Fantasy Waivers | NFL Week 1

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3:12You guys are prone to facts. Reliefless refusing to give up. I hit that horn, baby. Welcome to The Famous and Flex Podcasts from Action Network in Famous Labs. I'm your host, Kev Moss Ridge. I'm NFL week one is here finally and I'm joined by one of the most accurate rancors in the game. Sean Kerner, the odds maker. Quick reminder that all of our fans football content is available now over on Famouselabs.com. Famouselabs NFL includes in-season rankings, waiver wire, and DFS tips and much more. Make sure you use code flex20 for $20 off at Famouselabs.com slash flex. Sean, how's it going? We're here. We're here. We're here. We're here. We're here. Tomorrow. Yeah, finally. It's finally here. I've been loving talking about it with you over the summer, but I'm just glad that we actually have football now. And then we get to see what we're right or wrong about already in week one. And then we choose my probably my favorite week when everyone's over or under reacting to what we

4:16just witnessed. But yeah, I already have my first bet in. I'm maybe making my second bet later today. So we get two games this week midweek. Yes. Wednesday night football. Are you ready for the WNF? A new tradition. And then, and then, you know, Thursday night football in Australia. You know, just crazy. But yeah, I'm glad it's finally here. Yeah, I'm enjoying the late night early Australia, like the Australia news updates from like the 49ers reports. It's like 9 p.m. We get an injury report. I'm like, this is, it might be, if I have my leg pulled right now or what's going on. And then I realize, oh, no, it's like their time, their normal time over there. So yeah, that's an alert at like midnight. The chapter after tweets as like did they forget something? Oh, I was like, oh, yeah, they're like stay time there or something like CMC does not practice. And then CMC does practice. George

5:17Kiddell, I mean, for week one, Mike Evans actually, okay, blah blah blah. Like it's it's fun. And then, I mean, we have, I mean, that games on Thursday, Wednesday, tomorrow is, I mean, the Super Bowl rematch. Are you excited for that? I mean, you got the, I mean, clearly, you got the Patriot. Yeah. Well, who would be excited? I don't, you know, I like different matchups and things like that. So I already spent two weeks analyzing this matchup. What, six months ago. So a lot of same things. But yeah, I faded. Uh, Gigerian Price is receiving props. We'll see how that goes. Uh, I can't wait to see like how I think he's going to be amazing as a runner. So I think he'll be on there in early downs, uh, looking good. But, you know, people, people that draft him might not like George Hullani by the end of the night. But either way, it's just going to be fun to see, uh, football back like regular season football. Yeah, Emmanuel Wilson healthy. He was allegedly going to miss the first two weeks of the season. But that doesn't really help. That definitely doesn't help. But I, yeah, definitely still like price this matchup. Sneaky might be a little more high scoring

6:22than expected with the Seahawks losing Greek woolen and Nika, Emmanuel, for, I mean, well, they don't have a woolen for the season with him on the Eagles and Emmanuel is probably out. So yeah, this could be a fun one. Uh, but that's not today's episode. We're going to go position by position to see who's still available in most leagues that you might want to keep an eye on on the way Roya were using Yahoo's league percentages and raw, I mean, roster percentages. So if they're available in roughly over 40% of Yahoo leagues, these are our way for wire targets starting off with quarterback Sean. Yeah. So again, I have no idea who's even available in your league if you're listening. So just look at our rankings and look who's available and that's who I go with. But I think Baker Mayfield would be my streamer pick of the week because looks like, you know, he's available in 43% of Yahoo leagues out there. He opens the week inside my top 10. He's my QB9 right now. Sounds like Mecca Buka was able to return to, I believe, a full practice. Yesterday,

