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We had a down to the wire Thursday night football game. What a game. And we need to talk about it. Oh, yes, we do.
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It was awesome to go right from the draft immediately into incredible amounts of pain guys. Really just right. Right. So look, the storyline last night, Chiefs 27, Ravens 20.
26. Um, and from a fantasy perspective in this game, we saw some things that we hoped for. We saw the heavy involvement of Rashi Rice. I am really curious about what you thought last night meant for the Chiefs offense because you saw a very poor game from Travis Kelsey from a target perspective, just four in the game.
You saw two highlight plays from Xavier worthy, which were incredible showing off his speed. You don't have Hollywood Brown back in this offense yet. No, Greg got involved. Pacheco in the passing game, but Rashi Rice had nine targets.
He was seven for 103. I believe. And I don't remember, but I believe everyone of them was like the same play. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. It was the unstoppable slant. So I mean, this is the middle of the Michael Thomas is somewhere just furious because we're all like, she's great. I mean, people like Michael Thomas only once were one.
Right. This is the thing that like in this offense, you can be somewhat one-dimensional and still provide weekly fantasy value. And I'm not like, Rice is, Rice is not a complete wide receiver in the sense that he doesn't run down field. He's not doing a bunch of deep dig routes or outs.
But his role in this offense and the speedy as after the catch provide tremendous upside. Now I do think some rice is going to come at the expense of some calcium, some calcium, some rice in the middle of the field. Well, we saw that a lot last season. I mean, if you look at, if you remember how last season went, the first half of the year, Kelsey was unbelievable.
Everyone was happy they spent the fifth overall pick on him. And then it was, you know, as Rice got more and more involved in the second half of the year, Rice was, you know, a top 20 wide receiver in fantasy. Kelsey started going away a little bit because he was, you can't pass to both guys on the same play. No.
And they dominate the same part of the field sometime. Exactly. So if you're passing it to Rice over and over and over on a play that can't be stopped and just works, why would you stop it? And then Kelsey can't get in on that play.
Folkland do not leave this episode for one second because I have to finish this recap. But I'm just, Mike has been putting it to a laundry machine since last night. And Jason said he was rooting for some things to happen just for the entertainment of the show. And they don't stop.
So just stay with us when we get into the news. I want to get to the headline story here by a wide margin. And that was Mark Andrews struggles in the game and Isaiah likely is nine for 111 and a touchdown in the game. The panic, look, I had my fatherly moment on the show where I said, don't panic because that's all we can do.
And an island game, a problem like that for Mark Andrews where Mike had just literally picked him in our draft and had the joy of getting to watch a Thursday night football game with your player, Mike. Oh man. How was, how fun was that? Oh, it was great.
I yelled at the, I yelled at Lamar a lot to please just throw the ball to Mark Andrews. I yelled at the Chiefs a lot to stop being weirdos and dumb double covering Mark Andrews on every single play. But their plan worked. Yeah.
I mean, it was, and so people want to know from us right away, do we, do we tell you that your panic is valid in the Mark Andrews, Isaiah likely, or do we tell you to chill? Because, you know, is it proper reaction is improper reaction? And to me, as the person that has Mark Andrews, the lowest ranked in his draft order, not super low, five, but that was kind of low compared to the show. I wanted to jump into the film and take a look and say, what was true about last night's game and what's true about Isaiah likely and how should you be reacting?
What I came away with, oh, it's every snap that Mark Andrews was on the field and I came away with a message of do not panic. This is not, this is not a situation that I believe you need to worry about Mark Andrews. He had very, very few opportunities in this game to even be targeted. He was bracket covered every single time he was down the field beyond about five yards minus a handful of times where he had opportunities to get a dump off a yard away from the line of scrimmage.
He had one one on one match up in the middle of the field that he won and caught the ball in the second half. But he basically was the victim of several things in this game. Number one, Steve's bagnola and the chief's defense made the decision they've made five times in a row, which was to remove him from the office. So they bracket covered him on the last two plays of that game when they were in the red zone trying to score.
There were three players. It was a triple. The one play where it so likely goes down in the corner in a heap and you're like, oh my gosh, is Isaiah likely? Is this a collarbone?
What is going on? And so the next play likely is not on the field. Mark Andrews is triple covered in the end zone. In the first half, Mark Andrews had these are the only opportunities for a target he even had.
