Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 2 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

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So game one on Thursday. Broncos at Chiefs. Oh, my goodness. Today's Thursday. That's tonight. Yeah. Yeah, buddy. Oh, this is fantastic. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the week. Yeah. Remember we said the average show Jason falls asleep about one time?

I just got back up. I just am surprised you eat Chipotle this early. I'm calling it now, this Thursday night football game, is going to stink. Really? Yeah, I'm sad about that. I love both these teams. I've got a lot of guys on both of these teams, but I want offense, and I don't think we're going to see it on a short week. My all defense league, I've got these both these guys starting. How are you guys feeling? How's your comfort level with Peyton Manning? I'm fine with them. Really? Yeah, I'm fine with them tonight.

I expect a bounce back game for them. I believe they're getting like three points in Vegas, and I think that they will cover that, and I think that they will have a very good game tonight. I think it will be efficient. I think Peyton will have two to three touchdowns. You think the Broncos will cover and beat that. Yeah, I think the Broncos plus the points is fine. Okay, so let's try and run some hypotheticals. Peyton Manning or Carson Palmer.

I would take, I think I was asked this question multiple times, and I think I said that I don't have the Cajonis to sit Peyton tonight. Okay, Peyton Manning or Philip Rivers? Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning or Matthew Stafford. Peyton Manning. Okay. Yeah, I'm okay with Peyton tonight. I think that Denver wins the game.

And that's what it just comes down to. I just think a bounce back game. They weren't happy with their offensive production. Nobody was. And I think they come back and they have a better game tonight. That being said, they need to protect him. And they couldn't do it last week. Yeah. And this is going to be, I think, a harder time to protect them in Kansas City with a faster D-line. There's a reason they're an underdog tonight. So let's talk about the wide receivers. Jeremy McClough, he's a little banged up. Mm-hmm.

Do you guys have any thoughts on Macklin this week? I think Macklin's going to have a tough goal of it. The DBs for the Broncos. I mean, it's funny to just focus on defenses, but both the Chiefs and the Broncos have spectacular defenses. The DBs on the Broncos are the truth. Macklin is going to have a hard time, and Alex Smith is the ultimate in-risk aversion quarterbacks. If he sees a guy who is not wide open, he's not going to throw him the ball. He's not...

a big fan of the 50-50 balls. So unless they get Macklin those bubble screens and the quick touches where Macklin's able to make it happen on his own, I see another similar output to week one for Maclin. He didn't have a bad week one. No, it was. But you're saying it's not going to be anything special. Right. He's not going to lose you the week. Would you take him over Sanders this week? I would still take Sanders. Emmanuel should have a good game. This week. Do you want to make a bet on that?

Yeah, I'll take that. I'll take Emmanuel Sanders versus Jeremy McClick. Are you in Mike or no? Yep. Waterbed. I can't pass up an opportunity to bet against Jeremy Macon. I was going to say, it really didn't make any sense for me to do that. I just got done talking about how I thought Peyton would be fine tonight, and we proceed to I bet on Macklin, because I just got to bet on Macklin once a week. Yeah, well, here it is, and you get to get wet next week. Actually, tomorrow. How many times have I gotten wet so far this year during the regular season?

All of us zero because we still have to pay the Piper. Thank you, Mike. Okay. Well, you guys have lost all your bets. I've won mine. We've lost all of our bets? Yep. I think so. That you've made so far this way. Incorrect. So, Demarius Thomas, how are you guys feeling with him? I think he's fine. I agree. There's no way I'm sitting. So let's talk about some of the guys that might be more 50-50. Are you off of...

Owen Daniels as a sleeper because of week one or are you just, do you need to wait and see if you, I mean, there are other options out there. I would wait probably. Peyton Manning has not looked good under pressure and he showed last year and through week one that, you know, Emmanuel Sanders is one of his absolute safety valve quick guys. And if the pass rush is coming quick, which I expect it to be coming tonight, then Emmanuel Sanders is going to get peppered with some of those short targets. So. So.

Not Owen Daniels. We got to move on to the next matchup, but I will say this. The Broncos only gave up 100 yards through the air last week. So if you're talking about the Alex Smith coming down to Earth, that is a very good stat to pay attention to. So the second game I want to talk about is going to be a, what I think is probably another defensive-oriented game. The Patriots at the Bills in Buffalo, you know, Rex Ryan finds a way against the Patriots a lot of the time. These games are generally...

minus the butt fumble. They're not, they're been really close. And the bills have a stout defense. Mike would call it the truth. The truth. And so Tom Brady, what do you think of him this week? I mean, I am very low on him. I agree. I am very low. I think Tom Brady for me is a matchup dependent guy. He always, always has the...

