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Weekend Warriors time
talk about the guys that actually had a big Sunday and
who better to start with than Devonte Smith who made it
pretty clear. Let's hear what the bot they had to say after
the game.
As a receiver. And that's what it comes down to 50/50 balls.
You got to win and I mean, the trust that Jalen has and all
the receivers. Yes, I mean it's all about nobody but also just
being there with him,
just being able to make sure that if we don't come down, we
didn't nobody comes down
your mindset, man. When you see the ball coming your way and,
you know, it's going to be like a 50-50 type.
Nobody,
it's my ball or nobody's the mate Smith said, and that lives
up, as he's out, targeted, AJ Brown over the last two games
after the goose egg, week 131,
Fantasy points in week. Three Lawrence. A big-time bounce
back these last two weeks after the disappointing week, 14.
Devante again, another receiver where I like his answer. He
just chilling. He ain't yelling. And then he's my boss
and nobody bought.
Remember this is the Heisman Trophy
winner at wide receiver and I'm loving the fact that he's
a merge now with Jalen hurts because that's only going to
make this offense overall, even better
when you got two guys that you had to worry about, I think
he's a strong flex play with her. Ow, Jalen Hurd just doing
in the past, two games back to back 300-yard passing day, so
let's keep riding with it.
This is a pass first
Eagles team once you account for game situation,
they're actually passing more than you would expect at
a decent rate, their kind of where the Chargers and the and
the Packers were last year, so we thought this might be like
a balanced team. We are worried. It might be a run-heavy team
entering the Year.
This is like best case scenario for the Eagles. They're
actually a past first team. They can support two receivers
and we have had That Devante, Smith out, Target
AJ Brown over the last two games, but I wouldn't be
freaking out here. If you have AJ Brown, he's going to get his
too. It's just, this is a really exciting offense, that
can support, multiple weapons. Yeah. Everybody's getting
theirs in that Trio. We know what Jalen's
done. Obviously, right in the thick of the MVP race right
now, Devonte and AJ Brown, consistently on Pace for huge
years. We touched on this in segment one, remind Ray
Stevenson
somebody that there were big expectations for this year,
especially in the pass game. Roll, when you hear Belichick
talk about him, finish this are B7 and week, three with over 20
fantasy points. He led the Patriots running backs and
Carries rush yards, receptions and
receiving yards.
Lawrence you touched on it. Brian Hoyer has to play,
its might lean back to the backfield a little bit more,
right? And this is why you got to feel even better about
remind Ray Stevenson now and you still don't count out
Damien Harris, because these are your two best players on
offense. Now,
now what happened against the Ravens for Stephenson? Like we
love that in that type of game, it was only Going to be
reminder a Stevenson.
They gave him the shot. He showed up again. Another strong
flexplate are for you Patty out, snaps Damien, Harris, 41
225. So this is clearly his role as starting to sway all
the way towards him a little
bit. Yeah, it's exciting. You know, he can be that guy, who's
the passing down back? But then he's a big back so he can
actually score at the goal line, Damien Harris, obviously
very good at the goal, line himself in a better break away
Runner. So
both these guys have some clear strengths but Stevenson I think
would be very capable
as the lead. Back here and a big-time fantasy asset in that
role sticking with the New England offense and brace
yourself. Yes. DeVante Parker with you Lauren said of his
best career game. Essentially finished his wide receiver 10
20.6 fantasy points. In week three
guys who wasn't really a factor Week 1 and 2 and then it comes
out of nowhere and has this kind of game with Mac Jones
first off. Congratulations to DeVante Parker for having
a career day as far as yards is concerned.
How do I feel about this going forward?
Especially those gold. Yeah, especially when Matt Jones out.
Now again they're going to really have to lean on these
bags. Now DeVante Parker is a beast when it kind of contested
catches.
No, almost nobody better. But how is this office going to
look? Now, when it was just starting to try to get it
going. Also, I would worry more about what's up with that
Baltimore? Secondary good, it's two weeks in a row, they get
lid up and knows.
It took to give DeVante Parker his career
day. She we like Like you know they caught the interceptions
but we got to figure out what's going on on that side too.
I love that point. Yeah, the Ravens secondary has been one
to Target. I think it's going to be one to Target
this year. It certainly was at the end of last year and we're
seeing that repeat and it is nice here to see with Jacoby
Myers out. That Parker can step up but I do wonder, you know,
once Myers gets back. We got quarterback issues here. I do
think it's probably full school.
All right. This one will probably be a trivia question
at some point in the very distant future. Matt Collins
finished its wide receiver to in week 3. I
Anybody projected that at 30 fantasy points, he out.
Targeted Davante, Adams, 928. The back, we talked about
the Raiders offense, is a little difficult to figure out now,
good for Mac Holland's, but man, this makes things that
much more confusing. You notice something return it, but
I don't think he goes over to be returning once Hunter Renfro
returns because he is a Target
Monster and himself and he sat out with the concussion.
Again, we didn't have much.
