ellington is there for.

We know he has durability issues throughout his career because of his size.

It's just um mass man.

Uh, anybody feel I don't know good about Andre Ellington or Kerr went Okay, Now, I think if you're in a PPR league, Ellington is worth the pickup.

I mean, they've experimented with moving him to wide receiver this offseason and for like, oh yeah, I mean but the but the point in that is, like, obviously it was not going to be a wide receiver, but I think that he's probably the past catching option in this in this backfield, So I think if you're in a deep PPR league, he's worth worth a flyer.

They were trying to transition him to wide receiver as well.

I think that experiment either failed or typical that well, and he and Williams are both certainly worth adding.

But like, it's not a case where I'm gonna feel good about it, because that is going to be an I guess franchise, an absolute massive split touches.

Williams is the best bet a flex play like perhaps, but I'm never gonna You're never gonna feel good about it.

I'd rather look elsewhere.

That's why my waiver wire thing.

And I think we talked to us on Monday, like Buck Allen and Terry Colin were both better pickups and Williams oh for sure, for sure, no doubt about all Right.

Tommy Rawls backpackticing for Seattle.

He could be in line to start possibly Sunday versus San Francisco again.

Eddie Lacy played all of seven snaps in week one despite getting talked up by by the coach there in Seattle.

It just, I mean, I don't know what do we make of Tommy Rawls again back practicing.

Sounds like he's good to go here for a week two?

Do you guys trust him against again a poor San Francisco defense?

I have trust issues with this backfield until we see Thomas Rawls come in, stay healthy and take it over.

Their offensive line woes are an issue.

San Francisco has a pretty good front seven too.

You've got a lot of long, horrible and they got a couple of long, really strong, athletic guys on that defensive line.

So it's good news that Rawls is practicing.

But I'm gonna wait and see before I put him into my lineup.

I think that's fair.

Uh.

I think there's two ways that this could go now with this backfield, I think Eddie Lacy is out of the picture.

I don't think c.

J.

Prosis is in the mix to be the feature back.

I think one of two ways this goes down is that Rawls comes in and takes this job right away with force and becomes their starting, like fifteen carries a week guy, which would be great.

I mean, we want to know and we want to own, uh, the Seattle starting running back.

That's an important position in fantasy football.

But I think the other way that this could go is that Chris Carson becomes an a big factor and he becomes potentially the guy.

I mean, it's not outrageous considering that we're talking about Thomas Rawls is the guy and this is exactly what happened with him.

Non heralded guy comes in, shows well, plays well.

That's the Seattle mantra.

Whoever is the best guy plays uh?

And Chris Carson I thought it was only six carries, but I thought he looked good and I thought, yeah, I mean, and we get our next gen stats research from from the week and only two running backs again given him six carries, but only two running backs who saw five or more carries averaged over five yards after defender closed within one yard of them.

Kareem Hunt was one and Chris Carson was the other.

Him on that one play where Chris Carson had a hole though, yeah he had, but which that stat from next stans, But that's the same thing as like he ran past one defender that was getting blocked and then he picked up totally samples.

Of course, that's why I said small sample size.

But I think it's just notable that we're talking about a backfield that lacks options in terms of people that like, can you make people miss?

And I think Carson showed it at least in that one run.

And this just is building off what we saw in the preseason when the top this is the part of the podcast where Franchise and I high five ourselves Chris Carson, Chris Carson Brawn from week one of the preseason.

Remember you truck that dude to the goal line.

Yeah, buddy, that's when it all started.

I like it.

Uh.

And again kind of going back to the reasoning behind uh Chris Carson for this particular offense is because their offensive line is so bad.

They need a guy like Chris Carson to be able to generate yards for himself.

They thought maybe possibly that would be Eddie Lacy.

That's just not the case.

Um.

And I think Chris Carson, now I don't know, to me anyways, has shown a little bit more power an authority running down hill and to be able to generate even an extra yard in this offense with this offensive line, I think it is important for them to stay on track.

All right, we'll stay with backup running back news here.

DeVante Booker has been ruled out for a week two but is practicing.

It's a pretty quick recovery really from his risk injury.

Just something to note if you're waiting for that.

Jamal Charles shares to mature that you're kind of holding onto.

I had Jamal Charles.

I dropped Jamal Charles um because of this news.

And I just think it's just even if something were to happen to C J.

Anderson, I don't know, I just don't feel that great about it, you know what I mean.

I think it still would be a committee there, uh, And I don't think it's that much of a committee.

C J.

Anderson was pretty much the clear leader.

Yes.

Absolutely, I'm just saying if something were happening, if it happens, I follow you.

Yeah, Jacoby Brissette Scott Tolzine split first team reps in practice.

The question, the lead up question, was any additional optimism in the Colts offense.

If it's Brissette, it's gonna be an know for me, dog, I got you.

Yeah, it's got to be better than That's what I'm saying.

We've told ourselves this with numerous bad backing situations over years, and it hasn't gotten better.

It's gotten worse than almost every one of them.

I know.

But at least percent at least went out there and you know, let loose a fifty yard throw to Dante Moncrief.

I mean, at least I think he's gonna threaten defenses a little bit more.

I'm talking like point zero five percent.

But that's not that's not something we should really infest in for fantasy and starts.

I think he's like but I mean, he's a better athlete, he's more mobile.

I mean, he could give a little bit of life to this offense.

I think.

I mean, Okay, I'm not I'm just I'm not gonna sho dog.

I'm not going to start any colds until Andrew Luck comes in the floor is just disastrous and like you're you're just gonna be upset with them in your lineup.

There, there's there's no there's little to no upset.

What did t Y Hilton do anything?

He had like four for fifty.

Maybe that's wasn't good.

That's not great, That is not great.

Danny Amadola did not practice Wednesday with a concussion, questionable for Sunday.

Obviously they're they're without Julian Edelman as well.

If he's not available, does it make it feel better about playing somebody like Chris Hogan or James Wide or Rex Burkhead or anybody in a Patriots uniform.

I see you nod in your head, Alex.

What's up?

Well?

I know I have been writing about this in my Matchups column which will come out later today, and Harmon pegged Chris Hogan and his next Gen Stats column which just which just came out.

But I think he's in a great spot in this game again, Yeah, especially if amn Dola is out, because Hogan played a bunch in the slot uh in Week one, and that's where the Saints just got ripped apart by Adam Felan.

They just got like absolutely destroyed in the slot.

Give me fair yards to slot receiver, it would to be fair.

They got ripped apart by everybody, but everybody, but but in particular Adam Feeland was working out of that slot, getting deep, which we know Hogan can do.

I think Hogan's gonna be in a great spot.

He saw like a couple of targets, but I could I could really see his volume increasing as the Patriots have had ten days to prepare now and adjust with the losses of Edelman and Amundola.

Sorry ahead, I'm just gonna say, it'll be interesting to see.

After that Kansas City game, Tom Brady kind of said someone into this wide receiver corps needs to step up in Julian Edelman's absence.

It'll be interesting to see if Hogan is that guy.

And if he is, I mean, that could be good for his outlook going forward to Yeah, I mean I expect this Week one, I mean Week two games to be a shootout between the Saints and Patriots.

But I do think like the Patriots are in a weird spot in their wide receiver corps right now.

Because they have like three ascent like their top three guys are essentially all vertical threats.

And Cook's Hogan, who I think can do a little bit more, and he is going to be the primary slot receiver it looks like, and uh Philip Dorsett, who they like just acquired.

I mean, these guys are all downfield threats.

Brady is really not a great downfield passer at this point of his career, like Edelman was just such a great fit, and and Amndla two to a little bit of a lighter degree, but just being able to run those eight yards slants and just pick up chunk yards like that.

