Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 7 Keep/Trade/Cut, Pump the Brakes, Hype Check

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The fantasy footballers, Andy Mike and Jason, once again, right in your podcast app. I'm feeling, I'm feeling Flemmy today. Flemmy? Flemmy. That's, prepare yourself for a lot of throat clearing. Like a lot of, like a, yeah, a lot of that. I don't know how you did it, but you just gave that. You passed it to me. And now the second you're like, prepare yourself for a lot of throat clearing, I've never needed to clear my throat any harder than that.

Didn't you just have a smoothie? Certainly did. I think the smoothie is the culprit. Detective Andy's on the case. It's that or your waiver wire, your pickups. I mean. Yeah, they're a little snotty. A little awkward. Yeah. Okay. Yellow, green. We won't be focused on that today. Look, we have pumped the brakes on the show today, and we're going to do something fun. We're going to have a height check segment. We're going to look back.

at some of the hype from the offseason now that we're through six weeks of the NFL season and say, hey, what came true and what was just that? A bunch of hype and trash. So we're going to evaluate some of the preseason hype with a hype check. We've got keep trade cut. We've got mailbag. It's going to be a great one. Be sure to check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. There's a weekly snap count article that just went up by Marcus Meaney. It's a great one that comes out every week.

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Yes, we are pumping the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts this fine Wednesday, and I'm going to kick it off with Derek Henry. Ooh, I love it. I'm pumping the brakes on Derek Henry, and I'm going to, look, I love Rotow World and the news and updates, but I'm going to put them on blast this morning because yesterday they came out with this news blurb on Derek Henry, and the fact that he, quote, ran circles around DeMarco Murray.

That was the news story, right? He had 20 carries. Murray had 16 carries. And I thought it was asinine. Because other than the 72-yard jaunt at the end of the game when the Colts clearly weren't, they didn't care. As soon as they gave up. I mean, they care. But as soon as they gave up the first down, the game was over. Yeah. And so he runs it in. And everybody.

stops basically. They're trying to strip the ball after that. So if you take that 72 away, which I feel justified in doing for the run circles around argument, Derek Henry ran for a lower yard precarity than DeMarca Murray did in a game that DeMarca Murray was hobbled. Last year, every time Mike Gillisley ran a 45-yard touchdown in at the end of these games, we didn't say he was running circles around LaShawn McCoy. And the fact of the matter is, is yesterday Jason talked about it on the show. I'm not saying Derek Henry is not.

Talented. I'm not saying he might be in the rotation, but you're talking about a week removed from getting like 11 snaps to 49 snaps for DeMarco Murray. So if you're taking the stat line from this game and translating that into a start-sit decision where you're starting Henry over to Marco Murray because he, quote, ran circles around him, I think it's asinine. So for me, I pump the brakes on Derek Henry. I think we know what he is. He's a bruiser. He's going to make plays from time to time. But he's not the lead back in Tennessee. And it's a great week.

But what the coach came out, Malarkey said he liked the timeshare that they went with. Yeah, that's a bunch of malarkey. Ooh, I see what you did. He liked the time sure. This is not the first time we've heard that about what we want to see from Henry and Murray, right? This isn't not the first time we've heard we want this time share. I've been a big Derek Henry supporter.

over the course of the last two years. And when I was looking around for, you know, who I was going to pump the brakes on completely independently, I decided who I was going to pump the brakes on. I went to our show doc and Derek Henry was already taken because I do see there's going to be this world where it's like, oh, he's about to take over. He's about to become the guy. What? He's playing the Browns.

And I think it's a trap type of game. The Brown's run defense has been all right. And I don't think that he's going to end up with more carries than to Mark and Murray. I think that's an issue based on him being a little bit hobbled. He's a perfect candidate because the previous two weeks, six carries, then four carries. Then he gets this 19-carry game against Indianapolis when Marcus Marriota could not get out of the pocket, could not run. And they were obviously destroying the Indianapolis run defense. But like Jason said, I mean, Cleveland's run defense, it's the 12th.

best in the league against running backs. Now you're talking about a split situation with Murray and Henry. I think he's worthy of a... It's not that he's bad. It's worthy of a pump. I'm going to pump them brakes. Sure. Just a little tap on this. Just give it a tap. I don't know. The argument was presented with a full stomp. Yeah. I'm going to stop. I'm not a tip. All right. Who you got, Mike? I'm stomping the brakes because of Rotor World. Fair. I'm pumping the brakes on James Winston.

because I think that he's going to play. I think he will play through his AC sprain. He already has accuracy issues. And when you have a quarterback with a shoulder problem, his throwing shoulder, it's not going to be like a rookie of the year situation. No, no, the band. There is no funky butt loving happening in this situation. This is, this is James Winston. And he could be knocked out of the game quite easily.

