One stat to know for every team in Week 2 + Ryan Fitzpatrick interview

It's Thursday, September 14th. I'm that Harmon. Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy football show presented by Nerd Wallet. It's a hello day to talk ball and joining me to do just that is Dalton Del Don for another stat nerd Thursday Dalton. What's going on, buddy? What's up, Harmon? Up and down first week in a different universe. JK Dobbins has three touchdowns, a bunch of targets right now, looking good. But in this one, he suffered in Achilles injury right away. And join Deontay Johnson is two of my favorite targets to immediately get injured. So it took about three quarters for me to be humbled. But I did have some good stuff, though, to be sure. It was a fun week. How are you doing, man? It was a fun week. I think the defense is struck back. The defense is fought back in week one. That's been my big takeaway actually doing the research here for this stat nerd Thursday show. Mixed results just like you and fantasy. But yeah, my big, my big takeaway right now is that defenses are punching back in the NFL, which is usually not the case, right, Dalton? Just before we jump into this, we have a packed show today before we jump into this that usually the situation is that like offenses usually start much hotter than defenses. And then by the end of the season, scoring goes down. But do you think there's anything to like attribute this to or is this just kind of maybe a random one week thing? Maybe the shorter preseason and fewer court or eight or nine quarterbacks didn't play a snap. I think that probably contributes. But yeah, I mean, I, I'm off to some hot starts on some fantasy teams, despite the injuries, but I needed to hold myself in check realizing that I avoided all the top fantasy quarterbacks. And they all pretty much put up a dud this week. And that's not going to happen moving forward. Of course, there's going to be a ton of regression throughout the league. We all over eight week one because it's the first week. And we're all so excited. But plenty of lies out there of some stats out there that we can go over and try to get to the truth of. But I don't know. Dolphins was down across the league, as you said, his historical compared to the last five, 10 years. But I don't expect that to be a trend moving forward. Yeah, only seven quarterbacks put it more than 20 fantasy points in week one. And that's not indicative of like, oh, yeah, all these guys had bad performances. And by the way, some of the 10 to 11 players are Brock Perty. We'll talk about Brock later. Sam Howell and Jimmy G is quarterback 12 on the week. Quarterback 13 is is freaking Baker Mayfield. So a lot of weird quarterback performances in week one, you know, Mac Jones, second most fantasy points among quarterbacks. So I think a lot of that could be the explanation here for what went on. But yeah, let's let's play snow more time. Let's get right into it. Like I said, we have a, we have a pack show. We've got right. We see a ton of flags this weekend. Sorry, I just wanted to throw in there. I'm predicting a lot of flags to get that offense going for it. You know, we got to have those viewers, which is a break in reference, apparently. So I expect more, more, more friendly to the offense, officiating this weekend. Sorry, continue. No, that's a good call. I like that call out there. But yeah, like I said, pack show here today. You know, we do here on standard Thursday. We give you one stat you need to know for all 32 teams. We skip the Thursday night teams because we preview the Thursday night football game at the very end of the podcast. And speaking of Thursday night football, stick around for the end of the show because I sat down and spoke with Ryan Fitzpatrick. He had a lot to say about a variety of different topics. So you don't want to miss that interview. So Dalton, let's get right into this here. The way we do this is we going, we do, we do it by the standings. I thought this year would be fun to do to go and order from best to worst in the NFL, the current NFL draft order courtesy of tankathon actually. I love doing it this way because it does produce some hilarious results. Starting with producer Collins favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys are currently projected to pick 32nd in the NFL draft. So again, just a fun way of doing it. This is the first time the Cowboys have been able to say Super Bowl champs and in like what my entire life for since the early 90s. Anyways, Dallas Cowboys our first team up here. You know, they had a very obviously interesting week one. I think one thing to just pull out and discuss here. Week one routes run for the team. CDLAM predictably led the way with 20. Brandon Cooks was 18. Michael Gallup was 16. Jake Ferguson fourth with 14 and Peyton Henderson at the other tight end with 11. Again, it's hard to pull a ton out of the Cowboys in in week one because they're just they might play in that gamescript against Zach Wilson this week, but they're not often going to play in that kind of gamescript that we saw in week one. So I thought maybe the receiver, it's a distribution here might be an interesting thing to hit on. Yeah, do you have any takeaways from it? I mean, it is such a tough one to gauge given the gamescript was just so skewed for Dallas. I mean, I love the fact that Tony Pollard got three carries inside the five, which was half the number that he got all of last season and Z had 16 of them. So just huge. Pollard is the new goal line back in Dallas, but I want to hear your takeaways on the routes. I think the fact that Gallup is close to Cooks is important. You know, he was a full-time player. He had like 17 ariards per target. He was getting those vertical looks. Then they used Cooks as kind of a speed guy as well. So it was pretty much what I expected. I thought the tight end part of this was interesting that, you know, it isn't like Jake Ferguson's going to be running a route on 100% of the drop-axe. He'll still kind of flubbed a few of his opportunities as well. So I think if you were hoping for like I was at Jake Ferguson was a, you know, sleeper tight end. It wasn't the cleanest run out in week one, but you know, it was a messy, messy game all the way around from a weather perspective too, right? It was a messy game. So I'm not freaking out about it. But again, I think that would be the one sort of just like thing to flag here is that Ferguson might be more as like a high end tight end to than like a low end tight end one. Like he wasn't drafted to be, but some might have hoped he was. It's just week one. And I'm certainly not doing a victory lap. But Brandon Cooks always was surprising. He was drafted as a top 40 wide receiver in some leagues with, you always would dominate targets, which just being the only game in town wherever he was. And now Nautilus competing with CD Lamb. I thought a Gallup being healthier was a real thing. I thought they were, you know, competing to with each other. And that might be the case here. But maybe not maybe. Again, this was just throw it out the window when you look at their passing attack in a, in a game they won 40 to nothing. But Brandon Cooks is definitely looking at more target competition than he used, than he's used to. And now he's on the wrong side of 30. Yeah, 9.5 a yards per target for Brandon Cooks 9.3 per CD Lamb. And Michael Gallup all the way up there at 17.5. He's going to have spike weeks. And I'm with you. I think that gap is a little closer there than maybe people imagine. Let's move on to the next team here. New York Jets. Obviously, we know the big news is the Aaron Rogers absence for the rest of the season. But I wanted to talk about their run game in week one. The Jets were second in rushing EPA. In week one, they trailed only the L.A. Charters. We talked to that a lot with Austin Eckler on the show yesterday. Make sure you go back and listen to that. But the Jets breeze hall awesome debut. And he doesn't even look 100% healthy. So if you, I know you were a big breeze hall guy. So was I, you're feeling pretty good at this point about how week one went. And I'm not. I'd rather Aaron Rogers be healthy, man. Obviously. It's a big problem if that offense is sunk with Zach Wilson. I think they're going to address the quarterback situation there and probably bring in someone or make a trade. But yeah, breeze hall looks great. He would may have housed that one if he was fully healthy, but still whatever is his GPS had him at a high speed. And he looked awesome. And he just looked jumped off the page compared to Delvin Cook. Yes, you're going to require some patience because this usage was not great. It required these long runs. Do you know after two carries, he was third in the league in rushing. That's pretty, which is pretty good. And it was a Monday night game. So everyone had played. But Buffalo's run defense had been leaky in the preseason. It might be an issue, but breeze hall looked awesome. What, what to do now with Zach Wilson at quarterback. It really hurts. Garrett Wilson's fantasy value, value moving forward dramatically. A guy I ranked higher than consensus and absolutely loved that. It hurts. Garrett Wilson more than it does. Hall, the eruders injury, but it really hurts the whole offense. I mean, Hall talked about his area yard so much. Rogers loves targeting his backs. And now Zach Wilson, they just hid the quarterback went once he came in and they'll do more of the same there. So yeah, good and bad with my guy breeze hall. Yeah, I think you I feel much better about breeze halls for after week one. Like I feel really confident. I know it's a rough match up in week two, but I feel like he is just right up there as an every week start as maybe a high end running back to. But I agree with you that obviously the ceiling is got to come down for everybody in this offense without Aaron Rogers. Obviously, Garrett Wilson included. Let's move on to the next one here. Atlanta Falcons. Falcons were 12 in defense of success rate in week one. And I know we're going to sit here and talk about the offense. And we will talk about the offense. But I think it was notable that the defense performed really well in week one. And it was a bad opponent. I mean, good God. We'll talk Panthers later on in the show. Obviously, but I did think the way they flew around the ball the way they were getting after the quarterback was really important. So I don't know. I think the if we're talking about run heavy game scripts, the Falcons might be an even more run heavy game scripts, but their defense is good because that has not been the case the last few years. Yeah, Bryce Young struggled particularly downfield, but credit to the Falcons defense as well. Yeah, the the Algeria Bijon split was quite interesting, but Bijon still saw so many targets. And he was running so many routes like a receiver. And obviously we're all panicking over Drake London. But the if that if that was more of a case of the Falcons defense being good, then Carolina's offense struggling. It's great news for both running backs because they're going to be just so specifically Algiers is going to be so game dependent. I mean, it's perfect when games work like