They didn't really have that player anymore unless I mean, I guess it obviously can be Rob Gronkowski, but I almost wonder if they'll throw one of the running backs out there a little.

I think I was gonna start Head or Dion Lewis could probably operate when we talk about this game, which I think, well, we definitely need to talk about obviously the backfield, and I think that there's a clear winner there, but we'll save it for that game.

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All right, this is the portion again.

I'll throw it out to Facebook.

We're trying to come up with a Chargers themed uh segment for the podcast.

Here for our producer, producer, wait till we get to E d G and toss to him for this game.

We'll do it here.

Okay, do alive, baby, do alive?

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So it's producer Chris.

It's Chris Hayry So I can't so.

Originally this debuted one on Monday right the Chargers Corner, the Chargers corner, Chargers Corner through assuming for Chargers Corner from Moday night football Chargers Corner with Chris.

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What the working brainstorming sessions.

That's what we need to do on the podcast.

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I don't want to interrupt here, but apparently Facebook says there's no audio.

Just so you know that what somebody said.

It came back later.

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All right, So anyways, we need your help.

Actually, I don't know.

It sounds like it's coming in.

We need a name for this, but um, okay, so charges Corner.

I don't know, I'm not it's too that was the that was the first name, first title on the script.

Right, it's better than untitled Chris hair segments.

All right, we called Corner.

So I got hay wired with Hayry because it's Chris.

Hary is the last name there.

I also came up with PC with PC Yeah, yeah, that's right, predicting chargers with producer Chris.

Hey.

I like it, that's kind of I like, that's kind of fun.

Imagine if I worked for a fantasy irrelevant team, how this would be really really tough sledding.

You know, I already feel like we're giving a little too much love to the Chargers, Like, what is this gonna become like our team?

I don't I don't know about that.

All right, anyways, send us your suggestions.

Yes, well, we'll take suggestions now, all right, Chargers play hosts of the Dolphins producer Chris What should we expect to see from Philip Rivers, Keenan Allen, Melvin Gordon and the boys there in l A.

Well, I think starting with Keenan Allen, that was the most encouraging thing.

I saw ten targets.

He drew a forty yard passenger fairs penalty to Bradley Roby.

Um so he had five for thirty five and a touchdown.

I think Travis Benjman, He's not gonna be Fantasy relevant, but he's gonna stretch the field for these guys, and I think a matchup.

That's the role that he was supposed to play last year, but he was dinged up a little bit.

He was dinged up and his speed has been on display all training camp.

In preseason he had he had two big touchdowns in preseason and thirty yard touchdown from Philip on on Week one.

I think Tyrolle Williams is a is a great play this week.

He was targeted at seven times.

The Dolphins don't have that second cornerback position figured out yet.

It's either gonna be Maxwell or Altron Verner.

And you saw Keenan or Philip Rivers rather go to Tyrolle Williams seven times in that Broncos game.

Um Hunter Henry was the real mystery to me, though I don't know what happened.

Henry disappeared twenty three snaps, not a single target, not one zero.

They were trying to get the running game going early and Melvin Gordon twenty one yards his first carry.

After that, sevent teen carries for thirty three yards.

I also feel like I also feel like watching that game, I felt like they were going to max protect.

The Chargers were because I think they were worried about the pass rush and basically just trying to keep Philip Rivers upright.

Man.

He took a lot of hits last year, and I think if they want to make Hay in the f C West and in the f C in general, they got to keep him upright.

Um.

I felt like they were trying to go max protect a little bit um and really just exclusively go if they were gonna go, you know, throw out to whoever it's gonna be, it's gonna be their wide receivers and not they're tight ends.

I mean, Antonio Gates got a little bit of action late, but that was late.

I mean we didn't even see his first target until the second half as well.

And Rivers said after the game, he goes, I would have not predicted Hunter Henry getting zero catches, and I would not have predicted Austin Ekeler getting two catches.

So I'm thinking Hunter Henry is going to bounce back week two against the Dolphins.

Okay, I would start the receivers.

You know, obviously you're starting Keenan Allen.

I think Tyroll Williams is a nice play this week wide receiver three.

And then Melvin Gordon, see if he can get something going.

Yeah, he got all the volume though, and that's that was a tough de fence and they it looked like they looked like they sold out to stop him too, because they trust their corners to cover up.

So I think Melvin Gordon's in a great spot this week too.

Isn't it crazy too, though?

Because Melvin Gordon seems to do well against Denver for whatever reason, because even last year in uh, I think it was a Sunday night spot or was at a Thursday night spot.

It was a Thursday night spot.

But everyone was predicting him to do nothing, and he did well.

I think he had pretty good something like I thought he looked all right.

All right, let's talk about early week three pickups slash deep sleepers.

And again it's either one if you don't you know again if if you guys don't have a Week three person, that's fine, just give me a deep sleeper pick you like I found a hat and I pulled out a guy for week three.

Yeah, buddy, ready, all right, all right, let's go to WIZ then uh John Ross John practicing back with the Bengals.

He will probably make his debut tonight at Thursday Night Football.

But week three they go to Lamba to face the Packers, probably get down a little bit, and we know that Packers secondary has some issues at times, especially deep covering deep.

So if you need a deep sleeper, grab John Ross now before Thursday night and then if the Bengals start chucking it all over the yard or that game turns into a shootout, potentially there you go.

You got you got a piece of what could be a passing offense ready to bounce back after disappointing Week one.

Cincinnati places tonight on Thursday.

Here, But can I just throw it out to the room.

What the hell happened to Andy Dalton?

He had some bad luck.

Like everything that could have gone wrong in that game went wrong.

He had to I think it two interceptions off the tip passes.

His protection failed.

Uh, he threw in a bad interception in the red zone.

It was just his backfield given nothing.

It was just a total apocalypse.

Like it wasn't a great spot for him to begin with because the Ravens is such a good defense and on top of that, everything that went wrong did go wrongs.

Yeah, and Andy is pretty used to whipping it against I mean the Joe Goodberry common opponents stat is is that's true.

You know, the teams that he faces frequently, like his Inner Division rivals, they know how to get his tendencies and such.

Exactly.

That's interesting that's played out over the last few years.

And also the Ravens defense is really freaking good.

I mean this, like we talked about this, what is like what was the difference between the sloppy offensive games and the good defensive games in Week one, and I think this was not sloppy offense as much as just really good.

It was really good defense and bad luck though in terms of the two tips interceptions, like that's that's not gonna happen every week.

Alright, fair enough, fair enough, Alright, harmon, give me either a deep sleeper or an early week three pick up.

Yeah.

So, because of the respect I have for the Ravens defense, I don't necessarily want to play this player this week.

But this is somebody that I am absolutely targeting going forward, and that's Corey Coleman on the Browns.

Uh.

And in Week three he plays the Colts so and then after that they get the Bengals Jets.

So I think this is a player that you want to get in on now.

Uh.

He's clearly Deshaun Kajars guy.

I mean that was evident in the preseason, and then he put six targets in Week one.

He had that great catch around the end zone, and like I said, I think he's probably gonna disappoint this week against I mean they're going into Baltimore.

I think Deshaun Kaiser is gonna probably turn the ball over maybe once or twice.

I mean, this should be a rough game for the Browns, and therefore I think you should be like, if somebody drops him, that's great.

But I think he's definitely a player that I would throw out offers for now.

That's what I'm saying.

Even maybe next week if he disappoints again, maybe throw out some trade offers.

Interesting because I really, I mean, Corey Coleman's was a great college prospect, had kind of just a rocky rookie year with injuries and everything.

