Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 11 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

And they lean on him, but how much can you really expect from him? You know, you've got him as a bottom half RB1. I've got him kind of as a middle of the pack RB2. That's low. That's low consensus-wise. That's very low for a guy that is, you know, essentially a top five, six option on a normal weekly basis. One of the things that...

you might see happen here for the Patriots as they redefine themselves both weekly and after the injury is they might come out and say, we need to run the ball better and play more defense and we need to lock those things down. And if that happens, that scares me for LaShawn McCoy's.

Upside. The nice thing, though, is he gets the ball a ton. You're not going to have LaShawn McCoy go out and just destroy your team. You just might not have that really big upside play, but you're definitely starting them. Okay, and then Tyrod Taylor, is he streamable this week? I read an interesting stat. He leads the NFL in fantasy points per throw. Yeah. Well, he's been very efficient. You don't see a lot of 300-yard games from Tyrod Taylor through the air, but yet you do see...

multiple three touchdown games so you know that's that's what you're looking for from an NFL quarterback from a fantasy quarterback it's great to lead in fantasy per throw but you want a lot of throws then and he's not getting them so in this game you saw him beat the the Patriots well not beat the Patriots but you saw him have a great fantasy game against the Patriots earlier this year

The one thing I warn about that is he got off to the worst start ever against the Patriots. And then really, it wasn't garbage time because they were coming back in the game, but it was late in the game with a different type of scheme that he was able to succeed on. So I think he has both a good game and a bad game. I've got him scheduled for three interceptions, but a decent amount of yards on the ground. I'm curious where I have him rank. Let me check that. I have Tyra Taylor is my 19, and you have him as a 13.

I think there's better streaming options out there. He's a guy that wouldn't surprise me if he has a great game, but I'm not going to try to predict that this week. All right. Well, that does it for our fantasy forecast. We had to cover quite a few games today. Hopefully we gave you some valuable insight you can use for starting guys. We're going to take a minute and talk to Chris Meena of the Fantasy Sports Network. Give you some DFS insight guys he likes this week. A Daily Dose.

All right, the fantasy footballers are excited as usual to welcome in Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network, dropping some DFS knowledge on our listeners. How you doing, Chris? Not too bad, guys. Ready to rock after a rough week 10. Yes. That was a crazy week. I mean...

Mike isn't here to kind of ask his question. So I'm going to start real fast with the one that's on the top of Mike's mind. And is Kristen Michael a good pickup this week in DFS? Yeah, no, this guy's released now. He's done. I know, but I don't want to let Mike live it down, and so I want to bring it up on as many contexts as I can. Every show, every interview. It's just, it's our new thing we do. Yes, yeah.

It's funny, guys, Michael, just a really hot topic, right? When this guy was picked up by the Cowboys, everybody wanted him. But again, he just was a big disappointment. He's the best future running back prospect discussion piece. That's all he's ever been. And I don't know how many fantasy points you get for that, but he's been very good at that before. So, but we'll get... Yeah, for sure. He's out of my lineup. Yeah, okay. So, hot tip.

No Christine Michael this week. But let's actually focus on the week 11 DFS plays here. Who are the big budget guys you have confidence in, spending the money on this week? I think of the quarterback position, it's Cam Newton for me. You know what? I haven't given this guy enough credit because, you know, at the start of the year, I obviously didn't like his weapons with Calvin Benjamin going down again. I just, you know, I wasn't really a big fan of Gin and Funches. And even though Funches is kind of starting to come around, it just Cam's been so consistent.

I mean, last week 20 fantasy points, the week before that, 34, 19, 16, 21, 16, 29, 28. It seems like his floor is right around the 16 to 19 mark, and that's perfectly fine for a quarterback. So I'm willing to pay up for him at $8,600 against Washington. I'm not willing to pay up for Tom Brady. I'm not going to go that way against Aaron Rogers. He let me down too many times, so I'm off Aaron Rogers, although it could be a sneaky play because, you know, sometimes I find a DFS.

You know, when they have bad weeks, people don't want them anymore. Nobody wants Andy Dalton this week. I know it's a tough matchup, but nobody wants him because he couldn't do anything against Houston. And I'm actually fine with rolling out Andy Dalton, maybe not in a cash game, but in a tournament play at $7,900. I know it's a little tough against Arizona, and he was really disappointing last week, but he still has a lot of weapons around there. So I'm willing to pay up for Andy Dalton. My favorite quarterback again, and guys, I feel like I just always say this to you guys. Derek Kerr. I mean, I love Derek Kerr.

against Detroit. He's a nice price at $7,700. He's tied for first with seven deep touchdown passes. It passes over 20 plus yards. He's got great weapons in Cooper and Crabtree. Crabtree has 16 looks over 20 plus yards. Cooper only four. Crabtree getting targeted more in the red zone than Cooper. But I love Crabtree again this week. And going up against Detroit, like I mentioned, just the third most fantasy points against the quarterback. So I'm willing to go that way for Derek Carr.

As we saw last week, if you can find a guy under $8,000 who can get you at least 20 points, then you're kind of laughing from that quarterback position. I mean, last week it was cousins. I don't suggest cousins again this week. I think we just know to pick on that same secondary. But Derek Carr last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week, last week.

I love Derek Carr. Yeah, what do you think about a car, Crabtree stack? Because we were talking in the studio a little bit with Darius Slay lined up on Cooper and shadowing him. Crabtree, we really like him as well. So what's your thoughts on the stack? Because I know we've gone back and forth on some of the winners have had those stacks. What do you think about those guys this week as a stack?