7:27you know, he's been dealing with that toe injury. I thought they might have been cautious with them. Wasn't sure if it was serious or not, but it seems like he's good to go. So that's obviously excellent for Baker's, you know, ranked this week. And it's a good spot. This is against Abangel's defense, where, you know, their defense is probably going to be better this year. But still, this should be a shootout. This is the highest total game of the week, just over 51 points. So, you know, Baker's going to probably force a throw most of the game. And he's playing for contract right now. And, you know, Baker, whenever Baker has a chip on his shoulder, he has one dangerous dude. So I think he's come out firing like he's he's going to be fired up. So I think he has a good week. And then, you know, if you're streaming him, maybe next week, you have somebody else to attack. But I think if you're a league where you punted quarter back and you just want to stream, I think Baker's the guy this week for me. Yeah, I agree. I was actually probably going to pick Baker, but you took him from right under me, right under my nose. It's okay. It's not the end of

8:29the world. Yeah, no, I'm totally with you. Sounds like I mean, that game is just lock and load. All of the offensive pieces like I think you could go as far down as like someone like Kenny Gainwell being startable in that matchup. I mean, Sean Tucker is dealing with an injury right now or at least he missed practice. So he possibly is. It's just kind of just a start all your guys, Godwin, and Buka. I mean, you're obviously starting them most weeks anyway. But yeah, and then T and Jamar, you're never benching them, but it could be I'm excited. I'm excited for every piece of this offense. And I agree with you, Baker is totally in play and top 10 quarterback. He is for me as well. So a little spoiler there. My quarterback since I can pick Baker is Malik Willis against the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders defense did get Max Crosby back or he'd think he never really left, I guess. But there's still not really this scary unit they haven't been for, I mean, since Clil Mack was there, it feels like Malik Willis first game, fresh legs. He just got the contract,

9:37but unlike Baker, I don't know. Like I don't know if he has a chip on his shoulder, but people are still doubting him. People are still talking about him like a bridge quarterback, which he probably is, but this could be a state game for him. And they don't really have the receiving weapons. I know Chris Bell is going to play Caleb Douglas had some preseason hype, but still feels like if Malik Willis is going to win games, it's going to have to be with his legs. And hey, if they're closing out games while they're leading, he's probably going to have to use his legs. Get those first downs. And if you're in leagues with 25 point passing yards or 25 passing yards per point, four point passing touchdowns, Malik Willis is exactly the kind of quarterback you love on your bench. Just in case maybe you're stud or if you waited like you said, isn't available, you go to Malik Willis. So how are you feeling about him? Yeah, that's exactly what I said in my tears piece where if you look at guys ranked, you know, low one, QB 2s to open the air, he's probably the most likely to

10:40be able to offer consistent QB 1 value. If things go the right way, I compared them to like Justin Fields on the Jets last year with better job security. If you want to think about him that way. Because he has massive rushing upside. Doesn't have great pass catchers, but you know, he's got some talent around him. And people keep, you know, talking about the dolphin sucking and you can't use anybody from them, which is partly true. But if the dolphins are trailing all the time, that's just going to lead to more drop backs for Malik Willis, which could lead to more scrambles and softer defenses that they end in the game. So like the dolphin sucking is actually good for Malik Willis's fancy value. So I'm okay. Take a flyer on a week one and just seeing what happens because again, he's the guy that has the most upside, just giving his rushing upside when you're looking at these low end QB 2 guys. And he has Devon HN, who's maybe the best receiving back in the game. So he has

11:40a dump off valve. This, I mean, what I comp this situation to is potentially CMC Cam Newton when CMC had like a ridiculous what 140 target year, like back in Carolina. So that's possible. Just given that he's the best weapon, he could just throw it to HN as much as possible. And that's an explosive weapon. Teams have to watch out for HN in the backfield regularly anyway. So Malik Willis is the biggest rushing threat in that backfield. So it's it could be pretty nice for fancy value in week one. But moving on to running back, who's your top running back? I don't know, streamer or pick up, I guess it just depends on how you would phrase this. Yeah, I think running back, it's just guys, you got a stash on here, but like backup running backs and have too much upside to be sitting out there. And that's why somebody who's asking like, you know, with Korum being draft and every league, who are you going to talk about every year or every week? I'm like, there's going to be guys to talk about, but it's not that might be the last time we see a guy with top 10 upside if his starter misses time. That was just available in, you know, 60 plus percent of leagues

