Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 8 Matchups, News

You know, we have our rankings up on the website, the fantasy footballers.com, and those will change. They always change as more information comes in. All right. Randall Cobb, practice, but was limited. I think that's fine this early in the week. Here's some rest. Here's a question. Cobb, Montgomery, Adams, Nelson. How do you rank those guys this week? Because the matchups all right, and there were 39 completions last week. But how do you rank them? Because that was a struggle for me. Because I feel like...

you have to pick somebody to be the guy. And last week it was Adams. Yeah, I think we're going to see personally a slight repeat of last week where you're airing it out a lot. I think it's going to be a higher scoring game. Honest to goodness, I would, I mean, not on the same team, but I would play all four. All four wide receivers will be productive this week. Jordy, Cobb.

uh, Devante Adams and Ty Montgomery. You're playing for your life. You're playing for your championship right now. This game, you start one of those guys. It's Jordy. Mike? It's Montgomery. It's funny because I think for me, it's Cobb, probably Cobb. I thought you were going Adams. I think Adams would be like the two for all those picks. Good luck. I, I'm fine. Like, I think all of them have good games, which means Aaron Rogers should be okay. Oh, yes. Did you mention Dante Moncrief already? No.

I mentioned that he's back to practice. As of right now, he said he'd be surprised if he does not play. So that is fantastic news for Andrew Luck. And those who, if you stashed Moncrief when you had the chance, congratulations. Yeah. And the person that it affects, not drastically, but the Doyle love that he got last week having no other pass catchers could be hurt.

Josh McCown, there was a report this morning that he looked really good in practice. I believe the language was that the ball was humming. He was firing him around. He does, he can't do that. Is he a sneaky snart? Is he a sneaky start against the Jets? Against the Jets if he was to play. Possibly. I think, I think he is definitely a sneaky snart, but I actually like it even more for my actual stream of the week.

which is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Just so that they can be more competitive in that game. You are correct. Cory Coleman returned to practice. Sammy Watkins is out of his walking boot. He's eligible to return and play in week 12. I mean, we got to start paying attention to that. It's just like how we picked up Dante Moncrief and stashed him. You got to pick that week. You go, okay, we're in week eight right now. You probably wait two more weeks. I think if you're two weeks ahead of the curve.

here in week 10 and you pick him up then, you'll probably still be able to get him if you're in a non-IR league. And I think he's worth a two-week stash and wait because if he comes back, I mean, I had him stat it out before the year as a wide receiver won. A couple of last minute Thursday night football updates. Delaney Walker, not on the injury report, is going to play. Tajay Sharp looks like a game time decision tonight. He should not be a game time decision for you as a fantasy owner.

um it's it's beyond that point right now with taj sharp it just can't can't put enough good weeks together too many cooks in the very small low passing offense kitchen all right uh we are going to jump into the matchups remember that baltimore los angeles miami new york pittsburgh and san francisco are on by this week before we chat about that i did want to review look uh every week we do this we play head to head in the draft app draft well done

Bringing me back to... Oh, to the draft season. To the early day. When we were in the double digits, an episode count. By the way, episode 300 coming up soon. Oh, we got to do something special for them. Some giveaways, some things. I'm going, I'll dress like a Spartan for the day. We're dressing up for Halloween, too, right? Yes. Yeah, for sure. Are you going as a stuffed tomato, Jason? Oh. No, I think if that were the case, I would just come across as Andy Reed. Howie? Oh.

Buzzing. You know who my wife? That is the most amazing joke I've heard in a while. You want to know who my wife really desperately tried to get me to go as for Halloween. Oh, no. Oh, no. She's like, we could find a nice, like, mullet wig and get that going. But I'd have to shave and get my mustache going and gray it out. Oh, Jeff Fisher? Oh, my goodness. But then I'd have to, like, give terrible advice on the show. So.

