Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 10 Matchups, In-or-Out, #FootClan Friday

Yeah, so to speak to that, I mean, there's an easy and obvious narrative where David Johnson rushes for... 6,400. 25 attempts for 200 yards and two touchdowns, and you don't even need the passing game. You're already up. You're going to, you know, the fourth quarter, you're taking him out and...

Carson out and, you know, start your Andre Ellington. That narrative can happen in this game. But what we've seen in a lot of these 49ers games is that teams get it done both on the ground and through the air. David Johnson is just as likely to take a screen to the house, which would help Carson Palmer as he is to take it between the tackles up the middle. And, you know, you're still a team that needs to figure out the passing game.

for the Arizona Cardinals. And I think this is one of those games where you might want to set your team up to get a little bit of mojo back as opposed to just, hey, we've got to grind out this win against San Francisco. Okay. Look, I can get behind that. Cardinals' defense, however, their third against the past, 16th against the run. This game's at home. They're coming off a buy. You know, they should be ready to play. You know, Kaepernick had a monster game last week. I don't think anybody's tempted to start him. No.

The real question is, is basically Duan Harris or Carlos Hyde. Whoever's starting for San Francisco, how confident are you rolling them out there? I'm pretty confident. Volume. Volume. I'm very confident in the volume. Whoever is the guy, we saw that Duan Harris was a three down back. Carlos Hyde has been treated that way as well. They are likely to be very inefficient. The scoring opportunity is, it still exists, but it's lower. But because of that volume,

They're fine as a low-end running back too. And I would, you know, I'm hoping that Hyde is out for fantasy purposes because I think Harris is the better matchup for the Arizona Cardinals because if you are down and you have to pass, you know, Carlos Hyde. The skill set. Yes. If Hyde's in there, you're going to see Harris in on third down. Harris last week.

had five receptions for 83 yards and a touchdown through the air. That's more. Is that how receptions work? Yes. Through the air most of the time. I'm just specifying that the touchdown was also through the air. The touchdown was also through the air. The touchdown was also through the air from the reception. But you weren't mentioning the reception part. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying. No, five receptions for 80 and a touchdown. I'm saying through the air. The touchdown was also a receiving touchdown. Sure. From the reception. But you weren't mentioning the rushing stats at all.

I'm not letting it. I want to keep this going for another 20 minutes. My point is Arizona, I think if they get up, you're going to see a team that's going to have to pass the ball in 49ers. And Carlos Hyde, that's not his skill set to be a very, he can. He can get it done. And if he's in there, I think he probably ends up with, you know, four for 40 through the air. Look, if I'm if I'm tossing my baby across the room, I want DeWan Harris catching him, not, not Carlos High. There you go.

And that's really the highest price. Don't toss your baby across. Sure, that wouldn't be. I hesitated before I said that, but it's very important to make that point. All right, we've got at least three games to go through, or three more to go through and the Daily Dose. So let's move into the Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers, also known as Big Benz at home. They're two and a half point favorites, a 50 point over and under. Look, this game has all the makings of a dog fight and a high-scoring one at that.

You're starting Big Ben. You're starting Lev Bell. You're starting Antonio Brown. How do you feel about Sammy Coates? Mike? I feel okay. I mean, after his gooseer, you were like, I like that zero. I like what I saw. Look, Coates is a very all or nothing type of play. So, which is the way that I play fantasy, that's perfect for my flex spot. I will do that. I like to have the rock sawed guys and then have that one. I'll go Coates. In your flex. I would go Coats or J.J. Nelson in your flex.

Ooh. JJ Nelson. That's tough. I might go Nelson, but that's a very tough call. Okay. So all or nothing with coach does have the potential at home to have a big game. I know last week he was the, I think the second highest player with yards left on the field. So he was targeted, just didn't connect. And you know how Big Ben is coming off of injuries and being on the road. You mix those together and you got that mess that you had last week. Other side of the ball, you're starting, Zeke. He's locked and loaded. Yes. Des Bryant. I love him.

I love the number two Dallas receiver this week. How about Jason Whitten? Does he moving out of the Barfittians with that big old performance? No. No, it's not. That's just the Cleveland Asterix? Yes. All right. And then Dak Prescott, does he get the Cleveland Asterx or do you start him? I am absolutely starting deck. I have full confidence in Dak as a fantasy starter this week. And this is in a game where I kind of...

I hope I'm wrong, but I kind of disagree with Vegas. Vegas has this very high-scoring game. I could see this game being more of the low-scoring dog. Nobody disagrees with Vegas. And I hope I'm wrong, but I am very confident in Dak Prescott right now. I have no fears or qualms starting him in a...

Plus matchup. I'm not, you know, starting them against the Broncos. But with the Steelers who have the ability to score and have given up big games through the air, I'm absolutely fine starting deck. Does Levy on Bell score this week? Levy on Bell gets back on track this week. That's my official position. That's your official position? Yeah. Through the air. All right. The Seahawks Patriots, the Sunday night football game, Russell Wilson. Oh, by the way, you of course start Dallas's number one wide receiver. No, come on.

Cole Beasley? You would start Cole Beasley? I would not. You wouldn't start him in a 50 point over under? I disagree. Here's the deal. You have disagreed on starting Beasley every single week. Yeah, I was. And when I said I disagree. When I said I disagree just for clarity here, I disagree with Andy. All right. What is starting in me?

Starting him means that if you're in a half point or a full point PPR, you can pretty much get locked and loaded double digit points. Yes. And so that is probably fine. I'm very prone to infection. I don't want the Beasles around me, but I understand the need. The best joke I got on Twitter was because we were talking about how do you get the cure for the Beasles? And they say, well, you get a shot of desicillin. Ah, yeah, well, we'll see if that comes through.

