Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 2 Matchups, Players to Watch

And that's nice. Look, Kelvin Benjamin is not a separation guy. He is a contested catch guy outbodying people. And he can certainly outbody. E.J. Gaines. I expect a bounce back game. And I like Kelvin Benjamin this week. I'm stacking it up. Russell Wilson, he disappointed you week one. So did Doug Baldwin, who basically was non-existent in that matchup. It all gets right this week. Don't, don't fear.

Go start Doug Baldwin. I think at home, Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin, big weeks. Doug Baldwin, my start of the week. Doug Baldwin is another guy if you're unaware that has much better home road splits. So he's coming home. I'm going to go with Jeremy Macklin. You know, I talked about the Joe Flackle home road splits. I don't expect there to be a ton of volume. But I'm making him my start not as one of those absolute must starts. But he's going to be one of those questionable guys this week where a lot of people are going.

Do I start him or another guy? And I think you're going to get production from Jeremy Macklin. I think he will be the number one wide receiver option at home for Joe Flacko. I'm confident to start him. I feel like because of the way you qualified that, I'm going to need to put you on the spot and give you some start sick questions for Jeremy Maclin real quick. Would you start Calvin Benjamin or Jeremy McClough? I would start Jeremy. Would you start? No, I would not. I would start Kelvin.

I wanted to go Macklin, but it's just not the truth. Jeremy Maclin or Devante Adams? Devante Adams. He was almost my start of the week. In fact, I'm telling you if you're out there and you're worried, I had a close friend who was benching Devante Adams. I think that's a mistake. Jeremy Maclin or Adam Thielen? I would go Jeremy Maclin or Jarvis Landry. I would go Jeremy Maclin. Okay.

I already gave you mine. Jason, you went with Macklin. Why don't you give us your tight end? Yeah, my tight end is Zach Ertz. He's my guy this year. He was great week one. The clear number. Love that target here. Yeah, the clear number one target for Carson Wins. And you might be looking at Kansas City and thinking that's a really tough matchup. They've been good against tight in for a shutdown. Shut down Grunk week on. But.

Yeah. The reason they shut down Grunk was because they have an incredible player in the middle of the field who tore his Achilles and is out. So now they have a hole right there where the targets are going to go. I think Zach Kurt's a safe, start him, plug them. Don't do it, Andy. You'll be happy. They have a hole at the tight end. Tight end? Yeah. All right. Zach Miller, my start of the week at the tight end position. He was second in targets last week. Kevin White's gone for the year. I've already illustrated the delightful situation Mike Glennon finds himself in with.

Kindlewright and Josh Bellamy as past catching options. I wouldn't be surprised to see Zach Miller, Tariq Cohen lead his team in target. So Zach Miller, I think, is a very safe play. I've made the decision to sign him and start him over Austin Hooper and Evan Ingram in our League of Record. It's a good choice. And so Jason, you went with Hertz. I said Zach Miller. It's the double Zach. Is there a Zach left over for you, Mike? Nope.

Zachary Fleener, maybe? I'm a let it ride, baby. Colby, Fleener. He's at home. Willie Sneed. You actually have that as a note. Let it ride with an exclamation point. Willie Sneed is still out, and you may not want to hear this. He played pretty well last week. I know the touchdown was garbage, garbage time, but there could be some garbage time in this one as well, but he looked solid. And.

We've known from Jason explained this in his ridiculously bold hot take on our hot take show that Kobe Fleener could be a top five. It takes tight ends some time to acclimate to this system. So I'm going to ride Kobe Fleener out until he lets me down. And that's why he's my start of the week. All right. You want to run back those start of the weeks real quick?

So we got Russell Wilson, James Winston, Derek Carr, Ty Montgomery, Marshawn, James White, Doug Baldwin, Brandon Cooks, Calvin, Benjamin, and Zach Miller, Zachertz, Kobe Fleener. Oh, that was Jeremy Macklin instead of Brandon Cook. Oh, yeah, sorry. Jason, I don't know. You didn't want to bring him up? Well, yeah, I forgot to bring him up because Brandon Cooks, look, you're going to start him. Nobody's not starting. That's why I didn't bring him up. He is an obvious start of the week. But, oh, he going to start hard. He's going to be good.

I think, I mean, I've got him as my number two wide receiver this week. He's playing in New England or in New Orleans where he is used to playing. There's huge over under. I mean, we've seen him disappear in games like that before, to be sure. I don't think it's going to happen. I think that New England needs him in order to succeed. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week.

Do I need to add $11 to that? Oh, you saying I put my money where my mouth is. I was really hoping that...

that he snuck through because you don't even have a kicker you drop them to pick someone up i noticed that and it was for that reason i knew that and when i told you that yesterday and i mentioned that i knew you didn't have a kicker that's why i had to pay up because i went oh i shouldn't have done you because now you knew that i knew that you knew that you needed a kicker so i'm going with stephen goskowski as my start of the week or as my i'm sorry ironclad locked and loaded 100% guaranteed boom boom kicker of the week

There's just too many points. It's indoor. There will be opportunities, plenty of extra points, some field goals. No, you don't need to explain yourself. You just have to pick somebody. Gaskowski. Yeah, you're giving this segment too much credibility. All right. Last week, Matt Bryant, that worked out. Hey, roll them again this week. Roll them again. It's going to be good. That is it for today's episode. We'll be back with the rest of the matchups tomorrow.

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