Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

Is he all right? Yes, he's already been looked over by a medical staff after his car crash leaving practice. Shame on TMZ coming out right away and saying, oh, it's a drag racing incident between the guys. Yeah, and then the police investigated said, no. No, not at all. But that's already out there. Yeah, like he said, good work, TMZ. That's what they do. I understand, but you just, man, you got to be.

careful about that stuff. You can't just throw misinformation out because you want to be first. It's ridiculous. But Fred Jackson was looked over by the medical team and cleared and he's good to go. Excuse me. I've got that back to the future. Malaria? Yeah. All right. So anything else? Big news. Dijax did not practice. We know he had a setback. He's probably not going to play. Des is 50-50 to play. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. All right. Jeremy Macklin sat out of practice.

yet to pass the concussion protocol. We'll have more information on Des and him and other guys tomorrow when we do our in-and-out segment. Giants coach Tom Coughlin said ODB will not practice on Thursday. I'm not worried about that. Everything says that he will still play. We've seen the same exact thing happen with Julio for many weeks where he is not practicing and then he plays. And like I say, Carlos Hyde should be good to go tonight against the Seahawks. Not exactly a juicy matchup for a guy who's been kind of...

getting the carries, but just not doing that much with them. Yeah, and that upgrade you get when Bobby Wagner is out, like we saw for Jonathan Stewart, I believe Bobby Wagner is back. Yes, so he was back of practice. Goodbye running advantage against Seattle. Yeah, so let's go ahead and take a minute. You heard Jason talk about it at the top of the show. We want to thank Sports Manias for sponsoring today's podcast.

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Footballers. All right, guys, it is week seven. Did you know that? It's week seven. It's a great time of fantasy. This is time. This is time. Yes, this is like the best time of the fantasy year where teams are starting to trade. People are needing to make moves. More action is happening. I love this time. I need to tell people, I'm going to just come clean on this one. I'm two and four in one of our leagues. And I'm beginning a comeback. Oh, yes, you are. It began last week already.

What were you going to say? My team is delicious. I think you have the second best team in the league. Your team is a team I do not want to play. But the balls bounced the wrong way. I started one and four. I got the win last week. I'm throwing it out there because I'm facing the 6-0 team this week. And I'm putting it out there to the fans. I'm going to win this game. And I'm coming back. This is the game for your season. I'm going to prove to everybody starting 1 and 4 don't matter. Your team is complete proof that...

sometimes you can have the best team and breaks just fall and you lose. Yeah. And you should not panic, which you have not done like a professional. You have maintained your team. You have actually improved your team instead of tilt selling guys. You know, one of the things that happens for a lot of people, especially if you're just in a regular league. Like, you know, a lot of our listeners out there, they play in a couple of leagues or just one regular league. And they're not dominating and they're not out. They're not 0.6.

This is where the people who keep playing and keep listening and keep making waiver wire moves and the right trades get way better than you would think because there are players in all of our leagues that start dropping out. They start being slow on the waiver. They start carrying less because they think they're out. Don't think you're out. And you can come back, make the playoffs, win a championship, and give us the credit.

It's funny you said that at the end because somebody sent us a, I think it was in the review, an iTunes review. And they credited Jason and they said what's been ringing through their head since the beginning of the season after the draft was that fantasy football leagues are not one in the draft. That's right. He said it's been in his head. And so he's been making moves every single week, just getting a little bit better and a little bit better. He's sitting there. He's five and one now because he made some moves. So yeah, every week, build on it. You know, you can't predict. You can't.

choose your opponent. So you just put the best roster out there, play the odds. And now it's time to talk week seven, guys. Let's get into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. All right, let's kick it off with the Thursday night game. An important piece of news with a, I noticed we forgot. Jordan Reed's back at practice. True. Yes. This needs to be noted for any tight-end needy team because when he plays, as he's already proven again this year, he is a tight-end one. He's a tight-in one.

So he's back in practice. He's trending to play. Just want people to know that. And you can have him this whole week before his next concussion. Maybe. Well, they're on, I think they're on bye next week. Oh, so you get a doubter. You get it for two weeks. All right. Well, he does, he can't get concussed during the buy. Yeah. He has a paper route. The Seahawks face the 49ers tonight on Thursday night football. You know, the Seahawks have not had a good start to this season.

