 Hey everyone, what's going on? I am Greg Salsman joined today by Jim Sannis of FanDuel, who's gonna break down this weekend's XFL slate. What's happening, Jim? I'm doing pretty well, Greg. I think this week three slate is interesting because we have two weeks of data now. We kind of know what data was good from week one and what data was, frankly, quite bad. Also some injuries to track here. So a lot to juggle for this slate, but that's definitely good for people who are keeping up on things. So I'm feeling pretty optimistic. How are you doing? Doing well, Jim. I'm excited to continue to learn more about the XFL and figure out who was good, figure out who is not so good. But what I can tell you for sure, PJ Walker's awesome, $23. I didn't know much about this guy until the XFL started. I know a lot now. I feel good about it. Yeah, you definitely should too because looking at the XFL the first couple of weeks, PJ Walker has been awesome. I think there is some regression in store because the stat I look at most is adjusted yards per intent. And that can be pretty flukey because if you have a super high touchdown rate, that will inflate things. And PJ Walker's touchdown rate is superb. But when you're watching PJ Walker play, it looks really good. And you can kind of see why that number would be solid. So even when we bake in some regression for PJ Walker, I'm still expecting a good quarterback. And that's more than most of the quarterbacks on this Saturday only a slate can say. So I think that PJ Walker is kind of in a tier of his own among the quarterbacks on Saturday. 7.7 adjusted yards per attempt for PJ Walker so far. He has gone deep 30% of the time. I definitely do love that. And he's going up against Tampa Bay. And Tampa Bay is a bottom half defense even though they have faced Seattle and New York in their first two games. Neither is very impressive offensively. Houston is. It's gonna be a tough test here for Tampa Bay. And the good thing about Houston is that if they do get ahead, it doesn't matter. They can still chuck that football because the clock runs in the XFL even on an incomplete a pass outside of the final two minutes. So even when you are ahead, you can keep chucking that rock. And Houston has done that with regularity. That is good for PJ Walker. And everyone tied to this team. I have some concerns around the wide receivers here because they are bit banged up. And that does lower PJ Walker a bit. But with the alternatives on the slate, I think it's really hard to get off of him. So PJ Walker to me, definitively a talented quarterback and definitively the number one quarterback for the Saturday only slate. Like you said, there are some question marks when it comes to the wide receivers and PJ Walker's ability to get it to them. But with Houston, they're gonna keep throwing win or lose. And that's what you want in DFS, PJ Walker and no brainer at $23. Let's move on to the running back here. And also, of course, Saturday slate. You're like in James Butler. He's $17 here on Saturday. Why going Butler here? Yeah, I know we were just talking about how Houston is gonna throw it even if they're leading. And that could downgrade James Butler because he is the running back. But the thing that I like about James Butler is we talk about this a lot in the NFL, Greg. We wanna tie our running backs to good offenses that will score points. And there is no better offense on this Saturday slate than Houston's. And that's really benefited James Walker so far this year because he has already scored three times once on the ground and once through the air. That is a good thing. But it also means that this team is going to get conversion chances. And when you can get a free one point conversion for your running back or a two point conversion, that's pretty valuable because it does boost your total in a hurry. So I definitely liked that for James Butler. He is on the field quite a bit. His snap rate was about 65%. Last week it was 70% in week number one. So when you see the carry totals of James Butler, they're not gonna blow you away. And I would not project him to get a ton of carries this week either. But we'll get some targets. We'll get some goal line work. We'll get chances for touchdowns. And that's really all you can ask for a running back in the XFL. If you wanna go with someone who may get more volume, Cameron Artist Payne is $18. I think he is also in play for sure. But if I only had one running back, I kinda wanna pivot and go away from Artist Payne coming off his big week last week. James Butler, a very similar running back from a usage perspective. And a guy I think that will have a lot of scoring chances once again on Saturday. Yeah, cap is the obvious play here. But Butler's going to be the man, right? You