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

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We're back again. Hey, boys. Hey, boy. A lot of fun football yesterday. If you're a Cardinal fan, you had a good afternoon. If you're a Colin Kaepernick fan, you didn't. There was a reason he was my start of the week last week and not this past week. If you started Kaepernick, you enjoyed two pick sixes within the first five plays or something like that. Yep. That was good. That was really good. If you're a Barnridge fan...

All those Barnridge fans out there. There was some DFS Barnage. Shout out to Chris Meaney. He said it on the show here on Friday. Start him in DFS and, man. You start all tight ends against the Oakland Raiders. Apparently. I don't care if your grandmother was recently signed to an NFL team and she's going to play tight end. If they're playing against the Raiders, you play your grandpa. Apparently, that's what you do. Who do the Raiders play? Look up who the Raiders play next week while like.

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And, of course, you can join us on jointhefoot.com. That is our fantasy football community. We have almost 600 listeners on there answering questions, questions, sharing things about their team, trade offers, things like that, waiver wire. We're going to be talking a lot of waiver wire this week. The Oakland Raiders play the Chicago Martellus Bennett's. Hey, good start next week. Just ride that train, right? Ride that Jimmy Clausen train. That's the ultimate test.

is if Jimmy Claussen and Martellus Bennett can put up tight-in points, then anybody can do it. What tirade were you going on about Fox? Right before the show? Oh, John Fox? Yeah, right before the show. Oh, the puntosaurus? Good grief. Puntasaurus. It was the second half. They were down, I think, two scores, and they had done nothing all day on offense. They finally got into plus territory. It was fourth and one, and they punt. Gross.

Cowards. I said that game was probably going to be a shutout. I didn't know Fox was working on it, too. I just, these, and Kubiak last night with his, oh, I'm going to kick a 60-yard field goal. No, I'm going to take a delay game and punt, even though I'm in plus territory and it's fourth and short. You're not happy with these old school coaches. I just, I do not get it that you have, you have that little faith of your team that, oh, we can't get a yard. I want to say hi to everybody who is watching the show on YouTube.

Click that subscribe button. Leave us some comments. We're also on the Fantasy Sports Network. So hello to everybody watching on the Fantasy Sports Network. So quick question of the day. What do you do with Steve Smith, the ageless wonder? Because man, did he have another game?

He just, he basically repeated last week, but he threw in two touchdowns. And he didn't do it in a way that is lucky or, you know, scheme dependent. You know, he caught a screen and threw off two guys and then beast-moded his way as an old man strength. That's what it was. Yeah, he's got that dead strength. He's like Bolden in a lot of ways where he just kind of out-muscles you at all times and then yells at you after the catch. So as far as what you do, you know, we had said this.

before the season, and history doesn't always repeat itself, but I am still of the mindset personally that he's going to continue strong for another couple of weeks, and then he's going to tire out. I think he's going to keep going. We saw it last year. Barshot Perryman re-injured himself in warm-ups. Did he really? Yeah, so he's going to probably miss more time, if not. I mean, who knows when he's back. I...

There is a necessity for Flacco and the Ravens that wasn't even there last year with Tori Smith. And that's the difference to me. And because history hasn't done it many, many, many years with Steve Smith, I just think, you know, him tiring out last year, he still had productive games at times. So what you do with Steve Smith is cartwheels. Exactly. All right. That's a great, yeah. And speaking of old man strength, did you guys know that the second he put senior into his name, he added 50 pounds to his bench? Yeah.

Yeah, sit more. Yeah, well, it worked out for him. So let's go ahead and let's get into the rewind. Weekly rewind. All right, it was a, it was kind of a weird week. We had a lot of humongous games from wide receivers that went out and just exploded AJ Green, Julio Jones, Steve Smith, like we talked about. Keenan Allen had a monster game. We also had some injuries. We had some injuries we need to talk about. So the big one, the big scare, and still a significant problem for fantasy owners is,

Big Ben Rothesberger went down. Now, there wasn't a flag on the play. That is coming under a lot of scrutiny because it should have been called, but regardless, you're hurt, you're hurt. So he goes off the field with what a lot of people thought was probably a season-ending injury, gets carted off. What is the latest on Big Ben's knee? Sprained MCL. The ACL is intact. There is no timetable, though, for...

His return from what I'm reading from my doctor friends, they're talking about six weeks is the probable return. Yeah, I saw that the bone bruises is actually the bigger concern than the sprain because of how significant that is. Yeah, and that's, man, what do you do now with your Steelers' skill players? I mean, I got Martavis Bryant questions instantly. I think LaShawn McCoy, or not LaShawn McCoy. Leveon Bell goes up.

