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

Well put. All right. The Buccaneers at the Saints. I'm going to... I think this is going to be a weekly thing for me. This is my... You're going to laugh your face off. Upset alert? This is... Last week, we said Miami, Washington, and I was close. What?

This game's going to be closer than you think it is. No way. I'm telling you, the Buccaneers at Saints is going to be closer than you think it is. And it is going to be one part bounceback for Winston, one part Mike Evans, one part Doug Martin having success against the defensive front in New Orleans. I'm just telling you, I'm picking it out of him. Jason is writhing and rolling, and I've never seen him look more uncomfortable even after his casarito from Chipotle. That's what I was going to say. Oh, man, I just don't.

I do not see it at all. I'm not saying that Bucks are going to win this game. I'm saying that you're going to be surprised with how close it is. I think the Saints are a way better team than the Titans, and the Titans demoralized Tampa Bay in Tampa Bay. Just get ready. I think it was a couple plays from the Titans that where Winston just wasn't able to bounce back. And this gives me a great idea for a new segment. A new segment is called Andy's Almost Upset of the Week. Yes. I love it. Write it down.

Yeah, I will. But here's what I will say. Andy's prediction does not surprise me at all. I think the Buccaneers have a much better chance, as long as Winston doesn't come out and pick six right away. Because I think Winston just doesn't have the, he doesn't have the mental approach right now to bounce back from a mistake like that. But we saw the Saints secondary is just... 307 yards giving up.

It's a pass. 120 on the ground last week. Winston is not Carson Palmer. But, I mean, if he gets Mike Evans back, you have so many tall options that Winston could turn around and throw a over-the-head pass. And there's a probability that Evans or Jackson should be able to come down with it against that secondary. It's just a feeling. I like the segment idea. We'll get that made up. I like it.

because they probably won't win, but I think it'll be close. All right, Titans at the Browns. I guess we didn't really even linger on that last matchup at all. That was kind of my fault. Yeah, well, that's, so Drew Brie is my number one quarterback this week. I love him. And so Ingram is a start. Is there, what are your feelings on Safarian Jenkins? I sit him this week if I have a better option. I go read over him. I go Eifford over him, obviously. I take other options. I just think.

You know, it's hard to predict touchdowns. This is like, who's the tight-in that flashed a couple years ago for Jacksonville? Mercedes-Louis? Yeah, I mean, that's how I compare the situation to, where Lewis could have a couple touchdowns in a game, and then it's just, it's like Nate Washington. You don't really want to roll them out there because you haven't seen enough, and you're rolling the dice. That's how I feel about.

Jenkins right now. He's fine as a flyer. And how about Douglas, Martin, who when you watch the tape against the Titans, he actually looked okay. I agree. He looked fine. I've told people to start him this week. The game flow is what took Martin out. So are you starting him? Martin? I am starting Martin. Yes. How confident are you in Martin? Let me see where I have him ranked. Let me pull up some guys. Okay. Doug Martin, Chris Johnson. Doug Martin. Doug Martin, Rashad Jennings.

Uh, let me see where I have them rank because I don't want to be insincere with this. Um, I do not, I like Rashad Jennings this week. Okay. But so, Doug Martin, I have, uh, I have him just behind. Those are back to back. So I have Rashad one spot ahead of Martin. Doug Martin, Tevin Coleman. Uh, Martin. Okay. Yep. Those are all in the same category, though.

I have them very, very close together. I've got Martin ahead of Jennings, and I've got everyone else ahead of Martin this week. Not because I dislike Martin. I just, I like Chris Johnson, for instance. Get ready for the almost upset of the week. Yeah. Titans at the Browns, Titans at the Browns, Marriota. I think this is a great matchup for Marriota. I don't think there was enough tape.

on Marriota to really scheme him out. That's kind of what I'm begging on. You've heard me say a lot. I think that... Wait, you don't think there is or do you think there is? I don't think there is because, I mean, he didn't... Poor Tyrod Taylor had enough tape on him. Well, he played four quarters. Mariotta didn't. Yeah, but they threw it about the same. I think Taylor had 19 attempts. Yeah, I guess I just think the way that the game went in Tampa Bay allowed...

uh, Mariotta to not have to show much, even though he threw four touchdowns and his 16, uh, passes. So, I,

I believe, I don't think Marriota is going to be great. Well, he's your start of the week. He is my start of the week. I agree that he's going to be good. I don't have him with crazy stats, but you're going up. Ryan Fitzpatrick had a great week against this Cleveland defense. And I don't think that there's a single solitary, you know, Kindlewright might be the number one. But there's not a superstar here that Hayden's going to lock down and take your offense out. So I think that this matchup is good for Marietta. Isaiah Crowell or Duke Johnson.

I'm still flying with the crow. I will say this. I sent out Duke Johnson offers in all my leagues this week. I agree. I want to have Duke on my bench. All right. Bishop Sanky had a good week last week. We love Bishop Sanky, right? He's like our favorite player. Sanky's actually surprisingly high, and he's been adjusted down if you're looking at the rankings right now. He was too high. But his game was, it was that dirty.

dirty fantasy production where it was, it was higher than it really should have been. I haven't at 30 this week. I don't like him. Yeah, I did. I did. 30. 30. Okay. We had Marriota is the start of the week. Where does that put Johnny Mansell? The fart of the week? I was going to go there, but I'm much more mature than you. So I am not. He says, I was going to go there? Yeah, when you don't. See,

maturity means you think things that are immature and then just don't say them. That's stupid. Right, right. All right. Delaney Walker looks banged up. Anybody else that you care about this game or can I move on to the Cardinals where there should be a lot more fireworks? Well, we should actually go back to the Chargers bangles because you skipped them. I did? You sure did. Where? Oh, okay. All right. All right. You're right. Thank you for pointing that out. Chargers bangles, lots of fantasy relevant, not elephant.

