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

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And we are back again. We are the fantasy footballers, and this is the fantasy footballers podcast. I'm Andy Holloway, joined by Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Hello. And Jason Moore. Hello. Looking forward to looking forward. Oh, I like that. Thanks. We have got a great show. I love the Thursday show. We have a fantasy forecast coming your way. We're going to talk about the first half of the games.

In week two, we also have starts of the week, my favorite segment of the entire week, where we deliver some, well, we'll have a little controversy on one of them today. But yeah, we'll deliver some starts that we really like for week two, which will help you out in your fantasy leagues as well as your DFS endeavors this weekend. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We post a lot of good information, not just about the show, but about...

fantasy football news and some vines of good plays and things like that. And you can find us on the web at the fantasy footballers.com. If you want to get involved in our fantasy football community, you can check out jointhefoot.com where almost 400 of you are now over 400 of you. Oh, really? Yep. True story. Well, there you go. So can't keep up. Vine has literally changed highlight plays.

where before you had to wait and maybe they're going to put the highlight up somewhere on NFL.com or something. But maybe you'll be able to, and now it's just instant on Twitter. You get the vines. Instant copyright infringement. Just available to you at any moment in time. We're also on the Fantasy Sports Network. We're on YouTube and we're on Facebook. So you can check us out in all of those locations, guys. Quick question for the day. I like this question. Which?

player had a great week one, but is about to drop horrifically back to Earth. Fantasy-wise. Hmm. I'm going to go with Alex Smith. I think Alex Smith is going to have a good year. I like him, but not this week. His matchup is horrendous. And so if you think, oh, he did great. He's got new weapons and you're going to go and play him. You're going to be sad. He is playing the 85 bears this week. Is that right?

But it's the guys who played in 85, so they're very old. Play Alex Smith. That's why it's horrific. That's why it's a horrific matchup there. Because two people are going to break up. Yeah, they're on dialysis. But anyways. Ouch. So Alex Smith coming back to Earth, I could see that. You know, Thursday night football games have a tradition of not being high-scoring affairs. Yeah, the only thing I will knock against that is just what happened last year.

of the beginning of the season every Thursday night was a blowout and by the home team in or was it the so how was a blowout one way or the other explain this to me how will Alex Smith draw back to earth if Jeremy Maclin has five touchdowns on the season no that's that meant on Thursday he answered it for all right so I'll answer this question and I'm going to go with Marcus Mariotta Marioata

It's Marietta. Now you can't. You got the Goodell. I've got the Goodell because I have to think about it. No, I think everybody, you know, I signed him in a league that I had Sam Bradford because why not? I mean, just take a chance on a guy. Maybe he comes out and he lights it up again. I like Marioita from a real-life quarterback perspective, and we've talked about that before. That being said, you're not getting that production.

probably the rest of the year, perhaps multiple years. That just doesn't happen very often when he get four touchdowns in the first half. You barely have to throw the ball. The defense created turnover, short fields. So I think this week, it doesn't mean he's going to have a bad fantasy week. It just means that he's not going to put up the same kind of production. And I had somebody actually send me a message and argue with me vehemently that they should start Marioita over Andrew Luck this week.

Yeah, I highly suggest doing that. And it was like, Mariotta's really good, was the argument. And I'm like, every four passes, he throws a touchdown. Yeah, it's really, really good. I will say this. We'll talk about it more later because Marcus Mariotta is my start of the week. A little spoiler alert. I know, I know. Spoiler alert. But we'll talk about it. All right, my guy who will come crashing, and horrifically would be overstating it, but I think he's going to come down a decent bit is Keenan Allen.

Now, Keenan Allen had 17 targets last week, and he had 15 catches, 166 yards. When you break down his numbers, though, his yards per target were just slightly over six yards. So if he doesn't get that insane target volume, or score a touchdown, you're going to have a much more.

low-end wide receiver 2, wide receiver 3 day from a guy that you're probably overreacting to thinking that Keenan Allen is back into the number one discussion. Very fair. Let's get into some news and notes. News and notes from around the league.

All right, there's been a lot of buzz this week about a one Todd Gurley. I think we're all excited to see Gurley take the field on an offense that seems to be very conducive to his skill set and to running the ball. That being said, ESPN Rams reporter Nick Wagoner does not expect Todd Gurley to play in week two against the Redskins. The other side of that equation is Trey Mason, who appears to be healthy. So how are you projecting Mason and any thoughts on the Gurley news?

The girly news is not surprising with the news a little bit ago that said he might not play until week five or week six. So I expect him to miss this week and potentially at least next week. If Trey Mason is healthy, which I believe that he will be. I like him as a low-end running back two type, a guy who I'm going to plug in at least into my flex. But I like him this week. I have him, I have him statted out.

surprisingly well as my 19th quarter running back in standard. I think that's appropriate. I have him lower right now because when I did my stats, he wasn't as healthy. He wasn't practicing and doing that. But I think he's going to get the lion's share there. All right. Most of the news and notes today are injury updates and information. So let's give you some running back news. Lorenzo Talley Ferro is back in practice in full, and I expect him to actually take, if I was...

having to start him or Buck Allen. It would be Telly Farrow. And Fawcett was limited in practice on Wednesday, which we have no further news upon. It didn't sound like an injury. We don't know of an injury. I'm not worried about it. C.J. Spiller practiced on a limited basis on Wednesday. C.J. Anderson, toe and ankle injury listed as questionable. He has the early game this week on Thursday. If you have Anderson, please have a backup option just in case. Yeah, hopefully it's Ronnie Hillman.

Hopefully your back option is Ronnie Hillman. And the truth is if Anderson plays in a short week with the injury and questionable nature, he's going to lose Carey's to Ronnie Hillman. There's just no two ways about it, which is going to add fuel to the C.J. Anderson bust fire because of all the panicking owners, you're probably not going to be very happy this week. Yeah, and it's a very tough defense. Kansas City's front is spectacular. I think Anderson will be okay, but if he is injured, he's not going to give you a great week. So any thoughts on Spiller?

I think Spiller plays, and I think Anderson is a fantastic target next week if he has a mediocre or bad game. Both of those guys. Both of those guys are guys that I would target. I would target C.J. Spiller right now. I think he's going to blow up this week, and if you get him after this week, no bueno. And then two more running back notes. Reggie Bush of the 49ers, his calf was injured. It is not torn. It's considered week to week with a strain. Aryan Foster was officially ruled out for week two, which I think we all kind of.

assumed would be the case, but there was buzz last week about, oh, could he really be back? From the wide receiver position, Mike Evans, Golden Tate, and who else? Demarius Thomas. Demarius practiced in full. Golden Tate did not practice with a quad injury, so you need to pay attention to that. And then Mike Evans was listed as limited, but I think we're expecting him to play. Are we not? Yeah, I think we are. And then Derek Carr, for all of you, Derek Carlovers. That would be you, I apologize.

He's, hey, it's good for Amari Cooper. Amari Cooper had only 47 yards receiving, and that led all rookies last week, which is a slow start for the rookie wide receivers. I think it's a regular start for rookie wide receivers. We just got skewed by last year being so much above and beyond. But rookie wide receivers have a chance to blow up. And so, you know, they might be given a short week one. If you're, like, if you're playing Fandual this week and you are looking for,

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