The Show: The Bears Offense, Touchdown Rates, and More

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Speaker 1: You're about to listen to the Late Round Fantasy Football Show, which originally aired yesterday on YouTube. If you'd like to catch it live, you can find it on the Late Round Fantasy Football YouTube channel at one pm Eastern every Friday during this twenty twenty five season. That's on YouTube dot com slash at Late Round FF. So, without further ado, here's this week's episode.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in, JJ. How's it going. It's good.

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Speaker 1: I was just jamming to the intro. Honestly, like top three intro in the game.

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Speaker 2: I think the intro's fire. Everybody loves intro too.

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Speaker 1: People hate the Late Round Fantasy Football podcast intro that's been around for you know, eight years, as long as the podcast as has been around, and uh, I think there would be no controversy for the Late Round Fantasy Football Show in that intro.

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Speaker 2: Well, we want to just welcome everybody in. Say, hey, hang out with us. If you're hanging out with us live, great, If not, leave a comment, let us know your thoughts on whatever we're talking about today. We've got today's news, we've got today's data, we've got the main event. JJ is going to give another bold call. Last week, No Victory lefs here. But last week, JJ, I do want to say that you said two touchdowns for Mark Andrews.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, big l yea big l I mean it turns out he is dust, you know. I I but look, he started really slow last year, and again we talked about this, how like everyone like pointed to that car accident that he was in and that was like the reason why he was starting slow. But maybe it's just like his body getting ramped up and then he'll eventually just score a ton of touchdowns like you did last year. We'll see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately wasn't really high or low on them entering the year, So it's just kind of whatever to me.

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Speaker 2: And I know you're gonna want me to say it, and yes you did. Your other bolt prediction was a Detroit Lions forty burger.

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Speaker 1: I got that wrong too, because they had a fifty burger.

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Speaker 2: They had fifty. Yeah, so uh, just try harder, I guess, is what we're trying to say. JJ. I want to say thanks for our sponsor DraftKings, for sponsoring the show, for sponsoring the whole Best Ball season. You can scan the QR code and I get the free five dollars ticket in there, if you're your if you're new, and we appreciate you, DK and JJ. As far as like this week goes, it just seems like every I don't know, maybe this week, maybe this year because I'm I'm with more in tune of the season long fantasy football, but Week three is like serious panic money we see. I saw at least like twenty memes about to two fantasy football teams this year.

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Speaker 1: There there's a lot of panicking. I think that there's just more and more panicking as the years go on because people like to get upset about more and more things as the years go on, and there's more opportunity to get upset about things and to panic about things and to not just be level headed zend out a little bit. It's not the end of the world. You're gonna be okay. There's a lot of ways to make your fantasy football team better. And that's what I'm here for.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, If if people are OO and two, just know it'll it's gonna get better. My teams are like most of my team's like one to one.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a single and two team right now. Hey, yeah I should, Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.

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Speaker 2: A lot of O and two teams out there have like Rashi Rice on the Squad. Yeah, you know, maybe Chris godwins, but people are panicking. We're here to help you get through that. And with that being said, JJ, let's get onto today's news, today's fantasy news. All right, Wuka is the first one uh at Mecca Buka he's back at practice.

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Speaker 1: JJ, Yes, thank goodness, right, that's that's that's my reaction to that with with one as I'm you know what, I'm not even gonna fix that typo I hit enter before the second ass it's just thank goodness, yeah right now. Yeah, I mean, look, I've seen a lot of takes uh with Agbuka as a cell candidate, and Andy Baron's actually brought it up on yesterday's Perspectives episode. I do think that it's a reasonable take to just see what you could fetch for Igbuka. My hesitation in doing it is that I think he's very very good. You know what, you know what, I gotta fix thiss, I gotta add the s to goodness. It's it's driving me nuts. But you know the thing with Agbuka, I know that his peripheral, like, aren't amazing. You know, it's like nineteen percentage target share or whatever like around that mark, and you know he's obviously he's very clearly the number two to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin's coming back and all of that. I just don't think we should lose sight of the fact that he's a rookie doing this like these are these are the first two games of his NFL career where he's doing this, and for some reason it sometimes feels like we lose sight of that kind of thing and we lose sight of that like same same deal with with a lot of the rookie running backs, whether good or bad or a lot of these like reactions that are going on with these players. It's like, guys, it's been two games and if they're showing out and showing up already, which is why, you know, after week one, I saw the peripherals with elk Iamnner and I'm like, okay, like go go get him off the waiver wire now before the production matches. And then the production matched a little bit last week, and now it's difficult to get elk Iamnner right when we see it happen with a rookie, we should be pouncing. And I think that's why I'm not fully on board with a Cell just because I think he's a really good player. I get it, though, I'm more neutral, like I don't think that's it's like an obvious buyer cell situation, but I just can't be all in on Cell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no sun running there, all right. Jayden Daniels question mark exclamation point was the next one. This was written about an hour, I guess before the actual news came in. Jade Daniels not going to play this week and it's Marcus Mariota time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a really good streamer. I'll talk about him later on the show, So I don't want to get, you know, two into it, but I think Mariota, like right now and my rankings, I had him as a top fifteen quarterback. You know, I think that he's in a similar tiers like a Michael Pennox. This week, I actually have my head of Pennix. I'd have a hard time probably playing him over a Jared Goff type where GoF is in like a potential high scoring game. But you know, there's a twenty three point ply total still for Washington. I think Mariota is definite play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm a big Mariota fan. I used to call Mara Gota. You know, he's a Tennessee guy, Titans guy. He was so nice, you know, you just wanted you want, you want him to do well, and so I want him to do well in Spots Stars. He has done well and Spot Stars. He just he can't be the guy. I don't think. All right, you know what this one is, JJ, the Blue Box Blues.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I am really really shocked by this.

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Speaker 1: Is this Does this have to do with the blue tent?

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Speaker 2: No? Because you love a good jingle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Blue Box Blues is that local?

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Speaker 2: No, if Mama wants to please me, she's only got to cheese me. Oh blues, you know that it is now? I think I think raft Macaroni and cheese, Blue Box Blues.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I figured it was a Tucker Craft thing because it was a green and yellow headline. Yeah, so that that was a big I'm just gonna put panic in all caps because it was such a panic whenever it happened.

