Let's get it on. It is Tuesday, September 17th.
We're fresh off of a Wild Week too. It's the Get Sunday Covered podcast.
Brandon, Jordan and Cody back again to talk about it.
Oh, gentlemen, welcome back. How was your week?
It's technically Wednesday because that's when everyone's watching this.
So it's September.
I don't think you know what the word technically means because it's actually Tuesday.
Well, by the time it's uploaded, record Tuesday nights for everyone that's aware.
And we post on Wednesday like midday.
I have to do just editing in the morning and get it up and posted.
So, yeah, welcome back. Good. All around. Jordan, how was your week?
It was good. If we're talking about fantasy, it was, it was alright.
I barely squeaked out of wind over Ryan less than a point.
He had some guys on his bench that definitely would have not made it a close matchup at all.
And I couldn't done much to improve my lineup.
So I got lucky this week and I don't know. I'll take it. It's a W.
That was one of those fun fantasy games to watch.
I've tried to explain this to people before, but like watching fantasy games throughout the day is just as entertaining to me as actually watching the NFL football.
And this was one of those where it was like down to the wire, literally like down to the wire and it was a close game the whole time.
So I love watching the projections go back and forth.
And that was a good one, man. Congratulations on the dub.
Yeah, it was, it was nice. I kind of felt bad for Ryan because he had a he had stuff on digs and I had Caleb, Caleb Williams.
So I had a DJ more going into Sunday night.
And I think I was maybe down by like four or five points going into the game and it wasn't looking good.
And I have stuff on digs in my in my other league.
So I wanted him to kind of do good, but at the same time, I didn't want him to do good.
He didn't have a great game. DJ more didn't, but he just did enough to win me it.
So I'll take it where I can and I'll take the W.
So they don't ask how they ask how many, right?
Exactly.
There you go. Cody, how was your week?
Good man. I'm happy to report that I pulled out the dub in most of the leagues that I'm paying money for.
Got leagues over your overall.
What's that?
You said you're in nine leagues, right?
Yeah.
How do you feel overall?
I think five and four.
And I also want to throw in the caveat that in three of those losses that I took, I was playing against Alvin Camero.
So the in my work, like, dude, I would have beaten anybody else in the league by like 15 points, except for the guy that I played.
You were second highest. I know the way that goes. That was the story of my life last season.
So I don't know what's worse. Would you guys prefer to be blown out or to play the highest score?
I'd rather play the highest score because when it comes crunch time at the end of the season and points for is the tiebreaker.
I want those points in my favor.
Yeah. And I'm not worried either. I mean, he's got a good squad and he had Camero. So I'll see him again. I'm sure.
There you go. There you go.
Brandon, you did pretty good. Yeah.
I had a I executed perfection this weekend when a perfect seven and oh and all seven of my fantasy leagues did not.
Camero carried carried my team in a couple leagues.
But yeah, I mean, I think that's the first time I've ever gone at least undefeated throughout a week.
Actually, in I mean, this is the first year I think I've done more than five leagues.
I might have done six last year. I don't remember exactly.
But yeah, seven and oh this week.
So couldn't be happier.
Lost a couple guys, but managed to get the wins and everything.
So I'm not mad. None of my teams are defeated as we call it.
I think it's.
Go ahead, Jordan.
I was just going to say after you go and seven and oh and you saying it was your first time I just wanted to interrupt as you were talking about it.
And I don't know if you play the lottery, but you should want out and bought some powerball tickets or make millions or something.
I don't know if that's happening again, but probably not.
Yeah, that's a good feeling to win.
I'm happy when I go to and oh and my league.
So going seven and oh, I'm sure feels that much better.
Yeah, and I took full force of that 90% luck factor, right?
Yeah, I mean, the 10% skill was managing seven teams.
And at least shows on knowledgeable and throughout a multiple leagues and you know, it shows you're lucky.
We just discussed that.
I call it my expertise.
No, you're right.
And that's awesome.
And that's hard to do.
And what was cool about week two also is, you know, maybe I don't know what the heck I'm talking about, but scoring was up.
We had some high scoring games, a lot of touchdowns, a lot of players that should be getting touchdowns that that were scoring for us.
So it sounds like you rusted the right people and it worked out really well.
But that leads me into our quick question, guys.
I wanted to ask you just were two weeks into the season.
I do think still in general things are changing in the NFL, but I want to know just in a general sense, would you rather be a part of a great offense with a not so great defense or a great defense with like a mediocre offense?
What would you prefer?
Like player or fan?
I'll start.
I think I would take the great defense with a mediocre offense.
Defense wins championships.
And I think if you have a mediocre offense, you can at least put, you know, if you're have an outstanding defense where they're averaging maybe like 14 to 17 points a game.
And if you're allowed to, if that you should at least be able to have your offense scored 14 plus to at least keep you in the game.
At least just my personal opinion.
I definitely agree.
I definitely agree with you because like, I always think, you know, everyone, you know, a great offense always starts with a great defense.
And I think it's like the teams like the Ravens when they want to with Trent Delford, you know, Tampa Bay when they want to with Brad Johnson and stuff like that.
The Bears, you know, everyone, yeah, why they went in, I really wasn't a cause of Jim McMahon.
Yeah, he was a quarterback with that defense.
But for me, I would prefer, I don't know, a great offense with the mediocre defense just because as a fan, just like in anything, I don't know.
I like defense, but man, I love scoring.
I just love seeing points put up and awesome plays made.
I think for me, if I was, if I was a player, I'd rather be part of a defense though, because me and hockey, I got like, you know, more gratitude or like pleasure shutting someone down.
Then I did like score and like my own goal or something like that.
So I could see where defensive, you know, players are almost more hyped up, stopping someone from scoring then their own team score and type thing.
I think the other thing for me is like, also, if you have a great defense, you're going to be able to get turnovers, especially.
And, you know, that defense is going to put up some points throughout games.
So your offense might not even need to be outstanding to begin with.
Yep.
Cody.
Dude, I, you guys said everything that I was prepared to say.
