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

does not play well enough for fantasy owners, does not throw a touchdown. The Broncos, we know they have the best passing defense in the league, and they've only allowed 10 points per game overall. So, I mean, that's incredible. Where's the margin here for Drew Breeze? And you talk about... And their offense, they score 22 a game. That's the... Exactly. They're the leaders. Something's got to give here. Right now I have Drew Breeze at three. I think I'm going to move... Or as Jason would say, Drew Breeze. I'm going to move them down.

uh a little bit here because i think that oakland has really set up a a game plan here a game script that other teams will try to follow and it's not that other teams haven't done this but oakland said we're just going to smash your faces in with the running game because you can't stop it and they look at the broncos defense say hey number one defense in the league what are you going to do and then

They can't do anything. And now you have Derek Wolf is hurt. A keep to leave is likely still out. I mean, there's, there's some holes. There's some problems for this Broncos defense. I think that, but Drew Breeze at home is still a play. I'm not benching home Drew Breeze because of the Broncos. Okay. I am not either. I know you and I have him higher in our rankings than Jason. Jason has taken the approach, which could be absolutely right. Right. Of Drew Breeze struggling.

against this Denver defense. It's a weird one to do, but this is actually my... Oh! And he's almost upset of the week. Yes, the Broncos are two and a half point underdogs in this match. Is that true? It is. It is. Let me verify it here as well, just so I don't miss it. Yeah, they are two point underdogs on the lines that I'm looking at and two and a half in our system. That has to be their...

Their first underdog matchup. The reason I'm going with Denver in this game is it's just the numbers, the Saints defensive numbers, 19th against the run, 32nd against the pass. I saw both of you guys had Emmanuel Sanders very high. I think you both have them at seven so far in your initial rankings. I've got D. Thomas very high. Look, you, last week the Saints gave up a lot, almost 400 yards, to Colin Kaepernick. This is not, Colin Kaepernick is not the wizard of the quarterback.

position. And neither is Trevor Simeon, but he's going to be able to do enough against the Saints. And I don't know if the Saints can keep up against the Denver defense. They might be able to score 21 points, but that might not be enough. That's what I think. So I'm going to take Denver in this game. I think it's going to be a very interesting one for fantasy owners. I want to know what you're doing with the Ingram High Tower stack because Ingram obviously came back, performed last week. High Tower got a lot of carries. Coaches came out this week and said, look, we're still going to ride the hot hand.

Can you start them? Can you start them absolutely? Because I'm going to speak on them a little bit later in our next section. Are you really? I am. On the starts on the wing? Yeah. Stick around. All right. What do you do with Devonte Booker and Capri Bibbs? There have been rumblings that Capri Bibbs could get more action. I've looked around. I see most experts favoring Booker heavily in this matchup to kind of get it together. And that's exactly where I fall.

Capri Bibbs had the amazing catch. Booker was still the guy. He was dealing with the shoulder injury. Another week to kind of heal up here. Just, I don't know, Capri Bibbs, undrafted, floated around the league, has gotten on the roster because of a multitude of injuries for the Broncos. I'm not saying that those things happen. The NFL misses on some guys. But I think that Booker is by far the more talented running back, who will get.

the primary snaps, and he's a three-down guy. Are there other stories from this game that you want to get into? No, Fleener is Barfi tied in with upside as always, and I mean, Virgil Green was getting a little bit more involved in the passing game. Had a couple drops last week, so his stat lines should have been better, but he's, I'm probably still avoiding him. All right, let's go ahead and move on to the Rams and the Jets. Look, Ryan Fitzpatrick, we talked about him earlier.

He is 36 out of 36 in pass the rating with just a 67.2. The league average is 90, so he's been atrocious. And it affects everybody on that team. It affects Brandon Marshall the most. I love both defenses in this game. I love them. It's not even a 40 point over under. This is going to be a mess out there. The Keenham-Fittspatrick Interception Fest. Those are the top two interception throwing quarterbacks in the league. That is why I was laughing.

