Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 1 Matchups, News

They're normally eternal optimists, and they both know what's going to happen this year. Yeah. They both accepted it. They're both ready to rebuild. The point is that there will be points scored. I know it seems like there won't, but there will be points, plural, scored by the Buffalo Bills, and they will all involve in some way Tyrod Taylor. Oh, man. All right, Andy. Who are you starting? Well, here's the two things I'm thinking of, and then I'll tell you how I'm starting. Carson on the road.

Week 1 versus Mario at home. He's in a dome, though. I'll tell you on Sunday. He's a dome. I don't know. I'm going to be going down to the wire with that one. All right. I should go with my start of the week, probably, though. Carson Palmer. All right. Let's talk about running backs. Mike, who's your running back start of the week? My running back, and this is like Jason's confidence play of Tyrod. I'm going to Mirabd Abdullah. So what you're doing is you're giving confidence to the listeners that they can start these guys in their lineup. Exactly. Because people have, I mean.

I love Abdullah season long, but I get it. You have Amir. You're plugging him into your lineup and going, oh, crap. He's playing against the Cardinals. Maybe I don't want to do this. The Cardinals run defense is leaky. It's big play leaky. Exactly. And so I have confidence playing Amir Abdullah. And on top of him, I mean, he's a dual threat. He can't get game scripted out. But I believe that he will have.

success on the ground because the Cardinals did not address the loss of Callais Campbell, which is, it's a huge loss for this defensive line. I think that they believe they have the replacement in Robert Candicey. Sure. They can think that, but I mean, I think for the running game, Dea Don Buchanan is really the one. And Buchanan is also, we talked about he will be missing week one. So I'm just saying, I have confidence.

plugging Abdullah in this one. I'll get mine out of the way because I know we're going to talk about Jason's for a little while. Mine is Christian McCaffrey. I think he's got the opposite situation of Leonard Fornett in week one where his matchup coming out of the gate as a rookie is great. San Francisco ended the year the worst against the run. They struggled. Christian McCaffrey is just a weapon in every sense of the word out of the backfield. I think he's going to have opportunities early and often against San Francisco to kind of look, welcome to the NFL, Christian McCaffrey. Let's roll them out there week one.

Man, I'll tell you, what a gift coming into the NFL and it's like, hey, game one, we're giving you the Niners. That's free. It's like a warm-up. Yeah. All right. Yeah, my start of the week here at the running back position is one where I'm going to make the case to start tonight, Mike Gillisly. The Patriots are at home. They are heavily favored. They have the largest implied point total.

of every team in the league this week from Vegas. So Vegas is saying, look, the Patriots are going to score more points than anyone else this week. They're at home. And those two things, when those happen together, at home, favored, and the teams that win, the running backs on those teams are usually predictably good at fantasy football. So will it be Gillisly? Will it be Rex Burkhead? Will it be whoever? I believe.

strongly that Gillisley is two things. He is their goal lineback. I think he'll be the guy used most frequently as their goal line back. And I think he's going to be the back they use to run the clock. And this is the type of game where if you can't start him, and look, I get the argument to say, well, I want to wait and see. Sure, but I believe you're going to miss a great opportunity tonight because what are you waiting for? If you're not waiting for a huge...

you know, home favored opportunity. Nice. All right. Mike, wide receiver. I'm going Devante Adams. Oh, my gosh. And this, it sounds, it sounds terrifying because they're taking on the Seahawks, but the over under on this game is also really high. And last year, Devante Adams dropped 104 and a touchdown on the Seahawks. So I think that the attention will be put on to Jordy Nelson and that Devante Adams is a, that's just.

There are some things I don't do in my life in picking... You don't spit into the wind? Yeah, and I don't pick a wide receiver against the Seattle Seahawks, certainly one that I'm not high on. I'm going to just vocalize my opposition to the start of the week there. I'm going to go with Terrell Pryor. Tarell Pryor. Against the Philadelphia Eagles. Look, this is all about matchups here. The Eagles last year...

against Washington and two matchups. They gave up 38 points and 30 points against the wide receivers on the Washington Redskins. This is a matchup with Jalen Mills, probably the Eagles' worst cornerback. He doesn't grade out very well on pro football focus. Maybe he's made the jump up. A lot of people think Jalen Mills this year, he's going to be better. Well, look, you get a really big boy in week one, and I think Terrell Pryor will take advantage of that matchup.

