Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 10 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

I agree. I was wrong about that. Playoff worries, I still do worry about their playoff schedule. Bounce back for Alan Robinson, his highest yardage game of the year, 9 for 107 and 1 with a two-point conversion. Your owners are happy to see that. You probably couldn't have traded him previously for the value you needed, so you probably got stuck with him, and he's paying off right now. We're going to talk about Stefan Diggs shortly. So I will leave it at that. 13 for 164, though.

Tyrol Williams and Des Bryant. Let's talk about those two guys. Tyrell Williams looks, I mean, without Benjamin, Williams is looking like a low-end one option every single week. When Benjamin is gone, Tyrell Williams is the clear one for the- Philip Rivers. Yeah, and so, I mean, you want that. You want the one on every single team. And Tyro Williams is affordable. You know, you can, if trade deadlines are still out there, you can probably grab him. I do think, however, it is.

dependent on Kelvin Benjamin, or Kelvin Benjamin, Travis Benjamin's health. Because if he's back out there, you get back into the San Diego Chargers wide receiver. Well, and you saw Hunter. Henry scored again. He's involved. There are a lot of names, but Williams put up a good week. Des Bryant, listen to this. When targeting Des Bryant, Dak Prescott recorded a 146.8 pass rating, the league's highest mark when targeting a single receiver in a week.

I think Des is back. Six for one, 16 and touchdown. But Andy. Yes. But I've got the Beasles. Oh, yeah. I got the Beasles number one wide receiver. Oh, I'm sorry. Your unverified supporter is out of town right now. Yes. The number one wide receiver in Dallas is Des Bryant. Yeah. Enough said. And I'm so glad that Mike's not here to speak up and say dumb things.

To contradict that. Yeah, he's gone. All right, Julio Jones, Larry Fitzgerald, big weeks. Willie Sneed scored a couple of touchdowns. To me, Willie Sneed, don't go overreact to that. This is just what's going to happen. I mean, week to week, you're going to have different guys score. It wasn't Michael Thomas this week. Everybody got on board with Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas had a bad week with two lost fumbles, one of which was critical. That was not good. But...

I agree with you. You don't buy in here on saying, okay, well, now Willie Sneed is the guy. When you play the Denver Broncos, you take whichever guy they are giving you on that play, because your options are done right. Are not plentiful. You're not targeting who you want to target. You're targeting who you can target, and that was Sneed in this game. Really impressed with Delaney Walker's performance this week. He was always open, nine for one, 24, and a touchdown. That touchdown came from DeMarco Murray on the pass from DeMarco.

I don't even think we mentioned DeMarco Murray's passing touchdown in his... I think it's his first pass he's ever thrown in his career. And it... It's going to be a good career pass rating. Everything worked against Green Bay. Cameron, Bray, Kyle Rudolph, Antonio Gates. These are four tight-ins that scored this week. Look, Brate shows that he can do it. So you could do a lot worse than Cameron Brate down the stretch. Kyle Rudolph, great performance again. What do you do with Gates with Hunter Henry back? I mean, is he a...

I'm really thrilled. Is he outside the barfies? I am really, no, I think he's firmly in the barfies. I'm thrilled that he got the touchdown this week because a lot of people were relying on him and starting him. But what you saw with Hunter Henry, and really when you analyze the entire year when Hunter Henry is played, I think Henry is a better tight end right now. And Gates will always be a red zone threat. And so he is just as.

as good as any of the other barfys, but he is not out of that barfey tight end where you go, look, Gates is locked and loaded as a tight end one, despite the fact that he had a touchdown this week. That's how I view Gates currently going forward because of Hunter Henry. All right. It's time for, uh, we're going to focus on a couple of players that we like down the stretch. Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week.

All right, every week we do this on Monday, the Raising Cains, rising stars of the week, some players that we think could be critical to your fantasy team down the stretch. Remember, last year it wasn't the Levi-on Bells that won the championships. It was the Kirk Cousins, Jordan Reed, Tim Hightowers. Those are the guys that got you through some critical playoff weeks and won you a title. Are you trying to set up the terrible name you're about to say? I am. Well, that was a pretty good setup. Let's hear it. Colin Kaepernick.

Oh, don't do it. Let me say that again. Colin Kaepernick is my Raising Keynes rising star of the week. To me, he is a playoff streaming quarterback. We've talked for weeks about James Winston and the potential for James Winston. I don't think anybody thinks Winston's a top 10 quarterback in the NFL. I don't think anybody thinks Kaepernick's the top 20. But here's the plain and simple facts. In week 14 and 15, which for many playoff teams,

is their first and second playoff matchups. You have the New York Jets at home, and then you have the Atlanta Falcons secondary. That, to me, is all you need to hear. Now, if you want to hear something else, you have four weeks of him starting. He's put up 23, 17, 33, and 28 in our scoring format in our half-point league in his four-starts, six-point for passing touchdown league. Those are good games.

His rushing yards. Here's his rushing yards in those four games. 66, 84, 23, and then 85. He went to Arizona and put up a proficient, worthwhile fantasy week for owners. That's all you need to know. This is a team that gets their defense is bad. And much like Blake Bortles, he has the ability to, in garbage time, make enough plays to get enough fantasy points to look.

You could do worse. You could do a lot worse in the playoffs. And I know it sounds crazy, but he's been that for every week he's played this year, and he's got two juicy matchups in the playoffs. I would have loved to come here and say, it's Marcos Mario for the playoffs. But like I said, he's missing week 13. He's got Denver week 14. I like Kaepernet. No, I don't blame you on that. And specifically because of what you mentioned with the rushing yards, because when three out of your four weeks are 66, 84, and 85 rushing yards, those are numbers that just say,

Just get a touchdown. A touchdown. And you're fine. And he is going to do. And he takes deep shots. He's connected on a lot of deep shots. He can get outside the pocket. It's not pretty, but he gets the job done. I agree. I'm going to go with someone that's a little bit more pretty.