Fantastic points. I, I agree with everything you both said for me.
I think I'm on the defensive side.
I was thinking about some of my favorite players and some of my teams, you know, that I've been able to watch in the past and it all comes down to like those really good defenses.
I'm with you Jordan, like obviously the flair and the excitement stuff come from scoring, right?
You have to score to win the game, but man, when you've got a good shutdown defense, it's, it's unreal.
I think back to the no fly zone in Denver, that was some of the most fun football to watch every single play.
Like, you know, you're talking some of the other best offenses in the league, just making them look disgusting.
And I don't know, I love that.
I'm all about it.
Yeah.
Look at New England.
I mean, they had a great defense and some years they were not the greatest offense.
No, they needed though with Tom Brady.
Tom Brady just needed two minutes on the ball with two minutes left.
That's all Brady needed.
Yep.
As long as the defense kept it close.
Yep.
All right.
Well, let's move forward.
Injury report man.
Injury bug is going throughout the league this year.
You guys feeling sick?
I'm all right right now.
We're good.
I've got a bit of a cough.
I'll tell you that much.
Man, this weekend had some heavy hitters go down.
Cooper cup shot white, Debo, Pacheco, AJ Brown confirmed last night he was going to be out for multiple weeks.
Mixing is on the fence and then just Jefferson to all in all, which guys kind of outlook on this right now.
I'll jump in Jordan.
You're good.
This is crazy.
Injuries happen every single week, right?
Like this is just an inevitable part of the game and it should be expected.
But some of these most of these names on the list from the first two weeks this year are huge names.
I mean, and they're top three rounds, right?
Most of these guys are top three rounds in fantasy.
The first one you mentioned, Cooper cup.
Yes, that sucks.
He's getting older.
He was injured last year.
Yes, but also the Rams are already down Puka, right?
We're starting to dig at waiver wires and stuff for people that you've never heard of them.
You know what I mean?
Rookies and guys that have never done anything in the league.
These are guys that are realistically going to be starting moving forward.
That's what's crazy to me.
Like a lot of these really, really suck the Pacheco injury.
I lost him in a league.
Sucks.
And now you're talking about bringing back an old fat cream hunt and then Carson steel and some of the P.
Ryan, like that's your three headed monster on what is supposed to be one of the best.
And you're getting fired at where to learn, but these injuries, man are huge.
So it's like this is where it's regardless of your record, your two and oh, your own two and you suffered from this injury bug.
This is where your precise management and your waiver wire and your trading and stuff like that.
This is right now.
Like we're not waiting till week four or five this year.
You need to move right now and make some stuff happen in my opinion.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
It's definitely a week where the season.
I mean, do you guys, do you guys have a feeling that some of this could have been prevented had some of these guys instead of, you know, sitting around during preseason?
They actually played a little bit more and kind of amped up.
You think it could have helped prevented some of these injuries?
No.
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, I think some of them do, but I think some of them do.
And I think I'm not a big fan of the preseason.
No one really plays anyways.
My thing that, you know, it's guys, you're trying to get roster spots for your third stringers and stuff like that.
I think what they need to do one preseason game, you have your starters play a half, like you have one half to get prepared.
Like I know guys are still not going to do it.
They're going to sit out and make because they don't want to get injured during the preseason, but it's like.
Yeah, like I like maybe like what Cody says this injury is going to happen regardless.
So maybe do come out in that preseason game, get injured right there, get the injury out of the way, get your muscles, you know, maybe warmed up from them.
I'm not saying this can prevent every injury because it's football, dude.
People are getting hit.
Stuff's going to happen.
People are going to land on your legs weird.
You're going to get tackled to hit tackle stuff going on right now.
Mixing.
Yeah.
So like, I don't know.
Yeah.
Like I see both sides of it that no matter what you do, guys are just going to get injured.
Like I think it could prevent some, some guys could be more up to speed.
But I don't think it's going to change guys.
It's, it's gotten to the point in the preseason guys just don't want to play until it's the regular season.
Right.
I don't even want to go to training camp or anything.
They're over the age of 35 and you're good.
You don't have to like you just I'm staying at home.
I'll see you week one.
That's my thing right there.
Like I agree with everything that you said.
And yes, you spoke of what I was going to say to argue this.
You're a professional athlete and you're getting paid seven figures sometimes more a year.
I don't give a shit there.
The we had pre or we didn't have preseason or whatever.
And that's why I'm so tired of that excuse.
Hey, like you said, these injuries are a lot of time freak accidents.
Right.
These things happen.
It's a contact sport.
It's a fast sport.
It's getting faster.
Guys are not, they're not the big huge dudes that they used to be there.
It's becoming kind of like hockey, right?
Like it's getting fast.
Guys are getting leaner and they're getting quicker and they're getting more skilled and things like that.
Right.
So they're still incurring all of these hits that they always have been with the human body is fragile.
Right.
These injuries are going to happen.
And there's really nothing you can do about it.
So the whole preseason thing.
I don't I don't think so.
Brandon honestly like playing the preseason don't play in the preseason.
If you're not in tip top shape by the time kickoff happens in week one, that's on you dog.
And quite frankly, I don't think there's an excuse for it.
I'm not saying it's their fault that they got injured, but if you're going to lean on the preseason slash out of shape thing as a reason, I don't buy it.
Fair enough.
All right.
Well, let's move forward.
So some big things happened over the weekend, obviously.
And you know, as yesterday and this today with that, honestly, do you guys think to a should retire?
Oh, this is the big one.
We're just coming right out of a game.
I'm going for it.
I'm just going right to it.
I'm a monster.
I've been waiting.
This was the one topic that was at the forefront of my mind going into today's episode.
I so before anybody answers this, I do want to take into account kind of what Mike McDaniel said about how like if this is your main concern for this guy.
I agree.
Like, let's maybe put that aside for a second and make sure that he's okay.
Like I do.
I hope he he heals up.
He, you know, he comes back to earth for a little bit the stars stop spinning.
He needs that.
I completely agree.
Do I think he should retire?