last week, but moving forward, we might only have to pass more. We'll see a lot more Bijon in the second half when they're not nursing leads. I agree with you. I think that if you have you have Tyler Algier, I think in games that might be close, you can consider starting him, but you know, he's going to end up being sort of like a volatile wide receiver, right, where they're going to be some games where he has seven carries for 40 yards or something like that. And he makes the most of his looks, but you know, it doesn't really help you that much in fantasy, you know, just the next five four games for the Falcons Packers, Lions, Jags, Houston. We don't totally know what all those teams are like, but you know, Green Bay had a nice week one run out. The Lions obviously had a great week one run out. So did the Jags and even the Texans, they're a team that I think you can run on a ton. So that might be the one week I see here, we're like, yeah, both those backs are going to be very viable. Yep, it's definitely going to be match-up dependent when it comes to Algier, but boy, his usage at the goal line is going to be a thorn in Robinson's fantasy manager's side. It seems like all year long. Yep, and I people, and I'm not I'm not victory lapping this at all, but I made the point that, you know, why I was a little concerned with B. John Robinson as a first round pick, not that I didn't love taking him, you know, whatever, but he was my least favorite first round pick because I thought Tyler, I was here was going to play a real role in this offense, and you kind of had to either make them lead the NFL rush of time, so I still don't think they're going to be that that run heavy. I think at some point they will open this thing up a little bit, although again, week one not looking good for that part of the prediction, but also that yeah, I think I was here was so good as a rookie that they want to get him involved. They want to keep him out there, and that is going to be a thorn in B. John's side, not that he's not going to be a running back one or a great fantasy pick, but just you're always going to be hoping for just a little bit more from B. John, but I mean, how many running backs can you not say that about at this point? I should have stuck to my guns, and I originally made that Judy London bet with you like three months ago. I was like, I'm out on this all it's too too conservative, but nope, I got talked back into Drake London and absolutely was was either one of us winning that bet right now. Yeah, I don't know. We're both losers there, but I hate the Drake that that was wild to see a goose egg like that and it's such for such a good player. Yeah, and really week two's not an ideal spot either because obviously he's coming off zero points, but you know, Jair Alexander's a really good corner back, and I think that Packer's past defense is going to take a step. Next one up here, Baltimore Ravens, talk about a receiver who had a great week one, Zay flowers led all past catchers by a lot in week one with a 60% first read target share, according to fantasy points data. AJ Brown was second at 47.1%. Dalton, I love Zay flowers. We talked about this a lot on the pod, and I was ready to react really heavily to whichever Ravens receiver had the best kind of role in week one, and it's definitely Zay flowers, man. So I know he got some design touches, you know, screens and stuff like that. I understand that that's not going to be the, but it's not going to be the case every week. It'd be one thing if he was fricking Dave on Austin or something like that, but he's not that guy from a skill set standpoint. So I don't really hold against him that his team thought he was so good that they should get the ball in his hands by any means possible. Yeah, not that I wasn't drafting Zay flowers, but I'll take the loss in Bateman right now. I loved him and thought he could be the number one receiver right away. And he was the clear third, third peg here with Odell Beckham dropped Odell Beckham drew passing appearance on both of his first two targets. So the, so the targets don't even look like quite as much as he truly was involved. And he made a great catch down the field later in the game. So it might take an injury before my guy Bateman to become relevant because he did that without Mark Andrews, by the way, too. Zay flowers, you took the words out of my mouth. Yes, his tar is designed. If you removed the design targets, that first read mark goes from 60% to 37% first in the league to 18% Chris Wecht tweeted that. And again, that was without Mark Andrews. But the guy passes the I test clearly mongkin once he's doing that because I think he called two screens inside the red zone, even. So the guy wants to get his playmakers, the ball, it's wheels up, you're starting Zay flowers right now, you know, flex it meant in whatever it flexes. He's locked in in your flex with the the usage he got in that offense. The touchdowns will come. Yes, they looked a little rusty on offense. Maybe Houston's defense is going to be a little better than we expected. They had some signs and they're coaching upgrade there too. So I'm it's kind of interesting there. And obviously Baltimore had suffered some offensive line injuries and that could affect the passing attack. But obviously Zay flowers looked great. He might be the best rookie wide receiver this year. A great week one. You're so right, though, about the Texas defense. And I've been raising this point, like that I don't think they're going to be this cupcake and look, maybe they get shredded in week two. Okay. That that's certainly possible. So I don't want to come out here and say and I think the Ravens pass offense was not functioning at its best just yet because they're working in a new system. They don't have Mark Andrews. You know that I think we should look Rashad Bateman's going to play a lot more as the season goes on. But he missed so much time in the offseason rehabbing this foot injury. I'm not like I think from a fantasy perspective. Yeah, like you you can't you really can't play Rashad Bateman and he can't help you in fantasy as long as he plays that role. But I don't expect him to play that role the entire year. But Texans past defense like I mean week two, they'll get Anthony Richardson. They'll get the Jags in week three. That's like a real test for them. I think the first two weeks they're going to look really good. You know, even though Rich Richardson will talk about him later exceeded expectations. I think we'll see more about them later on. Let's move on to your Niners, buddy. Hey, this stat I think is really interesting for Brock Pertie. 24.5% of Brock Pertie's passing yards came from yards after the catch in week one. That was the lowest among week one starting quarterbacks. We talked about some, you know, kind of uninspiring quarterback performances in week one. Going back and watching that game, I think Brock Pertie played really, really, really well. And I think it's officially time if you're still talking about Brock Pertie as a game manager. It's time to throw that label out because that dude like plays off script. He adds to the offense way more than Jimmy Garoppolo does. And I mean, the immense trust between him and Brandon, I you and I think that's really something the highlight here too. The touchdown play where like the safety's kind of follow Debo Samuel. And it's just one on one there for Brandon, I you kind of like a dig or a post route. And like Pertie is looking at Debo's way the entire time turns back to I you can just fires that thing in there with like that, you know, and and those that that element of the offense was never there in previous iterations of the 49ers offense. So I'm coming out a week one really, really high on Brock Pertie specifically in this offense. Yeah, beatbatters were saying it's such a twist that Pertie turned out to be more athletic than treelands. I mean, that part is it's but which really wild. I know Andy Barron's mocked me for comparing Pertie to Lamar Jackson, but they had the same shuttle speed or whatever the short area quickness. And it shows on the field. So Pertie's yards after the catch suffered last week because he was actually throwing it down field. I know exactly he didn't he didn't have one attempt 20 yards. Technically, but that throat I youk was across the field in like 30 30 area yards and he went 10 of 12 for 161 yards to touchdowns zero picks on throws 10 plus yards. So that intermediate area, he's just become the best in the league. Obviously the coaching schemes him up there. Brock Pertie became the first starter in NFL history to post at 95 plus passer rating in his first six starts. The first ever to lead his team to sixth straight wins with two plus TDs in his first six starts. Brock Pertie is him. It's pretty cool to see fantasy wise. I mean, they really did, you know, take the the foot off the gas in the second half there. And it shows his limitations here. But man, if these guys can stay healthy, that offense is just cooking. And I youk is the guy. I mean, he's a debawe will have his games for sure. But man, you were so right. Like one of the best route runners in the league, just cooking DBs. Yeah, I think the Pertie to IU connection is going to be really special. IUK won offensive, like player of the week in the NFC or whatever I saw before we hopped on the show. Like the air, the window, the era of do you know ball like being a great do you know ball test is how good his brain that I you that's going to shut now at this point, because I think people will be hip to that in like five weeks from now. The Pertie to IU connection is a real big reason that stat is and his block down field. I mean, see, see, and put him in the doghouse for now, we got a full complete player, just baller. Yeah. Yeah. And that doesn't happen for a lot of guys. Like a lot of guys get in the doghouse and then it just like a they're they're they just go down from there. So it's really a credit to like IUK as a dude that he used that to work himself out of it. