Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 6 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

And they checked his ankle. It was not broken. Right. If people were concerned about that, so it's just a sprain. But he was on crutches. Yeah. So that's not good. Time Montgomery had an ankle injury. Jeff Janice came in and actually made two really big plays. Do we, you know, is there anything there? The Twitter was very happy because the Twitter crowd really likes Jeff Janice. But both of his big plays, I think he only had the two catches.

They were broken plays, which, yes, Aaron Rogers thrives on broken plays. Yeah, the little pitch forward where he took it down the island. And the just scrambling around lob it up. But those aren't the kind of plays that I want to count on. I think Janice is a guy that you can add for speculation and put him on your bench. He's not a guy who's going to go in for me right away. And they're on by this week. The Packers are on by this week. And Adams, I would think, is back the week after by, which would push Janice back down.

So I go ahead and add him, but I'm not expecting big things right now. Okay. Let's see. Eddie Lacey, they did confirm he was still a little bit banged up, but they also said Starks, you know, McCarthy said Starks had outperformed him in practice, had been playing well. That's part of the reason he was out there. Manuel Sanders had a shoulder injury. I read this morning AC joint sprain. Yeah. A lot of shoulder injury. But he's got a bi week. He's got 14 days to get back off the by, so don't panic on Sanders just yet.

Mike Vic went out with a hamstring injury, which... Come on, man. As a Cardinal fan, I honestly think they don't lose that game unless that injury happens. Yeah. Because Vic was doing absolutely nothing through the air. And then Landry Jones came in, and he played well. Cardinals couldn't do it. This is the type of injury to me that pushes Big Ben through whatever pain he has and gets Big Ben back on the field.

A week earlier, so I think we'll see Big Ben this next week. Obviously, speculation at this point, but that means this is the perfect time to trade for Antonio Brown. I completely agree with Jason on that. An interesting note, I heard on the way into work on Starks. Starks found out he was starting the game, he was going to be the starter as the game was starting. That'll work. So, like, they called the formation, and he's like, what? I'm taking the first snap.

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All right, well, if you haven't listened to us before, you know on Monday we go through the best players of the weekend and the worst, and we put these stat lines into some fantasy context for you. We let you know whether these things are going to continue, whether you should count on them or whether or not it was just a, you know, a one week flash in the Hoyer, pan, flash in the pan. So let's go ahead and get into the stud muffins. This week's fantasy stud muffins.

I think Razorburn would be a great name for a band. Razorburn. Yeah, I'd be in that band. You want to start that? Yeah, only if the dot com is available, though. Because that's how I live my life. That's how you live your life. It's a good idea if that means you thought of it first. There's probably some band out there called Razorburn right now. Maybe. Yeah, there is. I wonder. I love them. Yeah. All right. Matt Stafford. I love him. Jason talked about this. Everybody doubted it.

Jason said it first. He gets the credit. Matt Stafford. He's played very, very difficult past defenses for the first five weeks of the season. I did tell a lot of people, do not bail on Calvin Johnson. Do not bail on Matt Stafford is what Jason said. And he came out, and boy, was it a messy game. But 400 yards and four touchdowns, that's good, right? Here's what we see from...

two teams, the Detroit Lions and the San Diego Chargers. When you do not have a running back that can run the ball, you have to throw it every time. And that's really good for quarterback's productions. Even if you take away the Golden Tate ridiculous touchdown, which I'm happy about because he was my start of the week. So, yay, saw that coming. If you take that away.

You know, he still had three other touchdowns. He put up a ton of yardage. So, you know, he's a guy that you shouldn't have bailed on or you should have picked up off of the waivers this last week. He's got a good stretch of matchups coming up, but he is truly a matchup dependent guy. He is a streamer. He is a streamer. Do not get in love with the name just because, oh, he's back. If he's got a good matchup, absolutely roll him. If he's got a bad matchup,

Roll someone else. Maybe that touchdown call was one of those Buffalo Wild Wings things where they pulled the levers and they wanted the game to go to overtime so you can get some more food, isn't that? All right. Philip Rivers had a monster game statistically. Yeah. He was 500 yards. He broke the record for San Diego. He broke a lot of records. I think most past attempts. Two touchdowns, 60-something attempts? Yeah. 63, 64. No interceptions. If he could have just connected.

On that last touchdown? He had Wood had the play before. Yes, he did when he forced it to Gates. The second time, it was a major force, and he might as well have been picked. If they had completed that and got in the end zone and went to overtime, he could have broken just the full-on NFL record for a yardage. He was on fire. Green Bay could not stop the past. And like I said, they had stopped the run completely, not just because they were down, but Melvin Gordon fumbled.

