Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 2 Matchups, News

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That's the, that's Mike, Andy, and I. We use Mike Andy and I. Oh, the grammar police. All right. Mike alluded to it. We're heading into the Titans and the Lions and Andy's almost upset of the week. You cannot stop yourself. You love the underdog that you know. Come on. Last week I nailed it.

Yes, you did. Come on. And I thought, I honestly, I thought last week. You thought I was crazy. I thought you were crazy and you nailed your almost upset of the week. They almost won. That was the Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Packer game. Yep. They were 30 seconds away from winning that game. They were 30 seconds. That's all. That's an almost upset right there. I guess. Look, the Titans head in. So if the, if the team actually wins. I also succeed. Yes. No, that's how. I feel like you've lost. No, I've won. I've won.

Last week, last year we had a lot of those situations. I win almost in all circumstances. 60% of the time. Yeah. The Titans take on the Lions in Detroit. The Lions are six-point favorites. This is a very high over-under. You know, you have almost a 48 point over-under in this game. Look, this is one of the reasons why you're going to hear us talk about some of the Titans today as in our starts of the week's section. Because I think...

We have potential for Mario daemps as a good stream. You saw DeMarco Murray be very effective last week with the two touchdowns, the majority of the snaps over Henry. Yeah. And then Tajay Sharp burst onto the scene with a seven catch day. And you have Delaney Walker in the offense. So on that side of the ball, I don't, you know, let's just talk about DeMarco Murray. You know, we all have them rated fairly high this week. Yes. You were happy with the carry count. Yeah, I was, I was happy with the workload.

And I think that the Detroit Lions are not the Minnesota Vikings when it comes to a run defense. Well, they are not. Murray was not super efficient when it came to the running game. He got really involved in the passing game, which is great to see because that's...

That's the DeMarco Murray we remember from Dallas, who was getting 100 yards on the ground every game, but he was also catching a bunch of passes, which made him extremely valuable. So I would expect that to continue, and I like the matchup so much more that if you're going to give me a workhorse running back, I'm going to start him. Yeah, DeMarco is a top 10 back for all three of us.

I would start him happily with confidence. We've got no worries about the Lions defense. And what we saw last week out of the Lions, we're not sure. This is going to be a really great litmus test for them because you wonder, was it just their matchup last week? Or are they a great offense? Is their defense terrible or good? We're going to see this week. But the nice thing about Murray is if they're down, he's involved. If they're up, he's involved. And that's what you look for in those main running backs. Let me mix it up a little bit here. If you're looking rest of season.

At DeMarco Murray, would you rather have DeMarco Murray or Latavius Murray, rest of season? That's a great question. I think I would, I'd probably still rather have Latavius Murray at this point. I would lean that way myself, but just by hair. And the reason is Derek Henry.

I just think that there is more talent behind DeAndre Washington. You saw Jalen Richard this last week? No, I like it. But neither one of those guys were a second round pick with the buzz that Derek Henry has. And look like the juggernaut. What about Danny Woodhead or DeMarco Murray rest of the season? Ooh. Let's put it in a half point league. Half point? I'm going to take DeMarco. Still love Danny Woodhead, but I'll take DeMarco, but that's extremely close for me. Is there any reason why when you move Danny Woodhead into your RB2 slot?

ESPN asked you three times. Are you sure? Dude, it never feels good. Every time, I mean, I know. You know who Danny Woodhead is? I got a little interesting thing here. Yeah, give me, give me. Today, I saw this. Today is the 26th anniversary of when Captain Planet started. Okay. The car, the car is, Danny Woodhead is, he's got the heart ring on. Oh, that's so good. That's so good. He's got the heart. Heart! Heart!

You see, they always seem. Earth, win. They always seem so useless because you got, you got fire out there taking people out, burning them to the ground. Heart. And Hart's like, hey, monkey, I need to talk to you. And I need to talk to these animals. But then Hart always gets it done. The heart gets it done, but you don't, you know, who wants, you're not going to choose that ring. No, you're not. I'm going to get, I'm going to go fire or earth.

I'm going them all over a heart. You like how that tied in, right? We got the 26th anniversary of you grew up watching Captain Plant and then afterwards, right? Like after the episode, you'd have that, what, three-minute, like, serious conversation with Captain Planet. Recycling. Yeah, don't kill the dolphins. I was going to go with Danny Woodhead's kind of like a bad cough syrup. All right, so let me.

