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

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the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Back again. There's a, what, 290th time for everything. Jason was air driving through the, through the imaginary roads. Whoa. Is this how you air drive? That's not driving. That's like, this is the quintessential.

White man dancing. Yeah. I imagine you air driving it like an ATV. Oh, just so I got the big steering wheel that's down on the bottom. ATV does not have a big wheel. Oh, I'm thinking of like a giant RV. I don't know. How's fantasy football going? Oh, fantasy football is doing very well. Very well. Welcome to the show. The fantasy footballers back again Thursday, October 6th. That was a prime example of why I need a vacation. I need to get away from that sort of dancing.

Oh, man, these shows, when you're not here to rain us in, they're going to be dangerous. They're going to be very dangerous. I'm going to be the taskmaster, my friend. I was going to say, when we get feedback, I'm going to be much more appreciated. Or will you? Or will I? They'll be like, yeah, woo. Best shows ever. There are no rules. There are no rules. Anarchy.

We're happy to be back, very excited about today's show, have my favorite segment of the week on here, the starts of the week. We've got our matchups. We're going to go through the first six matchups of the week, talk about the fantasy players involved and the decisions you have to make as a fantasy owner.

And we got a good quick question. I'm going to catch you up on a good amount of news and notes. And then obviously tomorrow we'll give you kind of the final rundown of injuries, practice reports, everything going on so you can make last minute waiver, wider decisions, whatever it is. So let's jump right into it as we always do. I've got another quick question for you guys on the season. This is a question about what team? What team has a wide receiver trio with a snap percentage?

All of them at 96% or higher. So somebody, they are running, they're running three wide basically every single play. Correct. Ooh. My guess would be the Packers. Okay. I mean, they don't run three wide every time, but I have to believe that all three of those guys are in the 90s. I don't know about 90s. I'm going to, I'm going to go with the Giants. Mike has nailed it. Yeah, yeah. It is the Giants, Victor Cruz, Staring Shepherd.

Odell Beckham Jr. Nice. All at 96% or above. So, yeah, they run three wide all the time, or 96% of the time. And that's how Sterling Shepard is an actual viable fantasy asset right now. I actually have Sterling Shepard very high this week. Yeah. I have all those wide receivers. Yeah, this is a good week to start those giants. All right. Bonus question, though, guys. All right, which two wide receivers from the same team are both top five in snap percentage among all wide receivers? You've got.

at tandem, a pair of teammates that are both top five in snap percentage among all wideouts. If it does not include games missed, I would lean towards the Jets with Decker and Marshall, but, uh, no, Marshall got hurt. Oh, that's right. And Decker missed last game. Yeah. Well, that's, but that shouldn't affect the percentage. But, but, well, you're looking at top five. You don't finish top five by missing a game, so.

I'm trying to narrow it down as quick as I can. Uh, ooh, uh, no, I mean, my guess was this is wrong, but I'm going to go with the Patriots with, with, uh, Hogan and Edelman. Hogan got shut out last week. You see that? With it, yeah, but I mean, from a production standpoint, sure. Jacob, Berset. Um, yeah, it's his quarterback shut him out. Yeah, his quarterback a couple weeks. All right. The answer is, uh, the Miami Dolphins.

Oh, okay. You have Kenny Stills and Jarvis Landry. Landry's at 96%. Kenny Stills? 99%. He's playing a lot. He's playing a lot. He's doing a little. That's my motto. He's kind of bouncing back and forth. He's a hard guy to stat. We did all of our rankings. You can find them on the website, the fancy footballers.com. And, you know, you look at Stills and it's like, okay, I've got one for 75 in a touchdown, but then the game before he had five catches. Stills is last year's Ted Ginn.

Yeah, you might, that's a pretty good comparison. He's always out there, but you never know. Yeah, I mean, he has the, he's the deep threat. And so, like a Wallace or a DJax or again, there's always the chance that he can turn a zero game into a top 15 performance on one play. So follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Connect with us at join the foot.com or fantasy community. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league.

Well, I'm wet. Carson Palmer out for Thursday. I bet that he would be active. I was incorrect. It happens occasionally. I mean, rarely. But it does happen. So...

