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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy Best Friends Forever, m Do to Do Do? Didn Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Did it do Yo? This is the Fantasy Best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie stamfele I am Greg Susman, Frankie. What's going on Bundy? The much waiver wire Wednesday, waivers went through in a lot of my home leagues. I'm like, my home leagues just went through. I forgot. You know, it's a brand

new thing for us, like a thing. Yeah. So it used to be overnight and we switched to ESPN for the capability to do it a nude every day, and I just realized it's kind of like waking up on Wednesday morning, going on, I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous. I think the scott fish ball just went through at noon. I put some claims in there. Okay, I see, I got it. There's a lot of tight ends available in the scott fish Ball. I got Brandy Marshall again for how much money? I don't know what you put on here.

I enjoyed that you were not really sold on Brandon Mars and you've ended up with him everywhere so far. Is that the sigh of a man who missed out on Quincy noon Noona? It was owned in this like? Whoa? What? Noona? Was the last round pick in my home league in the sixteenth round. Looks pretty good? Right now? This stinks. Get off your chest. I'm not happy. I'm not um so, I added. I added, I'm not happy. I came to

see the auction report yet this is bom bothered. I'm bothered, um So, I added, Brandon marsh of a twelve bucks and fine, I think the highest other bid would it looks like it was nine dollars? Just fine, You don't no big deal there. But my I also had a bid in I didn't never been round. I guess I can't feel bad about it. Philip dors Set went for a dollar. I'm like, wait a minute, it's a really good price a dollar, and I must I don't know how I didn't have a backup bid on him. I

thought I had that. I thought I had a backup bid. Un really, and it seems like I didn't my backup it was on phil Lindsay. And how much did Philip Lindsay go for? Philip Lindsay went for fourteen dollars bucks? I spent twelve one. Brandon Marshall all right, um other Ted Ginn went for four bucks. Looks like Cole Beasley went for three? Did I not have? I thought I had a lot more waiver claims in than I did. That's not I know. I'm annoyed by this one, knowing

it myself. What are you gonna do? B J? It's a bad job, Greg. I don't own anywhere waiver wire? Why do I own Brandon Marshall everywhere? Why am I the Brandon Marshall guy? All of a sudden, I feel like I talked you into him. I don't agree. I just thought I put a bit in that was like, all right, if I got a for both my Brandon Marshall bids, it was if I get him whatever. But even or twelve dollar bid out of a hundred is not just like if I get him whatever, but it

is it's week bid is like four dollars more. That makes a difference. I don't agree with that it makes a difference. I don't. I don't agree, right, So how come when we're deciding how much percentage to tell people to bid on, why do we put a higher percentage for better players and a lower percentage for no obvious obviously, but yes, every number, every dollar matters quite yes, But the point. The point is, I don't think a twelve dollar player and an eight dollar player. I don't think

there's a huge difference there. There's not a huge difference, but there's a difference. There's four dollar difference. Obviously, I didn't think twelve dollars would be good enough Brandon Martial. I didn't know I was the higher guy. I'm Brandon Marshall, alright, So I mean for people who put bids in later or today, or we're wondering how much they went for,

I mean, he only went for nine dollars. In my home league, and the only reason why I didn't bid on him is because I didn't have anyone to drop in this league. I have have Chris god Went on my bench, Mike Williams, I read it out to you yesterday. I have Frank Gore to pair with Kenyan Drake. I have Kenyan Drake, I have Isaiah crow Well, I have Kenny Still. So I just didn't have anyone to drop.

I'm wondering how often that becomes an issue for people in week one, because there's no one that really like blew me away. I liked Brandon Marshall, I liked Phil Lindsay, but there was no one where I was like, Okay, I'm willing to break the bank on this guy. I agree. What's what do you say breaking the bank is? How much? Did you say? I agree that? Like last year, remember I lost David Johnson. I spent I spent like twenty two dollars out of a hundred on whoever the backup was.

Last year, it was somebody not good, not good. It was um, I'm forgetting his name's escaping me same Actually it was somebody that was terrible, and I think I liked him though, to be honest, like Stefan tylor Is that it was no. Okay, I don't think so. Yeah, it was a not good running back. And then when I lost David Johnson last week I last year, I

felt like I need that. I will say that if you and we agreed on this yesterday, if you were a Leonard Fournett owner who Leonard Fournett is not practicing today, not expected to practice, if you needed t J Yelden and he was available, that's the guy we said go for over twenty. I agree with that. Where do I see if I don't know how many how much fab people have left over at ESPN, how do we do that? I don't know. ESPN and Yahoo are terrible. I am a huge advocate of CBS Sports, although you have to

pay for it. Yeah, it's that I'm out. Yeah. In my league, Philip Lindsay went for nineteen dollars. Greg Okay, people look about some of the players that were dropped to Yeah, so I'm gonna start with the one that surprised me. In my league, Um, Carson Wentz was dropped and it came out this morning that he has not been cleared for contact yet. And Nick Foles obviously starting in week two, so he was dropped, and my quarterback in that league is Patrick Mahomes. I don't have another one.

I think I drafted out Smith. I dropped them for somebody on waivers. Um of course, I Wentz is droning like oh Man and immediately put a bid in for him the next time waivers go through, and then I'm I'm sitting here reading it was like, should I have a been in Recarson Wents Like I thought that was a really interesting drop. Yeah, I wouldn't if I'm a Patrick Mahomes owner. I feel pretty good. I know it's only one week, but he threw for four touchdowns in

week one. It was against the Chargers, and while they didn't have both so they still have a pretty good secondary. So I feel pretty pretty good about Patrick Mahomes. I know two of those touchdowns were just like little handoffs that kind of count as touchdowns as passing touchdowns, so that obviously inflated his day. But I feel very very good about Patrick Mahomes. In a one quarterback league, I don't think I would go out there and trying roster

Carson Wentz. You just don't know when he's gonna be back. A and B you don't know if he's going to be as effective as he was last year even once he was turned all right, so I will cancel that one right now. Um somebody else on um, somebody else in my league picked up Ryan Grant for three bucks overnight. That's okay, Yeah, that was fine. But then the dropped in the first thing this morning and they pick up the hem Hines who went um did not get picked up.

