Let's get it on, ladies and gentlemen. Well,
we got a full house of the Get Sunday Covered
podcast back, and we're here to recap week one.
Talk about week two. We've got a quick question.
We've got analyst analysis. We've got all kinds
of stuff going on. And I'm pumped, man. We got
fantasy scores on the board. What's up, boys?
Welcome back, Jordan. Thank you. I'm glad to
be back. Yeah, it sounds like it with all your
excitement over there. Week one didn't go so
good for fantasy, but that's how it goes. You
never know how it's going to go for week one.
It's kind of a crapshoot, you know. Guys are
supposed to be projected to get a bunch of points.
Don't, you know, as you know, everyone that dropped
the Jamar chase first overall getting four and
a half points from him. That's not the start
you want. So I'm excited though. I'm happy. Football
is back, fantasy is back. Just means we're closer
to basketball and hockey now too. Yes, sir. What's
up, Brandon? How are you doing? You know, I'm
recovering from the weekend. It was a long weekend
for me, but... Week one came in dry for you,
huh? I think a lot of people went through that,
dude, so it's okay. I'm safe to say my team is
in quite despair. What did you say last week?
Bootycheeks? Yeah. Bootycheeks is my team within
at least our main league, but in the other leagues,
I'm pretty decent. I'm pretty confident within
some of my other leagues. Just kind of varies.
I think, uh, I don't know. I don't mean to speak
for you guys or anybody else, but is it not just
incredibly demoralizing to lose week one? Like
if you lose in week five or you like, you lose
a tough matchup or something like that, but you
build up for, you know, five or six months to
draft day and you get your lineup set and then
you lose week one. Is that like, that's, that's
a gut punch. or you have someone put up a goose
egg and then you have someone on your bench that
just goes off like, like you and you substitute
those and you win by 20 points. Yeah. But a lot,
a lot of weird shit happened this week. You know,
like, I guess, I guess at this point, like we're
not deep enough into the season to call it weird
shit, but. I mean, we saw so many players that
had high draft capital, like, not do anything.
Jordan, you mentioned it. Jamar Chase, like...
I mean, look at, like, all the wide receivers,
Jamar Chase, like, if Jefferson didn't catch
that one, what, 25, 30 -yard pass from J .J.
McCarthy, he has a terrible game. Aram St. Brown
had a terrible game, you know, for me. Yeah,
a lot of wide receivers. Obviously, Derek Henry
did his thing per usual. like Saquon, normal,
like nothing even crazy. I don't know, man. It's
week one, take it with a grain of salt. I mean,
a lot of these guys, I feel like it's their first
time playing together. You know, not everyone
played the preseason. I feel like some teams
played, you know, guys, but not every team played
every person, you know. I think other than the
Bengals and they came out and looked like they
were worse than preseason. So... I don't know.
I think it's like this every year. I feel like
it takes a couple of weeks to get things going,
you know, and obviously you're going to have
injuries in week one. I feel like that's always
just the natural part of it. Like when real actual
week one football starts, like, you know, people
are trying harder and you're not hitting guys
that practice anymore. You're hitting someone
else and stuff like that. So I don't know. Yeah,
I don't like to lose week one, but yeah, I don't
know. I don't get worried till. week four or
five if I got guys that are still looking a little
bit suspect on my team, but. No, that's fair.
I mean. You shouldn't be pressing the panic button
just yet, but there's some. Here's the question.
I'm going to dive right into this. Why not? Just
because it's coming up on the panic button. Who
are you hitting the panic button on right now?
I can name at least a few players that are on
my panic radar just because they either have
them in a league or they just are someone I would
be worried about having right now. Well, Jordan,
I heard yours, but Brandon, if you're going to
kick this off, I mean, who you got? Kenneth Walker.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jerome Ford. Oh, yeah. I mean,
it was kind of a given, but... As soon as Judkins
was getting signed, you knew that was happening.
Yeah, for sure. Well, he also looked like dog
shit. Yeah. Dylan Sampson is better than Jerome
Ford. No, I agree. I mean, in reality, I'm worried
for anyone that has any shares of Kittle. Oh,
yeah. In honestly, probably 75 % of my leagues,
I have Kittle. Yeah. He looked good to start
my game. He looked real good. Yeah. Side note,
I did just get a trade offer for Kittle week
one already. Trade's kicking off. In our league?
Maybe. Well, I sent a trade out to someone. I
probably won't hear back for about four weeks,
so. So she she doesn't do fantasy, bro. She doesn't
have to. You don't even have to say the name.
I know exactly you're talking about. I gave a
fair offer. We'll see. I mean, at least the client
if you don't like it, but it was I thought more
than a generous offer. Listen, before we move
on in this thing, I I just want to give my personal
two cents on this. I think week one is a little
early for me to be trading. I get it. Like the
strike while the iron's hot. Is that the saying?
I don't know. I'm not a blacksmith, but like
I'm going to give it at least another week, maybe
two. So like. See if I'm really like that disappointed
in who I drafted because even right now with
Kittle being injured, I'm like. It's only four
weeks. All I have to do is survive four weeks
in these back. Maybe. Hopefully. Maybe. I saw
it. I've seen it seven weeks. Oh, fuck. Dude,
I'm saying that. What did I say last week, Brandon?
I told you. I said the Niners are cursed with
injury. Oh, I'm cursed, bro. You'll know by this
Sunday if they put him on IR for the year. He's
already on IR. Is he? He already got placed on
it? Yeah. So. That's what they said. That ain't
good for you, then. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.