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I just love Brandon. Are you so excited about it? The Pertie to IUK connection is going to be awesome. Next one up here, Detroit Lions, Jamir Gibbs ran a route on just 19.4% of the team dropbacks in week one. You were a big Jamir Gibbs guide, Dalton. What's your level of concern after his week one usage? Gibbs was among the league leaders in broken tackles and he barely saw, you know, barely touched the ball. But my level of concern is definitely medium because David Montgomery just took all the work he's going to get the goal line. Carries are I'm not sure he can withstand that type of workload over a full season. But yeah, you have to be some some concern for a guy drafted that high. You just historically don't see his team use him use him so little. Although there has been some week ones where the where the backs have gotten their feet wet. So I think expect a much bigger game this week. It's a nice setup. And I think Gibbs is going to be totally fine. But you would be lying yourself if you spend a third round pick on him and didn't feel like, ah, you know, I think in some of the bigger bigger money league drafts, he went from a third round pick to a mid fifth round pick after that first game over the weekend. They had drafts from Thursday night over the weekend. And frankly, that makes sense to me. I don't think it was an overreaction. His usage was a little bit less than we then we wanted. But the dude passed the eye test like crazy. And if he didn't fall down on it. First, I was like skeptical if it would have been a touchdown. But another angle showed he might have had that 12 yard touchdown run if you didn't fall down to. And of course, his fantasy line would look dramatically different at that happened. So I'm a little concerned without a question due to the the usage, which I don't expect to fully change moving forward anything dramatic. But the guy looks awesome. And upside totally remains if not going to be where to go down as a top five type type upside as well. All right. Next to him up here, Jacksonville Jaguars. This one comes in from Jared Smollah of draft sharks. Travis ETN's 83% route rate in week one. Easily a career high. He never tops 67% last year. You know, we again, I said this a lot in the off season and I'll say it out of their week one. Talk a lot about the past game. Talk a lot about Calvin Ridley and Trevor Lawrence. And oh, my God. Is that connection like already on fire? But, but I think Travis ETN had a really nice week one run out if you're counting on him as a potential. I think running back one at this point. I absolutely love him. I ranked him disgustingly high. I grabbed him in any third round. He fell to me feeling pretty good. But take makes me going to be a problem at the goal line. It feels like for the whole year, although the guy the rookie did not look great and he caused that fumble that resulted in a touchdown. ETN had that electrifying touchdown run. One of the best plays of the day, but most exciting. He had never had more than three catches in a game in his NFL career. And he records five in the first game this year. I don't. Lawrence is not a guy who targets his back. It's a ton. But if we can get that usage moving forward, he's going to score some long touchdowns because he's just sped up again, 45 more touchdowns throughout his college career than Bigs B. So those will come as well in an offense led by budding MVP candidate Lawrence with with Ridley now. I love it, man. Wheels up ETN. Couldn't agree more. All right. Number eight here. Las Vegas Raiders shocking. Both Jacobi Myers and Devonte Adams drew 43.8% of the Raiders first read targets. Again, that's that comes in from fantasy points data. More on Jacobi Myers, 0.43 targets per route run. Really good. 41.5% of the team air yards. I know he comes out of this game with a I couldn't believe he walked off the field. Massive hit. McDaniel said today he is still in the NFL's concussion protocol. That being said, Dalton, when Jacobi Myers gets back out there, is this going to be one of those offenses that's, look, I don't think the Raiders are about to be the dolphins from last year. But from like a concentration perspective, it was these two dudes, like identically 43.8% of the team first read targets do the math. That means no one else is really getting looked at in this offense. And you know, I love Jacobi Myers. I think he's a great route runner. I think the Patriots whiffed on that one by replacing him with juju smishooster. Terrible decision there. As much as juju gets too much crap, he's just not as good as Jacobi Myers. Myers, really good route runner. He can play outside because he can beat man coverage at something I hammer a lot with Jacobi. And he's just a separator. And his game lines up so well with Jacobi with Jimmy Garoppolo, the in breaking routes, the slants, the digs, all that type of stuff, crossing routes. He's not the most exciting player. And obviously again, we're dealing with injury right now. But you know, I'm always on the lookout for these concentrated offense, his concentrated passing games. And I kind of think the Raiders might be one of those offenses right now. Myers was one of the most eye-opening players in week one highly impressive. What was New England thinking replacing him with juju smishoosters knee? And as you you highlighted it, Las Vegas, the most concentrated offense in the league right now, because Jacob's getting all the work in their backfield, expect bigger games from him. Adams Myers. Yeah, he might have to sit out this week. That was a scary hit, but he looked like a guy that was going to be possibly startable moving forward. My guy Garoppolo, I remain skeptical. He can stay healthy. I really hope I'm wrong. But Aiden O'Connell looks so capable of placing him and got to give credit to Jimmy G, the dude, the nerd stats, the CPOE plus EPA. He led the league week one. And it's funnily enough, his EPA per play with Shanahan. Now ranks third behind his tenure with the Patriots and his tenure with the Raiders. So it's time we start thinking, no, did Shanahan hold back Jimmy Garoppolo? Yeah, I love there's your headline right there, right that right that in a column for the website, Dalton. Next two weeks for the Raiders, it's the it's the bills and the Steelers, not great matchups, but we'll get a test here on this. But that concentration can be really good for players even in rough spots like that. Again, I'll just say I think Jacoby Myers gets a revenge game against the the Patriots in week six. I think he I would have put him in the conversation for most underrated receivers in the NFL going into this year. And I really feel that way coming out of week one. Listen, I'm leaning bills here in survivor like the setup coming off the loss Raiders coming off the win. You know, big almost 10 point spread here. Maybe Myers out. And I got to give the audience alert them that Matt Herman was indeed not a coward. And he did sign up for my survivor pool. But that said, Joe, I lose in week one. I feel like I lost. I wasn't going to say that. I wasn't going to say that part. But you know, honestly, I was in I'm not a coward, but I am an idiot. So I wasn't going to say that part. I actually, I wouldn't have I was avoiding the Vikings. I was not avoiding the Seahawks, which was your pick. I was with you there. I'm shocked at that turnaround. And I here, I considered them as well and surprised at that. But my point I was trying to make is Josh Jacobs as someone considering the bills. I'm worried he could have a big game here. Again, this bill's defense looks a little vulnerable against the run. And just because he didn't do it last week against Denver, doesn't mean he can't run wild here. So I do worry, worry about that is someone who's considering taking Buffalo and survivor. All right. Next team up here. Number nine and Philadelphia Eagles were skipping them for the Thursday night preview at the end of the show. Number 10, Los Angeles Rams, Kyron Williams, freaking Kyron Williams, 74.5% of the snaps in quarters. One to three was 25.5% for Cam Acres in quarters. One to three. And he also, Kyron Williams owned 100% of the two minute snaps according to fantasy life. So I ask you, Dalton, rest of season, Kyron Williams or Cam Acres. And I'll just put one note of context on this before you answer. It's worth noting that a week one last year, they were going to put Kyron Williams as the start, like he was going to run ahead of Cam Acres as the number two back behind Daryl Henderson, who's obviously not on the roster. But he suffered an injury on like the opening kickoff or something like that. So it should be even be surprised that this was the case in week one. And and beat riders throughout summer kept warning us that Williams is going to be a big part of this backfield. And yet Acres is ADP didn't budge. It's Kyron Williams for me. I wrote about this and my numbers do lie column coming out that came out Wednesday. Cam Acres right now leads the league in carries. He got the start as well. He did that while playing four snaps in the first half. I mean, Acres somehow has the third most touches in the league, but ran 25 fewer routes, played half the number of snaps and saw a third of the red zone carries compared to his teammate Williams here. So this came down to a game script that's unlikely to be a common theme for the Rams, nursing big leads in the fourth quarter. And we even have talked about performance here. Williams looked like the better player, the yards per carry, the stuff rate, the yards per carry after contact, all that stuff. So I think when when game scripts become different. And by the way, the Rams finished top four in offensive plays, but bottom seven and seconds per snap. So things are going to just be so different moving forward for this team. And it looks like they very much so trust Kyron Williams, who was one of the most used backs, receiving backs in all of football week one. I mean, he he was running around all the time. I think he was top five and routes run by running back. So Kyron Williams is my answer. Love it. I think I agree. Number 11, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Mike Evans, 26.5% of the team targets in week one, Chris Godwin, just 17.6 with a 5.8 average depth of target. I'll ask you the same question. What rest of season would you rather have Mike Evans or Chris Godwin? Cause in most drafts, Godwin went wouldn't say well ahead of Evans, but was the guy that people would have taken the chance on more often than Evans with Baker, Matthew. I was writing before that I liked Evans better than Godwin. So you're asking someone who has a little bit of a bias here, but I was just feared that Chris Godwin relied a ton on design targets. Last year, the offensive coordinator knew up as a coordinator did not use those a totally new quarterback. Yes, Brady threw the ball a lot, but it's not like Mike Evans' target share was anything crazy. This is a dude who had 27 touchdowns combined the previous two years, a thousand yard game, a thousand yard season every year. He's been in the league. So I slightly lean Evans, but they're like close. I rank them back to back. Godwin will have his days, and he made an incredible catch to help ice this game and knock out a ton of survivor entries who did have the Viking. So appreciate you, Godwin. Co, co-keyf had more ariards in week one than Chris Godwin. And he just had a great point in the design targets, one design target in week one, same amount for Mike Evans. So it's interesting. All right. Let's do one next one here. Number 12, Miami Dolphins. I'm actually going to say we're going to skip Miami Dolphins because we talk a ton of about the Dolphins and we have a great stat for the Dolphins with Ryan Fitzpatrick later on the show. But Dalton, I will allow you to victory lap real quick here. I think you were, you were, I will talk about, I admit I was wrong. I think you were more accurate on two of this year from a fantasy quarterback perspective than I was. It was a great matchup indoors on turf. And there are three guys are healthy that no one said that he wasn't going to be great when they were healthy. I think even, I mean, we need him to stay healthy still. But the YPA man, this is just specially see all that movement. How many guys are wide open? Do two of under through multiple deep balls to like he could have had a 500 burger easily. Like he, he was great, but not even close to perfect and just wow, Tyree Kill is tough to guard in football field. Yeah. And also, I know you can sit here and say like, all right, there's the offense and there's there's the receivers, but two is a good quarterback. And I never said that he was not a good quarterback. It has nothing to do with his ability. Again, it's just the fragility of this thing. But I'll, I'll give him a lot of credit for actually know what I won't say because again, it comes up in the Ryan Fitzpatrick interview. So let's just listen to that at the end of the show. Number 13 here, Cleveland Browns. Elijah Moore had a really nice week one run out. I will note that a Marikouper was a little injured during this game. But nevertheless, I think it was a good week one for Elijah Moore. 