I don't know, man, because I've never been in that position before I've had concussions before but nothing I would imagine to that caliber.
I would say.
The risk of something horrible happening is getting higher every time he gets it like that.
So I think it's something that he should definitely consider.
I'll put it that way.
I don't want to see him retire.
I hope he comes back.
I hope he's healthy.
I hope he gets cleared.
I hope the neurologist, you know, say, you know, it wasn't that bad and he's okay.
But buddy, like, it's a trend at this point.
You know what I mean?
This isn't just something that happened and now everybody's concerned.
It's like, man,
three in under two years, right?
Three and two years here and then one at Alabama in 2019.
And I mean, all of them are when he lands and smacks right on the back of his head.
But and yeah, like I like, I don't know.
I agree with Cody and obviously want this guy healthy and everyone's the same on the field and succeed and do good.
Um, I like the thing that's scary, like, obviously, like no one likes seeing concussions like that's worse.
Everyone wants to see big hits and stuff like that.
It's like part of the game, you know, it's slowly being taken out of the game.
But like the thing that worries me, even that last one, it's like he lowered his shoulder and his head and like kind of ran into
Jamar Hamlin like Jamar Hamlin didn't even really hit him.
He just kind of stood there.
He initiated the contact.
Like, you know, and so him getting a concussion on that, I'm like, that's not even like a helmet to helmet hit.
Like it's not even someone hitting him like a defenseless receiver or something like that.
Where you're just getting popped like it's him back of his head into the ground.
That's where at least all three of his NFL concussions have came from.
So it's just about the Alabama one.
But yeah, so it's, it's, I don't know.
It's, it's not good.
Like, I don't know, you know, and I don't know.
Yeah, you don't want to see like, obviously we're none of us are professional athletes or, you know, being paid millions to do this.
Like, you know, a lot of guys talk about like, you know, look at your future, you know, football is not the end of your life.
Like there's a life after football.
Like you want to have a family and your kids and do stuff after football.
Like, you know, maybe this plays more in him talking with his family and his teammates and coaches and figuring out what's best for him.
I just don't want to see him come back and no one wants, you know, him to come back.
That's all it's going to be talked about is when's to his next concussion going to happen, you know, and it's like, it's going to take away from him and no one wants to see it.
So do I think he should?
I don't know.
I think that's up for him and his family to decide.
I personally, yeah, I, I, I think he should like, I don't, I don't want to see him come out and get injured again, man.
Like no one wants to try to get him.
So, yeah, to kind of piggyback off that, I think for me, the biggest thing is I just worry about the long term effects, especially with all everything kind of, you know, the CTE syndrome or whatever you want to call it, CTE going around.
And, you know, that being the big thing from all these NFL players and talking about, you know, how much head trauma they have and everything like that, I think I just worry about the long term effects.
And for me, you know, I, I obviously have kids to has kids.
I obviously have more of that dad mindset and I wouldn't want to, in a way, have that mentally affect me as I'm older and my kids are older.
As my kids grow, I obviously want to be around.
And I don't want this to affect him long term.
And that's my biggest kind of takeaway from it.
I, you know, I hope he's okay.
I want him to be okay.
I think it's awesome that he's going and take meeting with these medical evaluators, meeting with these neurologists and really getting kind of their insight before he makes a decision.
I would love to see if he can make a decision right now.
That's the other thing is, you know, obviously right now he is he's in law land.
But I mean, I do wish the best for Tua and I, you know, think regardless of what his decision is, everyone will respect it.
And here's the other thing too, just to kind of land the plane on this, like, in no way is this to his fault, like there's an inherent risk that comes with playing this game.
Right. But the situations like this are why they're changing it the way that they are.
So all of the rule changes and the banning this tackle and things like that, it's because stuff like this keeps happening.
Right. So should he choose to not retire and come back and play?
Okay, so what does that say moving forward for the rest of the game, right?
Because the NFL wants people to believe that they care about their players.
They're going to have to do something to show that at some point.
Not saying that the play was dirty because it wasn't, I don't think.
Not saying that Tua made a mistake.
I think fantasy football today did a really good job.
It was either them or fantasy footballers did a really good job of breaking it down.
No, it was Andy Holloway said he leans in with his head and everybody gives him shit because
you're putting yourself at risk and this is your for, you know, exponential concussions, whatever.
But if he doesn't do that and he slides and he doesn't get the first down, then everybody calls him soft and doesn't like,
I thought Andy Holloway did a really good job of saying that.
So I think that it's like a very thin line with this.
And I think this is not the last that we're going to hear about this should Tua retire conversation.
I agree.
I would agree. But we will move forward with that.
Some big news coming out of Carolina.
Bryce Young being benched.
TLDR.
BUST in my mind.
TLDR. We can clarify that for the people is that too long didn't read.
What is your
Oh,
he froze up on us.
Yes, he did.
Well, Bryce Young being benched there for
the old red rifle that are coming in.
He dudes what 36 years old.
There you go. We got you back, sir.
Okay.
I was like, are you here?
Just fun.
I'm seeing your arms wave.
He's 35 or 36 years old.
I don't I mean, Adam Thielen came out came out after the game saying this isn't a Bryce Young thing.
This is a Carolina's Panthers offense thing.
Like it's not just one player.
I'm not saying it's all Bryce Young.
That team is bad.
I mean, David Cargott, David Cargott drafted in a bad team in the Texans and their expansion here.
Joey Harrington for the Detroit Lions.
There's been good quarterbacks that are just drafted on the teams that they can't ever have a career because they don't have any
one of they don't have anyone blocking them.
They don't have anyone to dish the ball off to.
They don't have any playmakers.
You're expecting one quarterback to come in.
Look at CJ.
Any linemen that they can see over look at CJ.
This is a second year.
Look at the team he's on compared to Bryce Young.
You put Bryce Young on the Houston Texans.
Are they not?
Are they not a good team?
You know, honestly, I don't think so.
I think personally, Bryce Young is a bust.
He's another Jermak is Russell, but that's that's just my honest opinion.
