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

Some serious points to opposing quarterbacks with multi-touchdown games the last three weeks that the Cowboys have played. They're throwing out Matt Castle. I just don't think that the Cowboys are equipped for this game. And Eli Manning, besides last week, had a string, a string of games where he was dominating. So I'm going, I'm okay going back to him.

Give me a running back, Mike. Let's go through the running backs. My running back of the week is Lamar Miller, 19 for 113 last week. And they are taking on the Texans. And the Texans, if you look back, a couple weeks were demolished by the Falcons and Indianapolis on the ground. So I'm buying into the resurgence of they're going to feed Lamar Miller the ball.

Jason, what's your running back? I'm buying into the quality of Doug Martin. He's passed the eyeball test. You know, is he for real? Is he not for real? Coming off a bite against a good running defense in Washington. But I believe Doug Martin is going to be good the rest of the year. So I say start Doug Martin. Well, and I'm going to go out on a limb, too, and tell you that Washington's not good. Washington was a mirage. They got destroyed by Atlanta. They got destroyed by Chris Ivory. Doug Martin has the same ability to succeed like Freeman and Ivory did. Yep.

So my running back start of the week is the bounce back game for Latavius Murray. I know we've been worried about him. But San Diego is so good against the past that they just give up a lot of points on the ground against fantasy running backs. Murray is coming off the buy. His health should be improved. I think they need him dramatically to improve that offense. So I like Latavis Murray. I'd roll him out there as a two with running back one upside. Yeah, I love that pick. My wide receiver is going to be.

Downtown John Brown. Who-hoo! John Brown's coming off a 196-yard game for the Cardinals. They're facing the 31st worst team. How were the Ravens not dead last? Yeah, they're close. They're darn close. And this is a Monday night game at home. The place is going to be rocking. John Brown is super reliable in terms of just that go-to guy for Carson Palmer. I love John Brown this week.

And my guy, I'm piggybacking with you. I went with Michael Floyd, who finally got involved in the offense, 5 for 50 with a hush down last week. And Michael Floyd is a guy who is probably available on your waiver wire if he didn't get picked up during the normal waiver run. And the deal is, I want a piece of this game. I want a piece of Carson Palmer versus the Ravens secondary.

Here, look, there is a great possibility that all three guys, Larry, Floyd, and Brown go off. But I just, I want, I want a piece of that delicious, delicious Raven Pie. I completely agree. My rankings show it out more than I thought. Also, if you're in Arizona.

use the seat geek app and go to the game. We'll be there. We'll take a picture together as we watch the Cardinals destroy them. My wide receiver is Eric Decker. Yeah, I like this. Fitzpatrick, they're going to go and the Jets are going to have a good tough matchup in New England. Well, New England is known for shutting down the opposing team's number one option. That's just what Bill Belichick likes to do. Not going to happen. I don't think they do shut down Brandon Marshall. Can't stop Brandon. But my point is, it's always the number two guy that kind

has the better game. Eric Decker's been great. So I love Eric Decker. He's got a touchdown street going too. Yeah. Let's hit the tight end position then, Jason. Why don't you kick it off with your tight end? We all have... Antonio Gates is... Everybody's number one. Everybody's number one. He's going... Which is surprising because Gronkowski can be there too. I don't blame me if you got Gronk.

But we all have Gates won. Yeah, he's going to destroy this week. So if you've got him or can get him, play him. But that's too easy. So I'm going to take Delaney Walker. Atlanta is 26 against the tight end, and Ben Watson just lit them up. Mettenberger, a good friend of the tight end position. So I'm going Delaney Walker. I love that pin. And I'm going with my man Zeus, who has been, I guess he's been disappointing, even though he's really not been. Why are you shaking your head?

Nobody's not, nobody's sitting, Zeus. That's fine. No, nobody's sitting. I think a lot of people, I've had a lot of questions coming through. I've had tons of questions of, tons of questions of, is it time to move on from Travis Kelsey? So I'm letting people know. I just don't know where you move to. You, people chase Ben Watson like we've been talking about. I'm arguing with you for no good reason then. He's the fourth best tied in, though, so I'm surprised. That's what I'm saying, where he's not actually been disappointing.

People just see the flourish spike numbers of other tight ends. Yeah, he hasn't scored in five weeks. Kelsey's not putting those up. Yep. And the Steelers against elite tight ends, which I still consider Travis Kelsey to be an elite tight end, have been destroyed. No, I have no problem with the start whatsoever. I definitely would start Kelsey. I got Jason Whitten coming back off the by against the Giants. I like...

the Matt Castle effect where he might be a little bit more involved in getting the ball downfield. And even if, when I say downfield, I simply mean over the head of Darren McFadden, for goodness sakes, into somebody else's arms. In fact, I had the option this morning to drop Terrence Williams to get Andre Johnson. And I just said no, because I think Terrence Williams has just a much higher upside this week. I'm not a castle believer. He'll probably throw 11 picks. But at least he's going to drive the ball down the field a little bit. The Giants are 28 against.

tight ends. You know, this is a nice matchup for Witten. He's very safe this week. It took every ounce of willpower that I have on this morning coming off of very little sleep. Yeah. To not put my man. Kristen Michael is my running back start of the week. I was going to say, how is Seamike not your start of the week here, Mike? I had a dream. Oh!

I had a dream last night in my minimum four hours of sleep between the Back to Future Marathon and my child waking up repeatedly and feeling sick. So here's the dream I had. And we'll just reveal these. Chris and Michael got the ball five times on the opening drive and scored a touchdown. Ooh. Wow. Specific. That was his dream as well.

He's been dreaming that for years. So, hey, that's it for today's show. We went a little longer. We got week seven previewed for you. Starts of the week. Be sure to check out the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com. Get connected with us on Jointhefoot.com. And thanks for listening. We'll be back tomorrow. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web at www.com. The Fantasyfootballers.com.

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