Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 11 Matchups, In-or-Out, Three-Headed Worm

Out of those guys, I, you know, I don't trust the Green Bay Packers' offense as a whole right now, but I do like what's happening with the Washington offensive line. So I think I would probably be willing to put in Samage. Yeah, I would go P. Ryan. Out of that group of three. But over mixing? Well, not against, I mean, against New Orleans, though, over mixing. I would not do that. I'd be playing mixing, then maybe, you know, is a toss-up between those other two. I need to move mixing down in my rankings. Okay.

On the other side, Brock Osweiler will be under center again. You could see some packs of the lynch in this game, depending on how the game flow goes. Or nice sideline shots, too. You'll see them. So I don't want to say three-headed monster, because that makes it sound like it's been good. But what do you call C.G, Anderson, Devante Booker, and Jamal? Three-headed worm? Three-headed worm? Just slithering and... Just in three pieces? Yeah. Like you cut a worm in threes, and then they just kind of wiggle? Yeah. Well, because...

If it's just one worm, if it was just CJ Anderson, we could see some good things happening. But it's a terrifying worm. I don't want to touch it. I will say this here. Exactly. Yeah. If you saw a worm with three heads. No, you don't want to touch it. You don't want to pick that up. Brooks, do you get in on that? I don't want to pick up or just a worm. Brooks is not a fisherman. Clearly. Let me ask about this. Good answer. Good answer. About this narrative. Do you think that the.

Cincinnati Bengals are going to be able to get out to a big lead against the Denver Broncos defense. Because I do not think so. I don't think they'll probably win this game. But my point is this, even with Brock Lesnar, goodness gracious. How did you did it again? Well, it's because, look, Brock Lesner is just so much, so, so much of a superior athlete. And so my brain gives him.

All of the value of Brock. He's the first chair, Brock in your head. He's the first chair, Brock. Exactly. Andy sees into my school. Yeah, I understand how you work. There was a band challenge. Right. And, you know, that jazz flute, Brock Lesnar plays a mean jazz flute. I will say, what? Yes. I will say, I'm fairly confident that Brock Lesnar would win in a fight. Yeah, for sure. But my, my point is that.

Even with Brock at quarterback, I believe that this game script will be close enough for C.J. Anderson to get use maybe into the third and fourth quarter, which would be incredible because he's always been great in the first half and then they can't really use him. The Bengals have been a decent run defense, but they're middle of the pack. They're not a top 10 type of defense. I think they're 18th against the running back. So if you are one of those C.J. Anderson owners where you never know whether to start him or sit him, last week,

We all knew to sit him. It was just a terrible matchup where you go, okay, the Eagles are going to be able to score, plus they're a great rushing defense. This week, I think you can start C.J. Anderson in that RB2-3 range. All right, we need to move on. The Patriots take on the Raiders. I'm excited about this one. This is the game in Mexico City. We've talked quite a bit about it. The Raiders are four and five. They're six and a half point underdogs in the quote-unquote home game. But what I like is that 53.5 point over under and the fantasy points that should be.

They should be prevalent. We expect a good game for fantasy owners. You know you're rolling out Tom Brady. You know that Gruncowski is getting the start. But when you sit down and you're making your start-sid decisions and you're staring down Dionne Lewis, James White, Rex Burkhead, why don't you, Mike, put those guys in your preferred order in that backfield? I would go Burkhead Lewis White. And just to chime in here, I would go Dionne Lewis.

Burkhead White. Okay. All right. And then Chris Hogan, we don't expect him to play. Brandon Cooks is really the viable option there. Danny Mandola, if you're in a PPR league and you need an emergency play, otherwise they don't have a lot of confidence in what's happening there with him right now. Yeah. Even in PPR, it's since there was this turn since week six, he just has not been getting involved and, I mean, playing sub 50% of the snaps.

So I don't think he's that strong of an option, even in a PPR. Marshaun Lynch takes on New England. He's been an up and down player. He did have the big multi-touchdown performance recently. Is he a solid RB2 to you guys in this game? Darkwa or Lynch? Yeah, I think in that situation... Yeah, is not an answer. In that situation, I would go lynch because there's going to be enough points scored here.

