Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 4 Matchups, The Daily Dose, TNF Review

Jay Cutler. In. Andre Ellington. Out. Now, the report this morning, I will say on Ellington is that he's probably playing. Oh, I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, the report came out early this morning that he's likely to start. Okay, then I'll... So, I mean, you can take it on my word or you can, you know, follow it on your own. But Chris Ivory? In. Yeah, good reports on him. What about Jonathan Stewart? Now, he is practicing today.

Then I would say in. If you're practicing on Friday, you're probably playing. This has been a really easy list so far. DeMarco Murray? In. What about Marshawn Lynch? Oh, here's the question mark. Monday night football. And Pete Carroll, in going classic NFL coach. So it's going to tick all week to figure this out. And he's 50-50. You need to have options. So this is, let's say you're the Marshaun Lynch owner. You didn't get Rawls.

You need to figure something out. A guy you can put on your bench who should be available, either Eric Ebron or Theo Riddick. I think both of these guys are okay backup plans. If you want to wait for Lynch, the game script could be great for Theo Riddick. With the lions going, the Seahawks are very heavy favors right now. Of course, they were over the Bears. But by half...

way through the game, it could be Theoretic getting dump passes. Or Eric Ebron is, he's been okay. So these are options on your bench that you could have just in case you flex. Jason, would you rather have Fred Jackson or Theoretic? I would rather have Fred Jackson as a handcuffed to March on Lynch. So if Monday comes around, Lynch doesn't play, you'd rather play Jackson? Yes. Okay, because that's what I was in seeing you. The real question, though, is going to come down to Joick Bell. So if Joyne Bell is out, who would I rather have?

I'd probably rather have Fred Jackson. All right, so let's talk about Joy, in or out. What do you think? I think he's going to be out. Out. And I'm going to say in on Lynch. I don't think we answered that. LaShawn McCoy? Out. Yeah, I think he's going to be out. Then the other wide receiver there, Sammy Watkins? Out. Okay, let's talk about, what about Arian Foster? Do we think he's going to start? Is anything changed since yesterday morning? I'm going out. I think out. Okay, and I think he'll play. Eric Decker?

I'm going to go in because he's a tough SOB. Alshan Jeffrey. In. In. Alan Hurons? In. Kinney Britton. Yeah. Devonty Adams has come out and said that he does not have a high ankle sprain. It's a low ankle sprain. He said that this morning. He's working it with his mental power right now. He's moving the sprain down. So does he play? I don't think so. No. Jordan Cameron?

I think he plays. Yeah. And then an update on Julius Thomas, who did practice in a limited fashion this week, but he is officially out this morning. I'll be it to say. So let's go ahead and let's get into the fantasy forecast. Let's talk about the remaining games that we didn't get to yesterday. Before we get to that, I want to remind everybody about the free sports manias app. Here's what I love about this app. Besides the ability to get...

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All right, let's talk about the Jaguars facing the Colts. Jaguars. Yes, the Jaguars. We looked this up yesterday. We are getting our pronunciation game on. We've got Kristen Michael. Yeah, Kristen. Confirmed. We've got Larry Donnell. Mm-hmm. And we have the Jaguars. And we have Nelson Agalore. Agalore. Yes. Yeah. We're all over this. These guys are going to love us now. The big fans of these. You know, it's incredible is you can go to YouTube and you can type in just about any player's name.

word, and here somebody pronounce it. So we're getting so much smarter. Our fantasy predictions are going up. All right. The Jaguars at the Colts, Blake Bortles, the injured Andrew Luck. Now, the line in this game was the Colts were nine-point favorites. If Luck doesn't play, Matt Houselback is still in the NFL and is going to start for the Colts. Yeah. How would you adjust the wide receiver core in...

Indianapolis, if luck is not on the field, do you sit anybody you would have started before, is the first question? I don't know that you sit them because I don't think it's going to take a drastic enough bump down. I mean, if you were thinking about playing Andre Johnson, maybe, you know, you sit him as probably the third option there. I'm much less excited about my start of the week in Dante Moncrief if...

luck comes out of that game. Because I think then you, when a guy, a backup comes in, you tend to target that number one guy often. And so T.Y. Hilton might get a couple more looks. Barry's Hayward Bay will catch past somehow. I actually have this theory that I've talked about before that backup quarterbacks like backup wide receivers. And we kind of saw with Michael Vick going after Hayward Bay.

You think Philip Dorset and Hasselbeck are running a lot of routes together on the practice field? Or Moncrief. Well, but the difference, though, I agree with you. I think it's been proven time and time again that a lot of times that backup comes in and throws to the backup. But you've got Moncrief who's been running with the one. He hasn't been practicing, you know, with Hasselback, whereas Philip Dorset.