12:46all year long last year until the very end when he started getting a big workload even with Kyron Healthy. But I think Tyler Alger right now being available in 52 percent of leagues is kind of silly because he actually has a path to having value week one and that's of Jeremiah Love doesn't suit up for whatever reason with his ankle injury. It sounds like love should be fine and should play, but Elger is the kind of guy that, you know, he might have a big enough workload early on, you know, if they're trying to preserve Love a bit where he might be able to squeeze out RB3 Flex value in the meantime and then have potential RB2 value if Love misses time. So he's not a guy that should probably be available in more than half leagues and he already kind of has a weird path to being a, you know, high end RB3 Flex week one if Love has a setback or something. Or, you know, Love can have a setback in game and now Tyler Alger is the top ad for week two.

13:46He's already on your bench and you don't need to blow what 80 percent of your fab on him or something like that. So I think Elger is one of those guys where if you have this space, might as well add him. So yeah, Tyler Alger for me, but I do like your guy coming up. Oh, yeah, I'll get right to him. But yeah, Tyler Alger totally, if Love somehow misses this game obvious start flex. You probably have a strong roster after the draft. You probably don't have many injuries to deal with. But still, Alger against the chargers. I mean, he's not the high, like the most, you know, savvy receiving back, but he will be utilized. He'd probably still get 20 plus touches. He's capable of it. We've seen and he has a goal line threat. So definitely in start territory, like very much so in start territory, if Love were to miss the game God forbid. But and God forbid for the added injury, that high ankle is scary because it was kind of ambiguous, but sounds like Love is good and he is good to go. But moving on to my guy that you alluded to,

14:46keep Mitchell available in about 58 percent of leagues. Look, yes, he had the setback or whatever they called it. I don't think it was a re-ingery. It was just an injury that set him back from a few practices. He missed about a week. But sounds like he's good to go. Sounds like he's practicing. I'm not confident starting him until we see production with Amoryan Hampton, with the split with Kamani Vidal. I'm pretty confident that he's the RB2. I'm pretty confident that he is very good. We've seen that in the past. He averaged about 80 total yards per game in a six game stretch as a rookie. Had the knee injury. And then last year, you know, had some spurts of being explosive and looking right. So there is some long-term, you know, viability concerns like, can he be sustainable? But for the sake of redraft on a week-to-week basis, keep Mitchell's the kind of guy you want on your bench. And we saw Hampton go down with an ankle injury last year. Who knows what happens? You get

15:49hurt again. And even if he doesn't, keep Mitchell is good enough to have standalone value, especially with Mike McDaniel, wanting him. Clearly, he has a plan for him. And Mitchell, it seems like they want to unlock his receiving upside too. So I'm excited for him going from Lamar to Justin Herbert and that kind of passing offense. So I really want Keaton Mitchell in a bench. Sounds like you do too. Yeah, I think he's an excellent bench stash to begin this season. Again, we're not starting him week one. Probably not starting him week two or week three or week four. But once those buyers start kicking in week five, six, seven, he's a kind of guy where even if his role is only getting like a handful of touches game, like, you know, seven or eight touches a game, that might be enough for him in Mike McDaniel's offense to offer some like desperation, RB Flex value, if not more. Plus, I just think that people, like we're in that time of the year where you and I, we've been, you know, on Twitter for the last few months, where everything's static,

16:53everybody has their opinion. And then week one in the season, everyone's like, oh, shit, this is a violent game where everybody gets hurt. So I mean, it's going to be pure carnage. We're going to be having the test or running that running back depth more than people realize. So having a guy like Keaton Mitchell on your bench, and I'm not even saying Hampton himself needs to get hurt, but just with the rest of the position kind of dealing with a bunch of turmoil. So I'm like, Keaton Mitchell could turn into an RB Flex, even with a limited role. So he's a kind of high upside guy. I love just kind of stashing early on and seeing what happens. Yeah. And sadly, at home, it gets the Arizona Cardinals. Would be one of the better matchups for Mitchell. If, you know, maybe he wasn't like, you know, if he didn't mispractice his coming into the season, I actually, I'd probably have some confidence starting because I expect the chargers to be running a lot because, you know, I don't, I'd expect them to play with a lead. They're like, heavily favored. But at the same time, it is, you know, it is unfortunate. And you probably have