He might not have the best matchup coming this week, but I am buying in to Stefan Diggs as a rising star. You saw... The awakening? Is this the new awakening? I don't think this is the new awakening. This is the changing of the guard here because when Norv Turner was... The offensive coordinator. Yeah, the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. When he unexpectedly retired or resigned at the very least a few weeks ago,

The new offensive coordinator come in and install a West Coast quick pass type of offense because the Minnesota Vikings offense has struggled supremely to score and to move the ball. So they move into this fast because their offensive line is so bad. People are getting straight through to San Bradford. He's got to get the ball out of his hands. And what you have seen in those three weeks are three successive career highs for Stefan Diggs in targets.

The first week was 13 targets. Last week was 14 targets. This week was 15 targets. And those have turned into, because they're short passes, they have turned into a high catch rate. So you've got a total receptions. If you're in a PPR league, eight receptions.

13 receptions and 13 receptions. That's 11.3 receptions per game. He's not going to keep that pace up. This coming week, he plays Arizona. But his schedule after Arizona is pretty good. He's got a pretty good playoff schedule for wide receivers. And when you talk about a guy that, you know, is talented himself. Like when I, we have both talked about this. When we watch Stefan Diggs, he makes plays, makes catches that impress us. When you're giving that guy.

teens of targets a week, he has the opportunity to break some up. This week, 13 receptions for 164 yards. He didn't get a touchdown and he still was fantastic. Teams out of the playoffs right now. Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers. Right now, the Detroit Lions are the division leader. Four straight losses for Minnesota.

Just like everyone said it would happen. Well, their defense has shown some vulnerability. But let's refocus here. Like you said, I mean, those are stunning numbers having him break his career highs and targets. And it's not just one game, right? This is official. The original Stay in the Flames player on this show was Stefan Diggs. It's only fair that after three performances like that, you hop back in. So here's the tough question. Let me just say this. He is our rising star. Rest of season, I like him.

But this week, do you stay in the flames against Arizona against Patrick Peterson? Yeah, I think so. They're going to move them around enough. I agree because his short passes is really what's getting it done. I think his ceiling's a little bit capped, but it's not like Arizona barely won the game yesterday. Yeah. This is not a teamist. Well, it was against the 49ers. So that's hard. Yeah. All right. Those were the Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week. Do not forget. Game Day tastes better. It tastes great. Way better. With Raising Cain's.

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I have been waiting to talk about these guys. There are so many guys that I am angry at. I am so... So is this your chance to get so pissed at some of these guys, man? Wow. You really are. And let me just skip to the guy I'm most pissed at. Go for it. Brandon freaking Marshall. Ugh. Brandon Marshall, he is... Can you really be mad at Brandon Marshall? I am mad at Brandon Marshall. I realize that it's not his fault in the sense that he's... Can't you be bad at, like...

everything else around him? Sure. The whole, I am mad at the Jets. Seems a little petty. Seems a little petty. That's good. I like that. I'm mad at petty. I'm getting a little petty here. I'm mad at Fitzpatrick. I'm mad at Eric Decker. For you getting hurt. For getting hurt. Brandon Marshall. I traded. You must be beside yourself. Yes. You traded Larry Fitzgerald has been amazing. Every week since I've traded him, Larry has outscored Brandon Marshall. And I gave up.

Larry plus a draft pick for Brandon Marshall. Oh. So this is a little personal, but I will say this. You think? There are plenty of owners out there with Brandon Marshall. And at what point do you say I'm benching him and I'm going to start other guys? Because I have yet so far, it might come this week. But in my team, I have not been able to say, well, yeah, I've got to bench Brandon Marshall. But after this week, Brandon Marshall goes out there four total catches. Okay, that's bad.

for 15 yards. That's nothing. I didn't play a player. Look, the question's being asked not about Marshall only, but we went through this with Alan Robinson for a few weeks, thinking about benching him. Now you have to bring up DeAndre Hopkins in the conversation. I actually wrote on... Between Marshall and Hopkins. I mean... I wrote on fantasy pros. They asked for an article this week for me to pick an outside guy that...

I thought could break into the top guys this week, someone outside of the 105s, and someone in the top 30 that I think was going to be a bust. And I wrote that DeAndre Hopkins, we have to stop looking at him as a top wide receiver. He's not. He hasn't done it this whole year. If you look before this week, where he completely crapped in his pants, before this week, he was wide receiver 36. And that's starting the year with two touchdowns in the first two weeks. Since then, he's just been...

Nothing. We've talked so much about Alan Robinson's failures for owners, and now he's bouncing back. Hopkins owners have to be even more furious. He was drafted ahead of Robinson in most leagues. Yeah, if not right there. I mean, just a really, I mean, you can't trust. I think Brock Osweller had 99 yards. You are correct. I mean, he did not get to 100. I'm not joking when I say this. If I was Houston, I don't care what money you spent. I would cut, I would cut Brock Osweller after the season.

I don't know what the financial implications are of that. If there is no benefit to you whatsoever, obviously you don't do that. If you can save a dollar on Brock Osweather, I would cut him after the season. And I know that is bold and maybe ridiculous in a world with no quarterbacks, but you are never going to do anything with Brock Oswald. No, and the reality is... And I'm sorry. If you're a Houston owner...