I, as we started the show, I thought, well, broadcast, Wiler, Blake Bortles, it can't get any worse than that. Nope, it can. Not to mention Fitzpatrick is hurt. Like, it's still being reported he's going to play, but it's like. We're going to get some B petty? B. Well, look, I wish I could. Tom's brother. Can you actually, do you have any leagues where you can start D.Bs as a wide receiver? Because I might just pick some and go for that pick six number. But.

watch the game be just a well-oiled machine 60 points on the ball. I will say I don't hate Kenny Britt in this game. I know Case Keenum is a turnover master, but Kenny Britt has been getting it done. He had a down game in a terrible match up a couple weeks ago, but the Jets defense, they're just, they're not stopping people in the passing game. So Kenny Britt, Lance Kendricks, I mean, these are guys that I think are, they're start worthy this week. When you have 46 pass attempts last week,

and the potential for the Rams to be trailing in this game, which, you know, the Jets are favored. Is it possible to have both teams trailing? Has that ever been done? I thought you were going to say both teams are neither team is favored, but it's also not a pick-em. They're just both not favored. They're both dogs. Yeah, the both. Oh, the Rams and Jets are both underdogs this week. What if the money's on the tie? Maybe that's what you go for.

We've had enough of those this year. Look, you're starting Brandon Marshall. You're starting Matt Forte. I don't see a lot of other prominent fantasy questions. You're starting girly. I mean, you're not, these aren't decisions that you just have to temper your martial expectations at this point. But, you know, you heard the numbers. He's still being targeted in the red zone and in the end zone. You know, he's a big guy. When you wish upon a star, he may catch one. Man, I was going to say Ajai had a pretty solid game against the Jets, but.

The Miami offensive line is light years ahead of what the Rams are dealing with right now. All right. The Falcons and the Eagles. Finally. This is the opposite of that. Carson wins. They're taking the training wheels off lately. Had I believe 340-something yards against New York. They need to put them back on. Put them back on. 50 point over under in this game. It's also a pick-em game in Philly. I'm looking forward to this one. Look, you go through all the big names.

What do you think of, you know, you're starting Freeman, you're starting Julio. What do you think about Gabriel and how he's been performing lately? Yeah, he's, he's interesting. Do you start Sunu or Gabriel? I would still go with Sunu. Okay. Taylor Gabriel's in that, the vein of the Kenny Stills where you're just, you're hoping. You're hoping there's that one big play. And could it happen? It could. I mean, but the Eagles defense has been solid as a unit on the year, sixth against the pass.

So it could happen, but I would look elsewhere. So here's the question. Not solid against the pass is the Falcons defense. 31st against the pass, giving up 2.6 touchdown receptions per game. That's rough. So I think Carson Wins can be played in this. Yes. Yeah. I'm joking about the training wheels. And, you know, Sproles, Jordan Matthews, and Ertz. Would you start them all? Would you start Ertz over like Fleener?

Hmm. Because of the matchup. Because of the matchup. Ertz had a very good week last week. The best one he's had since I think week won. Maybe his entire year. Man. I mean, 13.7 fancy points last week, eight for in 97. I'm okay with it. And are you confident as starting Sproles? Yes. As an RB2. Yes. Sprouls is an RB2. Ryan Matthews is touchdown only leagues. And Jordan Matthews been a wild ride.

with Jordan Matthews where the first couple weeks you thought you had struck gold. Then he was a guy you wanted to drop. Then he came back to, oh, I can start this guy. So this is a good matchup here. I'm fine playing Jordan Matthews with confidence. Last question. For those looking at those barfey tight ends, is Austin Hooper a consideration? Last week he sort of touchdown, three for 46. Yes. On six targets. He is. Look, when I'm looking at my barfey tart ends, it's a big bucket.

It smells bad, too. You don't want to be around there very long. So what I like to do, find that high over under. 50 points. I feel like it's one of those spit buckets, like the one in Back to the Future. A spatoon? A spatoon. We're like every week, you play that tight in, and then you walk into the saloon and you just, you just spit that tight in right back in the spatoon and move on to the next one. Yeah, that's a very fair thing. But, look, a 50 points is what Vegas is saying.