My punishment is Drew Stanton at quarterback. Yeah, that's much worse than the cup of water. Same punishment that's going to have to go to Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Floyd, and John Brown. Oh, they're not getting a cup. They're getting a full bucket of ice cold water. Looking back to where when Drew Stanton play, because we do still have to, you know, there's going to be people that have to start Arizona Cardinals. The wide receiver that was the most affected by Drew Stanton playing was Michael Floyd, which makes sense that down the field.

Jump ball. Take less chances. Exactly. So that's the guy I would certainly not start this week. Yeah, you have to temper expectations for everybody else as well. I think my highest rated Cardinal Whiteout is... David Johnson. Well...

As a whiteout, you're saying? Yes. Yeah, I have Larry at 21 this week. If there's any silver lining for those who have to play Cardinals, at least the 49ers past events is not good, and they've lost Navarro Bowman. Yeah, pressure will not be as imminent there. All right, Latavius Murray is doubtful for week five. He's going to try the toe out. That escalated quickly. Yeah, he's going to try it out in practice today. So I think this is a doubtful with a chance of recovery. But if he's out, I mean, doubtful is doubtful, right? So if he's out,

You're looking at DeAndre Washington getting the nominal start and then Jalen Richard being worked in as well. Last week, you saw both of these guys have kind of an issue. Jalen Richard had drops on back-to-back plays. DeAndre Washington had a crucial fumble late in the game that let that, you know, slip away from Oakland or nearly dead, right? Right.

And so both of those guys, last week we also had a report right before the game that they want to involve DeAndre Washington. More, here's your excuse, right? So you have a good matchup with San Diego. You have opportunities for both of these guys. I think DeAndre Washington, to me, assuming Murray is out, DeAndi Washington is a running back two candidate. I love DeAndre Washington in this. He was...

before the season, you know, if you've been listening since the draft season, he's definitely been one of the guys I was highest on. I got a little lower on him because of Jalen Richard.

You didn't have that clear cut if Latavius Murray goes down. He's the 100% work course. But everything he's shown on the field is he's hyper efficient. He's running well. He catches the ball well. He's going up in such a great matchup, especially for past catching running backs where he has excelled in college. Well, last week we had the Coon. Coon attacked the.

New Orleans Saints for three touchdowns the week before Indies scored two on the ground against them. 31st ranked run defense. So definitely the guy I would start. I'll say the, I think the upside is DeAndre Washington. But Richard is seen as a third down back and he has out snapped Washington three of the four games so far. Out snapped and yet DeAndre Washington has more touches. I'm just just saying.

All right. It's not an auto. He's a high-end guy. We're hearing this morning the bills are expected to re-sign free agent Carlos Williams. Welcome back. Who's now off of suspension. Does this mean he'll be worked in like he was last year? Is there a chance he gets back into that role and impacts Lashon McCoy? There's a chance.

Jason's laughing over here. Sorry, I'm laughing because while you guys were talking about this, I just wanted to see what the yards per carry was on Jalen Richard, so I did a little quick math. It came out to 129 yards per carry, so I did something wrong there. So, yeah, I think you're just a bit outside. Continue, continue. So, yeah, let us know when you do that. It's really good. I would start him. Yeah. Let me know when, oh, we have a report this morning. Jim Bob Cooter said Golden Tate's going to have a huge week.

Do you buy it? No. Okay. We're going, there are so many little injury reports that I was trying to decide whether we want them in today's show or we just want to do them in the in and out tomorrow. I mean, we're going to get through a few of them, but listen tomorrow for updates on kind of more final updates on all these players. We did have Tyler Eiffert seemingly have a bit of a new injury. New injury? Yeah, it's his back. Okay.

So is that all you have for us? Yeah, it's being reported that he has injured his back in addition to the ankle. We don't know whether or not he'll play this week. It's looking doubtful that he will play, in my opinion, but they're still saying optimistic things, very reminiscent of Bruce Ariens saying optimistic things about Carson Palmer. Yeah, I don't think there's any way I forgets out. The one thing that history has shown us with Iifer is he's not a quick healer. I mean, he has a long history of injuries.

Rashad Jennings has a chance to play on Sunday. Yeah, I don't think he becomes a great start. This is more just for the people, if you were hoping, hey, I'm going to squeeze some points out of Darkwa or Perkins. This is not a good situation. No. We're trending back towards four-man backfield with Rainey and Darkwa and Perkins flashing. You know, they're going to work Perkins into the screen game, clearly. That's what he was in there for. And this week, you've got the Green Bay Packers who are giving up the fewest yards.