But um, he's he looks like he's the guy and not Kenny Britt in in Cleveland.

Kenny Britt might not even start.

Yeah, I mean Hugh Jackson, like right under the bus, did drop it go because he like dropped the pass or whatever.

But um, yeah, So I don't really know who their other options would be if Kenny Britt doesn't, I have no Ricardo Lewis.

It's Ricardo and Williams.

They picked up from the Seahawks.

That's right.

He had a great preseason.

He was probably one of the preseason stars there.

But they let giver Shan Higgins something.

Okay, here we go Browns franch give me a deep sleeper slash Week three pick up again a guy?

Okay, alright, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Russell shepherd by last week, this is deep sleep.

Last week he was had two catches on his two targets.

One was a forty yard touchdown bomb, his other one with a thirteen yard reception.

No player on the team had more than two receptions other than Christian McCaffrey.

That's not good.

He could be the filling that Ted Gin role we saw last year as their deep threat.

We were kind of like, who's gonna take this roll over?

He took his lineups from the slot.

Uh.

He led the team with with fifty three receiving yards against the forty nine.

And his upcoming schedule Week three, Saints, Week four, Patriots, Week five, Detroit Lions.

So there's some decent secondaries there that he might be able to do some damage against.

If he is indeed that guy for the Panthers, I like it.

I'll give you a deep sleeper here.

How about George Kittle gonna be taking on Seattle And again, it's one of those situations where I don't know, for whatever reason, Seattle has not put an emphasis on stopping tight ends.

Right.

So George Kittle to me is somebody who who played something like the Snaps or something right, So like, he's out there a lot and then and he was a little bit banged up as we as we noted, as Matt Harmon took a jeff of of me responding to his forty time for George Kittle an unbelievable athlete.

Uh there in San Francisco, and for whatever reason, Seattle has struggled defending against tight end.

So for me, George Kittle for San Francisco is a deep sleeper that I like.

I also really like picking up Jared Golf spicy.

He's got Washington and then he's got San Francisco.

It's not bad.

I kind of like picking up Jared Goff.

Look, I'm I'm one of those Andy Dalton owners right where I'm I'm saying to myself, Look, I'm not playing him in a primetime game.

Um, you know, on a short week following a disastrous week one, I just I can't get myself to play Andy Dalton.

I'm a Look, I know I'm a Calbert, but I'm playing Jared Goff against Washington and I'm gonna roll Jared Goff out there against San Francisco as well, just to see what happens.

I don't know.

I think I think the schedule lines up all right.

Um, And I tell you what, if you're struggling at the quarterback position, you're in a deeper league, you need or hell, you need a second quarterback or whatever might be.

Uh, Jared Goff is at least worthy.

Look, all right, let's get to E d G.

Every dang game we're gonna start in the morning games.

Bears taking on the Bucks.

Wiz what you got?

Uh, Revenge's a lot of revenge.

Don't don't, don't, don't.

Don't do that to yourself.

Guys.

Oh, I thought you were serious.

I was getting all hyped up.

Oh please, No, Mike Glennon on the road against a very good Bucks defense, not a chance.

I think.

Really.

The only players from the Bears that you want to consider are the running backs.

I think they both could be at least flex options.

This is a game that the Bears could get beat around in.

Though this well, they're they're on the road against a great defense in a game where they're probably going to get beat handily.

I'd assume that the Bucks have had extra time to prepare.

They've got to reloaded offense um and that Bears defense doesn't fare as well on the road.

So Howard and Cohen, they're gonna see the volume.

They're gonna get work in the passing game.

He can flex him.

Deep play might be Zach Miller and PPR.

He had six targets, four catches, thirty nine yards and dropped a touchdown at the end of the game last week.

So if you're desperate for tight end I could, I'd give him a call.

On the flip side, I think it's a good spot for Jamis Winston.

He's got all these weapons now, and I heard Evan Silva say on the Fantasy Feast this morning that Winston actually has a pretty good history against Vic Fangio defenses.

So down with that to Quiz Rodgers would probably be the only play in the backfield.

Charles Sims is healthy too, so we don't know if this is gonna beat Jowiz Rogers getting thirty two touches or whatever he had last year when he was filling in, but he should be the guy that you want to play from this backfield.

Mike Evans is Sean Jackson or fine starts and then at tight end, I think Cameron breit's a sneaky played too.

Uh He's he's still the red zone option there.

And we just saw, you know, fast athletic tight end Austin Hooper smashed the bear secondary on his two targets.

So smash, That's that's what I'd go with in this one.

The Vikings taking on the Steelers.

We got Pittsburgh Homer, Matt Franciscovic.

What this is gonna be a good game, guys.

It seems like it's gonna be a nice little smash mouth game.

Man.

We got two good offenses, we got two good defenses.

Going a head to head here, you're obviously starting Antonio Brown, You're starting Stefon Diggs, you're starting left belly, You're starting Dalvin Cook.

I like Adam feeling here.

I don't know about Martevis Bryant.

Maybe he gets I think it's a timing issue between him and Big Ben.

They didn't really play much together in the preseason.

Martevis missed some training camp weird week one.

It was a delayed return for him.

Yeah, he only had I think two catches.

One one of his Targets was actually picked off.

I think the Steelers just overall need to work on their chemistry a little bit.

But we know the Steelers are a different team when they play at Hines Field.

There lot more productive, so they have that going for him.

Uh.

I think Adam Feeling is a nice sleeper, and I mean you're pretty much starting all these guys all right there.

You how do you think we will feel come Monday morning about the Vikings offense?

Obviously?

Well wait no, that was just a reflex.

Okay, sorry, I feel how do you feel?

Sad?

That's dark franchise?

But don't intrude on my corner here, but sorry, By the way, the Raven just placed Danny Woodhead on I R and promoted Jeremy Langford from the practice.

Oh I'm well, I mean everybody can be boomerang, but yeah, he's on I R.

So he miss promoted Jeremy Beautiful.

Anyways, Uh, back to this, what my point here was, like, I think that a lot of people are going to be tempted to say that Vikings played the Saints.

I mean we didn't get a chance to really react to that game, obviously because it was Monday night.

But you know, a lot of people are gonna come off that game be like there's a Saints defense blah blah blah, Sam Bradford whatever.

Um.

In my opinion, those throws were just good throws, Like, no matter who was covering him, he was thrown into tight windows.

He was making he was just tossing some dimes out there.

And you know, I think I tweeted this yesterday and some people again thought it was a hot take that I think by the end of the year we'll be talking about Stefon Diggs and Adam Feland is one of the best wide receiver duos uh in the NFL.

But I mean, are you guys with me, Like, do you think that this is an offensive work wide receiver?

Okay, I'm not with you there.

I'm not with you there because there are some terrific duos I know, but I but that's how confident I am in.

And I mean, obviously I love Stefon Diggs, but also Adam Feland playing this big slot role is a perfect fit for him.

Uh.

He compared really favorably in reception perception to Alshon Jeffrey, who is, like, you know, just an okay, separator.

But obviously makes vertical plays.

Um, And you put a player like that who's not necessarily the greatest against man coverage, but you put him into the slot where they don't have to to face a bunch of type man and man coverage.

I mean, he's just gonna rip people up in the middle of the field all year.

I think that both these guys are really great.

Um.

Obviously Dalvin Cook's great players back to the offensive line's dialed in.

I mean, I think this is like we're talking about overreaction or what am I overreacting?

Or like, are are we gonna?

Are we gonna be talking about?

The Vikings is a really great fantasy offense on I think the big difference is Dalvin Cook back there.

He they have a run game now.

They didn't have that last year.

Defenses didn't have to worry about that backfield, So I think that unlocks everything else in terms of the passing game.