24% of the area yards, 80% of the routes run. He was second on the team in first read target chair to a Marikouper. Obviously, 22.7% for Elijah Moore. So no, he didn't have a big performance in the statute of week one. But as an Elijah Moore guy, I think this is encouraging usage. Yeah, I think he's a flex option moving forward. We're both Elijah Moore guys. How are we feeling about DeShawn Watson? That was an ugly pick. He saved his fantasy day with that run, bad weather, obviously, borough at the worst game of his career. So we don't know yet, basically. I don't feel great. I will say I don't feel great. But look, I mean, he's, he's never going to, the things, the two things that bother me the most with him right now is pocket presence. That looks like just completely just not even close to like functional enough. Like that, that's got to get better. And the second thing for me is his accuracy, like his ball placement. Like that's, that's poor. It's not where it needs to be. So I'm a little concerned just about that. But I think, again, I think Watson was always going to fit somewhere between where he was with Houston and where he was last year with Cleveland. I think he's going to be somewhere in the middle there. I still kind of feel that way. Nick shoved four targets huge. It may not show up on the box score, but could be massive for him moving forward. Bigger games will come. 24.1% off target percentage for for DeShawn Watson in week one. That was fifth most in terms of guys who started the entire game. So yeah, not that accuracy is a problem. Next one here, Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen led the NFL by a lot with 28 dropbacks out of 12 personnel. To put that in context, Daniel Jones was second with 12 12 Dalton. So a lot of 12s going on here. But 12 personnel seems to be the base offense for Josh Allen in the bills, which is really good news for Dalton concade the rookie tight end. Yeah, interesting how they used him, though, because his Adot was nothing. It was all at the line of scrimmage, but entirely encouraging. My guy Gabe Davis didn't exactly assert himself as a number two option there either. So yeah, absolutely some bigger games ahead for for Dalton concade. And Josh Allen just struggles every time he faces the jets. It's a really, really good defense that allowed the fewest yards per play last season while dealing with horrible quarterback on offense. So I mean, this is one of the best defenses in tire football and they showed it. I mean, Allen should have played more conservative given the game situation, but it was going against a tough opponent. Now he gets a home match up against the Raiders and expect all these guys to have big, big games, including James Cook. Yeah, I don't know what it is, but they know how to get that like chaos Josh Allen to come out every time he plays the jets. With the new fantasy season underway, you're always looking for a weekly W. But is it a smart decision to start a running back with a history of fumbles? Of course not. You want someone smart who can come in the clutch with the right knowledge to nail your next move. That's why nerd wallet has a whole team of nerds who provide objective ratings and reviews to help you compare and find top credit cards. 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But that was I think the most concerning thing coming out of week one. Yeah. And he thoughts on Eric B. Animes game calling him. It's a lot of sacks and a lot of dropbacks for Washington as a big, big weakness against Arizona as a guy. I mean, I had the commanders and survivors. I was watching that. And I don't know. It should have been a little more Brian Robinson, a little less dropback. How against this when you're such an advantage, you know, a Joshua Dobbs providing no threat. But I don't know. I was I was not impressed with Vietnamese first game call, but maybe I'm just overreacting because a nearly lost survivor. What are your thoughts? I wouldn't say that I noted like anything really really egregious or anything, but it is we're going to be a tough offensive line, man, for poor Sam Hall, with whom we both love and he's going to get their fantasy wise. But he yes, he holds on the ball too long as well, a young guy learning. But that offensive lines a problem for everyone on offense. Yep. That's not that is going to be an issue. That's for sure going to be an issue. They got to get like ways to get the ball out of his hands faster. Like I said, he's got to speed up that internal clock, but they've got to do a little bit more to help him out there too. Next team up here, New Orleans Saints, Derek Carr led the NFL with 27.3% of his passes going for 20 plus yards. Patrick Mahomes was second with 17.9%. It's almost a 10% gap there for Derek Carr and Patrick Holmes. I mean, that has been the criticism with Derek Carr a lot. Like, yo, push that ball, push that ball, but he's done a lot better with that the last few years. I think, you know, John Gruden, some credit to him here. He helped get that out of Derek Carr. Carr's got bad habits. He's not a perfect quarterback. He wasn't perfect in week one, and this was a great matchup to push the ball down the field with the Tennessee Titans. But for guys like Chris Olave for Rashid Shaheed, who I've been saying since we started seeing, like the student can play. I think those two guys are big winners coming out of week one. Yeah, I did not see this coming. Perfect past funnel defense to face for it to happen last week, but Olave is that dude so happy to see him return to the game at one point. It looked like he left with the potential serious injury. And Shaheed, man, he was on a lot of my benches because I loved grabbing him later in drafts, but I did not expect him to make that presence felt immediately with the healthy Michael Thomas. But you look at all the underlying stats with him last year. And it just screamed upside if you ever got, you know, the volume. So yeah, great to see Derek Carr who showed up in much better shape this season. He was all yoked compared to last year. The photos were out there and apparently it's carried over. Now can we get James Winston on the jets? The problem is they're rookie quarterback Jake Hainer raised like suspended for six games for a performance enhancing drug. So I think if that didn't happen, there might be a chance with James, but I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, plus also, yeah, you don't want. I know people love James, but I can't imagine a worse fit for like a, hey, we got a really good defense and a really good run game. Let's just keep, let's just get somebody that can keep the train on the tracks. And obviously that's not Zach Wilson either. But could you imagine James, I mean, nobody takes the train off the tracks faster than James Winston. It's more important who gets Garrett Wilson the ball. I know. I get, look, I get it. I feel so bad for Garrett Wilson. Did you see that interview? I have it. I saw I have a bookmark that's too busy getting ready because it's morning for me over here. But yeah, I know Zach you're talking about I'm going to watch the interview afterwards. So he seems pretty, he's pretty happy about situation. I take it. Oh, yeah, he's thrilled. No, I feel so bad for Garrett. I mean, one, just it seems like those dudes really connected on and it seems like Rodgers connected with a lot of these guys on like a real human level. That part of it just freaking sucks from like a sports perspective and a human perspective. And from a football perspective. And I know Garrett Wilson knows this. There aren't many guys. I mean, think about how often like I sit here and complain about like guys like Alan Robinson who waste their entire careers with bad quarterbacks guys like, you know, Terry McLearn, bad quarterbacks forever. You know, Michael Pittman, maybe Anthony Richardson is going to rescue him. And now you've got Garrett Wilson in his second season, he's about to be plucked from one of the worst quarterback wilderness thing situations I've ever seen and not just be dropped with a good quarterback, like a viable quarterback, like a future Hall of Famer. And it's over in in four seconds or, you know, in 75 seconds. That's the amount of game time Aaron Rodgers had or something like that. You know, four plays. Now it's so frustrating. The same number as Adams. I mean, the report was there. He was just going to feed him. They have no, they don't have a license. Alan Lazard Randall Cobb. I mean, they were going to have to throw the ball. I mean, Rodgers was going to throw so many tight. Garrett Wilson led the NFL in targets per game last year without Zach Wilson as a rookie. Crazy man. It's frustrating. I do you do think they're going to move. They're going to look elsewhere though, right? If you had to guess versus Zach Wilson versus do they bring in someone else? I'd be surprised if they don't bring in someone. And I mean to start over him. I mean, I mean, who they bringing in man Carson Wenz. Like, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, yeah, yeah. I still look at how I think that is depressing. I, it is depressing, dude, but like I don't, you know what else is depressing when my entire Twitter timeline, I said this on the solar reaction I did for the pod. So sorry for repeating myself. But what's depressing is people on my Twitter time, like, yeah, maybe they called Matt Ryan, like, good God. Did you watch that last year? I mean, like we just lived through this. And I know Sam Darnold. He's too important to your Niners, pal. Yeah, no, he is. I know. Tray Lance. They should inquire Tray Lance. Yeah, I know. I mean, I hope Zach Wilson can improve. Seems like a nice kid. I'm rooting for him. But yeah, it's just they just, they just, their offense becomes a shell. I mean, it is the hit him on Monday night. All right, speaking of the Packers, we're not getting a first round pick for Aaron Rodgers. That's for sure. I remember when that trade happened and everybody's like 65% of the snaps, feet play. He's, that's easy. That's so low. And he, you know, play like what? 0.65% of the snaps the entire year. All right. So the Green Bay Packers, Jordan Love, ranked number one in EPA per drop-back in week one, Jordan, Jordan Love, really nice performance. But, you know, some of this is designery stuff and some of this is the Bears. How are you feeling about Jordan Love coming out of week one? Oh, I feel great. I mean, he absolutely missed some throws Sunday. He was not perfect. But dude, put up a great, great stat line without Christian Watson making his first start of the year. Musgrave doesn't fall down at the five. His numbers look even better on that improvised long play. Musgrave almost had two plays that he could have made his stat line look far, far better. So yeah, I mean, if you have Jordan Love in a, in you waited and super flex, you're pumped this, this week after what we just saw. Yeah, absolutely. And Christian Watson, hopefully can return soon. Aaron Rodgers, injury would not help because AJ Dillon is such a dramatic downgraded. So clear now and how sick was that fourth, fourth down catch, which he heard his hands. Aaron Jones, yeah. So Aaron's for Aaron Jones. Yes. But, um, but yeah, Jordan Love would like to get these reinforcements back. Aaron Jones and Christian Watson. But man, it was an encouraging start. 