Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 1 Fantasy Forecast, TNF Preview, News

His own percentage is ridiculous. Oh, I just went and checked. I had a claim on him in our dynasty. I almost go through. And I took him. Yep. Yeah. I paid a buck for him in Fab. I saw him on my team. I saw him available. I didn't have a spot for him and I was very upset that I did not. Devonte Parker can easily be the best rookie wide receiver this year. Yep. Yep. I agree.

I don't know if anybody else put a claimant on him, but I saw him hit the waivers, and I was like, I've got to scoop him up. All right, we're going to preview two more games really quickly here. These are, we're kind of going from, what, the early games? These are all the... We're getting there. I think only the Lions Chargers is the one afternoon game we will talk about today. Yeah, and we're obviously going to hit the rest of the games tomorrow as well as starts of the week and some DFS content. All right, the Seahawks and the Rams. This is in St. Louis. What is the over-under on this game?

Uh, it is terrible. Uh, the over under on this game, I believe is 41 as well. Yeah, that makes sense. This is not a, uh, obviously the Seahawks defense is very good. The Rams offense does not project to be very good this week, especially with Trey Mason hurting. No, uh, not a lot of upside across the board on that offense. If you're starting a Rams player, who are you starting, Mike? Um, probably Benny Cunningham. Just because I think that he's, but, but, but, but, Benny and the, Benny Cunningham.

Just because of dump-off opportunities, I mean, this is a PPR shot in the dark. I'm not playing Quick or Britt or Jared Cook. I'm not playing any of these guys. But what I will say about this game is I have great concern. I think Greg Zerline might be a better play. Yeah, hey, there you go. I have great concern for my Seattle players this week. They have not looked good in the preseason. And last year, Marshaun Lynch was completely contained.

by the St. Louis defense. People do not forget. The Rams beat the Seahawks last year in St. Louis. That's why I said Zerline. The way St. Louis wins this game, it's like 9 to 6. Legatron takes care of business. But if Russell Wilson does not roll out and get you a couple 20 or 30-yard runs, I think you're going to be very disappointed by his output. Yeah. All right. Let's cover one more game here. That way we have time for the others tomorrow.

The Lions and the Chargers game, we did allude to this game earlier when we spoke about Amir Abdullah and Danny Woodhead. We've asked a question about Joach and Abdullah. So let's talk about Melvin Gordon because I don't think we've done that enough on the show. And here's his debut against a very stout lion's defense. Oh, man. So if you are just staring down the Woodhead Gordon in a PPR, who are you starting? Danny Woodhead. I think I am too. I'm not throwing out a rookie running back to the Lions. Literally. Hey-oh!

Yeah, I'm with you. I think that the Lions, I think, are a very good team, just a practically good NFL team that is going to make the playoffs again. They were, what, a 10-win team, 11-win team last year? Yeah, I believe so. Mostly, or half the time without Calvin. Calvin coming back. Well, yeah, and so for me, I'm fine. I'm fine rolling out. Stafford this week, Calvin, Golden Tate, and then the two offensive running backs, Joyke Bell and Amir Abdullah. I think...

the lions are going to be a high-powered offense again in terms of production. And so I'm fine starting pretty much every lion across the board. Yeah, I can't disagree with that. I think it will be exciting. The Joyc Bell and Abdullah is going to be even more exciting for our show in particular. And what will be interesting is will they get to that point where they're both startable? Two years ago when Bush was healthy the entire year,

Bush did outscore Bell, but they both were viable fantasy options. And so it's great for fantasy when a team can have two running backs that actually put up points. So I'm very much looking forward to the Abdullah Express. And thank you to the people who shopped up the new and improved Abdullah Express pictures. The Photoshop pictures are hilarious, especially, I mocked.

Mike openly on Twitter last night, I found a really nice picture of Joyc Bell jumping over a defender. I almost photoshopped your face into the defender because I thought that would have just been dynamite, but instead I said, hey, Hitman 2-2 on this. Right. And then there's this murky figure in the background. And this is in the real picture. Like if you go find Joyc Bell in the cold jumping over the Eagles, in the very background, there's this blurry black figure. And who I want to...

Find who the name of the guy who does that. I believe it is at Rumballs. No, that's not it. Oh, at Rumballs. What is his name in there, though? Oh, his real name? Look up the Twitter. I just wanted to see what his name was, because I want to give him a shout out. There's this murky black figure, and then he, like, highlights it in red and goes, what is this? And then he, like, kind of zooms in a little bit, and it looks like...

this, you know, shrouded figure that has a little bit of a resemblance. And then you get to the third picture. And he has photoshopped me and the Reaper. No, he's not photoshopped anything. Yeah, I was going to say he just found it and zoomed in. You found that picture because you remember you were there when Joy flipped over that guy. He went full blade runner and he said, enhance. Oh, my goodness. And then there was the Fantasy Reaper. And I died laughing, dude.

I could not stop laughing last night. Troy. My wife and I were both looking at them. Troy Hallam? Yeah, Troy. What's up, Troy? Yeah, that was incredible. He's the one who did, didn't he do the Abdul Express? Yeah, there was a couple. So if you do incredible, hilarious Photoshop work, we'll probably give you a shout on in the show because we enjoy laughing. Laughter is fun. So thanks for listening to the show today. We've got more matchups for you tomorrow. We'll do...

answer some questions on Twitter, answer them on the website, go to the fantasy footballers.com. I want to remind you, if you're in a desperate situation for a question or something like that, we have options to kind of get an answer from one of us in like three hours if you really want one. It'll text us. We'll literally answer your question for you, which is pretty cool. So we've got that feature on the website, and make sure you visit jointhefoot.com, because you can ask a lot of questions to the community of listeners of this show, too. As well as us on there and more exclusive things.

want to dive deeper with the fantasy footballers. Hypothetical question. If you're saying, hey, should I trade Eddie Lacey for Joach Bell? You know, and you'll get the yes from me. If you text me, I'll say, yeah, go get, no. Go get Eddie Lacey. No, I'm not. Didn't I tell you on the last show I was a little weak need about this whole thing? Yeah, that's why I find your boisterous and...

proclamation. I know. It's just so much better to embrace the thing you've said for four months as it comes to fruition before your eyes in the face of your fellow hosts. I am honestly surprised. I'm honestly surprised that you took joick in week one. I thought you were going to say you're honestly surprised that joick is healthy and fine and of course I am. Filling my prophecy. No.

Come on. No, but I am surprised. Obviously, the whole offseason, you were saying, well, Joyc's going to come back and be the starter, but by, you know, week five or so, Abdullah is going to take over. But considering the fact that he didn't get in, you know, he's missed everything, do you really think they're just going to give him the complete lion share? Yes. No way. Yes. That's why I just made, I made a bet with you, didn't I?

Oh, no, that was the Randall. That was the Randall. The reason I went with Joick is just the touchdown probability is higher for Bell this week. I cannot wait for football. All right, we'll see you in the morning, guys. Thanks for listening. Football. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web at www. The Fantasyfootballers.com and follow us on Twitter.

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