Yeah, it's possible. But I'm not sitting... Nobody's starting Dorset. No. No. And I'm playing Hilton. I'm still playing Moncrief with confidence. So, okay, let me ask you this. You are the luck owner. Do you grab Hasselback? No. Going up against a depleted Jaguars. You send in the car? Send in the car. Send in the car. No, not at all. There's no way I would do that. I would start 25 other quarterbacks.

because of, I mean, just the things that can go wrong. And the fact, you saw exactly what happened. This is why we didn't start Michael Vitt. Conservative offense, run-dependent offense, control the game. Well, hold on. Let's say you're in a two-quarterbacked league, so the wire is far scarcer. Now, you're looking at Josh McCowan or Matt Hasselbeck. Okay. 100 out of 100 times. Well, that's a lot of a lot. A lot. The count had a good game. He had 300-plus yards last week.

a couple touchdowns. He also has the propensity to die midgame. Well, you know, it's the NFL. So, uh, from the Jaguar side,

Bortles is an okay streamer this week to me. Yeah, I agree. You have Alan Robinson and Ellen Hearns. Hearns was Jason's, or I'm sorry, Mike's, start of the week. Because of the Vante Davis factor on Alan Robinson, Vante is probably a top three, you know. He's great. Shutdown type of corner. He really does have an impact on those. You know, very few have an impact on the number one receiver. And not everybody will be impacted by Vante Davis, but you saw it with Brandon Marshall. You've seen it with other guys this year. What about the tight-in position? Because you have Dwayne Allen.

And Kobe Fleener. Well, Alan is still very questionable to play. If Alan sits, Fleener is fine as one of those grabbing a guy off of the wire because you need somebody. So you're a gronk owner and you're just hoping to get a couple points. Okay. So let's go ahead and talk about the Eagles facing the Redskins. Do we have an update for listeners in terms of the prognosis, you know, whether this game is going on? Oh, with the hurricane? I have not heard anything as of this morning. Nothing new.

Yeah. There have been a lot of people that are like, okay, do I drop, you know, I need somebody to start. I might want to roll out Aguilar, but I don't know what's happening with the hurricane situation. Right. You guys talk about the game. I'll do some searching. Now, basically, I did see a report here that says that it will be played this weekend. It will not be postponed. Okay. So I guess that answers that question. It might just have to move. It could be moved to Detroit if the weather doesn't cooperate. Detroit always gets these extra games. I know.

So, okay, so maybe that solves that problem. Are you starting Bradford in any leagues? I think Bradford is okay this week against Washington. This could be the final ride of Sammy Biscuits, but I really think the match. Which would be so sad with a nickname like that. I know. I think the matchup is okay. The Washington, their past defense is ranked very high right now, and maybe they really are turning it around, but I just...

I'm leaning on the history that they've been poor for a while now. Jason, what is the value of Ryan Matthews if DeMarco Murray starts? Not good. The value is just potential that maybe you see more of a split workload based on Ryan Matthews doing well last week, but I wouldn't imagine that you could start him unless you have nobody else to put in, say, a flex position. But Murray practiced in full, so Murray's going to be back on the field. I expect that

he becomes the primary ball carrier again. I don't see Chip Kelly changing his ways. The hope is that there is a split and going forward, Ryan Matthews, has value. But for this week, I don't think you can in any way confidently start Ryan Matthews and expect that. Let me ask this question for the Murray owners out there. DeMarco Murray or Latavius Murray this week? Latavius. DeMarco Murray or Carlos Hyde. Hide.

I think I would roll DeMarco. DeMarco or Yeldin? Probably go to Marco. That's really close, but I'm going to go upside of DeMarco. Okay. One thing to mention about the Washington past defense, the Angela Hall is hurt. Yeah. And he is now off the field and he's their leader. Is he out? Three to four weeks at least. In addition to that, they're great pasty. They had Ryan Tannahill week one.

who struggled. I mean, he's been not that great this year other than one week. And then they played against the Rams in week two. Nick Foles is not exactly lighting anyone up. And then Eli came in and had a pretty good game, you know, almost 300 yards and two touchdowns. So when we look at their pasty and say, oh, they're a top-in pasty, I think that's a little hollow, especially losing Hall. This could actually be a decent matchup for Sammy Biscuits. Especially if you're talking DFS because I think this is a week where

people are not going to be in on him. So if you're going not in head-to-heads, but if you're going in more like, you know, big pool. GPPs, yeah. People are off of biscuits. You get that Sammy Biscuits, Jordan Matthews stack. This might be a biscuits and gravy type of weave. You know what I'm saying? I liked it. I really hope he has a good week so we can continue to speak about him on the show. All right, let's talk about the Browns and the Chargers. We will see the epic Philip Rivers' Josh McCown faceoff. Played Jordan Reed.

Yeah, absolutely. You start Jordan Reed. I'm not starting a Philly tight-in right now. Okay. Do you start Darren Sprouls? In PPR formats. Okay. Yes. We also, we got to talk, you know, if you're the Alfa Morris owner, the Matt Jones. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, you're right. I skipped over the running backs there. Yeah, so Washington side. What are you going to do if you own both? Who are you starting? If you have to start one of them. Matt Jones. Ooh, you have switched. In this game?