I gotta be honest with you, I thought they looked very so so running the game, running the ball.

I don't struggle earlier, I don't think.

I don't think their run game is is quite as effective as what we saw on you know, Monday against those Aints.

UM and and I think if defensive defenses can adjust to taking away the outside, I think you're right.

I mean they'll try to funnel targets inside, maybe the feeling, and maybe try to keep everything in front of them.

I don't think defenses are not gonna let digs beat them over the top.

They're just not gonna let them do it because they don't have any other options.

You see what I'm saying.

So I think defenses will i with the underneath stuff.

I don't think the run game is still as as good as advertised.

I don't know.

I'm still I don't think it's true that they don't have any other options.

They've got a great tight end in Kyle Rudolph Adamo.

They gotta get looked.

I think they gotta get into the red zone for for Rudolph to be a factor, because out of the red zone he's I don't know, he's just not quite as effective.

Right.

So, um, I don't know.

I think the offense is okay.

I don't think it's great.

I think that they definitely showed out in Week one.

Moving forward, I would be very concerned about how the run game looks, But again, it could totally be a situation where everything clicks.

This year's it's an inflection point game for for them.

Like, right, we're coming off a great performance in Week one, Like if they go out and just look good against the Steelers on the road in Pittsburgh, that's right, then I think we know for sure, you know.

And it's the thing about week one.

We gotta choose, like you gotta take a stand, and I mean I'm taking a positive stand, but I could be wrong.

The one key to this game is going to be the protection because it held up pretty well for Minnesota in Week one.

Great past pro I thought, and they did well.

And Sam Bradford is pretty good getting the ball up quick.

Uh.

The Steelers sacked Kaiser I think seven times in Week one, but he was holding on the ball.

He average pronection stats two point eight three seconds to throw.

Bradford was just two point five seven, So he had time.

He's got outlet options, and he's got a better offensive line for right now.

So if that line holds up against a better pass rush with like I mean, the Saints have some talent in there front, something like Cam Jordan's a good player and stuff, but if this front seven, if they're often the line holds up against T.

J.

Watt and everybody in Pittsburgh, then we can really start believing in Minnesota.

I like it all right, very quickly, Pats against New Orleans.

What you got harmon?

Yeah?

This is every everybody in the pool sort of game for From a fantasy perspective, I think you want to get your guys, Hey, talk about an inflection point.

If this is a situation where the Patriots don't play well, everyone's talking about, Oh they're angry, Oh they got extra time and this that and this other thing.

Look, man, they've suffered a lot of losses on that offensive side of the ball.

They're adjusting on the fly.

I feel like this is a week against a terrible say it's defense where if they don't show out, okay, now we start raising some red flat Yeah.

And and and not to mention, like Franchise and I were talking about this on DDFPV yesterday, Like you can say the same thing about the Saints, Like they're coming in back into a spot where they should look pretty good.

I mean, they got embarrassed in Week one against the Vikings, and now they're coming back into their home field where they're where they're always good on offense.

It's a great point.

I mean, we could easily be looking at a O and two Patriots start.

I mean, I'm gonna pick the paths to win.

But at the same time, like this is this is definitely a situation where both of these teams are kind of in that inflection point and on the on the on the Patriots side, talking about the backfield earlier, I mean, I think you're rolling out Mike gillisly because he's got great touchdown odds, But like James White in this game, who was just as big a factor in Week one, being on the field, getting a lot of touches, and you know they're missing that short to intermediate slot receiver option.

And I think that James White is the most likely candidate to probably don't want to probably want to side against it.

Um.

I think if you're if you're desperate for running back, help your DJ owner and you need something, you need something.

I mean, he's he's got could be a bigger of deeper league flex play.

Yes, sure, yeah, so I think he's he's but he's not an option that I would prefer to play.

Like I said, Chris Hogan, great spot in this game, Brandon Cooke's revenge.

Even even regardless of that, he's in a he's in a great spot, historic lights up in domes this area exactly totally.

And on the New Orleans side, I mean, I think you're gonna avoid playing Adrian Peterson.

I think better day is fantasy wise, are gonna be coming for him when the Saints are building a lead against the team in the Superdome, when their defense will allow that.

But I don't really want to sure.

Uh So, I don't really want to mess around with that this week.

And in the passing game, I think Michael Thomas bounced back, bounce back from this spot.

The Patriots can't really rush rush the pastor so I think that you're looking at your passing game.

Uh And for the record, got some good nugs, I think from one of our research packets.

UH.

Drew Brees is the only quarterback with a hundred plus passer rating against Bill Belichick defenses with a minimum of a hundred attempts.

He has attend to one touchdown to interception ratio against the Patriots since two thousand.

Interesting, he also throws nearly three touchdowns per home game versus under two on the road.

And UH and in the super Dome.

He's averaging nearly thirty one Fantasy points at game since so yeah, Drew Brees, fire him up.

Wait, thirty one Fantasy points per game.

That's what I said.

I was on the road of his splits app.

And that's unless I looked at the wrong thing.

But he's he pushes thirty points a game.

Good god, you think about it, though, he'll he'll throw for three d four hundred yards and attack on three four touchdowns.

That's that'll get you right there.

Amazing.

All right, Philadelphia at k C, Whiz what you got?

Philadelphia at k C.

This game is a sneaky one that could we could see a lot of points in.

I think the Eagle side.

I have more questions about though, because the Chiefs allowed at home allowed just to f completion percentage five point eight yards per tempt and a seven to ten touchdown to interception split last year.

And now you're we're bringing Carson Wentz, who is a talented guy and can make plays downfield, but he's also prone to some really really bone headed gas.

We saw that awful fumble he had last week where he overthrew the guy in the backfield and the Redskins picked it up.

He also had a couple of passes that could have been pick six, and he had one that was pick six by Ryan Carrigan.

So I think either way, though, the Chiefs offense looks uh explosive there at home.

The Eagles just lost Ronald Darby, so I think it's a great spot for Tyreek kill Kareem Hunt, you're starting him.

I'm streaming Alex Smith this week and Travis Kelsey like he's in a bat.

The Eagles are very good at shutting down tight ends.

They limited Jordan Read last week.

Historically they've done that, but you can't sit a player like Travis Kelsey in the Eagles offense for the volume he gets alone too.

Um back on the Eagle side, I think this could be a good bounce back spot for Alshon Jeffrey Uh.

He played pent of his snaps at left wide receiver in Week one, which would set him up to avoid Marcus Peters for at least how the game because he plays on the right side of the field.

Uh.

And this could be a great spot for zach Ertz too, though the Chiefs lost Eric Berry, who they had shadowing Rob Gronkowski in Week one, but Arts was fantastic in Week one, and he could be breaking his MR December trend that has lived with him for the past three years.

Like that's legit, not a joke.

It's been fifty of his productions covered multiple years in December.

But he was eight for eight for like ninety yards um on catches last week, and he could be in a really good spot here.

Don't really love the backfield in this one.

I don't know if anybody else feels differently.

Um, if you have to start the Garrett blunt, you're just praying for a goal.

He How do you feel about Nelson Aglor in this spot?

I think he could be decent as a as a PPR play in our a flex play in PPR leagues.

Yeah, I mean he should theoretic he's playing a lot from the slot, which again should put it away from Marcus Peters.

He saw a lot of work man.

Yeah, it was crazy.

He looked and he looked good doing it.

So Titans at Jags, franchise what you got your obviously starting Leonard Fournette.

He had twenty nine touches in week one, hundred yards in a touchdown.

He saw eight plus defenders in the box on fifty seven point seven percent of his runs, highest in the NFL since last week per next Stats.