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Speaker 2: That was a big panic moment, right, Like.

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Speaker 1: If there's one He is one of the handful of players that I think people are associating with me this year, and if Tucker Craft is out, then that's bad for the Brand's bad for business, right, So I don't want Tucker Craft to be out. I think he's in store for a really good season. So the weird thing is that they're giving us the the range of time missed and it's crazy. Like at first it was like it doesn't sound season ending, and it's like, Okay, well that's not really encouraging, Like if you're talking about season no one really went there, but you just went there, so now we're thinking about it season ending. And then Matt Lafleur was like, yeah, I don't like today. He said, I don't think if he I don't think he's going to go on IR. It's like, oh, I didn't even know that it was a it was a possibility that he was going to go on IR. So yeah, I mean, I'm a little bit I'm a little bit concerned. I don't think he's gonna go this weekend, just based on the information we have right now. He didn't practice today. Luke Musgrave is kind of a streamer, like a tight end two I mean any end two is literally like can he find the end zone? You know, so, you know it's unfortunate can't start him this week. There's not like a ton of obvious go to tight ends just in general. But yeah, it's a it's an unfortunate situation.

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Speaker 2: No read no Tucker Craft and we had to tuck her craft as a tight end four and are in your latest rankings. Yeah, but does that make you okay? Wish with the you know, you think this might be Golden's breakout week.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping a lot of the secondary numbers for Matthew Golden aside from like his usage, but like I mean target shair usage. I mean, if you look at some of the fancy metrics that people look at, like separation scores and stuff, he looks really good. And so I'm intrigued by that. Uh you know, I said on the show, I don't know how people can say that they're gonna drop Golden right now. It's like he's finally getting this opportunity. Guys like Jayden reads out, you don't you don't want to drop him right now. So yeah, hopefully we get some from Matthew Golden. This we got to start him in the King's Classic League because it's such a deep starting lineup.

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Speaker 2: It's a fourteen team league, right, the King's Classic fourteen teamer.

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Speaker 1: You start a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, three flex and a tight end.

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Speaker 2: So who won last year in.

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Speaker 1: The Snake Draft? I believe that was JJ Zacharic. And who won last year?

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Speaker 2: Who's number one in points this year?

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Speaker 1: Number one points scored is JJ Zacheryes, oh.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, yeah, we say dynasty. Tell all those to all those fantasy animals.

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Speaker 1: As all thanks to Javonte Williams.

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Speaker 2: That's right. I really think I love how you no, lie, I love how he fits this build. Was the message you sent.

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Speaker 1: I sent it. I literally sent a text message as I'm drafting, because Kitchen was in the room, so everyone knows as I'm drafting, I sent Kitchen a message. I go, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna draft Davonte Williams because he fits. He really fits his bill.

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Speaker 2: You said, I low key love Javante, And at this point Javante was like more of a punchline than a fantasy asspect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I ended up writing him. I think as a player to avoid in the draft guide because I got I got a pushed into a corner, you got, you got blued. Yeah, I mean yeah, I got a little blue pilled towards the uh you know, towards the end. Didn't get enough Davante in my DraftKings, uh you know, uh drafts and Best Ball drafts this summer, which is unfortunate. But got Chavante in a league that I really really really want to win, and that's that's important.

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Speaker 2: I should have used gotten blue pilled instead of gotten blued.

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Speaker 1: That was Yeah, blue pilled was an easier one. But but Likedvante Davante to me was like it was just really hard for me to get behind like a running back thirty four or whatever pre and like in that draft when I took him amongst and I talked about this on the mail bag, so I'm definitely uh repeating myself. But in that draft, like he fell a lot and no one wanted him, and I'm like, why would I not take him?

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 1: This seems insane. I got him probably at like RB forty two or three or something like that in that draft.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was always high on Javonte just because of what Rico did last year. It's like someone's got to do something there, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I just, you know, there were like for Javante, it could have gotten a lot of different directions this year. But yeah, in hindsight, I think that it's very obvious that, you know, it's sometimes okay to take the boring pick.

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Speaker 2: The non sexy pick. All right, h Xavier Worthy of our lineups this week, Xavier Worthy, he's been practicing. Apparently he's uh, doesn't have any restrictions. Are you buying this? Are you comfortable enough to put him in your lineup?

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Speaker 1: Basically I'm saying a little nervous still. I think he's like a wide receiver, high and wide receiver, like four when you look at the whole landscape this week, so you know, like outside the top thirty six or so, just to be safe, like we just don't know what this workload is going to look like. I also like want him to play a lot in the slot because that role has been really good for these pass catchers in this offense. You know, Rashid Rice obviously has thrived there. Marquis Brown, Hollywood Brown has played that role a little bit to start the year, especially Week one, week two. He didn't play as much there, and so if Worthy were to play a little bit more in the slot, they'd be helpful for his fantasy output. But I don't know if they want to like put him in harm's way like that, Like that's the middle of the field, a lot of big hits and the potential for big hits. I just don't know, So I think that you should be a little bit nervous slotting him in your lineup. I don't know if Kansas City's gonna face a really positive like like passing script. They'll see a positive game script more than likely, but like a passing script, I just don't know if we'll see that. But then at the same time, I mean that running game has been not good to.

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Speaker 2: Start the They thought I thought I saw a tweet. They thought Isaiah Pacheco would be the guy he has not been. Yeah, yikes, all right, no pushy, no tushy. I'm not sure if you saw this, JJ, but Chefty says that they are instructing the officiating crew to call the tush push much tighter this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that's good. Like I've I've been pretty okay with the toush push. Yeah, from an opinya point, like I don't it's part of the game whenever they're not. But if they're breaking rules, they're breaking rules. If they're if it's not getting called super tight, it should be called tight. And man, I gotta tell you last week was horrifically boring because of the touch push. Like it's just it's it's just not an entertaining thing to watch.

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Speaker 2: It's better for fantasy if the toush push is not a thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I want them to like do fun things on fourth and short, you know, and not just line up that way.

