Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 11 Matchups, Disappointing WRs

But we've talked a lot about golf this week, Gurley, number one running back. He's locked and loaded. Robert Woods in the midst of a fiery fire streak. Got to stay in the flames of woods. Oh, those fiery fire streaks. Yeah. Oh, man. So fiery. Look, I mean, if there's one thing that's going to go up on fire sometimes, it's fire. Unfortunately, it's the woods. Oh, the woods are burning. I mean, it's a forest fire right now. Mike is out of control.

Somebody asked Jay Gris on Twitter whether to start Robert Woods or someone else. Someone else, and he responded with a picture of the woods. And he was very accurate. It's just the best part of that whole interaction was Andy's scrunched up face when he realized what he had said. Fiery fire streaks. Come on. Get in on it. That sounds like a snack you'd buy at the 7-Eleven. This is coming from a... No, the fiery fire sticks? Yeah.

Yeah. This is coming from the guy who said he was going to throw a bucket of fire on something the other day. And then the Twitter pictures proved that I was accurate. One gift does not make you right, Mike. That's how I live my life. Look, the question in this game is who you, who do you not start? Because Thielen Diggs, McKinnon Murray, Keenham, Rudolph. That's six names on Minnesota that I'm fine with. Yeah. And then on the other side, golf, Gurley Woods, I think we're all fine with.

Watkins, are you confident two weeks in a row with the score? Minnesota is tough, guys. We need some updates on Xavier Rhodes. Yeah, I can't find any updates. I think they're. Xavier Rhodes, he is the shutdown defensive back for the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, but Watkins is being shut down by his target count right now. Anyway, that's been the problem. But he's scored. So I'm actually okay with Watkins in this game as well.

The Vikings defense, while it's great against the run, it's still middle of the pack against the wide receivers. So any concern that Gurley's upside is pretty capped this week? Certainly. But you play Todd Gurley in this matchup, but you might need to adjust your expectations. Thielen over digs if you had to choose between the two? I would choose Thiel and over digs right now, but I want both. I think you can start both. I feel like we made a water bet preseason about Thielen digs. No, you're just.

I don't know if we did that. We definitely had the week one where they both exploded, but digs one out. Yeah, both great players. And they offer Case Keenum, you know, valuable streaming weapons. Anything else from this game? Yeah, I mean, we're going to talk about the Minnesota running game a little bit later in the start of the week. Interesting. I think that this game matches up really, really well.

for the Minnesota running backs. And I definitely say you can start both of them. Jerich McKinnon and Latavius Murray. All right. The Redskins fighting for their playoff lives. Back and forth they go. Four and five. Take on the Saints on fire. Saints seven and a half point favorites at home. That's a lot of respect for the New Orleans Saints. Yes, it is. In the Dome, 51 point over under. This thing has the makings of a great fantasy.

game for many players involved. I'm excited to see what Kirk Cousins can do on the road. Maybe intrigued, not excited. Sure. The Saints defense has been really, really good. Right now, here's their ranks. 12th against fantasy quarterbacks, 10th against running backs, 8th against wide receivers, 6 against tight ends. They've been getting it done. If there was another position in the NFL, they'd be fourth against it. Kickers. In fantasy. Chris Thompson?

Samajet P. Ryan? What are they this week? Two and a three? What are they? Yeah, you know, I think that's fair. I think Samage, I see Samajet very similar to how I see the running backs we talked earlier, Adrian Peterson, and Lamar Miller. And Samaje, I think all three are not in good matchups, but they're going to get enough volume to be.

successful fantasy plays as that running back two, running back three. Chris Thompson, I like a little bit more because you're going to have the Saints putting, you know, points on the clock. Oh, that's going way back. That's going way back to points on the clock. Put them up on the clock. The running game for, you know, for the Saints has just been unstoppable. The running, this is true. The running backs were so good last week. They were so good.

that they got Tyrod Taylor benched. That's how good they were. It really is actually accurate. That's unbelievable. I know. It's ridiculous, but that's how good they were. But the point is, is that with the Saints scoring, if the Redskins are, you know, throwing the ball coming back into it, I think Chris Thompson, that's where he's going to make his hay and be more valuable than Samaj. We talked about Bruce Ellington. Would you rather start Bruce Ellington or Tedgin Jr. in this game? Ooh.

