Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 10 Matchups, News

line in the league when it comes to yards before contact. These guys are just getting buried in the backfield. We saw what happened to Adrian Peterson. Hall of Fame level, Adrian Peterson, with the Vikings the first couple games this week. If your line is letting defenders through and you're getting hit in the backfield, it doesn't matter how great you are. Todd Gurley, same exact situation. I believe the Rams are second worst in yards before contact. You just can't get it done. That's why a guy like CJ Pro Seitz becomes interesting.

converted wide receiver, great hands, kind of that he was the hope of the most likely, hey, this guy's like David Johnson, similar path coming into the NFL. So I had excitement before the season for CJ Pro size, and he's been hurt all year. So that excitement is going to build again now that the coach is ready to unleash him. That take was great.

And I think you're right on almost all of your points there. I mean, even if Rawls gets back, it's going to be a timeshare. Yes. And then a timeshare behind a bad offensive line. And the timeshare could favor pro size because they know they can't run. All right. Let's talk about Will Fuller's day-to-day, game-time decision for week 10. It's been a while since he's contributed to your fantasy team. I think you have a better option out there. Marcus Mariotta suffered an ankle injury in week nine. It was reported. Expected to practice and play, but just worth noting, it might limit him in the running game.

Hunter Henry returned to practice on a limited basis and Justin Houston for that Kansas City defense. Look, last year. That's big. Last year, if you picked up the Kansas City defense towards the back half of the year, you rode them through that 10-game winning streak, and they were dominant. And so Justin Houston is like getting back, you know, he's getting back your Von Miller. Yes. He's getting back the pass rush. And you already have Tom Bahali and the others involved there. So I really like what that offers you as a defense owner.

Yeah, if the chiefs are available and you've been streaming, you say, oh, the Panthers are in town, or the Chiefs are going to Carolina, the Panthers' offense shouldn't scare anybody. And the Chiefs with Houston are completely different. Yeah, they are. All right, let's go ahead and I think it's time to get into the forecast. What do you think? Let's ask Jason. Yeah, Jay, should we do the forecast? Yeah.

Mergeladorn. Fantasy forecast. He's turned into Groot. That's all he could say now. When the headphones fell off yesterday. It was a solid moment. I'm losing my mind. All right. Thursday night football update, the Browns at the Ravens. Terrell Pryor's not in the injury report. Roll them out there with confidence. Excellent. One of my leagues, I have four players in tonight's game. I hope they're good. I got Steve Smith, Terrell Pryor.

Justin Tucker? Oh, yeah, that's not terrible. And then I was thinking about Dixon. Would you start Dixon or ProCise asking for a friend? Ooh, man. I'm leaning ProCise. I would lean ProCise as well. It's a half point league. Yeah, I mean, this. Of course, I am sitting here telling you yesterday that I believe Kenneth Dixon will out touch. And it could be. Terrence West, I just, you just, it's scary. Scary, where are we? Fantasy football.

A lot of the times there's a game of probability. You think, okay, this can happen here, but is it a more than 50% chance? Do I want to take that play? So you know that ProSize is going to touch the ball. You didn't even mention the New Jersey on the wall. I don't think I had to. We got a nice signed Aryan Foster jersey. That thing just glows. From pristine auction. Mike surprised me with it yesterday. Yeah.

I'm telling you, I look at this jersey with Arian Foster on the wall, and I can see fantasy points that are just falling out of it from days gone by. When fantasy was great. When fantasy was great. All right. Reminder teams on by this week as we get into the matchups, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Oakland. So don't start those guys. And they will not produce. And next week, Atlanta, Denver, the Jets, and the Chargers on by. And then none in week 12 and then two teams in week 13 because that makes sense.

What are you doing? Cleveland and Tennessee are both week 13. So if you have playoffs in week 13 and you've got Trell Pryor, DeMarco Murray, Mariotta. Uh-oh. NFL. Yeah. Look, we, we are important to your business. Fantasy football players. Unites. Yeah. Come on. Roger. Roger. Roger. Roger.