He's not overweight and fat.
I'll give him that.
I'll give him that, but I still think he is a bust.
I don't have a ton to say about the whole situation and here's why.
I don't know that I have actually watched a single snap of Bryce Young since he got into the league.
And honestly, that shouldn't be that surprising because Carolina fans don't even go watch and play.
Man, the teams sucks.
Like you said, Jordan, and they need to do something.
Bench the man, let the red rocket come in, show him a few things that give up on the kid.
Red rifle.
I said what I said.
No, everyone knows what the true red rocket is.
That's why he got the nickname.
That's why I said it.
That's why he sticks with red rifle.
So which to Andy Dalton's credit, man, he did have some good years there in Cincinnati.
Yes, he did.
He's younger.
I don't know how old he is for sure.
36 is around my age.
He's a little bit older.
I don't know.
Can't be any worse, right?
Maybe mix it up.
Maybe this gives the team a little bit of a spark.
Andy Dalton is 36.
36.
Yeah.
He's about to turn 37.
Yeah.
So we were born in the same year.
Yeah.
So we're old.
He's old.
So still not Aaron Rodgers old.
No, still not Aaron Rodgers old.
That should give you hope for your time in the league, Jordan.
You still got a chance.
Yeah.
Let me get out there.
I probably couldn't even kick a 30 yard field goal right now.
So you could throw a pass and complete it on Carolina.
I've wanted that about a lot of quarterbacks in the NFL that I've watched over the years,
and I've seen some of those guys have jobs, but I don't know.
We'll see.
Yeah.
Like you, I don't have much to say.
I really have not much, much Carolina games, not much Bryce young.
Hopefully something changes.
Maybe him sitting down and watching.
He gets a second chance dude.
Baker Mayfield got a second chance.
So maybe guys just need that opportunity again or a different system,
different team and something sparks with them and changes,
but not everyone can be a top player out of the draft.
There's got to be bus too.
So, yeah.
I mean, we've seen the Baker's dozen of those over the last decade of guys that come in.
They're supposed to be the next best thing and then they become nothing.
So it's just tough if you're a Carolina fan and you're seeing Houston with CJ shroud and
you went behind your guy wouldn't be the first time.
I mean, I look at almost every team passed on the Mar Jackson, you know,
and I think a lot of teams will take him right now.
Josh, there's a lot of guys Aaron Rogers.
There's a lot of guys that get overlooked, you know, and Brady.
Yeah, everyone passed over him.
Yeah, come on.
You Patriots fan.
I mean, I'm just throwing it out there that he was passed off.
Rock, birdie.
Last pick in the draft.
Yeah, until Brock, party goes out and wins.
I'll give him my three Super Bowls and then Brock, party can be Mr. Relevant.
And Brock, party's no bow, Nick's, but he's pretty good, I guess.
Oh, Nick's is.
Right.
Garbage.
Our garbage.
How come we haven't talked about the Broncos in three weeks?
There's nothing that's about exactly what Carolina.
Oh, yeah.
When bow Nick's gets better, we'll talk about that.
So next week, exactly.
When this subject comes up and it's him getting benched for Jared Stidham.
Yeah, maybe that's what we'll talk about Denver.
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
So, shout out Steve Palazzo posted this on X,
AKA formerly known as Twitter,
passing touchdowns through two weeks.
2019 105, 2020 110 2021 110,
2022 105, 2023 86,
and then 2024 is only 69.
So that shows how much the offense has,
how much defensive defensive as defensive.
If I can speak defensive has have leveled up in terms of stopping
offenses and how much possibly rule changes have also affected
offensive production.
Yeah.
So this, this is what we were talking about, like, and shout out
Polly dubs for sharing this, Steve Palazzo or Palazzo.
How are we say his last name?
I get Sunday covered fantasy football club on Facebook.
I found this really interesting and it goes back to what we were
talking about a couple of weeks ago.
Like it's changing for sure.
Right.
It's becoming a different, different mindset.
It was a high flying high passing type of system for all of these
teams for a long time.
And it's going back to how it used to be of run it first,
then, you know, start dinking and dunking it to get down the field.
It's not great for fantasy, but it is making for interesting games for
sure.
You're taking the ball out of the hands of guys like Patrick Mahomes
and, you know, Lamar Jackson and things like that.
And they're figuring out that's how we're going to win these games.
You're not going to out throw these guys.
Right.
So I found it to be pretty interesting.
Yeah, I feel like they bring it up in a lot of the prime time games I've
watched when they're kind of going over, you know, the teams, you know,
especially pregame when you're watching the pregame shows and they're
talking about it.
And they always talk about, especially this year with the two
safety sitting deep, you know, not even letting people throw just, you
know, not even trying to stack a box anymore, sitting back and hey,
if you can run the ball, go ahead and run it on us.
You want a four yard pass, go ahead and take it.
You want everything thrown under.
Yeah, I think teams are just getting tired of being, getting beat over the
top and getting points put up against them.
I think it'll change.
I think it'll start to even itself out once the season gets going a little
bit.
I feel like it's kind of, I mean, it is down quite a bit over the past,
what, five, six years, whatever you mentioned there.
I'm glad you brought that setup because I was thinking about that earlier.
I was like, man, I saw a crazy stat about touch, touchdown passes to start
this season over the past five years and it is down.
I think, you know, it kind of will work itself out.
It will be interesting to see, you know, I'm sure someone will release the
stat if the trend continues for, you know, maybe rushing, rushing yards or
rushing attempts or rushing touchdowns or, you know, something with running
backs over wide receivers over the past five years to where, you know, yeah,
this trend is going in a direction where if you don't have two solid running
backs on your team, like you're not even going to be a playoff contender type
thing.
So, I don't know.
We'll see.
Yeah, sucks for fantasy, but yeah, just like Cody said, makes the games more
competitive and like closer.
I feel like, I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of good defenses this
year that I've watched that a lot of guys coming up big and shutting
quarterbacks down.
The Raiders beat the Ravens, dude.
Yeah, exactly.
Like what?
