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

Thanks, guys. Love the show. You know, I've had a lot of questions about DAC this week. Yeah, of course. Makes sense. They were like DAC or Garoppolo questions. Yeah, if Winston is in here, to me, I would play Winston over DAC. Dak is so dangerous. I'm making the call right now between Derek Carr and Dak. Dak has the better matchup. Neither have a bad matchup, but I've chosen to go with Derek Carr solely because...

What we saw last week out of DAC was a decent fantasy game, but it was not a good game on film. When you watched him play, he still had some of the same struggles he's had over the previous several weeks. In the last seven games for DAC, this is unbelievable, which is basically since they're by, he only has two games throwing for more than 200 yards. I mean, that's just not...

high upside, and he's never really been the super high upside guy. Even last year, even the beginning of this year, just so consistent. You know, he could throw, you know, 250 yards and one touchdown, Russia touchdown, and have a great fantasy day. If you want a big blow-up potential, to me, that would be James Winston here. I think James Winston's the type where, due to the two interceptions he'll throw, he might have to throw four touchdowns. Personally, if it was my team, that's the way I would lean.

Any disagreements? My only disagreement would be if you're playing the game of you feel like everyone on your roster has to go off. I'd play Garoppolo against the Texans. That's amazing because I still lean Dak in this. We have helped you. Against the Giants. We've got to find a three-way waterbed. With the playoffs on the line, I would hope Dak could step up in that game. Yeah. I think that all three of them are fine options. This is just. So you would start.

In her situation. If I feel like everyone has to explode or I lose, then I would play Garoppolo against the Texans, yeah. I think if I wanted the explosion, I'd go Winston for sure. I would go, I would order in basically all situations here. I think I would order it Winston, Dak, Garopolo. I'm going to lose my mind after I read this question. Okay. Avery in Palo Alto, California. Commissioner just lost Gronk by suspension.

and change the league settings to add an additional week to the season. So in the playoffs, he gets gronk back. Is this how the game goes or Tom Foolery? What? You'll have to edit that one in post, Mike. I forgot I had the volume up for the voicemails. I just got really scared.

What just happened? No, I'm not editing. I'm leaving that to terrify people. There you go. Yeah, someone's crashing the car right now. And it's appropriate for this question. Yeah, it is. You got to be kidding. That's full shenanigans. You need to send them a clip of our YouTube, you know, timestamp to this question. Ridiculous. Don't tell them that alarms coming and watch what happens. Yeah, you can't do things like that. I mean, you have to have integrity as a commissioner. You can't, I mean, if, if the entire league voted unanimously.

to add another week to the playoffs, then whatever. I would still say awful because week 17 playoffs are awful. However, this is completely unacceptable. You can't be playing a sports game of whatever. We'll just say a football game. And then at the end, your time is run out and you're losing. Oh, no, no, no, no. 10 more minutes. We're adding 10 more minutes on to this game because I feel like I got cheated. Put it this way. Let's say grunk did not.

Let's say Gronk did not get suspended at all and wasn't a factor. Doing what the commissioner did to just write this time of year in week 13, 14, to change the rules is unacceptable. Then you add back in, oh, it's because of a specific player for them as garbage. All right. Let's jump into another voicemail question. Hey, guys. This is Charles from South Florida.

I have back-to-back foot clan titles looking to make this repeat. I was wondering, I have Levion, Bell, Fournet, P. Ryan, and Morris in the Standard League. And I'm wondering if I'm crazy if I want to bench Fournette against Seattle. Let me know. Thanks, guys. Love the show. What do you guys think? I don't think he's...

crazy. I really don't. Who would you leave out of that list, though? Which, well, so alpha's in, Lev Bell is in. Those two are in. So I was going to say that the only players, P. Ryan of Fournette, you consider to drop for me would be, not drop, you know, bench would be P. Ryan or Alf. So of those two, clearly it's P. Ryan for you. You would, you would bench him in favor of Fournet. You're, no, I was saying I might be willing to. You might bench Fournet for P. Ryan?

P-Rine is going up against Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers have a great passing D and have a really bad rush defense. Last week in a terrible week for P-Rine. I mean, I really think it was a very down week and a half-point scoring. He had 9.6 fantasy points. He's the only guy in town. The last three weeks, 21 points, 17 points, almost 10 points this last week. I would bench him.

And I bench Fournet and I'd play P-Rine. You also have the injury concern with Fournette. You saw him leave the game a little bit last week. Can't risk a first quarter injury and then all of a sudden your playoffs are jacked up. Yeah. I mean, a couple weeks ago against Cleveland, Leonard Fournett had 111 yards. Okay. Other than that, it's week six the last time he's had even just 60 yards rushing. It is a big name, but.

Right. I think I would rather play P-Rine, which is, I mean, look, that's scary to do it. Yeah, it is. Because then Fournet goes off and you feel like a dummy, but I, you know, I feel like a dummy every day. So this is just, this is just part for the course. It's called L-I-V-I-N. It's a game of probability in playing matchups. So that's, I mean, I don't think it's crazy. Well, what you said you would bench Fort-N-L-A? I'd play P-Rine. Yeah. I also am mad at Mike.

Oh, did waivers just run or something? Yeah, he got Stephen Anderson in the Dynasty League. I did? Yeah. Yes. Did you even put a waiver claim on him? Of course I did. What, I put like a dollar down, right? No, you put nothing down. Oh, because you have, yes. I'm 12 and 1. I'm so good. I'm undefeed. Enjoy having no Stephen Anderson on your team. Yeah, that sucks. You turd? That sucks.

