Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 3 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

are hurting you right now. And on the show live last week, you traded for C.J. Anderson. And you have a tattoo on your chest, or it's been rumored, of Jeremy Hill. So what are your concerns? I mean, what are your thoughts right now? Are you reeling? It is, it's pretty brutal right now. There's no denying that fact. So I'll go one at a time. With Anderson, the, the, why Anderson was so.

attractive to start was because he was on an offense with Peyton Manning, and Peyton Manning has had elite offenses in the past. The Denver Broncos offense right now, while they're fine, they're not anything remotely close to an elite option right now. And because defenses aren't worried about that, then C.J. Anderson is just he can't be that guy. And on top of that, and now he put the concussion, well, the

Almost concussion. He got crushed. I wonder if that was just a stinger, though, or something. Yeah. I had to have been because he came back in and he got cleared by doctors of some kind. And with Jeremy Hill, oh, man, less concerned just because when you break down their percentages, Cincinnati is still a running team. Gio's out snapping the crap out of Jeremy Hill right now. Here's a thing they're winning. That's the problem, right? They're winning, but the market.

always corrects itself. And Andy Dalton accounted for four touchdowns yesterday, and they're still a running team. Almost all of their touchdowns have been through the air. And I think the rushing touchdowns are still to come. I'm not selling Jeremy Hill yet. Because what can you even get for him? But I still have faith that he can get it going. Well, can I say something real quick? Absolutely. I agree with you.

But I also want this to be a reminder to people when we're in the offseason next year and we're talking about guys that had a good year. This is why we said everyone expects the repeat, you know, five point something I carry from Jeremy Hill and a monster season. And it's kind of hard to do that over and over again. And there's a reason why in our projections, even this group here who likes Jeremy Hill, we didn't put them at those same numbers because it's just, like you said, market correction goes to running backs, not doing the same thing every year too.

Yeah, but man, running backs have just been brutal. They've been very, and if you don't have AP right now. Yeah, well, and Charles has been good, too. And obviously Joseph Randall this is. There have been a lot of, Lamar Miller, a lot of guys, a lot of guys that have burned you this week. You know what else burns you?

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kind of the highlights of the week, the low lights of the week, go through these players, give you the fantasy perspective you need which guys to sign, which guys to keep starting, which guys to say, thank you very much, but move on. So let's do that right now. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right, are you guys ready for this? Yep. All right, Andy Dalton? Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton. Big week for Andy Dalton, big week for A.J. Green, though, two combined for, well, Dalton had 383 yards, but I think Green had about 217 of them.

I believe Andy Dalton was your start of the week. Was he? I couldn't remember if it was him or Cam Newton, but both had Monster Week. Either way! Yeah, I know we talked a lot about Dalton. I told about 500 people to start him when they gave me those like Dalton or Matthew Stavre? No, go Dalton. You know, so big weeks from Dalton, big week from Cam Newton, Tyrod Taylor.

Yeah. Monster Week. I believe Tyrod Taylor was your mic start of the week. Yeah, Derek Carr had another good week through the air in terms of yardage. In fact, the Raiders Brown's game produced a lot of yardage because McCown had two touchdowns and 341 yards. So if you rolled him out in Fandul, if you rolled him out in fantasy for some reason, you got a good game. So where are you guys at with Derek Carr? He's a streaming option and a good matchup. Okay, well, and I didn't think it was a great matchup.

Personally, going on the road against the Browns. I thought it was an okay matcha. Yeah, I mean, in a game that they're going to be competitive to win in is what I'm defining that as. Not necessarily like the best or worst defenses in the league, but where they're going to compete to win, I like Carr. I like Carr a lot. The reason I didn't think this was a good matchup was because I expected it to be total low-scoring game. I didn't expect to be a lot of yards being put up between these two types of teams. But in most other matchups, he should be...

airing it out. So I actually like Carr quite a bit as a streaming option. What do we think about Tyrod Taylor? Is he a quarterback one rest of season? Absolutely. At this point, moving forward, you have to play him. And it's just the same reason why Mike called, you know, his baseline of 40 yards. And he didn't even run yesterday. Right. Right. He didn't use that. But you, if he is having a hard time, you have that baseline he's going to fall back on. If he's not falling back on that baseline,

It's probably for a really good reason because he's having a great game. So either way, I think Tyrod Taylor is a startable piece and should be owned in every league. Okay, let's talk about wide receivers. We talked at length about Steve Smith. We got the rebound, the rubber band, Keenan Allen game. He's going to be brutal this year. You think this will be the pattern, or do you just think he had a bad week too? I...