How much do you, uh, how much money are you putting
on that backup tight end? I already have a backup
tight end. I drafted one. You don't want the
backup to your backup because when he comes back,
he's probably going to do it again. What's his
name? Tungus? Tungus? Yeah. I didn't even know
who he was until I saw... when Kittle went out
and I saw he caught like the next two balls and
then that touchdown and stuff. And then one of
them was a touchdown. No, I will tell you, I
am not dumping money into that. I don't need
any more Niners on my roster. Yeah, I'm I'm steering
clear from them now. Well, before we get too
far into Deciphering and depicting and everything
that happened in this first week. I want to ask
you guys Because we are fresh and because everybody's
still currently excited about football This is
something that I go back and forth with in my
mind. But you know, they talk about the face
of a franchise and the face of a league and stuff
like that, you know, like the Ovechkin's or the
McDavid's for NHL and, you know, the LeBron or
the Curry's for the NBA. I want to get your guys'
opinion on who do you actually think is the face
of the NFL? Taylor and Travis right now. That's
what I'm saying. I think there's a lot of low
hanging fruit out there. But then we have this
glorious Sunday night football matchup between
the reigning MVP, a former MVP slash MVP favorite
for this year, and yet neither of them really
have a resume to back that up. Who is the face
of the NFL? I mean, I think how you can brought
it up like the NHL, you know, saying McAven and
Ovechkin, I'd say, I don't know with all the
sports like it, I'm not even Ovechkin so much.
You know, it was Ovechkin, Crosby. Now there's
just and then each other so many good players
like you brought up the NBA LeBron and Curry
like they're both old they ain't the face of
the NBA anymore and it's like well who is there's
a bunch of young like good players like Shire
Edwards is I mean he's he's done some good stuff
but I don't know like why is why is SGA he has
better stats he won the championship like why
is he not the face of it like there's just so
many good young players that like even the NFL
like I think that's where they're struggling
at is like You know, everyone's, oh, CJ shrouds
the next face of the league, comes out, does
nothing in his second year, did nothing first
game, you know. I think guys like Jayden Daniels,
the NFL is open on guys like that. I don't know.
I feel like there's just so many guys that, you
know, Saquon Barkley. No offense to Lamar Jackson,
but you just do not see him in a lot of commercials
or advertising because he is not great behind
a microphone. He is not a great speaker. I'm
not saying I am in any way, shape or form, but
I'm not getting paid millions and probably the
NFL wanting him to be the face of the league.
But behind the scenes are probably saying, no,
like, like we got it. Who else? Like who else
is there? And I think that's charisma, physically
assaulted another human being. Yeah. And I feel
like that's why you like, you have so many different
people. Like, I don't know about. Taylor and
Travis like Yeah, because the Taylor Swift because
of her following Mike is bigger than anything
But I don't I don't I don't think so like I you
know I put up Patrick Mahomes just because I
thought you know he was the next Tom Brady he
was The one supposed to come in be the next great
one and which I'm not saying the stuff He's done
is has not been great and been good, but I just
feel like you don't even like see him You know
kind of talked about and like put on us like
as much as he was, you know, compared to two,
three years ago. I don't know. It's just like,
I just feel like the, the wealth for the advertisement
and the NFL is just spread around. I don't know.
I don't think there's like one solid name. You
look at it and it's like, this is the guy. Yeah.
I think with the whole, just the Chiefs thing
in general, like you're gonna be wrong. Like,
obviously I have a disdain for the Chiefs as
a Broncos fan, but like, you know, like I got
it. I understood. You know what I mean? They
were on the brink of a dynasty and they, you
know, couldn't be beat. Like I understand that.
But in my opinion, I think the whole Patrick
Mahomes, Travis and Taylor thing, I just think
it's played out at this point. Like people have
moved on. And that's what I find interesting
is that how quickly the interest moves on in
social media and anything that you like, not
even sports, but like TV shows. bans and whatever
like If you ask me like correct me if I'm wrong
guys like let me know in the comments, but I
think the Whole Chiefs thing is completely played
out at this point, which is which is what makes
me curious like you look at Josh Allen and Lamar
Jackson like we talked about okay, like two of
the best quarterbacks in the league, but Like
who else is stepping up outside of their own
personal Instagram account? to be the face of
the league, like. I don't know, I just don't
see it. Really? I'm just thinking anyone that
I see in commercials. And that's what I'm saying.
You see everyone in commercials. It's so spread
out between all these players. Baker Mayfield,
all these guys, Jay Daniels. It's so spread out
between all these players. Cable Williams, Dak
Prescott. It's everyone. I don't know. Obviously,
all these guys are making money from advertisement.
I'm not taking hate, you know, to anyone on that.
Like, yeah, make the money while you can, you
know? But I'd say even for the Taylor and Travis,
the whole Chiefs thing, like how you're saying
it's played out, like... I'm not a Chiefs fan,
but I imagine for, if there are any Chiefs fans
listening, like how Cody said, let us know. Like
you got to be tired of this by this point now
too, right? It's like, all right, come on. Like
we just like focus on our team play, you know?
Yeah. Cause it's hard to label it. You know,
like. Yeah. Honestly, like, like, what do you
say about that? Cause you can point, like I could,
I could list on one hand, like five names for
the NBA of like who I could see as the face of
the NBA, right? Like even, you know, like WNBA
and NHL, but the NFL, I just, or the, yeah, the
NFL, it's, it's They're so broad and they reach
such a broad audience that they're appealing
to so many different demographics and you know
areas of the country and You can't pinpoint one
and that's that's weird to me Yeah, that's oh
that's kind of what I was getting at when I started
like I feel like all the major sports are the
same way right now like there's not two guys
that are carrying the sport like there's so many
good young players like the NHL, you know, it's
the argument every year. Who's better, McDavid
or McKinnon, you know? Sometimes dry side was
better. You know, there's just so many good young
players in every league, every major sport that
it's just like, like, who is it? You know, I
don't know. I think, I don't know if it's, it's
probably just a thing of social media and just
everything being able to, I don't know. put out
so much content now that it's not like you just
have a couple of guys doing commercials, like,
you know, during a game or something, you know,
but between all the streaming stuff and all the
social media and all the apps and everything,
like, there's just so much stuff that, you know,
can be put out there. It's not just one platform
on cable, you know, like 20 years ago type thing.
