Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 10 Matchups, In-or-Out, Zeke Suspension

No, yeah, I agree. And if you can sell that story, yep. Print it up, hand out the flyers. Let your league come to you and go get something. Yeah, Zieg's on the trading block for sure for me. If I have him, I'm trying to find another owner who thinks their championship bound and wants him when he gets back or thinks he can, you know, in four weeks get back. If I can get something for Zique and not take up a bench spot.

in this important time where I'm usually needing extra bench spots for, you know, two week from now is defensive matchup or something like that. Zeke's not going to help you much. But what if you are, you're seven and two or you're seven and two or even better, you're eight, you're eight and one. You're going to get that by week. So you literally only have one matchup between you and the championship weekend. Are we excited about, you know, what we're seeing from Leonard Fournette in the playoff schedule? Are we excited about, I mean, the Seattle matchup is the problem.

Sure. First you've got to get there. And then if you get there, maybe you'll get like a middle of the road running back. I'm just saying like, it's not going to be a top three guy. It's not very easy to get to the championship when you lose a top three running back for the rest of your season. So sure. Perfect world. You make it. And he's great in your one game and he wins you, you know, you hop on his back and ride off into the sunset. And then the other question is not just what you do with. No, I'm just asking what this is what the people are going to ask. Yeah. This is what my Twitter feed says right now.

Yeah. In 280 character posts. Are you guys saying if you can't trade him, you would consider dropping him? If need be. Okay. If need be, if I need a roster spot, I would consider it. I would still hold him if I could. I mean, I'm not. He's a problem, though, because he doesn't, he's not eligible for IR. Right. He's not eligible for one of those spots because he's under the suspended circumstance. So would I think about it?

Right now, no, I'm not cutting him right now because I want that expedited appeal situation because that could be the difference between your entire fantasy playoffs. He could play three games. But then how long do you hold on? Well, you'd have to hold on to him for four weeks if you want to find out that expedited appeal. If I can't trade him, I'm not cutting him. Okay. That's my point. If I can't trade him, I'm not cutting him until after.

That appeal. All right. Now the other side, not what do you do with Zeke, but who is his replacement? It's Alf. It really looks to be Alf. Everything in practice when they expected to lose them look like it was Alf. You know, look, Darren McFadden, Rod Smith, pick him up. Yes. Because maybe. Sure. Yeah, I completely agree with that. But it's Alf. All right. It's Friday. By the way, Martellus Bennett was signed by.

Yes, I apologize. I was wrong. I believe your exact words were they're too smart to sign them off of waivers. I honestly thought they were. In fairness, you did say they were going to sign it. How did you expect them to sign him? I thought he would clear waivers, and then the paths would pick him up. Now they're talking about he has a torn rotator cuff. So, I mean, this is an interesting pickup by the Patriots to pay that salary for a guy with a torn rotating thing. He may go on IR. All right. Yeah.

I mean, that's the report. Sure. He may go on IR. Because if he, he can play through it, though. He could potentially play through it. All right, Friday. It's time to play in and out. Are you in? Start with the running backs. Are they playing in or out? Devante Freeman. Full practice Thursday in. He's in. CJ Anderson. Oh, man. He's kind of a wild card because of the limited practice Wednesday. Then he missed Thursday, but that was an illness. So this is not related to his injury.

If he is out, it's a really big upgrade for Jamal Charles and especially Devante Booker. Yeah, I'm going to say he's in. Yeah, you'll take it. Matt Forte? I'm going to say out. I will lean out as well. Likewise. Wide receivers, Julio Jones, didn't practice Thursday. In or out? I still think he'll play. I'm not worried. He's in. Okay. Michael Thomas, Des Bryant.

Michael Thomas is in. Yes, agreed. Des, he really, really wants to play. He has not really been practicing. Everything I've heard is that he is going to give it a go. So I'm going to go in. Yeah, I think he's going to, I think he will be active. And he's going to be a risk. Yeah, I think he is like an in-game worry to me where he's, when you aren't able to practice at all, because you're really not, you're not physically able, but then you play.

What's the chance you make it through that entire game? The matchup is great. I mean, I want Des in this matchup, but I will have him much lower in my rankings than normal. And if I have other good options, I'll start them. Okay, by the way, the Cardinals also lost Tyvon Branch. Pro Football Focus is number five safety this year. Torn ACL. Yeah. That defense got a lot. Cool, co, co, co, this is not right. Cool. Emmanuel Sanders, T. Tyelton. Both play. Chris Hogan. I'm going to say out.