You know, the hometown crowd in Mexico City will be for Oakland. And, you know, if I had to peg one of those two to get in the end zone, I would probably put the odds in Marshall and Lynch's favor. Latavius Murray, we talked to about him yesterday. Would you rather start Murray or Lynch? I would like Latavius Murray. I mean, he's my start of the week this week. Wow. No, do you like him or do you? I would start. Do you like love. Oh, love Latavius Murray. Going back in the art.

Going back to the archives. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to get a lay of the land with Lynch. Crabtree and Cooper, their must starts in this game. I think both can be heavily involved. Derek Carr, I think he's a streamable option. We expect what we know will happen is that New England will score points. And that is a nice place to be in where at that point you're just hoping that the Raiders offense is functional. And you don't get yourself into a low time of possession battle there. Grankowski at the tight-in position just to...

Let you know where he's at. 73 yards a game. Best in the league. He's locked and loaded. And Jared Cook, that sneaky tight-in play 55.4 receiving yards per game, fourth best in the league. Patriots. He's keeping it up. Yeah, they'll give up some points to Jared Cook this week. Yeah, I agree with that too. Jared Cook is a good play. And I'll throw more of a DFS play out there because I don't think you should pick him up and play them right now. But in this matchup with a lot of points.

If you look at the snap percentages, Philip Dorset, snap percentages were drastically up. They were well ahead of Danny Amandola's this last week. And, you know, that could be a sneaky stack, if you will, with a Philip Dorset, Brady. Just open for a bomb touchdown. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. All right. The Eagles, eight and one. Take on the Cowboys.

48 point over under in Dallas, three and a half point underdogs, Dallas is. And you've got Wants returning from the by Jai, Mike. You have them as your start of the week. Yeah, I love him. Alshan Jeffrey should be a strong start in this game. And then Zach Ertz will be healthy and back on the field. All the weapons there for Philadelphia. We talked at length about the Dallas offensive line situation. Where do you...

put Alfred Morris in the scheme of things this week at the running back position. It's a terrible week for Alfred Morris. I mean, it really is. I just talked about C.J. Anderson, you could see last week that the Eagles were going to be able to score. I expect the Eagles to win this game. Even with an MVP performance from DAC, I just don't see Cowboys coming up on top, which means it's going to be the game script to have Rod Smith more involved. Rod Smith out snapped Alfred Morris last week.

And while Alf is still the clear starter, he's the more valuable fantasy asset, in my opinion. He does not have the skill set to be on the field when they're down. And so you have the first part of the game where, okay, you're going to be able to run Alf, you're going to want to establish that run, except you're going up against what could be the best rushing defense in the league. Agreed. And so that's not valuable. And then later in the game, he's not going to be able to be on the field if the game script works out where Dallas is down.

I don't really, I mean, Alf's a startable flex type of player, but I think you have to significantly lower, you know, he's going to be in that RB 20 to 30 range for me. Yeah, I would say we basically have him at the RB 29 in our consensus. I'm at 30. You guys have them 28, 29. So he's like barely a three and not somebody you want to bank on to win you this week. The other question I have, Nelson Aguilar, are you confident in starting him in this game? He was the.

you know, the new hotness for a while. Right. I would actually be willing to play him. I mean, Dallas struggles against the wide receiver position. Yeah, I think you can play him, but the, that new hotness has faded a decent bit. Jason Witton's start of the week. He's my start of the week at the tight end position. I think Dax's going to need help. And Jason Witten is, he's calling, you call 911, he picks up.

Yeah, when Chas does not. For the last 20 years, when Chaz does not. Wait, guys. This hangs up the phone. This is the time. Chaz, why did you cut the phone line? I know what's happened six, seven times. Got to believe in me. I think what they should do is if Chas has to come in and start, every place should just be a run to the right, just a quarterback run to the right. That's what they did. Every run was to the right last week. It didn't work.

