Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, TNF Preview, News, Mailbag

Because if you're guaranteeing that next year or next week we're trading back, then it's foul. Yeah, I don't like the whole thing. Just don't do it. How about that? Plan ahead in other ways. All right. Here's a question from Jess in El Paso, Texas. Should I start Fitzpatrick on an angry comeback against the Browns? What does that mean? Because he's back and he's furious. Oh, yeah.

against the Brown struggling defense after being benched or Mariotta against the weak secondary of the Jaguars. I would start Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick. The Jaguars secondary is not weak. It's not. So they have. They appear that way because of early season. And because of their record. They've been branded by like the Jaguar when you win, unfortunately for that team. When you say Jaguars, you don't think of a winning strong team, but their defense is actually.

Jalen Ramsey's looked great. Yeah, I would go Fitzpatrick as well. He's my stream of the week. Yeah, that's, you know, I think they're both good matchups. Mariotta was my stream, but I like Fitzpatrick more, as Jason brought up yesterday. All right, Joe and St. Paul, who would you rather have long-term, Alan Robinson or Brandon Marshall? As in long-term for the season or long-term for life? I think probably just a redraft league. Yeah, it is a redraft league. Okay. Brandon Marshall. Marshall. Yeah, it's Marshall.

Cole in Las Vegas wants to know what kind of value does Des Bryant have rest of season? Is he worth trading for and try to get that top five potential we all know and love about Des Bryant? I think he is. Really? I do. And I figured you might the number two wide receiver for Dallas. He is not the number two wide receiver for Dallas. I think he is worth trading for. He has.

you know, New York, Tampa Bay, and Detroit in the playoffs. I mean, the rest of the season, I think he's good. I think you can get him pretty doggone cheap right now. I would be looking to trade for Des Bryant. The nice thing is the value that he's carrying right now means that you're not going to have to rely. You could probably trade for Des Bryant and have him not need to be in your lineup until he gets it done.

The thing about Des Bryant for me is I don't see a situation. If Dak Prescott remains the quarterback, I don't see a situation where Des Bryant gives you that elite play like two years ago when he smashed it for your fantasy playoffs. I only see that happening if Romo comes back. So you have a potential, though. You have some percentage chance that he could do it. Yes. And then you have the potential that a couple losses by Dak and Romo's right back in under center for the playoff run. Yeah, so there's.

There's a ton of variables. I'm not saying don't trade for him, but I'm not trading away a good starter on my team for the hope of Des Bryant. I think I am willing to do that. And just as a reminder, week two, with DAC, he was seven for 102. The next week he got in the end zone with DAC. So he had back-to-back decent weeks there. I think people remember that week one where he had one reception for eight yards. I'm just saying he was decent.

But he wasn't. He never felt like he had the potential to be elite with Dak because of the way they were on the offense. Yes, sure. All right. Question from Zach in Boston. Look, he makes it simple. He says he's got a case of the Beasles. And he needs more Cal Bell. Cowbell does not cure the Beasles. Looking to trade away Cole Beasley. For Michael Thomas. Should I ask for more? Package more. What do you think about that trade? Oh, man. I like it. I'd.

Cash in on Beasley before Dez gets back? That's why I like it. But Beasley was still good. Are there any better nicknames than like... The Beasles? Well, no, I just meant like Des, Dak, and Zeke. That's the crew over there. Yeah, it's pretty good. There's a bunch of cool guys. And then you got the Beasles. And then you got the Beasles. The Beasles is getting it done. The heart ring bringing them together. I view these guys for fantasy purposes at about the same tier. So...

It's, if you're in a PPR league, I'm going to stick with Cole Beasley. If it's standard, I might go to Michael Thomas. I think I go to Thomas on both. And I think I do that because Thomas represents to me more upside, more prototypical wide receiver, better quarterback situation, higher volume, better red zone. I feel like Beasley's red zone production is more anomalous than Michael Thomas is. Yeah, and that's fine. But he's, and that's why I was saying it's standard. But Cole Beasley has just been.

So reliable, man. All right. So let's talk about this Thursday night football game preview. What's going on tomorrow? We have the Jaguars. Rar. Teach me how to pronounce that again. Jaguars. Jaguars. Yes. Jaguars. Jaguars. It's pronounced Jaguars. In Arizona. Just keep saying it like that. All right. So you've got the Jaguars. You've got the Jaguars. The

Bortles has been bordling. Mariotas looked good. I like him as a stream this week. We talked about Ivory and Yeldin. We talked about Alan Robinson at length. What do you make of, you know, DeMarco Murray's an auto start? What are the big questions in this game? Because I don't see a ton. I know that you say we've talked about Alan Robinson at length. I think he's the big question. But he is the question where owners right now go, do I start him? And the answer is yes.

You do start him. I learned this last year when he was breaking out. He had the bad games. You're going to have to deal with his bad games in order to get his giant blow-up games. Now, if you've got three great wide receivers, then sure, you can, you know, three great and then Alan Robinson. Okay, I'm not talking to you. You could bench him. But most teams are going to need to play him, and I think you're going to have to just keep living with it until he writes the ship there. Here's what we're talking about with the Jaguars.

Defense. They've only allowed 9.3 yards per reception, which is first in the league. So even though they seem to be this more vulnerable defense, they actually have been pretty good against the pass. Another nugget for the Bortles fans out there. He's thrown 1.5 interceptions per game. Is that bad? That's not good. That's not good. Just mistakes. Look, this offense. He's leading the league. Don't you want to lead the league? He did last year. See, that's the thing. Last year?

We said this. I mean, I'm going to, I'm going to say this. All offseason we said this. Blake Bortles was in prime regression, where people wanted to take him so high. He was a prime regression candidate because the interception total was so high last year that he had, and the, what do we say? The proportion of running touchdowns and running around the goal line was so low.

that his numbers were artificially inflated. Man, people got so... Now, I didn't think he would become so horrible, so quickly again. But the regression by itself was going to hurt what Bordle... And they were so high on Bortle's was a top... Oh, man, people got so upset when on Twitter, when Shade was thrown on Bortles, the Bortle's fans just, oh, they're... What are you talking about? He is the ultimate garbage man. Look, I've heard rumors in the bushes that they're looking... Hollywood's going to remake men at work.

With Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Really? And Blake Bortles is getting a starring role. Well, he may need a new career soon. He may, well, no, he'll be a backup. Whenever there's discussion and whenever Chad Hennie's name comes up somehow during the week, you know it's not going good. So who do you have in this game? I've got that. DeMarie. Yeah. If you're talking about teams. I meant picking the winner.

I've got the Titans here. They're at home. They're favored by three and a half. The Jags have not been playing well. The Titans have been playing pretty decent. So I'm going to take the Titans at this one. Yeah, I'll certainly take the Titans. I want to push that almost upset button and I can't do it. I can't do it. I'm not giving, I'm not giving Gus the credit, the chance.

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Look fresh. Absolutely. Tomorrow. What are we got going on tomorrow, gentlemen? We have so much going on tomorrow. Oh, yeah. Tomorrow is we start. It's jam-packed. We start breaking down the matchups. We got that scorching new segment that we've been teasing out. On top of starts of the week. Oh, my dude. Tomorrow's show might be three hours long. It can't be because we also have the Foot Clan Mailbag exclusive episode to record tomorrow.

The Footcast. The Footcast in the afternoon. And we have the live stream for all join thefoot.com members. Is that tomorrow? It's tomorrow. We should just. My goodness. My voice isn't going to make it. I need to go to bed at eight tonight. We should just set a camera up here and hit live. Every day, all day. Especially on Thursdays. Yeah. Doing work.

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