We didn't get much from
Darren Waller we hope to you. Kind of just see this as a game
like he had his day
Davante Adams, he'll get more targets even though
the past two games, Davante Adams, been kind of low. He
saved us with the touchdown but it was definitely Mac Holland's
day. So to him too. Congratulations. Mac Hollins.
We knew this is going to be kind of like a low volume type
of environment with the Titans, you know, wanted to be
run Heaven, ever everything. And, you know,
sometimes targets
condensed to unexpected, guys, I wouldn't be worried hear
about them on t.
All right, James Robinson, having a monster day. It's been
really an impressive year for James Robinson. When you
consider what he's coming back from in the timeline that he's
doing with that. Torn Achilles finished. His rb6 over 20
points
guys, here's what jumped out to me out of the gate.
David Robinson ran more routes than Travis etn yesterday.
22:14, what do we do with that Woody? What you do with that,
is you say, look, James Robson. I got you in double digit
rounds
and your R B2, and I love you and beat the whole. We went.
Wigs. Yeah, we he beat the whole they can't come back from
the Achilles tear myth and I loved it. I'm loving what he's
doing and I just keep it going man because he's he looking
explosive, he outran, the charges defense for 50 yards.
The 37-yard running had and we to
they said that was just one roof. Well, he did it again.
Yeah, short yardage carry, they takes the house. So that's
pretty nice for thin one. Yeah. Fourth and one that's, that's
the best way to convert a fourth in one score,
man. Out snapped, an out. Kari dtn, Week 3. And those, I mean,
we're going to keep this going right now
Jacksonville offense,
we can say it together, Jacksonville, offense is
something to be excited about right now and that blowout win
against the Chargers and that starts with Trevor Lawrence who
finishes a top five quarterback in fantasy this week. He
targeted eight
different pass, catchers in week 3,
his first 25 plus Point fantasy
performance in his career
Trevor Lawrence could be one of those bargain quarterbacks in
a year. Where doesn't look like there's a lot of them. Yeah I
I mean this this weekend you had to feel better coming in
with guys like him and Jared Goff and cousins over at Tom
Brady
it but you love to see this side of the Young quarterback.
Spreading the ball around. He not fixated on Christian Kurt
and he's running this offense, how it's supposed to be run.
They're looking good. You know, they the best team in
the division right now
they are with a dog walk the charges
yesterday and so
like I'm like you better put your ticket in now. It's
probably too late.
It's too late to get the best money, but if you just want to
you know if you want to be a bandwagon, better gonna get in
on that.
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence fifth in the league in EPA per play,
he's second in completion. Percentage over expected, which
measures accuracy, he is playing extremely well, and
I do think we can buy into this charger.
Into this Jacksonville offense.
I think what's sustainable in my eyes is that an adult is in
the room and Doug Peterson there, right? Where, where,
where it matters a lot, we've seen Doug obviously have
successful run specifically offensive.
Even with limitations that quarterback with young
quarterbacks and the fact and Lawrence, you kind of hinted at
this say, Jones involve Cristian Kirk and blow up
James, Robinson ball.
There's a lot of different players impacting their point
total right now, you don't gotta worry about. They coach
being in the club. You know I'm saying? It's been called the he
owns. Yeah,
not good.
All right, keep it moving here. Chase Edmunds with
a bounce-back week our be eleven fifteen point. Seven fantasy
points in week three.
In the big one here for me, is he saw all five goal line snaps
in week 3. So, Chase Edmunds, getting the goal line work in
the game for Miami where they didn't throw the ball a lot.
Yeah, so what this game left me feeling like
just it left me feeling kind of confused you know especially
like you said he had all the goal line touches and he did
what he was supposed to do with them but in week two
it was the Rahim most of showing that was really
the first time they look good running the ball so far. But we
re 3 comes along and
it's Chase. Steadman's turn.
I felt good about Chase Edmunds coming into the season.
I got a little cold on them early,
but now he's starting to rev up again. So, I feel good about
them, where I usually would play him in a flex spot, but
you may be dealing with a situation where
it may be in Edmonds week and then maybe a Rahim ocean. We.
But the good thing is, it's an explosive offense. So that's
always good. Yeah, Andrew Hawkins was talking about Mike
McDaniel and his philosophy
last week and saying, you know, Heat Of
takes a look at what you're not supposed to do and kind of
the conventional wisdom. Then goes against that, and there's
probably no bigger. Conventional wisdom than, don't
give Chase Edmunds goal line carries
and he's actually doing it. So, I mean, with Goal Line carries,
he's got a receiving back profile as well. It's actually
pretty interesting. As part of this explosive offense.