The other side, DeMarco Murray was actually fifth in that's at seeing eight plus defenders forty one point seven percent of his runs.

He only had twelve carres for forty four yards.

A little concerned about the Titans run game.

We saw the Jags kind of shut down Houston last week.

I mean, Houston's offensive line I think had more to do with it than Jags defense.

They had ten sacks.

I think the Jags defense is a nice sleeper in fantasy.

Now.

You know, we've been talking about this defense coming around the last two seasons.

Maybe we're finally starting to see this.

They add Clays Campbell, Booyer, Barry Church, Jalen Ramsey is there drafting, and they got all these playmakers on defense.

Yeah.

I like the Jags defense.

Uh, their stack defensively, I just are the one thing that for fantasy purposes that concerns me a little bit.

Man.

The Times protect the ball really well.

They do they do, and it's a strength on strength Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Um.

The the other big thing here Allan Robinson out for the season with the a C l injury that could open the door for a guy like Marquis Lee at a one yards last year with the Jags to maybe do some stuff.

But I think overall it hurts Blake Bortles.

You're probably not starting him anyway.

And then the Titans wide receivers Corey Davis led the team in targets last week after this narrative that he would only be used in quote unquote special situations.

Uh, he was on the field for the snaps, third most in that wide receiving corps.

I just think the Tennessee white outs are gonna be a little unpredictable on a week to week basis, So cards taken on the Colts, Uh what I know, Harmon, You mentioned this in your next stats piece of just Backward this morning, but you kind of like Eric Decker this week because of Boy and Jalen Rams on the outside.

And I stole this from your top ten quarterback nextion stats thing last year.

But they all ought of passer rating of just sixty eight and six seven when targeted last year.

I mean, they're two they're too shutdown corners on the exterior, they're uh inside, they have Aaron coleman or Aaron Colvin, who's like an okay slot corner, but that's clearly the weakest point of their defenses up the middle there.

Uh, And I think, like if we're just going off Week one usage, Decker was out there more than any other receiver.

He didn't really do much, but at the same time, he averaged just seven point nine air yards per target.

And the Jags to put all that wave of pressure on the Texas defense pressure rate in week one the next highest, so I mean they were killing it.

And if they're gonna beat up the Titans up front, which, like I said, the Titans are a great pass protection unit, but if they're getting pressure on Mariota, maybe he looks for Decker in that short area as this slot receiver there.

So I think that he is.

I mean, he disappointed a Week one um, and I think someone's losing their job to Corey Davis soon.

But Decker at this point, I think he's like a good Week one kind or two contrarian play, uh, because nobody's gonna be thinking about him.

But I think in bed for TV, same kind of goes for Delaney Walker because the Texans uh tight ends before they all got concussed sadly in Week one managed six catches for sixty yards against the Jake's defense, So same thing goes if if they're if he's getting pressured, Dylaney Walker is going to be a good safety bell for him.

Apparently via Rotor World, Jalen Ramsey and A.

J.

Bouyer are sitting for practice today, so just keep an eye on that.

Okay, interesting alright, cards at Coults Harmon what you got?

Yeah, so I mentioned I watched this game really closely.

The Cardinals in in Week one stical I worked in a color of me skeptical.

At some point in one of my said anything I read it, I clocked it.

We hadn't hit one of those skeptical about the NFL.

Harmon Live podcast.

Oh no, I'm not skeptical about that.

That's that's gonna be a hit.

That's happening, all Chris.

We'll talk about that after the show was setting that up.

But anyways, I think that this game is interesting because the Cardinals, I mean coming into it real rough with David Johnson obviously pretty much by the way, you guys are cool with dropping David Johnson.

Right, Yeah, I am not yet, You're not yet.

I think I am.

I mean because if he comes back after eight weeks, I mean, Bruce arians said we hope to get him back Thanksgiving or Chris mits, which, by the way, Bruce, that's a big chat.

Tamy be there between eight am and two pm, just around the hell of a gap, bro like.

But anyways, and I just say I'm not because it's it's interesting to me, right, Like we're talking about when when Zeke Elliott was going to be suspended for six games, was gonna miss seven games in fantasy because of the bye week.

We're taking this guy at the end of the second round because he's going to carry you home into the playoffs.

Um, you make it, yeah, if you make it.

But he's still a second People were saying a second rounder, not that he's a tenth rounder, that he's a second rounder.

Now, okay, I get it.

Uh, he could miss twelve week, you could miss the entire season.

Yes, he could miss the entire season, which obviously would absolutely annihilate one of your bench spots.

But if he comes back after eight weeks, and again, it's not a lower body injury, it's a wrist I asked, because I've got David Johnson in like two or three leagues I got.

I haven't decided.

I haven't dropped him yet.

I haven't decided how I feel about it, because there's just was no one on the waiver wire.

I like you, I don't feel like you.

You just need to feel like you have to drop David Johnson, That's what I'm saying.

But that's what I'm saying.

We three waiver wire.

If there's somebody that emerges a big pick up.

I think, you know, how about this in a ten team league, I think I dropped him, Okay, mostly because you know there's gonna be there's gonna be some really interesting depth out there.

But if you're in a deeper league where you're like, should I drop this guy for Josh Bellamy?

Not?

Yeah?

You know what I mean that that makes sense?

Yeah?

Sorry, But back into the game, I just thought it was a discussion worth having.

I like the Cardinals passing game to bounce back in this one.

Uh Carson, Yeah, look Carson Palmer.

Like I said, I watched this game a lot.

We rewatched it on my day off as a call to um.

You know, when you get bodies around Palmer, I think you need to worry about him.

But can the culturally get bodies around anybody right now, it's a great defensive bounce back spot.

I mean Larry Fitzgerald now, I think is In is in a great spoty at thirteen targets in in week one, because I mean, you should be a target monster from from here on out with.

I wrote about trading for Larry Fitzgerald for that exact reason and trade calls this week and John Brown was he was looking good, he was out there, so I think he's definitely worth a play this week in a really good spot against the Colts, who let up a ton of twenty yard twenty plus yard pass plays in week one, So I think you can roll your Cardinals out there, and I'll be I'll be back on the Palmer trading on the Colt side.

Like we said, do whatever you can to not have to play any cults.

I will say though, I will say I will not be surprised if if if Jacoby Brissette starts, uh, if Dante Moncrief rips off a couple of big plays, simply because as I think you, we'll see Patrick Peterson on t Y Hilton and Justin Bethel was the one of the big culprits of the kenn of Golladay breakout in That guy lit up just a ton of production to Golliday.

And if Mon Crew runs some routes against him, I think he could win because Brissette simply I think it's more aggressive and better than Scott.

Young quarterback.

I like young quarterbacks with tight ends.

Jack Doyle is a catch machine.

I don't hate it all right, Bills at car Carolina was kid what you got?

I mean, I would like.

It was great to see Tyro Taylor deliver last week like I had been.

I was all on him as a late round quarterback again.

But then he lost Sammy Watkins all that stuff.

I don't I don't think I drafted him in aating teams, but he put up a good performance.

However, I don't think I do not think you can play him again.

You're not gonna play any of the wide receivers in this game.

The Carolina defense is too good.

The two players you can play from Buffalo are Lashawn McCoy because he got literally all of the touches.

Uh.

He he had twenty seven last week, so he's pretty much sept.

The one at the goal line, which was just bad.

Luck because he got dinged up play they brought into score.

So he's got plus touches with scoring upside every week quick when they get there.

So that's he's locked in.

But Charles Clay again, if you streamed him last week, hopefully didn't cast into the waiver wire because he could be a good in a good spot again.

This week he led the team in targets.