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Speaker 2: I got a little emotional because I'm like you, I haven't. I haven't been, you know, upset really at all about it just from a game standpoint. But when I saw the pictures of the guys like clearly offsides before the balls even snapped, and like, oh, okay, yeah, what are we doing here? Because every time they get like a third and one or a fourth and one, you just know that there's gonna be two minutes, two extra minutes like bled off the clock. Yeah, and that sucks his fancy analyst, that's fun, Aaron Jones, I are and Mason he might be moonbound JJ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this. I'll say this about Jordan Mason. I'll just repeat what I said in the mailbag. The schedule looks good. They get the the AFC North, the non Ravens AFC North teams over the next three weeks. You know, Like I said on the show, I think he's kind of a bye if you want to think of it that way, just because my biggest question mark with him was obviously the pass catching with Aaron Jones. Now that Aaron Jones out of the way, they don't have reliability, you know, in that backfield. So I think that there could just be some default like easy like he's not going to do crazy things as a pass catcher, but just some easy dump offs and you know some you know, like three or four catches is very possible, despite the fact that he's never been that guy throughout his career. I think it is possible in this system, you know, with Carson Wentz, it's a really good matchup this week in Cincinnati. I may or may not be talking about him again later in the show too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we've got Ladi McConkie with a biceps injury, but he was a full practice participant. But are you at all worried yet about Lad McConkey.

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Speaker 1: How does a wide receiver get a byseeps injury like this?

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Speaker 2: Don't ask me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not like massively concerned. Like like I said on the ten Trends episode earlier this week, the Chargers have a really crazy they've been eighty two percent wide receiver target share right now, that's going that's going to regret. And they've been really pass.

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Speaker 2: Heavy, very very pass heavy.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna regress, right Like, They're not going to finish the season more than likely with an eighty two percent wide receiver target share. So right now, like what we're looking at is, you know, Quentin Johnson basically seeing about as many targets as Ladi McConkey, and then Keenan Allen has been getting peppered with targets, right, I think Keenan Allen is going to still see a lot of Look like I liked Keenan Allen entering the year, So like I'm gonna stick with my priors to it because it's only been confirmed, right, and so I think Keenan Allen is still gonna see a good target chair not as high as it's been. But the one player that you think would not be as affected by that regression would be lat McConkey because he's the best wide receiver on that team. So relax a little bit. There's gonna be some regression for QJ. He's not gonna maintain this all season long, even with Keenan Allen. You know, the injury is not great. But I'm not like full blown panicking with mcconkeye. Do I think mconkie's gonna give us a great ceiling this year?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, Do I think that he's gonna be like a massive end of Round two early round three bust? Probably not there either. You know, it was a dead spot in the draft. I think that that in hindsight, you know, people should have been taking JSN over him. But you know that's the same thing like there's gonna be one or two guys that you're like, oh, I should have done that. It's gonna happen, you know. So I think it's fine overall with mconkeye.

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Speaker 2: Okay, uh, pretty pretty nice game time decision. I wasn't even expecting this a second day in a row. He's practicing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying how I'm just saying how again for Brock Perdy, they said that he was going to be out of potentially five weeks, and a lot of people were saying that, like this is not a great injury, you know, like it's very possible that he misses that amount of time. You know, mac Jones looked good last week. I think he can work in the system enough. But if Perdy plays, you know, I do worry a little bit about what the mobility upside looks like coming off with a kind of injury. And that's really what has separated Perdy a little bit more over the last year is that he's running a little bit more. But I think in this matchup, like Arizona's secondary is really beat up, and so, uh, if he does play, I think that he would be a viable option.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some I mean, we need more quarterbacks to play this week. Yeah, did you know, Like, can you name all the backups playing this week?

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Jake Browning, Yeah, Marcus Mariota, Yep, is there another one?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 1: Who am I missing?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor? Taylor?

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Speaker 2: There you go?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then if if mac Jones plays instead of Party, they'd be I guess five. And he also guy guy guys like Spencer.

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Speaker 1: Rattler, right, and like Joe Flacco Joe Fla right.

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Speaker 2: All right, another Texans wide receiver you know.

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Speaker 1: Too soon no to.

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Speaker 2: A bless his heart. Yeah, although Tyreek did not help him out. Can we talk about this just for a second.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really wild to me that everyone, like I didn't think to will look good last night, Okay, but it's really wild to me that there are so many people like yelling for Tua to be bench or for Zach Wilson to get a shot or whatever. It's like we completely forgot how unbelievably terrible the Dolphins offense was like year without Tua. When Tua came back, they actually averaged and from a touchdowns per game standpoint like a top ten number in the league, fringe top ten when Tua was under center, and then when he's not under center, they were the worst offense that I've ever seen in my entire life. So, like, I don't know, give him a little big grace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying that he's obviously like spooked a little bit. I think also just naturally as one would be, you got, yeah, you know that pass rush against you. But I thought, like that sixty yard bomb to Tyreek where Tyreek went alligator arms, Yeah, that's a that's a that's a catch that Tyreek should have and those other guys like knock each other out, so it's like he catches that, he walks the end zone. We're having a completely different conversation today. You know. It's just a fact that, like I think in the first half he had sixty six yards passing, but they were doing decent. You know, the offense was moving along fine. It was just that uh liked that I in t is inexcusable.

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Speaker 1: It was a really throw, really bad though.

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Speaker 2: Pump penalty sucked bad because I was like, let's get some overtime, let's get more points. Yeah, all right, you got Christian Kirk's coming back this week. Yeah, it affects the offense at all because really there's there's not been a lot of passing.

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Speaker 1: How about this reaction to your little uh your little news headline, no l right for for Jalen Nole. Oh right, because now Jalen Nole is like he showed up last week on special teams in that game. Uh, he's looked like a pretty like dynamic player that you think would maybe be able to get on the field more and more now that Christian Kirk is back, Jalen Nole probably won't be able to see the slot, which is his natural position, and we're not going to see much of him, which is unfortunate because I want to see more Jalen Nole. But Christian Kirk, I think, you know, it's still a really really good slot player and they need something like that in this offense right now. Is an easy outlet or c J. Stroud because he is under duress pretty consistently.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Sharps, I don't know if he's gonna be uh, if he's gonna miss another practice today. We I'm not sure yet. He did miss yesterday. I also saw where they said basically, Seattle's got two starting running backs, like, there's not that much of a difference between Sharps and Kenneth Walker. But what's your thoughts on Sharp missing so Walker can run?

