Starts of the Week + Week 1 Breakdown, Injury Panic - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

I it was 13 to 10.

Seattle beat the Patriots.

The game started with Sam Darnold being injured almost instantaneously.

First drive.

The team

has come out and been optimistic about the outlook for him, but we don't have a final report on the injury and duration of absence.

Drew Locke ended up 16 for 22.

I thought he did a great job.

I was actually impressed with after the jitters of, I think, the first two drives, I feel like he settled down and basically executed the only offense you needed to have.

when you're at home in Seattle, I thought the play calling of McDonald was, was kind of, um, or like the decision-making on fourth downs and stuff was very conservative.

But I, in the end, it just, he executed exactly what they needed to do, which was don't take too many risks.

Keep the game close.

Let your defense come alive with the, with the, the 12, right.

The, the, the fans got on their feet and then, and then Drake may made the appropriate amount of mistakes to lose that game.

Yeah, or the Seahawks made the appropriate amount of amazing defensive plays either way.

I mean, the nice thing about Drew Locke is he said after the game, he's like, I know our team.

I know the players that we have.

The only thing I needed to do was protect the ball.

Yeah, I mean, I thought they were going to actually win the game there.

They were moving the ball enough where, you know, as somebody who thought Seattle would win it and then seeing them, I did not think they were going to win it once Darnold went out.

And then they come back and it seems like they had it and the penalties, offensive snaps where they had a chance on the goal line.

I mean, there are so many things to talk about in this game.

Yeah.

A lot of takeaways.

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