Starts of the Week + Wk 16 Matchups, Josh Stallion

I would probably try to avoid that situation. If C.J. Anderson is going to have a role of any kind. And, you know, John Kelly, we don't really know the trust level right now. Obviously, if Malcolm Brown had been healthy and active, then it's easy. I would have started Malcolm Brown. But now, so like C.J. Anderson, if Todd Gurley sits or say like.

Dante Pettis against Chicago. Asking for a friend? Hypothetical. Yeah, for a friend. I would probably roll Dante Pettis out there. Yeah, so would I. Yeah. Unless I got more information. I mean, it's Thursday. If we find out, you know, C.J. Anderson's getting the start. Yeah. That would be bananas. Yeah, I would. So awesome. If you.

I know. That's why. With C.J. Anderson. That's the whole. It's not because I want. It would be the greatest account. You're such an underdog. It's not because I want the points. It's because I want the glory. Well, that is really fantasy football. I want to win with C.J. Anderson. Jamal Williams limited in Wednesday's practice. We already have Aaron Jones on IR. I guess. I guess. But being limited on Wednesday, whatever.

I actually, I mean, if, yeah, if Williams was going to miss, I would pick him up because of the past catching. Aaron Rogers says he's going to play in Week 16 against the Jets, Spencer Ware, limited hamstring injury at Wednesday's practice, and a reminder tomorrow, in and out. We'll go through all the injuries again. We'll get the practice reports from today. We'll report them and weigh in on whether we think these guys are going to go or not go for the big Week 16 championship matchups.

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Holy crap, that job is easy. Cake job, right? Cake job. Like, I don't even know why we have Brooks. It's so easy. I wonder why he hacky sacks during most of the show over there. But that's because he can't. I mean, he just, he stands up in the middle of the show. Hacks, yo-yo's, ball in a cup. He does it all. Yeah, a little jacks. Play some jacks. A little loud, but. Jacks are all the rage again. What a game. But yeah, we'll go ahead and get into the.

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Footballers. Fantasy forecast. All right, let's get into the matchups. Don't forget there is no Thursday night football tonight. So you get a little extra prep time for the Saturday games. You've got two Saturday games again this week and then the Sunday, Monday games. What, there's Redskins Titans? That's the first Saturday game? No. No, the first one is the Redskins Derek Henrys. They're playing in Tennessee.

against the Derek Henry's and, uh, yeah, it should be should be a bad game. Never heard of him. I mean, it's never heard of it. Derek Henry. Yeah, the Tennessee Derek Henry's. They've been on fire the last two weeks and they're going to win people championships. Uh, I can't believe it. I went to the gym. Red skin seven and seven, Titans eight and six, Titans 10 point favorites. The game has an only a 37 point over under. I mean.

And yet there's 10-point favorites. Yeah, that is not a lot of points to the Redskins. I don't think that there is a single Redskin you can start. Usually it's maybe Adrian Peterson. No. Andy's almost upset of the week. Okay, this has to just be better on the 10-point line. Correct. Yeah, the 10-point line, the Redskins still fighting for a division lead. The Titans have the ability to both show up and then disappear. Their offense is...

Uh, one dimensional. I was, they hand the ball to Derek Henry 21 times in the first half last week. The Redskins have a formidable defense. I don't know why this game has a 10 point line. I really don't. I think it's because the Redskins cannot score. Yeah. They did win last week. They did, but it was a defensive score. Yeah. Against a garbage team. Well, I, the Titans are not garbage. No, they're not. I'm not, look, this is not disrespectful to the Titans, but the over under in and of itself betrays.

the 10 point line to me. If they're not expecting a ton of points to be scored on either side of the football, you know, I think the 10 point line is excessive. That's all. That's fair. But, I mean, you'll watch on Saturday, and then you'll be like, oh, you're a genius, Andy. We're going to find out. One of us certainly will be. Brooks will put a Josh Johnson jersey up on the wall come Monday morning. So on your upset team of the week, who would you start for fantasy? Well, that's a whole different story there, my friend.

No one.com? No one.com. Would you start the Redskins defense if you think the Titans not show up? Not on the road. Not on the road, no. The ability to not show up the game line. I'm not going to start the Washington Redskins defense with excitement. Chris Thompson still interesting to me, but no, I'm not, you know, Vernon Davis, maybe. Vernon Davis had some targets last week. He didn't come. He didn't bring in.

some pass interference calls. When you start talking about Vernon Davis, I think you're talking about one of the dart throws that can show up at the top of the list. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't mind it in a DFS play. And in Week 16, Championship Week, really it's Derek Henry as the only player I want to start in this whole game. And the biggest question since the Tennessee Titans have renamed themselves to the Tennessee Derek Henry's is, what can you do with Corey Davis? Is Corey Davis with the low volume from Marcus Mario?