He had nine, he had one touchdown almost two, and George Kittle last week caught five passes against the Carolina defense.

So if Tyrod is gonna go anywhere as they moved the ball, it's gonna go to Clay on the Carolina side.

I think this is kind of like in All Systems Go game.

The Buffalo defense is not that great after shipping off a couple of players in UH in trades and other things this past season.

So I think this could be a nice bounce back game for Cam Calvin, Benjamin, and Greg Olsen.

In the passing game, the Bills secondary can get well.

I mean, the Jets didn't move the ball, but they're the Jets.

Uh, Carolina should be able to go.

You know, I really like a bounce back for the passing game and UH the backfield.

I think both are just flex starters.

Now, if you took Christian McCaffrey and like the second or third round, he might be a little disappointed.

But he and Jonathan Stewart combined for twenty seven point seven PPR points last week.

They're used both sometimes together in different spaces, so you're gonna get good volume.

McCaffrey lead the team and targets and then get five catches, and you're just hoping that when you're starting that back, they're the one that gets into the end zone.

That's an interesting way to look at that actually is that they combined for whatever points it was, twenty points or whatever was in PPR and and maybe you figure just so split it out.

The field is very productive, so you want to it's a good situation to start the players from because they're going to produce.

Yeah, I like it.

Jets at Oakland, France, what you got.

I think I wouldn't be surprised if Marshawn Lynch is the top scoring fantasy running back after this week.

It's kind of easy to say that at going against the Jets, he had he looked good last week.

I gotta say if they have I'll tell you what, if they have a big lead, they're not going to Marshawn.

Though, I think it's a good thing they take them off.

I don't know they pointed this out on the Feast though, but it is narrative street in this one because Marshawn Lynch is playing his first home game in front of his home crowd.

Oh town business, town business.

He had not I think ninety six yards from scrimmage last week.

He looked like the Marshaw Lynch we knew a couple of years ago.

You look Truck and Darrell Casey at the line.

You're starting all your Raiders.

I like Jared cook as a sleeper tight end here I wrote about him as my streamers.

Uh Gilhard just mentioned what Charles Clay did against the Jets last weekend end position, so I think you plugged Jared Cooking and him.

I was second on a team with five targets.

I want to throw one little nugget in I found for the matchups column too.

I had written in week one that we couldn't start Jared cook because while he's a good player in a great addition to the offense, the Raiders would have to like change of like three year trend of not targeting their tight ends a lot on the offense.

However, those five targets that Cook saw were fifteen point six percent of the team total targets.

Only one tight end hit that all last year for the Raiders, and that was Clide Walford in Week two.

So if they're working him in more and targeting more heavily, he's gonna bump up and be on the regular streaming radar for high powered offense man.

And then on the jet side of the ball.

I mean, the running backs were just no, no, not even anything.

Last bal Powell led the backfield with twenty two rushing yards.

He did have six catches, but or five catches for seventeen yards.

I think you can five catches for seven I think you can start ger Main Curse in a PPR league.

He led the team with nine targets, had seven catches fifty nine yards.

He was on the field for of their plays.

You're not gonna feel good about it, but I think the same thing, like if you're in a bigger if you're a bigger PPR, lager to start three wide receivers like the Jets are probably gonna be down in the play potentially he was on the field more than Curse.

He did have eight targets, he only caught four of them.

You're you're relying on Josh McCown and get these guy the ball.

He let the team in percentage of air yards.

So I would rather play Anderson, but I don't want to play anything.

I would rather not play fantasy than play them.

But yeah, if if there's anyone, I would go with Curse just because of the volume.

But yeah, I mean that stands on a good look for the Jets right now.

Stands on the Jets has been well documented.

Forty Niners at Largers Harmon very quick, Dolphins sorry, uh, Dolphins at Chargers.

Well, I think with the Dolphins, where you get the first look at their Jay Cutler led offense.

I mean it's crazy.

Got a great week one game from all those guys.

Um, but I think jah I will be out there and he's gonna you're locking him in as an RB one play.

I think let's go.

This will be the test for the DeVante Parker, you know, breakout because it's a good it's a good set of corners.

Uh.

There in Los Angeles, Jason Varette and Casey Haywards from Jarvis Landry.

I do want to track his his usage overall, um same, we do not want to play Jarvis Landry in this spot.

Crazy not really not really excited about playing any of the Dolphins pass catchers, and Parker is the only one I would think about.

Yeah, maybe it's just like you just just kind of want to see how it looks like Chargers defense is a yeah stream, that's that's fair.

I mean their defense looked good, especially for us Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa.

It's a great combo.

Cutler was sacked twenty nine times the last time you played in Adam Gas offense too, and he missed a game or two and I don't think you played.

And on the Chargers side, I mean Hunter Henry is the is the is the big question where I don't obviously, but people are dropping Hunter Henry and I think that that's completely understandable.

I think he was a mistake of a draft pick where you probably took him because I just think he's not going to be the full time tight end.

I've been petition.

I've been saying it till Antonio Gates gets out of there.

And look, the feeling will be limited at the tight end position.

There's a handful of guys like six or maybe seven that you play every single week and you roster every single week.

And the rest of these guys, the Martelis Bennetts of the world, the Haunter Henry's like, don't get attached to these guys because of where you don't have them.

Just caught him loose, uh and and and the rest of the charges.

I think you want to try to get in your lineup.

The reason the reason I love the Chargers defenses streamable defense this week is is because Jay Cutler likes to stand back there a little bit.

Uh.

And the fact that I think he's gonna force feedball to DeVante Parker.

And if he's doing that against those corners, forget about it.

I mean one of those get off.

He almost had to pick six against the Broncos too.

I would say, what's interesting about those corners too, as I'm curious which one he's gonna draw.

Because they were one of the few teams that had their guys shadow people.

They had Varette and Hayward each shoutout to Mary as Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders and just tracked them over the whole field, so is the smaller guy.

So maybe Heyward on Parker.

Yeah, and it was awesome.

He's the top ten corners.

He's great.

Alright.

So forty Niners taking on Seattle was what you got.

Uh, don't play any forty Niners, just don't the Seahawks.

The Seahawks defense on the road held the Packers to seventeen points, and uh, you know it's the man handled them.

Now you've got the forty Niners going on the road against an angry Seattle team in front of their home crowd.

This is just a disaster.

Is you don't want to start anybody now, I'm not even starting Pierre Garson leagues that I have him on the It's tough, but like, just get some catches negative game script he could he could get like PPR.

He could still hit his flour for you.

But like it's just if I've got other options, I'm going with him.

Um on the Seahawks side of the ball, still standing away from the backfield until we get any sort of clarity.

But I think this should be a huge bounce back game for Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin and Jimmy Graham.

Jimmy Graham had really puzzling usage in week one, Like he only had like six air yards per target, Like I tweeted out his route chart, and like four of his catches or like four of his targets came within like two yards of the line of scrimmage.

It was really bizarre.

They might have been using him to try and help block.

Didn't help because the backers were in the backfield the whole game.

But he, Baldwin and Wilson I think should eat and obviously Seahawks defense starting.

If you got as I mentioned this that when we were at when we were at a team building last night, and I found it today.

It comes from at Davis h s U Seattle free agent writer.

Uh.

He noted that in last season the Seahawks average twenty six points on turf on the road, twenty eight point eleven points at home, and nine point eight points on grass, and that kind of played itself out.

It's interesting, split it's something to monitoring James James grow.

We need to get James d grow on the case apparently, but I think it's where James grow.

We're scar Gary's Gary's recuperating.

I oh no, the heat wave.

Tell me about it.

I had some I had some plants stuffer through the heat wave, but it looks like a few of them are definitely salvageable.