So he dropped Ryan Grant immediately and has been essentially spent three dollars in the hem Hines. He Hines was added in my league is a half point PPR league five bucks and they dropped Rob Kelly. Makes sense, Yes, that makes sense. Some other moves that happened field Door Set for twelve bucks, Greg, I can't believe in lead

that was. That's what's so interesting about fab right, It's like it's it's similar to obviously auctions, Like when we tell people you can't really plan for an Auten you don't know how much a player is going to go for the same thing goes for in fably, we can tell you, in my opinion, Philip or Set was a five to seven dollar player. If someone really wants and they want to play twelve dollars for him. There's no way of predicting that. Again, he went for a dollar

in your league. So that's the beauty of fab You get him in one league for a dollar, you get him my lead for twelve dollars. In my other league he went for ten dollars and I was the second highest bidder at six there, you know, so, um, it's very interesting. Other players that in my league got dropped that that kind of that kind of surprised me. Um or you know, we got dropped for Philip or set Craigen to the he's a um. Albert Wilson dropped for

Eric Iron in my league. How about this? Somebody picked up the Sean Jackson and dropped Courtland's Sutton. Uh ah, that's I see you wanting to try and buy back in onto Sean Jackson. But if you add someone, I'm gonna see to go for So he went for twelve dollars, He went for twelve dollars. The problem is you spent twelve dollars on a player you're not gonna play this week because I don't think de Sean Jackson is gonna be ready. He's feeling with a shoulder into the problem.

The problem is nobody else bid on de Sean Jackson brutal feeling. That is a bad feeling. Yeah, I I wouldn't be able to do that with Jackson yesterday really has a waiver. This owner, Max, who fan of the show, listens to show, makes fun of your hair relatively often. He doesn't even have hair himself. Sometimes he doesn't believe. Sometimes he doesn't like believe in fab. Wait wait, wait, what is sometimes yes or no? Nows? It's very short and it's longer. Would you think he doesn't even believe

that he's jealous in my hair? He doesn't believe in FAB. Yeah, you told me about this guy. He doesn't believe in FAB. That's I appreciate the support, but that's not a good way to live. He has fifteen dollars left a good way to live unless one of the players he ended up with was James Conner or Adrian Peterson. Um. He spent thirteen dollars on on James Cook's week. It's not even a week two yet he spent would like to hear all Max's fab bids. You make this a segment,

Max Fabis, It's gonna be one of weeks. Next week, it's gonna be zero dollar bids. All right, all teams? Where is it? Why is there no reason transactions? That's just not true. Oh my god, this is amazing. He spent twelve dollars into Sewan Jackson, thirteen dollars in Jarry Cook. That's twenty five dollars. He spent another forty seven dollars on phil Lindsay, what are you? Seven dollars? What are you? Seven dollars in Philip Lindsay. The next highest bid, in

case you were wondering, Wow, very interesting. The next highest bid was thirty two dollars. Just crazy. I'm Philip Lindsay. Somebody spent one someone, but eighteen I didn't even wind a bidding. You didn't bid on Philip Lindsay. Guy, Yeah again, I mean look, that's every league is different. Forty seven dollars in yours, thirty two dollar bid, and next close bid in my league he goes for nineteen. So that's interesting. Max strikes me as a guy that you'd want to

take to a strip club. Greg's careless with his money. That should be very fun, just throw it all around, throwing, throwing some bills at Philip Lindsay. Now now welcome to the stage, Philip Lindsay and Max's is up here. Seven dollars, wild man, Ma's got wild kind of crazy that I played a super flex league Greg and Ryan Fitzpatrick went for two dollars. Nobody else did on Ryan Fitzpatrick and

Sam Bradford was dropped. I think that makes sense. I think the case keenum me comfortable playing Ryan Fitzpatrick in a super flex league this week against the Philadelphia Eagles defense super flex it. Yeah, I think he's a low one QB two. I'm with you there. I ranked quarterbacks last night. I haven't just inside my top twenty four. Obviously, we know the Eagles have a great front seven. The secondary at times last year especially could be had. I told Max I just sent up a text message and

I said, we're currently talking about you. Do you want to call in? Oh my god, me, I'll hold on. So opened up those phone lines for Maximus. There you go, he's he's going on YouTube right now to check it out where you know? Oh, did did any defenses get added in your lead? Because I thought this was interesting. The Jets got added for four bucks yesterday going up against the Miami Dolphins obviously this week. Uh, and then

the Bears got added for two bucks. I'm mad at myself because what I normally do, Greg is I'll put in bids early in the day. I was putting like one dollar bids to remind myself, like go in later and change these. I forgot to change my defensive bids last night, and I would have probably bid more than

two dollars for the Bears. So i'd myself. So I actually bid um three dollars in the Jets, and that was unfortunately my backup to the Brandon Marshall one like the same I was driving the same player, and the Jets went for nothing. Um, somebody just put it away over claim as the year dollar bid on them, and I just didn't get him. So I wound up, as we're talking to you, picking up Cincinnati is what I went, which is what I've ended up with as well. I put a dollar in them. I had the Saints defense

who are playing the Browns this week. There are a couple of a lot of defense that I picked up. Actually, the Jets got picked up, as I just mentioned, New England got picked up this morning. I consider them against Jacksonville I consider that. I said it against Hi. Um, San Francisco got picked up. I think San Francisco since it's gotten dropped. Washington and Houston as well. Washington interesting going up against Indianapolis this week with Andrew Luck and Houston.