I had my survivor, bro.
I had Baltimore.
I'm out.
Oh yeah, I saw you got eliminated.
I didn't realize that was your pick.
That was my pick.
No, like in my big one with like, bro, in my big one with like 5,000 people,
bro, there are literally like 1,700 people left.
That's how many people lost between Cincinnati for games this weekend.
So many people lost between this weekend between Baltimore, Minnesota and
San Francisco, San Francisco, Detroit, Detroit, New Orleans, Dallas.
Yeah, Dallas.
Raiders beaten Baltimore.
That was the big one.
There are some upsets this weekend, dude.
In our free pick-ums league.
Atlanta over.
I got five games right.
Yeah, I did terrible.
I think everyone this weekend did pretty bad.
I don't, I mean, I did, I think I got seven.
It's wild.
That's crazy how it's just like, I don't know.
It's, I don't know.
I feel like there's a lot of upsets, like there's teams that are just coming
out, like starting out good this year that weren't expected to and I don't
know.
It's just, I mean, it's good getting more parity around the league and it's
not just unless you're Carolina, I guess that it's an easy win.
But, you know, it's good for the rest of the league and good for football
and good for viewership and makes it more competitive than closer games.
You know, so.
So what you guys are saying is that you're both still fully invested right
now.
You haven't lost interest in football.
Yeah, right.
No.
Okay, good.
You guys haven't either.
And that's going to move us along right here.
We've talked about the major injuries, the major storylines, right?
Of things that have led up to week three, which is coming up.
Yes.
Tomorrow, Brandon.
I'll say tomorrow because today is Wednesday.
There's an F football.
It's going to be an interesting wave right now.
There's an F football. It's going to be an interesting waiver wire week.
For most of us, again, we talked about it last week.
Waivers are going to clear tonight.
Some of us already have been here at some point tomorrow.
For our.
We're watching this.
Waivers have already cleared.
Yeah.
Yes.
Correct.
For hourly, we had some interesting moves last week.
Let's break that down a little bit.
Start with Stefan.
He spent pretty big.
Jameson Williams.
Snipe to me.
I thought 20 bucks was going to get him.
Nope.
I don't know if it's worth it.
It's spending that much, but.
Well, how bad is.
RSB going to be hurt like.
Yeah.
Is he missing time? Do we know?
I haven't seen it yet.
He came back.
I haven't seen any reports anything, but I wouldn't be surprised to
see a questionable tag.
This week, five of us went in.
Jordan, you and me included in that for Jameson Williams.
Top bid Stefan got him for $32.
Felt like he was desperate for a wide receiver.
I don't mind it.
I wouldn't have spent that much.
I don't remember how much I put on it, like $9.
If that.
Yeah, Jordan, you came in at an even 10.
I was the next closest bid at 19.
If I didn't get him 10.
It wasn't worth it to me spending that much.
We actually talked about this with Stefan last year and his player
exclusive interview.
Check that out.
Go check out our old videos.
We've got a good one with Stefan talking about how.
If you're wanting players in our league, hopefully it's the same for
your league, but you got to spend.
And I feel like this year specifically, if you need them,
you need to spend big and you need to spend now because looking at
some of the rest of this.
Slim Pickens, man.
Yeah.
Just so everyone knows that would be our interview with Drax,
them's clowns.
It's under our player exclusives in our playlist.
Okay, joking hazard.
Yeah, I switch.
This season, Mr.
I place third every year.
Yeah.
So we'll just kind of run it down.
The ones that cleared last Tuesday night, Jameson Williams,
JK Dobbins, Isaiah, likely Alexander Madison, Alan Lazard,
Bucky Irving, Brandon, you landed four of those players and
dropped how much?
I spent $67 of my 100.
That's, that's weak one waivers guys.
Whoa.
But you know what though?
I do want to say that's a lot of money to drop in week one.
However, you jumped on a couple of names that really stick out to
me in this.
You picked up Jordan Mason for basically free before week one.
Correct.
Right.
And then Bucky Irving as well.
Those are huge names that could pay off massively and you didn't
have to spend a lot.
That could take you away.
So maybe not having a ton of fab is going to be okay.
Yeah.
I think I have some trade value right now, especially with Mason.
We'll see how things progress with Rashad White and see what
happens there with Bucky Irving.
But I mean, I spent my fab.
I spent two thirds of my family.
I meant it.
But I look at this last week.
I had the highest points scored by 17 points.
So for me, paid off.
Are there any of these that you dumped your money on that you're regretting?
Madison.
I didn't need to spend as much.
Obviously I kept Zemir White still, but I think I really didn't
even need to spend money on Madison, especially after looking
at the snap difference from this week.
You know, it was 22% for Madison and Zemir White had 63.
So.
And Zemir White does everything and Madison gets to hand off at the
one yard line to get the touchdown.
You got to love it.
Seriously.
That's the only reason Madison scored at any point.
And what's relevant this week in terms of being close with Zemir was
Zemir drove down the field and then Madison punched it in.
Four carries, one yard and a touchdown for Madison.
So one yard and that was a one yard touchdown.
Are you going to end up being the second player in our league to
drop your keeper?
No, I'm keeping, I'll keep White.
I'll probably drop Madison.
If I want anyone, I'll get rid of Madison first.
I'm going to hold off on everyone else I have right now.
I think obviously we'll see how things progress with everything with in
terms of like Isaiah likely.
So yeah, I have three tight ends in our league right now because I do
have Hawkinson on IR.
So we'll have to see when he comes back and how he is.
And then I'm going to have, you know, some decisions to make from there.
So since this is a, this is going to be technically coming out Wednesday,
what are your, who are you picking up tonight?
What kind of money are you spending?
Are you talking to your friend?
I thought you guys were going to take it as a joke,
but if you want to tell me what you're actually spending,
since I'll be the only one to know out of our league,
because I won't see it until tomorrow once it's already.
Well, here's my question.
Can I outbid the other?
If we say this, you can't go in and change your bid.
I'm not going to tell you how much I'm spending.