Okay, a dump off didn't get targeted. A dump off. He caught it. It was a penalty.
It was called back and another dump off opportunity. He didn't get targeted. That was it. That was the entire first half where he wasn't if you weren't the worst quarterback in football, like anybody can force the ball to anybody.
But these are like not even choices. Lamar Jackson could not try to target him. And in the second half, a couple more, he actually caught two passes in the second half, but it was like non-existent. They took him out of the offense.
Yeah, against the Ravens here, the last five games, you have a game with zero for zero, a game with three for 15, three for 22, five for 57. He had one mediocre game and then two for 14. I wanted to look at the film in particular to see if there were routes that he was not able to separate, that he wasn't winning. Did he look slower because of an injury?
Could he not get away from a one on one defender? There was none of that. That would have been panic alarm for me because I went into the season saying, like, there's three things that are true in my opinion on this situation. One, the chief stuck him out of the offense.
Don't panic. Two, Isaiah likely is a great player. Yeah. He said repeatedly, they can't keep him off the field.
There's no way. And three, Mark Andrews peak is behind him. I fundamentally believe that his peak of his career is behind him. He's gone and for multiple reasons.
Often, the coordinator changes injuries that he has sustained multiple times and different personnel in the offense. That doesn't mean he's not a top five tied in. It just means that people's careers change. I still think these are scored tons of times.
And the best way I think you can look at this as a fantasy player is to pretend for one night that Isaiah likely is a wide receiver. Because if you pretend that Isaiah likely was a breakout wide receiver for the Ravens last night, if you threw all his numbers on Rashad Beighton for just a moment in your head, what a dream we can do. You would then be able to look at the market and do a situation objectively and say, it was an off night. It's not like there haven't been those in the game log in his career.
He was also coming off a car accident where he didn't practice for three entire weeks, which game planning wise, the Ravens basically just said, we can't do stuff downfield. We're going to throw it in the screen game. We're going to dump it off the Justice Hill and Isaiah likely likely the majority of his catches were very short. Was Andrews bracketed downfield and likely basically being an out route that was two feet from the line of screaming.
He was playing at an Ingram role. Yeah, his one big play, the touchdown, huge credit to Isaiah likely amazing play. The chance of the touchdown that play was 0.3%. That was a really broken play.
So to me, there's two conversations. One is Mark Andrews done. The answer to me is no. He will be fine if you can buy low buy low.
The second one is what is Isaiah likely? I'm going to toss it to you, Jason. What is he moving forward? How do people react to him on the waiver wire and so forth?
He's a worthy pickup. I see this as a situation that could be the reminiscent of the Hernandez and Gronk scheme where it's like, you just have, he's their next best receiver. You have Bateman and Agalor. Those guys are great at running down the field and making the defenses, you know, back up a little bit, but they're not good wide receivers.
They're not like, they're certainly not going to be massive target getters. So I think I'd say likely is necessary for this offense. And now there's three targets here, which, you know, is not what we prefer. I would prefer it to be too.
It's sure, you know, target consolidation for FANIS football. But the other issue, the one thing that you haven't brought up yet, and this was a concern before the game is what is the Ravens offensive line? The Ravens offensive line, they lost three starters from last year and the answer is out. They suck.
They're going to have to figure it out. They're going to have to get better because they were just trash. And that means a little bit more blocking for either. Isaiah likely is a good blocker.
Mark Andrews is a good blocker. They're both good passcatchers. So you're just going to have it spread around a little bit more. Thankfully, I mean, this is a good pass rush.
You know, you're not going to play Chris Jones every week. Yeah. And he was just dominating them. So that's a good point.
And in her Henry, the Game Strip's hurt Henry. That would be the other storyline he got in the end zone. This is what a bad game for Derek Henry looks like, which is a goal line opportunity if he doesn't convert. It's a huge stud, but he normally converts and he did.
He was fine. And if you watch them, you might be freaking out that you saw so much Justice Hill and he wasn't in as much in the fourth quarter. The truth is you're not going to be trailing in games very often as the Ravens. You're playing the back to back Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes led team in Arrowhead.
There's a bad game strip for him. The people out there will, can other teams see this and then just duplicate this against the Baltimore Ravens. Yes, they have Chris Jones. And I would say no, because of that one, different coordinators have different ideals of this is how I stop an offense to they have the they don't have the personnel to do it.
