Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 3 Matchups, In-or-Out, Gurley Delivers

And the Seahawks have averaged 10.5 points per game, which is fifth worst in the league. 10 points a game distributed amongst all of those options is not going to get it done. Would you stream the Titans defense? Are we that down on Seattle's offense that we're willing to do it? I would stream the Tennessee defensive home. I think I would do it too. It's simply an offensive line equation there where you're going to have sacks. You're going to get to Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson only completing 56% of passes right now.

And I think I'd lean into that if you had to stream a defense. Jason, you said no. Yeah, I mean, look, I guess a low-end option. I believe they're number 11 in my rankings, so that is startable. But I'm not excited. And I don't look at Seattle as a regular matchup where I...

I want to target against them despite what they've done so far. I mean, we have now two years in a row history of Seattle starting slow offensively and then towards the second half of the season really ramping up. Now, we're still really early. Last year was Russell Wilson injured game one. Sure. There's no injury right now. Yeah, no, but I, but my point is we've seen them be able to get it together.

You know, two years ago, when they lost Marshawn Lynch, they figured out, it took them a couple games and they figured out how to move the ball. I think they'll be able to correct their offensive woes. And I don't see Tennessee as a good enough defense that it couldn't happen against that match. Do you think Seattle's offensive line, they gather together, they throw on game tape of the Giants offensive line. And they're like, man, those guys are good.

Did you ever know that you're my hero? The Seahawks offensive line. Poor Wilson, man. That is not a good situation. Pro football focus. I have not vetted this stat, but I believe they rank them as the 33rd offensive line. Not 100% on that, but I believe they are the 33rd ranked offensive line. Bengals, take on the Packers at Lambo. Packers 9 point favorites. Oh, we have breaking news there.

44 and a half point over under. We do have breaking news. Tyler. No, hit them. No, it's not. We had talked about this. We had thought he wasn't going to play. Eifford has officially been ruled out. You can't stop the music, man. Okay. Eifert's gone. Good news for Andy Dalton, right? Yeah. Good luck, Andy. Yeah. I, uh, A.J. Green is going to get a lot of targets this week. Joe Mixing, Jeremy Hill, Gio Bernard. You're starting zero of these players?

Correct. If you absolutely have to throw one in, I mean, the matchup can surprise. I think people are obviously down on the entire Cincinnati offense. It makes sense. Andy Dalton has been very bad, but this is one of those where if you want to take a dart throw at, there are, there's a couple logical reasons to explain.

If you see a good Cincinnati offense come through, for instance. Do not say you're starting Joe Mixon. I'm, no, I'm not saying that I'm starting. Well, he is in our league of record because he has to. I was trying to pick up to Quiz Rogers to play over him, but I was not willing to drop $31 of Fab, apparently. My point is simply this. You fire the offensive coordinator.

You put in an offensive coordinator that has been very successful for fantasy options when they've had that role in the past. And your week one and week two matchups were against really good, tough opponents. So now you go to Green Bay. How dare you, says Green Bay. So now you go to Green Bay, you might need to score more. Yeah, so play Geo Bernard if you have to play any of them. Maybe. That would be, for some reason, you have three bangles on your roster first.

Take a look in the mirror and evaluate your life as a fantasy football player. But two, and it would be played geo because they're going to be trailing. Packers tight ends have been targeted more than any other team in the league this year between Rogers and Bennett. And Bennett has a ton of targets this season. A lot of that has to do, I think, losing Jordi, losing Tom. It's been early. But Bennett is a very start worthy tight end. Yeah, this week especially in the sense that Randall Cobb, we both Mike.

and I, he's going to be a game time decision, but we lean out. If he is gone, then they just have to use him. Yeah, no doubt about it. If Cobb is out, you start, I mean, you're starting Jordan Nelson, no matter what, if he's active? Correct. Devonti Adams? No matter what either. Okay. All right, let's move on. Oh, yeah, start Aaron Rogers, guys. Chiefs at Chargers. Another divisional battle. The Chargers are three-point underdogs at home in this one, 47 and a half point over under.