17:53better options for weak ones. So we're going to keep them on the bench and we're going to move on to wide receiver. Who's your top wide receiver on the waiver wire? I'm going to go Romeo Dobs here, available and like 43% of leagues. He's a guy that if you recall, like I started to get higher on the closer we got to weak one, the more I really got to dive in and think about the situation. You know, he was kind of overshadowed once they did trade for AJ Brown, but he was their newly prized free agent receiver before the trade and, you know, the all the frable controversy stuff. So he's kind of flying under the radar right now where he's a guy I'm not going to play weak one, especially at Seattle. I mean, this is a horrible matchup. But I wouldn't be shocked if he goes out there, has a decent game. People start to realize, oh shit, like he's paired with Drake Mae, one of the best up and coming QBs in the game right now. He might be good this year. So if he goes out there, catches four balls for 60 yards and a touchdown against the Seahawks.

18:59And then, you know, the Patriots, their schedule is going to get much easier, especially once you get to like week five. Again, once teams are going on buys and things like that, you need to test your wide receiver depth. Patriots schedules is very easy. So I think Dobs might be a guy that people are kind of run out to buy after week one. So I think just, you know, if you have the space stash him, he's not like a super, super high upside guy, but he's a guy that I think if he has a good week one, people are going to want to go Adam. So you can kind of get ahead of that if you want, help bolster your wide receiver depth a bit. But he's a guy, yeah, again, he might be Drake Mae's number two target this year. And at times, maybe number one, especially, you know, in the red zone. So I think he's a guy that he has one more upside than I think people are willing to give him credit. So he's a guy, you know, try to invest a little bit early on and see what happens. Now totally. And yeah, he is Mae's de facto number two target coming into the season. And AJ Brown hasn't missed much time in recent years. I mean, throughout his career, he's been

20:00pretty healthy, missed, you know, three games in a season, maybe like four or five. But injuries do happen. You mentioned it's a brutal game. Things happen. I mean, whether it's not AJ Brown, Mac Holland's, Demario Douglas, Hunter Henry, but again, we're not wishing injuries, but they do happen. It's part of the game. It's the name of the game. Football is violent. So dobs can go from why not just the number two target in the offense, but a consolidated second option in an offense that was one of the best last year that just had a massive upgrade with AJ Brown. And I mean, playing next to AJ Brown opens the field up for him too. Like tomorrow, he probably doesn't have to see much of Devon Witherspoon. And again, Rick Wollins gone, Nicki Minaj and Manwari is likely out. So this could be a dobs game. Who knows? And they're mentioning he could be used out of the slot more this season. They could get him some layup targets. I'm excited to see his role. I'm excited to see him with a full snap share, full route share. He wasn't like Matthew Golden

21:04or Jane Reed. But at the same time, I mean, Patriots paid him. They're going to play him. So I'm excited for him. And if you think about it, if you really think about it, Drake Maye knows Reis at all times, he could see him in the corner of his eye, you know, the big helmet. So that helps if May's looking his way. He knows Reis at all times. So I'm a stakeable. I love it. I love those those are the little edges we go for. That's why you're the man. Okay, but my wide receiver is going to be Jordan Tyson. Keep this very simple IR stash. This isn't he might not be active until week nine. I believe they have a week eight by. So that probably is when Tyson is activated after re aggravating his hamstring issue. This is pretty cut and dry. Top 10 wide receiver draft top 10 draft pick top wide receiver talent. I believe coming into the NFL. I think he was wide receiver one talent wise. But these injuries do suck for an IR stash though. Why not? Where are you at with him Sean? Yeah, I do. I like that idea.