The the the offensive line is a problem. I agree with that. But it's you are you won't be playing this ferocious of a pass rush every single week. And the like the zoom out of this is hilarious to me of like it's just it's a perfect snapshot of fantasy football.
Mark Andrews catches two passes for 14 yards. And look the when he fell down, after that on his little short out breaking route, that was kind of like the exclamation point of like you gotta be kidding me. So he puts up that and likely is great. And it's I mean, my my time line is do I do a full fab dump on Isaiah like do I drop the mark for Isaiah like and on the other side.
Travis Kelsey drafted higher than Mark Andrews and I would say 90 plus percent of fancy football leagues catches three passes for 34 yards. Really not that much better. If no gray went nine for one eleven and this would be the conversation. And then so you have that situation, which I'm sure the people have Kelsey were were mad and as well they're just the mark Andrews took over Twitter.
And then you look at the running back situation people for your concern about Derek Henry's splits which this is this is who Derek Henry is as a player. Like this is what happened last year. Tennessee. Touchy spirits.
Kyle how many passes out snapped them? Yeah, they had the same snaps as like 50 53. But it was like Touchy Spears caught so many passes. And you're like, okay, Derek Henry, 13 carries 46 yards with a teddy long long long on the night was nine yards.
He had two targets and then Isaiah Pacheco were celebrating the workhorse role of Isaiah Pacheco because he was on the field. So, so, so much. 15 carries along the five one touchdown. So two more carries and one extra target.
He caught one fewer yard in the running. It's it. Yeah. I'm not saying don't celebrate Pacheco because that was that was fantastic.
Jason over here. You're my guy hoping for the workhorse role. It looks like it is there. I'm 80 percent of snaps.
He basically only left the field to vomit, which was right. Awesome. He must have got hit like right in the liver or something. That was so hard.
He was down. This is don't forget these were the number one and number two defenses in football so like from an efficiency standpoint in the running game, I mean, obviously there are personnel changes, but but things are going to be more efficient for both offenses for Kelsey for Andrews for Pacheco for Henry. You can be really excited about Xavier worthy and the explosive plays. That's what you're going to get.
You're not going to get eight receptions from him. And I think that's kind of where you leave it. Zae Flowers was heavily involved, but right now they I was still that was the same exact day for our last year of was this is this is a player who in the NFL is twitching fast enough to make real NFL defenders look bad a lot and it still it still didn't turn into very much for fantasy football and then my final comment here was Lamar by the end of the game. Oh gosh 122 rushing yards, but Lamar Jackson looked like me playing Madden with Lamar Jackson of me in the second half.
Nothing's working for my past game. Screw this crap. I'm doing it myself. That's what it looked like.
He looked like he got really really flustered and said I'm just going to grab the controller and you know what the truth is is they were a tippy toe from this game and overtime game. So don't overtime. They were going to go for two. Yeah, they were so I mean this game was when you say oh did it work to take out Andrews.
Yeah, right when you say that it worked they have no office of line for Baltimore. Barely like I mean they Baltimore's got bright days ahead. Yeah, they're there. So well coached you know they're going to figure it out.
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So I don't know where you guys want to start but I'm going to start with the most entertaining. The bangles. So Mike has been petitioning for Jamart Chase to be to be signed. He's still not signed.
Yeah. And then last night, I mean, we had our League of Records. We shared a lot of stuff on social media. If you saw it, you saw that there's a player who's back on my team for the third year in a row.
Blue arm on. I couldn't believe it. I was the pick after him and I already knew guys. I'm trying to be a new man.
Let me go deeper. Let me go deeper because this this draft started. It's a keeper league. The top three picks four picks, not the same names that you see in a redraft.
Jamart Chase was on the board. He went number one. Mike's sitting at number two. He could take AJ Brown and everyone expected him to take AJ Brown.
He then starts playing his famous No Pants song music with Marvin Harrison who, you know, when he was drafted Mike made a song about not wearing pants anymore because he was so excited from coming to Arizona. He starts playing the song and he shocks the world. Yeah. So he starts playing that he takes Marvin Harrison and it too.
He shocks the league. He starts screaming about how no one's ever going to have him ever again because he's going to be a franchise player. Yeah, forever. And he, you know, Mike, he lives on the kind of potential hatred of others.