Yeah, I love Crabtree. I mean, Craptory and Carr are going to be in a lot of my lineups this week for sure. A little bit of a down week, of course. Only 7.45 fando points last week. He still had 55 yards four catches. But before that, I mean, the guy was just, you know, raking in a lot of targets. I had back-to-back 100-yard games. He's got four touchdowns in those last four games. So I do like...

stack a lot. I'm willing to roll with Crabtree for sure. From the other wide receiver position, there's a lot of guys I like that are just kind of undervalued. Obviously, Amandola has a bigger role with New England Patriots this week, only $6,100. That one game against Buffalo earlier in the year, Edelman had 19 targets, so I wonder where all those targets are going to go.

Sure, Gronk is going to get some. LaFelle's obviously going to get some, but I like Amadola in a spot where last week we saw him get 10 catches. You got to remember, 0.5 per catch. So I like Amidola in that spot, too, and he's fairly cheap. You know what? You want to take a long shot? Here's a long shot. Kenny Britt? I mean, it's not a cash play, but a $5,300 against Baltimore's secondary. I know it's Case Keenum. He's not great, but he can't be worse than Nick Fools.

Watching a lot of games here in the office and not glued to Rams games, although I do love Gurley, but I just noticed that every single game, St. Louis, takes about two or three shots downfield to Kenny Britt, and Fultes has not been able to connect. So, Keith Keenum, also known to throw some interceptions here and there, but I think that there certainly is shot for some upside in a big tournament play where Kenny Brick could be a sneaky, sneaky play.

Yeah, I like that. And Jason made the point on the show earlier yesterday. Just the fact that, okay, Foles is gone. This has to just be an upgrade. You just kind of have to be because eight straight games of under 200 yards and just no efficiency from Foles whatsoever. At the worst, it cannot be a downgrade. You can't sit there and go, oh, no, things are going to get worse. You know the guy that...

That I like a middle of the tier guy that I see just a value. What do you think is Charkandric West and his, his, uh, Fandle price right now? Is that right? Is it 4,500? West, West is 71. Oh, okay. And Charcantrake, I'm...

I'm with you. Charkandik West has been, I mean, he passed the test last week when he went up against Denver. Nobody wanted this guy. And the Sunday million on Fandual, I believe his ownership was 1.6% owned. And he went off for 29 Fandul points against Denver. He's got 49 over his last two games and 69 over his last three. And if we didn't like that matchup against Denver, we have to love it against San Diego this week. So I'm with you. Yes, I love Charkandric West. It's $7,100. Sticking with running backs.

I'm willing to pay up for Freeman this week against the Colts. I like that a lot. McFadden, too, 105 touches over the last four games for Darren McFadden. You have to think that Romo back now has to help out McFadden a little bit. They don't have to run the ball all the time. He's only $6,800 and has also a nice match against Miami. Also willing to pay up for Andrew Peterson. He seems to be the only running back. You take a look at, I don't know what your guys's rankings were, but take a look at the top 15 running backs. A lot of them hurt or busts.

besides Adrian Peterson, he seems to be consistently getting it done. The knock on him is not finding the end zone, but against Green Bay this week, $8,900 also willing to pay up for him. Yeah, Peterson is one of those guys. When you look at the total carry numbers too this year, there's a giant gap between the second, third, fourth guys, and Peterson. He's almost 30 carries or more ahead of everybody else, so you know the workloads there, and then obviously he's Adrian Peterson. He can break the long touch that at any time, so that makes it worth it. Is there any other bargains we should know about?

You know what I was looking at Aiken? Aiken's still worth it. I mean, it's a tough match against St. Louis, $5,900. This guy did get 14 targets last week, only real than half of them. Givens is another sneaky little play, a little revenge against the Rams, $4,500, found the end zone. Between him and Aiken, they had 21 targets. Really just not a lot of receiving options there in Baltimore. Other than that, not a whole lot. Maybe if you do want to go Dulton, you want to be contrarian, like I said, it is a little bit of a tough matchup.

You have to think Patrick Peterson is going to shadow AJ Green. So maybe Marv Jones, Marvin Jones, at $5,400 against Arizona. Again, it's a tough match and it could be a sneaky play because of, you know, he had a down week last time. So sometimes I like to try to find these guys where people are going to be off of them because they're coming off bad weeks. I like Ebron, drop a lot of balls lately, but I like the matchup against Oakland. They can't cover tight ends. And finally...

Jason Witten, now that Romo's back, Witten can be a factor. I noticed last week, Ertz and Selleck for Philadelphia, two tight ends. They had 14 targets, 11 catches, and 202 yards against Miami. So Witten, if...

If Romo has any Russ at all, he can always go to his BFF and just throw to Witten for eight or nine yards every single time. Really like the Witten play. He was almost my start of the week this week as well. And I'm glad you brought up Cam Newton because the thing that people don't understand, it's kind of shocking. You know, the top three scoring offenses in football. It's New England, it's Arizona, and then it's Carolina.

Wow. It's Carolina. Despite the weapons or what we perceive as inefficient or, I mean, ineffective weapons, it's not the case. They're extremely efficient. He gets in the end zone. So I'm glad you brought Newton up. We really appreciate you coming on the show yet again today and dropping some great knowledge for our listeners. Well, have you back next week.

Hey, man. My pleasure, guys. I love your show. And anytime you guys want to have me on, I'm more than willing. Absolutely. And you can follow him, follow Chris on Twitter at Chris Meeny. That's M-E-A-N-E-Y. And he'll answer your questions on there as well. So thanks a lot, Chris. Thanks a lot, Chris. We'll do. Take care. Sweet. All right. Thanks a lot, Chris. Right on, guys. All right. Have a problem, guys. You too, guys. Take care.