Is he even someone that you can remotely start? No. Because I've seen a lot of questions where Corey Davis is in a list of guys where I have hemmed and hawed. Like, man, Corey Davis is the best of these three players. Derek Henry has 51 touches the last two weeks. He is the offense. Marcus Marriott has no touchdown. 250 total. Not per game. 250 total. In the last two weeks, that's enough to bench him. Yeah, but people are asking questions like Corey Davis or.

Dante Pettis versus Chicago. Right. Petis. Corey Davis or Josh Reynolds versus Arizona. Reynolds. Cory Davis or Demarius Thomas. Didn't Reynolds have like 12 targets? Yeah. Yeah. He had a fine game last week. Corey Davis or Demarius Thomas? Yeah. Demarius Thomas. Wow. Cory Davis or DJ Moore with a backup quarterback. That's one where I'll probably, I'll probably go Corey Davis. Okay. I might go Corey Davis over.

Who is the one that you just mentioned, Mike? Demarius Thomas? Yeah, I'd probably go over Demarius Thomas. What about Robert Foster? Sensation. New sensation for the Buffalo Bills. That one's close. I mean, I would probably go, like, here's what I don't think is going to happen. I don't think Corey Davis has given you 20 points. No, we know that. Robert Foster could do that. Absolutely. Other than Derek Henry, look, Dionne Lewis obviously been pushed to the sideline, both, you know.

literally and on fantasy rosters when Derek Henry is getting that amount of play. They're winning because of that, and that's why they'll keep doing it. I mean, only 10 and 15 touches in the last two weeks. He's our RB 31 this week. Yeah, I think Dionne Lewis can get play again if they were to be down by a lot of points, but this does not appear to be the game script with a third string out of the league for half a decade quarterback and no offensive line protecting him.

They're not going to be down by multiple scores and have to throw the ball with Dionne Lewis in the game. So, yeah, he's a sit to me as well. The eight and six Ravens take on the 11 and three chargers in the second Saturday game. The charges are four and a half-point favorites. The over-under is 44 and a half. And look, we talked about Melvin Gordon and Keenan Allen already. Reminder, get those Saturday players out of your flex positions. Get them into your main positions. Is Melvin Gordon shoot back to a absolute must start? Look, the matchup is an ideal.

for Melvin Gordon. But to me, he does. He shoots into the must-start category. Mike, if you were in the championship game this week, you'd be right back in there. You'd be playing him. Of course, you'd probably be in there if he had been playing last week. And Melvin Gordon needs one play. You know, that's the thing. He's had games where he's delivered massive fantasy value and missed half the game. So I wouldn't want to lose with them on my bench. Yeah, the three names that I've struggled with when it comes to Melvin Gordon, because he is a different level. He's a Todd Gurley.

Zekele Elliott, Christian McCaffrey, Sequin Barkley, tier of stud. And so he's an auto start. But when it comes to Joe Mixen and Marlon Mack, who's been on fire playing against New York Giants, those two guys are the ones where I go, man, do I start Melvin Gordon off of injury? Or what about Nick Chub? I would start Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb against the Bengals. I would probably start all three of those guys over.

Over Melvin Gordon. The matchup's so good with Mac. It could change, though. It's going to be a little bit more about what we hear of Melvin Gordon's health and where he's at. You can't imagine on a team that's 10 and 3, or I'm sorry, 11 and 3, that they're going to want to risk Melvin Gordon's health in this game. Well, they had said that if the game, if last week was on Sunday,

that Melville Gordon probably would have played. They've said he's running at full speed at practice. Yeah, I think he's a... I think the reports are about as good as we can get. And if you realize, you know, maybe people out there don't realize how important this game is for the Chargers. Because even though right now, they've got a great record, they're up, you know, they go, they win this game, they have a legitimately good shot at being the number one seat and having a buy week, an auto win.

in round one. They lose this game and they will most likely, even though their record will be better than most of the league, they will not win the division, meaning they won't have a home game. They will be on the road against other teams with worse records. So this is a, this matchup matters a lot to the Chargers, which is why Keenan Allen will be out there, hopefully as a decoy. Yeah, it matters a lot to the Ravens as well. And Lamar Jackson and company.

I'm excited for this game because of what's at stake for both of these teams. Lamar Jackson, in fantasy value, has not finished below a QB15 in any start thus far. We have him at 13 this week. He is only averaging 146 passing yards per start, and he's fumbling at least once in every game, which is troubling. But look, he does have a fairly high floor. Yeah, I think Lamar Jackson is a safe play. The running backs,