Danny Mandola then, a nice start? He could be. He's still dealing with that hyper extended knee. He should be the benefactor. Mark Heath Lee, in or out? In. Zay Jones? Out. Out. Jordan Reed? I think he'll play. Charles Clay? I'm going to say in. Expected to play. Yeah, his coach. In, but are you excited about him? Yeah. If he plays, I play him, honestly. I agree. Delaney Walker.

I think he'll suit up. He'll shoot up. He's a tough dude. He didn't practice last week. He played. He's not practicing this week. He'll play. All right, a reminder, all you footclam members, you get the game day alerts one hour before Sunday kickoff with updates on all of these injuries. Join the foot.com. And Mike will be on Periscope an hour before kickoff as per usual, per his contract that he signed. I like that for here. Yeah, we make sure he's, you know, working for you. Yeah, it's always a good time. You should stop. Stop in.

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all of the fantasy question marks in this matchup. Now, the Bengals, they're very competent defense. They are in the upper half for points given up against quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight-ins in the fact that they don't give up as much as the rest of the league. You have DeMarco Murray, who's been injured all year long. You have Derek Henry, whose value is very unpredictable.

You have a wide array of wide receivers, Matthews, Davis, Decker on the Tennessee side. And you have Mariotta, who's slowly worked himself back from injury, looks better to me on the field, and then Delaney Walker with the injury. So you've got a lot of questions here. How confident are you with the Titans in this game at home? Not. Really? Yeah. The Bengals are a really solid defense. Mariotta has been very disappointing for fantasy purposes.

And so I really don't want to start him. Murray, I know he was removed from the injury report. They're just going to have to put him back on as soon as the game starts because he just keeps getting nicked up. But then we don't have enough carries for Henry to have value. Maybe I'll play Richard Matthews or Corey Davis. Walker is he's locked in just because he's one of the top tight ends. But I'm not really excited by...

by most of this offense. Yeah. When I look at the offense as a whole, it's tough to know where it's going to go because you've got Corey Davis. They say they want to get him more involved. They want to get him the ball more. Eric Decker's been showing up near the red zone more. And Richard Matthews has been great. So it's hard to know where it's going to go. But I do like the Titans in this game. I think what is, and basically I think Cincinnati is they're looking to me like a team that is.

really trying not to quit, but it's getting harder and harder. They're three and five. They've lost a couple games in a row. Andy Dalton has been very bad. They had, you know, A.J. Green and the fight last game, it just looks like a team about to collapse. And while they are a very good defense, I think Tennessee's offense with a healthy Mario, which is, you know, I think we're there. This could be the game where they just quit. What is this?

Andy's almost upset of the week. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, me and Andy are locked on this one. I think the Bengals win, you agree? I think the Bengals win this game, or in that case, almost win this game. I think AJ Green's, age is my number one. As far as the east is from the west. This is. Oh, right, we're just. Between me and you? Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. I'm O for one this week on that.

on that east is west. You got to get back by making more... I think AJ Green's the number one wide receiver in fantasy football this week. He's my favorite play. The Titans give up 27.4 fantasy points per game to the wide receiver. AJ Green has shown his ability to have absolute monster weeks that puts him in that number one category. And he's coming back with something to prove after the disappointment of last week. The Titans defense has been their problem all season long.

I don't think that this Bengals team is going to end up quitting on Marvin Lewis. And while I don't love Joe Mixin in this game because he's just been really bad this year, the lines have been bad and the Titans don't give up a ton to the running back position. I do love AJ Green. And I think the game's going to stay close. And I'm excited for this game, actually. I think it's going to be a fun one. Yeah, I do agree that AJ Green should have a good game because Tennessee does give up those big plays. And look, you know, I listen to you on wide receivers.

You're a top 10 ranked wide receiver expert this year. Yeah, but everyone's starting AJ Green. I don't think you can start any other wide receiver there. I've got the Joe Mixen versus DeMarco Murray pick in a couple of my leagues. That's gross. What decision would you make there because you're probably going to get an okay fantasy day from one of those guys. Mixon is averaging 2.9 yards per carry. Yeah.