Houston I like because the Titans offense is kind of in shambles and he used to makes sense. It's a good season long play too, but they were dropped in Week one because they were feeling past. I have no problem with the Houston one. I think as were available in one of my leagues as well, but I actually putting for the Bears over the Texans. Would you agree with that? Greg? Oh? Yeah, I like the Bears the season,

and I like the better season long wise. Um, in my other leagues, I look at the free agent acquis as report. Um, Jets, that's the only defense get picked up. Yeah. Look, I mean a lot of people reacting to Week one. Obviously they're not going to do that every week. It was their first defensive touchdown in something like seventy games, so obviously they haven't had that. But the defense is

hungry New jack City, right, Jamal Adams leading the charge. Um, So look, I think they could be somewhat um productive again this week against the Miami Dolphins, who, yeah, they have Ryan Tannehill. Like whatever, we're not I'm not scared of the Dolphins offense. Yeah. Actually I like the Jets quite a bit this week if you can say you can tease them down to two and a half spreads currently at three. So so Frank Max wants you to know your hair looks better this week, and he likes

your beard currently. All right, Yeah, you should convince you to grow one. It's not an app is here on your kickball team, saying they could have put like a kickball like prop bed or like some kind of wager together where if you fail you have to grow a beard. Do you guys mustach? You guys just grow a mustache? Do you guys do rivalry week rivalry week in fantasy? Yeah? We do? Really. I think Max is my rival this year arrival. So it's just like randomly like randomly set

the rivalry weeks. Rivalry like shouldn't change. It should be the same person every year. You'd think the same as like you know, NFL matchups or whatever, but we wind up in Giant we wind up changing it every year, right, I don't know. But over the phone line for Max, he wants to call in and he heard us talking about him, and he wants to talk about is there added incentive um rivalry week for you? He said he couldn't get through. The lines are busy, and I appreciate

you guys filling them up. He's calling my cell phone, which was not helping. Right, just ended your cell phone on the air, put me on speaker and hold it to the microphone. Please don't call my cell phone. I can't, I cannot answer. There's one thing that greges not like when you call his cell phone while he's on the air, and I don't like it. He's like, do not call me. I'm on the air. Not so crazy, and it's Scott. Just call enough to be like the rankings this week,

the Scots calling you, uh, Frank. By the speaking of rankings, Frank got upset with me on Sunday when I called him out for something. Might have been the Adrian Peterson thing. Um, it might have been something else. All right, publish your rankings and I you just see you could just see that he was angry. There was angry behind the text. I know when we get to Max after the break. Um, but I tell he was angry. So I responded, quite honestly, I was like, hey, do you want my rankings just

been about me? Rank not respond to that text? Of course, I'm not going to respond to that text. You're beating me in he was beating you. You got angry, he got full for I wasn't even calling you out. I was just propping myself up. Publish your rankings, bro, all right, dude, hold yourself accountable. Greg I do you you know me? You know my rankings. They are what they are, man, So you make the color coded rankings obviously for the draft. You do that each week. No, it's no way. Now.

I was working very hard on QB tight end and defense last well, rank He's be ready for tomorrow show. That's the point. Definitely will have the players that are playing the Thursday night ranking for you. Ally. We'll talk about that obviously tomorrow when we come back. My buddy Max calls in and we're gonna go over some real or fake stuff from this past weekend. Chris Hoganmori Cooper, Derrick Henry, what do you believe? What don't you? We'll go over it next Daily Rhodo Dot com learned from

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I love. I love when somebody bids on a player. I just got this text message. This is for my buddy Dan and and he says, thoughts on your free agent pickups and my undefended thirteen dollars Jack to little bit. How can nobody else put on Jack Doyle? I dropped thirteen dollars. It's just like, I don't have to tell you man. I want some reassurance, right, yeah, exactly, yeah, And so I mean I do kind of agree with this.

So he was the guy that dropped. He was going to drop Ryan Grant At picking him up this morning. Um and for for ninds. He goes, Honestly, I only put it three dollars I heard you on the shows put yours at three dollars rank. That's so messed up. Well, this is the beauty right yeah? Eight four four four three? By the way, is they just picked up a bunch of colts and dropped a bunch of colts and picked up some more colts. He's not He's a he's a Jets fan. Dad. I want to go out to my

Bundy Max. He was listening to the show and we're talking about him. I wanted to give a chance to call in defend himself. What's up, Max? Yeah, freaking what's going on? Big fan of the show going on? I am? I am. I am loving rubbing the hair, rubbing the look, Greg, not so much that I can't agree more. Uh Max, we are entering week two. You have fifteen dollars of fabrine in it? Okay? Uh well, Greg, I know you've spoken about my feelings unfab before. I really think this

fantasy money really is just a fantasy. Um. I think even by week one, I think most people have the handcuffs that they're gonna want to be picking up my No injuries happen all year, but those are just my beliefs. I mean, yeah, I mean, I know, I know you look at definitely and I do you spent forty seven dollars on Philip Lindsay. Yeah, you'll see what happens. But you like last year, how about paid for him? I was been I would have spend all my money on Camara.

But you think Philip Lindsay will be Alvin Camara is what you're saying? You never know. We won't know until we know. That's that's that's true. I guess what and if you become, if hecomes the next camera, then that forty seven dollars as well worth? It? Was it? Not? Absolutely? Absolutely? You also spent thirteen dollars on your boy Jerry Cooks. That's exciting. Let's I got as a Mary Coopy Cooper owner, you know, get a little nervous, gotta pick up another

another receiver over there, that tight end. Well, let me let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Max. You're you're an owner of in our league, your owner of Mary Cooper and Derrick Henry, two players were going to talk about on today's show on a scale board of the tend How how nervous are you on those two guys? Um, well, just keep my pants a little bit hearing both their names in the same sentence. Um,

I'm still I'm still confident with Cooper. I'm also still confident Henry because we wouldn't be having this conversation right now if Henry had that sick to your a touchdown called back from Dlaney Walker which really wasn't really you know, really wasn't a whole he was getting face mask. But I can't it's a little bit of you know, bs um. I personally have been a fan of Henry. I had to Marco Murray on that breakout season. Was that two years ago? Now? Um, I wanted to own Henry then.