Oh, that's, that's, I'll tell you if I'm going for someone,
but I'm not going to tell you how much I'm spending.
I'm not doing anything crazy for, for my team this week.
I don't, I don't even know.
Tight ends my biggest thing.
I'm trying to get Hunter Henry.
I think he might help.
I think everyone's going to be trying to get on a Ryan's old bus from last
year, old Quentin Johnson finally doing something showing up for the
chargers.
I think he might turn in their number one.
I don't think I'm going to get him.
I think someone's going to be out there spending 22, $23 minimum to get this guy.
So those are two guys.
I'll tell you, I have a bid out on one player and it's neither of those guys.
So.
Well, who's it?
You said you'd say you just wouldn't say how much are you going Carson steel?
My shooting for a P Ryan.
Oh, Rome.
Yeah.
Drops.
Yeah.
So, oh yeah, it's, it's Roma.
Doomsday or Quentin Johnson?
When Johnson, at least chargers are doing all with the decent offense.
I'm putting a bit out on two players.
You don't want to go put a bit out for Zach Hertz for a tight end there.
Jordan.
I was looking at him too.
I don't, I think Jane Daniels is all right.
His numbers are good, but I don't know.
I just sell them truck.
Zach Hertz just a little bit old.
So that's what I'm worried about.
I don't know.
See, I might, I might give Colby Parkinson one more week there just because the Rams
are so depleted and he's still a healthy tight end for them that maybe Matthew Stafford
targets him 15 times this week.
Who knows?
He just breaks out for 26 points to touchdowns.
Probably not going to happen.
He's probably going to get 2.6 like he did last week, but I might roll with him one more week.
A little top secret info for you guys.
I mentioned to you, and this is not going to make a lot of sense for our audience because
I'm not going to, I'm not going to put it out until probably next week, but the, the
trade that I mentioned to you earlier, I heard back and he said, no.
Oh, that's not going to happen.
If you're interested, I have two tight ends.
If you're interested, I have three.
Yeah, I know.
I heard you talking about that.
I got David and Joker, which I think he's going to be good, but which worst case, I think
I have to go one more week without him.
And then I don't know, hopefully Watson can turn it around like he did this past week
and leave them just turns around.
They start rolling, but I'll take a chance to see what happens.
I said, I'm not too worried for maybe come week five or six.
If we're still talking then and well, I do play you this week.
So we could talk.
We could have this conversation next Tuesday.
I forgot it's you guys against each other this week.
We got to get something going for this guys.
This is the first, first time that all three of us together for the season.
We got to get something going here.
I'm not very confident that I'm going to do anything.
My team.
I mean, my, but you don't want him to know that.
Yeah, I'm, I mean, on paper, my team is good, but dude, Jonathan Taylor, man, he's, he had
like 105 yards on like 10 carries, but no, let's keep it in Anthony Richardson then
so he can throw three interceptions and fumble it.
It sounds good.
Josh Jacobs, it reminds me of the kid from varsity blues had coached that Kilmer.
He runs the ball away down the field and he's not allowed to get a touchdown.
So it's a, we'll be all right though.
I ain't too worried.
Just my bench man like Portland Sutton, he ain't playing like, ain't no one from
Denver is getting in my lineup on some changes.
Like, um, I will tell, I mean, no secrets to Brandon right now Shakir for Buffalo's
going in my lineup just cause I feel like he is the most targeted receiver on Buffalo
and Josh Allen trusts him the most.
So I have him in another league and I did exactly the same thing.
So I, I, I do not discount you there.
I would, I've made the same move in another league thing with Shahid, Derek cars ballin
out right now.
And I had Shahid on my bench.
I was like, Oh, you know, but after this weekend, I was like, well, you just earned yourself
a starting spot.
So here you go.
Someone pick up Derek Carlis week.
Um, I would not be surprised.
In my other league, I mean, Cody will be the only one to know, but I'm, I'm not sure
that it matters there.
Baker Mayfield.
I'm going to start one of them and in my league,
I believe that's the two people I reached for in your league, Jordan.
Let me look for waivers.
Yeah.
Dude, come on.
And I'm pretty sure I'm like 10th dude.
So I'm not going to get it.
This is why we like fab.
There's.
We'll see.
Baker, look at you.
There, uh, there's my former in my league.
So he had, he had waiver, uh, won the first week.
And he's like, well, how does this work?
He's been in this league for four or five years now.
Same thing.
Just a rotating waiver list.
And he had J K Dobbins, Isaiah, likely, and someone else.
And he's like, well, why didn't I get all the guys I wanted?
And I was like, well, you get your first option.
And then after that, the next person gets theirs.
Well, why don't I get all the guys I want?
I'm like, well, that's not how it works.
And he's always been for the thing to not have any type of waiver.
So when someone gets injured in the game, you get to pick up someone right away.
You get the drop pickup right away.
No waivers.
Like I'm never going to do that in any type of league ever first off.
Like, and the, there's people in my league that don't want to do fab.
That's too complicated.
I think it's the best.
It gives everyone a fair chance to get it.
And it's the fun part about it.
You don't know how much money someone's going to spend.
And you might look like an idiot and spend $30 on someone.
And the next closest guy spent 10 on them.
So you truly never know.
So it's like, and sometimes it is exciting.
Waking up in the morning, you see what kind of money was dropped on people.
And I love it.
How close it was, you know, for the bidding.
Cause who, who, who do we have last year, Ryan dropping a bunch of money on.
You remember who?
Oh yeah.
He spent like 90 plus on HM.
Yeah.
I HM that's right.
And he's just keep about a hundred bucks.
Yeah.
Good for you, Ryan.
I thought it was a hundred.
I thought he, he said spend it all.
Yeah.
Whatever he's your keeper.
He's a good player.
I know Cody, you dropped a bunch of money.
I think on drone board.
Big job went down.
And I don't even know if he's starting this week.
I think Yalta Foreman's already taking that job over from him.
I know it's crazy.
It's just wild.
So, but that was, yeah, I don't know.
Waivers are, you never know, man.