100% agree. Yeah. Aaron Jones, big injury to watch here. Number 18, New York Giants, Paris Campbell, let the team in rouse run 70%. Paris Campbell was one. Then it goes Darius Slayton, Darren Waller, Isaiah Hodges, say one Barclay and Dan Bellinger before any of the fourth receivers there. Again, I don't know that there's a lot to take away from the Giants in week one. But I just wanted to note the receiver rotation here. Cause I think that will be important to track. And it will change a lot throughout the course of the season. But to me, Dalton, this is one of those like just, you know, remember when Tony soprano did the or Tony soprano. Yeah, Tony Tony soprano, not Tony's, you know, you know what I mean, he did the whole like bear it, bear it, yeah, you just leave it in the, I'm resting piece. But you know, he did the whole like bury the ball thing or whatever like that or something like that. That that needs to actually be done here with this game for the Giants. Yeah, I'm only taking away like I hope Waller sat out most of that second half just because of the lopsided score and his in hamstrings fine. And Daniel Jones's numbers against the Cowboys, his store career wise now are just downright ugly, but expect them all to bounce back in a big way in the desert. All right. Next one up here. Number 19 Carolina Panthers. Bryce Young in his debut on throws of 10 plus yards downfield. Two of two. Oh my god. Two of 12 passing 23 yards. Two interceptions. Basically the exact same interception, by the way, 0.0 passer rating. Uh, bro, tough run out for the Panthers past game. Uh, Miles Sanders, people think he's not, he's going to catch a ton of balls this year. I hate to say it. So I don't want to fall for a main character syndrome here. And I know a lot of people criticize Sanders is receiving. But when you went the, the voice on FFL, I felt like you were sub tweeting me directly with all my talk about that. Way more than just you. No, no, no, no, no. The voice was a bit much. I just got to say, if I didn't, he did get a ton of targets. And yeah, I got a capitulated dig at a lot of targets. Although Hubbard is going to be a thing and a little bit, but but Sanders got the targets. Although, I believe right before we started recording, did they sign Treek Cohen? Is that Carolina? Yeah. They came to the practice to take all those tar. They saw one game of Miles Sanders, like, let's get going back. He's been a league three years. We need to get him in. But anyway, uh, I will capitulate a week one. He did see a lot of targets. But I didn't appreciate the voice. Hey, the voice is not directly for you. The voice is, uh, nameless faceless, uh, fantasy, the people out there. Okay. Like things I don't agree with. People hate the voice, man. Uh, people that work on a show love the voice. People that, you know, there are some people hate the voice. And if it bothers you, yeah, and I think maybe you have to be like Dalton. Maybe I'm talking about you. If the voice bothers you, maybe you have to look inside like Dalton, Dalton here. All right. We're skipping the Minnesota Vikings. Number 20, further Thursday and I preview. Number 21, Arizona Cardinals. It's going to be tough to think about a stat for the Arizona Cardinals every single week. But I'll note they were 13th and defensive success rate and week one. So Dalton, how much of that was Sam how new offensive coordinator, you know, guy getting a second NFL start or Jonathan Ganon got a little something, something going on there on defense. It's a great question because a lot of people are probably considering using the giants in a sort of, in a big survivor pool this week, considering, you know, the, the buy low theory with them coming off a dud here in Arizona. They're, they're, they're tanking. Dobbs did not look great. But was that defense real? And it wasn't just Washington shaky offensive line. And, I mean, they had a healthy McLaren in Dotson and Logan Thomas, you know, and they defend them pretty well. So maybe the New York has to play across the country here and it's not going to be a cake walk. Is the spread is what it is, too. It's four and a half. You know, it's not 10. So, so yeah, I'm very curious here to see how Arizona's defense. Are they going to be a plucky team or was week one in aberration and there are going to be a doormat moving forward. And that will tell us a lot because then they get Dallas, they get San Francisco, they get Cincinnati, they get the Rams coming off a great week one, the LA Rams. I mean, dude, that, that's a rough schedule there after the Giants. So, um, if the Giants don't bounce back in week two, I think we got to consider. Maybe hey, the, the, the Carlos defense might be a little bit better than expected. Yeah. Seattle Seahawks, you know, Smith was under pressure on 14 dropbacks and completed just 45.5 percent of his passes for 4.7 yards per attempt. This is important, Dalton, because they got whooped up front in week one did the Seattle Seahawks because both are starting tackles. A Blucus and Charles Cross, like two ascending young players got injured in week one. And they had to go sign Jason Peters, who's 41 years old, playing offensive tackle, Jason Peters. So, I was really bullish on the Seahawks offense going into this year. And I will admit that those two tackles being out makes me a little nervous. They score, they had zero first downs, one by penalty in the second half at home against the Rams last week, 0.9 yards per play. Uh, yeah, they need some reinforcements of the offensive line. It's a big problem. I'm, you know, obviously no one cares about Joe Burrows bad game. But, you know, Smith coming off the career year at his stage of his career, you know, it's kind of like, ah, let's hope there's not the beginning of regression here. My guy, JSN coming off the Rift's, Rift's surgery was pretty invisible there. But boy, this is a spot to possibly bounce back in the, in the course field, indoors against Detroit ice scoring game. Uh, this is a spot for Geno and company to bounce back. Yeah. Let's hope that we got to see a big bounce back here in week one, but or week two, but it's just tough. The, the offensive tackle injuries might be a problem, especially Aiden Hutchinson. Oh, yeah. A lot of week one. He was, yeah, they, they should have shown him a little bit more on TV, but I did think thought he played well. Yeah, I would love to hear more, I would have loved to hear more from his parents. I would have loved to hear more from his parents. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point though. He could wreak havoc. He, he was one of the best players on the field and, uh, that is going to be an issue for, for Seattle. I, I, I trust Carol, we'll get it. We'll get it straight this week and Peter, Peter, is that who is coming in? Jason Peters, yeah, 41 years old. My God. Uh, all right. Number 23 here, Chicago Bears, Justin Fields, 3.5 average depth of target ranked 34th among quarterbacks in week one. If you haven't been watching JTO Sullivan, uh, QB school on. So good. So good. Yeah. Just full-laying the Bears offense. I mean, you know, go check that out. I cannot, I hadn't, I hadn't watched, uh, spoiler, I was not a Russian to watch. I got a lot of film to watch. I got a lot of players, charts, stuff like that. I wouldn't rush into the film to check out the Bears offense. So, um, I, I cannot believe I hadn't watched the film yet. I cannot believe some of the stuff that JT was highlighting, but I think the thing that is really important here and the most, look, there's a lot of concerning stuff with Justin Fields after week one. The most concerning thing to me is how often he is turning down like deep throws, like those that DJ Moore and like other guys are open, like that are really, really good throws. And that's the thing you would think about with Justin Fields is he's always been a big game hunter. I don't know if they've like forced him to over correct, but I mean, 3.5 average depth of target, you're turning like I love fantasy people and look, maybe they end up being right about Roshan Johnson, like, oh my god, Roshan Johnson, seven target, whatever targets in week one, the offense stunk, the offense stunk and the quarterback played poorly. I don't give a crap about his targets in week one because you got the quarterback out here. If Roshan Johnson gets those type of targets every week, congrats to your fantasy team, but the Bears are sunk. Yeah, absolutely. It was, first of all, Khalil Herbert started that game, he rotated a little bit with Foreman in the first half and then Johnson got 92% of his stats in garbage time. Now, he impressed at a couple of those runs. He trucked someone and guess what, the Bears might feature garbage time all year long. So absolutely, I'm not saying that there's something like, oh, God, I'm herb, I mean, Herbert lead league and Roshan's other expectation last year was the starter still has potential, but Johnson could be, you know, eat all these targets and late in games. By the way, Justin Fields, most running quarterbacks don't target running backs. He targeted his running backs 15 times in week one and DJ more, DJ more just twice. So, I guess it was a coach. The last coaching step did try to change this philosophy of him. And Fields, as you said, was great in college downfield. And he has a strong arm. So this is curious. And as you said, the JTO Sullivan point out two guys running the same exact routes in the back of the in zone chase clay pool, not given full effort. It's, it's bad from top to bottom here. It's, and it's not helping anyone in fantasy land. No, it's, it's bad. All right. Let's cleanse our palette with the New England Patriots here at number 24. I will say, I think Bill O'Brien is going to help this offense out a lot. But most interesting thing here, Mac Jones led the NFL with 58 dropbacks in week one, most among all quarterbacks. So that, because of that, seven players ended up having four plus targets. And that was with Devonte Parker out of the game. And Juju, like, barrel, like, running around on less than 40% of the dropback. So just kind of want your state of the state with this passing game. And that, of course, does include the fact that CQLE, it's getting drawn up