Always been a fan. I think the kid is just a He's a beast, and you know, I believe in him. I know there are stats. I know you can see, you know, shareholding, snap counts, blah blah blah, But I believe in you know, what you see is what you know, and this guy, he's got it. And I really think, you know, Week one is a little scary, but I really just see him churning the engines and and really getting there. Were like the football, right, we're gonna We're

gonna move on. Mask. You have any partying thoughts on your team, and we're about anything before we let you go. Yeah, Frankie, listen to this trade offer. I was offered for what did Geronomo Allison by Gweggy over here for Amari Cooper? He said it was a very fair trade. I'm thinking that's a w R three in a crowded offense for I think a low end, high end uh, you know, wide receiver too. What would you what would you do there? Right? You offered him to Roonimo Allison for Mary Cooper and

my response, my response was you sneaky, sneak. My response was I wanted to see where he valued Mary Cooper. All right, I mean, look, if you're just throwing it out there and you knew that he wasn't actually going to accept it. He followed that up by offering me a Mariy Cooper and Cam Newton for Antonio Brown. All right, So that's a fun game, right, you throw one trap off for one way, you throw another trap off for the other way. And then he was offered this morning

by another member of our league. He was offered ridiculous. What was this was Dalvin Cook Brandon Cooks? It was? It was, it was, It was Hopkins, Freeman and Crowete Freeman for I believe Dalvin Cook. He gives up Hopkins, gives up Hopkins, DeVante Freeman and Isaiah for a Cook and do a fun league. Looks. Max actually made a trade already on Monday, even fab and making trades. I love it, he does. He loves to make trades. Um. He made a trade. He traded Evan Ingram Away for

Isaiah Crowe. L because you're tighten now as a result of that, I have Cook and I have Iford, Jerry Cook and Tyler Effort. It's not terrible if you need the running back help. I think it's fair. Made it before. I think both players were kind of going in the same range during the draft too, like the seventh round. I agree, I thought it was I thought it was a fair trade. I agree that good the job. Max. We appreciate the call, buddy, and I'll talk to you.

There you go, Max, Maze, There you go. Yeah, Max, if you ever want to come buy the studio, you you buy us both a beer. We'll buy you a beer. I also want Max Colin in five weeks when we when we know that Philip Lindsay is not I'm sure he'll be happy to or he'll just clip that sound by doubt when Philip Lindsay's like the RB one. If that happens on on him host for me. He can come in and host. He can hold the whole soul by himself. He can take my spot for a whole day.

You mentioned Mark Cooper and Derry Cannery, two players on Max's team, and I asked him as Mary Cooper and Derrick Henry owner, like what is his confidence level? And he he's still excited about both of his players. And I get it. He drafted them two weeks ago, three weeks ago, um, and you're excited about them. Frank, let me start with the Marik Cooper with you you were yesterday was all about look at the matchup. Look how bad the matchup was for him. He was not going

to succeed in this type of atmosphere. Of course, over the last two days since the game, John Green's obviously deflected all problems away from himself, saying I wasn't the problem, but admitted that we have to find a way to get a Mark Cooper more involved. Where are you Mary

Cooper now? A day later, after you've had a data process, Yes, so I was actually pretty the more I looked into it last night, Um, the more worried I actually became, because I just don't know when you're gonna feel good about starting a Mari Cooper right, Like he's facing the Broncos this week, he faces I believe it's Xavier Howard and the Miami Dolphins the week after. And look, Exavien Howard is no Patrick Peterson, He's no um amazing shutdown corner.

But he has been improving and you know he he held Corey Davis to less than fifty percent of his catches last week. So and then I think it's the charges the week after that, so it's Casey Hayward and maybe we should have been more on top of that that, Like he's still going to see the corners in this division in the a f C West, So I'm a

little worried about it. The one thing that I will take away as a good thing, and it's just per Pat Thorman PFF Mark Cooper read of his routes in the slot in week one, which seems awesome, right because last year I believe that percentage was right around Yeah, So they're getting more creative with with Marik Cooper the pet News his Derek Carling targeted, targeted him once out of the slot. Now they have Bradley Roby on the outside. Um No, last week they had Marcus Peters on the outside.

They had obviously keep to Leap on the outside, So it makes sense that they wanted to move him into the slot to try and get him open. But if you move him there and then you don't even draw a place for him, or if Derek Carr isn't even targeting him, I mean you're doing something for nothing anyway. So look, we mentioned Jared Cook doing what he did as part of a game plan for the Oakland Raiders

because they knew how good the outside cornerbacks were. Jordy Nelson was targeted, not targeted much in that game either. He only had four targets. So I'm a little bit worried about Amark Cooper. I don't think there's there's no way you can feel as confident as you were like before the season. He was a high end wide receiver too. Right now, I don't feel as good about that. Yesterday I said he's still a wide receiver too, and he's probably still in that range low end wide receiver too.

