Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 5 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

I'm missing you, missing me. I'm a stick of butter and I'm in the end zone. I'm a sticker. I like that. It was. He did. He ducked down and he slid right through. It was amazing. All right. Wide receivers that did not succeed this week, the list could be longer. But Mike Evans and Randall Cobb both only had three catches each. What did you say? James Winston threw the ball. How many times? I thought it was 19. 19. That's called interception mitigation protocol.

Put in their ways. Hard to throw four interceptions with 19 passes. When Doug Martin is running the rock, you got to. Don't throw. Yep. If you don't have to throw, then you don't throw. I mean, very weird game from Rogers. He threw his first and then second. Interception at home in over 580 throws. Now, the Rams defense is legit. But two interceptions for him. Randall Cobb was barely involved. Julio. James Jones.

And time on gun, right? Wasn't involved until the very end. Not a very good offensive. Yeah, not a very good offensive performance across the board. We talked about Lacey 13 for 27. Are you worried about Lacey? I don't think so. No, I'm not either. You just said that you might be worried about Eddie Lacey. Just adjusting some expectations. I think the Rams defense is very good. And, you know, they were winning that game. It was a little bit surprising that he didn't get more offensive output.

No, the Rams D, I think, is the biggest part. Yeah. All right. What do we got? Tight-ins. Nobody else performed. If your name wasn't Gary Barniger, Tyler, Eifer. You pooped your. Then you pooped your big boy pants. Basically, if you were a touchdown in the NFL and you caught a touchdown. Or if you were tight in. If you were a touchdown. I wish that was a touchdown in the NFL. You'd be signed immediately. I just pictured just like a schoolhouse rock. You're like, I'm a touchdown.

If you were a touchdown, you'd be signed immediately by everybody but John Fox. Oh, who would consider whether or not he won. I should give him credit. They won this week. Yeah, they tried to not win, but Jay Cutler. Are they two and two three? You know who tried to not win was the freaking giants? Fourth and one on the end zone and you're kicking a field goal? What are you doing? Score and put the game away. They won, though. They won by a miraculous Eli Manning drive. Yeah.

All right, let's get into the mailbag. Mailbag. All right, if you have a question, you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click the submit a question button, and then you can submit a question. It's that easy. When you click the button, you just type it to type it in, and then we get it. All right, Jay and Canada, should I be owning Theoretic and 12-man PPR Keeper Leagues? Our waiver wire is very, very, very, very, very thin. Yeah, either way. Amir Abdullah, put it on the ground.

I would have put him in the poop if he had Big Boy pants at all. But Amir Abdul has been awful. I want to not overstate that at all. Awful. Terrible. Fumbled again. Zach Zinner got on the field because of it. Joy Bale's injured. That team is a sad dumpster fire. Jay and Canada also wanted to know if Gary Barnage is for real. And do you start him over Jimmy Graham? Well, to part one, I think he is for real.

Josh McCown, both quarterbacks really seem to be using him. He's a needed weapon there, and he's being used in the scheme. So I like Gary Barnage going forward. Would you start him over Jimmy Graham? I would say that that would be matchup dependent, situational. But I would be, if I had both on my team, I would not hesitate for a second to start Barnage over Graham if I thought the matchup was better. They're equal to me in opportunities. And Josh McCown does have an ankle sprain.

So we have to monitor his health, which is... He'll be fine. He's had so many concussions he doesn't actually feel the pain in his extremities. It's a strange world when we need to monitor the health of Josh McCann. Dude, three straight games of what? 350 or more yards? Yeah, he's been great. No interceptions? Guess what percentage of plays he's throwing passes on? Oh, it's got to be in the 70s. 73% of plays. Which, I mean...

I don't know how you roll the dice on a wide receiver week to week on that team. But if you have to roll the dice, you know, this week I was looking at, oh, do I start Jameson Crowder? Do I start Tavon Austin? Do I start Marcus Wilson? Do I start? You can roll out a Brown's wide receiver if you want to. Yeah. Travis Benjamin did all right. And Benjamin's getting targets. That's the difference between the first couple of weeks was targets. That's why I didn't like him was getting three targets a game. But now he's getting.

Ten targets a game. That's a guy I want. All right. So right now, who's the... Sam in Nashville wants to know the question we talked about earlier. Nile Davis or Charkandric West? Who do you pick up? Yep, me too. But I'm also putting a claim on Nile Davis afterwards. If you had to drop Tevin Coleman or Alfred Morris to sign one of those two backups, who would you drop? Coleman. I would drop Morris. What? I would drop Alfred Morris over Tevin Coleman.

Oh, I just... You want to know why? Yeah, I do want to know why. This week. This week is why. If you watch the game, they were in the lead the entire game, they were on the goal line multiple times. It was the Thompson and Matt Jones show. Alfred Morris put up a gooser. Almost. I mean, he didn't actually, but it was like... It is a three-way time share there.

And you have no idea who to start. If you've got to make a flyer and put one of those three guys in, you could have a good fantasy week. But I would never want to actually start one. This is a good example of you try to package, you know, Alf to the, you know, to the Jones owner for super cheap just so that you can add that extra money. And they like, I mean, you can't count on them, but they like Chris Thompson. They like him in that geo roll.

He got a lot of checkdown. He had a good game. Justin in Iowa, he's been playing Tyrod Taylor for the last three weeks. Things have been average. He picked up Josh McCown after the fact. He has Stafford on his bench, as do the Lions. And which direction does he move going forward? Now, did you boys watch the Buffalo game? I watched a little bit of it, yeah.

Tyrod Taylor was Scamper Source Rex. Yes. He was amazing in his runs. He is so shifty. That being said, he was ridiculously bad in the pocket for a second week in a row. If you're moving forward, would you stream Taylor and McCown back and forth? And what am I saying? So here's what you're saying. First of all, he had a decent game Tyrod Taylor did. Because of the rushing yard. Right. He finishes the seventh quarterback. I saw some people on Twitter like,

Oh, I can't believe he, you know, he ruined my week. I'm like he was the seventh best quarterback. That was weird. So, you know, he did all right. And he had no weapons, right? Because Clay was out, Clay going down. On and off. Yeah, having, you know, his hurt little hammy. No running back. You got Sammy. Sammy Walkins out. So he is all right going forward. McCown, McCown, we can see on a good matchup, should be streamed and is a legit option. And I am going to.

put my name out there and say, Matthew Stafford is an absolutely fine option to stream as well. Matthew Stafford stunk this week, just as I expected, and now in five weeks, the Owen Five Lions have faced four of the top five passing defenses. It's no surprise that he's had a hard time. From here on out,

His schedule gets much better, and I think he is a legit option. He's probably going to be found on plenty of waivers. He might be my stream of the week this next week. If you ask Golden Tate, they still have a chance to be special. That is what he said. Honestly, Golden Tate, Calvin Johnson, Matthew Stafford, those are guys right now who their owners, if they still have owners, are super down on them, and they can be acquired on the cheap, and I'm not afraid of any of those three guys.

All right, fair enough. But you don't need to hold three quarterbacks. No, true. So who of those three are you dropping? Depends on the matchup, because those are all stream guys to me. Okay, so Stafford. Stafford takes on the Bears. No, you're going to keep Taylor because of the baseline. And so, I mean. Who's McCown playing next week? Broncos. Oh, all right, maybe not. Yeah, I would drop him just for a second. I think you drop him and Stafford and just fill up your, you know. Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'm fine with just keeping Taylor.

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