I think I would go. There's not really a difficult start question on New Orleans outside of Tegin Jr. Because you're not starting Fleener. You are starting Ingram, Camara, Michael Thomas, and Drew Brees. I think I would go with Bruce Ellington. Would you? I lean that way as well. Yeah, me too. Let's be best friends. Kurt Cousins. You want to sit them this week? No. No way. I would still.

play him. He was one of the top quarterbacks in the league last week, fantasy-wise. Yeah, he's in a dome in a game where he's going to have to throw the ball. Vernon? Oh, absolutely. I mean, the Washington defense, 29th against the tight end. Jordan Reed did not practice Wednesday. I give a lot of credit to Jay Gruden for, you know, there are things that we make fun of him for, but his teams tend to bounce back from defeat. And we saw this when they went up and stole a win.

in Seattle two weeks ago. I expect this game to be closer, dare I say. Oh, no. Dare I say. Against the Saints? Your Saints? Andy's almost upset of the week. You don't feel good about it, do you? This is one of those ones. This is one of those ones where it's the line. Seven and a half points. I think the Saints do win this game. But I think it's a good game.

I think it's going to be a close one. So I have confidence that Washington is going to bounce back from the loss last week. So we'll get into the rest of the matchups tomorrow. We do a show every day. Every weekday. Every week day. And a Periscope on Sundays. Yeah. And two shows on Thursdays. And two shows on Wednesdays. So many shows. A lot of shows. A DFS podcast on Fridays. Thanks.

Brooks. And then Brooks has a show that's coming out soon, too, right? It's called The Judge. Living with the Judge. The Judge. I was going to go with Brooks on Books. Brooks on Books? Yeah. I like living with the judge. I hope it's just day-to-day life. This is what you deal with when you wear only a robe. This morning, I made some eggs. Put some salsa. In my robe. Yeah, I'm in your robe. Of course. Oh, yeah. You're wake in that robe. You go to sleep in that robe. Do you shower in the robe? Do you shower in the robe?

In my robe. Yeah. I've gone to the water park with him. He's in a rope. It's dangerous when he visits windy cities such as Chicago. Yes, very dangerous. Maryland Monroe? Yes. Yeah. There's nothing on Judge G. There is a Monroe situation. You know what we should do starts of the week? All right. Starts of the week. Don't like the wind. Don't like the wind if you're a judge. My start of the week, I'm going to start at the running back position. The aforementioned Jordan Howard.

Three down weeks in a row, and he hasn't scored a touchdown since week four, but I have confidence that he gets it rocking against Detroit. The one thing about Detroit is even if they win this game, and even if they win this game going away against Chicago, the way that Detroit scores is very methodical. They are not generally a big playoffice. They are a dink, dunk, and bring it down the field offense, which means I think you have a slower path to a blowout than you do against other teams.

which means I think Jordan Howard's involvement, his success, it's going to be there. I have confidence in him. I want you to have confidence in him. Start him in week, 11. I'm going with Derek Carr for my start of the week this week. You've got a guy who has thrown, yeah. Send in the car. Oh. Send in the car. The classic. Send in the car with Derek Carr. Derek Carr, his three games before the buy, he threw for a thousand yards.

over those three games. He was, you know, he was on fire. He's coming off the by, and he's playing against the New England Patriots and one of the higher over-unders. And this is, if you're not aware, this game is in Mexico City. So it goes down as a home game for the Raiders. It's not really a home game, but it also is a home game because, I mean, we've seen the Raiders there before. They are going to be the favorite. Tom Brady's going to get the lasers in his eyes from the fans. He may.

