Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 17 Matchups, Overvalued in 2018

And Lamar Miller is probably an RB3 at best this week. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at his stat line and Frank Gore's stat line on the year, it's unbelievable. They're almost identical. It was fantastic. Which is funny because last offseason, I came in here with my hate like I always do with Lamar Miller. And what the two players that were the lowest in terms of like yards after initial contact.

like the least elusive players in the NFL were Frank Gore and Lamar Miller last year. Frank Gore makes sense. But one of them costs you a much higher pick. All right, the Bears. They take on the Vikings and the Vikings. Look, they are obviously in the playoffs, but they need to win over. They need to beat Chicago to lock up the first round, or I'm sorry, to lock up home field. It might be tough. And the buy. Only 12 point favorites. Well, yeah.

You're right. It should be easy. No doubt about that. They're at home. The Panthers, if they lose, will allow Minnesota lock it up as well. And we could see another final game. John Fox could be out the door. Certainly could. And the interesting thing here for me on the Chicago side is, ladies and gentlemen, Mitch Trubisky is the quarterback 8 from week's 14 through 16. He's been throwing more. He's been running more.

the end of the road for that. I like the way you put that. This is the end of the road for that. Yeah. He's going to get smashed. Harrison smashed. Yeah. The people Harrison smashed. All right. It's not bad. For those who are looking at Mitch's numbers over the past week going, maybe. Yeah, it's the same way I feel about Kendall right. Don't do it. I pump the brakes on Jordan Howard. I just don't see the bears being able to do much in.

in Minnesota for a team playing for the buy. I'm not excited. I mean, is there any bear that, I mean, I guess. Last time he faced him. Jordan Howard, I would be willing to start. Yeah, if your options are just awful. Malcolm Brown. I was going to say, do you want to pick up? I would rather have Malcolm Brown. If Brandon Oliver starts, Brandon Oliver or Jordan Howard. I think I'll take Howard in both situations. I'll just go. I'll be two touchdown week, even with inefficiency. And he's had some monster weeks. I'll still go with him.

By the way, Trubisky was 12 for 25 for 128 yards last time he played the Vikings this year. One touchdown, one interception, and an 11 QBR rating. Howard was 19 for 76 last time he played Minnesota. That was at home, though. I'm going to take the talent. I'm going to take the talent of Howard over the, I mean, I've seen Brandon Oliver. Talent over volume? Yeah. Volume is it means multiple things with Brandon Oliver. All right. A scientific term as well.

Latavis Murray or Derek McKinnon in this game. If you had to pick one. Latavis. Murray had a ton of snaps last week. I think that trend will continue similar to last week where the Vikings got up and, you know, you worry about the other team's not going to be able to necessarily keep up. This is just going to be a repeat of last week. Case Keenham was going to be my start of the week. And then I just, similar to last week, it was like, okay, if he gets a touchdown or two early.

he's pretty much not going to be used. I wouldn't even be surprised if he doesn't play the second half. If they've got this game under control, get Teddy Bridgewater in there, keep him healthy. So, I mean, I think that that is. Yeah, he could not finish the game. That's what I mean. He could not finish the game, but fourth quarter. Now, Adam Thielen has had one good game, one good game in his past four outings. Him and Rudolph stunk last week. So are you...

Confident, rolling him back out there? Stefan Diggs, a touchdown in each of the last two games. Man, I still play him, though. I will still play him, and I will, I'll play Diggs as well, despite the Bears defense. They're pretty strong against fantasy quarterbacks, ranking eighth in the last six weeks, 19th against wide receivers. So I'll roll out, Thielen and Diggs with some confidence. Is Kendall Wright a sneaky snart? No.

