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

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The fantasy footballers are here. No, please. I want to see... I want to hear it. I want to hear about people... It was just going to be me. I was just going to... He was telling me to stop hooting and hollering over here. Oh, I was imagining people driving on a freeway clapping. Oh. Jason, you got your Matt Hasselbeck jersey on. Right, under... Yeah, under this. That's nice. I didn't know they made Colts ones. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah. Man. Two of them. Do you guys see that...

That game that Dante Moncrief number 81 put up yesterday. Right, right. Uh-huh. Don't talk too much about that. That's my quick question. Oh, okay. All right. So, welcome to the show. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. I'm Andy Holloway, joined by Jason Moore and Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? Yes. And we are back every single day talking fantasy football, getting you prepped for week five, getting your fantasy team ready to go.

And we're answering your questions on the fantasy footballers.com. We're answering them on the podcast today in our mailbag section. You can check us out on Twitter as well. We've got a Twitter blitz. Today. Eight straight hours of answering questions on Twitter. Make our fingers bleed. That's not a joke. It should be, but it's not. Yeah. And it starts here about when you're listening to this, it's probably going to be going on. Yes. But, yeah, about an hour from now.

And that is on at the FF Ballers on Twitter. And you can follow our individual accounts at Andy Holloway at Jason FFL and at FF Hitman. The Blitz itself will be from the FF Ballers account. Correct. Correct. And so we've got some news and notes. We're going to go through and tell you who we think is playing and not playing injury-wise. We've also got the second half of our fantasy forecast going through the matchups. It's going to break down the games, the fantasy implications, all the players.

We've got our daily dose segment. Chris Meena, the Fantasy Sports Network, will join us today talking DFS, giving you some sweet value start, some guys that he's playing this week in his leagues, and then we're going to hit the mailbag, answer a few listener questions. It's a full plate, gentlemen. It's a fun Friday. It's like a buffet. It is a, yeah.

You just, you know, you get a little bit of this, a little bit of that. You go, you're going to leave full and happy. Well, we go right from this to the blitz. So it is a... You're going to be eating a lot of football today. I am, you know what? I'm going to have a slice of Jeremy Macklin to at the end, at the end of the meal. Just to top it off. All right, so quick question of the day, guys. I'm just going to focus this on the game last night. Andre Johnson. He's back!

Oh, come on. He was literally back in Houston. Yes. Flash in the Pan? He had 77 and two touchdowns, Danterey Moncrief, had one catch for three yards. Yeah, he took all the Moncrief action yesterday. So maybe it's bold and reckless. I do not care. I'm not picking up Johnson. I'm not, it's just not happening. I'm not finding a guy who we

We didn't talk about the revenge factor of the revenge game narrative yesterday. We should have. We probably should have. But I thought it was just ludicrous. And it happened. When he caught the first pass, I turned to the guy I was watching the game with and I said, I guarantee you he scores on this drive. Like you just knew they were going to make every effort when they got near the goal line to throw it to him. Give him that moment in the, you know. He looked okay. He did. He's big. He's a big guy. His second touchdown was.

delightfully humorous. That was where he... Yeah, where he basically just fell over and grabbed the ball on the two-yard line and then kind of like scooched his boot. That's the new... That's the new end thing this year. Like, how was nobody... Isn't that the Richard Matthews? Yes. Be near enough to touch him. Like, they were only on like the whatever 10-yard line. It's not like they had a whole field like that other play. It's like nobody could touch him.

Well, I heard the, so the dolphins, you know, they picked up doing the Oklahoma drill again with their new tough head coach there. In Indianapolis, they do the fire drill, the stop, drop, and roll. So they, just in case. Yeah. And it paid off in spades. Oh, yeah. How about that Hail Mary? What? Who. Jalen Strong had what? Jailen Strong's first opportunities, two catches, two touchdowns. Pretty good.

Yeah, I would rather pick up strong than pick up Andre Johnson. What do you think the ownership percentage of Andre Johnson is right now? I'm guessing it's 70%. I would go with 40. It is 59%. All right in the middle. Right in the middle. So you would not sign Andre Johnson? No. I would... He will be signed. Here's what I would do. I would trade for Dante Moncrief. Oh.

No, I mean it because, look, I think this is more of a flash in the pan. You have a backup quarterback that's not going to be normally playing, and when he goes back to Houston, those two things are... I will give Moncrief credit. Four out of five games, he's looked better than Andre Johnson. There you go. That's a pretty good sample size. They did invest. It was so funny because Andre Johnson, Frank Gore, Matt Hasselbeck, it was like the old man brigade.

Frank Gore. The Golden Girls. Exactly like we hope he looks. All right. Let's get into the news and notes. News and notes from around the league. All right. In Little Winy Girl News, Ryan Mallet did not finish the game last night. Hey, that's offensive to me. It is? Yeah, call him a little whiny man. Okay. He was a little whiny man. He was. That was exactly what he was.

