Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 13 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

Are you trusting anybody from the Houston Texans? Are you... Yeah, I trust. I trust Lamar Miller. He gets enough volume where I think you start him every week. You hope that he gets... Begin the snap percentage and the touches, too. He's back. He's healthy. He's back. I'm definitely starting him. Against the Packers, you've got the temptation to, you know... I bumped Will Fuller up a little bit in my rankings. You've got the talent there that if he can just get...

one decent target from Brock Osweiler. He can take it to the house. That's a problem. I know. That is the problem. And this is we for, I believe, the eighth or ninth time in a row, you say, if Hopkins can just get a goal. No, we say, if he can't get it done this week, if he can't get it done this week, then, you know, you can't trust him anymore. But at this point, he's moved from Fulmi once, twice, thrice to pass, he's past Quatro. You got to, here's what you do.

You pull up your computer, you maximize your window on your draft so that you know that the layout is always the same, okay? You scroll it to where you're looking at your starting lineups. Then you take a Sharpie and you write out, you cross out on your monitor, you cross out where DeAndre Hopkins name is, okay? So you can't read who it is. You got to click and you got to look at the stats.

No, no, no. That would, then you could just take it off and peek and cheat. No, you got to also make sure you don't scroll. The temptation is too great. Don't scroll because you can also see his name. Also never use that computer again. Yeah. All right. Maybe it's a foolish idea. But the point here is that Hopkins needs to be viewed as what he is, which is a wide receiver three option in certain games. A crying shame is what has happened to DeAndre Hopkins. That's how I view it. Yeah.

Man, we were putting up a big vinyl logo at our, at our new digs. And man, Brock Osweiler, it's just, it's very tall. He could have been very helpful in putting that up. But he is not a good quarterback, man. He is just the worst. I'm going to start DeAndre Hopkins. Trevor Simeon or Brock Osweiler? Oh, Trevor Simeon. Oh, no. They made a great move there to not pay him Buku Bucco bucks. Fedorowitz.

Uh, we're going to talk about him in a little bit and then move over to the two leader, uh, Jared Cook. Is the two leader fresh or has it been in the fridge for a couple days? No, it's, it's in the fridge. It's, it's just sitting there. In fact, I think this might be left out right now. The Texans, the Texans are, you know, they're a very good defense. I don't see cooks getting it done this game. Uh, as far as the wide receiver options for the Packers.

I know I pump the brakes on Devante Adams. I don't expect him to have a monstrous game like he did last week, but he's still in the realm where I'm starting him in most rosters. I'm just pumping the expectations on him. He's not going to do what he did last week because he has been highly efficient, but very low volume. Now that's Aaron Rogers way. Aaron Rogers for years has been highly efficient with low volume, so it's a good match. I think you start all three of those wide receivers. You probably don't have multiples on your team, and I'm not.

starting all three on the same team. So who are you picking if you've got, obviously Jordy's going to be beaten. Yes. But if you've got Randall Cobbs and cops, if you've got Randall Cobb and Devante Adam. It's still Adams for me. It's still Adams from your wide receiver one. I hate it. And you got to deal with it, man. Yeah, I got to, I got to deal with it. And for me, it's Randall Cobb. Because I'll make that bad decision. All right. We're going to move over to the Broncos Jaguars.

Oh, Andy's almost upset of the week. If you needed to know whether Andy was truly sick and I'm not making this up. Dealing with a cold. We're not speaking for Andy. He said this. He said, oh, that's my almost upset of the week. The man's love for the Jaguars knows, no bounds, no restrictions. There was an article that came out that pro, it was of head coaches who have.

I think 59 right around there was the amount of games, the threshold. Gus Bradley was officially the worst coach. Yeah, it was like there's 154 coaches in NFL history that have coached 59 games. The lowest winning percentage, the Gus Bradley. The Gus Bus is driving out of town real soon. I mean, he is, he could just start loading that Gus Bus up because he's out of there. But fantasy-wise, for this game, Andy sees something I don't.