So... It's interesting. I don't think there's
like one or two for... any of the sports. All
right. Let's move it on, guys. Week one is in
the books. We do have fantasy points on the board.
The train is in motion. We've got things going
on. Obviously, a lot of, like we touched on it,
a lot of weird stuff happened in week one. I'm
just curious. Fantasy related not fantasy related.
What did you guys see this weekend? What what
stood out to you? What's what's kind of a topic
on your mind? Brandon let's go with you Worthy
is worthless cost me this week Xavier worthless
Xavier worthless located his shoulder man. He's
not he'd like that wasn't it's not like he dropped
the ball six times he second play of the game
he gets Ran over by Travis Kelsey. And you know,
that's like, Kelsey destroyed him. That's like
shame running across full speed onto me. But
it's like, I don't know. Obviously, like they
said, Worthy ran the wrong route. He needed to
be undercut that play. He must like get out of
the way, dude. Like everyone's bigger than you
in the NFL. Like all you have is speed. That's
all he does. Like he gets hit. He got hit by
his own teammate, like not even trying to hit
him. And he got laid off. Like imagine if Kelsey
was actually trying to hit him. He probably broke
his ribs too. Like probably would have hurt him.
So I don't pop his head right off. Yeah. I don't,
I don't know. Yeah. I'm not blaming that on worthy.
Like you're looking to put blame on someone.
Like, I don't even like, I don't even know. I
think it's like quarterback play, man. Like I
don't, this, this talk has been brought up. Like
it was like the whole off season, like Jalen
hurts, man. I don't think you guys, I don't think
he's a good quarterback, man. I don't think he's
good at throwing the ball. Like I told people,
he got benched for Tua at Alabama. And I don't
think Tua is very good, but he's a better passer
than Jalen Hurts, in my opinion. But I don't
know. Did you watch this? I was going to say,
did you watch the Miami games? Because I think
Tua might be permanent CTE concussed forever.
This is why, this is why I brought up Alabama.
This is pre six concussions. So this is pretty
all the injuries to him. Like I'm just saying
that Alabama, he got benched for two. I don't
know, man. I like, yeah. So it's like who you
buy you like everyone's going to blame AJ Brown
and get mad at him for a bad week. But it's like
what you had two balls thrown to him. It's like,
what are you supposed to do? You know, I don't
know. It's I think about just quarterback play
in general, like the New York Giants, man, like
you got Malik neighbors, but you got Russ Wilson.
get them off the team. At least put Jameis Winston
in. I don't know, dude. I thought Carolina, I
thought Bryce Young. I thought they were going
to be better. Touching on Jameis real quick.
I don't mean to interrupt your going, but what
are the chances Jameis gets traded? I posted
this in our group chat. Yeah, you put that in
the chat earlier. Jameis to the 49ers? No, they
got Mac Jones. I'd rather have Mac Jones. I wouldn't
take you seriously when you say that. Go look
up numbers. He did good for Jacksonville. Like,
why did Brian Thomas Jr. have a better season
than Malik neighbors last year? Because of Mac
Jones, it wasn't because of Trevor Lawrence.
Go look it up. Look it up. I'm coming with stats.
Brian Thomas Jr. had a better rookie season than
Malik neighbors. I think he had like 90 more
yards and three more touchdowns. I know he did
1 ,000%. He had a better season than weak neighbors.
And that was because of Mac Jones. Mac Jones
looked good and everyone hates on Mac Jones.
What did New England do when Tom Brady left?
Bill Belichick ran that into the ground. And
then, you know, I don't know. Pittsburgh, I wanted
Mac Jones. Like I would have taken Mac Jones.
I would have taken Daniel Jones. Like they're
on bad teams. The Giants are terrible. They're
a bad team. Russ Wilson's garbage like I'm not
yeah, if I'm San Francisco, I'm sticking with
Mac Jones, dude I'm sorry, but I will say I think
after seeing Daniel Jones and Sam Darnold last
year, it's pretty solidified to me that if you
play in New York You're gonna suck but the minute
you get traded You boom Look Daniel Jones this
weekend. They didn't even punt the ball once
Yeah, scored on every drive. You can pump the
brakes on Sam Donald, though, like. The Vikings,
yes, Seattle. Yeah, watch the game this week.
Pittsburgh is going to triple team Jackson, Smith
and Jig by Sam. Donald's not going to know what
to do. He's going to have an aneurysm because
he can't throw the ball to him. I can't debate
you on that. However, I do think Seattle should
have won that game. They probably should have
like I'm not. But I'm specifically just talking.
We already mean you're texting about this. All
I'm talking about specifically is Sam Darnold.
He didn't look great. He's getting paid a lot
of money. Like, what's the difference between
Sam Darnold and Gino Smith? Tell me, what have
either of them done? The jersey. They both played
for the New York Jets. That's all I can think
of. Like, I don't know. Like they both played
for the Seahawks. Yeah, exactly. So it's just
like it's It's like you're swapping like it was
when the Raiders got rid of Derek Carter, bringing
Jimmy Garoppolo. What do you you're trading the
same guy for the same guy? Like what do you hope?
What are you hoping Sam Darnold's going to do?