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Speaker 1: I mean, my overall thought is that Kenneth Walker is better than Zach Sharbona when they're in a committee because Kenneth Walker, this is what I talked about on ten trends, Kenneth Walker can can be more efficient and have those spiked plays that can give you the spiked weeks, and you're gonna just have to take the valleys with those peaks. With Kenneth Walker this year, it seems like, but I would much rather have Walker than sharpone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Walker said like he welcomed Sharbonay so he wouldn't have to be the bell cow. Do you see that quote this week?

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Speaker 1: No, I mean I think a lot of running backs would probably feel that way.

00:23:04
Speaker 2: They don't want to get beat up, and then yeah, they welcome somebody there as long as it's like not really threatening their job. I get it. Yeah, it's it's kind of like why you brought me on board?

00:23:16
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to threaten your job, and I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take some of the carries that you don't want. That's right, what I'm okay, I think that's it. Let's get on to today's data.

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Speaker 1: Today's data, all right, So I give a put a data dump together for like a spreadsheet together for patrons every week. And this is one of the pages one of the sheets that's in that spreadsheet that I produced, and it gives you every team, their passing touchdowns, their rushing touchdowns, their passing touchdown rate, So what percentage of those touchdowns have come through the air, their rank within that, and then it gives you expected passing touchdown rate. This is a really basic formula where I take, uh, the the pass rate of a certain team or of all the teams, and it gives you what you would expect their passing touchdown rate to be based on that overall pass rate. So a team that's more pass heavy would obviously have a higher expected passing touchdown rate because when you're passed heavy, more of your touchdowns generally come through the air. Now, obviously it's not going to always happen, but you can see here like it's really early in the season, And this is why I want to call it out, because you know, you can really drive home some narratives right now about certain players and such and say this guy's really good, or you know, this is something that that we should avoid based on two games. It's really early to do that kind of stuff like that definitively. And you can see, like, for instance, Dallas right now, Dallas has two passing touchdowns to four rushing touchdowns, but based on their pass rate, they're they're pass that. So that's a thirty three percent passing touchdown rate, right, So thirty three percent of their touchdowns have come through the air, but based on their pass rate it should be like seventy two percent, and that's a difference of like three thirty nine percentage points, which means moving forward, we shouldn't expect Javonte Williams to score as many touchdowns and we should expect more touchdowns to come through the air. Another example of that is with Philadelphia obviously because they haven't thrown a passing touchdown yet after two games. And then on the reverse side, you can look at San Francisco. The forty nine ers don't have a single rushing touchdown yet when they should, so it's one hundred percent their pass rush touchdown ratio and rate, but they should be at like sixty two to sixty three percent based on their pass rate as a thirty eight or thirty seven to thirty eight percent difference. So this is just something that you can get in the late round Fantasy Football Patreon, within that spreadsheet, within that data dump every week. I think it's interesting to kind of look at and just see where regression might be hitting. Those are the teams to call out right now. There's some other ones, like the Chargers haven't had a rushing touchdown yet, like that's gonna regress, you know.

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Speaker 2: Titans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well the Titans only have one touchdown. So so that's that's the problem.

00:25:56
Speaker 2: With you kids. A couple of good defenses, the Titans.

00:26:00
Speaker 1: The Titans are the worst team in total touchdowns. They have one touchdown right now. There are some times the other teams with two include the Raiders, Texans. Those are the only two.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it was crazy, is that stat you gave maybe the trends where the Titans have only thrown like one pass to a running back.

00:26:21
Speaker 1: Two running back targets through two weeks.

00:26:23
Speaker 2: That is crazy. Yeah, it's ridiculous when they've lost both games. Yeah, it's pretty insane. It's pretty insane. It's a little bit worrisome too, because.

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Speaker 1: I those kinds of things, like when you see it that dramatically and there's a new quarterback and stuff, you have to think that it might be a quarterback tendency thing, and that's a little bit scary for a guy like Pollard. And then Tajy Spears when he returns.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen a lot though. Also they're talking about like just a play calling and they're just to play calling. They're just like sending guys down the field. They need to they need to help Ward out more. But I'm just gonna call it right now. Titans shocked world this week. Yeah, Colts come back to Earth.

00:27:00
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the cults are the cults are playing outside for the.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: From the road in this heat, in this Tennessee heat, JJ with the fresh haircut.

00:27:09
Speaker 1: This is what Index of Suspicion is saying. I have a fresh haircut, like I'm about to order too Heinekens and a Yeager Bomb.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: I got a haircut.

00:27:16
Speaker 1: Yes, what you're saying, I got a bro haircut. Yeah, I get faded up, guys. I go to a barber in my downtown area and I get faded up and it's a great time. If you guys need a recommendation in my head, I.

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Speaker 2: Think you might. Did you ever see that video back in the day, It's like Jaeger Bomb, Jaeger Bomb got a fresh haircut, Like it's like an old old school Is that what it's referencing YouTube? I don't remember that Jaeger Bomb Jaeger bomb. All right, bot being says looks good, thank you, thank you. All right, let's uh, do you have anything more for today's data?

00:27:52
Speaker 1: That's it? Okay, it's the late round, main event. We're on to the main event. As always, I'll give you some players that I like more than consensus. This week, we'll talk some bold predictions, which I have three of them for week three. That's not like a trend. I'm not gonna do four for week four and five for week five. That's not a thing that I'm gonna be doing. There was just one that I had to throw in there, and then I do a look ahead waiver wire. Let's look at quarterback first. I know I just took over hosting, didn't I.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: JJ I'm gonna look at quarterback first. I like Caleb Williams this week.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: Oh oh, so now you're gonna be me. Okay, I'm gonna go Caleb Williams this week as my quarterback that I am higher on versus consensus. I have my QB eight consensus QB ten. I could even have them higher. I think shootout potential in this game against Dallas. Dallas right now, it's early, but they're the second best matchup by justin points allowed to quarterbacks, they've allowed eighty three point three more passing yards to be thrown on them versus expected, and that expected is just based on the fact that they played Philadelphia, then they played the Giants, and it looks at and calculates how those teams played against their other opponents versus how they played against Dallas. Now, obviously that's skewed because the Giants went nuts on them this past week. So obviously that's why the number looks the way that it does. But that also should give you confidence about how big of a game Caleb Williams might be able to have. He has eleven rush attempts in two games that first week, he had a good scramble rate. Last week, it was still a decent enough scramble rate, but it was you brought down to earth a little bit. I just like this game a lot. I think that this could be the highest scoring game of this week slate, And so I'm going to lean on Caleb Williams.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, we hope that it's going to be a good game. And with Kayleb Williams, you've got another bear.

