Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 9 Matchups, Election Results, In-or-Out

Everything just erupted for both him and Russell Wilson. So don't give up on Cam Newton at this point from me. No, I agree. And the Rams, while they are a...

decent defense, a little bit better against the run. They're just completely middle of the pack against the quarterback. You've had big games, you know, Stafford put up the four touchdown game against them, and then you've had games where, you know, they shut down Russell Wilson, but Russell Wilson was injured. I think the Panthers are all fine plays here. I don't expect huge games from Jonathan Stewart.

I actually do think Kelvin Benjamin is a very solid play. If you look at the amount of touchdowns given up in the red zone two wide receivers, combined with Kelvin Benjamin's red zone wide receiver touchdowns, they... He has four red zone. Four, which is near the top, if not the... Third. Yeah, it's third in the league. I think that is a match made in heaven for Kelvin Benjamin. The only other player that I would really kind of...

I think I would be willing to start him here would be Kenny Britt. Kenny Britt's shown that he's, you know, here to stay. And the Carolina defense. The secondary for Carolina. J.J. Nelson just put up two touchdowns on him. Yeah. So that's an interesting play. Does your system allow you to put Kenny Britt into your lineup? Well, I've got much better wide receiver, so no. Okay. But if you are in a pinch, I think he is serviceable. Now, would you rather have Tavon Austin? No. Or Kenny Britt here.

In a PPR league, I would take Tavon Austin all day over Kenny Britt. I'll take Kenny Britt. Really? Yeah. You want to do a... Oh, please. An ugliest of water bets? That would be me. PPR, though. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Waterbet. Never thought I'd see the day where we had a Kenny Britt, Tavon Austin. Just a Kenny Britt, Tavon, Austin, Waterbet.

Saints at 49ers Saints 49ers 52 and a half point over under in this one I've told you all I've went out on the the limb and said Colin Kaepernick's a top 10 quarterback for me this week oh me oh my the Saints the 28th

Best, past defense. 28th best. 28th best. 28th best. And Colin Kaepernick at home off the buy. Might get Carlos hideback, read option, opportunities with his legs. Just got to throw a touchdown and run the ball. And he's going to give you a serviceable week.

Yeah, I mean, if... I mean, you'll be biting your nails the whole game, but I think he'll do it. If Prop 25 was enacted, and he did not get absurd amounts of fantasy points for running the ball, Colin Kaepernick would have a bad game, but he is going to run for 50 yards, which will make his production fine. He'll get a couple touchdowns because it's New Orleans. I don't have him top 10, but he's certainly a streamable option this week, and better than a lot of other guys. You know, I would play him over Matthew Stafford this week.

as an example. The 49ers defense are allowing over two touchdown passes a game. They're allowing over almost one and a half rushing touchdown per game. So start your Saints. The world wants to know how many though, Mike. They want to know Ingram High Tower Cook Sneed and Thomas. How many combined? I think you just named them. Do you start all those guys? I find starting absolutely ever. How do you feel about Fleener? I'm fine starting him. All right. So that is one, two, three.

Four, five, six, seven saints. Look, not all seven of them will hit, but 52 and a half over under against the worst defense in the league. You're willing to roll Sean Payton in there, too? Not if he's going to be a dumb, dumb and bench people. Oh, hey, you get negative points for that kind of decision making. This just came across the wire. LaShawn McCoy practicing again on Friday. Oh, no. So that means they're probably good. That's a really good sign with the extra day.

Yeah, so that that leans me more towards being willing to grab C.J. Pro Seis and wait out Lashaw McCoy. But come on. Come on, Rex, Ryan. Don't do it. You got your bye week next week. You have to play him eventually. He has to be, well, eventually. Oh, man. Let, let him. You are fighting for the playoffs. He gets so much extra rest. Have you seen him? He's very good. Yeah. Was he good last week when he was played too early and then reagravated his hamstring? No. Okay. No, he wasn't.

All right, anything else from this game? You don't have to get better ever. Yeah, if Carlos Hyde plays, you certainly play him. The question, if he's out, I think we're all in agreement, it's DeWan Harris is the running back that you want to start. The question is if Carlos Hyde is in, could you still start DeWan Harris? Deep leagues. I would say no. Maybe. Maybe. If they don't want to overwork Hyde, bad defense. I would not. If he's the change of pace, yeah, I wouldn't either.

The Colts at Packers. Packers, seven and a half point favorites, 54 point over under. This one has all the makings of a fantasy feast. Andrew Locke, Aaron Rogers. You're starting both of those guys and you don't look back. You have Frank Gore, who just keeps getting it done on the cult side of the ball, including this recent news from Rob Chodzinski. Yeah, Chudzinski. Chudzinski.

that he absolutely old shuddy old shuddy buddy chuddy buddy absolutely wants to get frank gore more touches this week he's been doing things with the touches he's been doing things with the ball out of the backfield in the passing game luck he's he's he's the best rb two you could have yeah because he finishes as an rb one right right the best rb one you could have he's the worst rb one you could have and the best rb two you can have because he's always at that 1213 he's just very consistent you know you're going to get

Something. He's a succubus. He's a succubus? He's just stealing everyone's life force and continues to play and be great. Yeah, you're going to start everybody. Poor Nile Davis. You're going to start everybody in this game. I think I'm fine. I believe that Montgomery's playing. Devante Adams was my start of the week this week. Jordy should be set. T.Y. Hilton. Is there a single player? Is there anybody in this game?

on either side of the ball that you would hesitate to start. I'm not starting Jeff Janice if we're going on. I was going to ask, if Cobb is out, are you going to, is Janice playable at all? Not for me. I'm not. He was on the field 90% of the time and did almost nothing last game. Except score to touchdown. I think you hesitate on any tied in from Indianapolis right now. Alan and Doyle. I don't know.