So he takes he takes Harrison, which then leads him into a Mark Andrew selection instead of training bride because he didn't want to double up on Cardinals. And then he was punished for that choice. Oh, big time by Mark Andrew. Big time.
So he's in a somewhat he's in a very slouched couch position for the whole game screaming at Lamar Jackson. Then in the draft later on, we expect him he's got other wide receivers on the board. He's gone through a painful painful life experience with T Higgins repeatedly. I'm one pick away.
There's tank down and T Higgins like in a tier by themselves sitting there. And I just knew I knew he there's no way he'll take the pain of T. No, he's not opting into the chance of pain like that. No way.
T Higgins has hurt you deeply the last couple of years. You said it so many times. I opted into optimism. Glass half full T Higgins is ready to roll.
He's on the franchise. He's playing for that. So you took a kid. Now what's the news?
So there was a report right after the draft. Yeah. That T Higgins was added to the injury report. Oh, man.
He was limited in practice with the hamstring injury, which he's had every year of his life. And so that's cool. And then today did not practice with a hamstring injury. Now, I just like the Mark Andrew's thing.
I do want it when I see in general there is a hamstring pop up and then you don't practice afterwards. That's red alert for me. Yes. However, in this situation, I don't think it is red alert.
If you watch, I do need to give you the Zach Taylor comments on 10 minutes ago. When asked about Jamar Jason's availability, he said quote, we'll see. When asked about T Higgins availability, he said, we'll see. Well, no, okay.
Look, I'm signing up with team optimism. All right. Because because a couple, you know, it was like a broken man, right? It was a week ago where Zach Taylor said something nice.
And then said, I learned my lesson. I put my foot in my mouth. I spoke too soon. And since that time, every comment to every question is basically.
T Higgins has dealt with a hamstring injury to some degree in every year since 2019. He in heart is pointing that out. That is a that's five years of your hamstring, sir. There was an interview with him after his limited practice yesterday.
And in that interview, he is talking about how he's 100% fine. He feels amazing. He feels like he hasn't gone into week one feeling healthier than this week. And so to me, from the Bengals, and there's any worry, I'm gonna give him rest.
Now, obviously, if he exactly came out and said he tweaked his hamstring. Yeah. So that's not good. But I'm saying, yes, of course you give him rest because he tweets his hamstring.
Look, I'm saying when you have a history of hamstring injuries, there's no problem with him here. And don't play and your head coach says you did tweak it. That just gives me pause. Yes, as you should.
And one of T Higgins favorite things is to start games. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I cannot finish me.
I mean, if he goes out there, I mean, obviously, you're starting to Higgins this week, like you're currently if he's active for the game, you're starting. And if he injures his hamstring in this game week one, I don't I feel like you're gonna rage drop. I don't I won't deal with this. I mean, this is bad for Joe Burrow.
He might not have his top two receivers that he's a in the range of outcomes this weekend is to have neither. That is unbelievable. Also, if I'm Yoshi, yeah, yes of us. And then if I'm if I'm tomorrow Chase and I see my my man T Higgins sitting out and like maybe not being able to play on Sunday, I don't think I'm practicing.
Yeah, that sends a good message. Like you really need me. Yeah. We like week one.
Kyle says without both of us. Kyle was dealing with the hamstring. He practiced in full. He said he was he also came out like T and said I'm fine.
He did practice in full. Russell Wilson was added to the injury report on Thursday with calf tightness from what I had seen from Ian Rappaport. Yeah, Ian Rappaport had said that like this team is traditionally very conservative with calf injuries. So you could see Justin Fields.
Also, this is I mean, this was his injury he had. He was dealing with a calf injury earlier. That's why he missed some time in camp. So now if it's re aggravated, you I mean, you should be picking up Justin Fields.
Justin Fields from from a fantasy football perspective is a great quarterback. He starts for week or multiple weeks or whatever. And this is against Atlanta, I believe week one. That would be that would be awesome.
Mike was on your team because I see a report that just the best running back in football. Chris McAfee is listed on the injury report with the calf and Achilles is expected to play. And it the what was the last news coming out on Chris McAfee or I have seen everything from I got 100%. He is good to go.
But then we John Lynch on the radio. This was doing great. We have to finish the week. Yeah, we have to finish the week.
Looks like Christian. And that's a good thing for us. Obviously, we want to see him progress through the week. We had confidence he'll be ready.