00:29:42
Speaker 1: I do I think that I'm like six spots higher with DeAndre Swift versus consensus consensus like RB thirty ish, I'm a RB twenty four. Dallas has been a little bit better against the run than the past, but they've still been pretty bad against the run. Swift did see his backfield share numbers kind of dip last week and get a little bit worse, but there was a weird game script against that Detroit team that put up a fifty burger, as we've talked about, and so I still think DeAndre Swift is going to be their primary guy back there, and maybe they use Kyle Mnungai a little bit more. I don't know if Rochean is back yet or practicing or or there hasn't been any I mean, is there one player on this earth that has gotten less coverage this summer and into the season than Roshan Johnson. It's like he's a forgotten player.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna get hopes up because like Jalen Wright was supposed to be back, I was like, oh, maybe he will do something, and he did not do anything. Yeah, he didn't think the opposite.

00:30:44
Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying like, like I do think that given the fact that. I don't think Manong Guy is like a massively effective player or is going to be. I do think that there's at least an opportunity for Rochean to maybe eventually, you know, get some work. But you know, this game, uh, you know, if you look at Week one with Chicago Minnesota, that was a closer game than what we saw in Week two. And in that game, DeAndre Swift saw all of their running back rushes almost a seventy percent route participation rate. I mean, his backfield chair was awesome. I thought he looked good in that game too. So I think Swift is a really good play this week. Like I think he's a low end RB two, high end RB three. And you know, people don't like DeAndre Swift because of what he's done historically. But if he's the RB one for Chicago in this game and it's going to be you know, we're projecting it to be high scoring, then he should score some fantasy points.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: Yeah. We just need this to be like close, high scoring close. Just don't get blown out by three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. And uh and we're good there, all right, speaking of the team that blew them out, but didn't this guy to do anything. Jamison Williams.

00:31:51
Speaker 1: He had a huge game last week. Yeah, he just didn't. He just didn't have a huge volume game.

00:31:57
Speaker 2: He didn't have an a Monro game.

00:31:59
Speaker 1: No, he didn't have an I'm a same Brown game. But he still came through. He had a big touchdown.

00:32:03
Speaker 2: He had like one touchdownl Right now, I have to go back and look at the game Longs.

00:32:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, he only had like a fourteen percent target chair, but he came through with a decent fantasy stat line because he was able to convert on a on a deep one.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: All right, talk, you talk. I will look up his stat line.

00:32:18
Speaker 1: This game Jamo against Baltimore. I'm seven spots ahead of consensus with him. I could have gone Roma Dunza here too, because I'm really high in a Duneza versus consensus this week. I don't think consensus has caught up to how good a Doonsay started the season. It's very clear to me that he's the wide receiver one, which is going to help my bold prediction that I had in the in the Bold Prediction show from a newsletter slash show from the beginning of the season. What are you gonna say about jo.

00:32:46
Speaker 2: No, you're correct, he didn't have a big game less we he had one hundred and eight yards receiving and a touchdown, right that come off that came off of two passes.

00:32:55
Speaker 1: Right, Well, he had he had a fourteen percent target chair Yeah, yeah, yeah, so he had sixty four yard and then a forty four yarder. Yeah. So they use them in a big play, you know, capacity, and they clearly last week. The game plan was we have a mismatch with alm and Rossain Brown, we're gonna exploit it. But with this game against Baltimore, you have more passing potential because Detroit is an underdog, a decent underdog in this game in Baltimore. He's had a one hundred percent route participation rate this year. I think that if you just match the route participation with the target share, that target share should increase for Jamison Williams. So I'm I'm still pretty optimistic about JMO. You know, it was good to see the offense get get rolling a little bit yesterday. I don't think that this matchup is like, you know, immensely scary, just because there's a back and forth nature to this game. That's that's possible and so That's why I like Jamison Williams, you know, more than consensus does this week, or at least that's why I'm guessing. I think that the consensus is looking at his target share and saying that's what it's going to be from here on out. But I don't think it has to be that way.

00:33:57
Speaker 2: Consistence is doing what I was doing just now.

00:34:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're making the assumption that he had a horrible game. He came through.

00:34:03
Speaker 2: He came through.

00:34:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was fine. He's won for two this year.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: That's right, all right, you got Uh, it's a tight end.

00:34:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyle Pitts at tight end. I mean, look, this is arguably the best matchup on paper. Carolina has already not been good against tight ends to start the year. They were worse against the position last year. Kyle Pitts has seen target shairs of nineteen percent and twenty four percent over his first two games. Uh, he's had a ninety six percent. He had a ninety six percent route share last week. I have met tight end eleven, consensus tight end fourteen. I think Pitts is a very very good play. I could even see him moving up a little bit if I you know, move things around, you know, like because I do move things around after you know, like recalculating some projections and just kind of thinking about things more. Uh, you know, with with the week slate, like there's a possibility he even moves up a little bit.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got that's who I traded Gretch for in the Stacked League?

00:34:56
Speaker 1: What was that trained?

00:34:57
Speaker 2: So I traded Hollywood Brown because I had I had Dallas Goddard and he was hurt so and I couldn't drop anybody because my team was so deep with running backs receivers. So I traded him Hollywood Brown for Kyle Pitts. Ended up getting to win, but he took out Wanda Robinson to start Hollywood Browns. It cost him to win.

00:35:18
Speaker 1: And that was the right move. It was the right process, right Yeah, all right, we.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Go bold predictions for Week three. You can't go five hundred on here, so let's try to go for two for three, all right.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: The first one, Nico Collins I think has his nuclear game, Like, I.

00:35:36
Speaker 2: Think he goes on board with this.