A lot of scoring opportunities. If I'm streaming a tight-in, that's what I want. And Austin Hooper has shown flashes this season, and Matt Ryan is on fire and showed that he likes to throw touchdowns to his tight-in. A 50-point over-under means there's going to be points on the board. Let me in on it. And you can get in on Hooper. Scooby-Doo-Doo-Doo. You still don't remember Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street? No. Because I didn't watch Sesame Street. You didn't? Because you had cable. Yeah. Oh.

I watched the Disney Channel, bro. I did not have cable, and I was jealous. I watched Legends of the Hidden Temple and guts and Rugrats. Yeah, I didn't watch any of that. My life was complete. I watched the Sesame Street and, um, what was that? Uh, three, two, one contact. I was going to say, dude. I need some three to one contact shoutouts out there from anybody who watched that show. Well, I was going to make a Mr. Wizard joke. There were math detectives inside my show. Math detectives. That's what I had.

Public television. Look, actually, I could have been very interested in that as a kid. I love math. Bears, Buccaneers. Our final matchup will review today. We'll get to the rest tomorrow because we want to get into the starts of the week. Give you some names, guys, that we really like. So the bears, they take on the buccaneers to me, and I could be wrong. Vegas has it at a 45.5 point over under a pick-em game. Give me the over. See, I get it.

Give me the over. I want it. Here's what I think. And I'm just throwing it out there. I think this is a trap game for offensive pieces of the Tampa Bay for the Winstons of the world, for Barber. Other than Evans, I am not excited about starting these guys. I know we like Winston for the year in schedule, but I think the Bears defense is underrated. They are in the upper half in both run and past defense. And I think they are the type of team that will make Winston.

make mistakes. That's fair. So I just am not as excited as maybe Vegas is or others are about this matchup for Winston. If he's your quarterback, you probably got to roll him out there. Certainly if you have him stacked with Evans, I'm just tempering my expectation. On the other side, though, I mean, the Buccaneers defense, they're good at playing your fantasy players against them. Right. They've allowed passes of 20 or more yards on 37 of 285 attempts, which is the most in the league.

And Alshan Jeffrey, he's averaged 16.2 yards per reception, which is third best in the league. That is a complimentary sandwich of fantasy points. Yes. So Alshan Jeffrey love him this week. Love him. Hint, hint, he's coming up in the starts of the week. Yeah. Zach Miller, I love this week. Jordan Howard, I love this week. Jay Cutler, I'm okay if you stream them this week. Yeah, like I said, I...

I have higher hopes for the Buccaneers than you do. Certainly, Winston is, he'll make some mistakes. This game being in Tampa makes a big difference. Yes. Because if they were in Chicago, I think I would lean even heavily more heavy towards him having a struggle there. Being in Tampa, I could definitely see Winston coming out and being able to do enough to help you. I would still, I consider starting the Bears defense. I think there might be enough mistakes to get by. They've been a good defense. Yeah, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with it.

All right. Well, that is it for the matchups we're reviewing today. The rest will be tomorrow along with In and Out and a number of other... We got DFS segment tomorrow. Hopefully. Marcus... Chris Meany? No, why don't I say Marcus? Is there a Marcus Meany? Is there a Marcus Meany? I think there's a Marcus Meany. Well, if Marcus Meany is available... No, that's good. Hey, yeah, we're going to get a hold of Chris Meany here for some DFS. All right. Starts of the Starts. All right.

It's time to give you the guys that we like a lot. Yep. All right. So, Mike, kick it off. Quarterback start of the week. Look. Was this guy Jason's stream? It might have been. Because I remember saying something about grab the Fabriz. So let's double up. Grab even more Fabriz. That's fine. We started Kaepernick last week. You're fine. Go on. Well, I'm saying because I don't want my car to smell like cigarettes. Yeah.

You got Jay Cuddy in there, don't you? Smoking Jay Cuddy. Look, he's just talked about that game. He's finally back after missing. He had pretty extended absence there. His first game back, tough matchup against Minnesota, and he looked perfectly fine. He looked good. Now he gets to take on Tampa Bay, who was allowed, get this. In the last two weeks, the Tampa Bay defense has allowed.