Fantasy Football 2017 - Pump the Brakes, Playoff Questions, Meat Cupcake

He's gone. When they play Jacksonville in a week, and it's Jacksonville's secondary against DeAndre Hopkins alone, their only hope for moving the ball is going to be to utilize the tight-in position and the running back position. I think he's a must-start tight-end. I'm in a place where I'm so convicted about...

Stephen Anderson that I'm sitting here thinking do I start him over Evan Ingram this week? Yeah, look, San Francisco. Which I'm not going to do. But I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about the fact that I don't want to just ride the high of Evan Ingram's one week when Eli is coming back and ignore a great other option. Now, Ingram's in the category where I would start him above Stephen Anderson. But he's right in that top six, seven to me. Yeah, this week he plays San Francisco who since week, every single week they have given up.

Double digits to the tight end with the sole exception of this past week when they face Chicago who doesn't have a quarterback. Yeah, and I'd also take that, Trubisky. If you're in those, you know, 14 team, maybe even a 16 teamer, huge league with Bruce Ellington out as well, we talked about this on yesterday's waiver show, but Andre Ellington could be forced to play slot-wide receiver for this team yet again.

So I'm only talking very deep, PPR, you're grasping for someone to be on the waiver wire. So I would look to him. Yeah, I totally, totally agree. What else is going on? Amari Cooper and Doug Martin are still in the concussion protocol. The Martin is, Doug Martin being in is more interesting because Peyton Barber looked fantastic in relief. So he would.

We're not going to know. You won't know this weekend until very, very late if you can actually play Peyton Barber with full confidence. But at least we're looking up and prepare to do it. Yeah, I do think that it's right now, it's still trending towards him being able to play. Also, the report came out from Jim Caldwell about Matthew Stafford saying that he's not out of the woods yet with his hand. If you, if you missed that, his hand got banged up. If you saw the.

the video during the game when they zoomed in them on the hand. That was an ugly looking hand. I'm just going to call it how I see it. His hand modeling career is over. It's over. He's no George Costanza. Nope. And, you know, Jim Colwell said this is not an insignificant injury. And you brought up, I think last episode, Mike, what happened when Matthew Stafford had the dislocated finger last year, said it was fine, said it's not affecting anything.

Oh, sure. Yeah, we watched the film. It was affecting a lot. You went from being great to terrible. So I would have a really hard time trusting Matthew Stafford with this hand injury. By extension, Golden Tate. Marvin Jones. I mean, if it's Jake Rudok at quarterback, we're going to have issues. Doesn't he? He has a job coming up to leave Santa's slay. The red nose quarterback. And for Amari Cooper, let's say Amari Cooper misses this game against the Chiefs.

coming up for the Raiders. Would that move Seth Roberts or Johnny Holton up to your rankings? I actually think Johnny Holton would be the right play because of the matchup. Kansas City is always giving up the deep ball, and that's pretty much Johnny Holton's a one-trick pony, but that's the trick that, you know, Kansas City sucks at guarding. They suck at guarding that trick. Mm-hmm. I'm going to say no to both. I don't think that playoff week one with Crabtree back dominating targets.

I don't think I'm going to mess with either of them, especially if we're debating who it is. I agree if we're talking redraft playoffs. But if we're talking like DFS, I think he's a really good play. No, that makes sense. And Hilton, he can get in the end. As long as he can hold the ball. I know. He fumbles a lot. That got you? That one got me. I really enjoyed that. As I was saying it, I was like, this is a terrible joke. What? Nailed it. Yeah. Brooks.

What do you think? Can I get a ruling on the... You got me chuckling. Oh, all right. We got a gaveless. Oh, speaking of... An egregious gaveless acceptance. Speaking of dad jokes, the new trend around, I'm sure you have seen them where people have the dad joke off, where they go head to head, and give just terrible, terrible puns and terrible jokes, and try not to laugh, and there's a scoring system. And it's so fun to watch. How have we not done that? We're going to correct that.

Very, very soon. Very, very soon. We are essentially three dad jokes in human form anyway. Yeah, we live the dad joke life. And we want to know who's the best dad joker. We're going to find out as a special tribute for our upcoming 500th episode. That's right, which is right around the corner. And I'm going to whip both of you at this game. That's what I'm talking about. All right. Thursday night football preview. The New Orleans Saints at 9 and 3 take on the Atlanta Falcons and can do some serious.

damage in Atlanta to the Falcons playoff hopes. They're sitting at 7 and 5, a disappointing loss last week. And the Saints, Drew Brees and Company. What do we think the headline fantasy stories are in this game? The headline story is Mark. Also, the 93 Saints are whom Mike and I picked to win the Super Bowl. Thank you. The headline story for the Saints, it's Mark Ingram, who was held out of practice on Tuesday with the toe injury. Now that's, if you're...