We're expecting some points to fly in this game. Alex Smith, do you start him for a third straight week? Jason Verrett is trending towards out again. And he's a huge piece of the Chargers past defense. I think you can. I think that you can stream Alex Smith yet again. Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, if you look at what Jay Cutler did last week when Verrett was out and they went to Jarvis Landry, left, right, and center. If you can target.

Tyreek Hill underneath with that same kind of follow that game plan. You give Tyreek Hill that many opportunities to break something off and all of a sudden Alex Smith can throw another 70-yard touchdown pass that is a screen pass. No, that's a strong point. You start Smith, Hunt, Hill, and Kelsey on the chief side without pause. What a world we live in.

The Chiefs? Man, the Chiefs offense, I'm starting them all. 34.5 points a game. Number two. They got rid of that Jeremy Macklin guy, so now they're exploding. Excellent. Excellent viewpoint. Excellent take. Philip Rivers. I think people want to know, do you start Rivers or do you start Mario Or do you start Mario or do you start Russell Wilson this week? If you had to choose between those three. Rivers, Rivers. Rivers. Rivers. I actually. So Rivers runs right through it. Oh. Oh.

Melvin Gordon, you're starting him. Keenan Allen, you're starting him. What about Hunter Henry Antonio Gates? You have to pick one of those guys. You've got the coin flip the last two games. I'm starting Hunter Henry if I have to pick one of those two. All right. I'm looking forward to Sunday night football. The Raiders and Redskins, the Redskins, three point underdogs at home. 54. Point over, under. I'm excited about this game. Let me jump into Terrell Pryor here. Okay. Because you might get caught up in it.

Trell Pryor, this is the make or break game for Torel Pryor. People want to know, do you give up on Trell Pryor? I am a believer in Trell Pryor until he gives me a reason to reanalyze the situation in this matchup. 54 point over under. They're going to need to pass the ball. You have questions at the running back position this week in Washington. And Pryor has been on the field for the majority of, for more snaps than any other pass catcher in.

Washington. You may not have a healthy Jordan Reed. You may not have Jordan Reed at all. If Pryor cannot take advantage of this situation, these circumstances, you know, the Raiders are middle of the pack thus far through the year. And I think this is the make or break. If he does not do it here, I will be looking for, I'll be looking at streaming options instead of Trail Pryor. Interesting. I like your take. I.

I have been the most against the Washington Redskins offense of the three of us by a mile. This week, I believe that they'll get it done. Being at home, Kirk Cousins, you know, the Oakland Raiders, they've looked great. Their defense has been all right, just middle of the pack. And I believe that Kirk can get it done. Like I said, he might have two interceptions and some really bad throws. But the points, I think, they're not going to be able to stop Oakland.

And so they're just going to, out of necessity, have to keep airing it out, keep throwing. So, you know, if you go to halftime, you might be upset with your Washington Redskins options. But I think you're going to have a second half of this game where they just need to score points and you're going to get fantasy value during that game stretch. Derek Carr, surprisingly, and I had to vet this, he's not throwing the ball down field.

thus far this year. I believe he has one out of 60 passes over 20 yards. He's living with the crab people. Mr. Crabtree? That's right. And so it's very interesting to me. Now, Carr, you know how you said the Seattle, the offensive line? They go and watch video of New York. Right. I think Russell Wilson goes and watches video of the Oakland offensive line. Seattle. They just cried. They can't even handle it. If they put on Raiders tape, they would all just disintegrate and melt.

The Raiders have allowed. The puddles of shame. Have allowed pressure to Derek Carr on 5.9% of dropbacks. So Derek Carr. How upset is David Carr? If you're the other brother that was drafted first and you go and you are on one of the worst offensive lines in modern history and now you watch your brother go, he gets to bake a cake while he's. If you're a good brother, you're very happy for him.

