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

All right. So here's what you do with Peyton Manning immediately. If he's on your team, you put together a package trade. No one's trading for Peyton Manning? I promise you. I promise the listeners, someone is trading for Peyton Manning. There is something inside of you that goes, well, now, you're not trading for Peyton. That's why I say a package deal. Because there's something that says, well, he could. He could be. He's Peyton Manning. I mean, there's a part of me somewhere that goes,

Do I try to pick him up like for nothing? But I don't want him on my roster. I got to trade for you. Eddie Lacey, Peyton Manning for Chris Ivory. There you go. I mean, you're telling me the Chris Ivory owner wouldn't take that? I would not. I would slap you in the face with that offer. I know that you wouldn't. But you're telling me that the average Eddie Lacey. Too big old names. That's what I mean. The average Chris ivory owner would not take.

Eddie Lacey and Peyton Manning for Chris Ivory. They might. But that's the point is it's a huge name. And so don't drop him. I hear a lot of, is Peyton Manning worthy of being dropped? Absolutely. Should you drop him? Absolutely not. Take a guy in just, if you're going to drop him anyways, take a middle of the pack running back or wide receiver that you got, package them with Peyton Manning, and offer him for a little bit better running back or wide receiver. You'll get them, then you're open your roster spot for waivers. That's what you do with Peyton Manning.

Yeah, I can agree with trying that. Three interceptions. I'm not as confident that you'll be able to trade him, but because I had said, if he sucks against Cleveland, who is 50% basically passing completion percentage. That was a fantastic matchup for a quarterback. That's back-to-back, fantastic matchups that he has failed in. There's not a situation where I feel comfortable starting, unless I see a string of three.

Peyton Manning tie performances. Even if he does too, I'm still not going to feel comfortable playing. I'm so disappointed for the Browns and the Browns fans because that would have been a banner win for Petten and that team and they should have won the game. They brought it into overtime. They picked them off in overtime. They had it at like the 42 and they went backwards and then the game was over. Then McCown did his best Josh McCown. I feel like the Broncos. Denver's defense is ridiculously good.

It's ridiculous. They're winning a couple games that they shouldn't necessarily win. Maybe three or four. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they're just not putting up points, but it doesn't matter. And the pick six is that every week, their defense is scoring points. I believe, I don't remember the number off the top of my head, but I saw it on Twitter people were talking about it. The defense and special teams have scored more than the offense. Yeah.

I mean, it's been incredible. That's ridiculous. Yeah, it is. All right, Eddie Lacey, four carries three yards. He pooped his big boy pants. Dionne Lewis was four for 21 on the ground, three for 18 in the air. I looked at this game pretty closely to try to figure out what was going on. There was some reports before the game about Dionne Lewis's health. I honestly don't think his health was that much of an issue. This was part game flow. He actually out snapped Lagart Blunt still, but he just wasn't involved in the screen game.

to the capacity we've seen him in the past. And this is one of the things that happens in New England. So you're still comfortable with Dionne Lewis. I'm still comfortable with Dionne Lewis. Absolutely, yeah. They just locked him up on that contract. Like I said, he was out there more than Blunt was, but it just didn't turn out that way. That was Ligarrett Blunt's first ever passing touchdown on that broken play where, I don't know if you guys both thought. He looked good.

He was waving his arms. I'm like, oh, that's where the ball's going, because he was open. No one covers Garrett Bunn out of the back field. Adrian Peterson had a very bleak.

Damn. High volume, low production. 26 for 60. And they won the game. I mean, no one deserved to win that game, I don't think. There's a couple of games like that this week where it seemed like neither team really wanted to win. That's like the fantasy football matchup between, you know, the two lowest scoring guys of the week, and you wish you could just count on both those losses against them. But somebody has to win. But, I mean, the Vikings got it done, and the Chiefs are heading for that number one pick if they don't.

change something. I mean, they just, they missed them all Charles. Sharkandric West and Nile Davis. Woohoo. Yeah.