Relevant players there. Philip Rivers, Andy Dalton. Did you guys hear the Andy Dalton pep up speech? No. I believe the tweet said he could not motivate me to eat a sandwich. It was not impressive. Wow. I'm making a note to look that up. It was like, all right, guys, let's go out there. Let's play hard. That's what they always preach. Playmakers on three. One, two, three. Playmakers! And that's how a ginger does it.

Oh, come on now. Oh, Jason. I'm sorry all my lovely redheads out there. Oh, my goodness. My brother-in-law's a wonderful ginger. Sometimes the best way out of a hole is to continue to dig down. Come out the other side. I like Philip Rivers this week. I know the Bengals are a tough defense, but Rivers is the starts hot, man. And if he's...

If he's going to keep going like he did last week and last season where he came firing out the gates, I'm still, I still want to play Rivers. I think Keenan Allen comes down, but he still has the weapons. I love Stevie Johnson. Stevie Johnson is that sneaky guy who is, he's not going to get as many targets as Keenan Allen, but he just, his routes, man. Watch Stevie Johnson play, and you have no idea how people cover him.

Well, they really can't. They never have been able to. It's like... But it's hard. You have to be on the same page with them as a quarterback because of the fact he's herky jerky. Yeah. Have you ever had one of those super bouncy balls that you get out of the quarter machine at the grocery store and you smash it on the ground? And then it starts getting this weird spin and it just...

rockets up a different direction. That's kind of Stevie Johnson. You're really not sure which way he's going to go. I agree. All right. So, Jason, I have a question for you because you own both of these guys. You have a lot of stock in Woodhead. Now, Gordon last week had an okay week. He looked good on the eyes to me. Easy on the eyes. He fumbled, and he only took, I believe, three snaps after the fumble and was benched for part of the third quarter as punishment for it. Take that, Melvin Gordon. Yeah. So you got to learn your lesson.

You know, Mike is a believer in that. Yeah, right. Ridgulous. So to me, I'm starting Gordon over Woodhead this week. It is, and it's not close to me. It's just my conviction on the running back position. I'm probably alone. So tell me, what are your thoughts on both of them? Production-wise, Woodhead scored twice. He has been, a news report came out yesterday. He is the guy in the goal line.

He is all the goal line work in practice. So I'm counterpointing. In practice? Yes, in practice. I had not read that. Yeah, me either. And that surprises me and probably changes my opinion. I just went and looked where they're at my rankings. I'm not terribly high on either guy this week. I've got them 27 and 28. They're literally next to each other. Yeah, because of the Bengals. I don't think you're going to have short.

passes for Woodhead that are very valuable. I don't think you're going to have runs up the middle for Gordon that are very valuable. It's just a bad matchup this week for him. I think that Philip Rivers is going to keep going and doing what he does. For me, I think with that news, I would probably put Woodhead a little bit above Gordon for this game specifically. But I...

I think this is going to be a tight-in game because I feel like... Sounds good to me as an Eifford owner. Yeah, well, I think both Eifer and I actually like Green this week for San Diego. La Darius Green? Yeah, Lederius Green. I like A.J. Green, too. I'm a little bit more down on A.J. Green this week. That's our biggest disparity. Yeah, because I have him at number two at wide receiver. You have them at 14, and he's kind of my... A.J. Green gets his. It's kind of my mentality with him. The question for A.J. Green would be,

it more is reliant on what happened to Calvin Johnson? Was Calvin Johnson taken out of the game by San Diego? Or was he taken out by the Fantasy Reaper or Father Time? I don't, but it wasn't, in my opinion, it wasn't just Calvin Johnson. It was also Golden Tate. San Diego has a really good past defense. And so I think that, you know, that's where I think the tight ends. You know, you saw Eric Ebron kind of get loose. Right.

But for me, I'm not huge on AJ. I mean, I've got him 14. So he's a high-end wide receiver, too. I think he's okay. I like Woodhead. I'm just throwing that out there. We've got to get through these three games here because we have our starts of the week. We still have to get to on the show. So let's run through these quick. Let's hit the highlights. Make sure we don't miss anything. But the Cardinals at the Bears, this should be of the general consensus, I believe, between us is that the Cardinals' fantasy relevant players have a good opportunity here, especially Carson Palmer. A lot of people considering signing and starting in.

Yes, I'm starting Palmer, especially over Cutler, but if you don't like your one option, I like Palmer this week. For running backs, Chris Johnson is probably the guy to go in standard. But if any kind of points for catching, half point or full point, I have David Johnson higher. David Johnson. I love that everybody said that like when he came in the game, there were so many people out there who sang the song out loud. I just want an announcer to do it. That's all I'm looking for.

Now coming in, running back. David Johnson. All right. Hey, I got another prediction for you guys. Alshan Jeffrey will be top five in targets this week. I have another prediction for you. Alshan Jeffrey is going to get Patrick Peterson. Yeah, he might get the targets, but I don't think it's going to be. What, are you on board now? You believe in the Patrick? Patrick Peterson devastated Brandon Cooks last week. I was shocked as I'm sure most people were, but...

Maybe the health really was the problem last year. Hard to stop really tall guys, though. Brandon Cooks is a different matchup for him. I agree. You know what else is hard to stop, Andy? Diabetes. And that's what Patrick Peterson had to deal with last year. And he's got in control. And my wife is a diabetic. So how dare you, Andy? Discount diabetes. Oh.