Yeah. Get that name. Yep. All right. So Derek Carr must start. I know we love him. Yeah, he's a great start. Do you start cousins, though? Yeah. I do. I do. I do this week. All right. Quick update. Rob Kelly and Jordan Reed are practicing today. Okay. All right. All right. Glad I paid $31 for the Quiz Rogers because he's looking better than P. Ryan right now. And Crabtree Cooper there. You start him every week.

I talked about Jared Cook as my start of the week from the tight end. If you're at this point saying, like you had, let's say you had Eifford. You were really hoping. And Jerich Cook is still on the waiver wire. I think that he is a fine play. I want to rewind your throwaway comment there that you start Cooper every week. If I had to sit a guy, like if we had to sit. If I had a sit of the week, I would be willing to sit Cooper this week. Because of Josh Norman? Because of Josh Norman. And because of, you know.

it's all dependent on your options, right? I'm not sitting Amari Cooper for, I don't think I have what it takes to sit him for like Rashad Higgins. You're just lowering your expectations. Absolutely. I would say that if you're in a matchup, here's an example. Let's say you face Todd Gurley or you face Carlos Hyde last night. So you know that you've got to make up a little bit. I'm not leaning on Cooper to make that up for you. That's ironic. I thought you were going to say if that was the situation, yeah. Cooper could go off. Cooper cannot go off against Josh Norman. That's my contention.

The odds of him going off are vastly lowered by his opposition right here. You're not, Derek Carr is not going to force the ball to Amari Cooper against Josh Norman. That's just not what a good quarterback does. You look at what Aaron Rogers does with Richard Sherman. I saw some stat the other day. He almost never targets any receiver ever covered by Richard Sherman because he's a quarterback that looks to the opportunity. You've got Crabtree. You've got Cook that Mike just brought up. You have the running backs out of the backfield. All right, so you're looking for explosion.

Amari Cooper or Road Martavis Bryant. I'll take Road Martavis Bryant. I'll take Cooper. Okay. Anybody want to Terrell prior Amari Cooper bet this week? We don't have a water bet yet, and we're getting to Friday. Because I think we all are, we all like prior this week. Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not completely against your stance here on Cooper. How about Cooper outside of the top 15? Anybody want that? I'll take the Cooper Martavis.

Yeah, because I see a world where Cooper is outside of the top 15. Okay. Well, we just won't bet. Darn. Boring. Boring. All right, you just heard the Jordan Reed Rob Kelly News. You start Chris Thompson? If you have to? Would you rather start Thompson or Vereen? Oh, that's a good question. I think I would go Verene there. They're using him. He'll have more volume. So I would lean Verene. Okay. Monday night football, the Cowboys take on the Cardinals in Arizona. The Cardinals.

Three-point dogs at home, 47 point over under. We haven't seen great football from the Cardinals this season. You have a lot of injuries, obviously. Chris Johnson should get a number, an increased amount of snaps. Yes. I actually think Chris Johnson is somebody that I was targeting this week. Before I noticed, to Quiz Rogers, out there on the waiver wire, I was trying to get Chris Johnson. I think I would start Chris Johnson over Matt Forte this week.

and you're at home, and it's actually kind of comedic. The last three times the Cowboys have played Arizona at home. The Cardinals have won last second games against Dallas. There was a game on Christmas, and it was a Christmas miracle. I was there to experience it. It was fantastic. Was that the game where we blocked the punt and returned it for a touchdown in overtime? I don't believe so. Okay. Three straight, though. Ezekiel, does he get back on track against the Cardinals' 10th ranked run defense? Yes.

I think the Cowboys have to go and look at their play calling and say we need to not do what we did last game when we got blown out and we need to run the ball more like we have done while we were winning games over the last year and a half. So I think they're going to force the issue. And I've said this before. The Cardinals rush defense, I think, is not as great as it has been in the last two years. It's been pretty good for two games. I mean, 10th. Yeah, but I say they've been solid.