I don't want to start him against the Vikings. I want to let people know because he's another one of those guys that maybe you're ignoring towards the end of the year. Last three games, he's had 10 reception seven and then four. So yeah, I'm with you. Kindle right? Yeah. Yes. His numbers. Targets, though, 11, 13 and then 6 last week. All right, the Jets take on the Patriots. Patriots are, well, they're 15.5 point favorites with a 45-0.

point over under they need to win they do need to win to clinch home field winning should not be an issue for them they normally take care of their business in games like this but they do need to win and so do we expect to see tom brady deion lewis and company rob ronkowski or you know is this a game where if it's handily put to bed you don't have a fourth quarter from these guys

Maybe, I mean, I love the running game here. Once again, this is a game that's going to be extremely cold weather. You're talking teens. So that usually means more rushing attempts, especially if the, I mean, whenever you have a home team favored by this much, and then you add in the cold weather, everything points towards the running game. So we've got to monitor the practice report, see if James White's active, if Gillisley's active.

Burke's head was still sidelined at practice on Wednesday. Dionne Lewis, obvious play. But I think Mike Gillisley, if it turns out like last week, yeah, that's where you got to monitor. For unknown reasons. But whatever running backs are active for the Patriots, I'm fine with all of them. All right. Dionne Lewis is an incredible start this week. Okay. What do you do with Brandon Cooks? It's disappeared. Hooks.

The weather got cold. Yeah. It got frightful, as they say. But not delightful. No, is the opposite of delightful. In fact, Brandon Cooks, the last couple of weeks, two for 19, four for 60, did score a touchdown. One for 38, two for 17. It's been bad. It's been bad the past few weeks. He's the wide receiver 48 over the playoff weeks. Oh, 14 through 16. Man.

Brandon Cooks. Yuck. Believe it or not, we're going to talk about Robbie Anderson in a little bit. Oh. There is a chance that Christian Hackenberg takes a few snaps. The kind of report that I saw from Bowles was, you know, he'll be active, which is I think only the third time in his career. He'll be active. And he said he, I might, you know, I might put him in there. I might not. So Bryce Petty. If Todd Bowles is playing for his job, Christian Hackenberg will not see the feet. Yeah. And he is playing for his job right now.

Bryce Petty is the starter. Bilal Pal had a big week last week, and otherwise, Austin Safarian Jenkins hasn't been practicing. I don't know what his status is, and he's not really. He's faded away. Yes, he has. Just like those touchdowns he caught, and that didn't count. By the way, Robbie Anderson, targeted 9.2 times since week 13. That's the sixth highest in the league. Oh, yeah. The thing about Bryce Petty. It has come down, though, with Petty. What? You know all any of the targets. And the quantity. Yeah, both.

I looked at it this morning. The quantity of targets with Bryce Petty versus McCown has come down. Bryce Petty has played the three games. Is that correct? Am I remembering that correctly? Two, I think. Well, then, I mean, 12 targets, seven targets. I'll still take that. Yeah. No, there's a reason he's my start of the week. The Redskins take on the Giants. Oh, boy. This game doesn't mean much. But if you remember last year, the Giants.

knock the Redskins out of the playoffs in a fairly meaningless game for them as well. So they're going to knock them down in the division. Right. Keep them from being a 500 season and it's a divisional matchup. We'll see what happens. Nothing on the line though. And look, the Giants, they got troubles on the defensive side of the ball. Not only are they terrible, but they're terribleer, as Jason might say. No safety, Landon Collins, no Janoris Jenkins.

We already know that Eli Apple's not on the field and now suspended. So, Kirk Cousins, Josh Doxon, Jameson, Crowder. The phermones are increasing. Somaget Pirine practiced in full. Intensifying. That's good. Yeah, Kirk Cousins is playing for that money, money, money. Yeah, Cousins is playing for a contract. He is an absolutely fantastic start. Josh Doxon is somewhat intriguing as a wide receiver three, but I love Jameson Crowder.

I love him this week so very much. I think this might be the first time we have zero people to start on the other side of the ball. I think there's no one to start. Yeah, I mean, even Sterling Shepard, who I really love in general is not the greatest matchup. He's not practicing. He's not practicing. And then if he plays, who's going to be the quarterback for the second half of the game? Is it going to be Davis Webb? I mean, it is this championship week. You can start no one. Yeah, I believe you're right. I think you can still start Wayne Galman with the volume. He's had.

