Week 2 Fantasy Recap with Ian Hartitz

Matthew Berry (0:08)

It is noon on YouTube, but it's five o'clock somewhere, so the Happy Hour Bar once again open for business. My name, Matthew Berry, your friendly neighborhood bartender, here to help you out. So brothers and sisters, friends of the Revolution, week two almost in the books, we got one last game. Coming up in a second, my old pal Ian Hartitz, I got a couple of pieces of business here just to work through. First off, a show announcement. So normally, of course, we always do the show live at noon Eastern here on YouTube, but there'll be some announcements this week. I think it comes out tomorrow. We'll see.

Either way, for the rest of this week, this week only, the show will air live on YouTube at nine a.m. Eastern. Yes, very early. Sorry, aloha, Bricks. I think that means you've got to get up at two a.m. or just stay up the night before, but I know the regulars are always in the crew. So anyway, nine a.m. Eastern. We're working on some stuff for the rest of the week. Tomorrow, our old pal, Adam Ronis, host of FantasyLife Radio on SiriusXM joins us for the WaverWire show. So Ronis will be here tomorrow, nine a.m. the rest of the week, nine a.m. Eastern. So there's that. The second piece of business. You know who drinks free? A lot of candidates for who drinks free today in the bar. But I gotta say it's Buccaneers fans. To me, I think it's Buccaneers fans. Think about this. They had to sit through a weather delay. They had to wait like eight hours only to watch their team lose to the Browns.

That's brutal. Bad weather and you get embarrassed by the Browns at home. Deshaun Watson comes into your house and beats you.

That's tough and I feel bad for Buccaneers fans. You guys drink free. Cheers to you.

But it wasn't just the Buccaneers fans' egos that was injured. It feels like everyone yesterday was injured. Am I right, Ian Hartitz? Of course, Ian Hartitz spent so many years with us at fantasylife.com. He's a dear friend, but then rotowire.com came along and just backed up the Brinks truck and made him a very, very wealthy man. He was able to buy a brand new Ohio State hat. I mean, just like there's nothing that he can't afford now. Just a massive amount of money. It is a huge contract for Ian Hartitz.

I told him as his friend, when he came to me, I said, dude, why are you talking to me? Hang up the phone and go tell them they'll take it before they change their mind. So we're thrilled for Ian's success. He's crushing it over there at rotawire.com. And of course, on the Fantasy Football with Ian Hartitz YouTube channel. What's up brother? It seems like it's a great day to be great.

Ian Hartitz (2:55)

Always a great day to be great Matthew. Appreciate you having me back. Haven't been too far away. Still kicking it with Mr. Dwayne McFarlane. Two plus hours pretty much every Sunday night reviewing all the gains. But no man, appreciate you having me on. I'm excited to break this down because like you said, injuries all over the place and to some of the best offenses too. So we got a lot to talk about.

Matthew Berry (3:12)

We do. So I want to show you a graphic of every. I mean, like almost 70 days to fit in the graphic. But you see here obviously Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels, the two quarterbacks, those lead the list. He heard about that. But Saquon Barkley left the game. Judarian Price left the game. JK. Dobbins left the game. Is it Jonah Coleman season already? Rico Dowdell and Jonathan Brooks. They both left the game. Mike Evans, the substation claims another one. He left the game. Doesn't sound serious, but we'll get into that later.

Jayden Reed, this one was scary.

And of course, Dallas Goddard of the Philadelphia Eagles. And that doesn't even include Ian, the guys that didn't even play in this game, right? You know, the Zay Flowers of the world, Nico Collins of the world, like those guys as well. So let's start, I think, with the biggest name, at least for fantasy, and that's Caleb Williams, because it's not just Caleb, of course, but it's the entire Bears offense that goes along with him. And so this looks scary early.

He's out of the car and he's raising his hand like, like, you know, he might be out for the year. We found out later it's a hamstring injury. It's not his Achilles, which I think a lot of people thought when it happened. It's his hamstring injury. He's going to miss time as of this taping, or we don't know how much time, but it's going to miss some time. It is Tyson Bagent, or as I like to call him, teabag. So it is teabag time in Chicago there, Ian. What do we think this Bears offense looks like moving forward under Tyson Bagent?