I decided. No, not terrible. More like, you know, I don't know, a winning, like a winning percentage of like, maybe your picks are like 400. You're like 40% accurate. All right. So yeah, every week we take on each other in the draft app. Yes. And the draft app's really cool because unlike other DFS games, this is actually drafting, which, you know, we spend months of the off season loving the draft prep process.

Loving. There's a strategy involved of playing against the other play. Here's a perfect example. We can't all own one player. No, when we go through these teams, you're going to see that my team is the best. And the reason why is because you could use draft strategy. You know, it's like I really wanted Chris and Michael at one of my picks. And I was coming up. Andy was on the turn. So you had back-to-back picks, but you had both your running backs already. So I was like.

Well, I'm going to wait on him. Yeah, it's like a five-person draft. You get into big leagues. You can put five bucks into it, win some money out. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, it's really fun. Last week, Mike and I did head-to-head. Jason was out. And Mike went with the big boys. I went chalk, baby. And I went with the matchups. You know, sometimes when someone goes right, I go left, right into a brick wall. And Mike won. Chalk, baby. Mike won with the big names last week. This week, I want to break down your team real quick.

We had our draft yesterday. Andy, give us yours. Took about 10 minutes. I have Andy Dalton playing the match up there. DeMarco Murray and David Johnson, love those horses. And then A.J. Green, the stack with Andy Dalton and Amari Cooper this week. I'm going with the Andrew Luck, T.Y. Hilton stack. I have Devonta Freeman and Spencer Ware. And I also have Big Man, Mike Evans.

What are we chuckling about? Everyone has a stack. Yeah, we all have a, I didn't realize that we all went very strategically. We all went stack strat. Uh, and thankfully I got the best of the stacks, which is Matt Ryan and Julio Jones. Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, best stack. Uh, I got Kristen Michael, who is this week, my number one running back. Wow. Um, Lamar Miller. And I went, uh, I went a little, uh, out, out there and for my wide receiver. I got gronk.

Yeah, because you can do a wider shooter tight-in. Yeah. So we'll post those on Twitter. You guys can vote for who you think is going to win this week. We'll break down the results next week. And you can grab the draft app and put in the code footballers when you sign up. And you'll be added to our Foot Clan League. So all the people that listen to the show, you can play against everybody. You can also go to Playdraft.com slash ballers. And if you already have the app and you just want to get in those leagues,

Go and put the code in in the app or search the leagues for footballers and it'll come up. So really easy to do that. Let's go ahead and get into the matchups. Fantasy forecast. We're dying over here. I need to be in a hazmat suit right now. Yeah. We're down with the sickness. Somehow I'm the only one who's okay. My son got sick last night too, Mike. Does that make you feel good? No. Ebola. No, no, no. No. No. No.

He had like a 99 fever. I don't think it's Ebola. Well, I'm just saying it could be. I want to test it. I got to go. I got to go. I'll be right back. Terrible joke. Terrible. Terrible joke. All right. Let's get into the match. It's Redskins. Bengals. This is the London game. This one takes place early in the morn. Early, early. 46.5 point over under. Bengals favored by three. So.

What are the starts and sits in this matchup? I like a lot of guys. I like this matchup for both quarterbacks. I think that they can both be quarterback ones if you're looking at that situation. We talked about the running back for Washington already that we would go with Chris Thompson. I don't know. Matt Jones is probably an okay play. It's a really good matchup. It's a good matchup. But you were talking very high risk for Matt Jones who.

fumbles, I can't remember the stat off the top of my head, but he's on a historic pace. He has eight fumbles, and this is only his second year in the league. He wasn't even, I mean, in a year and a half, he's had eight fumbles. That's, yeah, and he didn't even play a full year. Yeah, that's really super impressive. So if, if he were to fumble again, I mean, there's, you're talking, you've started a guy who's going to be on the bench. You go over to the other side, Jeremy Hill and Gio Bernard.