Oh, the good... You got called a turd. All right, bonjour from Scotland. Oh, bonjour. Where does Alvin Camara go in next year's fantasy drafts? He's rushing towards the top of the draft. No one can stop him. He put hashtag pump the brakes, hashtag O O'Reilly. Hashtag auto parts. S-O-W? No, it's auto parts. Ow. Oh, yes, it is.

Are you trying to pump the brakes on Camarra? While he's wondering, you know, does this guy go number one? Does he go number two? I do think he ends up in the first round. If the next few weeks continue as they have been the last few weeks. Oh, he should be in the first round. Yeah, he'll be a first. He'll be a top five pick. No doubt about it. I know Jason thought last into the first last week. No, no, no. I think he's a top five guy. He'll be a love bell is. David Johnson. Yeah. And Gurley will probably be. Yes. And then four. Four I'd put Camara.

Fourth running guy. It's very, very possible. For overall. Over Antonio Brown. You know how I draft running backs, Jason. All right. I, you know, I still see Camara as definitely a first rounder, but probably back half because I think other wide receivers and the bigger, more proven long term, every downbacks will go ahead of them. Maybe. Drew Breed's situation is not figured out there either. So that could affect you. Yeah, it could. But if everything, let's say everything remains the same, like Lev Belt.

does resign with the Steelers because if Lev Bell goes somewhere else, that changes things dramatically as well. But I would, the way I imagine it will be, it will be a decision at 103 of people going, oh, should I take Gurley or should I take Camara? I think that's what people will be deciding between. All right. Matthew and Miami. He has a drop of leg as a whole question. Is Greg Olson a good pickup if he was dropped today? No. No. No. Can't trust it. No.

I will say this. They did. Did you see the report about Greg Olson? Part of the reason that he missed his last game was because it was on turf, which has a tendency to re-aggravate his foot injury. The next three games are home games. So he had extra rest. That being said, if you're staying out of a game because turf might re-enter the foot, then grass might re-enter the foot too. Right.

Zach in Seattle, Jamal Williams or Marvin Jones Jr. at the Flex this week. I think we talked about Matthew Stafford earlier. I do think Jamal Williams will not get 21 to one carry ratio over Aaron Jones this week, but I would take him over Marvin Jones. I would as well. Yeah, I would as well. Dylan Yates, Larry Fitzgerald or Golden Tate for the fantasy playoffs. Full play. I mean, I take Larry. Yeah, it's Larry. They have multiple games at home.

The hand of Matthew Stafford is of great concern to me. So I would be going with Larry. Yeah. You've got Larry at Tennessee at home. Larry against the New York Giants at home. Those are both great matchups. All right. What about this defense question from Brad and Maine? Can I trust the Eagles defense this week against the Rams or is it worth picking up either the Titans or the Packers defense? Now the Packers play.

Cleveland. Titans, no way. No, not Titans on the road against Arizona. They're not a good enough defense. I would pick up the Packers and play them over the Eagles. Wow. I think I would just stick with the Eagles. I'm going to stick with the Eagles as well. I have rolled with the Eagles and every now and then made a change to say, okay, I'm going to take the Eagles out, play someone else. They're such an opportunistic defense. If you look at what they've given up over the last six weeks, they're number two.

against the quarterback position. They're number two against the wide receiver position. They're number two against the running back position. And they're number two against the tight end position. They just have no weakness. Duce is wild. Duce is wild. Here's what I'll say, though. You're not going to get, in my opinion, a, you know, weak changing score from the Eagles this week against the Rams. The Rams are the, you know, third most difficult team to play against for defenses.

You know, no defenses, one week, one week they've given up zero touchdowns to the defense on the entire year. And so if you need major upside, I'd put that upside in picking off to Sean Kaiser. Yeah, but with the return of Josh Gordon, who looked fantastic, the emergence of David and Joku against the Packers, I'm not willing to. You don't even think the upside's there? I don't. The turnovers, you're hoping that the defense scores.

Because I think that the Browns will be able to put up points. Right. No, that's my point, though. The Rams have not had the defense score on them the entire year. That was what I was saying. Okay, fair, fair. The Eagles, in fairness, the Eagles have only scored three touchdowns the entire season as a defense, and they're still the fourth best. They're just a strong, like, balanced, safe defense. They're going to get some sacks. They're going to cause a turnover or two.

Patriots against Miami in Miami or the Eagles in Los Angeles against the Rams? Patriots. Okay. All right. This is an interesting one. Brandon, I'm sorry, Brendan in Maine. Wow. People are just the, what do you call someone from Maine? A maniac. Yeah, high five. We did it. Brooks? Maniac. Yes. You guys are something else. With playoffs here, is it acceptable to still pick up?

players from waivers if you missed the playoffs that got eliminated during the playoffs. I claimed Thielen in Week 16 last year while playing for third place. Good for you. Some of the league owners didn't like the move. What? Get out of here. You put those shades on. You put those hate blockers on. I love Michael Keaton. And you say deal with it. Tiger Dank. A bunch of cry babies. What streamers would you bench Russell Wilson for? Wait, Tiger what? What streamers would you bench Russell Wilson for?

Oh, that's a good question because, look, Mike Wright and I disagree on Russell Wilson this week. Mike is in the camp that believes people are going to lose out on championships this week because of Russell Wilson playing Jacksonville. As do I. On the road. I agree with Mike. The people are comparing, like, whoa, Wilson had success against the Eagles. They're a great defense. They're not the Jacksonville. At home in a prime time game.

is far different than going across the country to play against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Okay. So why don't we answer these separately then? Here's the quarterbacks I would play over Russell Wilson. I'll play Carson Wince. I'll play Philip Rivers. I'll play Alex Smith. Tom Brady. You're already back for Alex Smith? It's Oakland. Yeah? But I'm just saying that Alex Smith.