22:05I mean, presumably all drafts are over at this point. But if for some reason he's sitting out there and you have an IR slot in your league that that feels like cheating almost like that's that's way too easy. I will say it like when he does return it's going to be hard to trust them at least initially. And at any given time you just feel like, you know, it could flare up. Hopefully not like early in a game. But I just his rookie season could be lost. That's obviously worst case scenario where his rookie season is essentially a wash because they're going to have to work on, you know, his gate or things like that. Similar to what Christian Watson went through before last season. But if he's out there and healthy, you know, he has probably the most upside from this rookie class. So I have big fan of just stashing him in the IR if you can kind of a free square play. And then hopefully they're just being cautious. And you know, they kind of make sure he's a 100% before he goes out there, which I'm assuming they are. So that that would help the long-term play

23:06if you do do go this route. Yeah, available in 42% of leagues. So it seems like nobody wants him, but but we do. But we do. And just in time for the football season, Bettsink is back in the action app and it's better than ever. Now you could automatically track your activity across 15 plus sports to extradiction markets all in one place. Connect your accounts once and your bets and trades will automatically appear in action as soon as you place them. No manual tracking required. From there, follow all your action in the live with live wouldn't probably in-game alerts and bet analysis throughout the game. Just open the action app head to my accounts, connect your sports book or prediction market and you're ready to go. Download the action app and connect with Bettsink for free today. College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the Sullivan-verbal college football show. I'm Ty Hildenbrand. He's Dan Rubenstein. How's it going? Every week we preview the games that matter sort through the biggest storylines and tell you what to watch before kickoff. There's a lot to keep track of. Who's for real? Which upset is hiding in plain sight and which storyline is about to take over

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29:21traditional week where we have waivers tonight, right? So people have been able to just kind of add guys after they're draft. And he's the guy that I was saying last week I did my initial rankings. I was like, Joanne Johnson is my number 11 Tide end. And if George Kiddell is ruled out, you know, Joanne's going to be in my top 10. So he's a guy that I know you were high on him like later in drafts, but you could probably add him and mostly he's in the final round of the draft, final couple rounds of the draft and just kind of start the season with him as you're Tide end and go from there. Which is kind of my preferred strategy anyway because you're not going to be so tied to him that if someone pops week one, you're afraid to drop Joanne Johnson and you know, add the new guy, you could just drop him and add the new guy. That's kind of the whole point of streaming Tide end early in the season. So I love him week one. This is a great spot at Detroit where the Saints are probably going to have to throw the ball way more than they want to probably.

30:22And Joanne's probably the number two target out of the gate with Jordan Tyson on IR. So we saw this last year, Joanne opened the season in a similar spot and he was out there like 95% of the snaps practically, you know, a wide receiver in this offense. He was a former wide receiver. So that helped. So you know, Joanne Johnson, just a no brainer streamer play this week inside my top 12 for week one. Yeah, likewise inside my top 12. Again, still my guy here. I don't really feel comfortable with my pick Dalton Schultz, but he's the best of the rest. So I'm going to pick him because you know, against Buffalo at home, Jayden Higgins out like a month ago or so. They added K-Shambu Day. Yeah. But at the same time, Schultz is a trusted target for CJ Stroud about an 18% target share last year. So I look at him like if this game gets not to say out of hand, but if it's a competitive game Buffalo's behind Josh Allen does this thing on the ground. And James Cook does too,

31:26even against Houston's really rough defense. I think CJ Stroud's going to have to rely on a lot of Dalton Schultz early and often to get those first downs. So that's a desperation streamer, like you said, if George Kiddles that, it's not the craziest. No, no, I like this call because think about it. If you're having to play Dalton Schultz week one, the rest of your team is probably stacked. So like you're probably favored to win. You just need a few points from your tie-down. So you're not asking much. And who better can provide you a few points in Dalton Schultz. So I love this. I will, I will ask you though, I think with the game in Australia, it's all Jack, the time zones are all jacked up. There's still a chance that the Niners decide, you know what? We're going to just sit George Kiddles this week, save him for next week. Would you have Jake Tongus ranked inside your top 50? Like is he in play? Because that could happen in the next 24 hours.