All right. Sounds like a Sesame Street guy. Let's start with the aforementioned Chiefs at the Panthers. The Panthers are three point favorites in this game, a 44.5 point over or under. We expect Alex Smith and Cam Newton to face off and do what? Oof. Man, look, the Houston upgrade, if he is indeed going to play, I mean, that's trouble for Cam Newton. You think week one back, though, I don't know if I worry about it as much.

the first week he's back on the field. Possibly. I mean, he could just be used situationally, and then he's going to give all the gas and go after Cam Newton, who's been getting beat up this season. Cam Newton is, he's still that, he's still fine play because he runs nice baseline of points for you. I'm not. For a second, I thought you did adjacent there. You go, he's really good because he runs nice. I didn't know where you're going to the baseline of points. Well, uh,

Alex Smith, I guess he's a fine stream this week. The Panthers defense, 29th against the past. They've been very good against the run, not so good against the past. And I will not let that stop me or hinder me from firing up Spencer Ware. That's what I was going to ask. Nope. Maybe you don't expect the top five week, but I think Spencer Ware is just so incredibly talented. He's a three-down guy. Char West is simply the backup. We'll come in when Spencer Ware says, hey.

I need to take a little break. So come in here and take some snaps and then Spencer Ware will be back out. I believe Spencer Ware is leading the league in average yards per touch. Overall touch. Yeah, I believe so. So we talk about the Panthers passing defense not being good, but Jeremy Macklin, Tyree Kale, Chris Conley, Albert Wilson. I mean, Albert is the bird alert. Macklin might miss.

And Albert Wilson will slide right into Jeremy Macklin's position. But do you, I'd still probably start Tyreek Hill over Albert Wilson because they use Hill in more creative ways. They do. Macklin's the more targeted position. Yeah. So, I mean, if I have to go between the two of them, I would probably play Albert Wilson. Well, and sneak peek here, the start to me on the passing side is Travis Kelsey in this game. Travis Kelsey's put up a few consistent.

good games. He missed a quarter last week due to the ejection, but still had a decent game. The Panthers defense averages three sacks per game, which is fourth in the league. And that puts, I think, Alex Smith in that position of get the ball out quick, find your sure-handed wide receiver or receiving option. Without Macklin, it's Kelsey above all, in my opinion. And I think Calvin Benjamin.

is a solid play. I know that the Chiefs pass defenses, you know, like right about in the middle. I just, I think this is a game where Calvin Benjamin can exploit some matchups. Okay. And the Chiefs, they've been, yeah, right in the middle, like you said. All right. Let's move on to the Texans, the Jaguars. Okay. Not a high-scoring projection from Vegas.

Jags are Vegas, look, one and a half point dogs at home. We got Brock Osweiler and Blake Bortles, and you set the O under at 42 and a half? Yeah. That is very, very accurate. I mean, this is, who can stink the least? Blake Bortles has been getting it done in garbage time. But the Texas D has only given up 18 receptions a game. But I ponder you, this is the question. If Brock Osweiler is the opposing quarterback,

Can there even be garbage time? No, probably not. Or is it just garbage game? All of it is garbage time. But they don't, they're not trailing. This isn't another example. I mean, Houston's leading this division with unimpressive play, and they're probably going to win this game, unimpressively, and just continue to lead. So, um, look, and there's, there's guys in here that, uh, I'm, I'm okay with Fedorowitz.

Yeah, he's in my top 12 this week. And, look, Hopkins Robinson, you're still going to play these guys. I think a bigger question in this game, Chris Ivory. Yeah, I would say, do you make anything of last week or buy into the... Over 100 yards on the ground. The usage split between him and Yeldon was a little strange. I'm talking situationally when they decided to go with Yeldon. Yelden got into the end zone last week. That's what I mean.

I thought that was, you paid Ivory a bunch of money to be that guy. Well, I think he got in the end zone on a screen pass. Oh, was that? Yeah. All right. But it was, so I'm not, I'm not very excited to throw any of the Jaguars running backs in. No, I don't have a lot of confidence rolling them out there. Ivory got the majority of his yardage on a big run. And so I like Lamar Miller in this game. Sure. The run defense for the Jags has struggled.

I wouldn't play Bortles and chase garbage time. This is just too good of a defense. Yeah. I completely agree. So before we move on to the Broncos and the Saints, FootGlan, we want to thank today's sponsor, Football Hall, a monthly subscription box. I'm telling you, that is loaded with NFL collectibles, NFL goodies. If I came up to you and I said, hey, I'm going to trade you $75 worth of stuff, but you only have to give me $29.

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The Denver Broncos head to New Orleans and take on the Saints. Vegas understands there's going to be some points put up in this game. 49 put point over under. Because Vegas knows that when... They're in Louisiana. And when a defense travels to Louisiana, you know they're filling up on those Ben Yates. It slows you down. Have you been to... I've never been. New Orleans? I've been one time. And...

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