Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 6 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Coopin'

and get a phone call that says your wide receivers are gone. Daniel Sanders carted off with the right ankle injury in week six. It looked pretty bad. The hit itself, the way that the, I mean, X-rays. I think he's going to miss some significant time. I agree. X-rays came back negative MRI again today. Demarius Thomas, X-ray on the lower leg. That came back negative as well? Yeah, he came back in the game and we'll still make a place, but he was hobbled. He was hobbled. I.

was reading the update on Leonard Fournet, who went down late in the loss, and I was very encouraged by it. First, it was not the foot. It was the ankle, okay? And the foot was what was concerning people about Leonard Fournette, who has been an absolute monster at the NFL level. He says he twisted his ankle. Doug Morone said he could have came back in the game. He thinks he can play Week 7. Do we have any under the, you know...

underlying concerns. There's, you know, I think a little concern just because he also injured his ankles in college. But I agree with you, Andy. The foot was the far more concerning thing coming into the year. I think if you're a Leonard Fournett owner, you need to pick up Chris Ivory. He looks like a serviceable backup that could come in for a week and play well. I agree with you. Ivory was at least getting the snaps. I mean, he was getting snaps. Ivory's everything he got.

Every play, Chris Ivory, is just smashed it. That's why he can't be a 16-week starter, but he's a quality running back. He's a good running back. Tyreek Hill, we saw him get absolutely blasted. Shalact. No concussion, though. Yeah. Mike Florio says no concussion for Tyreek Hill in the Steelers matchup. And then Char West left with a possible concussion. We'd have to, you know, monitor him. Char West was getting a very.

strange amount of reps. If you look at what Kareem Hunt has done, first three weeks, I believe he had six touchdowns since then he has zero. So in the next three weeks, no touchdowns. Char West had a couple last week in his. Yeah, Char West took his touchdowns two weeks ago. Hunt is still dominating in terms of yardage. That's why touchdowns are, they're a little bit.

A little bit random, a little bit fluky. It's hard to necessarily predict I'm going to score this week. Well, I want to get into the stud muffins, but there's one more piece of news I think is worth discussing, figuring out. And that's Martavis Bryant. Because the reports came out yesterday, the team, Martavis, people know he's unhappy. He recently requested a trade. He only played 51% of snaps. They talked about him needing a break last week. You guys talked about it on the show. Now,

We've already said Juju Smith-Schuster. He's got an increased role. That Rogers is coming back. The offense hasn't been great, but what do you make of the situation? And do you upgrade a flyer pick on a guy like Schuster if you think Martavis could actually be out the door? If Martavis could be out the door, which Martavis himself did tweet last night trying to debunk the rumors of asking for a trade. Who knows? Because, I mean, we're dealing with this. We just had.

last week that Carlos Hyde was going to be traded and shopped. And then Kyle Shanahan head coach of the 49ers said, no, there's no truth to that. So who really knows? However, let's, let's just live in the world where Martavis gets traded. That's a huge, huge upgrade for Juju. I mean, oh, okay. I thought for a second you were saying for Marta. Oh, no, no. I was like I was going to, we were going to agree to disagree. Yeah, no, that's, but yes, I agree for Juju.

fits that team perfectly. There's, there's some spots where Martavis could have some, some success. But even with, with Martavis is still there, I mean, you're talking just looks, targets, plays that will now shift over to the rookie who's Smith Schuster has, he's looked fine. He's looked very good. He'll improve over time. So it would be a big deal for, for Juju, if Martavis were to get traded. Okay.

You guys want to get into the stud muffins? Yeah. Yep. This week's fantasy stud muffins. The one piece of news we should throw out. C.G. Bethard has been named the starter rest of season by Kyle Shane. He said rest of season? He said rest of season by the 49ers. Wow. Pick them up. It makes no sense for a team that's got a one-year deal with Hoyer.

That is building for the future not to play. Because you want to see if you've got something in Bethard or if you need to pick up the number one stud muffin of the week, my start of the week. Kirk Cousins. Oh, would you? It's great that I love that you started him because like you said on the show last week, you know, this is an offense that takes a little time to get going and it seems to have gotten going in this game. Do you downgrade Pierre Garcin with the Bethardness? Certainly. Absolutely.

Yeah, and we don't have enough film of Bethard versus an actual NFL defense to know. Garsohn will still get his targets and be a PPR type of guy, but off of the initial reaction, you have to downgrade him. Baltimore D next week, I believe, plays San Francisco. Oh, my goodness. Isn't that correct? Oh, let me have a look. Pretty certain. You start, look for the, here's what you do with your defensive streams. You start surveying the land.

