RC's Daily Notes 2026: For the Week of 9/21-to-9/27 (MON: Off to JAX and more Wk2 stuff)

: R.C. Fischer; FFM; 21 September 2026

9/21 MON (amET)

Today:

-- Week 2 Executive Report...likely going to be out in two pieces.

The intro and the ‘Three Things’ from all the Sunday games will be published Monday.

The ‘Five Players’ part will be published Tuesday.

There’s always so much to discover from Monday into Tuesday for free agency/waivers and with injury info more coming on Tuesday that I’m going to test breaking this into two parts instead of virtually ‘killing myself’ to pen a 7,000-9,000+ word Sunday review/next week overview only to have the player transaction part/guidance get blown up and reordered by information that comes out on Tuesday.

I'm traveling to Jacksonville for the first half of Monday, so let's test this two-part version of the report this week.

-- MNF Preview before the game (planned).

-- The Week 2 TNF game report (DET-BUF), as always, gets us started with te game report week.

-- New Rookie Card giveaway...the lottery for the five rookie cards revealed below. A new entrant revealed each day until we get the five and then we do a lottery for 1st pick.

-- Two Scouts Talking YouTube Video (breaks for the weekend + Monday, back at it Tu-W-Thu-Fri)

This past week:

Kalif Raymond: https://youtu.be/fQsruq7zvaI

Rookie WRs Week 1: https://youtu.be/bDbYorHydQc

Devaughn Vele: https://youtu.be/1aHFMgfQI14

Kaleon Black (+30 extra random minutes of talk): https://youtu.be/LphU-KrbqMs

NE WRs post-AJB: https://youtu.be/MnrK3foEQNQ

Drake Maye: https://youtu.be/MnrK3foEQNQ

-- DRD Mock Draft series 3.0 wraps one of these days with #12 slot...I still want to do to finish even if after Week 1 just to see what we’d do with a full week/s info from regular season.

-- Miscellaneous reports on things that come my way and more scouting reports to come. I have a backlog of them to get published already.

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This Week’s/Month’s Agenda…

-- The new season begins...game reports constantly as they are completed, Monday Executive reports begin after Week 1 Sunday games.

-- Tuesday Night Waivers video show and Sunday Morning Sit-Start shows for the rest of the season.

-- Weekly projection updates every day of the season.

-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.

-- 2026 NFL Draft Prospect Grades -- final updates on the prospects grades after scouting the preseason.

== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==

I’ve got a ton to say about Week 2, and I’ll save it for the Executive report Part I.

Several notes and links to stuff below from Sunday.

But today I am headed to Jacksonville for Round 2 of my quarterly checks process on my cancer battle.

I’ll be driving to JAX the first half of the day. So, these RC notes will (hopefully) be out early. And the Executive Report Part One out around 6-7pmET, I would guess.

Tuesday is a series of tests and then Wednesday I meet with my oncologist and the radiation team to go over the results and to see how things are going for me otherwise day-to-day and a reevaluation of my meds, etc.

The big thing for me to find out Wednesday is: Is the cancer still being crushed (likely) or is it trying to make a comeback, is there any medical/physiological sign it is ‘on the move’ (less likely, but not impossible).

If I’m still ‘undetectable’...we move on peacefully to the next quarter visit in December, and a good result this week means 2026 is going to end one of the most memorable years of my life on a high note. No matter what these $%$&%#$$@ Fantasy players on our various teams do, they won’t have won the full calendar year 2026.

If there is detection of a ‘comeback attempt’ by the cancer, and my PSA number is re-rising then I to start weighing options for a different type of treatment to try re-confuse/defeat the cancer.

Every time I rack up another quarterly ‘undetectable’ then my odds of a cancer-free label (although you’re never truly ‘free’) and my longevity projections tick up another notch.

Eventually, if I keep winning...hopefully later 2027, they will take me off of everything and see what the cancer does in response. If nothing, I could be declared cancer free (of sorts, still need to monitor) in late 2027 or sometime in 2028. If the cancer makes a comeback effort between now and then...it’s time for a new round, new kinds of therapies and new battlefront and a setback for more years of meds/therapies/checks--but as long as we keep smacking it down, it is what it is.

So, I appreciate the well-wishes and especially prayers, for those inclined, that we get another good report card this week. My mind will be at ease for another quarter/to the (near) end of the FF season.

Thank you so much!!!

== INJURY CENTER/WARD ==

-- A lit from X from whoever @SmolaDS is:

Absolute bloodbath today:

Caleb Williams (hamstring)

Jayden Daniels (elbow)

Saquon Barkley (stinger)

J.K. Dobbins (hamstring)

Rico Dowdle (toe)

Jadarian Price (chest)

Jonathon Brooks (groin)

Mike Evans (hip)

Jayden Reed (neck)

Demarcus Robinson (ankle)

Dallas Goedert (knee)

David Njoku (knee)

Charlie Kolar (forearm)

Eli Raridon (thigh)

-- Following today’s injuries, @JayGlazer provides an update on the conditions of Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Saquon Barkley. https://x.com/NFLonFOX/status/2101831737714278832

== QUOTES & QUOTABLES ==

-- Kyle Shanahan said they will sign a WR to either the practice squad or the roster due to long Ricky Pearsall, De'Zhaun Stribling and now Demarcus Robinson:

“Christian Kirk’s got a couple weeks until he can come back, but we still have guys out there that we have played with. I’m sure we’ll have to add somebody, whether it’s the practice squad or to the roster, but those are things we’ll start discussing tonight.”

Kyle was then asked if Brandon Aiyuk is an option

“No.”

-- “We didn't throw the ball for crap anyway.”

Arizona Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur on Marvin Harrison Jr. having no catches on a target (@PHNX_Cardinals)

Your moment of Zen for this day...

-- Loveland woes: https://x.com/SleeperHQ/status/2101797008235196691

-- Chargers woes: https://x.com/RyanPaganetti/status/2101807541252481501

-- Dolphins woes: https://x.com/DolphinsBrawl/status/2101776720772608374

-- Marv woes: https://x.com/HaterReport/status/2101816461861789762

-- Caleb woes: https://x.com/SleeperHQ/status/2101761629243466112

-- Mom life: https://x.com/centristjim1/status/2101567063571448124

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