What's up everybody? Welcome to the Roto World Football Podcast. I am your host,

Raymond Summerland, and I am joined today as I am

every single Thursday by Rich Rebar to discuss the Thursday night games, as well as the most

interesting data points from his weekly worksheet column. After that, we will hear from Nick

Minzio, who has all the most important starts and sits for week two. Week three, excuse me, week three. We're flying through this thing. Week three of the fantasy football season. Before we get to that, however, I would like to remind you to rate and review the podcast wherever you find it. It helps other people find the show. It helps us in the rankings. So we very, very much appreciate it.

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With that out of the way, let's get to it.

What's up, Rich?

Ray, man, what's going on? Like you said, week three already. And, you know, it's been kind of slow going here these first two weeks. You know, I put a little nuggets in the top of the worksheet there. I mean, we've had just 121 offensive touchdowns through two weeks.

It's the lowest total since 2006, just 121 offensive touchdowns through two weeks. It's the lowest total since 2006. We're 27 fewer offensive touchdowns at this point we were at last year, and 193 fewer points. I know we lost one game there due to the hurricane, but I mean, those are big totals, a big gap there this year. And we're seeing sack rates there at an all-time high too to start the year.

So, I mean, the offensive line play has been a problem to get us some points on the board. And we got a lot of low totals again this week. Yeah, I was going through the totals and I was, you know, the implied team totals. I was really surprised by by how low they, you know, they are. and if we go into Thursday night game,

I actually don't know off the top of my head that total

on Thursday night game, can't imagine it's high with the Rams at the 49ers. And, you know, we had a great opening night game between the Cheats and the Patriots. And the league thought, you know, how can we keep this momentum going? How can we make sure that Thursday night is no longer a laughing stock, and their answer

was give us the Bengals and Texans and the Rams and 49ers and back-to-back weeks? You know, to be

fair, I guess, Bengals Texans probably looked a lot better before the season, before we've seen what's

happened in the season. But this game peak Thursday night. But again, all that said, there are some interesting things in here to watch.

There are some names I find interesting.

The names that I'm happy to use in DFS, even though I normally avoid this game.

So who pops out to you?

Yeah, I mean, really, we're just looking at the ghost of Todd Gurley

and trying to figure out if last week was real or not.

That was kind of the first glimpse we had of like the rookie version of Todd Gurley and trying to figure out if last week was real or not. That was kind of the first glimpse we had of like the rookie version of Todd Gurley. I mean, last week he had 10 runs of five or more yards. That was the most he's had in the game since week five of 2015. You know, he's starting to get peppered in the passing game. I mean, he's fourth and receiving yards running back. we saw obviously the highlight touchdown where he hurtled over a guy and broke another tackle, but he's got 18% of the team targets. He had averaged just 9% per game for his career coming into the season. So that's been a big boost to his fantasy stock. And the Rams have been favored both weeks, and he's hit. I mean, in the 10 games now, Gurley's been favored in his career.

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