know those goal line carries will be his, you know those short yardage carries will be his. He's gonna be on the field more often than not. So even though we expect PJ Walker and Houston to throw the ball quite a bit, we think Butler will find his way into the end zone or at least we hope. Let's move on to the wide receiver tight end spot here, Jim. And that brings us to Flynn Nagel at $13. This one's a little bit of a surprise. Nagel's here in your lineup. What's he doing that makes it worth your while? I just wanna get access to a team that's not Houston but actually has a decent passing offense. And Flynn Nagel fits that pretty well because he is with Hal Mummy. And anytime you can get access to Hal Mummy, it's gonna go well. Last week they were a little bit run heavy but it was just because things were working well with the ground game. But the identity of this offense is airing it out with that air raid and Hal Mummy. And we get access to it for Flynn Nagel at just $13. Flynn Nagel didn't get a lot of targets week number two. He had just three targets there but he led all Dallas wide receivers in snap rate. I love that. He also returned punts. And that's valuable to me. Not because I think he'll get a touchdown but because it signals to me that this team wants the ball in his hands. That is definitely a valuable thing to have. So Debo Samuel down the stretch for San Francisco. It means they value this guy. We should value him as well. Nagel had six targets back in week number one. But I think that we should see some more here once again as they go back to more of an air raid offense. So that does benefit Flynn Nagel at $13. On the same team, I also don't mind Jeff Bedette at $15. He had nine targets last week despite missing part of the game due to injury. He is limited Wednesday in practice so he should be good to go. So I like all the pass catchers here but I think that Nagel is my number one because at $13 he gives you the flexibility to spend up for our guy like PJ Walker and James Butler and he should get you a lot of volume in the process. So both Flynn Nagel and Jeff Bedette in play but Nagel is my preferred option at $13. You need the cash to spend up on PJ Walker. That's the no-brainer on the Saturday slate and the guy you have to get in there. How do we do it? The guy like Flynn Nagel gets the job done. Just $13 just opens up more value for you. So Nagel, the guy that has to be in there. Let's move on to the Sunday slate here Jim where I talked to PJ Walker being a short thing. That's kind of how I feel about Cardell Jones as well for Ohio State quarterback. Playing well in the XFL, he's $20 here but again, spending up a quarterback seems to be the no-brainer for me. Yeah, it really is Greg. I think that you have a little bit more flexibility on this Sunday slate because there are three quarterbacks I view as being viable here whereas it was kind of like one and a half on the Saturday slate but here you could consider Jordan Ta'amu with all the rushing he has done. You could consider Josh Johnson as a contrarian play and a really tough matchup but a good player with some rushing juice as well. But if you're just playing things straight up Cardell Jones is really hard to get off of at $20. He leads the XFL into just yards per attempt at 8.7. He has gone deep 29% of the time so it's definitely things we like there because you can pick up points and bunches and after Ta'amu, Cardell Jones is second among full-time quarterbacks in rush attempts to the first two games. He has five per game so far. That's valuable for sure. It's not a lot of the potential for some rushing yardage as well. So on Saturday or on Sunday I think you have flexibility. You could go Ta'amu. I like him. I do like Josh Johnson if you are willing to risk it a bit in tournaments but the most process oriented play for me is Cardell Jones $20. That's not a whole lot to spend and there's a lot of value on this slate too. So Cardell Jones the best quality quarterback but also I think in a vacuum the best fantasy quarterback for this slate as well. Quality works out value. That checks the box too. Cardell Jones a solid addition to our lineups here for the Sunday slate. At just $20, Cardell Jones belongs in there. Now it's funny because we got to the running back spot and I believe over the last two weeks it's been Jarell Presley that's been in your lineup here but he didn't start last week. That was Darnell Pumphrey and well look at that. Darnell Pumphrey is in our lineups here on Fandall on the Sunday slate. He's priced at $13. We saw these guys split reps. You counted on Pumphrey? I think we'll just leave it. It will make things easy for the graphics department over there and just put in whoever's playing running back for DC for next