I don't think you're going to get garbage time from Blake Bortals like you normally do. Against the number one passing defense. Chris Harris, Akim to leave possibly the best, if you're saying the best two corners on one single team. Here's what the Broncos don't do when they get down. They don't go prevent. You know what I mean? They don't switch to that prevent defense. When they get up, you mean? Yes, I'm sorry. When they get down, I just assumed, I just, look, if I'm talking about being down in this game, I'm talking about the Jaguars. I just assumed.

the team that would be down would be the Jags. But when the Broncos get up, they don't move to that prevent defense. You're not going to get garbage time Bortles here. I don't like Bortles. I don't really like Alan Robinson in this game. No, I'm benching Robinson. You are in your personal league. I don't, I'm not liking a lot of the pieces. They will try to run the ball. Denver is susceptible to that. If Chris Ivory is out and Yeldon is in, and he's the only guy. I think he is.

Yeah, you'd play him. Yeah, I think you do. I think you play him. He'll get enough volume against the team that can and has given up production to the running back. You're not going to be happy about it. No. You need to take that Sharpie. And you need to scribble out more of your monitor when you click submit. You're just going to end up blacking the whole thing out. Just I can't look anymore. Ivory needs to be completely out.

to play Yeldon. Yes. And Yelden needs to be completely out to play Hyver. Yeah. You're not starting either one of these guys if they've got a compadre in the backfield. That's true. Now Demarius Thomas and Manuel Sanders, Manuel Sanders monster game, monster two plays really for Sanders. Simeon banged up going against the third best past defense. That's something that needs to be talked about because we mock the jacks.

We talk about they're going to be down. But their defense has actually been. Their past defense. Yes, their past defense has been quite stellar. Jalen Ramsey is a great draft pick this year. And when it comes to Demarius Thomas, I wanted to speak to him real quick because he is the clear number two.

wide receiver on that team. When I watched that game, I mean... I thought we were going to have to fight. Oh, no. Trevor Simeon, he is targeting... His first read is Emmanuel Sanders. And yes, I said Trevor Simeon is better than Brock Osweiler, but that is not a vote of confidence for Trevor Simeon. Trevor Simeon doesn't make it to his second read all too often. Now, D.T. is a pretty darn good second read, and he can get it done with those big plays. We saw him catch two big balls last week. But with Trevor Simeon...

You know, the ailing foot. I think Jalen Ramsey will probably be on DT. Maybe he'll be on Emmanuel Sanders. But I like Emmanuel Sanders more than DT this week. Since I think it was week five. Since week five, Demarius Thomas has only had one big monster fantasy game. Everything else has been all right. But he is the wide receiver 30 since that time. And so that's, you know. That's not what you drafted. Certainly not what you were hoping for. I would.

I would lower expectations here against the Jags for DT. And so Devante Booker is going to be talked about in just a moment. So let's just move over to there. I think there's not really anything else to break down on the Jags game. Really? You don't want to talk about Alan Hearns? No, let's move it. Starts of the week. We're going to kick this off with Andy. Andy was able to. Here I am, guys.

He's waving again. Andy's quarterback started the week. Philip Rivers is taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is, I think this is still the wise thing. The Tampa Bay defense has been surging. However, it is in San Diego. Tampa Bay has to go across the country. And Philip Rivers has been.

Just spectacular. Look, Andy picked this before I did. I went in to pick. I actually wrote a whole write-up on Philip Rivers because he was my start of the week this week. And then I was like, come on, Andy, you're not even doing this show. And you've got him. So I love this pick. Tampa Bay's defense has been incredible, but that's been in back-to-back home. You know, the emotions are going. When they travel to San Diego, they're not going to stop Philip Rivers. If you're worried about...

Rivers don't be. I agree. He's going to be a great start. I agree. And I will just throw this out there. This is a real NFL thing. If Tampa Bay can deliver in San Diego, it's start, you need to start thinking about Tampa Bay as a legit team. Yeah. Because their offense is going to move. Yeah, they can get it done with Winston and Mike Evans. They'll be able to get some things done. And of course, Doug Martin.