Trying to compare that to something that's similar to a player missing, you know, Thursday. Thursday's practice on a normal week. So he could still be fine to play. This might just be a rest, but it's absolutely a situation to monitor because obviously Mark Ingram and the game genie himself, Alvin Camara. Oh. Oh, there goes Alvin Camara running down the field. Oh, guys can't touch him. They're bouncing off. He's literally invincible. He's ran through another Gumba.

Alvin Camara. I mean, can Alvin Camara get become any more than number one running back if, I mean, oh, if Mark Ingram's out, Alvin Camar is just like. It's not fair. It's not fair to your count as two. Yeah. So that's the situation to pay attention to with Mark Ingram. Uh, otherwise, you know, it's do you, do you play? Drew breathes in this match. My guess is the other big question. The over under.

Vegas has it as a 53 and a half points. That's a lot of points. Well, we had that last year a couple of times when we thought Tampa and the Saints would go crazy. Sure. I do think that there will be some points in this matchup. With the Saints defense going on the road and the Falcons, you know, Julio, you're going to start. Devont of Freeman, Kevin Coleman. We expect both of those guys to be productive. Yeah, I would still play Freeman.

as an RB1 and Coleman is that flex type of play. Now, the Falcons to, on the season, you know, they rank 14th against giving points up to the quarterback. But the past six weeks, they're down at 26th. So does that give you more confidence to play Drew Breeze as their points allowed to the running back position has improved over the second half?

Wide receivers, though, they tend to shut him down. So, Jason, what's your temperature on Drew Breeze this week? I think Drew Breeze is a fine play. I don't see him anymore as this kind of top five quarterback, but I do see him as a guy who usually has a safe floor. If Mark Ingram is out, they're going to have to throw the ball a little bit more. I think Drew Breeze is.

He's not one of these players that you're going to throw out there and just change the rest of your lineup to be like, okay, I just need safe guys because Breeze is going to light it up. But against the Falcons, the Falcons should be able to score on the Saints because I would say the one place where the Saints...

have not been the strongest is their running game. The Falcons will be able to run on both Coleman and Freeman. So I think Drew Breeze will need to throw the ball, we'll need to score. And if he doesn't have Mark Ingraham to bang in a couple touchdowns that could end up with some crazy Brandon Coleman, Josh Hill touchdown for Drew Breeze. And Julio Jones, you're fine.

Of course. You never sit, Julio. It doesn't matter if it's a hard matchup, a good matchup. Look, you're going to get your duds like last week, and you're going to win the week like two weeks ago. You can't ever bench Julio. Adrian Peterson did not practice today, by the way, and they're waiting to see if the doctors will clear him for the game against the Titans this weekend. That could be relatively important for your fantasy playoff matchup. I mean, Tennessee, on the road in Arizona, it should be a great game for Peterson if you can get on the field.

I feel kind of fortunate to have the buy in one of my leagues because of Grunkowski's suspension and Peterson's injury. Need those guys to get back. So before we move on to the mailbag, I want to thank today's sponsor, Pristine Auction, the absolute best sports memorabilia site. What was that? Memorobelia site of all time.

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The last foot cast. Oh, yeah. You mean where I called you a demon? Yeah, but he, you had, uh, both of you did the mailbag drop on the last footcast while Mike was gone. Did Brooks like go metal? Uh, Brooks? Brooks. Brooks disappeared. Not much came out. My instincts took over. The second Brooks started the mailbag. I knew he needed help. I knew that this was a man down in the field and I went in for the second half of it, but I could barely save him.

Yeah, that was like someone, you know, at war is like, he needs help. Go in there. I'm on it. I don't have a gun. It's like, you're not going to be much help. That was Andy running to save the friend. All right. How is my voice gone? Well, if I had a voice, Mike, I wouldn't even be doing the show because I'd be on the voice. All right. Mailbag time. If you want to submit a question to the show, you can go to our website, the fantasy footballers.com.

Click to submit a question button or dial a voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB, and we're going to kick it off in this mailbag segment with a voicemail question. Hey, guys, this is Chelsea from Detroit, from pretty much everyone in my roster to have any chance of winning my first playoff game this week. So with that in mind, do you trust DAC this week against the Giants, or would you stream another quarterback when both Winston and Grappolo are available to pick up?