Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 9 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

Who gets to play the 49ers next? Yeah. Go ahead and share that with the listeners. David Johnson. That's going to be. If you have David Johnson, are you considering the fact of just benching the rest of your team just to see if he can win the whole week? Let's do this. You never know what happens in fancy football. I tell you, but it looks good. Coming off the buy too, right? Yeah. Man, that's a nice team to face after the buy.

I'll tell you that. All right. Jay Jai. What do you guys think? He keeps delivering. You know, it was a very slow start too. It was a slow start. He had that really, really super late, like 26-yard run. But he's done that in three games now. We're super duperly. I mean, you're talking the game is over. And he's like, I can get a huge chunk of yards here. He still scored early, though. Yes, he did. And let me ask you this now. I mean, when you get a guy off of waivers like Jayae.

And he looks to be bell cow worthy, right? 24 carries that won the game again. Third straight time he's had a monster game. This is, do you buy in rest of the season on Jaya and does that give you the flexibility to now trade?

another piece of the puzzle let's say you've got a demarko murray david johnson and jai jai can you go flip demarko because maybe the value on demarko's higher than it is on a jai do you feel confident enough as jai being your number two the rest of the way i do i buy in i think he is legit he's got a good upcoming schedule san diego um

L.A.'s, all right, then San Francisco. So he's got some good games in there. That being said, I think his value right now, after this game against the Jets, is going to be as high as just about anyone. Maybe not as high as a DeMarco Murray. But because his value is this high, he's probably still the guy, I would actually look to trade for a great value, only because playoff schedule. I know he had that...

a decent game right here against the Jets, but he faces the Jets again. He also faces Arizona Cardinals. Just really hard to fight that temptation with all these kind of players, because what happens is, and I notice this on the show, is we have guys, Matt Ryan, J.J.E., other players, Melvin Gordon, right? Petition to trade Melvin Gordon. You know, it's easier to hold a guy if they've done it in years past. For instance, Eddie Lacey, pretend he's healthy. Pretend Eddie Lacey has three games like,

J. Jai just had, even after two years, a year and a half of failure, it would be so much easier for us to not think trade high on Eddie Lacey because his pedigree has proven he can do it. That's like Doug Martin last year. Okay. And if he had three good games, you'd buy into the fact that he's elite. Yeah. It's so much harder to not. I'm just saying sometimes you need to keep these guys. Sometimes you need to say Matt Ryan is my quarterback rest of season. This is his year, right? Like this is going to be, this is his Cam Newton year from last year.

I completely agree. And I actually do buy in to JJ. I'm not necessarily recommending to anybody that right now you should go and sell him. But in the situation you described, my point is more that I think his value is so high right now that it's almost to DeMarco Murray's. But that's the question. Would you go trading for DeMarco? Because could you end up disappointed in that situation? Well, DeMarco first week of the playoffs plays Denver.

So that's a great matchup. You can run on Denver. No, you can. Actually, a reminder, too. DeMarco has a buy the week before. Yes, he does. Week 14. A lot of people are in playoffs in week 13. Check your league settings. This is really important if you're a DeMarco owner. You need to check your league settings to see when playoffs start. Because your trade deadline's probably coming up. And if you start your playoffs in week 13, you must trade him because you can't have a buy week in the playoffs.

And, you know, that's just tomfoolery. All right, DeWan Harris, 10 for 59, and then 5 for 83 in a touchdown through the air. Looked great. Looked so much better than Mike Davis. Looks so much better than Sean Drone, the big salad. Matt Forte did it again because can't stop him. Tried and true. Try it and true. Tim Hightower, we talked about it, and DeMarco Murray pieced together a good game in the end because he scored late and ended up with about 20 fantasy points. So.