I don't blame him, though, because he had a great first drive. It's one thing to show some displeasure to a coach, to tell somebody something. It's another thing to constantly be pulling your helmet on and off and mouthing, you know, we didn't hear the words, but you could tell what he was saying. Okay. That's BS. I don't blame him for being upset. I definitely blame him for the way his upsetness was shown like a little whiny baby man. Yes. And the thing is, is,

It was so directly proportional to whatever happened on the field, which was great. Like, at the end of the game, when that, I mean, terrible decision by Ryan Hoyer. He called that, Ryan Mallet called that play in. Yeah, I'm sure. That's what we don't realize. A terrible decision by Hoyer, and so the ball gets intercepted and Mallet's like, oh, throwing his head around, like, I wouldn't have made that throw. But no matter what, it was like. I got a track record of dominance. If it was a good play. You could tell that he wanted him to perform bad.

He was not in it for the Texans. They needed that win. That's not news at all. That was not news. And none of these quarterbacks there are fantasy relevant. So welcome to the fantasy footballers. All right. What I actually want to focus on in this section in news and notes is just getting into essentially who do he thinks playing out of the injured guys this week. So let's go ahead and do that right now. I'm going to shoot through these guys and you let me know. What's it going to pay me to fly? Are you in? All right.

Jay Cutler. In. All right. I think we knew that. Latavius Murray. Is he playing? I think so. He's questionable, but he should be good to go. What about Marshawn? Game time decision again. What's your gut tell you? Is he going to play? The owners need to know. My gut tells me that you need to be prepared with another option. So that is you lean on the no side? I lean on the yes side. Okay. Jeremy Hill. What is his current status? Why is he in this list? Because he's been limited.

Oh, the entire week through practice. So it's just something that, to watch the, what? What is that face? That face is like, I just traded geo on one of my other leagues. Oh, I thought you were making the face. Like, Hill hasn't been practicing. No, no, no, no, you get credit. I was literally, that was the geo, bitter traded geo face. I think Hill should be fine, but he just, if he doesn't practice or is very limited again today, then there could be a problem. All right, so keep your eye on that.

I think he plays a little bit limited, though. But does he play a very limited role? Yes, he is limited in. Joy Bell is still on the roster. Does he play? Out. All right. Carlos Williams. Carlos Williams, the concussed Carlos Williams. What's the latest on him? What do we do? Who in the world do you start in Buffalo right now? So Carlos Williams concussion is still not practicing. No, he didn't practice today, Friday.

Booby Dixon. Shady's out. Shady, we believe, is out. Shady's out. Carlos Williams is almost definitely out then. If he hasn't been cleared by today, he's almost definitely out. They have two guys left named Boobie and Boom. Boom. Bairn is there. What is going on? And Boobie Dixon is still all banged up. I'm worried about the workload. And Jason made this point right before the show began.

Uh, they sure could use Fred Jackson up in Buffalo. What are you doing, Buffalo? Well, I mean, you know. That's a clown show. That's a very convenient argument at the moment. Thank you. Yeah, I like convenient arguments. When you have Carlos Williams performing at the level he did, they made the right decision with Carlos. Have you ever seen Fred Jackson injured? He's hurt right now. I know. Alshan Jeffrey, is he playing? Oh, actually, we didn't answer the question. So would you start Anthony Dixon?

If he goes, it's hard to trust him now with the injury. I liked him very much before. Can you start Charles Clay at running back? Well, Charles Clay is on this list, so we'll have to see if they can start him at tight end. Ah, he's all right. All right, Al-Shon Jeffrey, do you expect him to miss a fourth consecutive game? Yes. Not sounding good. Yeah. All right. Alan Hearns. I think he plays. In. I think this was in or out. It is. Michael Crabtree. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you, Mike. I'm very angry over here. Crabtree, in. Eddie Royal. In. Stevie Johnson. Out. Out. Sammy Watkins. Out. Deshawn Jackson. Out. Out. Devantay Adams. Out. Charles Clay. In. In. Please, in. Vernon Davis. In. And great. And delightful.

And I disagree. We were disagree. So we were disagreeing. And the last couple weeks, I have made you a tight-in top-10 bet. So will you take Vernon Davis top? Yeah. Water bet. I understand the argument behind liking Vernon Davis this week with the tight-end defense for the Giants. What I think you will realize quickly is that just because Vernon Davis is playing doesn't mean he's going to be the only guy catching the past.

passes out of the backfield, or I mean, sorry, out of the tight-in spot. I think Garrett Seleck's still going to be involved. Vance McDonald will get snaps. It's just not going to be a volume thing. I'm not worried about him. He will not be top-10. I believe you have lost the last two tight-in water bets. Well, that's because I made the stupid decision to make the bet from your position. Hold on. It's hard to be top-10. I'm pulling up the tight-end numbers here. No, thank you. Yeah.