Andy, you said this beforehand, but you didn't think that there was going to be a real true replacement. I mean, clearly last week, we don't blame anyone. We said, you know, he's the top waiver pick because there is the chance that you're getting, you know, the starting running back, and that's not found on the waivers, you know, and if he's any good, that would prove valuable to your fantasy team. But...

They're just not that great a talent. They're not a Jamal. Jamal Charles himself is an otherworldly talent. Sometimes it's the offensive line that's causing the production, but it was Jamal Charles. And I don't trust either Kansas City back going forward. I'm not done with West. I think he's still got the majority of touches. I think it was touches are snaps. I can't remember. But he's.

I'm not giving up on him after this week, and I think whoever blew the fab on him might be like, ugh, get off from my lineup, and I would scoop him up. All right, and we don't expect Peterson to continue with these happen numbers. No. Wide receiver-wise, let me read you four names. Jeremy Macklin, Randall Cobb, Antonio Brown, AJ Green, superstar, superstar, superstar. Like we all predicted. Wow. They buried people this week. Yeah. Terrible games. And, you know, for AJ Green's sake, you know, Marvin Jones.

Nine for 91 and a touchdown. It seemed like him and, you know, Jeremy Hill had a passing touchdown. Iford had a passing touchdown. Jones had a passing touchdown. It just wasn't AJ Green's week. Yeah, if you look at Andy Dalton's line and you go, oh, okay. I'm not worried about AJ Green at all. Had a great game. Yeah, I know. Yeah, no, you don't worry about any of these guys. You don't even worry about Antonio Brown. We told you to sit, Brown. Cobb is a concern for a number of reasons. The second straight game where he was very bad. And I told Jason during the week. It's not the third?

Might be. I think it's the second. But Cobb has come out and said that his injury is going to last the whole season. Well, and this is a little bit of a scary proposition than for Emmanuel Sanders, because it's essentially the same type of injury that Randall Cobb had earlier is what Emmanuel Sanders had late in that game. So all the more reason to package. It's the third. I mean, five for 44, three for 23, two for 38.

10 catches for 105 yards in the past three games combined and no touchdowns. And he said his shoulder remains an issue. Now, you know, you got the buy week. I'm giving him another week to come out after the buy and see if he has a better week. But otherwise, it's, you know, not what you expected as pretty much the number one option for him. So trouble on the cob front. Macklin, his stateline was impeded by a concussion. Yeah, well, they just, it also, they sucked.

The entire first half. The Chiefs, man, they are very disappointing to me. I was very much hoping the Chiefs would be a solid team this year, and it's just... It came to fruition. Alex Smith, man. You know what was really frustrating was Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey ended up with an okay line, a fine line for a tight end. It wasn't something that you hope for, but it wasn't awful. All of that. 100% of that production came in the second half. At halftime,

He wasn't, the first half, they didn't even look his way. I mean, they didn't use him at all. And it's just ridiculous. Then they go in at halftime and go, oh, yeah, we got this big, huge guy. Let's just start giving him the ball. And then he, you know, explode. If he did that both halves, he would have had an amazing stat line. But that's always been a frustration in Kansas City with Andy Reed. He doesn't know how to get his guys involved. All right. So we have the Giants and the Eagles tonight in a big Monday night football game.

Do you guys have any gut instincts on who wins this game? It's in Philadelphia, five-point favorites. I'm going to go with the Giants. I'm going to take the Eagles. Okay. I'm also on the Eagles side. I think the home field advantage swings out. But the biggest question of the game is Odell Beckham. Everything sounds like he's going to play. So if you're not checking into that, it sounds like he's going to play with his hamstring injury. The concern, though, is the weather that it will be a colder night.