But just saying that if their defense can show up against Philip Rivers, I have my doubts. 47 and a half point over under there. So Vegas does not think they're going to lock them down. Who do you got at quarterback, Jason? Quarterback, I've got a guy that I think you told me don't do it. I did. And I'm saying do it. I'm saying Russell Wilson. You're going Nike on here. I am just doing it with Russell Wilson. Look, last week against this Tampa Bay team we were just talking about, he put up.

The stinker of all stinkers. I mean, if you had Russell Wilson, you are upset. You might just be hate benching him this week. Regardless, he could be playing Cleveland, and you're like, this is a hate bench. You, I'm just dropping them. And I, look, I don't blame you. I mean, Devante Adams, you can. You can't hate bench. No, I'm just saying I'm very mad at Devante Adams and Greg Olson right now. Those two guys, they're not getting Christmas cards, and I deleted their contact out of my phone.

But Andy just chimed in something about your Twitter. He said not according to my Twitter. Oh, I believe that your Twitter is being currently hacked. Oh, come on, Andy. Are you? Oh, Andy is hacking my Twitter. Oh, my gosh. So Russell Wilson, explain why you have this. Here's why I believe Russell Wilson is actually a very good play this week. The reasons are because you had three weeks in a row of Russell Wilson being.

Extremely good for fantasy. Against Buffalo, against New England, against Philadelphia. He put up basically 30 points three weeks in a row. But then he had to go from New England, or I'm sorry, he was in Philly, had to go to Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay was riding high. That was kind of this perfect storm of a bad situation for him, and he stunk it up. But now he's going back home, and they have something to prove because they just got.

humiliated by Tampa Bay. And they're going back to their home team against Carolina, a team that they're not going to let their guard down for, and that Carolina team has been bad against the past, and they're probably going to still be missing Luke Keekly. So to me, I think Russell Wilson is going to be able to get it done, and a lot of people are going to wrongly bench him. I'm saying start Russell. That's fair. Now, mine, I was getting the guff from Jason because this is kind of an obvious one, but I want to lay some fears to rest.

That's why Andrew Luck is my start of the week. I'm going to start Tom Brady. No. No, no, no, no. Because I'm getting the questions. Sure. And I'm talking a high volume of question. You had Andrew Luck. He missed a game. Concussion. The short term memory of fantasy football players, including, I mean, we're all guilty of that. The recency bias. You forget. Andrew Luck is my start of the week. I'm getting, well, I have Kaepernick. Should I play Kaepernick or luck? You play Andrew Luck. I have Derek Carr. Play Andrew Luck.

Tyrod Taylor. These are real questions that I'm getting in high volumes. Oh, no. So I want, did you check out your Twitter? Oh, I'm looking at my Twitter. This is disgusting. This is, hold on. Breaking news. Okay. So what did you, what did you have to say? Here's some of the things I've said. You've said multiple things. Oh, yeah. First, I've been thinking a lot about my life lately at Andy Holloway is both the man and the fantasy football analyst that I want to be. That's so, that's nice of you. With a Pledge of Allegiance style animated gift.

Followed by a wonderful picture of Jeffrey Fisher, head coach of the Rams. And it says, that's a low blow. Yeah, this is really bad. It says friend, father figure, mentor, hero, oh, captain, my captain, goat. I mean, oh, this is not good.

And they just go on and on. I mean, he is, he is not slow down. Favorite players of mine include Brandon LaFelle, Greg Olson, Devonte Adams, Chandler Kent Zaro, Jeremy Macklin and Finn. He is destroying my Twitter. Greg Olson and Devante Adams are my lovers. Oh, this is just, we got to wrap this show up quick so I can fix my tweets. All right. So Andrew Luck, this is just, I'm putting those fears to bet. I agree. Don't even think about your Kaepernick. Look, Andrew Luck versus the Jets.