I'm worried. I mean, he needs to come out this week, whether he's open or not. Derek Harr needs to target this guy eight ten times. We absolutely need to see that in week two. The fields totally totally agree. He actually made a trade offer involving him as well. You can be a Robert Woods. We got a Mark Cooper. Even if it's like three thirty seven, at least was like targeted nine times. Like he made it all over

the field. We need to see the usage. I actually offered Floria in the Flex League ye yesterday, you know mini Flex, well I did before the season started. I offered you Jordan Howard for Davonce Ham. I countered that with Thine. It was Fitzgerald for Alex Collins or something like that. It wasn't crazy. It still looking crazy. Yeah, but you got fits Sheld in the fifth round and

I got who cares about? Who cares you? I could have taken now round you got four of the season started, Okay, we saw in week one, make the trade now no, I offered Florio, Alex Collins and a Marii Cooper or one of his DeAndre Hopkins or Oldell Beckham, Mark Cooper and Hoover did for those ships Alex Collins, Alex Collins and Mary Coop. His running backs are Rashod Penny, Ronald Jones, Isaiah crow L, Carlos Hide and has really good wide receivers. So me and him have like the opposite of teams

like us. I didn't didn't. I didn't expect to take it. Now. It just kind of threw it out there because I know Michael Florio is a Marii Cooper truth, so it would be interesting to see how Michae Florio feels about Amory Cooper. Right now, let me go to the other player that Knax has on his team. That's that's Derrick Henry. He did a sixty yard touched and take him back on a phantom phantom Delaney Walker holding penalty. Um, that won't be possible anymore because Delaney Walker out for the year.

They force fed Derrick Henry the ball early on and then after that he didn't get the ball anymore. As Florio Texas this morning. He played just twenty nine percent of the snaps for the Titans offense on Sunday. I know it's been a start, a sloppy starting, stop game with all the delays and O Marcus Mariota got hurt um. But that has to be concerning that number twenty nine. Yeah, it absolutely is pretty much Dean Lewis percent Derrick Henry. So it was a completely even split. They didn't play

on the field together. Seventies thirty in favor of D. M. Lewis, and I mentioned yesterday for the Tennessee Titans, it's very similar to the Oakland Raiders. It's going to be game flow dependent and that's going to be hard to tell because, as you know, Greg, the NFL on any even Sunday is completely unpredictable. I mean, the Tennessee Titans can come out one week and end up smashing a team that

we didn't expect that to happen with. So for running backs, that are going to be game flow dependent when you can't predict game flow. I mean, as much as we try to, like we look at point spreads and we say, you know what we would have said last week, Greg, the New Orleans Saints are ten point favorites. They're gonna be running out the clock in the fourth quarter with Alvin Kamara. What happened then they were chasing points in

the fourth quarter with Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas. Mind you, those guys still had great weeks because the New Orleans Saints, the Tennessee Titans are not the New Orleans Saints. So I think I'm more so worried about Derrick Henry than mm Amari Cooper. And I'll ask you if you feel the same way about it. But I mean, for a running back situation where you were drafting Derrick Henry on the third, late third, early fourth round that has now seemed like he is game flow dependent. I do not

feel good about that. Now. I feel terrible about Derrick Henry. And I was talking to Max before the show started and he was like, I don't understand. You love Derrick Henry coming into week one, like you were really high on him. What change? And I go, I didn't expect the usage, Like I thought Derrick Henry would be the guy, Like I thought what we saw in that opening quarter for Tennessee was going to be the deal throughout the game, Like that's exactly what I expected. That was a weird games,

Like that's why I pressed for seven hours. They were trailing points. Marcus Mariota left the game with injury, so it was a super super weird game for the Titans. And maybe this is an overreaction because I actually thought the Titans would be pretty competitive this year. I had them as one of my wild card teams. I could have seen them going nine and seven. So maybe there are a lot of games where they're actually in or they're in close games, or they're winning a lot of games.

And in those games, Derrick Henry is going to be great. But after Week one, Tennessee Titans, and if they don't have a quarterback, that means they're gould be coming from behind a lot more. And and no idea what marks Barriot is injuries right now? He's expected to play? Is he practicing today? I didn't see any practice reports yet

for the Tennessee Titans. Try and find that though. Speaking of practice reports and how I know how, a practice report from Atlanta, as Dan Quinn says, running back DeVante Freeman will not practice today. He is sore. Though everything is structurally sound for DeVante Freeman. Um everything looks like he's okay. The downside of that is the Atlanta Falcons I had now a week off essentially right like they played last Thursday and haven't played since. Everybody else played

this past Sunday, Freeman still not practicing. How concerned are you with your boy? Not my boy? Certainly not my boy. I should ask you how you feel about him. You knew I didn't really like DeVonta Freeman already coming in. He had the concussion injuries, he was dealing with knee injuries last year, especially for a running back. He was already dealing with a bum me. And not only that, he has Tevin Coleman breathing down his neck, he has the fact that Steve Sarkisian does not call a bunch

of passing plays involving Devontae Freeman anymore. And on top of that, he's facing the Carolina Panthers front seven this week. I do not feel good about Devonce Freeman in Week two. If he's out, Kevin Coleman is easily a top twenty, maybe top fifteen. You don't care about Carolina defense anymore. I's out, no, because I know that Kevin Coleman's gonna see twenty plus touches if Devonce Freeman is not there. So the the usage and the opportunity outweighs the bad matchup.

It does sound like he's going to be okay, but the question is how limited will he be this weekend, especially if Kevin Colan starts rolling right like they probably make sure that Devonte Freeman gets healthy still early in the year. It takes one bad tweek for him to be out of the game again, like we saw week one against Eagles. You know it's it's to me. It does bother me a bit. This is a nashlute disaster. Greg. I don't know how I let you talk us into

drafting DeVonta Freeman. Why do we do that? Well, it's because you maybe draft Antonio Brown. Well, we sort of started wide receiver wide receiver, like I told you, and we would head Antonio Brandon, Keenan Allen then our top running back in with Alex Collins. Well, kend Of Dixon's out a few weeks. We're looking about that. Let me let me go to your boy, Alex. Honestly, right now, who do you feel better about? Alex Collins or DeVante Freeman in the vacuum, who do you feel better about?