targets in week one, man. Yeah. It seeks a bit of a problem for Stevenson. A pick six is often the best thing for your fantasy quarterback. And it's funny that it happened against Hertz because we kept preaching. They're going to regress and have to throw the ball more in second halves. And here we are. The Eagles immediately get a pick six on defense. And Hertz has a 16 nothing lead immediately. But Mac Jones, it's great to see fantasy ability to be the number two QB in a week. I bet many people didn't have that in his range of outcomes, including myself. And that's even without my guy Devonte Parker. Kendrick Bourne, I was not rushing to to add on the waiver wire this week. But Hunter Henry absolutely can be a top 15 fantasy tight end. And nice to see that the Jones has this capability. It wasn't always pretty. But man, whatever getting an ugly game like that, you don't see that often in a billet billet check game. All right. Next one up here. You mentioned Deontay Johnson earlier, Pittsburgh Steelers number 25. Jacob Gibbs does great work. He has this stat without Deontay Johnson on the field in week one. God poor one out for Deontay man. Still no touchdowns on the season. Routes run. He'll never score again. He'll never score again. Oh God. All right. Routes run after Deontay Johnson left the field in week one. George Pickens 28 Alan Robinson 28 Calvin Austin 24 targets five Alan Robinson for Calvin Austin three George Pickens and still just run and clear out Routes baby. Receiving yards Alan Robinson 53 Calvin Austin 31 George Pickens 17 Dalton. Can you talk me out of Alan Robinson? My my original instinct was of course Pickens gets a fantasy boost. But Jacob's right. I mean, he's just running those clear out routes. It may not be a boost. Calvin Austin in deeper leagues. Hey, you said Alan Robinson and it proved to come true and it's only going to see more targets with my guide Deontay out. It looks like the next four weeks and I believe then they have a buy week five. So we may not. It's up to it is up to four weeks. So that was the report. I think from Gary Doolack. I'm sorry if I'm messing that up, but it is up to four weeks. So there's no lock that he gets like placed on IR or something like that. So that was the just awarding of it. We've got no initial word with the team, but I don't think he's going to play this week or next, most likely. But with the have a buy week five, it's all I'm saying. So you know, it might have incentive to push him out for that week six. So Alan Robinson, if you're in a deeper league, sure, I don't love it, especially Pat Fryer, I'm with a bit banged up, but Niners defense obviously deserves credit with Bosa returning, but Kenny Pickett miss throws and he will look to like basically the opposite of the quarterback. He looked in the preseason when when he was flawless. So this might be a problem with Matt Canada who hasn't produced a 400 yard game in three years or whatever. It's it's not what we expected when we were both hyping him. I was falling for the preseason hype. I'll admit that for sure, but losing my guy Deonte immediately is a big, big problem for an offensive already had question marks. Yeah, I look, I think Alan Robinson's in the best role on the team, like this big slot role, getting free releases stuff like that. I think he's going to have some decent games. And I like Calvin Austin. I was a fan of him as a prospect misses entire rookie season, but he can burn and he can get open. He can run routes and separate. So interesting guy there for sure. And we'll see with George Pickens' role week two Cleveland Browns on Monday night football, like the ABC ESPN and I mean two games on Monday night. That's that's too much. But that's a big test because the Browns played extremely well in week one and they could whoop the Steelers up front just like they got whooped last week. All right, next one up 20 number 26 Indianapolis Colts, Anthony Richardson, eighth most dropbacks in week one. This was a great run out for the Colts offense. And like I know they lost the game, but if you're a Colts fan, you got to feel pretty good about what we saw in week one with Anthony Richardson. Oh, yeah, you look at the stats like fewer than 225 passing yards, one passing TDI, what's what's to like there? But he was you said at the dropbacks tied for Patrick Mahomes this week. He was eighth and first down throw rate. And he was first in neutral pace. Richardson had two of the Colts three carries inside the five. Would have had another if he didn't lead with leave with that minor injury, let all quarterbacks and designed runs. I mean, he's going to be an immediate top five fantasy keybie. It's as simple as that. I mean, it's it really is. He looks like he they a lot of his passing was one side of the field. But man, getting to play indoors at a lightning pace with absolutely no running backs on the roster. And Michael Pittman can house a screen like that. As you said, no, great guy didn't do much with his other 10 targets. But I just love the setup here for Richardson. I mean, again, he's an immediate borderline top five fantasy keybie who was oddly not not drafted or ranked as as a top 12 guy. And I think Michael Pittman's one of the biggest week one winners with the Colts playing this way as well. I think he needs to move up to like clear wide receiver to territory, at least in fantasy number 27 here. I can't believe the Kansas City too. So this late Patrick Holmes through to his first read on just 43.6% of his passes. That was a third lowest in week one, which makes sense because his guy that he would normally throw two on his first read Travis Kelsey's out of the offense. According to I think Andy Reed said today that Travis Kelsey is going to practice this week, which is good. I am I want to see this offense with Travis Kelsey before really freaking out about anything with the chiefs. But obviously it was not a good week one debut for this past offense. Yeah, hopefully Kelsey returns healthy. This could be really fun shootout with Jacksonville. And obviously we all know about, you know, Tony is concerning as Tony's game one was with all those drops. Boy out far more worried if I were a sky more guy. I mean, not able to earn the targets there. To me, it was a red flag without Kelsey. I know you like him, but I could see the upside there now being a wide receiver three at best in PPR. But that was the upside. Honestly, like that even even if you like him, I like him as a prospect. He had a whatever rookie year, but I was willing to kind of give him a pass for that. But I said throughout the whole thing like his upside was probably like Juju last year. So that I think that remains the upside case with him, which isn't like sexy by any means. I don't think I am, I mean, Cadarious Tony. Come on, man, I does like the worst game I've ever seen from a wide receiver. And he hasn't been a good player at any point in the NFL. Like so I, whatever. People can get excited about targets per route run there. No, I'm not a Tony guy. That was that was not the best game I've seen on film. No, no, that definitely not. All right. Number 28 Tennessee Titans, Ryan Tannahill reg dead last in the NFL in RBS DM's EPA per play and completion percentage over expectation composite metric. Tannahill was rough in week one. He was under pressure. The offense winds stinks. But like this all I don't know, man, I'm a little bit on like Malik Willis watch for the Tennessee Titans because Will Levis got hurt in preseason and I didn't apparently didn't beat out Malik Willis anyways. Yeah, I thought Tannahill was a nice super flex target. A guy secretly runs and gonna have the job with adding Hopkins and Berks emergence. But that was a really ugly performance week one, no question. But it's got a really decent defense. The other thing to note here is is how many snaps Taj A spears got Henry was still clearly the lead guy and GameScript dictated there and had a really nice touch. Sorry, not touch. But reception that went for a long time long gain after finishing I believe second and yards per route run last last year Derek Henry. So he looked anything but washed. But Taj A spears should be rostered in 100% of all fantasy formats no matter how shallow the league is ton of upside there. Yeah, Tannahill didn't look good. I don't want to say I expect them to bounce back and play better. But maybe I'm wrong and it will will have to turn to Willis because this this team's record could go could go bad for sure. All right. Next one up here. Denver Broncos. Russell Wilson led the NFL with 11 attempts on out of pocket throws. He had a 132.2 pass or rating. I just think this is interesting because like this is the only way Russell Wilson can do good stuff as if he like is out of the moves out of the pocket, all that type of stuff. But I didn't come away from week one feeling like John Payton's about to fix Russell Wilson. I feel like he might survive with Russell Wilson and that's it. Pretty cool. He started his new tenure off with an onside kick. So Sean Payton of him and sad to see Marvin Minnes not involve more. But I'm with you too. I'm skeptical about the Russell Wilson relationship here. And I still expect Jared stood him to get a handful of starts here. And I was totally admit I was wrong about your faulty Williams. I thought he would be eased in far far more than he was. He looked he looked fine and he looks like he's only going to get more and more workload. So I was I was very concerned about where he was going in drafts and it looks like I was wrong. All right. Next one up here. Number 30 Los Angeles charges. This one comes in from Adam Levitan of established the run. Chargers and week one with Kellan Moore as first game as offensive coordinator. 17th and average depth of target. 14th and neutral situation pace and 26th and pass rate over expectation. I really think you know number one. I don't think this is this is they were had a great offensive performance. I'm not I think this was good by Kellan Moore. I questioned a lot in the on-season about whether this team was just going to be like I throw it all over the field and like oh yeah everybody's just going to hit in fantasy and stuff like that. I'm a little I'm a little I'm a little concerned that that people overrated that that being the Kellan Moore effect when that's really not the way they played in Dallas necessarily and it was tough to split like who was doing what between McCarty and Kellan Moore. So I don't know thoughts on Kellan Moore after week one offensive coordinator debut. 