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

For one. Incredible. Well, that means he ran one in. That's true. Unless it's a receiving test. No, I'm saying he ran one in. Like, handoff. No, I get it. I get it. I get it. Ancombe Bolden hasn't done anything this year. He's sitting on waiver wires in most leagues, and I didn't pick him up to start him. I'd rather start Reuben Randall. Let's talk about the Monday night game, the Steelers facing the Chargers.

Now, we'll get a chance on Monday, the morning show, to talk through this a little bit. But let me ask some big questions here for owners that are waiting. You know, if you're starting somebody here, you're making the decision to bench somebody over the weekend. So we need to talk about it. Levion Bell is in the lineup. Antonio Brown's in the lineup. Now, Martavis Bryant, everybody wants to know, do I start him this week?

Everybody's been waiting. He's had that little suspended icon next to him on your bench. You haven't got to put him in the IR spot. You're getting the itch to play him because he's back. In fact, this is the Antonio Gates and Marteus Bryant are both back in this game. Yeah, the cheaters. Different sorts of complications. Cheaters on the law.

sure uh so by the way quick aside did anybody see the levion bell e60 special no i did not check it out okay it's pretty good uh it talks about his little uh encounter with le garret blunt oh but i mean it was interesting it was it was cool to see if you're a leviom bell owner you'll like it because you know makes levi on bell look pretty good

I mean, that's funny. Well, I mean, just, I mean, he goes through that. Let's recap your law struggles with drugs. It's not just that. It's not just that. Oh, he looks brutal going. Is it talking about his diet? Uh, no. Oh. Well, what's his diet? Well, just about how from year one to year two and how he leaned up. Oh, he just wants to look. I mean, he wants to be the best running man. That's all I'm saying. And he might be. He might be. So, um.

Martavis, do you start him? Yes, no. No, I prefer not to start him because you don't know what you're going to get with Michael Vic. If you have to flex him, I'm comfortable doing that because I think he could break one off. He's a talented guy, but I prefer to sit him this week. Andy is shooting the guns at us? I want to run through these. Martavis, Bryant, or John Brown, Arizona. John Brown. Brown. Martavis Bryant or Kendall Wright, Tennessee. Kindle Wright. Martavis Bryant or Dante Montcrieve.

That was a setup because Monkey sucked tonight. All right. Martavis Bryant, Travis Benjamin. Martavis Bryant? Bryant. Bryant or Alan Hearns? I think I go Bryant this week with Hearns a little, little hurt. Pierre Garsohn. Pyre Garsohn. Camar Akin. Aiken. It's completely dependent on Hayden. If Hayden's out, Aiken, if Hayden's in Martavis.

By the way, Jason is destroying our consensus ranking on Kamar Akin. Is he? Yeah. Do I have a lower high? You and I actually have him around the wide receiver 2-3 range, and he has him down. I could not agree. 48 or something. If Joe Hayden is out, he is a wide receiver 2, and I like him. He's going to get all the targets, and he's going to be fine. But if Hayden is playing.

I don't think Aiken is a good enough guy to beat one of the best corners in all of football. He tips well. He is a good guy. Here's why I will say, I am rising on Aiken even more this week, and this is why Cleveland has come out and said, well, Cleveland hasn't, but the reports are that they're stacking the box against Fawcett. They understand that Flacco with limited weapons is the way that they want to be beaten.

If that makes sense. I mean, they're going to be beaten. No, they're not necessarily. So the latest blurb on Joe Hayden, he is dealing with a broken finger in addition to his bruised ribs. Okay. Which is what kept him out of week for. Do we know if he practiced? He should be considered questionable. Great. Well, I mean, I would look at that on the morning, and Aiken is a fine start, but I don't like him against Joe Hayden. All right, let's take some time to focus on daily fantasy sports. You got your lineups. You need some values. Let's go and talk to Chris Media, the Fantasy Sports Network.

The Daily Nose. The fantasy footballers are now joined again by Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network. He runs a fan duel show up in the Great White North, and we're going to talk to some DFS. What's going on, Chris? Always a pleasure, guys, to jump on the fantasy footballers show and talk some football with you guys. I love it. And as do we. We are not going to spend a moment at all talking about the...

the DFS, the news that's in the headlines right now, we're just going to move on and treat everything, like everything's going great, and let's set up some DFS lineups. So who are the big name guys, the high cash, Rogers, those types of players that you are investing in this week?

I think Levi-on-Belt needs to be in your lineups. I think you're going to spend on them. There's some value plays that maybe we can get to a little bit later, which will help out. But he's got a great matchup against San Diego. Obviously, we know there's no big Ben. He's going to be a big part of that offense moving forward. I really like Tom Brady and I like Gronk. I think I'm playing Gronk in almost every single lineup. He's just safe. He's just really safe at the tight-end position.

You know, you can always really bank on at least 10 points from him, I feel like. So that's solid. Plus, I get two weeks to prepare for a Dallas team. And Tom Brady at 8.8, I love that price as well. You want to go Matt Ryan 8, 3, save a few hundred bucks against Washington. Secondary is fairly weak. I do like Aaron Rogers this week, and I think that it could actually be a contrarian play.

where he wasn't as successful as we thought he may be in San Francisco last week. People may think, okay, I'm not going to play him 9-2 against that St. Louis defense. It seems so nice. But we saw Carson Palmer actually pile up a lot of yards last week. He just couldn't get in the red zone. Well, they got in the red zone. They just couldn't get in the end zone. And I don't think Rogers will have that issue at home against St. Louis. So I think that could be a contrarian play. I like all of that. But I'm really my favorite play is Brady and Grok.