He had he was playing with a great team. Kevin
O 'Connell, every quarterback he's had in the
system for Minnesota has done great. You know,
I'm not I'm not saying you have to be able to
throw the ball and you got to still be good,
but it's just like I don't know, man. It's like
teams are just hoping on. you know, hope and
a prayer. Do you look at Pittsburgh side and
Aaron Rodgers the one year deal here? So I don't
know. I I think yeah, the big thing for me week
one is just like all the quarterback play bow
necks look terrible. As we talked about to look
terrible, you know, yeah, some of these quarterbacks
look great. Rogers look great. Daniel Jones look
great. Like Caleb Williams started out good like
he had a good fantasy night, but it's like he
didn't finish that game good. He missed. DJ more
for you know open TD. I don't know Jared Goff
look bad. Like I said, I just feel like more
quarterbacks look bad than good So then let's
flip it Justin Herbert Chargers Chargers did
not look bad cooking look great like Herbert
is cooking right now. Yeah, the weird thing about
the Chargers is like I don't know everyone that
took Omar and Hampton right now is like sad,
you know, which I don't know. I'm not high on
rookie running backs to begin with, but I just
look at the Chargers to begin with. They're a
running team. And I don't know. They saw something
with Herbert was just picking that secondary
apart with Quinton Johnson finally showed up
after three years. Like you should have drafted
him this year, Ryan. Like pretty sure you've
had him like the past two years and he's done.
Ryan doesn't look any help on his team. I mean,
I'm just saying Quinton Johnson, he looked good.
Kenan Allen looked good. He's back. Herbert looked
good, but I don't know. We'll see when it comes
down to the stretch, because Herbert's one of
those quarterbacks that he's never won a big
game in his career yet. So it might be the year.
I don't know. Like I said, yeah. That's why I
mentioned some of the other quarterbacks, like
Daniel Jones and Aaron Rodgers, that did good,
you know? But like J .J. McCarthy, dude, he looked,
I know we were texting about it, and he looked
terrible for three quarters, man. Just back like
I turned it off. I think I made the meme. I guess
we can say it is like her cousins or target little
brother like I made a little meme about it like
it's like you look bad dude like he looks so
bad. It was like come on man like but he turned
that around and they won that people aren't going
to remember those first three quarters. They're
going to remember that that fourth quarter him
coming back and he looked good in the fourth
quarter, but. I don't know. Got the dough. Yeah,
like I said, just for me, it was quarterback
play week one. I just feel like there was a lot
of bad quarterback play. All right. So Sunday
night football, did we already see the game of
the year on week one, Sunday night? Guys, tell
me, Bills and Ravens, a lot of picks. I feel
like we've had this discussion. Brandon, you
and I had this discussion last week. Are they
the real deal? Both of these teams, man, like
that game was insane. Through and through what's
up, bills and Ravens, give me your thoughts.
Probably for me, I'm looking at the AFC championship
right there, both of them real deal. It's going
to be tough to beat either of those teams. I
think they both make the AFC championship. I'll
say it now. I don't know. I don't know about
that. I could see the Bills, not the Ravens.
I don't know. Some of the Ravens, man, they just
come to the playoffs, man. They just, the way
that game started for the Ravens, I was getting
ready to hand them the Super Bowl right there.
Like they want it. Like look how good they look
already to start this. Congrats to the Bills
for coming back in that. Like, was it the Bills
winning that or the Ravens losing that? Like,
I'd say it's a little bit of both, you know?
Josh Allen obviously stepped up. He carries that
team. That's why he's the MVP. Lamar's second.
He's always there every year. But, yeah, I mean,
yeah, if it came down to that AFC Championship
game, I wouldn't be disappointed watching those
two teams play again. But, yeah, I don't know.
That was a great game to start the season. It's
going to be tough to beat that, especially on
a... a Sunday night game. That's what I mean,
dude. That game was insane. Yeah. The first Sunday
night game of the season. Anything else from
week one, guys? Anything you want to touch on?
Anything that stood out to you before we move
on? No, I'm good. Let's talk about our leagues,
guys. all the hype leading up to the draft. We
had everybody chatting, hanging out, giving our
one, two shots to one another. How's that going
after week one? How's everybody feeling? How
many people are pissed? How many people are stoked?
What are we seeing in our leagues right now?
What did you go over the weekend with your 15
leagues, Cody? Oh, buddy. I know that I was on
the plus side. I did suffer a pretty brutal loss
to you in the Champions League, which wasn't
great for my ego, but I did take it down. I felt
great. I gave you shit immediately within the
group chat with me. You sent that. And I was
like, what are you talking about? I won this
week. And then I looked at our Champions League
and I was like, oh, ow. You beat me by a whole
position player easily. I was like, hey, you
dropped this L. Here you go. I want to pick it
up. Of the 16 that I am technically in, I won
eight, so 50 -50. Jesus. What do you mean? I
won eight leagues. Get out of here. I'm sorry,
but you say you don't have time and you're too
busy. You're in 16 leagues. How the F do you
manage that? That's the only way that I've lost
eight weeks. Cause I don't have time to dedicate
to those. Otherwise it would have been perfect.
Yeah. That's a, that's a little rough. Yeah.
I, it's not that bad. I could not, but listen,
I will say we all survived in the chopped leak.
We did. I don't know if you're in it. I don't
think so. Cody and I survived the chop league.
Two more leagues than I wanted to be in, but.
Dude, my team like tanked. Mama T texted me today
and she said, I made it. I survived. I said,
yeah, you're not out. Like, you got to keep playing.
She was at the bottom. She was at the bottom.
So live to see another week, Mama T. Yeah. All
right. I saw a couple of funny Gifts saw a couple
of funny texts in our league. What I'm enjoying
is I've got a couple of people in Leagues with
members that I haven't played with yet one of
them being this This West Coast league that I
was talking about last week Listen I I follow
my fantasy leagues. I do my research. I try to
stay up throughout the day It's it's easy. Just
just scroll and check on your scores. Like I'm
obsessed with it I assume you guys probably are
too. But I just get this text randomly out of
nowhere. And it's from the person that I'm playing
in this West Coast league that we have going
on. And shout out Meg Nguyen. She says, looks
like I'm making some moves late. And I was like,
wait, what? Dude, I was favored all day long
until the late afternoon games. And then all
of a sudden it's like 60 -40. She had CMC. I
was like, get the fuck out of here, dude. No,
she had, I don't even know at this point, super's
not loading for me, but I ended up losing by
like six points and she was just rubbing it in.