32:29People are going to be scrambling, but he's been kind of pushing tight in one value anytime Kiddles out. So he's also an option if even Schultz is gone. He's an option that people need to at least be keeping an eye out for, right? Yeah, that's a good swap. Yeah, if you definitely would be starting Tongus, I feel like him and Schultz would be kind of like neck and neck in my rankings anyway. So, but like Tongus or Tongus, excuse me, he touched down monster pretty much last year, anytime he goes out. So he was very much so startable. So yeah, yeah, Tongus is in play, but yeah, Schultz, if not, and let's say you don't have Kiddles, maybe you're not comfortable starting Tucker Kraft week one, who knows? Schultz is a fine play. And yeah, Johan Johnson's the ideal option here. Again, still available on 55% of leagues that are 45% excuse me. It's yeah, that's the play, but moving on to defense special team streamers, who's your top option for this week?

33:32Yeah, so this is a rough week for us defensive streamers out there because I think your play is the safest. So I do like your play, but I think for week one, you kind of got to get down in the muck. And it's really, but this dumps are fireball, Jets Titans. I think either one of those defenses is sneaky week one. They're obviously widely available. I'm going to decide what the Jets here as disgusting as that is. They're available on 98% of leagues and for very good reason. But they're coming off a historic season where they had zero interceptions. But they added, you know, a few new pieces. I think this defense should be better overall. They took David Bailey with their first round pick. But I think this is a great matchup too because Camor love to get sacked. He gets sacked at a very high rate. And he had kind of some interception luck last year,

34:35so I would not be shocked if the Jets break their interception drought right here in week one. And, you know, if you look at expected points allowed, the Titans have the seventh lowest team total of the week. So really when it comes down to the things that you can actually project, I mean, you say the Titans are a nightmare of project, defenses are 10 times worse. If you look at the things that you can like kind of project, it sacks points allowed into a certain extent, you know, interceptions. And I kind of check all three boxes this week. So that's why I think they might be a safer play than people think. But again, I don't think you need to get two gross here. You can go with your pick if you want a little bit safer route. But I think for for those of us freaks out there like to roll the dice. I think the Jets are sneaky. Yeah, I like the Jets is a DFS option. They're pretty cheap and high and it doesn't matter. I think they could definitely get

35:36that interception regression that you're talking about. Maybe they maybe they stack them up three, four. Who knows? Cam Warden, like you said, did have some luck last year. Led the league in fumbles, I believe. So he is a mistake prone quarterback, even with a 1.3% interception rate last season. Or yeah, I don't really believe in him. So that's definitely a great play. O Lionel shaky last year. I don't think they made any significant improvements. Why do you have improvements? Sure. But yeah, my play is going to be the Lions home. Yes, they're D their D. How's they D backs defensive backs are questionable. They don't have Brian Branch. They don't have Kirby Joseph. They don't have Terry on Arnold anymore. But Terry on wasn't even that good last few years. They did play better when they played zone at the end of last season. So I mean, I trust their front seven. They did add to it in the draft early on. So Lions home, Shuck, not as mistake prone, I'd say as Cam Ward, but he did throw some interceptions last year. So there's some value there. And I think this being a high scoring

36:42game and the Lions likely leading early on. Gibbs being able to control the clock. I'm very comfortable with this pick because yeah, the Saints are going to have to throw. And Shuck's going to make mistakes. They don't have Jordan Tyson out there. So this offense isn't at full strength. Alvin Camarra's possibly out. I haven't seen the injury report on him yet. But he had been dealing with MCL expected him to some month about a month ago. So who knows if he's ready or not. So they're down a few weapons. The O Lionel is good, but not elite. But yeah, just the Lions offense forcing the Saints offense to throw. Shuck, forcing Shuck to run possibly. They're going to make mistakes. And I think the Lions can capitalize and make us have a statement game after a really down season last year. So how you feel about Lions, yes, he sounds like you trust them too. Yeah, I think they're just a safer play because like you said, the Saints are probably going to have to drop back the pass quite a bit. So even though that, you know, the Lions are missing both safeties, which I agree is a big loss for this defense. Should still have sacks. And you know,

