Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 5 Matchups, The Daily Dose, TNF Review

I'll pass. Nope. What are the tight end numbers? The New York Giants, so week one, they gave up 10 for 68 and three touchdowns. Week two, four for 77. That was against Atlanta. Week three against Washington, six for 96. Last week against Buffalo, 11 for 128. Just a lot of yards. And that's the type of player that Vernon Davis is right now in his career, those longer passes. No, he's not. Vernon Davis stinks. Okay.

He hasn't shown me that he doesn't stink in a really long time. This sounds like an embittered man who likes Vernon Davis at the beginning of the year. Of course I do. I like Vernon Davis if he's healthy and been showing me something consistently. I don't like him in this game. And so that's why we made a bet right now. That's fine. We can be polar about it. I mean, you guys were all over Moncrief last night. We all know how that worked out. All right.

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Are you guys ready to break down the rest of the matchups for week number five? Yeah. Yes. Fantasy forecast. The proper response is yes, sir. Yes, sir. I am ready. Yes, sir. I have to say this because I think it every single time we do this fantasy forecast, that drop, the second half of that, when it goes, do, do, do do do, do I love it. I mean, I get jazzer-sized up.

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You've got the Macklin cake going on? All right. By the way, Julius Thomas, we don't think he's going to play. No, that is true. All right, let's talk about the Saints going to Philadelphia to face the Eagles. The over-under in this game is a whopping 49 points. That's got to be up near the top. At least opened that. I don't know if it's sitting there still. I believe that is the top. So, Breeze and Bradford. What do we think about Breeze? Because I read a report this morning.

He says it'll be a while until he's 100%. It makes sense. I mean, he's got a shoulder that doesn't just immediately get better. You saw, I think, like 90% of his throws were short throws last week. Little dump-offs, little short.

you know, 10 and under routes. And you're going to see a lot more of that, which I think bodes well for the running back situation here. CJ Spiller hopefully can get used a little bit more. Mark Ingram, did you know Mark Ingram is averaging over five receptions a game? It's ridiculous. And he's doing it every game. He's had a game of 8, 6, 7. I mean, he's looking really consistent. It's weird to say Mark Ingram in a half point or full point PPR gets a bump. Yeah. That's just bizarre.

What's going on over there, Andy? I, you know, I like letting people see the visceral fantasy football responses. And I just had Ruben Randall snake for me in our league of record. Really? I needed a fantasy flex play this week. And so this is a miniature segment real quick.

on sleeper opportunities for guys this week. Here are the guys that I was considering for sleepers. Chris Thompson, Washington running back. A lot of snaps over there. Willie Sneed, which we can talk about in this game, the Saints. Ruben Randall was a consideration. And somebody went out and spent six fab dollars on a Friday morning to take away my player. And they dropped Jordan Cameron to do it. And I spent $2 to get Willie Sneed. All right. So let's talk about Willie Sneed then. Double-snaked.

Well, no, I didn't. That's fine. I had Thompson ahead of Sneed. Okay. All right, so Willie Sneed, and we'll talk Thompson in just a second on the next matchup. What do we think of him? He's a rookie, and he's been catching 73% of his targets, which we kind of knew somebody had to step up in this offense. We thought maybe, oh, is it Brandon Coleman? No, it's not. And I think you could kind of see it on the field. Coleman just didn't look great. And then we thought it was Cooks.

We thought Cook's had this great upside. He's not being involved. So is Willie Sneed the guy to kind of, I mean, was that a wise decision by Mike spending two fab dollars on Willie Sneed? Yes. Yes, it was absolutely a wise decision to spend $2 on Willie Sneed because Willie Sneed.

is the number two there. Brandon Cooks is still the number one guy. That's who you want the most, even though he's been underperforming. If both of these guys were on waivers, you'd clearly, clearly go Cooks. But Willie Sneed is earning the trust of Drew Brees. Willie Sneed is running great routes and getting open and being found. And when you've got the trust there, after you've lost so many targets in the offseason, everyone was high on Brandon Coleman because...