Check on my Instagram fever.

Anyways, Anyways, it does just make the stat makes sense and intuitively just because the Seahawks have a lot of team speed, including their scrambling quarterback.

Uh and maybe they're just more productive when they're away from grass.

So just something to monitor.

Washington at l a Rams franchise, what you got.

I don't trust the Washington offense at all right now.

Uh, they looked looks like Aaron Donald will come back.

That cannot Oh my god, yeah, I forgot about that.

He's back.

The Rams defense stardom in in fantasy, I mean, twenty nine ish points last week?

Uh two pick six is you know?

I think that's that kind of stuff is gonna continue.

I think the Washington's inconsistency on offenses carrying over from the preseason into the regular season.

Sorelle Pryor had some drops this week.

Jamison Crowder wasn't a factor.

The Eagles kind of shut down Jordan Read, they had no run game.

All these things add up to not against Rams.

D add up to not a productive day for the Redskins.

Uh and Redskins or I mean the Rams D.

They blitz the second most of any team in Week one.

They had twenty blitz is um.

One thing to watch out for is Sammy Watkins is gonna get shut down by Josh Norman.

If so, maybe Cooper Cup has a big day.

I kind of like Cooper Cup, especially in the PPR League.

I think he's a must own right now.

Yeah, you know, if he's still hanging on the waiver wire, try to make room for him on your roster because you need to own this guy.

And like you mentioned, golf is on my streamers list this week.

I like the matchup.

Redskins give up a lot of points to quarterbacks.

Al Right, Cowboys at Denver, Harmon what you got?

Yeah?

No, I like this game?

I do you?

I think it's gonna be ugly.

Well, I think I like this game from like, I'm really interested to watch.

It's not it's not like a fantasy bonanza for sure.

I wrote it up in in Next Gen Stats, actually in the column because we talked about the number really that the Broncos did on Melvin Gordon in Week one.

They deployed eight more eight or more defenders in the box on sixty two point five percent of Gordon's non red zone carries, which is notable.

Uh he had six carries for just eleven yards out of eleven personnel.

Uh.

So we when they have spread the field, Denver did a really good job locking them down.

Are they going to do that to Ezekie Elliott?

Who was He was really fantastic in Week one against a really good run defense.

So I'm still really confident in in Zeke of course.

Um the Dallas passing game obviously Dez whift in his Week one matchup against generous Jenkins, but I don't think again, I don't think it was all on Dez though, I think that Dac really didn't either.

He didn't make any sort of passes into tight windows for Dez Bryant.

But that's not what he does.

No, it's it's not it's not what he does, just what does Bryant does?

So right, But but I do think that those two guys are going to get it going.

And I don't really like love playing death, but I think if if you own him, I think you are playing him in this spot.

Um And on the Denver side.

I love Trevor Simeon man.

I think he's in a week in a week where we don't have a lot of uh great streaming quarterback options on the waiver wire.

I if you need it, I think that Trevor Simmon is worth to play.

You know again, talking about this Week one inflection points, we're gonna either episode had James to say it to your Instagram flection point, Harmon's plants are at an inflection point.

Some of the plants are at an inflection But I like, look, we we we saw Dallas's defense look really really good in Week one, But was that mostly just because the Giants offense without Odell Beckham is really bad.

They put some decent pressure on Eli Manning put that chart in the next Gen Stats column as well too.

Um And but but Trevor Simmons was great.

I mean he threw his passes went into tight windows.

Per next Gen Stats, he was great.

He had the highest air yard differential in terms of completing passes downfield.

He was great on passes of ten plus air yards.

We had the second best pass rating among quarterbacks last week.

Look, Trevor Simmon is good.

You had one pass yards let's not get two nuts about it overall or you talked No, he had two hundred nineteen passing yards really yeah yeah, over two on yards two touchdowns.

Look that The question really is just like, I just think pace of play is going to be too slow.

I don't think the scoring opportunities will be there.

I don't know, man.

I just want to promote Trevor Simmons because I think he's a good quarterback who doesn't get enough respect.

I like Trevor Simmons.

I like him a lot.

It's just it's a rough week for for streaming quarterback.

I came in I remember I came in uh talking about Trevor Simmons and in this very podcast last year, and I'm like, I like what I saw from and everyone poop pooed me.

Everyone was like, ever, say, man, it was uh sources.

I think this fake news.

I am going to go back and find it do it.

I'm probably not going to what a waste of time it would be scrolled through all the scrubbed through all those to find the one spot where I'm like, yeah, I love Treumper Simme and everyone just dumps on me.

Nope.

Sunday Night Football Packers at Atlanta.

Whiz kid, what you got.

Both of these offenses were kind of held in check a little bit in Week one.

But I think we have to operate under the assumption that this game is going to track meet.

This game could be very fun.

Um.

I think I'm gonna start on the fucking side.

First, Julio Jones absolutely smashed the Packers in the NFC Championship game at to get a hunter eighty yards two touchdowns.

However, most of that production came on Ladarius Gunter, who has been cut the Packers.

So and then if you go back to their meeting earlier in the season, it wasn't Julio Jones that smashed.

It was actually mohammedson New.

I think he's a sneaky play in this game.

Love.

He had nine targets last week and he could rip apart the Packers over the middle of the field.

That That's what they did when the Packers focused on Julio Jones in that first matchup, they just deployed Mohammed's new over the middle of the field and he absolutely eight Um.

And then I think the backfield is going to be in a decent spot.

Um.

DeVonta Freeman has better splits at home than Tevin Coleman does for the Falcons when they've been on this team together.

So I really like DeVonta Freeman in this spot.

You're starting Matt Ryan Austin Hooper.

I don't know if I'm gonna trot him back out this week.

It could be a decent option.

Um, you know, I thought Jimmy Graham was gonna crush the Packers.

The Seahawks used him in a puzzling way.

So if the if the Falcons try to take Hooper down field a little bit more, maybe he's in there.

But as for the Packers, I also think, um, if you have any of their wide receivers, you're starting him in this contest.

All three of those guys got a fair amount of looks last week, and I think it's just gonna be a case where you're starting all of them.

Jordy's obviously a locked in one, but you can start Randall in, uh, Cobba, Davante Adams and just hope one of them gets into the end zone.

Because Adam still saw seven targets last week.

He had forty seven yards on his three catches.

Cobba, you know, with his crazy nine at Chun thirteen target day, UM was really ripping it up.

Is Cobb back for reels?

Now?

Yes, I mean thirteen targets and he looked good.

I mean, and I know you noted this in UM Targets and Touches Harmon and I was going to say the same thing too, But you know he's important to this offense, and especially when Aaron Rodgers said that in the playoffs last year after Cobbs three touchdown game against the Giants, he said, we're better when eighteen is on the field.

So this is this is a dynamics got to be on the field and healthy.

I mean, that's been that's that was the problem last year's he played thirteen games, but dude had ankle.

Hamstreet was not that concussion like, he wasn't beat up.

And then I really think, obviously you're starting Aaron Rodgers, but I think Tom Montgomery has like RB one overall for this week potential and your boys, uh pick in our perfect chance I had them in my lineup.

Well, you've looked at the what the Falcons have always been weak against catching running backs running backs and sure enough Toriko and twelve targets against them and uh and Jordan Howard.

You know they seventeen targets went to the backs for eleven catches in Week one for the Bears and time on come.

I think was four for four catching passes out the backfield last week can Seattle.

So he looked good and he looked he looked good.

He got it out like a hard performance.

One of the best front seven in the National Football League.

So played more snaps than any other running back in Week one.

Lock him into your lineup and just he could go bananas this walk and load.

I love it.

