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

we saw last week. He looked bad. With an eye test, with numbers, everything, he looked bad. But yesterday, it wasn't just successful. It wasn't Julio Jones going down on the one and he happens to score a touchdown. He looked good. And now I'm very confused on what to do with Freeman. 30 for 141 yards. Three touchdowns. The Falcons are 3-0.

They went into Dallas. They came from behind because obviously you saw Joey Randall had 14 for 87 and three touchdowns. The funniest. Three. The funniest stat on that, if you haven't heard of it yet, was that Joey Randall ran for, I think in his first three carries was 85 yards. Is that right? That is correct. And he finished 14 for 87. So in his next 11 carries, he got two yards.

So we're on a Kristen Michael watch 2015. You are. I was just going to say the same thing. Me and Jason are not. You're on a Kristen Michael. No, I'm saying people probably want an update from me. All right. Nope. No, go ahead. Go ahead. People want it. I was watching the start of the game, like, okay, we can move on from Michael. Randall's taking the job. He looks good on his first three carries. And then, so what was the really stat line of this? So.

His next 11 carries, he got two yards. And you're like, there was an adjustment by the defense. They were going to make Whedon win. I mean, Randall went out. But even if you put nine guys in the box, a capable running back on 11 carries should be able to get more than two yards with the best offensive line in football. I don't know. I don't overthink that part at all. But he had a great game. You have to count all of his runs. And I am. So I am, you can drop him.

Oh, it's finally happened. I wish I had some button for that. Legerrett Blunt, garbage time. You're going to see this in garbage time. 18 for 78, three touchdowns. Chris Johnson, 22 for 110 and two touchdowns, 150 total yards, had another pass catch for 40 yards. He kind of looked okay. He looked pretty darn good. And so did the O line opening up holes, and he used it and he ran. But it wasn't just the O line. Like when he caught that 40-yard pass, he had a nice cut near the out-of-bounds line.

Picking up another 20? Fantasy owners need to understand Andre Ellington is going to play next week. Chris Johnson's still going to be involved. David Johnson's still going to be involved. It's going to be a mess for fantasy. I don't think David Johnson is going to be involved hardly at all. That's what I gain from this little Chris Johnson experiment is that when Andre Ellington comes back, Andre is going to be the man.

And then David Johnson's going to be really a special teamer or need to get – I mean, he's not going to be startable. Passing downs here and there. Passing downs here and there. He still looked – David Johnson still looked all right to me. Oh, yeah. When he got the ball, he was good. Frank Gore had a good game, 14 for 86. Two touchdowns, one late in a comeback for the Colts. Thank goodness for Colts fans. Yeah. Because 0 and 3 with that team and what they were expecting would have been pretty devastating. But they came back to win. Mariotta led a game tying –

potential tying drive. I don't know. Did you guys see the two-point conversion? Yeah, classic Ken Wisenhunt. Handed it off to a guy whose name I honestly had never heard before who proceeded to, on the two-point conversion, run 16 yards backwards and tear his ACL. Yeah. Did he actually? No, I don't know if he tore it, but he was down on the field for a long time. He had to have torn it. Did you see the way that his... Riving. The way that his foot stayed in the ground and his body moved and his leg twisted and then a man hit it.

Ken Wizz and Hunt, terrible. Well, we're a little bitter. Don't make all the Tennessee fans sad. All right, Latavius Murray had a monster day, 26 for 139. And in touchdown, this is called you get all the carries and you get all the backfield catches. And actually, Latavius through the, about the first half of the game was awful. Awful. I think he had about 17 yards. So he exploded.

You have to buy into Latavius Murray. I love Latavis Murray. I've been telling a lot of friends of mine. How many bets do I have with Antavius Murray on the winning side right now? Oh, yeah. You're crushing it. Yeah. He's my favorite RB2 to have on any team because I think he's still...

He's limited from his... His upside because of the team as far as how many points they're going to be putting up every game. But even if they're in a bad matchup or if they're down, he's still the guy being used. He's a true bell cow and he's talented. So I love him as an RB tooth. There was a Roy Hulu. He got a catch. Did he really? He did. Oh, Roy Hulu. I know. The potential with your name, just get in there and perform so we can say it some more.

We got to move on to some other name next draft season. My goodness. All right, tight-ins had big games. Greg Olson. We told you. He's back. We told you don't bail out on Greg Olson. The target numbers were huge last week. Everybody's afraid of Greg Olson. Well, two touchdowns later in 100,000 yards. Three touchdowns if you count the one taken away by a penalty. I don't count that one.

Oh, you shouldn't, because he scored on about the next play. Okay, Gary. He scored on the same drive, and you wanted that one thrown in? No, just letting people know. Well, Charles Clay had a good game on seven targets. Clay Harbor had an okay game. Gary Barnage, we talked about it. Gary Barnage. Ten targets. Start your tight ends against the Raiders. Yes. All right, let's go ahead and talk about some not-so-grates. Poopped in his big boy pants. Well, we talked about...

The big boy, Jeremy Hill. And second straight week of poop in his pants, 12 for 21. Mike has Jeremy Hill and Justin Forsett as his running backs in our dynasty league. So Justin Forsett was 10 for 13? Yeah. Am I reading that right? That is correct. That's like Joyke Bellian. Oh, gross. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Joyc Bell has run after his seven-yard run in game, in his first game. He has run.

Four negative yards since then. Infinitely more touchdowns for Drake Bell than Justin Forset. Infinite. Infinity. That is an accurate statement. So how much of Justin Forset? Because he was on the field. He was the guy being used. How much of it was. It's not Gevorius. It's Lorenzo. The Bengals. A lot of it was the Bengals. You have to be very encouraged by the usage. I'd still trade for him.