12 of the teams first 14 plays were were runs. So I mean it was interesting to see Kellan Moore after when being so excited. Herbert's 7.5 average depth of target yardage was 34th percentile. So more of the same which always said makes sense when you have Keenan Allen and Austin Eckler as options there. Mike Williams played the slot more as as threatened there. He also left a little injured there but the whatever it was one game and the the teams combined for 70 points. Adolfins didn't even play a snap on offense with the lead. So it was working well for the chargers. They had a tremendous success rate. But the the key obviously here is Austin Eckler's health and Josh Kelly would be a must start if Eckler unfortunately has to miss any time which we all hope he does not. 100% and obviously as we said you have to go on the show truly in the week to tell what's going to happen with Austin. So we will see you know record the damn podcast on people DM and be like what's going to have with awesome like it's Tuesday. Yo I he doesn't know yet. Okay anyways. I'm not calling out our buddy Ed would pour us on that one. I know that was a that was a joke but seriously people have been hitting me up about this. I'm like give me a break people. Okay. Number 31 Houston Texans and ego Collins was second in week one with a 64% area share and had a 0.33 targets per round run. Yo Dalton. Nico Collins is a wide receiver three in fantasy. Yes or no. Yes. Absolutely. I'll say no because he's closer to my wide receiver two. I almost going to have him as a top 25 guy. You look at the area to look at the target share. They had CJ Stroud and a bunch of dropbacks as well. So I mean they weren't hiding him at all. So you feel like this team is going to happen to be throwing in game script situations. So we're both on Nico Collins. I'm really upset that a lot of those around 910 area. I was debating Bateman and Collins and I have plenty of Collins but I would ultimately take Bateman over him. And I'm really frustrated that decision because Collins looks like a yes. Wide receiver three locked in with upside for top 25 wide receiver. Next one and last one here. First overall pick in the NFL draft if it happened today Cincinnati Bengals dead last in off into success rate in week one but who cares man. I can't believe we're having this like what's going on with the Bengals. They'll be fine going forward. I'm not concerned at all. It was bad weather. Burrow hadn't played all preseason dealing with that cap injury. Not concerned whatsoever. Higgins had the highest average depth of target too. So don't totally worry about those you know eight target zero catches which was a historical performance. But Burrow is going to bounce back. Start chasing DFS this week. They'll blow up. All right. That brings us to Thursday night football. We've got the Vikings and the Eagles. It's a fifth. It opened at a 51 over under. It's been bet down to 49 the point total here. The Eagles are six and a half point favorites. I think the bet down to 49 and the six and a half point favorites does make a difference to me here. All right. It makes it makes sense to me here. I should say a couple of stats on the these two teams. The two things I kind of want to hit on here. One Eagles had 21 of 38 dropbacks against zone coverage in week one which is not the usual for Bill Bela check teams usually they play a bunch of man. I think Bill had a lot of time to prepare for that game and had a really nice game plan to slow down the Eagles offense. But Brian Flores the new defense coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings usually plays aggressive man coverage, blitzing all that stuff. So I think it's a big bounce back spot for all of your Eagles here in week number two. Oh yeah. Start them all the pass catch especially Goddard. I think they're going to make a point of feeding after last week. But yeah, AJ Brown, Devonta Smith. You see that since I think Levitan tweeted it since week one of last year they have Devonta Smith and AJ Brown have the same number of targets. It's an exact number. I expect big game big game from Hertz. Justin Jefferson. No, usually not quite as good outdoors, but obviously he's going to kind of smash here. The Eagles secondary looked vulnerable and week one getting eaten by the borne identity. So we don't know Kenneth Gainville status as we record this. It sounds pessimistic. So Deandre Swift could go from. Yeah, I think it was actually while we were recording they said, I think Ciriani said he's not expecting in the play. There you go. I stand corrected. Get Swift is a absolutely viable option. It probably now. I mean, probably. It's absolutely probably. And then my guy Penny is there. Are they going to even have him active? So we'll see there. But just expect a lot of the fantasy points coming from Jalen Hertz and company. Yeah, Ciriani, I think also said there's going to be some weeks where Deandre Swift's super involved and there's going to be some weeks where he has the role that he did last week. So I mean, that's just going to be a total guessing game. But I think you got to feel decent, pretty good about him in week two here with no with no Kenny Gainville. But if the rug gets ripped out from you and you know, Rashad Penny is active and he gets like 15 carries, I think you've got it. You can't be surprised about that because that's just the way the coaching staff views these two backs. No doubt. One thing I'll say about the Vikings. I'm always like, uh, cousins is YPA. They continue to be top three and pass rate over expectation. Like they were last year, the new coaching. Maybe the efficiency isn't there. But the volume continues for cousins. And that just helps pay the fantasy bills, even when it's not, you know, perfect or piezing my YPA. Looks like that's going to remain a thing this year. They're just throwing the ball like crazy. Yeah, Jordan Addison ran a little bit behind KJ Osborne, but that's not going to happen forever. Like he's eventually going to overtake Osborne. It could be this week. I mean, it could be this week. And he obviously had the big play in week one. So I really like Jordan Addison going forward. Lastly, just on Alexander Madison, you know, again, from a stats perspective, 68% of the snaps, 67% of the rush attempts, 37% of the routes run routes per dropback. So I know he scored the touchdown. Scott's touchdown deodorant. He's 100% right about that. But, you know, in better matchups, I feel like Madison will have bigger games. I know people have asked me like, would you trade Alexander Madison for like Pukka Nakua who we didn't talk about? Cause we talked a lot about Nakua on the last few episodes. I don't know, man. I think people are, you know, counting the chickens a little bit before they hatch here with Madison, like as a dead zone back. Agreed. It wasn't an impressive performance, but Ty Chandler was not involved as much as many had feared slash hope. So yeah, I would take it as a modest win. And as long as he can stay healthy and be the feature back in that offense, the stats will come no matter how great he is as a player. I think it's totally fine there. Pukka, by the way, in a in a league I'm in, I made a very aggressive like a 55% fab bid on him. And he went for 100% in a league. Wow. No, no, that's good. You went for a hundred. Yeah, I'm in on him. And if you can take over that cup roll who I think is a very questionable, you know, moving forward timeline, I absolutely was aggressive with Pukka. My answer is yes, always Pukka. I'm gonna rank him aggressively this week too. Everything you read, the college numbers, how he was targeted last week, I get it, the draft capital coming out and know where there's a risk. But I think it's quite a right situation for him to be really valuable at least until cup returns. You have to go read the reception perception right up. I just post it. I'm on Pukka going to you liked his college, too, though, right? You had some other. Yes, you did too. Yeah, yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Man, go get him. Yeah. I know the Rams have been ahead of the curve on a lot of things organizationally. But I think we got to look into them in terms of their ability to clone. I think they have cloned Robert Woods and brought him up through the college ranks as this Pukka Nikua. And now he's just, he's just now they've got Robert Woods 2.0. It's crazy. He's like, it's just such a perfect player comparison. And he's a perfect fit for this offense. So yeah, I'm with you. I'm being excited about Pukka. But all right. So about Thursday night football speaking of Thursday night football, we got to throw to Ryan Fitzpatrick who was nice enough to join us for a fantastic conversation. Well, let's take a listen. All right. If you're watching the YouTube version of this show, which by the way, you definitely should. You can see that I am rocking the loud shirt with three buttons down as you must do for the guests we have on the podcast right now. He's former NFL quarterback. He's the owner of the best beard in the business. And he's currently dominating the Amazon Thursday night broadcast. It's Ryan Fitzpatrick. Ryan, thanks so much for being here. Man, how was week one for you? Oh my gosh. Week one was so exciting. But before we get into that, you're sure that you're wearing that is a top three all time shirt. I have the exact same one. I love that three buttons are down. And it's that searsucker material. Super soft. It breathes. Anyway, wonderful shirt. And what a wonderful start to the NFL season as well. Absolutely. As you said to me years ago, it's all about, you know, regional and seasonal. And it's still over 80 degrees where I'm at right now. So regionally and seasonally, this is still an appropriate shirt. But you are dressed much more appropriate, actually, for the occasion here, Ryan, because you're here with us on behalf of Jamison touchdown in Dublin. Look, we all know about Jamison whiskey, but tell us a little bit about this campaign here. Well, and Jamison and I are unofficially trying to get profile ball in Dublin, Iowa. It just seems like we've done London, and I went over there and played and it was awesome. We've now done Germany with Munich and Frankfurt coming up Mexico City. The Dublin, Ireland seems like the next big city to get it done. I think there's a lot of interest there. We've seen it with college. We've seen it with Notre Dame going over there. So we've unofficially teamed up to say, Hey, let's get a pro game in Dublin, Ireland. Yeah, I saw the stat that 86% of NFL fans would be excited to see an NFL game in Dublin. So, hey, man, I think Ireland is next. So I love to see that with Jamison. That's awesome. The more people we can grow the game to and get a live game in front of folks, the better. That's my opinion on the matter. Yeah, I completely agree. And they just, they've got some cool stuff going on. If we can get this done before the start of next season, jamesport.com, then they're even going to fly some people over there and they're putting a whole big campaign behind it. So exciting times for Jamison and obviously for pro football. It's always exciting times for pro football. Week one is always an exciting time. It's basically like the title wave completely hits you, washes you over with all this new information. But Ryan, it also tends to be a perfect time for wild overreactions. What do you think coming out of week one is the potential biggest overreaction, or is there a particular overreaction you've seen so far? Well, I got to see a lot on Sunday because my son, he's a junior in high school and had all his buddies over and we watched together and all they care about is fantasy. So, you know, they're trading Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson. You know, this is the head. Oh, my gosh. Drake London didn't have any catches. So that's all I heard from fantasy