Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 2 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

Which is even funnier because it was the game of the week and it was not. But he said he recovered in five weeks. Right. But they're not, I don't think they're expecting that because he's on IR to return. It was more like the stain of the week. It was just. Did you guys? Hashtag I vomit was what I used for. Did you guys see the new Troy Aikman commercial? No. I don't think so.

Oh, I just got to bring it real quick. So he's in a circle K of some kind. And there's a fan's like, oh, man, I'm a huge fan, you know. And Aikman's like, oh, no, I don't like to dwell on the past, you know, whatever. And then his phone goes off. And his phone tone, his ringtone is a call of him throwing a test. Oh, come on. And he throws a touchdown. And he pulls it out just embarrassed like, I dwell on the past.

It's very funny. Oh, that's pretty good. He could probably go in and help him out right now. Seriously. All right, so let's talk about running backs. Well, hold on. I'm going to stay there for just a split second because this is a fantasy show, obviously. So more than just the news, I want to know the fantasy implications for Dallas because more dependence on the running game has to be there. I thought Randall looked the best with my eyeballs. Yeah, they gave DMC a lot of work, though. They gave him some series like they've been doing. But to me, every time they needed somebody on the field, it was Joey Randall. He caught...

the ball. He broke tackles him. He looked better to me. Both guys will get used. Maybe your boy, Christian Michael, eventually get called up from the practice squad. For the foot clan who wants the Christian Michael update, no, I'm still not dropping him because I haven't... Yeah, because you spent too much fab on him. I spent seven bucks on him. You wouldn't drop him. I bet if you'd spent no money on him, you'd have dropped him by now. Yeah. And you also spent a lot of words on him, and I think that that helped. I do not... If you can drop him, I'm just saying for me,

because I don't have an impending need for my team. I'm still holding. I'm like, I haven't bailed out of Christian Michael not getting an opportunity yet. Okay. All right. Well, I think what this does for Dallas is it makes them really a matchup dependent play. Most of their guys, Terrence Williams will be all right. I mean, he's a, you know, he's a flex type of player. I think on a most, yeah, he didn't have a good week until that last, yeah, 40-yard.

touchdown. Yeah. He would have been all right average. And I think that that's what you're going to have. You're going to have an all right average type of flex guy. Same with Joey Randall. There's going to be certain matchups where you go, okay, I like this. They're going to be putting up points. They're going to be in a high scoring game. Here's what I mean. Start some defenses against Dallas. Because they couldn't get them ball moving very much yesterday. I mean, to Philly's defensive credit, they gave up no touchdowns until that weeding throw.

The defense gave up two field goals, entire game. I think one thing it's going to do to Dallas, though, is it's going to make them do what they've been trying to do, which is just control the time of possession, just have the ball. It's good for defensive defenses, though. To have the other offense with the ball. It's good for defenses for them to just, I mean, if they're trying to plod their way along, they're not going to score a lot of points, they're not going to be high-flying. Fair, fair. I just don't think they're going to be like one of those teams where you're going to get two pick sixes and, you know, maybe. You ever seen Braddon Ween play?

All right, Eddie Lacey. He got injured last night. He probably killed a lot of people's fantasy teams. Lacey and Devante Adams went off. Adams came back in but was ineffective. Lacey, what's the situation? So Lacey injured his ankle. If you saw it, it got rolled on pretty decently. And they x-rayed it. The x-rays came back negative for a break. We don't have the, we don't know which sprain. I'm sure it's a sprain. But we don't know if it's a low, if it's a high, what kind of a grade.

a sprain or whatever, but I'm expecting Eddie Lacey to miss a few weeks. Yeah, the current report is expected two to four, but that's too early to really not lock down. James Starks, you know, we've talked about him in the off season as one of the better options because he's on a good offense and he himself has performed in his opportunities. Even against Seattle, he ran pretty well and broke off a decent run halfway through that game. So he's a guy that tomorrow on our waiver, I'm sure we're going to talk about a lot.

Talk about fab budget for him, priority, what you'd spend and whether it's worth it. And we'll probably have more Eddie Lacey news by then as well. Yep. Carlos Hyde went out of the game yesterday with a head injury. He said he was feeling dizzy, but he got cleared in the concussion protocol. They just didn't bring him back in. Well, first was his leg, man. His leg took a weird looking hit, and he went off, but he was quickly back on, which was surprising if you watch the video of it getting hit. Yeah. When you're getting crushed...

and your star player has a slight head injury, you don't need to bring him back to the game. So I'm not that concerned about him. No, in fact, I already tried to make a trade offer for him in some of our leagues because I think if people didn't watch a game, if they don't understand why he put up low numbers, maybe they think week one was just kind of a, well, that was the outlier. But I think that this was really one of those games where you got bad numbers because of something that happened. Well, I will say, it might happen again this week because...