00:35:37
Speaker 1: I think he goes nuts this week. All right. So far, the Texans have faced the Rams and the Buccaneers, both of those teams, right, now their top eight and pressure rate, and I know that those numbers include their games against Houston, but they were also good at getting in the quarterback in the other games as well. Like they can generate pressure, the Rams can generate pressure, and the Bucks have done a good job this year. They actually had more pressures against Atlanta than they did against Houston this past week. So that's the big fear with the Houston Texans and the you know in the offense is the offensive line is that it's just not very good. And so if they can get a little bit more protection for CJ. Stroud, you were able to develop some of those down the field looks. Nico Collins last week still had a thirty nine percent target share. I know Christian Kirk is back, but that might also open things up a little bit for Nico to have a couple of big plays. Jacksonville's not a tough matchup on paper. I think this could be the week that Nico Collins like really really bounces back.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: I'm here for it. And if you look last week, we were talking a little bit before the show, maybe we were talking this morning. He almost had a few like good, they're just say little off. We had nine targets just couldn't connect last week. Yeah, easier opponent.

00:36:52
Speaker 1: I thought Stroud didn't play very well last week either, Right, that plays a role.

00:36:56
Speaker 2: Again. We've talked about that offensive line too. They just have to get their stuff together as well. Where he's not seeing ghosts out there. All right, you got Jordan Mason as a top six running back.

00:37:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jordan Mason. You know. Look, I talked about this earlier. I talked about this on the mail bag. I have genuine questions about how good of a pass catcher he is. With that being said, I then talked about it on Perspectives with Andy Barns, and I mentioned the idea that I've always talked about where I talk about things. I don't know if you guys realize this or not. I talk about a lot of things when it comes to what yeah, yeah, but it's this idea that like how much of a negative is? Like I don't think he's Tank Bigsby bad as a pass catcher, you know, I don't think that he's Brian Robinson bad as.

00:37:43
Speaker 2: A pass catcher. I don't know.

00:37:46
Speaker 1: I should say we don't know for sure because he played with Jamiir gibbson College. You could make the argument very easily that he only had like a three percent target share last year in San Francisco, And why was that the case Because Isaac Garrendo stepped in and he had a better target share than Jordan Mason did. So I think there's like reason to be like cautious and concerned here. With that being said, he had a fourteen percent target share last week, the highest of his career, only second time that he's been over a ten percent share, and this offense might need that outlet for Carson Wentz and they get a really great matchup against Cincinnati. So the bold prediction here is that Jordan Mason is a top six running back this week, even in PPR formats. And the question I'm asking is, you know, we've seen other quarterbacks perform well in this Kevin O'Connell system. What if Carson Wentz is okay?

00:38:36
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:38:37
Speaker 1: What if he's fine?

00:38:38
Speaker 2: What if this is a shootout between Carson Wentz and Jake Browning.

00:38:42
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen, but maybe it happens.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: I'm already gonna pencil you in for one of your quadbox games to be oh, boy Cincinnati.

00:38:50
Speaker 1: Minda, oh boy, we don't need it.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Right, you got a bonus one here and we just talked about him. It's the goat Marcus Maragota.

00:38:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Mariota could be a time a quarterback this week. Okay. So last year he entered two games for this Washington offense. This is with Cliff Kingsbury obviously as offensive coordinator, and he ran the ball a lot, right, So the first game he entered, it was against the Panthers, and it was pretty early on in that game. Now, he obviously didn't like get reps as a starter because Jade Daniels got hurt and like Carolina wasn't prepared for him, and Carolina's defense was future last year and it's bad this year too. But in that game, he ended up running the ball eleven times, you know, thirty four yards in the ground. Some of those were nils at the end of the game. But he was effective. He had like two hundred and five yards through the year, a couple of touchdowns and then and then later in the season last game of the year, they were they were it was a if I if I remember correctly, it was for precautionary reasons. That they took Jayde Daniels out of the game because you know, they were about to go into the playoffs. They didn't need to win that game. And Marcus Mariotto came in like during the second half of that game, and he was a beast on the ground. So in two and in like a game and a half, Mariota had sixteen rush attempts for ninety yards in the rushing touchdown. So I think that there's we know that he can run the ball, so there's juice there. I think this offense is just decent for a backup quarterback to step in because there's some really easy reads in this offense and some stuff you know, like I always talk about, like click, Cliff Kingsbury likes to work horizontally and stuff give you those easy like to debo and to and hopefully McLaurin can get going a little bit more. I do worry a little bit about not having an obvious pass catching back, you know, with Austin Eckler out, but they still have a twenty three point implied total. I have Mariota ranked, like I said, at like QB fifteen or something this week, but I think that he could be a top eight quarterback. So that's gonna be a bold prediction for me this week.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean if you look at his so they had the when he came and played against Carolina started against Carolina eighteen for twenty three two or five yards passing, two passing touchdowns, and thirty four yards rushing. They won forty to seven.

00:41:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:41:05
Speaker 2: I think the week eighteen game is when they played against Dallas, correct, So that's why they kind of took out Jayde Danis. They didn't want him to play two passing touchdowns fifty six yards rushing in a rushing touchdown. Yeah, that's what you want.

00:41:20
Speaker 1: Very possible that he gives us a very usable performance this week, and it's against the defense that we're not that scared of.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's just nice when so many people are looking for quarterbacks that Tea is an option this week. So if you haven't already considered him, maybe you should do. So. All right, let's get to the look ahead waiver wire, and you've got a familiar name on here from the offseason, the preseason, Brishard Smith. Yeah.