and, you know, but I think there were some weather and some games. So if we're looking at Cleveland Cincinnati, you know, those numbers are really down for Joe. They had their issues. But there was, there was weather for Daniel Jones too. You know, some of those struggles maybe were related to that. But I came out of it more with San Francisco, look really good. I mean, San Francisco with, it was a great performance by Brock Birdie because of the question marks from his injury last year because of, you know, this is really the guy. And then the comments from Patrick Peterson and him going at him twice for touchdowns. That was one of the things that left the biggest impression on me this weekend. He's got such a great cast around him too. And, you know, guys that I think, like I got like Brandon, you've got a huge brand that I use fan. I think he's been like one of the quietly one of the best underrated route runners in the NFL the last few years. And he really looked like he's taken his game to another level in week one. Just what you've seen from Brock particularly. What do you think kind of makes him such a good fit with Kyle Shanahan and maybe what allows him to accentuate some of these guys so well? Well, just from from last year and it's something that's very difficult for a young guy to come in and do, but he's an elite decision maker. He really is. It's more often than not. He's making the perfect decision. He's an accurate quarterback. He's athletic enough to when he needs to get out of the pocket, whether it is to escape and make a throw or gain some yards with his feet. He could do it. So that team is just such a great place to be if you're a quarterback, but for him in particular and being able to think quickly and deliver the ball on time and accurately. What a great marriage with those two right now. I'm sure that as kind of like an underdog guy yourself, you're probably really enjoying what you're seeing out of Brock Pertie. That's a you know, there's some easy symmetry there. Another guy that that I'm sure you you have a lot of appreciation for in the guy who had a great week one performance, your former teammate, to a down there in Miami, put on an absolute show. I remember speaking with you about him years ago and sort of what you appreciated about him. Then you've spoken quite often publicly about kind of your relationship and everything with him on Thursday night football and other spaces. What has stood out to you kind of about him way back in 2020 and how do you think he's grown and evolved sense? Well, I think they they put some great playmakers around him. And so I think when Mike McDaniel came in, he realized it is this guy's anticipation and his timing and accuracy. Those are the things and much like that San Francisco offense, very similar offense and what they're trying to do in Miami. It's about getting the balls through these guys in space and letting them catch and run. So they might have the two most elite receivers in terms of the catch and run Tyree Kill which we saw over and over and over again on Sunday and and Waddle too and Waddle had Waddle had some grabs not as many as Tyree because he kind of got overshadowed in that game. But when you line up against the dolphins, you're just scared of death as a DB because of that. So you see it when two of his back foot and gets rid of the ball, that's what we're seeing all these great plays. You know, it's it's when he has to, you know, get to the second or third read and throw it down field. We saw a couple of those during the game where he missed Tyree or the ball got batted down and broken up. But that come in with all the question marks from last season to go through an offseason. The people question him and Ryan Clark called him out and and to go against Herbert, you know, the guy there's always been the rivalry with and to do what he did and to lead the team to that last touchdown drive and throw for basically 450 yards. Pretty impressed to start for the kid. Yeah, absolutely really impressive start. And I'll admit to being kind of, I wouldn't say skeptical about any of these guys or this, this offense, but I'll admit to saying like, all right, how do they like, what's their second pitch, right? What's their counter? Because they, you know, this, this, this very defense, I think actually gave them the most trouble last year of any team. There was certainly no trouble in week one. And I think what really stood out to me and you can kind of heat check me on this. I think two is super power has always been his ability to get the ball out hyper fast while pushing it down field. And I pulled this from NFL next gen stats among quarterbacks. You played on Sunday, too. I had the fifth fastest time to throw, but he had the most air yards per completion. And it wasn't just, it was obviously to Tyrick, but like you said, get into his second and third read. These guys like river craycraft making plays, Durham, Smife, the Braxton Barrio. So all these guys had big completions on sort of these hyper fast. Get it out. What about his game? Like what skill in particular makes like a result like that stat possible? I think it's just even being more comfortable on this system, you know, being because that was you saw that, especially on the one driver, he had the three completions to Durham, Smite. He knew what the defense was. Pretty snap. And he knew where the vulnerabilities were going to be. So I just, it's been really cool to see his progression. And it's been really cool to see a coach and power him and give him so much confidence. And, you know, they're, they're just such a fast team. There's so much team speed. And if you look at that game, too, they fumbled in the red zone, they threw an interception in the red zone. So yeah, they did, they did score all those points, but it could have been a lot worse. There's got to be something to the confidence, right? Like I remember Mike McDaniel on the very first like kind of social clip that the team put out about him or one of the first ones, you know, I mean, who knows? Million years ago at this point, right? Like him calling to on the plane, saying like, my job is to make you look good. And you know, everybody, because we're in such a cynical and like skeptical world, everybody looks at that and like kind of waves it off. Like, he's not his guy, right? Or something like that. But he really has embodied and believed that as a quarterback, when your coach and play collar has that kind of confidence in you, like, what does that bring on on game day, even when you're making these mistakes? Yeah, it goes a long way to know that there are people that are in your corner, it goes a long way. And I think for two, as somebody since he's been in the NFL, facing the criticism and the doubters and all those things, to have people in your building that you know 100% or in your corner that helps a lot when you go out there on Sunday. Besides two, and obviously we talk about Brock Purdy too, is there any other week one quarter back performance like good or bad that kind of just made you go, hmm. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people are talking about Joe Burrow and you know that we've just seen enough with Burrow where we think that's that's just something that you know maybe we can blame it on rust a little bit, we can blame it on the weather, but I think they're going to be just fine. A lot of people are alarmed with Daniel Jones. Again, like, you know, they they fell behind early that the block kick, they had to pick six and it was one of those games with the weather we're throwing was advantageous. They just kind of got out of their game. The giants aren't built for hey, let's fall back by a few touchdowns and come back and get this thing like a team like the dolphins are with their explosiveness. So they were behind the chains early so to say and in that one and that wasn't indicative of what Daniel Jones did last year. You know, and then Kirk Cousins, another one that you know just had some turnovers and you come out of that game as a Minnesota fan thinking, okay, are we going to see regression this year? I think that one's super interesting. There's some frustrations on the sideline during that game. So again, this NFL season, I go to sitting there like a kid in a candy shop just ready to go like I actually have this set up with all these TVs and and now you can watch them all at the same time. Oh yeah. What a what a great day of football. I've got to probably work out and get some of that laziness off of my body today. A football rocks, man. It's always a tough time and fall to keep up with the fitness, but we do our best, right? You mentioned the Viking stars and football. That's awesome. You're going to get a good look at that team. Last thing for you here, man, since retiring and moving into the media side of things, is there anything you've learned sort of to grow and appreciate like more about football or just any just learned in general now that you're playing days are in your in your past? I think I think when you're when you're in it, you almost don't realize or appreciate how cool it is. And then when you're when you're on the outside looking in, even something as simple as watching these guys warm up before a game, just the atmosphere, the environment, I think when you get on the outside and look at it from a different perspective, instead of just oh my okay, we're in week three, we've got to get through this. It's it's such an amazing product. It's such an amazing place to be around and that's what I'm really thankful that we actually get to go to the games and feel that energy and it's it's pretty cool being able to do what I'm doing now as well. Yeah, and you're crushing it. It's been awesome to see Ryan really appreciate the time here, man, and definitely everybody got to go check out what you're doing with Jamison. That that would be the only follow up there would be what your regional and seasonal, what's the right regional and seasonal environment for a Jamison, you know, as opposed to the three button down shirt with I'm rocking here. You pull out that hat, man, I could never pull it off. So shout out to you. Yeah, I think I think the hat would be part of it, but definitely wouldn't be wearing a button down with three buttons down. I could tell you that much. That's for sure. Hey, Ryan Fitzpatrick, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Everybody check out what he's working with with Jamison. And of course, Thursday night football, you're all dialed into that. I'm jacked up more than ever about football after this conversation. So I appreciate your time, Ryan. Thank you. All right, Dalton, Statenert Thursday, another one in the book, buddy. Appreciate you as always. Hope week two is kind to you, my friend. Good times, man. Same to you. Good talking, ball. Yeah, I will, I, if I do the voice in week two on FFL, I will not do it about anything that's you related so that we can remain good friends. Appreciate that. All right, that's going to do it for us today, folks. Tomorrow, you set the stage for week two with the games you need to binge, stream, and skip. Four for fours, Jen Eakins joins me for that. Very excited. Until then, we're out.