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

I like him. You got to throw the ball a lot. You got Jordan Reed out. Garsohn is the short pass type of guy that, you know, that Cousins is actually going to get the ball to. I like Garsohn quite a bit. I'm playing him in one of my... Now, you're in a three-wide receiver league with a flex, and you got some buy weeks. Do you start James and Crowder? Yeah, I would be willing to. For all the reasons we just stated. Now, D. Jacks, did we have him on the list?

Yeah, we said he's, I heard from a Washington beat reporter on the way in that he's, there's a slight, slight chance, but all signs point to him missing another week. In Crowder, I believe he had 10 targets last week. I mean, that's the kind of opportunity that you want, and that Washington seems to like Crowder a lot. They're finally getting him involved. Andre Roberts was a healthy scratch. He's been demoted. Crowder has taken his job, so. He's in the dog house. So let's say you, let's say you've got Deshaun Jackson.

on your bench and News comes out, he's in, he's active, he's going to play. Do you play him in this matchup against Atlanta? You definitely, if that happens, you definitely don't start Crowder, right? No, Crowder's still in, because Crowder will be the slot receiver. If when Deshawn Jackson comes back, Crowder will still have a role. Okay. But do you start Deshaun? I don't think I do. Yeah, I would, if he's back, I'd probably flex him. Yeah, I think he's flex-worthy. Um,

Here's a sleeper alert for everybody. This might be a DFS play as well. Derek Carrier. Derek Carrier is the new tight end in Washington. If you don't know what happened with Washington, they lost two tight ends in the preseason, and now Jordan Reed is out with a concussion slash knee injury. Derek Carrier caught both of his targets last week. This is a situation where Cousins throws to the tight end all the time.

And so I think Carrier will have targets and he'll have receptions in this game. I'd look for four to five catches from the tied-in. And if he somehow got in the end zone, he would be, you know, extremely sneaky in DFS lineups. If you're not in a head-to-head, if you're in one of those bigger tournament-style formats, great play. All right. You guys are ready to move on to the Cardinals facing the lions? Yeah. In Detroit?

The Lions are the only winless team. Shouldn't be. Shouldn't be. Are they going to start figuring things out here? Because we were talking about Matt Stafford. He has faced four very difficult pasties, and now he's going to face another one. Well, he's faced three of his four weeks have been against three of the top four, and now he plays Arizona. So I think he's going to have another bad week. I really do. And you're going to see Matt Stafford on a lot of waivers next week, and he's got a pretty good schedule coming up.

Yeah, something to watch for is a next week Stafford alert, which is weird because he's normally hot in the beginning of the season and then cools off. But I expect him to be better later, but not this week. Yeah, I like Arizona in this game. We saw the who could have the worst offensive line matchup of Seattle versus Detroit. And it was pretty neck and neck.

which the Lions cannot get a run game going. Because they cannot get the run game going at all, the passing game has just been non-existent almost. Calvin Johnson looks older. I think he looks fine. I think he looks okay, but I don't know. There's some plays missing that I think Calvin Johnson would have made earlier last year or the year before. Will Patrick Peterson shut Calvin down?

I think it's possible. It's more of an avoidance thing. Yeah. But Johnson will get a few catches, and I'd look for him in the Red Zone. Golden Tate. All right. Theoretic was signed by a lot of people on Waver Wire. What do we think of Theoretic this week? He's a fine PPR desperation play. Chris Thompson or Theoretic? Thompson. Thompson. All right. Andre Ellington set to come back. Chris Johnson? Would you rather start? Chris Johnson. Yeah. I think it's Chris Johnson. Andre Ellington has not had.

the success running the ball that Chris Johnson has had the first few games. All right, another DFS sleeper I'm throwing out there, Michael Floyd. Yeah. Yeah, he caught all five of his targets last week, and Smokey John Brown is...

been a little disappointing and Michael Floyd. I think he's been fine. It's just a matter of for fantasy. Yeah, yeah. No, you're right. You're right. And defenses are going to start more and more targeting on fits. And as they do that, they're just going to use Michael Floyd instead. So I like Floyd a lot. All right. The Patriots head into Dallas to face the Cowboys. Dallas is a home underdog by nine points. What hope do we give to the Cowboys in this one? Not the much.

Not too much. The Patriots coming off a buy are a scary machine. The Cowboys without Tony Romo are not a scary machine. So I don't give them much hope. But the hope that you do have here is garbage time trying to keep up with points. I dropped Dan Bailey. I don't have much hope in them trying to kick field goals. So would you say like the Patriots are a T-1000 coming off a biweek and...

The Cowboys right now resemble a Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. If they're lucky. So. You guys know Short Circuit? Yeah. We just didn't give you the response that you wanted. We know that that is correct. A running back will be catching passes here. You and I have disagreed on McFadden or Joey. And so that's what I, that's... Whoa. Whoa.

I love it. A blossom reference? I'm bringing them all until you guys finally give me a head nod or something. Hey, I gave you a whoa. You doubled the woe? I doubled it. All right. So the running back situation here, though, I think is one that is going to yield good fantasy. I believe it's going to be from Joseph Randall, and I think he's going to be a good start just through the air. What about who else is catching the ball here? You're starting. Oh, okay.

For Dallas. Jason Whitten? I looked at Beasley as another one of those sleeper candidates this week, and I just can't get behind it. Yeah, because it's just one of those, you know, five for 51, four for 42. You know, his odds are getting in the end zone are very low. And, I mean, if you're getting a full point per reception, okay, if you need to flex him, maybe take a shot at him because at least he's getting targeted underneath. But.