37:48Shuck was great last year, but he was prone to kind of like silly mistakes. So he's got to pick six in them potentially here. So yeah, I think the Lions kind of just seem like a high floor play, which is all you could ask for when you're streaming week one anyway. Yeah, he didn't have a high interception rate last season, but you know, he kind of looked like he was getting a little lucky at times. He had some good throws 2.4% college interception rate. He was in the threes at times throughout college. It was really his last season where, and that was his seventh college season where he finally put up a interception rate below 2.3. So I think he's due for some picks this year. And I definitely like this option, even though it should be a high scoring game. So if you're league negatively, or if there's negatives or big negatives for like a 35, let's not say they're going to score 35. Let's say the state score 28 have a bunch of yards. And that's a big negative in your league. Then yeah, the Lions aren't the play out. I would probably

38:52go with the jets, but if your league only really goes negative for points alone, and you know, interceptions, fumbles, sacks, etc. are the big winners. I definitely roll with the lines. But kicker to kick us out. I'm not kick us out. We'll kick us out of the fantasy season. Who's your type of kicker streamer here? Yeah, it's Evan McPherson, because I was kind of shocked to see he's actually available and 48% of Yahoo Leagues, which is kind of incredible, but he's he opens the week as my number three kicker. They're at home against the bucks. I believe they have the fourth highest team total of the week. So I mean, this is an excellent spot for McPherson to get you know, a few extra points, potentially a couple of field goals. Zack Taylor's been kind of conservative when it comes out comes to fork down decision-making. He trust McPherson. So McPherson checks every box in my kicker model where you know, he could easily

39:55boom a 55-yarder if needed. I will say this game is insincentity. There's like a slight chance of thunderstorms. So we'll have to keep an eye on weather. So if you know, I'll be factoring that in in my kicker projections as we get closer to game time. But the thing that would kind of knock me off of him is the weather. So something to keep an eye out for. But as of now, he's inside my top five. I think he's a very high floor high ceiling play here at home against the bucks. Yeah, no, I'm I'm with you. McPherson even Chase McLaughlin, assuming this weather is okay. I like both of them in this game. So yeah, kicker at home high scoring game coach that's a little trepidacious in the red zone or not the red zone, but like just on the the opponent's side of the field when they're, you know, they probably could go for it. But he's like, I'll take the points. I'm a I'm a pussy. Definitely. That's the Taylor Fitzsaddle. Yeah. Another coach that is pretty prone to just

40:56rolling with this kicker. He did have branded Aubrey to rely on, but rep Mar in 2022 was a top five kicker. It's Chris Boswell's coach Mike McCarthy. He loves he loves playing it conservative. Loves his kickers. And Chris Boswell was I believe kicker one two seasons ago. I'm pretty sure I looked it up. I think it was kicker one in points for game. So that was interesting. And he was I mean, he was even bad last year. The Steelers offense just wasn't the best. So and they played it pretty slow. But yeah, I like Boswell at home against the Falcons. I expect the Steelers to play ball control throughout the game. Not need to force it in the red zone. But they'll probably be there early and often while they're at full strength. And the Falcons are dealing with the two well-led offense. That is speaking of mistake prone. Very much so. And hopefully you scooped up the Steelers defense special teams in your draft. So you don't have to worry about a stream

41:58where it defense. But yeah, I'm going to Chris Boswell here. How do you feel about him? Yeah, he's just right around my kicker 12. Similar like Chase McGillough when both those guys, I think are streamable. I will say that there is a chance of rain in Pittsburgh. Again, that came like a week away. So who knows what can happen. As we know, Kev, now that we have to experience weather here in LA right now, things can change at any moment. So another game that I kind of have flagged. It's a meeting with Carolina. There could be some rain there. So just a lot of all the rain that we dealt with is moving east. So they're going to have to deal with that. And it could impact some of these games. So I'll be looking out for that. But yeah, he's right around my ticker one kicker to break. Definitely, definitely. I have him a little higher, but at the same time, you know, who knows? It's a kicker. Anything goes. And I'm not really, I'm not really, I looked at the weather. I definitely saw some thunderstorms in some areas, but it didn't seem like too high of a

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