00:41:43
Speaker 1: Look, I think that there's a possibility that the Chiefs run game like if they can't go get it going against the Giants this week. That's going to be a problem because the Giants haven't been mackreat against the run to start the year, and you know, there could be a positive game script, so they should like they're gonna need them to get going a little Brishard Smith to me, could be like a Jeric McKinnon in this offense. Now, he doesn't have that much experience as a pure running back, but he's a converted wide receiver. When he played running back last year, he put up really good numbers. He's explosive. He's a type of player that they don't have right now in that offense when they need that explosion, they need that athleticism. And so I'm intrigued by Bershard Smith as a pick up right now before they unleash him a little bit, because if they unleash him even like to a thirty percent snapshare or something, and they give him, you know, three or four targets this week, not to say that's gonna happen, but that's enough for people to jump on the waiver wire and want to get Burshard Smith. And so I'd rather be I've been adding him in leagues right now just to get ahead of the game a little bit, and if it doesn't come to fruition, it doesn't come to fruition, it's fine. You know, I'm just saying I think that this is a very logical move to make because Isaiah Pachecko and Kareem Hunt are not getting it done three point six yards.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: Prepare for both of them. ESPN NFL insider Dan Graziano said, uh, I'll just read what he said. Don't be surprised. At some point soon rookie Brichard Smith gets a shot there we go. They view him as a different kind of back from those two, more of a receiver type who can make explosive plays in space. Once they trust the rookie to handle all the running back responsibilities, he could be a factor in there.

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Off. We talked about this a little bit, I think on the Tuesday show, on the Waiver Wires show, we did Patrons where I brought up Brichhard Smith there too, because you know, whenever you have.

00:43:30
Speaker 2: Someone asked for a look ahead, look ahead waiver Wires what it was, yeah, right, right because Smith?

00:43:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And But like the thing is is that, like I'm always intrigued by players who in backfields who just do something different than what they already have and if what they already have is not working. So like this is the difference between what's going on in Dallas versus what's going on in Kansas City. Javonte Williams is performing, he's giving production. They've been fine, right, Like there's I do think that Jayden Blue is a lot different than Javonte Williams. But the difference is that check and Cream Hunt have not been good. Like Kareem Hunt looks like he's running in mud. Isaiah Pachecko is not decisive. Yeah, and they need something that is dynamic back there, and that player might be Burchard Smith.

00:44:14
Speaker 2: I will say, if there's a week for Pacheco to get righted, be this week.

00:44:17
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I mean, like I don't even mind Pochecko as like a you know RB three type this week, like high end RB three. I'm just saying, we got to look at all the range of outcomes here and and you got to ask the question, what if Pachecko does not perform very well this week, or what if they want to change things around and and get that that uh, you know, dynamic ability back there. That's gonna be brehard Smith as.

00:44:40
Speaker 2: Someone who picked up Ray Davis as a potential waiver wire guy before last night. Yeah, I'm really I'm really wishing it was Burshard Smith.

00:44:49
Speaker 1: Yeah at this point. Yeah, well, if you're on if you're on Yahoo, you can you can drop guys that are on your bench in a lot of leagues. Really yeah, if you're playing on on Yahoo, do.

00:45:01
Speaker 2: You do you like that? No? I don't know.

00:45:04
Speaker 1: I like when players lock because you got to have conviction.

00:45:07
Speaker 2: That's right. All right, speaking of conviction, this guy we had a lot of conviction about.

00:45:12
Speaker 1: As a prospect. As a prospect, Yeah, we knew. We knew that Luther Burdon would get off to a slow start. They like alamide z a Chias. This is just a call out of watch his snapshare, maybe it increases a little bit more. This is sort of like you know, with like Isaac Tesla last week that we had talked about. We saw Isaac Tesla's snapshare improve a little bit more, and then he made another you know, like crazy catch like he's it's it's a let's just see if Burdon gets more of a gets more work this week. Because they need to change something within that team. Mostly on defense in my opinion, but still, you know, bur Burden might see more more work.

00:45:50
Speaker 2: All right, I almost have to put this guy's in the news section. But Isaiah is likely to play this week.

00:45:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why Isaiah Likely is still out there in so many leagues, Like even in leagues that I'm in where I'm playing with like other analysts and stuff, people have forgotten about him.

00:46:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, people, Jones. I mean it's you know, they just yeah. Yeah.

00:46:11
Speaker 1: And Mark Andrews is not playing well right now. Uh, there's plenty of target share up for grabs in that offense because Zay Flower is not going to maintain a forty percent target share this year. So I'm I'm kind of intrigued by Isaiah Likely. I've been. I've been adding him in a lot of spots. I think he should be added before this week because if he goes, then everyone's going to have him on their radar.

00:46:31
Speaker 2: Okay, next one, you almost had this as a fifteen transactions Yep, I did, Coker.

00:46:39
Speaker 1: Jalen Coker. Uh, if you want to just get ahead of you know, xavierly Get not being a very good player and or at least a start worthy player. Uh, Coker could be back in week five, so you're just getting ahead of things with him being on IR If he is out there and you're in your league, all right, is this.

00:46:56
Speaker 2: A day late and dollars short? Oli Gordon?

00:46:59
Speaker 1: Well, but Gordon on there? Like I did with the Thursday Night guys last week with uh, you know the the.

00:47:04
Speaker 2: Washington Running asked me as he said, is this cheating? And I said no, I don't think it's cheating. So I don't think I'll alert ahead to next week's wherever wire.

00:47:11
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the at the backfield shares yet from from last night. Just been busy this morning, but I do think that he's past the eye test, Like I think Alli Gordon looks good in that like short yardage, you know, bigger bodied role. And then there's the upside of injury to Devon ah Chan too, And I liked Gordon as a prospect, so I think he makes a lot of sense to someone to add this week.

00:47:35
Speaker 2: Okay a Chan played seventy three percent of snaps, yeah, and ran eighty percent of the routes, twenty seven percent of the targets, Gordon twenty four percent of the snaps, thirty eight of the rushing attempts, only six percent of routes.

00:47:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's roster worthy when you're considering he's probably the goal line guy.

00:47:54
Speaker 2: He's a rookie and if something happened to an then he could just go nuclear.

00:47:58
Speaker 1: Yeah he looked.

00:47:59
Speaker 2: He looked so good last night. Yeah, all right, this is the the defense. You get the Pats and they're playing Carolina next week.

00:48:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're at home against Carolina next week. That's all you need to know. New England's now Christian zales I keep bringing I was bringing him up a lot on the Sleeper Show because if he's out, I think he's gonna play, because he's been practicing all week. But if he's out, you know, Aaron Rodgers becomes relevant and stuff. But I think that he's a huge piece to that defense, in that secondary. So yes, him being back I think could change the dynamic of that of that defense. And then playing Carolina next week is a really good matchup for defensive streaming purposes.

00:48:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually a Pats defense fan this year.