Monday Night Football Lions take on the Giants.

Franch what you got.

Obviously, the storyline is will O'Dell odell about him play in this game.

I think if he does, we'll see a different Giants offense.

He did practice today.

I'm not saying they're gonna they're gonna blow the roof off the place, but he's he's kind of the key to that offense.

NFL media in center Ian Rap report reporting that it's it's high optimism.

He's already after they saw what Week one held, it was like, I think we'll try to get him.

Yeah.

Um, credit to you, James co You wrote a great next Gens stats breakdown about how Kenny Golladay called thank You unlocks the Lions passing game.

Uh, he kind of shredded the Matthew Stafford shredded the Cardinals secondary, shredded on the outside.

He had four touchdown passes and Gola Day there's the deep threat kind of allows Golden Tate to return to the slot.

He had ten catches there for a hundred seven yards, kind of like all the Lions except Marvin Jones.

Really surprising standard the day for me was when I found out that Golden Tape played seventies six percent of his snaps out wide last year.

That was crazy to me.

I'm like, wait what he only played percent of his snaps in the slot.

We saw in Week one he played over of his snaps in the slot and I and I just was like, well, obviously you gotta put them there.

That's where that's where he operates the best.

So that was the surprising staff for X fools in the slot.

Yeah, he's really good.

The ten catches, twelve targets hundred seven yards last week, he's he's like he's a straight game changer in PPR.

I like Eric Ebron a little bit in this game.

We saw Jason Whist then in the end zone last week.

I don't know if you can really reliably start any of these running backs.

Maybe you flex theoretic and hope he doesn't work in the How about men?

I don't know, you look bad.

I mean he had a look.

It was a tough matchup the Cardinals last week.

He wasn't efficient, and and we saw Washington get in there, and the Giants have another good defensive line as they do they do.

I I just don't I'm not starting any Giants backs.

Maybe theoretic and americ dula inflex I don't know.

It's just not a promising look for either backfield.

I like I think he said, I'm worried about the outside receivers for the lines this week if Goladay gets over on the Giant secondary and then like he's the g d truth.

But I said, I'm with you, Ebron and Tater great place this week?

Alright?

I like it.

That's it for every damn game.

Let's close out with a round of daily taps.

Does being Daily Tap time?

Let's go Matt Harmon what you got?

So?

I am an impressionable idiot, as many people know, Uh.

And I've started to do a lot more on Snapchat, like answering fantasy questions and all the rest.

And you can do the thing where you like create a bit moji or whatever on this uh.

And someone talked me into it, because again I'm an impressionable idiot.

Uh.

And I was very skeptical of this whole thing because it takes forever to like design one.

Uh.

And also I feel like you're kind of judging like yourself, and I'm like, I don't want to make myself look too handsome.

Then people, are you so vain?

You think you look that pretty?

I don't want to make myself look too ugly.

And then's say, I know, but you know, I'm I'm it takes forever to make one and look like I've quit like halfway through five times.

But anyways, you're too concerned with your image.

I am.

I'm very image conscious.

But anyways, I think that so soap.

Though I showed this to these guys earlier, James and I'll tweet out the image two.

But I was very skeptical about the whole thing, but this one made it all worth it.

It's a little book with my face in it, and it just says why even try.

And I thought it was so great with the brand that I've built on this podcast.

I'll definitely tweet it out for everybody.

But it made the whole process worth It gave me a big laugh when I saw does this count?

Is you dapping yourself?

Since you dapped your own, that's three, that's great.

I'm dapping.

I'm dapping the entity.

That's a trend now, guys, I am dapping the three entity of the bit emoji, not mine.

Now, I'm in on it.

I think that I think they're funny.

They're gave me a good laugh.

So in three of the last four weeks where Bett Harmon has been on the podcast, Harmon has dapped himself.

This is this is.

I can find Harmon's bit emoji on his own Twitter is.

I'm not doing daily DAPs anymore.

I'm done with this segment was good from Wisconsin.

I'm going to daily dap.

I haven't sadly read a lot of news or watched a lot of new stuff this week Ben consumer Football.

On last tear, we did a little bit of the crazy drinking, so that occupied some time.

But uh, Daily DAPs to the trailer for the Disaster Artist James James Franco got the book.

So if it's based on the movie The Room, which we've talked about on this podcast a lot.

We've had our friend Liz Losa, who interviewed to be Lisa, or who auditioned to be Lisa in the movie, on to talk about it, and she's a great fancy wrote over Yahoo.

But so, the guy who played Mark wrote a book called The Disaster Artist, which was his behind the scenes tell all of the making of The Room.

James Franco optioned the book, wrote the script and directed it.

He stars as Tommy was Oh.

His brother Dave Franco plays Mark, and they made a movie about the making of the Room.

It looks hysterical.

I actually the trailer is so funny.

I tweeted out the other day and I actually heard a rumor that like this movie, it's coming out later in this fall.

I think maybe your winter, like December maybe could actually have awards.

This buzz around it interest that good, interesting, and so it looks hilarious.

James Franco is perfect as Tommy wizz Oh.

I was cracking up so much during the trailer.

So I cannot wait to go see this movie.

Check out the trailer for the Disaster Artist.

Speaking of trailers, the trailer Daily depths to the trailer for Blade Runner.

Look so amazing, so excited for them.

It looks amazing.

The fact that they were able to get Harrison Ford too.

It's got my favorite modern director right now, Danny Villeneu behind the camera.

I think Roger he did Arrival, he did Prisoners, he did Cicario.

I think Roger Deakins is shooting it, which is why it looks gorgeous.

But it also has the feel of the original Blade Runners too, you know what I mean.

I never saw the original Blade Runner.

Oh you're missing out later Runners out here living in h We're it's stuck in sad alright.

I will also Daily dep Arian Foster.

I saw this hilarious tweet.

Uh somebody at tweeted himal Arian Foster, DeShawn Jackson or Christian McCaffrey for my flex in fantasy football.

Erry and Foster replied with, read a book wow, which I love, which I absolutely love.

So there you go, Fretch what you got.

I'm gonna go full hipster and adapts the new l C D sound System album It's called American Dream came out.

I think, to me, that album is great all the way through.

It's great.

It's classic l c D.

They just kind of return to form, you know, they retired for a few years.

They came back live shows last year and they put a record out in the last couple of weeks.

It's really good, beautiful, beautiful.

I'm also gonna adapt.

I got an advanced copy of the new Food Fighters record.

It's called Concrete and Gold.

I believe it comes out tomorrow.

That that was that was hipster well I got, I got an advanced I got the advanced copy.

Sources will remain anonymous.

So you know, if you want to dance over the weekend, listen to LCD sounds is good.

You want to rock your face off, listen to the Food Fight.

I gotta listen to the best one today too, because yeah, I've got I'm on the same inside sourceless like I like this a lot, producer, Chris, What do you got, guys, I'm gonna give DAPs to football in Los Angeles.

We have two games in l A on Sunday for the first time in twenty three years.

It's pretty crazy.

We have two games in our backyard coliseum, what a subub Center both the same time.

Well, the Chargers sell out StubHub Center, Yes, yes, for sure.

They did not in their first preseason game preseason season.

It's a thousand seeds stadium.

They'll that's why they'll sell out.

I mean they'll sell out sunfl version of a coffee shop.

I remember that with said once on a on a now debunked podcast.

The abbiance is really cool.

It's everybody's on top of the field, so it should be cool.

I think it's gonna be great.

All right, So there you go.

That's your show.

Appreciate everybody listening.

We'll be back on Monday for the franchise, for Matt Harmon, for the wis Kid from Wisconsin, and for producer Chris.

I'm James co.

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