He'll be ready to know it's you. You got to get the tents of everything. This is we had confidence he'd be ready dot dot dot. He'll be out there and ready to go.
Hat. What? We don't need this in week one. Listen, coaches, we don't need this.
We need this is the whole. Why do we play again? For pain only for pain Antonio Gibson on the injury report as well. And then yeah, I think that's it for the news.
So we've got so much to talk about today. It doesn't really affect things. But for tonight's game, March on Lloyd and Emmanuel Wilson are questionable. Josh Jacobs might play 100% of the steps for the Green Bay Packers tonight.
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All right. Time to get you ready. Time to you know, week one's weird. Week one's weird because we don't have anything on the history so far this year about how these teams are trending.
So it's all about the storylines. You're normally starting your studs and playing the guys you just drafted. So we're going to jump in and see what storylines matter. It's time for fantasy forecast presented by Draft King Sportsbook.
We covered seven games yesterday. Packers, Eagles, Steelers, Falcons, Cardinals, Bills, Titans, Bears, Patriots, Bengals, Texans, Colts, Texans, Colts. And we're jumping into the rest of them today and have something fun at the end of the show as well. Jacksonville travels to Miami to take on the Dolphins.
The Draft King Sportsbook line here, Dolphins minus three over under is 49 this morning. The Dolphins made Jalen Ramsey the highest paid corner back with a new extension. He is probably still good. He's still good.
But you might not play in this game is the point I was going to bring up. He's very questionable to play. This game has a 49 point over under DK has the Dolphins minus three. You know, the history of the last two years of Miami has come out and kind of blown people away offensively.
That is one of the reasons why two was Jason started the week yesterday. H and most of them should both be in your lineup. Tyree Kale, Jalen Waddle, who is off the injury report, Mike, so you get a break there. So it's pretty easy on the dolphin side of the football.
I think the biggest storyline is just how many backs, you know, how many running backs and how are they used? You know, is it a two man rotation? Is it a two man rotation? Is it right getting involved?
And playing the slot? Yeah. And what's the goal line looking like? Is it a trade off?
Is it one man? Yeah, the running backs are what you're going to be watching. And I think what you're going to see is quite a bit of what you saw at the end of last season, which is both backs on the field at the same time. You'll have they run that more than most teams.
And that's because of the personnel. And you're going to see the bond H and the slot a lot. And I can't wait. Yeah, like DK has his line set right now at 21 and a half receiving yards.
Is that for H and? Yeah, that is for for H and so they're like, 21 receiving hours, like that's expecting a healthy dose. Yeah, for a running guy. On the other side of the football, Travis, CTN, he's going to get it all.
I think they're going to give Big's be a chance in this game. They're going to say like, okay, we want you to use you, Big's be and then it's up to Big's be by what I mean. I'm sure he could really quickly tell him. Just give him just give it.
I just believe that there's a possibility that if we had never mentioned Hank Big's game name during the entire offseason and up to this moment, it would have been more beneficial for fantasy players than if we had. Okay, but that's just because I believe Trev CTN is that good of a player and that important of a player and they're going to be needing him tremendously in this game to keep up. Kirk, we talked about the fact that Christian Kirk right now, three wide, they're going to do that a lot. But Evan Ingram was a dominator in the middle of the field.
I do believe that that was something that was further established. This was not just incidental accidental. Ingram to me is a court and this is opinion, right? This is not statement of fact.
In my opinion, what Evan Ingram did last year and did so far this preseason further confirms that his role in the middle of the field is very, very secure. It's one of the reasons why I believe Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas Jr. are the outside starting wide receivers and I think that's going to limit Christian Kirk from an outside standpoint. I think there's more vulnerability and worry in my mind about Kirk than there has been in previous years.
Yeah, the wide receivers, that's the big story is between the three of them. How are they actually utilized this? Chris, last year week one, it was a full panicle arm on Christian Kirk of he was only on three wide receivers. He was not utilized very much.
And then Christian Kirk went on to have before the injury. We don't have a really good season. So that's it is something to watch. And like, this is just the top of the head of, you know, like Miami has this at this time of year, it's hot, it's nasty, it's muggy down in Miami.
And they're playing another Florida team. I wonder if they're actually going to have that much of an advantage or not, whether wise. Yeah, I mean, that's a good point. They won't have an advantage.