What world does that mean? Let's run through these guys. You don't feel good drinking it, but you know that it's going to make it feel better. All right. Yeah, sure. I got you there. All right. So you're starting to Mark Romero. What about Amir Abdullah Theoretic? You know, I. Who would you rather start? You've got both on your roster and you have to start one. You start. Theoretic or who? Or Abdullah? I start Theoretic. And it's super close. I mean, it's super close. Theoretic was like a.

a gym I found at the bottom of the barrel and a lot of my dynasty leagues and things like that because I didn't think I had running backs. And I think I do. I think I got somebody I can start. I'm not, you know, he's not Danny Woodhead projection the rest of the year. But I like Theoretic and I know you would say Abdullah because you're smirking. What I'm interested in is close. Is what looks different for Riddick was his running. If you watched him, he looked different than he has in years past where he's had.

basically no value in the running game. And that's what I'm concerned about. Was it the Colts where the Titans, look, they held Adrian Peterson in check. Yes, they have a good running game. And if you can hold Peterson, I have to assume that you can hold Theo Riddick in check when it comes to the running game. With all due respect, Riddick had like three carries last week. I mean, he's still a pass catcher. He led the league in past catching last year out of the running back position. So for me, that's why I still I view him. Right. But if you can't run, I think Abdul is still the better runner.

I think this will be a high scoring game. Totally agree. This won't be a defensive battle that we saw week one with the Titans and the Vikings. This should be points going up on the clock and points going up on the clock on the board. You've said that before too. I believe that's on the Jason Morrism.

Twitter. Oh, really? Points going up on the clock. Did you know the Jason Morism Twitter has over 200 followers? Oh, my God. Probably because it's been mentioned on here. If you're not following it, go immediately. Well, they haven't tweeted anything out because I'm so perfect. I'm so perfect. I'm perfect. Me so perfect. All right. The Lions were the 31st in the league against the past right now. I like Mario does numbers last week weren't so bad. He had a couple of bad mistakes.

But I think he has opportunities this week. So we'll talk more about that. One surprising thing before we move on. I just want to throw this out there. Mike Mularky, he says he wants to run the ball. You saw it in preseason. But if you look at last year's stats and if you look at game one, he's actually a very pass happy head coach. And that's surprising because you don't view him that way, but he ends up passing more than he always says he wants to. Two defensive scores will make that happen. It's 20, it's because it's 2016.

He can say it, but when he says it, he thinks it's like 1986. But it's 2016, so when he gets into the game, he has to. The Chiefs take on the Houston Texans in Houston. Both teams want to know. This game has a 43.5 point over under. You had a monster anomalous game from Alex Smith last week due to the comeback attempt over the San Diego Chargers. Wait. You had a consistent... It's not going to happen again? Well, it could. Career total passes?

No, I mean, he had to throw the ball a lot, and the beneficiary of that was Spencer Ware in a lot of ways. And Jeremy Macklin had a good game. Travis Kelsey was all right. I think this is a monster opportunity for Lamar Miller to run all over this defense. As this defense gets healthy, the front was not good last week against the Chargers. You saw Woodhead and, you know, Woodhead had a career high and carries against the Chiefs last week. Because he was eating them up. Then you had Melvin Gordon with two touchdowns. So I think Lamar Miller...

Feasts this week. I like him quite a bit. DeAndre Hopkins, how concerned are you with him being a top five option this year based on the other weapons they have? Braxton Miller, Will Fuller. Yeah, Will Fuller. Will Fuller to me is, if you picked him up, I think I'm starting him until I, wow. That is, I mean, that's some like quick praise for Mr. Fuller. But you're not starting him this week, are you against Kansas City in a low scoring game? I mean, I can tell you I'm not starting Will Fuller this week.

I would. If you picked him up, it's likely because you need help at the wide receiver position. If you were the Keenan Allen loser. Yeah, you have him right outside the top 24. So that makes him flex-worthy. I think he's a decent option. I don't have him too much further. I have him at 30. You have him at 25. As for Hopkins, I mean, this was the concern going into the season is he's not going to see 30% target share. Yeah, we said we love the player. He's great. But they have other weapons now. Lamar Miller.

is a piece they didn't have last year. Will Fuller, Braxton Miller. This is a different team. Yeah. So there is concern for that a frequency of huge boom games from Hopkins. He'll still give you some, but I think they're going to be further. Would you rather have DeAndre Hopkins or Amari Cooper rest of the season? DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre Hopkins or Brandon Marshall rest of season. Brandon Marshall. Okay. Cooper is. He had a big game. Close. Oh, yeah. But that was, again, you got to say was that.

Was that Cooper or was that New Orleans? I think Cooper is great. I just, I don't think Cooper's ceiling is what Hopkins is. Sure. All right. You heard Captain Planet talk about it earlier. You need to save the dolphins. And we might need to save them in this game. They had to New England to take on the Patriots. They gave a great, look, their defensive front looked awesome against a Seattle offensive line that looked not as awesome. Still, I mean, when they had things rolling with Mario Williams.

He plays for the golfing. When Mario Williams was going, Cameron Wake, you have a really impressive front, and Dom Kusu in the middle. You know, for me, I don't, you know, this game's a 41.5 point over under. It's one of the lower ones of the week. I think it's going to be a very close game. I really do. The Patriots are favored by almost seven with Garoppolo under center. They'll probably win the game. But how do you guys see this game breaking down fantasy-wise? Sart sits. Kenny Stills.