Yeah, McDaniel coming from that. 49ers, tree all the way
down. They'll the Gary Kubiak line of the coaching tree. So,
you know, they're running back situation
is going to be confusing at best that time. So with that
being said, Raheem
Most are on the field. He's split third down, snaps,
a Chase Edmunds. They each had three. Is there any value still
left in Raheem moster? Oh yeah. Certainly,
you know, it's just it we was going to be asking that
question about chases? A clue. You know what I'm saying? So
I feel like they just kind of go with the hot hand. That's
I mean you don't love to hear that. If you have either one of
these out you definitely don't love to hear it. If you drafted
Edmonds because you drafted him out of much higher price, if
you got most of you like
I took them in the 13th round anyway but
Could be a lot of back and forth going on here
and mostly it's a big play guy. So I do think you can kind of
use them as a fill-in running. Back to type 0 type of play, if
you need to all right, look staying with the Back Field
here, the hype train man of the summer, Damien, Pierce for
the Texans finished as a top-10 back
this week over 18 points,
put majority of the early down and short yardage snaps.
Listen, Rex Burkhead is still kind of a thorn in the side
right now for that pass catching role but Pierce is
looking like the guy, everybody got really excited about Out
over the summer. Yeah. So I it's funny. I actually wrote
about Damien Pierce this past week
and my optimal Flex plays
as playing, because in this type of game, it was going to
be lower scoring. It was going to be run oriented on both
sides,
Damien Pierce claim the, the early down rolling weak to.
Even if he wasn't going to get targets, he was going to get
all those kids and he did just that. So I would say,
you know, played a match up. So Damien Pierce, look who wrote
you. On your roster
and just played a match ups. The Bears was a good matchup,
he exploited it. Yeah, a great matchup because the Texans are
not going to be in a ton of situations where they're able
to just run the ball and get away with that.
I would also know he had two fumbles in this game.
After the second one. I look like. Rex Burkhead was actually
playing over him. Now maybe that doesn't carry into next
week, but I would be looking around and seeing if this game
is restored. Some of the excitement that
was around Damien. Pierce headed into the season,
maybe you can trade him? Yeah, I think it's guy, dude. Good
week shop. All right. Day Bizarro game down in Miami for
the bills offense to find gigs was dealing with some cramps.
There's a lot of odd heat-related
injuries in this one
and it was motor Singletary.
That stepped-up 20 over 24 points in week, three and
nineteen point four percent Target, share and week three.
That's the fourth highest. Mark in his career,
when things get rough where things get complicated and that
receiver position, Josh Allen will lean on motor when he
needs to. Yeah. 100% And you notice Devin Singletary, nor
James Cook.
Suffer for new cramps. You know why they South Florida boys?
They are bound, they got that way out in a hoodie out there,
right? They got that action out there so they luckily they had
them. Now Devin Singletary has been the preferred running back
for the bills
from week one to tell now and
after this game it's only going to continue to be that way.
James Cook is getting a little more run as he should. You saw
Zack Moss getting their have a long run but I think like like
you say he's the
They're going to depend upon now. He's the one with
the experience and he shows up and he makes plays consistently 11
targets here for Singletary that tied Stefon, Diggs for
the team-high,
19 percent Target, share fourth, highest of his career.
I do think that, you know, this is going to be tough to count
on for Singletary because they specifically, drafted James
Cook to be a receiving down back. They tried to sign
JD mckissack. You know, they have other plans in the works
here,
I think, you know,
later in the season, some of this would go to James Cook. So
I would be a little bit careful about buying into this
completely. Alright, closing out with rookie wide receiver.
Chris olave last week, we talked about him having over
300 area, ards and Jamie said,
I'm going to keep looking for him down the field. So
you could see some of these convert to real yards. They did
this week guys, a lot of a finishes, his wide receiver 6,
he seen a 32 percent plus Target share in consecutive
weeks
with all the injuries. The Saints have dealt with it. The
skill spots Jamis is now leaning on the rookie already
in the first month of the season. Yeah, this is
interesting. Impact back in the summer. When we did our
previews, I actually said Crystal. I've a could
potentially lead this team and touchdowns, just because of
the deep,
just because of their D Bar,
I'm not a big Area, Arts guy. I like to see those are yards
converts
like the real y'all
and he got that now
the injuries to Michael Thomas and Jarvis. Landry they say
those are not serious. So we got to keep a lookout on that.
So you know, we can't expect this every single game. You
don't get the mare yards
though. If you like that, he'll get them
Jarvis. Landry had a great week one.
So I feel like those are those guys are kind of switch off
here and there but Chris alive, a him performing
is definitely what the Saints need right now.
Yeah, I think you know,
the are yards, they are important, especially if you're
drawing targets consistently, you know he had 13 Targets in
this game to be able to consistently draw down field
targets. It's going to lead to
A lot of upside week to week, you know, if both, these guys
are kind of banged up, I think it, you know, this this looks
fairly real to me.
This is a potential break out here from Crystal Lobby.
One last note on a lob, a less than 20 wide receivers this
year, have at least a 26 percent Target share. He's one
of them. That's impressive for a rookie even for people,
receiving this ball in right there. Having
all of them across the board are off to a really hot start.
We're going to go to break when we come back. We'll go through
the most noteworthy storylines, out of Sunday with Roto. Pat
will be joining us in just Just a minute.
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