And I was like, you know what? I can't even be
mad. Like that's exactly what you should be doing.
Like I love that. You know what I mean? Like
bring it on. Cause you know me, like I'll be
the first to talk shit. I win. Or I mean, we
talk shit to you. Yeah, exactly. I think that's
how it should be. I love the dynasty league too.
This dynasty league, man. It's cool. Shout out
to our dynasty boys. Seriously. Shout out to
our dynasty boys. Leafbug, Jimmy, Jack, all you
guys. It's making me get more and more invested.
And I got a dub in week one. Like, I'm here for
it, man. Like, I'm ready for this dynasty stuff
to pop off, dude. Yeah, I. Barry. Jack, like
shout out all you boys, Jimmy. Y 'all are goaded
for sure. Yeah, man, I went six and two or technically
five and two and survived the chop league this
week. That not bad Just staying humble with your
three leagues No, well, it's four because of
you guys cuz I'm yeah added Reaper this year.
Yeah, see that guys pure pressure works Three
seasons, but we finally got you in it. I went
I went to and to like more points than everyone
except for the first place guy who beat me. Good
job, Ryan. Um, no, I'm happy about my teams.
Like, uh, it was fun. I don't know if you, I
think I showed send you that text, uh, the Monday
night game last time and Roma doomsday caught
that ball. They put me up a half a point to beat
Hans and I ended up beating them half a point.
I was like, yeah, dude, I should have lost. He
had DJ, he had DJ more and Deandre Swift. And
I was out by like eight points going into it.
And I have Roma doomsday and We were texting
a little bit about it. And he's like, you still
got a chance. You still got one player. And I
was like, yeah, I was like, you should win this.
So your two guys are going to score more than
Roman Dunza, you know, and he catches that touchdown.
I'm like, there's no way. And I go look and by
half point, I texted Hans, you know, he's F this.
This is why I hate fantasy. I'm quite, you know,
like rage quit in week one dude. I'm just messing
with you. Good game. It was fun. You know, and
it was, there was a I mean, there's people talking
shit to you about the Joe Burrow -Jamar chase
combo, like, because I knew it, like, we were
in chat with, I was in chat with a couple of
dudes from my league. And I was like, I guarantee
Cody's taking Joe Burrow right here. They're
like, how do you know? And I said, he wants this
stack so bad and your next pick, Joe Burrow,
you know. And so that's why everyone started
running their mouth on you about, looks like
that stack worked out good for you week one,
huh? You know, it didn't, you know. And I told
everybody, I was like, that's because Rob was
talking crap after you, Cody. And I was like,
send him a text, you know. And yeah, where was
that? I didn't get it. I kind of told Rob, I
was like, well, he got like 13 points combined
from Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and Kittle got
injured in the second quarter, having a great
game. I was like, Burrow and Chase, that's not
happened to them again, like the rest of the
year, like knock on wood, like barring an injury
like that will be their lowest point. you know
total of the season. But no there was um yeah
there I mean there's a little bit of uh shit
talking in my league um nothing too crazy um
some of the team names in there are pretty offensive
I like it. It's pretty it's pretty funny once
one person started it like it kind of went in
like a spiral which I enjoy but um this is this
is how I know you didn't listen to last week's
episode. because we definitely, I was like, yo,
this, this league went hard with the teammates.
I loved it. I absolutely loved it. Yep. Yeah,
it was good. I enjoyed that. But now it was,
I'd say for the most part, like I think in my
league, there was only like one person that scored
under a hundred points, I think. Like everyone
else was pretty high. Like, I don't know. I feel
like there was decently like, you know, close
games. Like there wasn't. I didn't see anyone
like in the mind, like the two main leagues I'm
in, like I didn't see anyone score over 200 or
do anything crazy, you know, 257 or something
for the first week. So that's always a good sign
to see people at least scoring the hundreds to
start their season, you know? I for sure thought
in our main league, I was not breaking a hundred
and I was about to hit the panic button like
crazy. Well, yeah, you sent that text or whatever
about your team and I went and looked, I was
like, yeah. It's pretty bad. It looks like a
dude in my league because his team looked like
pretty bad. He had like 50 points or 40 points
like after the morning games. I was like, this,
this ain't good for him this week. So that's
kind of the same, but some of your guys pulled
it around for you. Got you over a hundred points.
So made it respectable. I'm not the lowest point
scorer. That's all I care about. Add out seven.
Holdin' down the toilet bowl, which will be...
God damn, seven. Seven, I will say, if you listen
to the podcast, I have a high recommendation.
Just quit. Because history is a proven track
record of toilet bowls and losing. He said just
quit. Give him a donation every year. Just quit.
No, he's our top contributor, man. We need him.
Oh, God. Yeah, I didn't even look. His team did
so bad, dude. Jared Goff, man. What? Goff and
Gibbs did spend. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't
good. It was not. Damn seven. Your top score
was the Bills defense. Is that a fact? Is that
for real? 100 % I just went and looked through
his team right now. His top scorer was the Bills
defense 21 .3 Jamar Jamir Gibbs 15 This is next
time remember our our scoring is different this
year for defenses for defenses pick return yards
And fourth down stops in our league count as
a point yeah But to think yikes so rough, but
yeah, that's how it goes. It's week one. So got
plenty of plenty of time to go. Oh, yeah Lots
of more time. We'll be all right. Four more months
of this, boys. We're good. We're just getting
started. We're good. This is the end of week
one. All right, guys. Let's move it along. Last
week, Brandon and I talked about doing this new
segment, the analyst analysis. And I don't know.