Someone's got to get the ball, but it looks to be Willie Sneed. And that trust, his snap counts have been growing every game. And that's what we try to see at this point in the year for a rookie. So would you rather start Tegin Jr. or Willie Sneed? Willie Sneed. Even after the two touchdown game, I mean, three straight double-digit games for Tegin-Jr. So I definitely would not want to start Ted Ging Jr. Well, that's true. That's true. Yeah. I'm looking at the waiver wire list going, these guys are in this. De-factor victories. De-factor.

Ask me more about starter sit with a way with a by guy. Genius. I like being right. Okay, so let's talk about, are we starting anybody at the tight end position at all in this matchup? No, you can't trust the Philadelphia tight ends at this point. And the same thing for the Saints tight ends. We saw he'll finally get in the end zone.

But none of these guys. There's much better options on your waiver wire than these guys. All right. I said this on the radio yesterday. Someone asked me, what do I do with DeMarco Murray? Do I just roll him out there? And I said, yeah. I said, DeMarco Murray, this is the week. I have him ranked a little bit higher. Yeah. I think this is the opportunity. You and I both have him ranked higher than the consensus. Let me take a look at that. We have.

If you look at the consensus expert ranking, we're both a little higher on him. So you have no fears of the growing whispers in the winds and the shadows. I have him at four this week. Wow. So I don't love myself there. You haven't met 10. Yeah, which is still higher than the... Mike, you barely have them in the two conversation. Yeah, man. Do I have concerns? Yeah, you got concerns, but I do not believe that the solution for that offense.

You know, you don't have a situation where they've been out in winning with Ryan Matthews. You have a situation where they've been losing with both of them. And DeMarco's been paid a lot of money. DeMarco is demanding the ball. I think this is the chance he gets. So I'm just going to, I'm going to bank on him having a good game. And they're at home. And this is their chance to get their season turned around. So if I have him, I'm playing him. It sounds like you guys are both playing him. So we're all on the same book or on the same page with that. And the defenses are both pretty bad.

Washington at Atlanta. Atlanta favored by almost eight points in this game. Is there any way Washington keeps up? And even if they can't keep up, does that mean we've got garbage points coming to Cousins, to Garsohn, to Jameson Crowder? Yeah, I think they can keep up. Or as in not keep up in scoring, but Washington defense has been solid, man.

It's been there, and the Falcons have just been taking advantage of matchups. This is a really, really big test for Freeman. Coming up against a Washington right now is second in yards allowed to the running back. So we'll see if Freeman is a mirage or not. I think if Freeman has a solid game here, then I will really...

start to buy in. Do you think he scores again? But brilliant. I think he gets held out of the end zone this week. Okay. If you had to start a Washington running back, you would emphatically and excitedly start. It depends on the league type. But if it's, if it's PPR, I'm going to start Chris Thompson. That's just crazy, right?

It's not crazy, not like you're not crazy, but crazy that we're at the point where. It's crazy that we're at that point. In this game, you have to, I mean, we try to project different things. And one of the things you try to project is the game flow. Atlanta has been just blowing people out of the water. And while I do agree with Mike that Washington's defense is good and I don't necessarily expect them to just blow them out, they will probably be down.

They're favored by seven and a half. In Atlanta is a big deal. And so if they're down and they're needing to pass the ball, we've already seen that Thompson is the guy. He's got plenty of snaps on the field. He can catch the pass. And he looks good. He looks good with that role. So he is a flex-worthy. You got to remember, Gruden wanted a geotype guy. He had the geotype guy when he was in Cincinnati. That's what Thompson is settling into. It's not Matt Jones.

So let's say you've got... Hopefully you traded Matt Jones. Let's say you've got Alfred Morris and Matt Jones in this matchup, and you have to... Alfred. Everybody is by. You're starting Alfred over Matt Jones. Without question. Mike? Alfred was almost my start of the week. All lean, Alfred Morris, just because of last week of this recency bias, but I don't feel comfortable week to week knowing who it's going to be.

Yeah, trick question. I don't start either. Go on. Alfred Morris had a okay week last week. Yes, he did. 17 carries back on, you know, but no touchdowns. And he had two catches. What? Yeah, two for three. I missed that. I know, so did he almost. All right, so let's talk about the wide receivers for both teams. Let's put, do we like Garsohn? Yes. Yeah.