Yeah, I would too. I'm not bailing out on Justin Fawcett. Like we reminded people a couple shows ago, Eddie Lacey, one of last year's top performers, started with three horrific games. So, last week, there was still plenty of season for Justin Fawcett to turn it around, and he's on the field. But let's set some expectations because you can say that, right, about Eddie Lacey. But...

They're completely different types of players, especially around the goal line. And now you have Talia Farrow, and you have Buck Allen involved. He's not alone. Like, set a fair touchdown expectation rest of the season for Justin Forset. Five? Would you over under on five touchdowns the rest of the season? I'll give him. Because if you go. That's a good number. I'll still take the over. Here's the thing, though. He has four catches in every single game. So he's being used in the passing game. I think he can improve. But he would.

But he was drafted as a one. Yeah. He was drafted as a two. In some leagues he was drafted as a one. More often he was drafted as a two. And I think that if you can steal him right now for something cheap and not have him be your one, if you can make him be your flex, he'll be great going forward for that, for that role as a flex option. I think a two is fine. He's fine with me as a two, but not a one. Jason's right. And a lot of leagues, I mean, he climbed really high.

in drafts. So let's, we, we, I didn't put him in because he was the Sunday night game, but let's not skip over my third running back, C.J. Anderson. Yeah, you had the trifecta of failure. Put that one in. Hey, I am going down with the ship. So just understand that. Yeah, you traded, uh, Jordan Reed and Danny Woodhead to get C.J. Anderson to take the, uh, and, um, there, the, the Broncos offense is still finding itself. If you noticed. And there was, uh, I think, uh,

Collinsworth had a nice rundown of the offensive line. Oh, it's a completely new unit. There's one guy. And we've talked about several times that an offensive line takes time for it to really get it going. So if you want to bail out on Anderson, go ahead. I'm not dropping him. I'm not trading him right now. That's an important thing. Do never ever drop these guys. If you want to get rid of them, go ahead and trade them for garbage.

but you never, ever drop these guys. Yeah, it's very wise to throw them in with somebody else in a two-for-one trade because the names still have value. In fact, on this show, I was going to ask you guys philosophically, like, the way that people go around, you know, this is the time of year you have to make decisions on names and no names. A lot of the times. You have to go out and say, hey, I'm going to start Matt Jones over Justin Forset, right? Or I'm going to go start Carlos Williams over Lamar Miller because of the matchups. And...

Do you guys ever kind of wince when you have to make those decisions? Yes. I mean, because it's hard to look at your lineup and say, boy, I'm really proud of this, but you're putting the better lineup out, right? Yep, yep, that's exactly right. And sometimes it's gross and it feels wrong to do, but whoever's putting up more points is more valuable on your team. And you just, here's the one thing that we always want to caution you is.

You can't chase what happened last week. So if a guy is low, that doesn't mean he's going to be low again next week. You've always got a question that, is he a buy low or is he sucking the rest of the year? AJ Green? Yeah, that's one of the biggest problems that people have that are new to fantasy. And I get those messages all the time too. A good instance is Andrew Luck. You know, it's like somebody will have a good week last week. Do you start him over Andrew Luck this week? And I'm like, I'm still starting Andrew Luck.

I'm not benching Andrew Luck. He's going to come around to those type of games. Jason last pooped in his big boy pants I want to talk to you about is Tyler Eifford. He had a gooser. He had one touchdown that was almost a touchdown, but it doesn't count because it wasn't a touchdown. So are you worried about Eifford? I am.

I am 100% not worried about Eiffurt in the least. And here's why. The Ravens were the perfect anti-Eiffert matchup. I said that last week. A lot of people that wrote in, they were trading and they were getting him. I said, just expect a terrible week from Eifert, but don't be worried because he's great. The Ravens...

are the best tight-end defending team because they can defend the tight-in and they can't defend the wide receivers. It makes it really, really easy to throw to wide receivers. Why would you throw to your tight-end when they're not guarding your wide receivers? And you saw AJ Green. AJ Green agrees with you. So Tyler Eifert, do not worry, do not sell. Please go by Tyler Eifert. I agree. I'm not worried about Eifert. My one hesitation, though, is Marvin Jones is starting to really show why he was a...

kind of a popular sleeper in this offseason. He has looked great. He's getting involved in the offense. He has looked very good. So that's just the. Eiffurt is why I liked him so much was because he was the second option. Marvin Jones or Travis Benjamin? Travis Benjamin. Because Travis Benjamin is the number one on his team. Marvin Jones is not. And I think that Marvin Jones had an especially great week because of the Ravens's bad DBs right now.

Yeah, that's tough because it's like, do you want to be in the driver's seat of a truck that's kind of broken down or do you want to be in the passenger seat of a nice offense? Yeah, I want to drive the ship in this case. Is Travis Benjamin a driver?

Well, you gave me two medial corrections. He needs those blocks on his feet to reach the pedal. Yeah, I mean, you're not telling me here. It's like the kid in Indiana Jones. Emmanuel Sanders as a number two. I'm not, you know, it's not a Ferrari there in Cincinnati. Hey, I just like what I've seen from Jones. Cincinnati offense, man, they are destroying. So, Chiefs and Packers, Monday night football game tonight. So we have Lacey and Adams. We expect them both to play.

I, yes, I think they're both going to play you. Trepidatiously start Lacey. Yes. We are, yeah, I've gotten lots of Lacey or starts. That's what I was about to ask you. Lacey got, he got bumped up to probable in the, this ridiculous rating system that the NFL has of questionable and probable. So you have to go with Lacey. I'm curious, I want to take a poll of our listeners on who they would start from that.