And that always makes it difficult to warm up. And when you – so if his hamstring is not properly warmed up, he can knock himself right out of the game quickly. But – As good Rubin Randall. Because we can't forget that – I mean, he doesn't have the big name, so we haven't been talking about his hamstring. I know he got back to practice in full. But hamstrings are those re-aggravatable injuries. So for my taste, I like Dwayne Harris in this game. Should – should – what?

ODB be out. That's a funny face. Yeah. I don't like Dwayne Harris in this game. Should O'D B. B. If O. Beckham's out? Not really. I wish there was a way we could water bet that. Like, if he's out, he's going to have a fantastic. I like him like, you know, a three becoming a two in that situation. I mean, I wouldn't really want to be starting him. I certainly don't think many teams will be. I guess if you're handcuffing ODB with Harris, you might. But I just don't like, I think, you know.

The ball could go to Donnell. It could go to Vareen. It could go elsewhere. I mean, it's going to go elsewhere. I think Harris can get involved. Yeah, he can, but I wouldn't feel confident about it. Let's say you have both quarterbacks, because that's actually very possible that you have Eli Manning and Sammy Biscuits. You are trailing tonight. Who are you going with? I'm going with the home quarterback. I'm going to go with Sammy. Sammy. Let's go and get into the mailbag, and tomorrow we'll have a lot of discussion on the specific waiver guys that we have.

We're also going to be on the Chris Harris podcast tomorrow, talking waivers. So you can catch us over there as well. So let's go and get into the mailbag. Mailbag. All right, let's start with the voicemail question. Hey, guys. I'm in a 10-man PPR. Our benches aren't really too deep. And I have a pretty good team here. I'm currently running 5'0. But Stafford has been just killing me.

And I just, I don't have the room to carry two quarterbacks. I got a lot of talent on my bench. And I just, I'm wondering if I should, if I should drop Stafford. Now, mind you, we do have an IR spot and I have Romo in there. So I'm wondering, like, is there a guy on the wire, like a Tana Hill, there's even a James out there, a few guys, is there any, what kind of quarterback could I possibly look at to replace Stafford over the next few weeks until Romo gets back?

Hopefully I get answered on the air. Thanks, guys. I don't know if he's going to like the answer. Is your answer to Keep Stafford? No, the answer is you listen to the streaming section of the show and you play one of those guys. Stafford, you can hold him if you want. He takes on the Vikings who actually have a decent defense up in Minnesota. The Chiefs, that'd be a great match if you had them. The Packers had been solid until the Phillip Rivers game, so I'm still not.

Sure. Yeah, but the Packers come after a buy. So the next two weeks for him are Minnesota and Kansas City. I wouldn't want to play Stafford in either game. I would love to play. I would love to play Stafford against Kansas City, but that's two weeks from now. So I agree with you. I would listen to the streaming section. I mean, if you look. Bortles? Yeah, exactly. Bortle. I mean, we haven't.

That's going to be on tomorrow's show. So listen tomorrow. And you'll hear our picks for the next week because we're going to do a lot more research today. And, you know, not to tut our own horns too much. But the last few weeks, our guys that we've been picking who are freely available on the waiver wire have been outperforming, you know, all of the normal starters. So I think you're safe to do this. And that's why, just a reminder for next season, that's why we say don't spend your high picks on a quarterback. There's very few to me.

plug and play quarterbacks. I mean, you have, you have Rogers. Brady. Brady. Yeah, Brady. Luck. Yeah, Luck, who finally bounced back with a three touchdown game. Dalton. He, he, Dalton has earned his way into that situation, but maybe Palmer, but Palmer's has been, he's struggled for fantasy.

recently, even though he's putting up yardage, he's not scoring. But, I mean, there's very, very few guys who you say, screw it, I don't care about the matchup. I'm just going to play that guy. Maybe Newton is in that conversation. But other than that, there's a ton of guys who are available, like a Brian Hoyer, because they're trash. That's what the public conception of them is they're not good. But it's a quarterback. It's a passing league. They're just...