Probably Alex Collins? But like, are we were drafted around the park? I know that, But are we overreacting a bit with Deavante Freeman? I know you were not in on him coming into the year. But it's a knee injury. I understand that everything seemed structurally sound. He should be okay. Like it's one week and Davante Freeman had four goal line chances. Like, I understand he got hurt, but he had four goal line chances and didn't. It was It

was bad. It was bad play calling. Greg reminder, there's gonna be bad play calling all season long because these Sarcasians there. Vonta Freeman had three red zone carries in week one. Mhm. He was tied for dud boards if league. There was a bunch of people who had three carry's inside the twenty, including Joe Mixon, sa Quon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, Alan Kamara. Let me continue on the negatives. Are they real right? Let me get a Chris Hogan for instance,

Chris Hogan had one cash this week faced Jacksonville. How concerned are you about Ris Hogan? Yeah? This is pretty bad. This is bad, especially because, as I mentioned yesterday, we were expecting Chris hogans who really really help us out most in the first four weeks of the season, where there was no Julian Edelman on this team, and now one week after putting up a dud five targets, fourth on the team in terms of targets in Week one one reception eleven yards, he goes up against Dalen Ramsey

and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now I spoke to Jim Day about this on Monday, and he said, look, Bill Belichick is extremely smart. If he saw something on film that said not to use Chris Hogan in week one and use guys like Philip Lindsay and James White and the Lindsay Lindsay on the mind Philip dorf Set and and if Chris Hogan wasn't part of the game plan, and

he would, he just wasn't gonna be targeted. Now, maybe maybe they bounced back in week two and they find something on film where Chris Hogan is part of the game plan. I just don't see how that's possible, right, if he's matched up with Jalen Ramsey or a j. Booyer, it doesn't matter. I mean, they can move him inside the slot if they want to. But as I mentioned, door Set was running a lot of the slot in

week one, which we didn't really expect. So maybe they get creative, they change things up one week to the next. Maybe they moved or set more so to the outside and they run Chris Hogan in the slot. Again, we're not gonna know that until once the game starts. Obviously, Bill Belichick is not going to show his hands a lot of negative right there with Hogan and Cooper and Henry. There's some positives too over the weekend. Were that was that real? We'll try to break that down when we returned.

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a touchdown to Seahawks tight ends last week. Reminder that was Will dis Lee and Nick Vannette, who I think only called sixteen of those yard and everything else was Will dis Lee, but still they got torched by Will this Lee. Jared Cook faces Denver in Week two, one week after playing ninety point five percent of the snaps and seeing of the target share. Actually have Jared Cook rank inside my top twelve tight end this week. Right, you're buying the big Foot, and I think it's a

very very similar situation to last week. Right. The Broncos have strong clues on the outside. They have Chris Harris, they have Bradley Roby. Roby wasn't amazing in week one, but they still do value those cornerbacks in Denver a whole a whole lot so um. They showed that there's one area that where they do struggle, it's against tight ends. I think Jared Cook can have another solid game. He has a good chance to show that he's not big

foot after all. In Week two, Greg, So if you picked him up, he's he's just barely inside my top twelve. I think I have him as my twelfth ranked tight end. But I think there's actually some decent streamers this week. Actually I lied, Now I can't do Actually did I moved Jared all the way up to number nine? This debate was intern was amazing. This is what I do when I'm at home, too, Like, do I want to move that guy up that high? I have Jared Cook rans my ninth tight end this week, the head of

Kyle Ruff and Evan Ingram. You look at me like I'm crazy. I don't know, people, Kyl usage is very scared people at Kyle Rudolph because this usage wasn't used

in the preseason at all. There were plenty of reports that came out that said Kirk Cousins and are not on the same page, that they were not hooking up in practice throughout training camp, and Kirk Cousins has looked great throwing the ball to his steavers in Adam Feeland and Stefon Dix and targeted Dalwin Cook a ton in that first game so I mean a lot of those shorts intermediate stuff if that, if those are going to Adam Feeling and Dalwin Cook rather than you know, Kyle Rudolph.

Rudolph's really just going to be a boom or bust if he scores a touchdown. And I know you say that about a lot of tight ends. I was expecting kyro have to be much more involved between the twenties as well, just based on the usage we saw out of Jordan Read when Kirk Cousins was with Washington. That has not been the case so far in the preseason and so far in Week one between Kyle Roff and Kirk Cousins. I'm a little bit worried about that situation

right now. I think it's fair. I think we're gonna see the chemistry developed. I'm not worried about Kyle Rudolph yet he scored touchdown. I'm not worried about it. Man. Is that I believe that was his loan target of the game. I thought he was. He was one of two targets now sorry, Greg, one of two targets. Two targets. Jerk Cook was targeted twelve times. I know, well, I'm not expecting twelve targets a game, but I think we could see six through eight six eight targets for Jared

Cooking week two. I think that's a real possibility. And I don't disagree with you. I don't, I don't, I don't diagree with you. Two targets four four eight four three six st seven nine four four three six s seven nine. Let me get some of the good stuff from over the week, and were talking about this during the break. Which one of these guys did you start?

And one of the players you included was Kenny Stills who had five targets, third on the team, but the four receptions for hundred and six yards and two touchdowns. A lot of fantasy owners absolutely love Kenny Stills coming into this year, and for good reason. Javante Parker not expected to play once again this weekend. Kenny Stills. I guess the factor. Number one wide receiver on this team is Kenny Stills for real? I think so, especially based

on the snap percentage as well. Here with the Dolphins wide receivers, Kenny Stills lad all Dolphins wide receivers with ninety five point one six percent of the snaps. The next closest was Danny Amondolo with Selbert Wilson to Keem Grant forty. You want to see the targets go up four and he stills, but you love that he was both targeted down the field and he was targeted inside the red zone and converted both of those into touchdowns.

So when you give a wide receiver opportunities and they make plays and they capitalize on those, that's going to leave to more opportunities. Obviously, it just came out today as well that Adam Gates and Ryan Tannehill have a lot of trust in Kenny Stills. It's clear. Yeah, I mean, once you make plays like that, you're going to earn yourself more opportunities. And I think that's exactly what Kenny Stills.

