Week 3 Fantasy Preview: Part 2 + Starts Of The Week

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Daniel Dopp (0:42)

What's up, friends? Welcome into Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Mike Clay. My name is Daniel Dopp. Very excited to not only recap a good Thursday night football game, but dive into the rest of week three, quote unquote, Lion's Fantasy.

SPEAKER_1 (0:57)

No, no, no.

Daniel Dopp (0:58)

We had four guys that scored over 20 fantasy points.

SPEAKER_1 (1:01)

We love that.

Mike Clay (1:02)

I regretted saying that because it was a good fantasy.

Daniel Dopp (1:04)

Yeah, we got a lot of the things that we were hoping for. Very excited to be here on today's show. By the way, shout out to our buddies over at Trophy Smack. Head to trophysmack.com.

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Field Yates (1:20)

I think B. John Robinson is wearing one right now.

SPEAKER_1 (1:23)

Probably. He deserves to.

Daniel Dopp (1:24)

He deserves to. Let's dive in to that Thursday Night Football recap. Guys, Michael Pennex Jr. Michael Jr. Understood the assignment. 1 million percent. Did you know that both B. John Robinson and Drake London had 194 yards? It's amazing.

SPEAKER_1 (1:39)

One on the ground, one through the air. Yes, right.

Field Yates (1:41)

Yes, that's right. This is, we'll talk about all the fantasy in just a moment.

Daniel Dopp (1:45)

Go ahead, Field.

Field Yates (1:46)

What a great moment that was for Michael Pennex.

Daniel Dopp (1:48)

Yes. For sure.

Field Yates (1:49)

This guy has overcome so much on the health front.

And candidly, I don't think Atlanta really had visions of them being the starting quarterback, or him being the starting quarterback at the beginning of the year. It felt like they kind of wanted Tuah to win that job in training camp. He didn't, then he got hurt. Michael Pennex Jr. gets healthy, plays in week three, after being unavailable in weeks one and two, slow start. He was slinging that thing from the second quarter on, finished with that 256 passing yards. Great human story, great real life story. For Fantasy, he's not going to be a guy that's on our radar as a starter. No rushing upside really with him, and not elite, elite passing upside. But plenty good enough to get the Drake London and Bijon Robinson trains back on the tracks, especially in the case of Drake London. Awesome to see for Michael Pennex Jr. First quarter made us a little nervous.

Mike Clay (2:40)

Came out, got the rust off within interception, was not thrown into Drake London at all. Made me a little nervous, but then things changed. Pennex changed. Obviously, initially Robinson was just carrying the offense, and he did that the entire game. 194 yards on 29 carries, guys, two touchdowns as well. Bryan Robinson also found the end zone in this one, but Drake London then he started feeding him. 10 targets, 9 catches, 194 through the air.

And this is typical, as you pointed out yesterday, over, what is it, over 20 points per game?

Field Yates (3:10)

20.5 in Michael Pennex Jr.'s first 12 starts with Drake London. That average will go down.

Mike Clay (3:16)

It's going down.

Field Yates (3:16)

It's going up now after a remarkable performance.

Mike Clay (3:20)

Yeah, last night.

Daniel Dopp (3:20)

By the way, I just wanted to give you some flowers to a part of this, because the way that this Falcons offense and fantasy played out is almost exactly as you kind of laid out on the show. Obviously, we were going to trust Bijon. We were all in with everything that you had told us about what Drake London looks like with Michael Pennex Jr. And we were hoping that that was going to be Kyle Pitts, but you gave us some reason. Hey, this might not be a Kyle Pitts thing too, unfortunately. It was unfortunately right on the mark. Great analysis on that field. Can you give us anything to maybe unlock Kyle Pitts next week, though, so that you can talk it into existence like you did Drake London?

Field Yates (3:51)

I do know they play once again on Monday on prime time. Monday night football next week is the Falcons. So remember, the big talking point this week was the Falcons have to play three straight prime time games and we are subjected to them. We talked about this on the show on Monday. Crow being eaten by me for breakfast this morning because Big John Robinson is worth the price of admission. Not that we have to say much about him, but he now has more games with 25 plus fantasy points since the start of 2024 than any player in the NFL. He stands alone with 13 He's amazing. Drake London is back. For the Packers, complete stay away backfield. They are totally useless. They were just awful once again last night. Jordan Love was fine. He had over 18 fantasy points largely in garbage time.