week as well because they're tend to be pretty cheap and they get targets. So this week it's Darnell Pumphrey just because last week he did out snap Jarell Presley. So I will happily change my allegiance over and go to Darnell Pumphrey at $13 this week. He had 12 carries and five targets last week that is awesome usage for running back in the XFL and he had three targets back in week one. So it wasn't like some fluke where Pumphrey came out of nowhere. He got work in both weeks just happening more in week number two. And I would expect that those targets to still be there for Darnell Pumphrey because that is the reason he was a mid-round pick in the NFL was because he was projected to be a Darren Sprouls type guy and we saw him kind of look pretty good in this game last week as well. So Pumphrey getting rushing volume, getting targets tied to a great quarterback on a very good team. He checks all the boxes at running back. One guy to keep an eye on here at running back for the Sunday's late is Matt Jones. He did not practice on Wednesday but St. Louis loves to run the football. So if Matt Jones can go, I'd go with him at $16. I also like Kristen Michael at $13 that Jones cannot go but no injury concerns with Darnell Pumphrey should get passing down work. Those are two really valuable things. So as of right now on Thursday, I think Darnell Pumphrey is my top guy. It's basically a little bit of salary too on the Sunday only slate. Pumphrey starting for DC and that's good enough for us next week. We're not sure whether that'll be the case but here on Fanoo on Sunday, we're gonna put Pumphrey in there at $13. It's tongue twister there but we'll win money, so it'll be worth it. Darnell Pumphrey, our guy at the running back spot on Sunday. Finally, let's move on to the wide receiver and Mikhail McKay is the choice for this week. The XFL standout is what he's been over the first couple of weeks at just 26 years old. I like McKay here. I think he makes a lot of sense for you as well. Yeah, he definitely does. I think if you were to raise one concern around Mikhail McKay it'd be the passing offense here because Matt McGloin looked really bad last week and he got benched and they haven't really announced who will start a quarterback on Sunday. It sounds like it will be McGloin and that means we probably shouldn't expect a lot of efficiency from Mikhail McKay but we can't expect some deep passes because McGloin has gone deep 29% of the time through the first two games and that does help out the wide receiver. So, McKay through the first two games has 19% of the team's overall targets along with 24% of the deep targets. That's not bad usage and when you listen to the broadcasts the broadcasters keep talking up Mikhail McKay as being a priority for this offense and they're getting that from the coaches. So you know that this team wants to ball Mikhail McKay's hands. He's only $14. So yeah, it's kind of a questionable passing offense and that's definitely a downgrade but McKay's got volume, he's got a massive body and he'll get some deep volume. I like all those things for sure. If you're okay loading up on DC I do think that Eli Rogers is the best wide receiver play on this slate. He has $15. We talked about Cardale Jones. We talked about Donald Pumphrey. Probably shouldn't do just three DC players here so decided to go with Mikhail McKay at $14 but I do love Eli Rogers as well at $15. Good options, good cheap options at wide receiver for this Sunday and so it should make affording Cardale Jones even easier but Mikhail McKay a really good value at wide receiver. There's definitely question marks for the New York Guardians and who's gonna play quarterback but I think Mikhail McKay is going to be a big part of the offense no matter who it is. Matt McElhane's back there. He's gonna be able to find Mikay all over the field. I have confidence in him. I think it makes sense as you said Eli Rogers could be an option for you if you wanna fill the lineup with DC defenders but for me I'll go with the Guardians. I'll go with Mikay like I said to you before. I like him there. I think it makes sense. All right, that's gonna do it for us here on the Fan Null Hurry Up. Jim it's been a blast. Let's do it again next week. Absolutely Greg, looking forward to it. Should be another fun week of SnacksFL. Hopefully things go well. Hopefully we don't have another Joe Hornflop like last week so we'll see how things go and hopefully come back talking to you with some fatter bankrolls next week. What's that Joe? It's not gonna be a flop this week? Fantastic. See, I'm gonna worry about Jim. For Jim Sannis, I am Greg Sassman. Have a great night and enjoy the games this weekend. And we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fan Null Hurry Up.