This is much like the two times you guys have mentioned it. People want confidence starting Troll Pryor, new location, new offense. I think week one is a good matchup for him. I'm going with Trell Pryorne. I'll hop in on the wide receiver with Michael Crabtree. Yeah, baby. That's Mike's usual guy. And really, it's pairing with Marcus Marietta. I do think that the Oakland Raiders defense, especially their past defense, is not going to be good. It's the second highest implied point total by Vegas.

this this week and and i think that what they are going to be focused on is going to be amari cooper and michael crabtree often so you're going to pair him with derrick car yeah or you same game high score same game i thought you were going to get there but then you never returned but i i i think that michael crabtree gets touchdown in this game he usually gets off to uh you know a solid start solid start to the season i've got him ranked one spot ahead of cooper for this game

All right. Let's go to the tight end. Mike, I love your pick here. It's not Devante Adams. No, it is. I love your pick too. I hate both of you very much because there are two tight ends that I wanted as my start of the week. I wanted them bad. And I got third pick. And so I would just like to endorse both of your plays. Thank you. I appreciate you. I hate you too, by the way. The Jets were the 10th worst.

team giving up tight-end fantasy points last year. So that's why I'm putting my confidence into Charles Clay, who has seemingly emerged as the top target for the Buffalo passing offense. I know Jordan Matthews is back, but how effective can he be with the crack, the chip in the sternum, I mean, with that pain tolerance, with very little experience running this offense. I mean, the only one who really has experience as a pass catcher here.

is Charles Clay, and it showed in the preseason that that's who they were going to. They were just feeding him. When you look at my season-long rankings, the biggest disparity from the normal out there in experts, Charles Clay, I have much higher, and I just like what you said. And my guy is very similar in an argument. I go with Zach Earths this week against Washington in that matchup. You talk about what player in the passing offense has familiarity with...

Carson wins. And with that offense, look, it's not Alshon Jeffrey or Tori Smith. They're brand new. It's not Mac Hollins, who's brand new. Nelson Aguilor is not used to playing. He doesn't know what he's doing. And look, Zach Kurtz last year, 10 catches against Washington to in the year. They struggled against the tight-in. Zachertz is the one consistent piece of the passing offense. So I think he's a really reliable week-one start. Yeah, I like both of those. Mine, here's where I was pairing with Mario. Yeah, there we go.

was Delaney Walker. Delaney Walker, this game I think is going to be high scoring. It's going to be a fun affair. I want pieces in it. But I do need to have another honorary start of the week because I've done this the last few seasons and it has always paid off. Dwayne Allen, you know, he scores a touchdown every opening game.

Of his entire career, this is five straight years. Ridiculous. In his first game of the season, he scores a touchdown. So look for it tonight. Maybe he makes it six. That's insane. All right. Well, those were our starts of the week. By the way, Mario, after this Oakland matchup, at Jacksonville, Seattle, Houston. Use them while you can. That's why I didn't draft him. That's why I drafted Carson Palmer. Is I just like...

Carson goes to Indianapolis, then Dallas than San Francisco. Secondaries that are delicious. I like the second one. Okay. Well, you know, look, every single Thursday. Oh, get ready. It leads up to one moment. And here it is. Jason Moore's Ironclad. Locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed boom, boom, kicker of the week. No position more important than kickers. Jason, Jason always says that. Of course not. Resident kicker experts. I love kickers.

Jason Moore. All right, my ironclad locked and loaded of 100% guaranteed boom boom kicker of the week is none other than Matt Bryant of the Atlanta Falcons. Because Chicago last year was 28th worst or 28th best, I should say. They were terrible against the kicker position. The reality is Atlanta is going to be able to move the ball on them. But due to the Atlanta.

touchdown regression that I am calling for, they're going to be kickers of field goals. I love that. At least you use the boom boom kicker the week segment to work your other season long narratives into the equation. Did you actually put analysis into this section? No. You did. You thought. I would not do that. You thought about kickers. I would never do that. How dare you, Mike? Check the tape. Check the tape.

Oh, my goodness. All right, Matt Bryant. I think everybody who has them will start him. That's good. Good call. Nice ironclad locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed. 100% guaranteed. Look, that is it for today's episode. We'll be back with more matchups tomorrow. We all have in and out and we'll do a live basketball draft. Or I'm sorry, a live play play play. If you play DFS, if you are looking to play DFS, the fantasy footballers DFS podcast will be out.

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