Wasn't that reserved for Brock Osweiler? Isn't that what happened down there? Well, it's just so weird because he's a big target. Yeah, you don't need it with Brock, though. I don't know why they should have just let him see because he could have accidentally completed passes. But the point is, the Patriots defense looks, they've gotten a lot better over the last few weeks. You know, but, you know, last week, they only gave up.

14 points to the quarterback position. But that was Brock Osweiler. So I think that the Patriots are going to score and Derek Carr is going to score. It's going to be a high scoring affair. Now, I'm not exactly sure where to go here for my initial start because Andy went running back, which we usually start with the quarterback. And then Jason went quarterback. Why did you go quarterback? Because I didn't listen to you. Oh, okay. So then I'm going to go with my tight end story. Come on now. I love it. I'm going back to the tomb because.

Look, it was rough. It was just a bunch of dead things in the tomb last week. But, but Mike. Yes, voice of public opinion. But I started him last week and he got one catch. None of you have said his name. We haven't got there yet. Tyler Croft, side end for the Cincinnati Bengals. I get it. I get it. It was rough. Targets were there. You made a good argument earlier this week. But Tyler Croft gets to go up against Denver. They are giving up the second most points to the tight end position because it's.

It's tough in the streets for wide receivers against the Denver Broncos and their DBs. So often things are filtered into the tight end. And Tyler Croft is talented. He is a goal line threat. I'm fine going back to this and streaming him again. All right. So you went tight in. Now what do I do? It sounds like we need a wide receiver. Yeah. Michael Crabtree. Ooh. Past heavy game. You expect New England to be able to pile up the points against Oakland.

He's coming off a couple down weeks, coming off the buy week, hasn't scored in a couple of games. But look, for me, he's a top 10 play in this week's matchup. They're going to need him. They're going to use them. They're going to be great. Yep. I'm with you. Love Crabtree. Yeah, I'll stick with wide receiver because that would make a lot of sense. Devante Parker this week, I really, really like Dante Parker. Whenever you're playing against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year, the wide receivers are.

are having a heyday. They are always outperforming, you know, the other competition when you play against Tampa Bay. And Devante Parker, he came back, you know, five for 76, six for 66. And, oh, oh, oh, six for 66. Oh, no. But I brought this up already, Jason. I do think that Devante Parker has the downfield ability that is going to cause.

Real problems for Tampa Bay. I love Devante Parker this week. Almost as, I mean, I pretty much see him as a wide receiver one play. I would start. Interesting. I would fire him up for sure. All right. Over Landry? Yeah, I mean, Landry is going to be the safer. You have to be if you're calling him a one. Yeah, I would fire him up over Landry for sure. I was looking at whether or not.

Devante Parker or Jarvis Landry. If you look at rankings, rankings aren't always, I mean, it's so dumb because they're just linear. Sometimes you're factoring in. You've got to get upside. You explained it earlier. Right. You know, what's the probability of outcome? Travis Landry's not having a bad game for sure. Devante Parker could, but I think Parker has the much bigger game. I'm going with Sterling Shepard. He gets to take on the Kansas City Chiefs who just love it. They bleed points to the wide receiver position on top of that.

We saw him back from his injury, and he is, by de facto, he's the number one wide receiver on the team, and that went to the tune of 13 targets. Now, 11 for 142. It was against the 49ers, but like I said, the chiefs are beatable at the wide receiver position, so I'm very confident in Sterling Shepard this week. All right. Well, I guess I'll give you my quarterback because it matches up with your...

wide receiver. Oh, wow. Eli Manning. We are double stuffing all over the place. I'm doubling up on Eli this week. He's my stream as well. Look, he's going to have to throw, and you can throw against Kansas City. They're 26 against fantasy quarterbacks. You know they're going to score against the Giants. And I expect the offense to be able to do enough to sustain Eli Manning, 275 passing yards last week. He's been able to put up at least a couple of touchdowns. Evan Ingram, Serling Shepard will get it done.