I think it's going to be... Because I lean towards that thought. I think it's going to be hard to predict Keenan Allen, and his second touchdown was the ultimate garbage. It was the backup quarterback. The game was over, and they just got him an extra touchdown. So his game was, was, went from good to having an elite time. But I just, I, I have a difficult time thinking that Alan's going to do this every single week. Yeah, I'll bet you.

It's more often than not that he has a good game. He seems to me... I'm fine with that, but I just don't think it's going to be week to week. Let me ask you about a couple more guys that people want to know. They'll see the big stat lines on the waiver wire, and they want to know if they should go sign these guys and whether it's worth signing. So, Richard Matthews and Ruben Randall. I actually like Rashad Matthews. Yeah, I talked about. I was just laughing at how he scored one of his touchdowns. Oh, that was, but his role, his...

like rolling down the hill. So the play was we're already into the dolphins are getting blown out and Brian Tannenhill hawks a ball up in the air about five yards too short. Everyone has to stop. Everybody falls over, including Richard Matthews and the defenders. Matthews happens to catch the ball with a great catch and then proceeds to roll into the end zone. He doesn't get up and running. He just...

He casually rolled. That's how Jason plays wide down the hill. Yes. Yeah. Double stuff. Let me ask you a question on Rashad Matthews because another guy we need to talk about a little is Travis Benjamin. We have not been believers. He had another serviceable week. Didn't do a whole lot, but did get in the end zone yet again. And I said last week I'd much rather have Rashad Matthews on the waiver than Travis Benjamin. Both did all right. But where are you on Travis Benjamin going forward?

Probably the best option to start in Cleveland if you need to start a Cleveland option. I mean, that's not saying much. I think he should be on rosters. I do believe that. I said that last week. Would you start him? Give me some names. I mean. Would you start him or Stevie Johnson? That's a, jeez, perfect name. I'd probably go with Stevie Johnson. Yeah, I'm still going with Stevie. Philip Rivers had a horrible day.

I don't expect that to continue forever. Would you start him or Sammy Watkins or Percy Harvin right now while Sammy's injured? I'd probably go with, I'd probably go with Benjamin, I guess. I think I'll go with Percy. Yeah. I mean, it's any Minnesota wide receiver. Yeah, I'd start Benjamin, I think. Yeah. Benjamin's, you know, he's performing. You can't ignore that. You also can't expect him to have a final season total of 18 touchdowns. You know, that's not going to happen either.

There will be weeks that he will balance out. You know who's going to have 18 touchdowns? Larry Fitzgerald. Oh, my goodness. We should have mentioned him. Why is he not in this section right now? Because we try and put guys who aren't just straight up wide receiver ones. Yeah, but he's what we're talking about because people want to know, is this going to keep going?

Let me tell you, we're Cardinal fans. So we watch these games. We've seen Larry for years. We know how good of a receiver he is. We know the change that that offense has undergone. And we saw how bad he was with terrible quarterback play. They are making a concerted effort to make him a focal point of the offense. This is not an incidental thing. This is read number one is Larry Fitzgerald. Read number two is Larry Fitzgerald and then the rest of the guys. And they're getting him the ball in the red zone on purpose, even in games where they're blowing people out. This is almost...

You know, the Cardinals are still six points ahead of the Patriots on points scored for the season, which tells you that Ariens is taking a very Belichekian view to finishing these games. I loved when they went for it on fourth and one. We're up like 40 to 7. It was the right move to do. Unlike Gary Kubiak. The Coobes. Cubs, man. I think John Brown, while he's not putting up fantasy numbers, so fantasy players may not like this.

Part of Larry Fitzgerald's success is John Brown, is the threat of John Brown for other teams. There's another wide receiver you actually have to account for who could, if you take one playoff and you go single coverage against John Brown.

Carson Palmer's going to throw the ball up in the 50 yards in the air. And we saw the fantasy mystic over here. His dreams almost came true, but they bounced ever so gently off of John Brown's hands. My dreams went into John Brown's arms and then bounced out in the end zone. This was a good game from Palmer. It was a tough luck game for Palmer because he had multiple, like there were drives where he led them down the field with 90 yards of passing to the one where Chris Johnson ran the ball in.

That just happens. So, all right, let's talk about some running backs. We had just like no running back performances from guys you expect. And then boom from Devante Freeman and Joey Randall and some late. Legerrett Blunt, Chris Johnson. I mean, what are we reading here? Devante Freeman has now perplexed me because he looked good. Through the first two weeks, he looked like the Devante Freeman that.