Yeah, he did it. I mean, you want to talk about matchup proof. Yeah. That was a really bad game for him. If you watched, he did not look good. No, he was like 10 for 37 to start that game. And he ended up being pretty good as he does. Wide receivers with big performances this week. You know Mike Evans had the monster game, and he is also one of our favorites for down the stretch. He did practice today after the concussion. And so Mike Evans looking nice down the stretch. Now, Michael Thomas.

for the Saints. Five for 73, two touchdowns. That's all I'm going to say right now. Because we're going to talk about him momentarily. Jason's going to elaborate on Michael Thomas's performance when we get into our rising star picks this week. Richard Matthews had a big game. He did. Six for 63, two touchdowns. I care zero. I don't care at all. I couldn't even care less. Because you know who had a big game last week? Kendall Wright. Yeah, Kendall Wright had a big game. Right? I mean, this is, who knows?

Right? This was a situation where I would not. He'll get picked up and he won't be picked up by me. Let's put it that way. Sure. I will say this. I actually believe in the talent of Rashad Matthews quite a bit. I think he is very good wide receiver. But I agree with you in this team week to week starting for fantasy football purposes. It's not going to matter. You're not going to guess him right. Julio Jones, he's pretty good. You're starting him next week. 8 for 11 and a touchdown this week. Mike Wallace did that whole run really fast thing.

Four for one, 24, and a touchdown, including a 95-yard bomb. Did you see his, well, not a bomb, but 95-yard. Well, okay, 95-yard screen and run. Did you see his quote? Oh, gosh. Can't wait to find out. They were playing press coverage on the five. Yeah. And he felt very disrespected. So he decided to. He decided he was going to take it to the house.

All right. Well, that's a good decision. You know, to be honest with you still, I'd rather have Smith Senior rest of the season than I would Wallace. Oh, for sure. I mean, if you look at four for one, 24 and you take out a 95-yard, you know, the rest of the game, he was, what, three for 30? Yeah. I mean. It's nice, but it's the D-Jax circumstances. That's what he gives you. It gives you either that three or four for.

for 50 yards. I will say that is... Or he goes humongous. That's a demoralizer for your fantasy opponent because they're like kind of... Hey, cool, I get to face Mike Wallace. He's not that... Oh, no. No, no, no. Step out of bounds, please. All right, Golden Tate. Man, I was impressed with the Lions at the end of that game. Getting into overtime was amazing. Prater, and kick the football. Those last... How much time did he have, like, 17 seconds? 17 seconds after they took the touchback with no timeouts.

He threw a pass to get him within a 58-yard field goal and spike the ball. And then Prater comes in, boots it through. And then they march all the way down on Minnesota and scored. I heard a stat on Mike and Mike about Matt Prater. Matt Prater in his career within the last minute of a game has had 23 opportunities to kick game-time or game-winning field goals. And he is 23 for 23. Ooh. I mean.

That's what you need in a kicker. Honestly, yeah. Stone cold. He's had a great year. If you remember, he had kind of, well, I guess he's missed a kick in each of the last two weeks. They weren't to tie the game. He's like, this one doesn't matter. Because he wants to set up the time. But definitely a boom, boom moment for him. So let's talk back about the wide receivers here. Golden Tate, do you, you know, does he need to be owned at this point? Oh, he should be owned. Yeah. He should have been owned two weeks ago. So you bought in, though, to.

a resurgence. Well, you see the problem with Marvin Jones as well. I mean, this is kind of coming into the season playing out a little bit more where we didn't know, is it going to be Marvin Jones? Is it going to be Golden Tate? The first few weeks, we had our answer. It was Marvin Jones. Now it's flipped to the other side where Marvin Jones, I think in this game had like a catch for five yards. Yep.

Eric Ebron looked great, too. Eric Ebron has, he's got a career high in yardage. Has been legit, and that was after the previous week of being very important of that offense. So you certainly need to look at him. But I think when it comes to Golden Tate Marvin Jones, they both should be owned. I'm not confident to start either right now. Jordy Nelson, seven for 94 in a touchdown, an impressive touchdown at that. This is the game we thought he'd have this week. We said Indianapolis was a nice matchup.

