Prescott or Goff?

I'm feeling like Prescott may not have a great day against that Browns Dline.

Not sure I agree. White finished 4th last year in points if I recall and haven't seen a non-PPR preseason ranking that has Mixon ahead of White. But it's fantasy, so who knows. It's all liquor and guessing.

Goff is the safe play -- always is at Ford Field

O/U for Dallas-Cleveland around 42 points -- fairly low total

I suspect Dak will be throwing a lot and turning it over a few times

Wife's team Pick 2 PPR WR2 and Flex

Stefon Diggs @ IND
DK Metcalf vs. DEN
Jerome Ford vs. DAL

Have diggs and metcalf in but hate benching all those guaranteed touches on Jerome ford.

Jacobs, Mixon, Walker

Diggs DK for sure

the big man rumbles in for the first TD of the year

21-yard TD run for Xavier Worthy

Interesting first quarter stat:

Kelce + Andrews combined - 0/0/0 on 0 targets.

W said:

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21-yard TD run for Xavier Worthy

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That kid is "holy sh!!t" fast!

I know it's the first game and Lamar's an athletic player, but the Ravens can't have him carrying the ball 8 times a half, even if he has mostly avoided any big hits. That amount of running by a QB isn't sustainable over a full season as eventually the big hits will come.

TD run for Pacheco

has Likely taken over for Andrews?

107 yards & TD

oh my, Worthy hits paydirt again

35-yard TD

Guess Isaiah likely is the new mark andrews. Glad I don't have any shares of Andrews. Too bad I have Kelce. But I'm playing against Andrews

Andrews!

They are running a lot of 12 personnel. Given their offensive line issues, it won't surprise me if Andrews gets used more as an inline blocking TE with Likely the receiving TE. That will take away targets from Andrews and the secondary receivers (Bateman and Agholor). Will be interesting to see what happens when the defenses adjust and give more focus to Likely.

Why in the world did Baltimore not spike the ball after the long gain?

Holy crap out of bounds by half an inch

Man I was hoping that was a broken collarbone or something and then the guy almost snags a second tuddy

Chiefs are the luckiest damn team.

God I hate them.

Lamar Jackson needs to go ahead and change his name to Patrick Mahomes' *****.

fantasy-wise Lamar ran for 120 to post a nice stat line

Mahomes...similar to last year...not throwing TD's like he used to -- just 1 tonight

Kelce and Andrews bust

For future reference:

Ravens targets
12 - TE Likely
10 - WR Flowers
8 - RB Hill
5 - WR Bateman
2 - TE Andrews
2 - RB Henry
1 - WR Agholor

Chiefs targets
9 - WR Rice
4 - TE Kelce
3 - WR Worthy
3 - TE Gray
3 - RB Pacheco
2 - RB Perine
1 - WR Watson
1 - WR Smith-Schuster

sell high on Pachecho if you can, I hard faded RB's overdrafted on usage over talent like him and White
Perine would put up huge numbers as the starter

EliteZags said:

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sell high on Pachecho if you can, I hard faded RB's overdrafted on usage over talent like him and White
Perine would put up huge numbers as the starter

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+1 If Worthy is going to be used like he was last night, Pacheco might only be a guy at the goal line.

Likely is only 25% owned in yahoo leagues... still have all the other games to go, but he'll Likely be the #1 waiver add next week.


i got good points from Rashee last night, negated by the disappearance of Mark Andrews.. oof.

Yeah, Likely will definitely be near or at the top of the waiver wire list next week. Great game for Worthy, but I would bet that a lot of his managers had him on the bench except in deep leagues. Will be interesting to see his role moving forward as it will be hard to replicate yesterday's performance without more touches.

Seems like the big winner was Rachee Rice, especially in Full PPR formats. And it looks like Derrick Henry will be very game script dependent. He should be okay in games the Ravens have a lead in, but when they are trailing, he will cede snaps to Justice Hill. At least he had the early touchdown yesterday.

Finally, Lamar put up video game numbers, but 16 carries in a game is not sustainable for a QB without increased injury risk. He's improved over the years in avoiding tackles, but eventually a defender will try and land a big hit.

FYI, injury updates…

Rap: Christian McCaffrey (calf, Achilles) “should be fine” to play Week 1.

— Underdog NFL (@Underdog__NFL) September 6, 2024

Josh Downs (ankle) ruled out for Week 1.

— Underdog NFL (@Underdog__NFL) September 6, 2024

Bengals WR Updates:

• Ja’Marr Chase says he’s a “game-time decision” and would be limited if he plays
• Chase said he’d play without an extension but he feels one is close
• Tee Higgins missed practice with tweaked hamstring
• Zac Taylor on both Chase and Higgins’…

— Underdog NFL (@Underdog__NFL) September 6, 2024

I have Mark Andrews and am very curious to see how that situation plays out moving forward.

Fantasy guys on social media are talking about the Chiefs defense really keying in on him and focusing on taking him out of the game, so maybe this is a one off, but then again he had tight rope surgery last November and was apparently involved in a major car wreck, so who knows if he wasn't 100%.

Re-watched every snap that Mark Andrews was on the field last night. I was the lowest on our show on Andrews coming into the year so I could take a pretend victory lap, but instead, I have a message after watching the film. DO NOT PANIC...here's why:

I added up every… pic.twitter.com/8lOUmbnBf2

— Andy Holloway (@andyholloway) September 6, 2024

I feel like people are going to be adding Likely expecting him to be the new TE1 when this will probably be his best game of the year.

Interesting. If the Chiefs defensive strategy was "don't let Andrews beat us", technically it worked, but they almost got burned by Likely putting up a 9/111/1 line on 12 targets. I would assume defenses will make the proper adjustment. This could lead to a 1/1A situation where both TEs can get touches moving forward.

My concern is regarding Zay Flowers. He put up a 6/37/0 line on 10 targets. The 6.2 YPR was less than not only Likely and Bateman, but also than Hill and Andrews. If Flowers is going to be primarily used on short area targets, that is really going to cap his big play/TD upside.

Flowers' line looks meh on paper but there were 2 deep misses and the last botched open TD, 1 or 2 of those connect and the narrative completely flips
10 targets is encouraging

the fantasy pundits are really down on Dak at Cleveland

is Trevor Lawrence vs. Miami a viable alternative?

EliteZags said:

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Flowers' line looks meh on paper but there were 2 deep misses and the last botched open TD, 1 or 2 of those connect and the narrative completely flips
10 targets is encouraging

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This was pretty much the exact same story for Zay Flowers all of last year. So close to having big games, just a couple bad throws/drops away...

With Jamar Chase as questionable, pick 2:

Nacua @ DET
Kirk @ MIA
J. Palmer vs LV
Singleary vs MIN


Leaning Nacua & Kirk