00:48:36
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been horrible to start the year. They kind of yes, mean they've been really bad to start the year.

00:48:43
Speaker 2: Let me finish, Let me finish. Don't panic. Harold Landry has not been horrible. He's been really good. He was the the edge rusher from the Titans, so we got to know their family here. He actually has more sacks than the Titans do through two games. Just he he's home three and a half sex, so they go putting pressure on them. Okay, all right, that's it for the main events. Are you ready to wrap this up? All right, we've got the quad box. These are the four games we're looking forward to watching. I'm gonna let you go first because I already know from what we've talked about what your what your game is gonna.

00:49:31
Speaker 1: Be Cowboys Bears as my top one. I gotta I just I'm really like, I think there's a lot of fantasy potential in this game, and a lot of fantasy players that we look at. Look at you just randomly capitalizing.

00:49:45
Speaker 2: No, what what does that bark you? No?

00:49:51
Speaker 1: I think it's it adds character, it does bother No. I really I really am interested in watching the Cowboys Bears game, not just because I think there'd be a lot of scoring, but I have a lot of Cowboys and Bears in my fantasy teams this year.

00:50:03
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, Cowboys and Bears one of the top uh Glyn and Ravens for the only game that projected to score more points. And those two aren't even close to the rest of the games. So okay, looking at these at these games, man, some of them are going to be pretty brutal. So I'm gonna go with one that I'm interested in, and that is this, this Chiefs Giants games.

00:50:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one is interested in the Chiefs Giants game.

00:50:40
Speaker 2: But what if here's what here? What if? What if it is like we didn't we didn't think last week was gonna be that good of a like a fantasy game. And look what Molak neighbors did. I am just I want I want the whole Russ Wilson Bleak name thing to be a thing, and I want like a high scoring game.

00:51:06
Speaker 1: There was a report today saying that Jackson Dark could start next week.

00:51:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's even more reason.

00:51:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's yeah, let's just go with the guy that might be benching on what an intriguing game?

00:51:19
Speaker 2: No, did you like the Cowboys and Giants game last week? Yes? Or no? No?

00:51:25
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's gonna repeat. It could though it's what I'm saying it could there are you just took that game over Lions Ravens.

00:51:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lions Ravens was the easy one.

00:51:37
Speaker 1: Okay, Well put Ravens up there because that's part of our quad box we got. I cannot believe that I'm gonna be sitting at this quad box watching these games and it's gonna be Chiefs Giants.

00:51:47
Speaker 2: I have, so I've got a bunch of neighbors, though, I've got a lot of Xavier Worthy. I want this off this Chiefs offense. I want them to figure it out. So that's that's why.

00:51:58
Speaker 1: Maybe Lions Ravens next.

00:52:00
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll put lines in Ravens for mine, and then you got to come up with another game that you're looking forward to.

00:52:12
Speaker 1: It's a bad slate. Yeah, I think that there's intrigue with the backup Quarterback Bowl with the Vikings and Bengals. But I'm gonna go Rams Eagles for the other one.

00:52:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the other one. I was considered.

00:52:25
Speaker 1: The Rams played them well in the playoffs last year. You know, maybe we uh we see the Eagles passing attack do a little bit better this week and get a little bit more juice going. Yeah, after playing you know, so conservatively in week one and then having to play in Kansas City in week two, but you know, evidently the Giants are going to be better than the Eagles were offensively last week.

00:52:47
Speaker 2: Okay, someone doesn't like island games and guys going off in island games. Do you remember a Sunday night football game where mister Odell Beckham just went nuclear? It had the one handed cat.

00:53:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely should. We definitely should be choosing our quad box based on something that happened eleven years ago.

00:53:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, here's the thing with the quad box. I'm glad you picked Rams Eagles because that's the one o'clock game. We got two afternoon games with Cowboys and Bears, Lions and and then Chiefs. No, when's the lines of Ravens play.

00:53:21
Speaker 1: That's Monday night? We got we got, we got one from every single so.

00:53:23
Speaker 2: We got we have it covered. This is perfect, This is perfect. You not liking island games.

00:53:30
Speaker 1: I love island games. I just hate island games when they start at ten pm Eastern. Yeah, it's ridiculous.

00:53:37
Speaker 2: So you're not You're not gonna watch the Giants and Chiefs game.

00:53:41
Speaker 1: No, I'll watch that game because it's not gonna start at ten thirty or ten o'clock. I even watched the ten o'clock game because I had to.

00:53:49
Speaker 2: Kitchen wants to live a little JJ, thank you. We have one person that voted for the Rams and Eagles or another person, thank you Rams Eagles. That have is the game that people are excited about, so we captured that could be.

00:54:06
Speaker 1: A pretty boring game realistically. Yeah, the possibility that it's not that back and forth.

00:54:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chiefs Giants can be more exciting than Rams Eagles. I don't know about that much, unlimited. That's that's all you need to know.

00:54:21
Speaker 1: I would say that a game that would be more entertaining than Chiefs and Giants would be the Texans Jags.

00:54:30
Speaker 2: If you like drama, if you like soap operas.

00:54:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like fantasy football.

00:54:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Titans and Colts would be the game.

00:54:39
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, get out of here.

00:54:42
Speaker 2: People think people think that Titans up.

00:54:45
Speaker 1: Tuning in because you're Titans homerism.

00:54:48
Speaker 2: But this would be the week though you agree, right?

00:54:51
Speaker 1: No? No, actually I don't. I don't really want to watch a team that has one offensive touchdown through two weeks and has targeted their running backs twice. Oh my gosh, Titans offense has been horrible.

00:55:06
Speaker 2: Did you like watch the Dolphins game last night?

00:55:09
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because they actually played well exactly, they played well.

00:55:13
Speaker 2: Also, what the Titans play well?

00:55:15
Speaker 1: The Titans haven't done anything.

00:55:17
Speaker 2: I realized that, and that's what I'm saying, Like it's they're due for at least something. Give cam Ward the keys and just let him drive this. It's all I'm saying.

00:55:27
Speaker 1: What could go wrong?

00:55:27
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00:56:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been It's been good for everyone, but Deve has been on their best behavior.

00:56:09
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00:56:26
Speaker 1: No, I'm good. I'm excited for week three.

00:56:28
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