So I am pumping the brakes on James because in a one quarterback league, I am not playing him. I will, I will stream in this week where it's, the streamers are pretty gross. I would rather play Tyrod Taylor than James Winston because of the extra risk of his injury. Andy Dalton against Pittsburgh. I would rather play Andy Dalton. Okay. There you go. Andy Dalton. All right. Let me ask you this. Full game. Let's say James doesn't play.

Are you, he's definitely pumping the brakes? No, would you stream Fitzpatrick? I mean, would a healthy Fitzpatrick be better than an injured James? That's kind of where I'm gauging your temperature. Yes. All right. Yeah. He looked. Because this is, yeah, he looked all right. And it's like I said, it's he already has accuracy problems and the risk of your quarterback, your quarterback, the, the big point score for your team being knocked out in the first quarter. I mean, that's devastating. Yeah, don't do it.

All right, I'm going to pump the brakes on a guy who I absolutely love, talked about this off season, last off season, and near and dear to our hearts in Arizona. It pains me to do it, but Larry Fitzgerald, I'm going to pump the brakes on, and here's why. Surprised. Yeah, I mean, I can't wait to hear this. I think that's why I'm pumping the brakes. People would be surprised. You're talking about a guy coming off of the new Adrian Peterson, Arizona Cardinals. Offensive player of the week. Offensive player of the week.

Larry, 10 receptions, 138 yards and a touchdown this last week. He's on fire. He's a Hall of Famer, so why would I pump the brakes? Larry Fitzgerald has very big home road splits over the last few years of his career. Last year, he had over a five-point difference in home road splits. And if you look at this year, three games at home, three games on the road. Flemmy, a little flimmy. Every game at home, a touchdown.

No touchdowns yet on the road. In fact, if you want to look at, I mean, it's too small sample size, but I'm still throwing the stat out there because it's crazy. You're talking about right now so far on the year he's averaging a PPR 25.6 points at home. Wow. 9.8 on the road. Well, he's going very far on the road all the way to London town. So, you know, this week. And then if you look at the matchup as well.

The matchup this week against the Los Angeles Rams, they've been the sixth best against the wide receiver position as far as fantasy points given up. And the only, you know, I tried to look at like, okay, what slot receivers have they faced that are good slot receivers? I mean, no one is Larry Fitzgerald. But Cole Beasley's a solid slot receiver. You know, when they faced the L.A. Rams, he was three for 17.

total in the game. And that was actually a game where they gave up a lot in the past game. So I'm not saying you can't start him or that you need to bench him. But I am saying he's much lower in my rankings. And I think you need to put his expectations nearer to where he's been on the road so far this year. All right. Larry Fitzgerald, Derek, Henry, James Winston, are the pump the brakes this week with O'Reilly Auto Parts, Better Parts, Better Prices. Every day. Let's get into the news.

News and notes from around the league. You can always follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers to stay up to date with what's going on in the fantasy football world. And with the fantasy footballers, Ezekiel Elliott has been granted another temporary restraining order. He will be allowed to play week seven. And the TRO is in place for, I believe, 14 days or until further legal action is taken. I believe this took place simply because the judge involved in the case.

is on vacation. And so he cannot rule. Classic. And so, look, the headline is he's playing this week. We'll be playing for two weeks because that. That is not necessarily. Yeah, I don't think he does. No, because it's until further legal action. Right. But I've heard that the court, that court case is not for two weeks. Okay. That's, that's very possible. Yeah, to be determined. So far, I know this thing has gone up and down sideways and there's no way to really predict what the courts are going to do.

But so far, since this initial ruling, it has played out as our first expectation that he would actually play for the San Francisco 49ers game, and then the ruling will come after that. And that's still what I expect to happen. It's all you need to know. Put them in your lineup. And if you are a McFadden or Morris Fab buyer, a waiver buyer, are you hanging on to them? Absolutely. I'm 100% holding. All right. Robert. If you have both.

and you needed to drop one to make some moves. Who would you be dropping? That's basically the, who do you think the handcuff is? Yeah. I'm still going to the Morris side. Yeah. I trust my eyeballs with what I saw from in preseason, regular season. I still lean on the Morris side as well. You're still on the McFadden. I don't blame you. I mean, I want to be on that side. I really do. Who knows? Robert Turbin, missing the remainder of the year. This is an upgrade for Marlon Mac. I was going to say, you know what that means?