Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 13/14

You're not a Piergarsan fan? No. Oh, I'm a huge Pierre-Garsone fan, but I just, I don't know what happened, but he's not getting it done. Well, this is a risk, but I think you're going to see a quick-hitting offense for Colt, and not every ball can go to Jordan Reed. And if D. Jax is out, Pierre-Gar-San is going to be involved in this screen game against St. Louis's defense, and so he's my middling start of the week. I'm going with Kenny Stills because...

of the reasons I talked about earlier. He's been beasting the last couple weeks, and it's a, I really, really liked him. He was one of my top sleeper picks going into the draft before all the injury stuff happened. So it's kind of, I just, I want to start him because I liked him so much earlier. Absolutely. My running back start of the week, by the way, I hit a home run on mine last week, Trey Mason.

You did. Went insane. Had a couple of those recently with Fleener going insane for me, and then Mason, that was good to see. Not that it took a rocket scientist to say Oakland can't play defense, but... My start of the week that went off was the Rams defense. Yeah, that was a monster. That paid off. My running back is Chris Ivory this week. The Jets figured out a new offensive philosophy. It's called not letting Gino Smith throw the football at all. Why play Gino Smith? I know. If you're...

I don't understand. The call for Gino Smith, as I understand it, came from up above. Rex, I believe, what I'd heard was he wanted Vic to keep playing. So in Rex Ryan knows he's going to be fired. So this could be a double finger blast up yours. I'll play. I'll play him, but we'll run the ball almost every play. They had sequences of like 17, 18 straight runs in that game. So for that reason, the Jets.

have a new never-passed plan, and Minnesota is actually surprisingly beatable on the ground. I've seen guys run for big yards against them. They're 26 against the run, so I think Ivory gets a touchdown in this game, and I think he gets used a plenty. That's fair. I'm going with Jonathan Stewart. Now... What's his nickname again? What is he? I forget what his name is. It's not... It's not just J-Stu, right? No, we call him J-Stu. He has an actually... It always reminds me of...

Adrian Peterson's. It reminds me of all day. It's like the big show or something. Oh, the Daily Show. There you go. That's what I was thinking about. Yeah. Now, this is a, there's an asterisk on this, that Daniel Williams has a fractured fracture in his middle figure. He did not practice today. And Jonathan Stewart has actually had juice this year. 4.3 a carry. He's looked great, especially when DeAngelo was not played.

The Saints' run defense is just getting trounced every week. You just saw Lev Bell have a billion yards. There might be two Ryans that are out of a job after this year. I can be pretty sure of that. Yeah, I would 100% agree with you. But so I'm going with Jonathan Stewart, and he might be on your waiver wire, or he might be one of your bench players where you're scrambling for a running back. But I like Jay Stu, especially if DeAngelo doesn't play.

Yeah, absolutely. And then at... I can't believe you're doing this again. I know. I know. You realized the last time he was the start of the week was when they played the Saints. Cam Newton. Cam Newton's my start of the week. That's all. That's all I got. Cam Newton. Oh, damn. That is Newton. Start of the week. I'm not even given a reason now that you said that.

Start Cam Newton. The reason is you were drunk when you wrote that. I'm going with Eli Manning. The Giants are taking on the Titans. The Titans are terrible. Just all around. And if you look at the numbers, they are supposedly good against the pass. That's because people have been running the ball in their face. And with the possibility that Rashad Jennings is out.

Andre Williams is okay, but he's not the talent that Rashad Jennings brings to the floor. And we saw the beard drop six TDs on him last week. I think the Titans have quit. They don't want to be out there. And that's why I would stream Eli. Yeah, unless Johnny Football's back.

Unless Johnny football is the starter, but I don't think he will be anymore. Which I believe the right move is to go back to Hoyer at least one more week. Yeah, you're going to put yourself in a position if you go to Menzel now that Hoyer can't come back. I've been monitoring my Twitter feed today. The Hoyer numbers are actually awful. When I say it's the right thing to go back to him, that's just because he has experience. But it's...

almost a logical thing that you should go to the rookie at this point with how bad Brian Hoyer has been lately yeah I doubt that there will be a long leash for Hoyer at this point oh yeah the fantasy footballers versus the world let's do some start sit all right let's get into it these should be some decisions that some some teams are making we'll get some perspective on guys let's go with uh

Two guys that have been actually hot lately. Now, we said Evans had a tough week, but Mike Evans or Keenan Allen. Mike Evans is facing the Stout Lions D while the Keenan Allen Expressway travels to New England and faces the Patriots. I am actually going to... My gut tells me that Evans is... Oh, and we're going to check these and verify these on fantasy pros.com, which is a...

Fantastic tool that I talked about earlier, and you can do StartSit, where they do a consensus ranking of experts from all over, so you're not just getting one opinion. Kind of like you're getting two opinions now. But these are very strong. Super qualified. Very bankable. There you go. Like, you could go to your bank with a note from us that says, I need a loan. They'll be fine with it. Because the fantasy hitman said. I've done it. I've actually done it. They don't mind.

So I think the percentage is going to say Mike Evans. I think it actually might be strong in Mike Evans' favor, but I'm going to go with Keenan Allen. I know his production was pretty much last minute, but Philip Rivers has a surprisingly good track record against the Patriots. He hasn't played them in a while, and so it's likely a useless bit of information. But I just say the...