He was already the player on the wide receiver who was playing the most on this team based on the snap percentage. So I do expect him to be, you know, a high end wide receiver three this week going up against New Jack City the Jets secondary. Greggy, we're still doing this? What do you mean we're still doing this? It just started. It was the second time you mentioned it now, well I mentioned it during the break. Well, yeah,

because I mentioned it during the break. That doesn't mean you know, our listeners and watchers know that I call him new Jack City. You just wanted to hit your point across. Well, I mean it's pretty fun. I'm a Jets fan as well. What's the name of the Giants secondary? Bad? There's some bad apples in that secondary. Greg Eli Apple preayed a pretty good game in Week one, though, Tyry Kiel much that he did it in Week one last

year was a superstar. We were thought we're killing ourselves after Week went last year for not believing in Tyreek Hill as a potential wide receiver. One we're doing it again this year, as he had eight targets, seven receptions, a hundred and sixty nine yards, two touchdowns, leading the team in every statistical category, so much so that Kareem Hunt was an afterthought. Of course, Tyreek Hill also started off the game with a ninety one yard punt return

for a touchdown. He was re Dick, you lust, he's not gonna have three touchdowns every week. But we once again underestimate Tyreek Hill. Yeah, we absolutely did. And you know we saw it more as preseason went on, um that he was going to be the go to guy. For Patrick Mahomes, and it absolutely seems like he is. I mean, with that being said, he played seventy pent of the offensive snaps at wide receiver. Sammy Watkins actually played, but it doesn't matter. Sammy Watkins is a ghost. He's

on the field of the plays. That's more plays than Tyreek Hill. To to put that in perspective, that's eleven more plays where he's on the field. Mhm. And he was gonna significantly less the entiree Hill was in this game. So I believe Entyreek Hill um. The fact that he did it against Casey Hayward and a Charger secondary, I think that just proves that he can do it against anybody. He's matchup proof. He really needed a hundred and five targets last year to be a top five wide receiver.

The eight targets in Week one. If he gets that throughout the season, that will put him on pace for about you know, a hundred and twenty close to that. And if he does that, he's a top five wide receiver. Once again, Greg, I ask you, I asked him Davis on Monday as well. Is he the most electric player you've ever watched play the rocket that we're talking it's Tyree killing electrifying player I've ever seen. No, He's not, would be Michael Michael Gettest Prime was the most electrifying

player I've ever seen. Yeah, that's hard to argue. A name that came to my mind was Chris Johnson. It just makes something out of nothing, score from anywhere on the field, ninety touched on at any point. He was a guy that could run one way, reverted back the other way to take it ninety yards to the house. He was a name that came to mind. But man,

he's up there. I mean, Tyreek kills something. They come all other running backs and I'm just having this picture of them doing the exact same thing, running one way, running all the way. Russell Wilson is very electrifying as well, and thinking about other quarterbacks is more electing. Absolutely. I just like those are guys that immediately came to mind for me. I think he's efficiency proof. Obviously, we have

all these stats. This is one of the players where that Max was talking about, where this is the eye test. We're like the efficiency numbers and everything that we say, oh, regression is coming. We said the same thing from Alvin Kamara. Alvin Kamara needed seventeen touches to put up forty six PPR points in Week one. Greg. The same thing goes for Tyreek Hilly only needs eight targets to put up

hundred and seventy yards and two touchdowns. Easy player. He's not a guy that's going to regrets because he can just score from anywhere on the field. And we've seen that for you know, two seasons. Now. Let me ask been another player that didn't exactly have as much usage but still produced a lot, and that was Isaiah Crewell who had ten ten touches, a hundred and two yards

rushing uh and two touchdowns. He got a goal line carry and he bursted down the right signling for like a sixty yard touchdown or so only ten carries and blow Powell once again got the start for the Jets. Are you concerned by the fact that Powell is extremely involved or are you unconcerned because of how good Crow was when he didn't notshtable. So this is kind of a I am concerned, but I'm not concerned. I'll show you why, and it's because they both played the snaps

and both looked extremely explosive. But what I will say is that Isaiah Crewell saw four carries inside the red zone on Monday and Blue Pala saw zero, And I know one of those was during a drive. I think he got poked in the eye and you saw him go to the sideline and he was kind of like pointing to his face that tell me had happened. Um, maybe if that didn't happen, they would have just left ball Power on the field for that drive. But it seemed like whenever they got inside the red zone, Isaiah

Crowell was the go to guy. And plus you saw the explosiveness law Power looks Clive as well, but just to be able to score a six dr touchdown um from Isaiah Crowell and the way that they used him in the preseason, you know, lining him up as a wide receiver. I'm very excited about both of these guys. I still do think that they're both high end running back threes. They're gonna be flex plays weekend and week out.

But if something were to happen to law Powell or vice versa, I think either one of these guys moves up as a top one running back. But regardless, I think their flex plays weekend and week out. I'm okay with that, I'm okay with that. Um, with that, let's sign off YouTube for now. Come up next Fantasy Football Frenzy with of course the Fantasy Executive Corey Parson, the Closer Chris Ventra, and the Fantasy Task Gym Day. They will answer all of your questions, take your calls, do

their thing. If you're listening to us live on the radio, live on a podcast, we'll be here for the next five minutes to make sure you give us a like, subscribe to our channel and make sure you give us five stars and leave a comment. For the rest of the show, we get to you and four, three, six, seven, nine, and we begin with Devin and san Antonio. What's going on? Devon? Hey guys, how are you all today? Doing? Great? Man? All right, So, I'm in a two flex league ten