It's, you could have the next, uh, Sam LaPorta or, you know,
Pukinakua that you just picked up and you don't know it yet.
And they're just going to start dropping 15, 20 point games for you here.
So we'll see.
It should be interesting here.
Well, Jordan, uh, let's keep it going.
Man, why don't you tell us how your league is panning out,
how you're doing anything, anything cool that's happened in get Sunday
covered, Colorado.
Um, league's pretty good, pretty competitive.
There's two people that are two and O.
Um, but I think there's, there's six of us at one and one and then two
people at oh, and two.
So, uh, pretty even there, um, both ways.
Um, pretty competitive.
Um, you know, in the office, you know,
um, you know, and obviously injuries for everyone in that league,
the guy who lost CMC, um, he ended up winning this week because of the
other guy is actually my coworker and he, he's so high on Xavier Worley
from Kansas city.
And I told him, I was like, dude, he had four touches and two of them went
for touch sounds like let's pump the brakes a little bit.
And oh, I'm putting them in, I'm putting them in.
And I was like, I wouldn't do it.
Give him a couple more weeks.
He puts them in this week.
What does he do?
Put some in for DK Metcalf.
Xavier Worley gets four points.
DK gets 29.
He ended up losing because of that.
If he would have put cap DK in, he would have won.
Um, he was the, he was the guy in our league that drafted five wide receivers
to start the draft.
That was him.
Um, he's got a good team.
I think he's going to be just fine.
Um, I don't know.
I'm excited for my league.
I think I could, it's going to come down to the wire for, uh, to make the
playoffs there in my league.
So I'm excited for it.
And, uh, I lost, I lost this week.
So I'm one and one in both leagues.
So, um, just hopefully win in both leagues next week and next week,
but nothing too interesting.
No really like super close games.
Um, but everything's, you know, fairly competitive, but we'll see what about
your, uh, mountain West.
Yeah.
My mountain West, it's, uh, got a couple two and O teams here.
Uh,
mostly M Robinson and then Adrian.
They're all two and O. I'm right at their heels.
Um, I had a pretty big week in that league.
Um, I mean, some good teams in here.
We'll see how the injury bug affects people in that league.
I thankfully have yet to be hit by it.
So, uh,
don't jinx yourself.
Yeah.
Seriously.
Then in the Northeast, I'm in that as well.
Um, I lost Debo and cup this week.
So,
ouch.
That one, that one's a rough one, but, um, definitely hitting waivers.
I'll be picking up Clinton Johnson in that league or attempting to, and then, um, yeah, we'll see how
you explain in that league to me earlier and that like, there's a lot going on.
I mean, yeah, I put up, I won this last week by 90 points.
Yeah.
Shout out to all of our nor'easter players because that's, uh,
That's a lot to keep track of. So good for you guys.
Um,
GSC Pacific Northwest.
Pretty good. Again, 12 team full PPR.
Uh, biggest thing that stood out to me here is we've got two teams that auto drafted in the top four after two weeks.
Really?
So, I don't know how you guys, yeah, right.
So, I don't want to talk too much mess because I know both of them pretty personally, one of them being my wife.
It drives me nuts, man. It really does. I think it, it,
it was a close game. She won her second game this week by two points.
So, whatever it's, uh, it is a competitive league, but, uh, you can already start to see a little bit of separation. So,
again, couple of two nodes, right? That's natural.
But to the top four auto drafted teams, I don't imagine that's going to stay the same for very long.
So, what stood out to me is our CMC owner dead last, oh, and two. He also lost Evan Ingram and Ken Walker last week.
This poor guy is on the scope.
He's going through that. He's going through that waiver stuff like we were just talking about. He has nothing to choose from, man.
Honestly, like 12 teams.
I hope someone gets injured and someone goes off.
Yes. All decent pickups. Not enough to get you a win.
Wide receivers even worse is three wide receiver league, just like, uh, GSC main top projected wide receiver for week three, Wanda Robinson.
Wow.
Ouch, dude. Like there's nothing and that sucks. Like, I forgot he was still in the league.
So with the Giants, I think the Giants forgot he was in the lead too.
I think the Giants forgot they were in the NFL.
Oh, crazy stat real quick about the Giants. Did one of you guys share that or did you see that about the redskins?
Was it seven who shared that? The redskins are the first team to lose after scoring three touchdowns and not allowing one.
Oh, you mean the Giants are the first team to lose first team to lose? Yeah. Sorry. First team.
Three touchdowns, not allowing a touchdown. Still lost. Yeah. That's so Giants, dude.
There was whoever has Malik neighbors out there. There was another thing he has the highest target share in the NFL this year.
So I tried to trade Stephen for him during our watch party last week.
He said no. It's about time. Stephen drafted someone good.
Dude, his team is scary. 112 points isn't very scary.
It is when you're not scoring 112.
Should score over 112, but I should be scoring 140.
I was going to say if you're hitting over 130 in our league, you should be winning.
Got the confidence of the CU offense. Me last year. Playing like the CU defense.
Facts. Absolute facts.
Well, I think we'll move into our game of the week.
Hold on. We missed one league.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Reaper. Reaper League.
Reaper League. Wait, God, close this week, eh?
Did she? She got, she was going into Monday night.
I think all she needed was to not get outscored by seven.
Seven had Nico Collins.
Yeah, as a head. Great game.
Not close enough.
She only lost by six points. So I expect her to start making those moves.
Watch, I'm probably playing her next week.
I don't want to be the one that fucking loses.
You play me in the Reaper this week.
I thought you already beat me in the Reaper. Oh, you beat me in Best Ball.
I beat you in Best Ball. She plays Steven.
Too much to keep track of.
I know. Damn, yeah, she's all around my life.
It can happen, man. It can happen.
We'll see what happens.
Once she wins one, dude, it should be all over.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's the start. Just like seven last year.
That was he got the one, I think he got it in week three.
Maybe even two. Three.
There's two or three that he got the first up and from there,
he was just steamrolling everyone.