I actually agree with you. I think that the number is going to say Evans, but I think Allen's the right play this week. Yes, so that's why I would roll with. Let's take a look. Let's see. Let's see what the Fantasy Pros say at FantasyPros.com. We are 100% on our analysis. Yes. 80% would go with Mike Evans and 20% with Keenan Allen. I don't know. That's one of those gut.

Yeah, I agree. The next one's kind of tough. Andre Johnson versus a somewhat hobbled Sammy Watkins or a getting back to health, Sammy Watkins. Johnson has the Jaguars on the road, and Sammy Watkins has the Broncos on the road. Yeah, I'm going to go with Andre Johnson. I'll tell you why. Andre Johnson was targeted a team high 13 times last week. I love targets. So I'm going to go with Andre Johnson on that one. Sammy Watkins has been struggling mightily. Yeah, that hip isn't right. He exploded.

And because of that, and with the new information today of he's still struggling with his hip, I'm going to go with Andre Johnson see if the beard has a little bit more fits magic left. Just a little bit more. And what's the result on that? So we got the fantasy pros has agreed with a 69% for Andre Johnson, only 31 for Sammy Watkins. Our third versus the world, fantasy footballers versus the world. It's an interesting old busted new hotness.

Yeah, it is. We got Reggie Wayne or the, I really wish he was a Frenchman. He's a rookie, right? Yeah. Danty. So many rookie wide receivers. Moncrief. So many wookie riders receivers right now. Oh, my gosh. But clearly they both are playing against Cleveland.

This is tough. This is really tough. He exploded last week. My gut tells me to go Moncrief. My gut also tells me to go Moncrief. I would say this is a floor ceiling type deal. So this depends on your team situation. Yes, it does. Are you facing the best team in your league in your playoffs this year? Wayne's floor is higher, but his ceiling is much lower. In Moncrief's snap percentage has increased dramatically.

I believe the past three weeks, each week for the last three weeks, it's gone up steadily. He has surpassed Hakeem Moonhand's drops, Knicks on the death chart. And I would go, so like I said... I'd feel comfortable starting Wayne, and I would feel excited starting Moncrief. Yeah, that's fair. And the pros say Reggie Wayne. They're going to go safe.

And I don't blame him at all. But I liked that over the top, having somebody other than Hilton, boy, that makes that team dangerous. Yeah, I mean, next year we talked about last week how if you're in a keeper league and you're kind of out of it, just start throwing stashes away. I threw Moncrief on my bench last week. And I was telling my friend I'm like, yeah, I made a sweet move and grabbed Moncrief. He's like, who is?

Who was Dante Moncrief? So I message him Monday. I bet you know who Dante Moncrief is now. Humongous game. He's had a couple this year. But that's kind of how it starts for these guys. They make an impact once or twice, and then they take hold. So Josh Gordon or Alshan Jeffrey this week. Now this is another one that...

Yeah, I had this question scheduled. News today. Maybe we just skipped that one. Yeah, I had a schedule for yesterday. Jeffrey has a hamstring injury, like we mentioned. So it's pretty easy. You go, Gordon. And speaking of which, that's kind of the same situation with this, too. We didn't mention this. We didn't mention. Oh, this one. We didn't mention. Okay, okay. Favorite of the podcast. How do you do the cacao? How do you do the cacao when he's, like, kind of hobbled?

Caw! Yeah, it's the injured crow because he's banged up. He might not play. Yeah, they're hoping he'll play. He did not practice today. If you have a somewhat decent backup option, that's probably who I'm going to go with. So originally we had Crowell versus Gio, but you're right. Let's change this. Let's go Josh Gordon or Gio Bernard. I think it's a pretty easy one. Yeah, I guess that makes...

You know, it depends what kind of league you're in maybe. Here's the thing about Gio Bernard. Jeremy Hill is kind of in the doghouse. I saw that report. So there's still the potential that, and it's not like Giovanni is a slouch, and he's getting healthier week by week. So if you're in a league that's non-PPR completely, I don't really think starting Gio Bernard isn't necessarily a bad decision, although only 7% of people would agree with me. We do have this caveat.

Vante Davis, the cornerback for the Colts, who has been great. He has severely limited wide receiver ones who are playing against the Colts. But he was concussed last week, so he's in the protocol right now. If he... If he starts? If he plays this, that actually, I might lean Geo. Are you a bigger Gordon fan if Mansell's in the game, or are you a bigger fan with Hoyer?

Man, I don't know. I lean Hoyer because I feel like we've seen him force feet the ball. And I'm not sure. Hoyer throws it deep, too. He's just been having trouble lately. He'll take the risk. I don't know how loose and slinging it Johnny Football would come out with his first start. All right. Well, in that case, Josh Gordon takes it 93 to 7. Yeah, it's... But keep your eyes on...

on what it looks like for Jeremy Hill this week. He's very startable, but I don't think Kim versus Gio's as cut and dry as some people think. I have the exact scenario we're talking about, Jeremy Hill and Gio. As of Wednesday, I'm full force going Jeremy Hill, despite the news of Hugh Jackson and him feuding. Yeah, I don't blame you. Mailbag. Yeah, yeah.

This is where we answer your questions. You send them to us at the fantasy footballers at gmail.com. We answer them as a part of our show today. And you get the answers to your questions. You start the guys that you want to start and you win your league and then you're happy. Yeah, everyone's happy. We're kind of like our podcast is kind of like an antidepressant for people's fantasy teams. Yeah. You know what I mean? A preventative.