And what about high-level wide receivers? Which ones are you buying into for this week? Well, I think, you know, Julio Jones again, he's always safe. But if you had him last week, you know, you weren't really happy, of course. You know, he didn't do all that well. I think even Antonio Brown, I think people are down on him because of the fact that, again, no big Ben. I think Vic, you know, he came in. It was a short week.

He has extra time to prepare. You know, we just missed Antonio Brown a couple times, especially in the end zone. If Antonio Brown caught that ball in the end zone last week, we're not talking about Antonio Brown being all that worse without Big Ben. So I think that could be another Gatorian play at 8-6 that I do like a lot. Okay, so let's talk about some middle-tier guys. What are your thoughts on Larry Fitzgerald? I think he's probably still priced at...

at a point where you can add him and not break your bank. So like a Carson Palmer, Larry Fitzgerald stack, and then I'll throw one more out at you, a Philip Rivers, Keenan Allen's stack. How do you feel about those? Yeah, I do like Keenan Allen. You know, you get Gates back in that offense too. Keenan Allen is a guy that...

I don't know what it is. I don't have anything wrong with him. It's just sometimes I feel like he just lets me down. I feel the same way, just so you know. Yeah, well, there's just no consistency with him. It's really weird. Sometimes he gets, you know, the double-digit targets. He'll flirt with the 20, 15 to 20 targets, and all of a sudden he's just nowhere to be found. So I have a hard time really trusting him in cash games, in games where I want to put out my best possible lineup. Larry Fitzgerald seems to be for real, guys. I mean, obviously this is a guy we know who has skill, but he's been moving into the slot, which is really helping.

You know, Bruce Ariens was saying that just the move from the slot, you know, is a mismatch, obviously. He's got great hands. So I think he's going to be safe all year. And his price, again, at 7-4, it just seems to be really, really nice. It's too nice to pass up.

Again, I've been on this Philly train a couple times. I'm still going back to Jordan Matthews at 6'8. A little bit of a couple letdowns, you know, a tough defense against the Jets. He was really nowhere to be found last week against Washington. Maybe this Philly offense can finally start to get going, and again, could be a contrarian play. The St. Secondary, again, I don't love it. So at 6.8, that's a decent price, too. Okay, let's start talking some value guys.

Are there any of that off the top of your head or right in front of you that you really feel strongly about this week?

I love Todd Gurley. I really do, and I think he's going to be a popular play, but I don't care about it. At 6-7, watching the second half of that game against Arizona, he just runs so well. And I think we're going to start to see him get more touches. At 6-7 against Green Bay, that's a really nice price. T.J. Yeldon is awesome as well against Tampa Bay. Only Forte and AP have more rushing attempts than T.J. Eldon has the fifth most touches in all football with 80. There's just no...

Nobody else that's going to steal any touches in that backfield from him. So I love T.J. Alden at 6-6. Listen, if Carlos Williams can't go, Anthony Dixon seems to be somebody that you just kind of have to play. Like when we talked about a couple weeks ago with Freeman, this guy's going to get a lot of volume. Well, Anthony Dixon, if there's nobody else there at 4-5, 4-5 is the cheapest you can go on Fanduel. So that's against the Titans. I like that as well. Kamar Aiken, 5-8.

You know, there's just nobody else in Baltimore, Steve Smith. There's a lot of injuries, a lot of banged up guys. You know, Forset had the second most targets, I believe, on that team heading into last week. He's a running back. So I do like Forset, but Kamar Aiken is really nice at 5'8. And if there's no Deshaun Jackson, maybe Jameson Crowder. I saw James and Crowder get a lot of targets last week against Philadelphia. So if there's, it doesn't look like Jordan Reed's going to play. It doesn't look like Deshaun Jackson's going to play. Pierre Carson's a little nicked up. I expect him to play. But at 5-2, Jameson Crowder is a nice price as well.

Okay, let's talk defense real quick here. What lower value defenses do you like this week? Lower price, sorry. I like Jacksonville. I like Jacksonville at 4-3 against Tampa Bay. You know, Winston just has been throwing some picks, and they're pretty good against the run. So if they can stop Doug Martin, then they can probably get some picks. I believe Winston has five already. So I like that price at 4-3. And I...

You know what, I usually kind of roll out Philadelphia in one or two leagues just because the special team's opportunity. You get those extra points. You know, if Sproles can find a way to get one back, like he has done at times, a little revenge game against his former squad, maybe he can do something there. But Jacksonville, I'm actually really safe. I really feel comfortable rolling them out at 4-3, even though that they're the Jacks. And we need your one pick here.

The pressure is on, Meena, I'm not going to lie. People are talking. The birds are talking about that Gary Barnage pick. They think, hey, we're focusing too much on that one pick. No, we are not. So I need that one tight end who's going to be spectacular this week, and I can get him for mid to cheap price. Give it to me. It could be, how much is Owen Daniels? Daniels.

The trend here, it had nothing to do with Gary Barnage being all that good. Yes, it did, Chris. It was all Gary Barnage. It's that Oakland defense. It really is. You know what? I had the chance to talk to Matt Forte this week. We did an interview. It's going to air on the network. What? Yeah, this weekend. And I asked him about, you know, was it a game plan?

to really attack that secondary in Oakland, you know, the tight ends. They had given up five touchdowns before Bennett. We saw Bennett wide open. Nobody around him last week in the end zone against Oakland. And he had a nice day. And he said, listen, he had a little smirk. He says, things change from time to time. We're not going to give all our secrets out, but it's a copycat league. And I think that we're going to see this trend continue. Oakland's having some issues guarding that tight end.