No fewer than 40 receiving ours the past three weeks. So that becomes a low-end running back to play for me against a team that's bad against running backs. You can, you and Galman can hang out. Stay together. I'm not calling him a one. I'm just saying you can play here. You heard it here. Mike says he's a one. Galman's a one. Sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. You got me. Look, Vernon Davis.

uh had disappeared people didn't want to play him last week he showed back up nope this is a great matchup for vernon davis the new york giants i am fine starting vernon davis this week what he'll be what do you have one catch he'll be a low end tied in one i mean once you get past the you know the if you've got one of those automatic starts you know the jack doyles and above then great but if you're if you are you know streaming week to week

I think Vernon Davis is an okay play here. So you're telling me that VD went away, but then it flared back up. Yeah, it's hard to get rid of. Well, he's trying to get it to flare back up, which is not something people normally do. No. He's working on a flare up. I don't think it's going to happen. I apologize for that last joke. Yeah. Brooks. Can we get a ruling, Brooks? Do you, Brooks? I'm writing it down right now. Oh, so you like to document it. You're writing the ruling down?

Are you going to submit papers? He's writing the timestamp down so he can go back and cut that one out. That's an interesting perspective because I know what your ruling is going to be, but yet you wrote it down. So it makes your highlight show better. It's good. Yes. I was wrong. In your faces. I apologize for nothing. I don't want, no. All right. All right. Move it along. Well, we do. We want you.

addicted to this show we want you to be infected all right now all right the cowboys eight and seven take on the 13 and two eagles eagles are well now at this point they're two and a half point underdogs based on the fact that their starters um i guess won't really be available so 41 point over under i you know the foals i bet you foals if i had to bet right now i bet he gets a drive

I bet this is preseason week two. So one or two drives, maybe a quarter. Last week was the struggle, right? 19 for 38, 163 yards, one touchdown, one pick. But they've talked about the backup. Sudfeld getting some reps. I feel like Foles will get a half. Okay. That's not enough. But we're in agreement. You need about eight quarters with Foles right now to get the value. You're only going to get maybe one or two. In total agreement that Nick Foltz will not.

Play the entire game. Yeah, this is a scary situation. You know, I prefer what the Rams are doing, where they're just saying, hey, these guys are sitting. So, you know, Malcolm Brown becomes a guy I can start. Here, you, it's not that. It's like, well, we're not, you know, they're going to maybe start, play a little bit, not play. So I can't sit here and go, okay, Corey Clement is a great play. Right. Because he's going to get all this work. Maybe. I like Corey Clement. He's the one guy that I think he's not coming out the field.

Here it will be the hard part is when you find out that Windows Smallwood is in fact active. That's true. That'll screw everything up. Yeah, it's really tough. We have Trey Burton ranked higher than Zach Gertz right now. Yeah, I would not play Zach Gertz if I were the Eagles. So Trey Burton should be okay. So I did find something very interesting and I think our listeners will appreciate this. You know who's back to back in the fantasy rankings this year for the Eagles? Oh, for the Eagles?

Jeffrey and Aguilar. The gap there, where they'll be drafted next year, because of what Jeffrey offers as the prototypical size red zone guy. I'm just, Aguilar looks like he's already going to be a sneaky draft pick next year. Could be. I bet he's in that five, six range is my. Yeah, but where's Jeffrey? Back of the second. Exactly. So it was just interesting looking on the season. Obviously last week, Jeffrey got goose.

or goose to, you know, goose does. Him and Crabtree, just pinching each other's booties. You're on a roll today, Mike. You've never, it's the goose, man. No, no, no, no. I got you. I did not get it. I was very confused. I think the definitions are wide and the range is wide for what that is. Des Bryant, he said he's not accepting a pay cut if they came to him and talked to him about it in the end of the year. Good for you, Des. Yeah, he was also sharing some frustrations with the offensive scheming, which.