Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 5 Matchups, News

They're not the best, right? That's not a defense that really scares you. You have a kind of hobbled Alshan Jeffrey, and he's going to be matched up against Vante Davis. So that means that in a high-scoring game, there's going to be a lot of passes to go around, and they're going to go to Eddie Royal, who last week had seven for 111 and a touchdown. Currently on the year, he's the 19th ranked wide receiver. So he's gotten it done so far this year. I think in a high-scoring game without Kevin White, where Vanta Davis is on.

Alshan Jeffrey. Eddie Royal should put up some good numbers there. So if you're like, you know, low on wide receiver, he's still available in a lot of leagues. I think you could pick him up and play him in that flex spot. All right, Jason. Why don't you move on to your running back? Sure. My running back this week is Ligaritt Blunt. And some people might, you know, people have really different opinions on Ligart Blunt. You might be going, well, of course you start Ligarra Blunt. He's a top back. But you might be.

smart and realizing, oh, Brady is coming back. Legeret Blunt was going to shut down last week. I'm not sure if now Ligarit Blunt's value is gone. Well, here's a deal. In this game, I think that Ligarget Blunt will be involved because whether or not it's just him destroying the soft, buttery run defense of the Cleveland Browns or whether Brady just goes...

you know, full nuclear and destroys the Browns, and then they just run the clock out for the second half. In either situation, I think Legerat Blunt is going to be used. Last year, last year you saw that when Brady was having a great year, you had so many games where Legerat Blunt had 20 plus carries, and we forget about that. So good matchup, plus you've got them, Vegas has them favored by more than 10 points, and win.

LaGarrett Blunt is in those situations. He averages about five points more per game. Yeah, yeah, I like it. Mike, why don't you give us your running back start of the week? Well, if for the long-time listeners, you know that I regrettably had this man tattooed him a chest last year, but he's turning it around. And that is Jeremy Hill. The carriers are going up every single week. I talked about The Essential with Steve Smith. This is what I like from Jeremy Hill. We're seeing a little bit of the flashes.

of rookie Jeremy Hill, not as indecisive back there. And over 20 carries last week. The nice thing about Hill right now is he's not crapping your team. Well, last year we had several instances where he either gave you one and a half points or he gave you 16 because he scored a bunch of touchdowns. He's giving you at least consistent production. There was even week two where he was shut down a little bit in the running game, but then he had 30 receiving yards. So he just, Jeremy Hill has been.

Much better overall on the year. I think that Dallas is beatable. We talked about this last week where Andy started the week was Carlos Hyde because Dallas was, while they're ranked kind of scary for fantasy, it's more of a fraudulent type of thing. For the run against the run. Yeah. And Carlos Hyde had a fine game. So I think Jeremy Hill has a solid game as well. I like that. I just want to add to that the carry counts for Jeremy Hill through this season. Week one was nine, then 11.

Then they gave him 17, then 21. They're ascending and they're shifting more towards that. He'll be at 40 before you know it. Interesting question. Jonathan Stewart, Jeremy Hill, rest of the season. Ooh, I'll take. I think I'll take Jeremy Hill because he's playing. Yeah. I mean, if you have three more, three or four more weeks of no Stewart. Oh, no. I think you'll see Stewart in the next couple weeks. Well, the last report was four weeks total. That was the report.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So my running back start of the week is Jordan Howard. Jordan Howard. We talked about him a little bit earlier last week, 23 for 111. Also had three catches. You've got no more Kevin White who has been soaking up target. So I think Howard is at least as involved in the passing game as he was last week. And oh, so beautiful. You get a play in Indianapolis run defense that as as.

Mike said was like the Israelites cruising, you know, I guess they're more like the water the Israelites went through. They are the Red Sea. They are. And so, look, 29th ranked run defense. Jordan Howard is the man. All praises from John Fox. He didn't even try games on ship. He didn't say, he didn't even try to be like, well, Jordan Howard was, he's decent. He's got a long way to go. We're going to use a big backfield. This is throwing up red flags for me. Oh, no. Yeah, Howard doesn't see the field. No. John Fox.

Yeah, well, Jordan Howard is my start of the week. I love him this week. And my quarterback start of the week is Eli Manning at Green Bay. The world is sad about Eli Manning because, look, you have those guys out there 96% of the time and you're not seeing production from Eli. But Green Bay is going to be the solution. Green Bay is a good offense at home. And you saw Matthew Stafford.

find volume. No Sam Shields. They gave up, Green Bay gave up 385 yards and three touchdowns to Matthew Stafford a couple of weeks ago. And I don't expect the Giants to win the game. I do expect Eli to pass the ball a lot. And so I like Eli Manning this week. He made my top 10. I agree with that. And mine is, well, it might sound a little more chalk. This is just the reassurance. Big Ben is at.

home. We know that Big Ben is a little flaky, a little bit inconsistent when it comes to fantasy football. And people think the Jets are this great passing defense. There's still that that still exists out there. I mean, the involved and plugged in player knows that the Jets are just getting torched through the air. Their secondary is absolutely abysmal. But Big Ben, I got him at number one this week. I love it. You don't usually.

Or I don't usually want to chase Big Ben's points because of he can give you the five touchdowns and then the zero. But at home against the Jets, I think he is an absolute must start because he's my number one guy. So that's a must start. Yeah. My number one guy. I like that. They're another team like the Packers where, you know, a good run D, a bad passing D. And then you meet Big Ben at home. That's not going to work out will.

I am going with Derek Carr this week. I'm going to stay in the flames. Look, so far this year, he's averaging two and a quarter touchdowns per game. You lose Latavius Murray, presumably, right? And so you might need to go a little bit more through the air. You have San Diego, who has already given up two touchdowns through the air in three other four games. But that was with Jason Verrett, one of the best lockdown corners.

in the league who already, you know, had a part in shutting down Jeremy Macklin and shutting down Alan Robinson. And I think he shut down one other really good cornerback this year. He's gone. So he's out. Brandon Flowers might be out. You have, you know, the Amari Cooper started the week over there for Andy. I agree. I mean, the only worry here is that they get their touchdowns on the ground because you know that the Raiders are going to score plenty of points. Vegas has this line very high. This should not be a low scoring game.

Which means if they can go through the air, Derek Carr will have a very good game. All right, that does it for today's show. I want to remind everybody, all of our rankings for week number five are up on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. It's a great way to, you know, you have those start-sick questions. You want to see where we as a consensus rank a player or if you want to see where us individually rank a player. You can kind of see the gaps there. Check it out on the website. And today we also release our...

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