All right. Jason's super impressed with that joke. Yeah. No, not so much. All right. Seahawks. Patriots. Yeah, you missed him bringing back goat size yesterday. Oh, don't. And by missed, I mean, didn't miss. And I'm glad you cut that out of the show. I couldn't. I couldn't do it. Can't win with him. Can't play with him. Look, he's coming. All right. Speaking of which, Seahawks, Patriots in New England, Patriots, seven and a half point favorites.

really says a lot about, you know, the Seahawks are obviously a winning team, a division leading team, a team that looked pretty good this past week. Patriots still 7.5 point favorites at home coming off to buy 49 point over under. Russell, do you buy back in? Or is this regression? Oh, man. Because I don't buy. I don't buy this week. I'm not starting in this week. Here's a question. Russell Wilson, J. Cutler this week.

That's a very good question. I'm going to go with Russell Wilson because the one thing that I do think Russell Wilson does is he does what is necessary. And what I mean there is if they are down, if I expect New England to be able to score on that Seattle Seahawks defense, most teams this year have not been able to really rally up the points and you haven't seen him have to.

really be used in a I've got to score two more touchdowns type of manner with Russell Wilson. If they're in that situation, I think he's going to be an okay start. I don't love him. I'm not saying, you know, he's locked and loaded top five quarterback, but I think the Patriots offense is what is going to allow us to play Russell Wilson and get enough done. Because at that end of the game, when Russell Wilson has to go 80 yards, you know he's going to do it.

That's how I feel. Okay. All right. CJ ProCise, Christine Michael. Who would you rather start? I'll start ProCise. Yeah, I would start ProCise as well. So humble, Mike. That's good to hear. Baldwin, Lockett. Sorry, I'll start Goat Sice. Okay. When are you taking a day off? Next week. Okay, good. Good. I mean, so next week, just so you know, the show's completely verified next week. 100% verified.

Until I'm phoning in. Do they let you... We're getting those verification stamps right on our IDs so that people... All right. Jimmy Graham, big week last week. So stupid. I know. You are. But what am I? What was that? I don't know what that was. By the way, shout out to all the 321 contact lovers out there. I really enjoyed my Twitter page yesterday. That was great. All right.

I've gotten lost, guys. Did we say start Jimmy Graham, start gronk? Yeah, you start Graham and gronk. People want to know what to do with Edelman. I mean, look, I think I play him. I mean, I don't have a problem playing him in this game. The Patriots, I'm sorry, the Seahawks are susceptible to slot receivers. I'm not afraid of starting Julian Edelman this week. Okay. All right. Well, um. And Doug Baldwin?

Well, I mean, you love Russell Wilson, so you would have to love Doug Baldwin. I wanted to know what you guys think. I think Doug Baldwin is a wider shaver two this week. Yeah, he's on that two, three. Do you start LaGarrett Blunt? And what does that mean if you're starting him? Because let me see where we have him this week. If you're starting him, you really hope that he scores a touchdown. So Lagart Blunt this week, we have him as the consensus 19. Ooh, that's high. I think that's right about where he belongs because. Well, it's, you know, Blunt or Gio against New York? He's geo.

Okay, Blunt or... Blunt or Ivory against Houston. Blunt, for sure. Yeah, I want to... I mean, blunt over... You take Blunt over ProCise and Michael in this game? Yes. If I'm in a full PPR, I would probably take Pro Cise. In the scoring opportunity, but I'm telling you, this is... Dionne Lewis is... We're cautionary on Lewis, but those 8 to 10 carries that Lewis can start getting, that's trouble.

If he gets five carries, that's trouble. Let's say Lewis gets five carries. James White gets four to five carries. Can we not pretend that Blunt makes his hay on carries, though? But you have to get, you have to get a volume. You have to get a momentum going. He has to score, man. That's what he's been doing. Nine touchdowns this year. Legerat Blunt is in the same vein as Peterson, where you see a whole bunch of carriers early.

of him getting absolutely nothing done because he's wearing the defense down. He's beating people up. So last year. That's exactly what I was looking at. You're looking at Lewis's carry total? No, I'm looking at the split of Ligarrett Blunt in games when Dionne Lewis played and in games when Deion Lewis did not play.

When Dionne Lewis was not in the game, LaGarrett Blunt averaged last year in six games, 5.98 fantasy points per game. And with Dionne Lewis in the game was 14.45 points per game. The offense was moving. The offense was better with Dionne Lewis in there. That's, you know, I mean, if you look at the touchdowns, you know, you've got more opportunity for touchdowns in a game.

where your offense is doing. I mean, Lewis's carry counts with blunt last year, six, four, five, four. It's not that, it's not as big as we think. Yeah, and the rushing touchdown number is really the difference. In the six games that Dionne Lewis played, he had 13, or I'm sorry, he averaged 0.8 touchdowns per game. He had two. He had two last year on the ground, but he had two through the air. So, yeah. Okay, interesting.

Anyways, there's the breakdown there. We've got to move on. We've got to move on. Let's talk about the Bengals and the Giants. A Pickham game on Monday night football. I don't know who's going to win this game. And I guess Vegas doesn't either. 47.5 point over under. Eli Manning. What was the comparison you made about Eli Manning? That he is nitroglycering. Yeah. You just don't know when you're going to. Well, it's very, very useful, but it can also destroy you. Yeah.

What do you think about, I mean, Dalton or Manning facing off in this game, both are streaming options for teams with an Andrew Luck on by, for example. Do you start Dalton and you start Manning if you had to choose between the two? I would start Dalton. Okay. But it's funny because, I mean, you're talking similar situation. Very similar. Both past defenses, rank in the 20s. Both have a big wide receiver. Both have an elite level wide receiver. But Andy Dalton has an elite level tight end. And a better first name. That's my.