Otherwise, but I do think that this is a game I want a part of these two defenses are mid and those two offices can be really, really good. So like, I think people are going to be questioning, can I start Trevor Lawrence over maybe some of these guys I drafted? I there are, I would. You know, really?
Yeah, I would like Joe Burrow against the Patriots. Like hobbled wide receiver. You know, it's like, I think I'd rather take a shot of Lawrence in this game. Would you play Brian Thomas in his debut or Jameson Williams Sunday night football against the Rams?
We haven't seen Brian Thomas do it yet. So I would take him because we have seen James and not do it. Okay, we've got our opinions. I would play Brian Thomas this week.
The Carolina Panthers traveled to New Orleans to take on the Saints. The drafting sports with line Saints minus four, the overunters 41 and a half in this game at a very low. Come on, Panthers. Come on, Panthers.
Do it for me. Do it for me. Do it for America. This is part of your five step plan to remove Dennis Allen from that's correct.
The five steps are the first five games. This is that one. Shock the world Carolina. So look, they're going to have an opportunity.
Right now the DK Sportsbook line has the Saints minus four, the overunters 41 and a half. Dave can now is very likable. Dennis Allen, very unlikable. Carolina, I am so excited to see this game.
The Saints defense was not what it had been last year in terms of fantasy points given up across the board, especially against running backs. They had been locked down forever and then they were beatable there. I think that Cuba is a very good spot start in which you've got. If you've got Cuba, you got really, really late.
Miles Sanders, which we have listed as Miles Moneybags Sanders. I enjoy that. Is that him getting paid and doing nothing? Yeah, he's hurt.
Yes. He has thinking, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Some sort of hand slash finger. There's nothing more to meaning of an injury for you to say to someone that Miles Moneybag has a thing problem. Yeah. So finger hurts.
Look, I think that Cuba is going to be very active in this game. He averaged over 21 opportunities over the final seven weeks. And he was good. He was good on them.
And for a team that couldn't throw the football, you think about how defenses were playing that are offense. Bryce Young, we'll see what he's like with. Yeah, I'm excited for Dontay. Yeah, I really am.
I'm excited for the new refresh of this team to see if we can get something out of it. The player that I'm watching for, the storyline that I want to see on the Carolina side is Xavier LeGette. I want to see, I don't expect him to get a ton of snaps, but I want to see how they use him and how he is against NFL defenders, because I'm really excited about his physical talents. Six, three, almost 230.
Yeah, he's really still that big. Is he still that big? I don't think he's drinking. Well, I just like, you know, weights fluctuate.
So that was a legitimate question. The amount of food, the food we ate last night, I want the foot clean to know. You thought it was like, I saw somebody say like, Oh, man, it's cool. They're doing a show right before their, their League of Records draft.
I would have been prepping. Nothing compares to us being here today after the food we ate yesterday. It's a miracle. We're all here.
Yeah, I think we generally been eating healthier and then, you know, undrafted calories on count. Right. So can you erase six months work than one day? Because I try.
Yeah, you did. You did. It was unhealthy food, but you put it down, brother. Eight raising kids, like, we're good.
That was dinner though, because that was after the what the four slices of people. It's good. It's good. I mean, we're people here for the world, but it's a lot.
Yeah, I had conversations with all eight all night long. So we got Carolina's story line there. We're going to be optimistic. So you said we have no optimism.
We'll be optimistic. Not that optimistic with DK having Bryce Young at 200 passing yards, but two or five, two or five. But we don't we set our lines based on what we've known in the past, not when we know for the future. So we can have some hope on the other side.
Derek Carr gets to lead this offense. Alvin Camara. I'm very curious to see what his involvement. If it's going to look the exact same as last year, I think most of us think it will.
Olavian Shaheed will be on the outside in this office. Shaheed is somebody that is still interesting to me. Late in draft, I was taking shots at wide receiver twos, just seeing, you know, some of these guys that have not been pro-levian fantasy players that have an opportunity to be the starter. Michael Thomas is gone.
Shaheed will be out there a lot through this. She's third season. He has kept pace with Olavian in terms of touchdown pacing. So when you look at opportunities late in your draft, he's had a connection with Carr, I'm keeping my eyes on him.