And maybe he benefits from no Dunbar. That's what, if we were talking about which running back catches the ball, we could both be wrong and it could just be Cole Beasley. Yeah, I mean, instead of that dump off to the running back, they just get Cole Beasley involved there. So we're starting Brady, we're starting Dionne Lewis, who by the way just signed an extension. We're starting Edelman and we're starting Gruncowski. But here's the question for you guys. Do you start Legerat Blunt in this game? Yes, 100%. I actually have him as an RB one this week. I would start both Blunt and Lewis. I did not expect such an emphatic.

I know. It's a little crazy. Now, Cowboys have not exactly given up a ton of yards on the ground. No. What? Yeah. I really think coming off a buy, the Patriots are going to be hitting. You should make some sort of bet because you never do. You're all on the same side of the desk. Okay, let me check, let me check my stats here and see what I've got him at. You just said a one. Well, I want to make sure I'm right on that. Well, I've got him at 12. I'm not going to bet that he doesn't fall one spot below where I've got him right. I'll give you top 15. Give me a, give me an RB2 and above. RB2. RB2.

You haven't met 12 and you want to 24? Legerrat. Top 20 then. Settle it right there. You've got him at 42. You're not willing to make a RB2 bet. You've got him at 42. That's a water bet. Right, Mike? Yeah, that's... All right. Waterbed. I don't know why I was trying to like get it to 20. I don't think he's finishing in the top 24 myself. But if he gets in the end zone three more times.

Then maybe he will. Yeah, count on it. Broncos going to Oakland to face the Raiders. Can this be my almost, almost? Wait, wait. What? I think the Raiders have enough offense to make this interesting. I think they're young. I didn't push the button. This isn't my upset. What was my upset yesterday? You remember? Yeah, I liked that one. I don't remember.

I don't know what it was. It was the Bears over the Chiefs. But I, you know. All right. Derek Carr, we're sitting in. Is that true? We're sitting the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. All right. We talked about Lentavius Murray starting. Amari Cooper or Crabtree. Who do you like more? Cooper. Cooper. I mean, he's got the more talent. He's going to.

probably get more targets, but I don't love either guy in this matchup against the Broncos and their pasty. That's very good. All right. If you're a C.J. Anderson owner and you're not, you know, sitting in the corner of a empty room shaking with sadness. What do you do here? Do you do roll them out one more time and just wait? I personally think you do.

I think this is a great opportunity. I heard you say that on the radio yesterday. I think this is a great opportunity for C.J. Anderson to get into the end zone. The matchup is strong. I don't think this game is going to be close. I think the Broncos, the defense can shut down car at this point of his career. Yeah, you're probably right. I want to believe in Oakland so bad. I'm so disappointed they lost last week. You don't even know.

And so it's just the Hillman versus Anderson. And I'm not buying Hillman. I mean, they've both been terrible. Absolutely. But C.J. Anderson is still the guy who's involved in the passing game. He's the one who's past blocking. He's the one who will do a chip block and then run out for a dump off. That's not what Ronnie Hillman's doing, even though that's kind of the perception that people have of Ronnie Hillman. And Ronnie Hillman is...

Sure, I'm not going to take away the huge run, but without that, they both were terrible. Let me ask you this. Peyton Manning or Eli Manning this week? I like. Eli's at home against the 49ers defense? I got Peyton. Okay. I'm okay with Peyton this week. I think I've got Eli this week. Let me check my rankings here. The start of the week at tight end for Jason is in this game. Owen Daniels.

Yes, I love him against. Because Oakland is brutal against the tight-in position. I do have Eli slightly ahead of Peyton. The finishes of the tight-in against Oakland, I believe, has been 1-2-1-2. They were not doing a microphone check. They were just finishing very high. You're talking about how the tight-ins performed. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, okay, so let's talk about Peyton's brother here. 49ers going into New York to face the Giants. Giants are favored, obviously. The Giants could kind of take the lead in the division here.

They could. And I expect them to win this game. So what do we do? This is the biggest question I have for 49ers players across the board. What do you do with Carlos Hyde? Because in week one, he looked like, I mean, we even came on the show and were like, do we think he'll stay in that top 10 during the rest of the season? And the consensus, I think, was yeah, he probably will. He's got more than enough talent and opportunity. Well, the opportunity. The opportunity is sliding away when this team is getting down.

and down by a lot. So Carlos Hyde, are you rolling him out there with confidence, or are you rolling him out there by default? Rolling him out there by default on the road. I think he's got a higher chance of having a good running game flow if he's at home on the road to a Giants team that's favored by a whole touchdown. They could be behind. So Carlos Hyde, more than likely, he's going to be in your lineup. But he's not somebody I'm excited about. Probably somebody I'm more...

thinking of as a flex type of play this week. So across the board then, running backs in this game are you're probably not excited about anybody. I'm never excited about the Giants running. Andre Williams, Rashad Jennings, Shane Verrine. Guess how many pass catches, the past catching back Shane Verrine has in the past two weeks? Zero. Yeah, same amount as Vernon Davis. And me. And you. And me. Here's, for Carlos Hyde, here's what he's going up against.

the top ranked running defense as far as yards allowed. You don't sound like you're buying into that running defense. Because the Giants passing defense is dead last. That is a funny position to be in on your 30 second against the pass and first against the run. It means you don't need to run the ball. I can just pass it over them all game long. The problem is I wouldn't start anybody. Right, I know. San Francisco as pass catchers, Tori Smith. Toy Smith, maybe? Maybe.

Toysmore. Someone's got to do it. Hey, look, this is the type of game. Tori Smith or Rubin Randall. Oh, man. That's tough. I think I would rather have the floor of Randall. Clearly, the ceiling is pretty high on this matchup with Tori Smith. I would not be shocked if he had a six for 150 and two touchdowns because he caught two super long ones. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was zero for zero for zero. You know, with Tori Smith. So what if he was zero for zero?