I don't want to speak for Brandon. But I'm just
going to throw this out there that this is a
bit of an undertaking. It's a lot. I will say
it right now. And to be completely honest with
everyone, I watched a little bit. I will do more
research this week into the episode where they
do start sit, but I didn't really have much time
on Friday when I really set my line up. I knew
I was playing my Thursday night players and I
was gonna try and make time on Friday and then
Just let's just say shit hit life network. Yeah,
and I got well, I I mean I You know, I listened
and I watched and I did my research but I think
but like my biggest point and this is like it's
like how are you supposed to to quantify this
right because then like if I if I study one and
See their results then I have to have something
to compare it to It's like, I don't know. We'll
be working in progress. But here's also my point.
Am I really trying to listen to an analyst within
one of my leagues to actually, like, choose what
player to go with for the week? Or am I just
going to trust my gut instincts and go with that?
I love that you brought that up actually, because
Jordan, I will, I'll cue you up for this one.
I know that you are notoriously somebody that
- 90 -10, 90 -10. Yeah, you're not into the podcast.
You don't follow the pages. It's all sports center
and red zone for you, right? So I mean, what
we were trying to do is bring on this analyst
analysis segment of say like, which analysts
are the most accurate? Well, that doesn't mean
shit to you. Give me something here. What do
you what are you thinking? Yeah, I Obviously
like I look at all those guys. They're just like
us like they're Obviously they probably have
a little bit more time to study film or watch
more games or highlights and stuff like that
I mean they get paid to do it and they have all
the time in the world because their job is literally
doing that but what makes them more qualified
than me or you to say, I would start this guy
just based on the defense they're playing, the
number of carries he got last game. There's an
injury to this backup running back. He's going
to get more time on the field. He should get
more looks or more carries or more targets. I
just look at it like, I don't know. Biggest thing
for me, like I tell anyone, really, that's why
I never carry. care about drafting a defense
like what defense was draft for first this year
Philadelphia's and I think most every league
that I played in was like Phillies defense. I
think Denver might have gone and some of them
but it's like maybe Denver but like the way I
look like play matchups like I'm looking at whoever's
playing the New York Giants like pick up that
defense like whoever's playing the New York Giants
maybe whoever's playing the Saints like some
of these teams that you know were you know gonna
put up a bunch of points like stuff like that
or vice versa of that, like, pick up a quarterback
that's not playing such a great defense. Like,
man, if Daniel Jones smoked Miami secondary like
that, like, who's playing Miami next week? Like,
maybe I might stream that quarterback this week.
Break me. Just take out my guy because they are
playing Philadelphia or they are playing the
Jets or Pittsburgh or one of these top defenses,
Green Bayes, you know, where it's like, yeah,
you have one of these top guys, but it's like.
Not that he's going to have a bad week. He might
just not be able to throw, you know, his normal
300 yards and three touchdowns, you know? So
I don't know. Yeah, I just I always just go with
like you honestly like it's feeling a lot of
times like. Because it's like you said, you had
guys on your bench that got 20 points. I you
know I had guys and like that my league. I look
at it this week like I joke about it like watch.
I want to put put in key on Coleman for the bills
and he's going to put up two points next week.
You know, so it's like you truly never know like.
what someone's going to do it is the 90 10 rule
like that's what it's always going to come down
to because like obviously if everyone if we all
knew the answers like I wouldn't be sitting here
like we'd be a lot richer because we could bet
on stuff if we knew the answers for all the stuff
what guys are going to get for yardage and stuff
like that so I don't know I look at like all
analysts and guys like that they're they're they're
humans just like me they they put pants on just
like you and me there's there's no difference
they watch a little bit more film and. stuff
like that, but it doesn't say mean their opinion
is more valid. And I know there's so many people
that watch these certain people that they have
or podcasts or whatever. And like, you know,
you send in your question, these are the, my
five guys, you know, I only have three slots,
like, who am I starting in the flexes, whatever,
like, yeah, people can give their opinion, but
you know, obviously we could, you could do some
sort of research and go back on. Like Matthew
Barry or look at someone over the past year like
how many times was he right there? The two guys
he said to sit out I'm sure there was weeks where
those guys he said told him sit out those guys
got more points than the starters You know, I'm
not saying it happens every week You know, and
it's just that's why it's just like it's a crap
shoot man. You don't know like injuries happen
Weather you know, so it's just like there's so
many factors that come into it to where it's
just Just go with what you're feeling man. Just
go with your gut like Go with who you like, you
know, I'm not saying take all Dallas Cowboys
players because you like their team and play
all Cowboys players. Hey, that offense might
be good if they lose 10 games, but they put up
a top five offense like it's good for fantasy.
It's not good for the team if you like the Cowboys,
you know, but I think most people like, you know,
better taking fantasy serious or more looking
at actual players and not the team caring as
much, you know. Yeah, shout out leaf bug leaf
bug was in our chopped league and He was messaging
with me Within the group and he's like You're
the only person I know that I've seen actively
start Gervonta Williams. Oh Yeah He's sitting
on the bench and two of my leads start week one.
I'll tell you that I started him and I was like,
alright, well, I mean that worked out but Oh,
great. In another league, he was on my bench.
I mean, in another league, I had 80 plus points
on my bench with four players. Yeah, but what
analyst is coming out and saying, hey, Jonathan
Williams is only going to have 50 rushing yards,
but he's going to have two touchdowns, you know?
I would have predicted that, you know? Like,
obviously, when Jaden Blue was ruled out for
the Cowboys, that obviously took his upside,
you know? be a little bit more, but you never
know, man. It's a lot of luck. So real quick,
as we're getting through the rest of this, I
want to bring this to your guys' attention. I
want your opinion on it. We've just got this
really interesting message on Sleeper. I don't
know if you can see it, but this fool. The trade
offer? Yeah, he wants to trade me JK Dobbins
for James Connor straight up. Who do you have?