tempting to flex uh full point ppr um. I just lost Billaney Walker and UM, I'm thinking about pairing a couple of my running backs together to trade for a better tight end, maybe like a Kelsey or a Jordan read My running backs right now are like Melvin Gordon, Kenyan, Drake j j I e mark Ingram, Aaron Jones, and Royce Freeman. So do you think I should uh pair like two of those running backs together to go for like a Kelsey Or do you think I actually just

like grab somebody off Waivers? To me, I like, I like the death a lot and why you can do the Kelsey thing? They got to go after Waivers. I would save this depth a little bit longer, see what it turns into. You know, who knows what a JI will ultimately be. Kenyan Drake kind of has to figure his stuff out. You don't have more Ingram back until week five, and he's gonna buying week six. I'm gonna hold with your death and I'd rather spend some money

in the waiver wire. I'm with you, Greg, I don't mind shopping these guys though, like I throw them out. I wouldn't do it two for one. I would. I think one of Roy's Freeman, Kenyan Drake, j j I, one of those guys can easily bring you back a you know, top three, top five tight end. I think that's fair to say. Probably trade you certainly trade like a Royce freeman for like Evan Ingram, if you wanted to do it right now, I wouldn't do that. I'm not saying you will, and I say I could. Zach

Ertz makes more sense something like that. Why is zacharts owner doing that though? I mean they were both like, I don't care where they were drafted, dude, there's nothing to me anymore. Just look at the way that they were using Week one two and Royce Freeman Still. I saw a stat yesterday from Brad Evans he saw the highest percentage of stacked fronts in Week one. Still ran fifteen times for seventy one years. To Phillip Lindsay, that's nearly yeah, but he didn't see the same number of

stacked fronts. Basically, when Royce Freeman was on the field, the teams knew that they were running the ball, and he was still able to run fifteen times for seventy one yards, which is nearly five yards of pop. So I feel good about Royce Freeman. I actually think, you know, if someone's freaking out about him right now because of Lindsay, I would look to buy low on him. I think that's a I think that's a good decision right now.

But I think that you can turn one of these running backs, even if it's j J. I. I mean, if you wanted to sell high on a GI to get like zach Ertz, so you don't have to worry about your tight end position all year long. You can do that. I'm with you. I would keep the running back depth though, and just kind of pick up a tight end off the waiver wide. There were a lot of guys from Jared Cook, John Who Smith, obviously, Ian Thomas. Take a shot on one of these guys. See what

happens in week two. Maybe that guy pops off and then you it turns out that you have a borderline tight in one for the rest of the year, if not later on, once you get marking them back, make a trade and you can lock down your tight end position. Let's go out to Patrick in Florida. Let's go to Patrick. What's happening? Man? Hey, So I have about eight wide receivers on my roster and I'm looking to start three of them. I wanted to know what you guys thought.

I got the Landry Holiday locket, Chris Hogan, Bunches, Godwin and Allison. Do you gotta start three of those eight? Obviously, Jarvis Landry immediately goes into your lineup. So that's seven, um, two guys, Frankie, Chris Godwin, John Wall Allison, Devin Funches, Chris Hogan, Tyler Lockett, and Kenny Dolladay picked two. It's Golliday, Locket, Hogan, Hogan, Hogan's out, Hogan's out. Okay, Um Collie going up against San Francisco, Tyler Lockett going up against Chicago in Chicago.

This is such a mismuch of like wide receiver threes to me, the next guy in the I'm putting in. I don't know if you're gonna agree with this. Functions out. I'm putting Chris Godwin. I'm putting in Nevin Funches. I feel good about Funches with alt Greg Olson. He's facing Atlanta. That's not scary by any means, whatever, whatever, there's whatever. Um, I think I would go Golliday and Godwin. I think I would go, But it's close. I mean, all these

guys are gonna be ranked very closely. Yeah, if Sean Jackson doesn't play, I would I would go Godwin and Funcious. That's fair. I don't expect to Sewan Jackson to play. He's dealing with a concustion. It just came out. He's dealing with a shoulder injury as well. Toronimo Allison going up against the Vikings outside cornerbacks. We liked him as a waiver A. He's the third though, he's the third wide receiver, which could be good because Adamson could be rude.

This is more so a match up for Randall cop because they use him more so in the slot. UM, and he's not going to see one of Xavier Rose or Trey Wayne's in that matchup. Kenny Gollady, we saw his usage in week one. I don't think the forty nine secondary is that great. Um, even if they use Richard Sherman. I think he'll be more so on Marvin Jones.

So I like Holliday a lot this week. Blockett is there too, But um, if John Jackson's out, I think there's a lot of opportunities for Chris Godwin this week. All right, fair enough, UM, we're gonna more start and say, of course over the next two days we're an answer all of your questions. I know I obviously have a bunch of questions. You obviously don't like Chris Hogan this week against Jacksonville. Like for me on my team, like the other options I have are Cooper Cup, Cooper Cup,

Cooper Cup and Cooper Cup and johnom Allison. I could start. I like Brandon and Brandon Marshall. I like the Cooper Cup a lot too, don't matter if I also Robert Woods, I would start cup Ed Woods. You know, I looked at I asked you during the break, who is going to match up with Patrick Peterson this week? Root Bobolks has Robert Woods match up with Patrick Peters, So maybe you start again. That's something where we won't know until

the game starts. Yeah. Obviously defensive coordinators Steve Wilkes obviously a defensive mind for Arizona. We don't know what he's thinking. He can easily be saying, I'm gonna take Brandon Cooks out of this game. Let me let me have Robert Woods or Cooper Cup trying to beat me. I think my team is to get a wil this week. Cooper Cup is the one that I you safest about of all the receivers because he's gonna match up with Udha Baker,

which is actually could match up this long. All right, there you go, Fantasy football frenzy comes your way next for Frank Stamford. My name is Greg Susman. Thank you so much, for watching and listening the fantasy best friends Forever. We'll do it all again tomorrow, we hope.