I pumped the brakes on him towards the end of the season with a lot of fear. But because of the matchups and what's going on in Green Bay, they lost again. I'm still hesitant to buy into Nelson as a top 12 guy rest of season. And I think if you can get top 12 value, I would personally trade him. I know you guys probably sit on the other side of that one. Yes or no? I would be willing again. We're close enough now where the playoff schedule matters to me quite a bit.

For certain players. Your average player, whatever. But when you have guys like, you know, like Mike Evans who gets to play New Orleans twice, that matters to me. Or for Jordy, Jordy has just a horrendous passing schedule. Let me look this up here to remind myself. But Jordy Nelson, starting in week 13, if your playoffs start in 13, it's Houston, not a great matchup. Then Seattle, great passing D.

Chicago's been a pretty good passing D, although they got carved up. They've been a great defense. They did get carved up by Aaron Rogers already once. But then week 16, so you got Seattle in 14 and then Minnesota in 16. It just is not boating too well. And we've seen a couple complete stinker games. In fact, the Chicago game where Aaron Rogers carved up the Bears, Jordan Nelson had one catch for nine yards in that game.

All right, Antonio Brown came back from the dead. Oh, man. Mike, Mike couldn't handle it. Like, Mike really can't handle when Antonio Brown doesn't have, like, 900,000 points every week. Well, I couldn't handle just watching the game for three quarters. You're thinking... What did you say? Big Ben was setting football back 50 years? Yeah. Mike Tomlin, you got to put Landry Jones in. It was, it was horrendous. Big Ben was just awful. I mean, he's missing guys. He had...

at least three or four opportunities to Sammy Coates just sailed the ball, missed him completely. He had the one word. Sammy. Of course, the one target that Sammy Coates was on, was on point. Coach dropped it. But just it was a brutal, brutal performance for Big Ben. Let they, their game plan was, okay, we'll let Levy on Bell take us to victory. And the Ravens said, no, no, you will not. Because Levy on Bell got held in check for the most part. And then Big Ben, it was all that.

garbage, you're down 21 to 0 and then Big Ben finally was able to get it loose. I had read a stat about Big Ben on the game coming off of an injury and how bad his stat lines were whenever he's returning from these injuries. And it caused me to move him down on Sunday after seeing that stat line because I was worried we had talked about the divisional matchup a little bit. Plus Big Ben on the road is just bad. So, you know, he did.

Piece it back together, though, with 264 in a touchdown. And he ran for one. So all of that, all of that being said, he pieced it back together for Antonio Brown. Alan Robinson 7 for 76 in a touchdown. And then Tyrell Williams, six for 65 in a touchdown. Is Williams the best guy to own there? I think so, wide receiver wise, right? Yeah, I was hoping for Don Trell Inman to have a game. And he's, his Stanley was actually very comparable. Yeah, it was six for 67, I think. But he just didn't get the touchdown. No touchdown.

All right, tight ends real quick. Old man alerts. Jason Whitten, Antonio Gates. Cleveland Brown alert. Whitten, eight for 134 in a touchdown. Whitten is the number one wide receiver for the Cowboys, right? Nope. Nope. The number one wide receiver had himself a pretty good game. Talking about Beasles.

Nicole Beasley 6 for 56 and a Dene Hoos down. Well, we'll talk about Des soon enough. Antonio Gates, 5 for 75 and a touchdown. Hunter Henry did not play. Gates still doing it. And then Vance McDonald had the monster game. What do you think about Zach Ertz finally getting into the action, 8 for 97? Is he somebody that because of the talent and this stat line you might buy this week? Nope. All right. I thought I'd ask. Fool me once. Fool me twice. Situation here was Zach Hertz. Okay. Okay.

Now, who was in the DFS segment? Chris Meany. Who did he, didn't he nail a tight end this week? He certainly did, but now that you're putting me on the spot, I can't remember who it was. Someone, we had, the Twitter was very happy with it. Yeah. Lance Kendricks. Yes, there it is. Yes. Yeah. Shout out to Lance Kendricks and Chris Meany. Kendricks also had that terrible drop, right?