Gio Bernard, I think, is playing so well right now that he's a, I think he's a great start. What are you guys doing with Jeremy Hill? Coming off the Monster Week. I like both guys. I think I would be fine starting both. Or I should say either. I'm happy to start Hill. I'm happy to start Bernard. Again, you have a pretty good matchup on this side of the ball because the Washington run defense is not very good. It's been their passing defense that's been pretty good this season. I will say this, though.

Josh Norman, he has returned to practice. He was in the concussion protocol. He returned. He was already back? He returned to practice, but he hasn't been cleared for everything. And they're the London game. He basically has to be cleared today or he's out. He's not going to travel. I don't think he plays. I really don't. So if he doesn't play, the passing game opens up for Dalton, for A.J. Green, for Brandon LaFell and for Geo even.

And speaking of a guy who's supposed to play, Jordan Reed says he's going to play. So he expects to be cleared. The clearance has not come yet. I have not seen a final word on that. But if you can just handcuff with Vernon Davis, you're fine. Absolutely. But for those asking, I've gotten a couple tweets that say, hey, you know, I have Jack Doyle. If Rule 86 is active, what do I do? And I'm like, do you not know the rule? Rule 86, man.

If Jordan Reed is healthy and playing, he's in your lineup. Yeah, some people only know Rule 86 is a nickname now, but it was originally the rule, Rule 86. Yeah, if he's healthy and starting, you put him in because he is always, he's always very good. On the other side of the ball for tight end, look, Tyler Eifer. Yeah, we disagree on this one. Do we? Yeah, we do. And I know he's coming up in your starts of the week. Well, then I'll tell more about him. Maybe we'll talk about him. And I don't, I don't like disagree to the point of.

You know, contentiousness. But I do have a different opinion. But yours will probably be right. Chicago Tribune's Mike Mulligan reports. Bears coach John Fox told friends, quote, he was done with Jay Cutler. Just throwing that out there. Well, that's... He doesn't have a choice right now. He's back. Is that like a new report? Is that why you said that? Yeah, just kidding. I was like, he doesn't play for the Bengals of the Redskins.

Yeah, Jeremy Hale, by the way, that was the most yardage on 10 or less carries, I think, since 1972, something like that. Efficient against that Cleveland sieve. Okay, so the only guy that I think is a big question, right, is in the passing game here for Washington, what do you do with Deshaun Jackson? He's been extremely disappointing most the whole season. He's untrustworthy in general. We've talked about our willingness to drop him.

This is a matchup that I'm fine with them this week. Yeah, I was going to say this is a decent matchup. Flex, though. Yeah, he's a wide receiver three or flex. He's been close to some big plays. So I'm willing. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Patriots take on the bills. This is in Buffalo, 47 point over under. Some light rain expected in this game. The bills are underdogs as expected. Mike, let's put it to you right away.

I mean, starts and sits in this game. What do you do with LaShawn McCoy if he's active? Easy question, right? Thanks. I appreciate that. If LaShawn McCoy is active, I'm trying to find a different option. But I know that there are a lot of people out there that do not have that liberty. So if he's active and you got to play him, I mean, you're forced. Your hand is force. You have to play him.

and hope he can be a little bit more efficient. He's up against a tough defense. The Patriots are 11th against the run right now. So hopefully the bills do the right thing if Shady is not right and they let him rest. Moving over to the Patriots running backs. Well, Garrett Blunt just continues to get it done, and you're talking a Bill's past defense that is pretty solid. They're 11th. However, the running defense ranks 27th in the league and giving up yards.

Legerick Blunt could have himself another day. I'm just throwing that out there. I don't know if you guys agree with this or not. I do agree. He's ranked pretty high for me. I don't see a reason to stop giving him the ball. You know, one of the neat stat nuggets on the Patriots, it's surprising. And it's a little skewed because Brady was out the first few games. But the Patriots have thrown the ball 48.5% of the time, which ranks 29th. So near the... That's going up, though. Yeah. So my point is...