I have James Connor. I'm, I'm declining that
right now, but no shit, right? Brandon. I was
just trying to give you this stack. I was trying
to give you the stack with both Harvey. Oh, it's,
it's Brandon trying to trade you. That's terrible.
I got here. Actually, since we're on the topic,
I got an offer. I'm not going to name any names,
but I got an offer. I own JSN right now. I got
an offer for Devante Adams for JSN straight up.
I said, somebody is tilting hard right now. Yeah.
We all know who, but I was like, uh, yeah, no.
Who in their right mind is going to say, yeah,
I'm taking that trade after the, after JSN gets
70 % of the looks from Sam Darnold exactly. It's
like 60 % of them. Yeah. I'm going to drop him.
Or trade him for Devante like Devante and Kyron
Williams. Yeah, I'd probably do that. Yeah, something
like that. But yeah, some of these trades do
people. We're going to have to get him back on
the show. You know that. He has to come back.
Yeah, we'll see. Go watch the previous episode
and you'll find out who it was. Yeah, his name
may rhyme with toe. Oh, space killer. All right,
guys, just a little bit of time left here. Let's
bring it back. We missed week one. We were a
little rushed. We had a lot of stuff going on
with draft week, but we're fresh into week two.
We've got a good feel of the NFL right now. Let's
talk games of the week, fellas. Go for it. Brandon,
you're up. Bucks Texans. It's my game of the
week. Ooh, okay. See if the Texans and score
more than nine points. I'm just openly. I think
I would like to just see. I mean, I feel like
it's going to be a good game. I I steered clear
of, you know, everyone's top pick. Is obviously
going to be. The Super Bowl rematch. Between
the Eagles and Chiefs. Yeah, that's everyone's
top pick. I don't care I'm going outside of that
because I'm not I I don't want to pick the top
game of the week that Everyone's gonna talk about
I'm trying to get excited about that game if
I'm honest either dude I'm sorry, but both teams
look terrible to begin with I Did not think Philly
looked good at all and Kansas City, I think they
look Awful. There's a reason why I said Denver
is when they're still going to go 12 and five.
No way. That's probably the most Hollywood Brown
has done in two years. Maybe in his whole career,
like honestly, like soon as Worley went down,
I thought they were they were going to get blown
out because I was I was talking to my buddy and
I was like, I bet they game plan so hard around
Worley at the start of this game and losing him.
It was just Travis Kelsey what had caught two
three balls. If it wasn't for that, like 40 yard
touchdown he had, he wouldn't have done any.
It was all Hollywood Brown, man. Their run game
looked bad. Like Kansas City just looks old.
Like Mahomes took his helmet off. He doesn't
have his little, little fro you know, like that,
that was all smashed down. He's looking old.
I don't know if he's just put on weight. He's
not, I don't know. He just, I don't know, dude.
He looks like, I don't know. And from where.
Patrick Mahomes like three, four years ago. He
looks like Patrick Mahomes like 13 years later
type thing or something. I don't know. It's just,
it's weird, dude. But yeah, I'm not excited for
that game. Bucks and Texans. We're talking Bucks
and Texans here. Sorry. Egbuka, man. Coming in
hot. Texans O -line looks like shit and therefore
so did Nico and CJ Stroud. And Chubb. Yeah. Did
nothing. Well, Nick Chubb has no business being
in the NFL still. Sorry, but I don't agree, but
he is. It's a big game for both teams. Texans,
I think, need it more than the Bucks, but I'm
glad the Bucks beat Atlanta week one for them
under you once again. So good job, Bucks. But
yeah. Yeah, that'll be a good game. Like I said,
I think it's more important for the Texans for
sure, but Bucks are good, man. Obviously, I think
just Baker Mayfield, something about that dude,
he's just... I love Baker. He never gives up,
man. I love Baker. Baker's a beast. I'm so happy
he got a second chance. Me too. Like, the revival
of Baker is just, it's worked out great for him.
Yeah, yeah. I'm stoked for that, dude. Who you
guys pickin'? Bucks. Bucks. I'm going bucks also,
so that means Texans are winning. Clean sweep.
All right. All right, Brandon, who you got? Jordan,
not Brandon. I was like, I just went. I can't
read, sorry. Commanders out the backers, I think.
I don't know. I thought, I don't know if it was
a combo of the the Packers looking really good
and Detroit looking really bad. But I thought
the Packers were good week one. I thought Jordan
Love was throwing the ball around me. I mean,
that's the thing about the Packers. Like they
just throw the ball at everyone. I don't know
if there is a true number one there. You know,
they just between Romeo and James and Tucker
crap. Like he just throws the ball all over.
So Packers defense look good too. Micah didn't
play that much, but Packers defensively good.
I mean, the commanders, I thought. look good,
too. And McLaurin didn't even have a great, great
game. Devo had a really big game for them for
his first game with the commanders. I don't know
if this could be a like an NFC championship preview
type thing. I know it'd be cool to see someone
other than the Eagles or the Chiefs or the Niners
like getting there. One of these other younger
teams, quarterbacks. Yeah, like I would. Take
this, you know commanders Packers for NFC championship
and you know, like a bucks bills like AFC championship
would be something like that would be cool I
don't know, but we'll see I think this game will
be be a good one. It's Thursday night in Lambeau.
So see how Jaden does on the road Yeah, I'm stoked
about it. I think these teams are both very similar
I won't you know beat a dead horse so to speak
because I think you touched on all the key uh,
components for this game. Um, but I am excited
for this one, man. And gosh, dude, these, in
my opinion, like Jordan love doesn't get enough
respect in my opinion. I think he's pretty good.
Um, Jayden Daniels, obviously with the, the deep
run last year, we know what he's all about and
I think he's in a pretty decent system. I'm really
excited to see them go head to head. And I'm
with you, man. I can see this being a matchup
down the road. So I think this is a great pick
for Game of the League. Who are you taking? In
Lambeau, man. I might have to go pack on this
one. Jordan? I was hoping Cody wasn't going to
go commanders because I wanted to go Packers.