I think start him. He's just one of those players where if you came out in week two and he was like a waiver wire pickup because he scored twice, it would not show. Yeah, he's a guy you might want on your bench heading into the week. The question mark for me on the Saints side is Taysom Hill, how involved he is a running back.
And I expect him to- Talking about my new side in League of Records, guys. Did you just pick him up? Yeah, because of Mark Anderson. No, I think he's good.
And if you're questioning whether you moved up the queue just in case if you got him or Bowers or Goddard or Shultz, I would start Taysom Hill over all those guys. All right. We're all hoping Olavian pays off on the draft price. So he'll be somebody to watch too.
They get off to a good start. And Caroline is defensive. He was very good. And so I'm optimistic that they can get things going this year.
Minnesota at New York, the Giants, Drafting Sports with Line, Minnesota on the road are one and a half point favorites. The overunters. What? Wow.
Yeah. 41 and a half. Are we sure? Can you double check that?
I'll check it. I have some what's closet optimism for the Vikings being a little bit more surprising. You need to beat. You don't say that aloud.
Yeah. People are listening. He's been saying it for a little while. I'm looking at it right now.
The Vikings are one and a half point favorites on the road. I guess the Giants with Sam Darnell. Yes. Because Sam Darnell, this offense had some success last year with a Missalany of quarterbacks because the system in place, the coaching staff, Kevin O'Connell and the offense, they do it the right way.
And you talk about being like, it's a little bit like Shanahan. Shanahan had a lot of success with Nick Mullins with various backups because the system in place was very, very conducive to game management. And I think Sam Darnell, when you have Jefferson and Addison, when you have Aaron Jones out of the backfield, I do think that there's a chance that this is a better than you think offense with Darnell. I'm just, I don't want to be the guy that said it.
I don't want to be the believer in Sam Darnell because I'm really not. But I do think that Darnell has been given every chance to fail as an NFL quarterback. Well, he sees those opportunities. He sees those opportunities.
So from a starting perspective, is there anybody on the bubble on the Minnesota side that you are, you're dancing like whether or not you would consider it? I think Jordan Edison is on the bubble of, I don't mind you saying that the Minnesota offense could have some success here. But with him having the ankle injury, remember it's, we're not high ankle spray. Yeah, we're not that far removed from that dark, dark day for Minnesota Vikings fans when JJ McCarthy was ruled out for the season.
And then as in went down, it was carted off because of high ankle spray. I think it was the same day or it was like it was at least rapid when those those two pieces came out. So because of that and just what he, his role in this offense, I'm, I would have some pause putting them out there. Maybe there could be a better option.
What about the other side of the football? The other side of the football I think Devin Singletary is an okay play every week. It's volume. It's just volume.
We expect him to be, you know, he's a flex option. He's not an RB2. I think he's an RB3 that will have enough utilization where you hope he's involved in the passing game. I think that's where he'll have enough value.
Malik neighbors is, I think, I'm just excited to see him. I want to start him. The Vikings, if they, their defense was much better last year with Flores, but they were beat at wide receiver. I don't know if Stefan Gilmore still got, you know, the lockdown shadow ability against the young Malik neighbors.
Would you play Singletary or Chuba? I would play Chuba. Yeah, good for you. I played that field.
Bad. Yeah. Um, Zmir White or Singletary? Zmir White.
I think, I think Zmir gets off to an okay start to the season. And Andy, how's your confidence on Malik with his DK line set net five and a half receptions? Very confident. Very confident.
Was pleased that Jason made him a start of the week yesterday. Very good. He's got, he was one of the players that we had somebody in our league be extremely aggressive, like gave up pickings and picks to go get Malik neighbors earlier than I think people thought he might go off the boarder about where he was supposed to go. So very competitive market for Malik neighbors because the upside is so outrageous and it will be worth it if he can perform like we expect.
So Denver at Seattle. Okay. Well, drafting sports by the line here, Seattle minus six. The over under 41 and a half.
That gives Denver just a 17 point in point total. Boney X is making his debut. I like targeting rookie quarterbacks for defense. Generally, it's delightful.
And from what I remember Seattle is not the most fun place to go and play it. So I think it could be a little bumpy from the Denver side. The nice thing is that the way Boney X plays football, you'd hope he and the way Sean Payton coaches him, you'd hope they'd be conservative. But that doesn't mean good things for fantasy.