And you look for names, and you look for CJ Bethard. That is not correct. They play Minnesota. Who plays San Francisco next week? Minnesota, you said? No, Minnesota plays the Ravens next week. Figure out who Sam Fran plays. Because you start targeting the Chris Hogan's and the Bethards and the inexperienced quarterbacks of Fitzpatrick were to start again. Dallas. Dallas Cowboys. You can probably stream that D. Cowboys? Yeah. They're a bad D. And I'd stream them. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

All right. Kurt Cousins took care of business. 25 of 37 for 3.30 and 2. Deshaun Watson once again, a touchdown master, 17 for 29 for 225 and 3. Watson. He's breaking all sorts of NFL rookie touchdown passing records. You know, look, he's good. You got to stay in the flames with him. You have to stay in the flames with him. It's going to be.

It's going to be very difficult to start him this week, though. He is on by. Oh, I wouldn't recommend it. Every fantasy owner that has Deshaun Watson most likely has, well, many of them will have another quarterback that they've rostered, that they've played, that they've had to balance. I've got our team in the listener league with Breeze and with Watson. Now, last week I tried to trade Watson at Office 40-something week.

go get another position player. Do you recommend that for those players to still go out and try to shop Watson? Or do you just kind of? I do. I mean, I just, I mean, I have no problem trading. Drew Brees, who we know has a long life. I mean, it's always going to depend on your roster. But if you can take a good quarterback and convert them into that same kind of a tier of running back or wide receiver, I'm always going to do it. Would you rather have Watson or wins rest of season?

It's a great question. I think I would rather have wins. But it's close. I mean, it's... I think Watson. Okay. How much do you start looking at playoff schedules for quarterbacks with these decisions now that we're entering week seven? I'll take... Does this start going through your mind at all? I'll take a little peek, but I'm not going to freak out about the matchups yet. You got... So like Deshaun Watson, for instance...

Thank you. Watson will be 49ers at Jacksonville, home against Pittsburgh. So on paper right now, that's not good. I mean, that's, that's terrifying. Jacksonville and Pittsburgh are two of the best. I would say two of the top three past defenses in the league right now. So that's, that's kind of where I'm at when you look at like Breeze. Breeze plays Atlanta twice.

in the fantasy playoffs, I think with another soft matchup in between. If I was staring those two guys down on my roster, that would make a little bit of a decision. Because nobody's going to, your opponent is not going to look at it necessarily. The fact that it is Drew Breeze, that's an easy trait if you're saying, well, I'll move Watson for Breeze because we have such a body of work for Drew Breeze. That's why when you're saying Carson Wentz or Deshaun Watson, we're looking at these guys level up at the exact same time. So it's...

it's difficult to choose between the two. Now, Jason, I know how much you want to talk about Josh McCown and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Before I let you do that, try to just hold yourself back. Oh, I enjoyed your butt Vegas, by the way. But, but Vegas? All right, before we get into the rest of the stud muffins, I do want to take a second and thank the sponsor of today's show ZipRecruiter. You've heard us talk.

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All right, Josh McCown, Ryan Fitzpatrick had the days that no one expected. Well, McCown, we did. McCown we talked about as a possible stream. 31 for 47 for 354 and 2. Should have been 3. Look, the bounce back that ever, oh, my goodness, it was 3. That's, oh, that's. Your start of the week, ASJ did well enough regardless, but should have had two touchdowns. Should have had a monster week. Yeah, that touchdown overcalled is, that is upsetting to say the least. But.

I just want to throw this out there because we're all, I think, expecting New England to write the ship on defense. It ain't happening. Watching that game, you watch the film and they are a mess. There's a play where.

You know, Josh McCown is rolling out at 38 years old, easily evading the pass. His arms at least 40. Standing there forever. And then throwing the ball in this big lob lofty across his body. Cross the body across the field to a guy that after all that was opened by like 15 yards. Where is the defense? So until they write it, until I see, I'm not going to.

expect the ship to be fixed until after they have fixed it. Yeah. No, I think that that's very fair. You start. You get what you? Yeah. Your face said. I'm following you. All right. I'm following you. Start your players against Patriots. Yeah. You don't trust the crew to repair the holes. You need to see it. Yeah. To believe it. Right now the water is seeping in. You got to get that ship to land. I mean, you can only patch so much when you're in the middle of the ocean in the storms. Yeah, it's halfway down.