Which guy would start there? I'm not starting Alan. And so the question is, do you start Doyle with Alan back? I'm streaming Doyle. Yeah, I'm okay with that, I guess. I don't really like it. I'd rather have played Brate last night, for example. Well, of course. By the way, historically speaking, my accuracy and predictions is incredible when you go backwards. Like my ability to read a stat line, it's elite. I've heard there's a service that allows you to.

pay money and switch your bench and basically do that. You hear about this out there? Come on. I'm not going to name any names, but Reinsleth, SchmMFL. What is going on over there? You can't have that. Look, if that's a feature where you want to, if you want to add a feature where, hey, you get to make one bench to starter replacement at the end of the week, that's a cool feature. If the league wanted to turn that on and say, hey, you get one like roster move do-over and everyone in the league agreed.

I wouldn't want that. But it's a neat feature to add as an option. But if it's like, hey, you can do that. For money. As many times as you want. What? I want to know where the... It is disgusting. Well, the money goes back to the players, though, in a pot. Oh. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. It's a vacuum that, you know, those bank tubes? Yeah. It actually, there's a tube that goes right into Roger Goodell's. Oh, right. And it just dumps it on him. All right. You see, Sherman came out this morning and said the NFL ratings are down because it's no fun.

You don't let anybody have any personality, do anything on the field. I don't disagree with that. There has to be a balance, but you have to let players enjoy the game. When you see Josh Norman do an arrow. Yeah. You know, after he. How dare you? It's just, arrows are so. Guys, guys, there's children watching. It's gotten to the point where it's just ridiculous. I am, I don't like the guys, you know, wearing a, you know.

Putting the marker in the socks and having a phone. Tio and going and extravagant. Going and sitting on the star. But come on. Let him have some fun. Loosen up. Roger. Papa Bear. Here we go. Titans at Chargers. All right. Marcus Mariot is stringing together a number of quarterback one performances. Does it continue against this Chargers?

defense it's certainly very possible the chargers are 23rd against the pass while they are sixth against the run so i mean this is a a pretty solid run defense going up against marco murray one of the the best running backs this year so there's a situation i was going to throw this out there mariotas stretch while it's not as scorching he's reminding me of russell wilson the end of year last season where he just

The numbers don't make sense. His touchdown efficiency with the volume doesn't make sense to me. But sometimes these streaks happen like that, and you just, you got to ride it out until it finishes. So Marioita is a fine play this week. The Chargers past defense has been vastly improved with Joey Bosa. And so for me, when I look at their entire defense.

Yeah, Marioita is not quite as good. Under pressure. I think he's okay. He's a low-end quarterback one for me this week. But I don't see the Chargers passing defense the way I saw it, you know, three weeks ago. You got to stay current with these defenses. Same on the other side of the ball real quick to just talk about, you know, Philip Rivers coming up against Tennessee. There is the idea that Tennessee has this very...

Pretty good defense against quarterbacks, you know, through the first, what was it, the first five weeks of the year, they hadn't given up more than 254 yards, only gave up two touchdowns once in the first five games. Do you know what they've done the last three weeks? I don't know if people are aware of what's happened to the Tennessee. Let's hear it. I know they've given up a lot of touchdowns. Well, three weeks ago, 336 yards and two touchdowns.

That's great for fantasy. Two weeks ago, 353 yards and three touchdowns. That's better. And then last week, 337 and 3. However, a lot of that was the most epic garbage time of all times. That was Blake Bortles. But they are susceptible, and Philip Rivers is no Bortles. Let me ask you about Derek Henry. Because there's the rumors in the bushes that they want to get Derek Henry.

More involved, more touches. Are you willing to take that information? And his past performances, he had a good game last week. Maybe that was the breakout and at least flex him. I don't know. I think you probably, I think you'll probably get enough production. You know, San Diego gives up a touchdown every 20 carries. That's seventh worst in the league. I think you saw last week a willingness to bring Henry in for parts of drives in the red zone.

I'd rather have DeMarco Murray. Well, yeah, I'm not asking that. I'm just, I just don't know what... Hey, would you guys rather have... In a week like... In a week like this. Tomorrow. In a week with these, the by-weeks, the injuries, the DeWan Harris's of the world, give me Derek Henry. Okay. Those type of decisions, give me Derek Henry. I'm curious where we have Henry. We have him... Well, he must be higher than that.

My search function. Did we have him 24? Our consensus 24. That's pretty high. Yeah, I think I've got him the highest at 21. The San Diego Chargers. So you're confident as a running back too as of right now. Yeah, I believe that, well, I mean, he's low end RB2. I think his opportunity to score a touchdown like he did last week is as high as ever against the Chargers passing defense. When you add in the fact that DeMarco Murray.

had an injury. He's played through it. He's fine. I mean, DeMarco Murray very well could be the number one running back this week. But should he get injured, you also have just an absolutely enormous upside. And I think it's somewhat safe on this by week to throw Derek Henry in as a flex. Okay. Other storylines from this game you want to pay attention to. We talked about Hunter Henry probably not playing. Antonio Gates is a great start this week. Completely agree. We also talked about the...