It's awesome. I don't know, man. I don't know.
Like Cody was saying about Jordan Love, man,
there's something about that dude throwing the
ball deep. It doesn't even look like he's trying
or anything. He just always looks so smooth throwing
the ball. Packers stay healthy, and Jordan Love
stays healthy. I think the Packers could do something
special this year. I don't know. I'm taking the
Packers at home. Love it. All right. So we got
two clean sweeps I think I will say I think the
biggest thing that stands out to me is Micah
going to the Packers and just seeing the podcast
that Micah and J love have done and how much
of a solid relationship they have I Definitely
know that they're both just gonna really push
each other and elevate each other to a whole
nother level If you haven't seen that podcast
go look it up I believe it's Micah's own podcast
and he had Jordan love on it. Yeah, you were
talking about They were talking about Who the
Packers could get that would you know boost their
defense and he was like dude, I want you Lo and
behold look at what happens right before we crazy
Dude, it's crazy. Oh, you know in life you can
speak speak things into existence and I have
exactly what they did manifest it and Boom, look
what happens. Oh, yeah Cody, what's your game
of the week this week? All right boys. I'm going
Ben Johnson ball. I Got lions bears I'm just
excited about it. I was very intrigued last week
to see the Lions without Ben Johnson Um, and
I wish I could say it was a little bit more surprised
by their performance. Brandon, you and I talked
about it last week. I said, I'm terrified now
that Ben Johnson is not in town. I did think
that, um, in Monday night's game, I thought the
Bears looked pretty good. Caleb Williams, I thought
looked really good. And I feel like this is,
I don't even want to call it a revenge game,
but Ben Johnson is coming into this game. prepared
and ready. He is going to be scheming this shit
out of his team all week long to play Detroit.
And I'm just going to put it out there without
dragging this on any longer than it has to. I'm
saying bears go one in one, Lions drop two in
a row. Give me the Bears. Yeah, I mean. I don't
know thing about the Lions. It's like, yeah,
you take their core offense coordinator away.
But it's like, it's not like, like, he's some
sort of Marvel superhero and like drain them
of their powers, you know, like, I don't know,
like, I don't, I don't think so. There's no way
like, Dan Campbell's like, like, I could see
that dude just like getting, you know, a homeless
person out the street, bringing them in the locker
room, like choking him, letting everyone beat
him like a full metal jacket scene where they
beat him with a bar of soap or whatever, you
know, everyone gets a turn on him. You know,
I just sort of Yeah, I just don't see the lions
like they they did not they they look like the
lions of like six seven years ago They look terrible.
It's not happening again. I'm taking the lions
So now I'm stuck breaking the tie shit gotta
um Where this games in Detroit? Yeah Yeah, I'm
gonna I'm gonna go to Detroit III I mean I put
them in a deep playoff run. I'm I'm gonna go
with Detroit It's like when I think they bounce
back his mojo, bro, he's just not the same guy
anymore You're gonna have to time travel back
to 2024 go get your mojo and then maybe That's
what you find out. Brad, if you got all that
on record, we're going to start keeping track,
right? Guys, feel free to play along with us.
If you guys want to do the pickups for the week
on our game of the week, hit it up in the comments.
Let us know who you're going to take. We've got
Bucks versus Texans, Commanders versus Packers,
and Bears versus Lions. Hold on. Anything else
on those? I'm out. I'm out in a new special segment
real quick. Watch this. Let's go. Hey. Monkey.
Theo. Come here. We're gonna let Theo do a quick
little take over here. Come here. Give me some
game picks, Theo. So, Theo, you got three teams
to pick from, okay? Or three games, sorry. So
the first one, pick the Bears. or the lions?
Which team? Speak on the microphone. You want
that headset? OK, here. Bears or lions? Bears.
OK, bears. I like it. Let's go. Bears. OK, bucks
or Texans? Texans. Texans. Oh, we see. And then
the last one, Theo, we're going to go commanders
versus the Packers. The Manders. Manders. All
right. On the road. All right, Theo. Good job.
That's all I had for you right now. We'll do
more later. That's the ones for the week. That's
Theo's takeover for the week. That's a future
GSC star right there. The new gen is coming up,
guys. Shout out to the kids league. Yeah, dude,
it was super fun. Actually, it went really well.
I was really pleased. Not a ton of feedback on
the chat, but a couple of the kids got a dub
in week one. I think they're excited. So we'll
see how waiver wire goes down. Might have to
tap into my dad ish shoes. and see if I can get
them hyped up for week two. There you go. Perfect.
All right. What we got next? All right. Yeah.
Let's just wrap it up here, guys. Want to just
let you know, obviously, we promised you a second
best ball league before the start of the season.
We didn't get to that. That's 100 % on us. But
I want to take this opportunity to just reach
out and say, hey, what else is it that you guys
want to do? We're certainly open to it. Obviously
all of us have other stuff going on, jobs, families,
things like that, but we do want to keep it fun
and engaging for you guys. So if you are listening
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whatever, drop them in the comments, hit us up
on those socials respectively, and then... Yeah,
we'll see what we can make happen. I'm excited.
Football's here, man. We got points on the board.
I'm ready to roll. Roll with the defenses right
now while the iron is hot for the unders on games.
I think the unders went like 12 and four over
the weekend. I don't expect that to be a trend
for too long. Obviously, the one that I think
everyone pretty much guessed was going to break
and hit the over was Sunday night football. I
would, I mean, the over under on that game was
like 50 .5 and I would have smashed the over
on that. Um, but stick with the unders. I would
just give advice on the defenses are more in
tune than offenses at the beginning of beginning
of any football season every year. Yep. All right.
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