No, it doesn't mean good things for fantasy. And I think it means not good things necessarily for the Seahawks defense either. I do like that the Seahawks are home. If you want to use them as a streaming candidate, but their defense is not very good.
And if Boney X was very experienced runs the Sean Payton system, well, I think this will be a little bit of a boring game. That's that's my expectation. Corland Sutton dropped really far in draft. Jolyne McAlaughlin as well.
The storyline on that side to me is you know, outside of Sutton, who is most involved in the passing game. And then what does the running back rotation look like with Jevonti? And how does Jevonti look himself? This is the perfect matchup for Jevonti.
I think it's a very good start of the week for you. Mike, if Jevonti is going to have success this season, he will find out right off to that. He's going to be utilizing the receiving game. You have a bad Seahawks rush defense.
And you know, there's just no one else of note after Corland Sutton. So I think, you know, this is this is someone who was number one in targets per out run last year. And Sean Payton throws to the running backs. Yeah, with all those receptions for Jevonti and the DK rushing line sitting at 15 and a half yards rushing.
I do. I believe that Jevonti is going to come out and be a strong start. Now the the top part of that is just going to be the game script and the passing work and Seattle's heavily favored on that side of the ball. Kenneth Walker, the bone zone.
Yeah, baby. Can bone. Did you did you try to put bones on in the dot Kyle? Yeah, yeah, but you put bone town.
That's not bone town. No, no, no, Boston. Boston. Boston.
No. Kyle, are you? I don't know if I want to know if I had a water bottle. I'd be spritzing you in the face.
I don't know. I was at a mistake because if it wasn't a mistake, it's worse. He went rogue. He's trying to change the nickname.
No, you thought I would run burgundy that one. I was hoping that I just go Kenneth bone town Walker. No, it's the bone zone. It's the bone zone.
It's way better. Play him. His DK line is 67 and a half rushing yards, which is awesome. This is a huge storyline.
Honestly, the Seattle office is going to be extremely fascinating to watch going from the Pete Carroll regime, Waldron, where they don't throw the ball to the running back. They throw the ball to Jackson Smith and Jigba at the line of scrimmage whenever he got a target. What does this transformation look like? This is this is on the the upper end of the game.
So I'm very excited to watch because there's a lot to learn. And it's JSN, what is his involvement? And it's Greg Dolsich to me. Sure.
It is a sneaky, surprising, you know, he could be a big waiver wire pickup at the end of this week. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, the Chargers are at home drafting Sportsbook line. Chargers minus three, the over under is 40. Okay, I am I'm in on Zemir White just for the record.
Okay, in on him. I'm in on him this week and I'm in on him as a running back to candidate. So you think for the season? So yeah, I do.
I think Zemir White has got the he's got a lockdown on on a situation that we deem unsexy 100% he has a lockdown on the now historically speaking when a guy is locked down into a role as a running back this late in a career that they find ways to fail through the course of the season. But to start the season, he is the guy, he is the starter. This isn't a 50 50 times share. You know, the coaches come out made that clear that Alexander Madison is there to spell him.
And so I'm confident starting Zemir White. White or Pollard? White or DeAndre Swift against Tennessee? DeAndre Swift.
Okay, what's the line on? The thing for Zemir, which where I'm I'm in full agreement of he has the starting role locked down. He is when they're running the ball, it will be Zemir White. But you could the DK line on his receptions over under that one and a half like that speaks very loudly of that's the concern.
If we're seriously like, is he only going to catch up has then he this is a he has to score, he has to get a touchdown or it's going to be really mediocre stat lines. So that's the concern is just will they actually utilize him in the past and game? And it is a historically he hasn't he hasn't yet. That doesn't mean he can't get more involved in that.
But that's for me, that's everything on Zemir. Also some questions on that side of the ball. Brock Bowers is expected to play. Do you have any interest in starting him over somebody like the muse knowing that Russell Wilson might not be there over Goddard tonight against Green Bay?
I would if you're going that low. Yeah, that low I'd be willing to. I think it's okay. But I still don't think he makes it into my top 12, you know, like him or Taysom.
It's not close to me. 36 and a half receiving yards is over under on DK. That is I mean, if he gets 40 yards, you're not you're not going to have eight touchdowns. Then you then I will apologize profusely for telling you.
It would be good. That would be pretty good. Pretty good. Devont the Adams put him in your lineup.