The Gronk option. So it doesn't shock me whenever Brady has a good type of game where he could have a poor yardage game and still end up with three touchdowns to Grunkowski. But what you're reading about the bills, did you guys read the note that they made triple team Grunkowski? Yeah. Yeah, where he said if they don't have King Kong to play defense, they're not one-on-wanting him. Yeah. And that to me is honestly is the key.

is if you can shut down Gronkowski, I will give up those little nickel-dime things to Edelman and Amadola, where they work great, but they work because they start sucking you up. If you just give those up and play towards those short slants and everything, I just don't think you can sustain that the entire game with drives. It's too easy to screw something up one time and be hosed and get a second and long, and then you're in trouble. Yeah.

What's amazing about a guy like Grancowski and the other person I put in that category based on last week is Julio Jones. It kind of takes one mistake to ruin the game from that perspective. They're that talented where it's not necessarily, you could play Granc great for 95% of the time, but that other 5% is three or four plays that could end your game.

And that's just the amazing thing about a talent like that is that, you know, one time you have a miscommunication, one time a guy doesn't come across the field. And that's why, you know, you should be confident starting Grankowski this week, regardless of the defense. Every week. I mean, Dwayne Allen scored on the awesome bills last week. So Grunk getting in there, you know, is realistic. Another guy I almost went with for my, who's going to come.

way down to earth is Tyrod Taylor this week. And solely because there's tape on him now, and I'm a huge Belichick believer. And I think that week two, Belichick has the ability to scheme Tyrod Taylor out to confuse him, to bottle him up. So I don't like him this week. I do like him going forward. Critical question for the game. Will Sammy Watkins catch his first pass of the season? Yes. Okay. And another critical question.

Is this a Dionne Lewis game, or is this a LaGarrett Blunt game? This is a LaGarrett Blunt game. If you tell me who to start, I am starting Legerat Blunt this week. I think this is a Dionne Lewis game, and no, I'm not going to make any water bets here, because I don't really care about either of these, but I think that... You can only get so wet on a week on a week. Don't you have a bet with Percy Harvin catching a bunch of passes, so you're going to... You've got a wet week coming up here, Andy. But... We'll see. Willie! Um...

Now I forget what we were. I distracted you. Dionne Lewis is going to have, because they're going to be doing those short little tiny passes over and over in this game because the run D is so good. I don't think Garrett Blunt's going to do well against the bill's front. And we will see how it turns out. I agree. I'm more on Lewis than.

Then blunt. All right, the Texans at my top defense of the week, the Carolina Panthers. When Ryan Mallet gets to come out for his first start against a wonderful defense, I want that defense. Because Ryan Mallis going to make a mistake. The same way Brian Hoyer makes a mistake. And so from the quarterback position, I don't really like anybody in this game. I mean, the Texans are a stout defensive front. Cam Newton.

did run the ball a lot last week. So if you're in a league that really four-point touchdown league rewards the running game, he had 14 attempts at rushes last week, which is a ton for a quarterback. So you've got to be excited about that going forward, but not necessarily this game. What do we think about Alfred Blue and John Stewart? I don't like either of them because I like both defenses. I don't think either running game right now, as far as strictly run games, are doing well, are elite enough to go against...

the opposite defense. I don't like any offensive player on any side of either ball except for DeAndre Hopkins, who I do think can be, you know, if Carolina has one weakness, they've got a little bit slower safeties. So a fast, deep guy can get past, and I think that Mallet has a better arm than Hoyer for the deep ball. So in that sense, I think that maybe Hopkins could break a long one, and that's it. Let me throw a name out here we have not mentioned yet that is worth throwing out.

Do you know how I'm going to say, Mike? I'm not sure. I've got one guess. Is it nasty? It's nasty. Nasty. Nate Washington, he had a game last week. He had an okay game last week. Do you have any thoughts on Nate? I mean, maybe this is not the time to flex him out, but should he be owned or not? I would, I'm still giving it some time. Nasty Nate has, he's been a kind of a lifelong, just. This guy. He is a gross fantasy option that you're never happy about, and he still gets some things done. I'm not.

I'm not flexing him at this point. But like Jason, you're not sitting Hopkins. What I really want to see out of this game is that I want someone from the media from the press has to be on the sideline. And I want Bill O'Brien to announce a changing of starting quarterback every three plays. Every three plays. We got a new starting quarterback. Cordyback. That one's going to hit Twitter. You've never heard Bill O'Brien talk? A cordyback? A cordyback?

Is that from hard knocks? Listen, guys, you're two of my best cordybacks. One of you starting this week. Every time they brought them all in there, too, it was like Tom Savage is just sitting in the back of the room going, oh, I'm not the guy. I heard Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien prefers cordy Roy pants. Does he? Wow. Wow. Sometimes the best way out of a hole is you just keep going straight down. Yeah, come out the other side. That is the quarterback position for Houston.