Did you notice? I have noticed that. Not exactly, you know, fourth quarter collapses. They've had leads, I believe, in three of their games that they've lost in the fourth quarter. That Carolina game. Is Marshall Lynch going to write the ship for them? Yeah. He's certainly going to help, and it sounds like he is 100% healthy. And for those who are concerned about Lynch, Lynch has a great history against San Francisco of either getting 100 yards or a touchdown.

or both. I think he's a great play this week. I'm not scared by the matchup at all. Russell Wilson is also very high on my rankings. I didn't look to see where he was on yours yet, so we can check on that. Russell Wilson. He's number five for Jason. He's seven on my list. I think he could end up higher. That's kind of where he landed on the list, but I think the matchup is just great for him tonight. Are you guys all on the Russell Wilson train? Not really. I actually think that it's going to be a low-scoring game, so I don't want my quarterback involved in a

in that mess of a lost one game. Russell Wilson has been pretty much the most consistent. 49ers are the worst against the past? Yeah, even so, it's just because of... It's in San Francisco. Yeah. You saw what New Orleans did last week. That's a good point. It's just because of the divisional nature of this NFC West matchup and the way that the games of Seattle against San Francisco have tended to go, especially in San Francisco. If it was in Seattle, I would be perfectly fine.

with Russell Wilson. He tends to blow them out at home. But when he's on the road, and that offensive line is a mess. So I'm looking for a different option right now. I would be fine rolling him if you've got him. If you're able to win with him, if your team has him and you've been winning, then you should be okay. Because what he did last week is what he's going to do this week, which is what he did the week before last week, which is what he's going to do the week after next week. That's what he does. He gets you about.

20 points, depending on your scoring system. Is there a wide receiver in this game that you want to actually play? No. On either side of the ball. No, no. Jeremy, I would say Jimmy Graham. That's the wide receiver I want to play. So are you on board with me? You know, I think he's a fine play every couple of weeks, maybe every other week. I would be fine playing him this week because I think it's a good matchup. But I don't love him. And Colin Kavernick, are we sitting him today?

Yeah, yeah. Colin Kaepernick against... This is one of those off weeks. He was our start of the week, last week, had a monster game. So I'm a little bit shocked here. I actually, you know, I rated Kaepernick kind of high. Higher than you guys, I'm sure. To sid-swipe this conversation, I'm shocked that in our league, no one bid on Jordan Reed in our league. So who got him? I did. Because I paid for him. Oh, you did pay for him. Yeah. I was going to say he was my top waiver claim. I paid up for Jordan Reed. How much? 11 bucks.

Oh, well, you're going to get a concussed Jordan Reed for $11. Yep. So, I mean, because if he goes out again next week, I don't know. It might be worth the chance. It's absolutely worth the chance to me. Yeah, to me. Yeah, that's fine. It looks like I ended up with C.J. Spiller then. Yeah, the truth is, I don't think there's a lot of players you want to play in tonight's game, which is a shame. I love watching Thursday night football with things that affect my fantasy game.

But if you had to rank the guys that you would play in this game, I don't even have Carlos Hyde. I think I've got him as a low RB3. So in most of my teams, he wouldn't even be in the lineup. I would say Russia Wilson first and then Jimmy Graham and that's about it. It's Lynch. Lynch and Graham are the guys that I want to play, basically. And Jimmy Graham is fine. All right, let's go ahead and hop across the pond. Oh, that was...

the worst. That was nothing. That wasn't an accent. Oh, that was just a different voice. Okay. I see the backpedal. No, no, no. I'm not saying I wasn't trying. I'm just saying the way it ended up was just like me changing the inflection of my voice and speaking normal English. Like, that was not, I mean, there was nothing to that. Oh, man.

Very nice. I was going to try again, but I'm not going to you. The Bills face the Jaguars in London. Please try again. Do you think London's like, give us a different game? No. The E.J. Manual Bordle? Oh, I forgot about the E.J. Manual factor. Yeah, I mean, you got a Bordles factor and a manual factor? Yeah. Man, I like watching Blake Bordell's play.

It's, yeah, I mean, you get, you're a big interception guy. Well, that's what I'm saying. You get a lot of passing yards. You get the car crash effect occasionally with Blake Bortles. But I don't know, I think Jacksonville is actually an entertaining team to watch. You got a fist up in the air. Joach Bell was bid on and purchased in our league. By whom? Multiple teams. That's ridiculous. $7.

Moving on for Troika Bell, we do not need to. So players you're excited about in this game. Shady McCoy clearly is a, he's a top running back option for me. What about you guys? Absolutely. In this game, I mean, he seems like he's, you know, no setback. Seems like he's doing okay. E.J. Manuel needs to lean on the running game. McCoy will be involved in the passing game.