Or the same. Levion Bell is the guy I'm the least worried about. The guy I'm the most worried about is Antonio Brown. I'm not worried about him in any kind of... He's still going to be great. He's going to be the number one target and get his. But I think he's going to take a dip from these other worldly numbers he's been putting up. I mean, I think in like the first half... Before Big Ben went down, he almost had 100 yards. It was like he was on fire with him. There's just a rapport you can't repeat. Exactly. So...

I think all of those guys, all the wide receivers take a little bit of dip and you get a little fantasy lull here other than Levi-on-Bel who I think is going to be great. I don't think you can be as excited about Martavis coming back into the fold with Vic. So is this a guy that you trade for or trade? Who? Martavis Bryant. Do you try to...

Get value for him right now and trade him. I think everybody knows what's going on. So I don't think you're going to get the value that you need. So it's probably a hold situation because if you go try to trade Martavis right now. Well, do you trade for him is what I'm saying then? Oh. If people are down on his value. No, I probably don't. Because by the time he's relevant again, six weeks, a big bend from now, you're talking, I don't know. Maybe. He could still be relevant. We don't know. But it's not Antonio Brown coming back either. You know, he has to come back and have big games, and I just don't know.

A couple of really annoying guys. Chris Ivory, man. You screwed me, bro. He screwed a lot of people. He screwed me as well. Or do I blame Todd Bowles for not saying, Chris Ivory's just going to be our emergency back today? Because that's what happened. He was off on the sideline with his helmet off as an emergency back. And I guess they just didn't need to lace up anybody else. They seemed like they could have used him a lot. When that game got close.

Unless I was that hurt. If you survive, though, you're happy because now Ivory can come back and hopefully be healthy the rest of the year, or at least healthier, because he's played well when he's healthy. So a big bummer there. I started Eifert and Ivory in my like flex and tight-in spot. And I faced Jason in one of our leagues, and he had like Greg Olson and Dionne Lewis. So he outscored me like 45 to nothing in those spots, and I lost. So.

Vernon Davis out with a knee injury. I don't know how many people were starting him. Shady has a hammy. We know this. Or half a hammy. I don't know what's going on. He was basically on the sideline on the bike and saved kind of his fantasy day with one reception for a touchdown. What are we doing with Carlos Williams? Because I have a feeling Carlos could get a ton of work next week. You're putting Carlos Williams on your bench immediately.

But are you starting him? If Shady's out, you're starting him. Oh, yes. 100%. You start him with all confidence. 10 for one 10 and two touchdown? Or one touchdown? If Shady's out, you start him over every questionable good guy, in my opinion. You know, you talk about like the four sets. What do I do with four sets and Lamar Millers? If Shady's out, you put a guy like Carlos Williams in ahead of those guys.

I'm going to mention two other guys. Then I'm going to put Mike on the spot for a second. Marshawn Lynch went out with a hammy. He almost pulled to Chris Ivory. And then Jonathan Stewart went out for a second. So with those guys, I would expect to see a big cue next to their name for the entirety of the week because they're both going to miss practice time. I believe Carol said Lynch's injury did not seem severe. Nothing to be long-term worried about.

You don't like to see it, and the depth chart Assassin Strikes again. Well, dude, but I mean, Thomas Rawls, man, he looked okay. Yeah. He looked okay. He's definitely the long-term plan there. Yeah, I was going, that's exactly what I was thinking. When I was watching the game, it's like, well, they might have found Marshawn Lynch Part 2 and they'll let him go. So do you sign Rawls? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Especially if you're the Lynch owner. If Lynch is out, who would you rather start?

Rawls is the guy. Yeah, I agree. Even though I signed Fred Jackson, I'm sad to say it. And we're going to have Fred Jacks on the show. Yeah, we haven't announced it yet. Fred Jackson coming up. Way to go, Jason. On the 13th, probably. Jason's just, he's a breaking news kind of guy. He's like, oh, I got news. I'm going to tell everybody about the news. Hey, everybody. Fred Jackson's coming on. How about we talk about tomorrow? Who's coming on the show tomorrow? I think he's a Hall of Fame. Famer.

Running back? Marshall Falk. I've seen better. Oh, good. I'll tell him that. I want some leagues back in the day with Marshall Falk. There were a few players more versatile than Marshall Falk. A hundred reception guy. Amazing. So we'll have him on the show tomorrow. We'll be talking, kind of get his ideas on some teams and players that are standing out to him and talk about some fantasy as well. Mike, before we move on here to the stud muffins of the week, I want to talk to you about two guys that...