Then somehow. So for those of you that are in the Reaper League with us,
Steven, Joe, Ryan, Seamus, seven.
Don't be that guy. Don't lose.
Don't do it.
Don't be the first one because then you make all the dominoes fall and
moving forward.
All right.
That's it for all the leagues.
Moving into the game of the week.
Not too many great matchups this week.
I mean, there's some other games out there. Some two and O teams like the
Steelers and Chargers like both of them are two and O like big Steelers
fan. I wasn't expecting that, but I'll take it.
That is not the game upside down.
Yeah. That's not my game of the week because I don't recommend anyone to
hurt their eyeballs like the Steelers Broncos game from last week with
those that offense.
My game of the week is going to be the Texans and Vikings.
Another matchup of two and O teams.
I think the Vikings defense is real this year.
Second year under Brian Flores, great defensive coach.
I mean, Sam Darnold, I think is playing better than the Vikings expected.
As long as JJ stays healthy there, I think
the Vikings can surprise some people in the
NFC north there, but see about the Texans. I mean, I feel like they almost
struggled a little bit with the Chicago with not a great offense, but I think
Texans have a good defense too and a good offense.
I don't know. I'm excited to watch that game and see who comes out on top.
I really think it might be a coin flip. I really can't say
I'm really confident in the Texans beating the Vikings. I'm not.
So we'll see. I'm excited though.
Thank you, Sam.
Yeah, absolutely dude. I'll jump in next, Brandon.
Jordan, that's the game that I was going to pick if you didn't and I agree with you, man.
I think the Vikings in this one roll up 3-0.
Yeah, 3-0.
And, you know, I think Stroud is going to have a rough game.
I just feel like I agree they got lucky last, not necessarily lucky,
but it shouldn't have been as close as it was.
And I got Sam Darnold going up 3-0, man.
For me, I'm going to go to the big one that I think is maybe the obvious
choice on this list. I'll go Ravens Cowboys.
Ravens 0-2. Cowboys got embarrassed last week.
Both teams are going to want to make something happen.
I expect both of these offenses to be pulling out all of the stops.
I think we're going to have a big fantasy game on both sides of the ball.
Do we know is this in Baltimore or is this in Dallas?
That's what I was just about to ask you. I want to say it's in Dallas.
I think this isn't Jerry World.
Yeah, this is down in Dallas. So I think this is going to be great.
I look forward to this game. I will be watching this game.
I look for a lot of offensive output here.
Neither of these defenses has looked particularly impressive.
And both teams, they want to win after last week for sure.
So I'll take that.
I think I'm going to take the Ravens here.
Ravens get their first W this season. Cowboys drop 2 in a row.
I agree.
Fair enough. Fair enough.
Yeah, I think my game of the week that I have outside your guys is
I'm going to take the Philly and Saints.
Saints versus Eagles down.
Saints stay hot.
I think so. I think Philly goes back to back.
Losses as well, just like the Cowboys.
And yeah, I mean, Saints look good, man.
Saints are going to put up 40 again.
I think they're going to, I would not be surprised.
I would not be surprised to see honestly what I'm hoping for is like a Camara
versus Seiquan kind of shootout that would make it entertaining.
But who knows?
But I'd like to see some, I think this will be a high point game.
Don't get greedy, you little bastard.
You want another four touchdowns out of Camara, do you?
Another four point game.
I don't want to save that for week 15, please.
Week 14 through 16.
Camara gets a cold Sunday morning and tastes some Hill-assafilin for running back.
15 through 17.
Yeah, I mean, that's just the game that stands out to me this week.
I guess it was hurt, bud.
Is it?
Did you get hurt last week?
I'm pretty sure.
I saw him play.
I went to the hospital, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, I don't obviously follow him too well or have him on any fantasy teams.
I know he was, someone picked him up in my league.
I want to say it was my brother.
Tite ends, Zeter just suspect this year.
And I think he picked him up just to play as Tite end, just to give him.
He avoids significant injury.
Yeah, chest injury.
I don't know, after the way the Eagles looked on Monday night, man,
I look forward to Saints going wild like they did against Dallas.
And I think Kellen Moore is going to start getting his stuff together and hopefully they put up some points against Saints.
So I hope this one's a shootout too.
Yeah, I agree.
I think, I don't know, I think all those games really have a chance to be pretty high scoring or could turn in some field goal kicking and some defensive match ups too.
I think everyone fantasy wise is hoping for some big games because there's a lot of players on those six teams right there.
So I think they're all going to be good games.
I don't think you tune in any of those games.
You're not missing much from the other game, but we'll see.
See how they turn out next week when we're back here.
If they go back and get a count on our games of the week and see how good we're doing.
Hey, last week was pretty good. Detroit and Tampa Bay was my pick and turned out to be pretty good.
But obviously, you don't know what's going to turn in new.
But I think all those have a pretty good shot at being pretty good games this week.
Sweet.
Any parting words?
I agree.
I'm ready for Thursday night football.
See you guys at 1am on the waiver.
Much money we spent.
Not much.
I'm not really going for anyone with money this week.
I spent all I spent all mine last week.
I was I'm good.
Baller on a budget now.
Hey, what?
You know what? It paid off for me. I'm I'm I'm good right now.
Hey, guys, we all got dubs this week.
Yeah.
Oh, team. Let's keep it.
You're taking an L this week.
I'm getting revenge on my damn championship loss last year.
I say loser shaves their mustache, but only the mustache.
I mean, I'll shave that. That's I'll shave my whole face.
I don't even know just the mustache.
You got to get.
I just do the.
I just go mustache.
No, I won't do that.
I look scary with just the mustache.
I don't like it.
It scares me.
Don't worry if you guys are in the club, we'll get this updated.
Jordan and Brandon are going to get a wait.
You're going this week.
We'll get something sorted before the week starts,
especially if you're going for double H's.
I'll get something in the works before Thursday.
We'll we'll we'll message each other.
We'll shoot in the chat and Cody can be the mediator.
You guys trust me to do that.
Thank you.
There's just a third party, at least involved in that case.
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