They're going to have to keep up. If their defense gives up points, I mean, Arizona has more points scored in the entire league right now, and they're going up against Arizona in Arizona. And if they have to come back again, then Hyde's going to be in the same boat where, you know, they don't get to ground and pound their way to a victory like they date against Minnesota. Didn't he? I think he caught.

like four balls in his limited time, which was, I'll look that up, but I was really happy with that from a standpoint of if they get down, what do they do? Granted, Reggie Bush is still gone and he's going to be back, but you bring up a good point. He does not have a good week three matchup. Tevin Coleman was having a good week and was injured. What is the latest on Tevin Coleman's ribs? We don't have enough. It's Monday, so the injury updates are always slow and hard to get because the teams won't have to give them yet.

But he was carted off with ribs. And for a rib injury to be carted off, that doesn't sound good to me. I mean, we, that just kind of reminds me of when Brandon Marshall got his rib injury last year. He was on pace. We had nine for 32 and a touchdown in the game. Now, Devante Freeman has to be owned because he's going to get tons of usage. He actually had a good fantasy day yesterday because he scored a touchdown. He caught some passes. He had terrible yards per carry yet again.

Hey, if he's in there. He owes Julio Jones a dozen roses for going down on the one. Dude, I would be so much closer in one of my leagues if that didn't happen. That stunk. And Julio, Julio Jones, let me just say this. Actually, I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it for the Stubmuff. I'm going to save for the Stubmuff. It's just Julio, Antonio Brown. My goodness, they're great. All right. Lamar Miller also got hurt as an excuse for his bad play. No, what did he have, a twisted ankle or something?

Yeah, and he was questionable. And they say it's minor that he could have gone. I think I saw that he could have gone back in, but didn't? It was like, then why didn't you go, why are you lollygagging Lamar Miller? What's going on? They, Miami looks very baffled right now. And they look, their play calling has regressed from last year. Tanna Hill still had a monster game. Devante Barker not being involved much yet. Kenny Stills not involved much. Jordan Cameron, is he hurt?

Jordan Cameron is hurt. He had a groin tweak, a groin tweak. That does not sound good. And he tried to go back in the game and he could not. So Jordan Cameron's probably, knowing Jordan Cameron's body and his injury, luckily it wasn't a head injury. So that is the good news for Jordan Cameron, but expects, you need to get a backup option. All right. Before we get into this week's fantasy stud muffins, I want to tell you about top.

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All right, we had some big games out there, but they weren't all from the big players that you'd expect them from. I didn't see these coming, at least the running back core that performed in week two. But let's start with the quarterbacks. Big Ben cruised his way to a dominant fantasy performance and didn't even need to really try very hard past a certain point in this game. That offense, man, they look just unstoppable right now. Well, they just traded for this guy named Levion Bell that's going to play next week.

And you know who had a great game? Hayward Bay. Yeah, he did. From the depths of fantasy darkness, he caught four of his five targets. Not all easy, too. That is very un-Hayward Bay-esque to catch that high percentage of targets. Other big time stud muffins at the quarterback position. Tom Brady performed against that stout Buffalo defense. Derek Carr had a big old game, which I love to see because he's kind of like, you know, my little buddy.

This was the week of the quarterbacks. This is a perfect week. We talked all offseason about how you can stream options. Carson Palmer, we love Carson Palmer. He had such a great game. He threw for four touchdowns against Chicago. And in standard four points per passing, you know, leagues, he was 13th. He was not one of the top 12. And he had a...

phenomenal game. I mean, you have Joe Flacco who did even better. Andy Dalton who did better. Blake Bortles who did better. Russell Wilson. Tannahill was awesome. Tyro Taylor, Derek Carr, all of these guys. Colin Kaepernick was your number three. Oh, the Garbage Man, Ken. Yes. No, I get that. A lot of those. But the point is here is that quarterbacks...

They put up giant numbers, and it's not always who you expect. Yeah, Tom Brady, Ben Rathlisberger, they had great weeks. But all of those guys, I don't remember a week. I would have liked to have started anybody but Sam Bradford. Sammy Biscuit. It looks like, so the quarterbacks eight from quarterback eight, which was Rogers through 16, which was that Stafford. Yeah. They were separated by about three points. Yeah. Yeah, it just speaks to the value of streaming quarterback. You can find quarterbacks. All right. Wide receivers, Larry Fitzgerald emerged. Larry.

Which is great as a Cardinal fan. They put up 48 points. He had three touchdowns. I was most excited about the fact Carson on the flea flicker play just threw it up to him. Like old Larry Fitzgerald? I was going to say for those who watched the Cardinals, I think that was a playoff game, right? Yeah. The infamous flea flicker. Oh yeah, Eagles. Where it. And the Falcons. It looked twice. It looked exactly like that play where Warner just said, screw this. Larry Fitzgerald, you catch this ball.