At this point, he should lay down horizontally and make the guy have to jump. And the guy at least has to leap over him. Yeah, that's a good idea. Right? I mean, that's a great idea for them. It just goes in like pony positions. Yes, there you go. Now he's got to go around or have a high jump. All right. We're giving tips to Chaz. Poor Chas. Start like a GoFund me. Oh, for Chaz. Well, for the left tackle and down? Yes. GoFund me. That would be rough, man.

You've had a bad game and you're browsing the internet and you stumble across. Help the Dallas left tackle position. Oh, that's mean. All right. Sorry, Brooks. I know you're a Dallas fan. He's over there shaking his head. Fun Sunday night game, fun Monday night game, the Falcons, take on the Seahawks. This game's in Seattle. Any of this kind of emerging from the crypt that the Atlanta offense has been doing? It might get the pause button pressed on it here. Maybe, but we have...

We got no Richard Sherman. Yeah, we don't know what to completely expect from Seattle because Richard Sherman, I believe this is the first game. He will miss. And it is. We've never seen Seattle in the past few years play without Richard Sherman. And he was a huge part of that defense because they knew that wherever he was, his side of the field, it's essentially locked down. And Cam Chancellor's not practicing. I mean, this, this Legion of Boom has.

It will not be booming. That's the best you can come up with. Hit me. I deserve it. I deserve it. Yeah. The new fail drop. I want to update a previous note here. A couple of reports about Leonard Fournett. As Brooks had astutely said, he didn't practice on Friday. So you've got two limited practices. Now he's got a D&P. You have to be prepared for him to mess. And then.

Excuse me, fellas. Florida's football insiders just reported that his ankle is still not right. He could be very limited if he plays this week against the Browns. I just need to go pick up Chris Ivory real quick. So these are things we need to pay very, very close attention to. And fab to. Yeah, exactly. So it seems like things are trending in the bad direction. So be aware of that. Guys, other storylines from this game.

Doug Baldwin, you're starting him. We talked about the running backs. Jimmy Graham's been great lately, a red zone threat. Is there anything else that we're looking at here? No, I don't think so. I mean, you, nothing, nothing else to look at. Paul Richardson, Tyler Lockett, you have to pick one. I would pick Paul Richardson. He's just been more involved. He's the first target, and I don't think that this is the type of defense that's going to be able to focus on Paul Richardson.

So I would pick him if I had to pick one. Mike, are you currently in our leagues attempting to sign Chris I. We both are. I said I needed a moment, fellas. Minds your business. See, we don't just analyze fantasy football. No. We play and we care. And we want to win. How much fab do I have left? This is a bad news. Hey, you know what we're going to do? We're going to move on from the matchups. And we're going to use Mike's distraction to benefit us as we play.

A little draft. A Daily Dose. Brought to you by Draft. Now, are we doing a... This is a regular old every player's in the pool. Yeah, we have the World Series of Fantasy taking place right now with draft. Everyone? Okay. And so we've got everybody in the pool. I was prepared for an expert league over here. Well, I thought I was dealing with experts, but okay. Apparently not. So we're looking at... I've got the first pick in this draft. Everybody on the board.

And if you haven't played draft before, you can go to draft.com slash ballers, join in with us. You pick five players. You do a draft, a round robin draft, and you face off week to week. And fortunately, if you don't want to have to start Leonard Fournett this week, you don't have to. You get a pick from the rest of the pool. Leonard Fornett has killed me two different weeks in draft. I shall not. I'm going to pick up Chris Ivory, just my spite pick. Nice. Nicely done.

Yeah, so I am about to go on the clock here with the number one pick this week. And I'm actually having a hard time. Having a hard time making a decision. Going to go with Kareem Hunt number one overall. That's where I was hoping you would not go. Those giants. I feel safe there. By the way, who lost last week? Was that? That was Jason. That was a little red phone net. Yeah, we know who lost. So, man, I'm debating between these wide receivers or just staying in the absolute.