Two times. Got the bench. Got the bench. I think that puts his touchdown. Brandon Oliver was out there. I think his touchdown to fumble ratio now is 22 fumbles to zero touchdown. Well, speaking of fumbles, that's exact same thing that happened. I mean, they couldn't be more similar situations. Amir Abdullah, a rookie, fumbled again, fell on the ball. They claimed that he was off the field due to a stinger. Not.

That, so he was on the sideline for most of the second. Pride Stinger. I came out on the morning of Sunday and said, Abdullah might be a sneaky start because Joach was really well. I said PPR, you know, because Riddick was maybe going to miss the game. He turned out, he didn't and had a good game. He started out really well, but then that injury happened, and Abdullah spent most of the time on the sideline, and they had to fight back. Zach Zinner got injured as well in that game. So Ryan Fitzpatrick, 253 and 2, Brian Hoyer, 293 and 3. Yeah.

Blake Bortles comes out again, 331 and 3. Fitzpatrick was in here because he also had a rushing touchdown. Yeah, and then Kaepernick, 340 yards, two touchdowns, and the 49ers won the ball game. So out of these, the rest of his quarterbacks, we'll move on to wide receivers here, but, you know, Bortles is the one I have the biggest long-term question for it because he was already in the top 10 at the quarterback position, and he came out against, you know.

the Texans and had a good game again, 30 completions. And there was, the Twitter sphere was a buzz with the talking about wind, which weather is not usually a concern for quarterbacks. The only weather that is a problem is wind. So it was, uh-oh, do we need to downgrade both Hoyer and Bortles? But it was not a factor. Seven touchdowns in the last?

Two games. He did throw three interceptions. That's what you get with Bortles right now is the picks. Bortles go to Bortals. Yeah, he's going to Bortle. But we have to remember, you know, Alan Robinson is an ascending star. Alan Hurons is a very good two. And now you have Julius Thomas back who caught a big touchdown pass. Julius Thomas had a big game. I'm sure we'll talk about him shortly. But, I mean, he's been over 300 yards pretty much the last three games. So, you know, 2.98 against the Colts. So Bortles right now, you know, he's a top five.

Statistically. And Bortles is an ultimate garbage man. He thrives on that, but if when you, garbage time isn't my favorite thing to count on, but Bortles is getting done weekly.

with or without the garbage. Yeah, you know what's good about that. We've talked about it on the show before, but there are some quarterbacks that if they end up in garbage time, you would expect big things, but they're not good in that situation. Bortles is one of those guys. Matt Ryan. Ryan is the worst garbage time guy. Yeah, he really is. And Bortles is nice because obviously if he's throwing well and they get a lead, well, it's because he was throwing well, and if they're down.

He's got to throw a lot. So, yeah, and really, Andy, you brought it up. It's the weapons. You look at Andy Dalton. He has so many weapons now to throw to, and you look at Bortles, and you go, oh, man, Alan Hurons is for real. Alan Robinson is for real. Julius Thomas, he's got weapons who can do things after they catch the ball that's going to help get in the end zone. And Dalton did it again, three touchdowns. Red Rocket, he's a man. Wow. I thought you were going to go with Red Rocket.

Yom. That's better. All right. Wide receivers. Wide receivers. DeAndre Hopkins might very well be the best fantasy wide receiver in the league. I was going to ask this question when we got to this point and so I will. You have DeAndre Hopkins on your team and you can trade him straight up for any other wide receiver in the league. Anyone straight up and they will say yes. Anyone. You can get Julio. You can get anyone. Who do you want? Hopkins. I'm taking Hopkins. The only one that would make me pause would be Julio.

because of the quarterback difference for Hopkins. However, it seems like whoever you roll out there, they're just throwing the ball to Hopkins all the time. And so in that regard, I think it's super close. I probably stick with Hopkins for the health and the quarterback. For the health is the reason that I would. The target numbers are astronomical.

And not only just the targets, because, you know, we had a Cardinal who had one of the... Rob Moore, broke the record, 98. And he was a pretty good wide receiver, but he wasn't that great. And he caught like 50% of his catches that year. Targets. Targets, yes. He caught 50% of his catches. Amazing. No, that's allowed in the NFL now. Some catches aren't catches. That's true. Golden Tate's doing that very well. But does anybody have a better track record with...

Horrific calls than Golden Tate. All going in his favor? Yeah. Golden Tate's got his whole career stat line. His money is dependent on those. But D'Andre Hopkins' talent with that targets, you mix those things together, and he is the number one guy that I would want. Did you see his helmet catch? Yes. What? Oh, when he went full Tyree? Yes. Tyrone. It was. Andrew Sicilian. I like the verb usage of he David Tyreed.