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

I mean, they're just, how long do we have to go before we just admit they're a really good defense? Well, here's your mistake, though. Dak is emotionless. That's true. He is a cyborg. He is a robot. So I think I like that. If you, if you listened to the show a couple days ago, we gave you a quick question where you had to guess a player. And it was Frank Gore, Mr. RB12, always RB12. On the other side, I don't want to talk.

Too much about Spencer Ware. He's a must start this week. He'll be in our starts of the week. Let's put it that way. So we'll get into that. What about the dirty K candy? He's startable this. He's startable this week. He is. He's flexible. After you've abandoned him. No, I bailed on him. I know I pumped the brakes. But I think you could, if you have to flex him, like if it's D-Jax or Macklin, I don't care. I don't care either way. One more matchup than starts of the week? Let's do it.

So Seahawks and Saints. I'm really, really curious about this game from a fantasy and NFL's perspective because you have two opposing forces. Drew Breeze, powerful offense, production. He even performed on the road last week against Kansas City versus Seattle. The Seahawks, you know, epic defense have held, you know, the Cardinals without a touchdown for five quarters. And that was on the road. So.

How do you see this shaking out? Because, you know, is there a risk on the entire saint's side of the offense from a fantasy perspective? Like, I'd love to know about what you guys think about Michael Thomas and whether you would start him in this game or cooks or sneed because I don't know exactly how great this defense. I mean, they're coming off a short week, right? Played five quarters in their entirety. The Seahawks. The Seahawks did. And it's in New Orleans. Really, if you think about it, it's not just they played five quarters. They're defense.

I mean, their defense played more football than any team in the history of the NFL has ever played in a single game. And it's a shorter week because that was the nighttime game. So you could, and you're going from a road game back home to another road game. Look, I don't ever doubt the Seattle defense, right? I don't think they're going to, oh, you got to, they're going to be lousy.

But there could be some holes or some miscommunications or some plays. And if there's a quarterback that's going to take advantage of that from a tired defense, it's going to be Drew Breeze. So I don't think Drew Breeze at home is someone you sit in this matchup. You know, I got Andy Dalton, who I liked this week, to play over him for this week when I picked him up last week. But I'm playing Drew Breeze in this matchup. I think I've got him as my sixth ranked quarterback. Yeah, for me, it's.

just to laser focus the point. The Saints offense has scored 22 points a game. That's first. The Seahawks defense has allowed seven points per game. That's first. So you definitely have a situation, but I'm with Jason on this. I'm going with Drew Breeze at home. I think all of his passing weapons are startable. The three big wide receivers, Cook Sneed and Thomas. Kobe Fleener is, as we have always say, he's...

in that pack of gross tight ends. But of any of the gross tight ends, he's one who actually has a big ceiling. So he's still a weekly play for me. I'm concerned, I mean, I like Jimmy Graham in this matchup, but I'm concerned about the Seattle offense. Like Jason said, five quarters. I mean, it's mostly the defense, but that was because the offense couldn't do anything. Now Russell Wilson has popped up with a peck injury.

yesterday to go along with like his entire body is is uh if he was in a video game and you were looking at the damage his health would be very low very very low and his his old body is red yeah yeah there's no part of him that is feeling good so i i still love for a different like you normally it's an auto start if your quarterback is playing in new orleans you're like oh yes i love it i'm concerned about russell wilson this week i'm not i'm not too concerned i

Because of the matchup, look, he is Russell Wilson. It's not like he forgot how to play quarterback or find people or throw the ball. He's not as mobile. And if he's playing a really good defense, you could shut him down right now. That's what the Cardinals did. But I don't think that the New Orleans Saints are going to shut down him. Shut down him. I don't think they're going to shut down him. Oh, dang it. Jason Morrison's got one. That'll be on the Twitter. But.

Yeah, I love Doug Baldwin this week. Well, let's find out some more guys we don't think will be shut downed this week in our starts of the week. Starts of the week. Inching so incredibly close to our new segment. It's not even funny. Jason, are you excited? I have no idea if I'm excited. All right. Starts of the week. Let's start with the quarterbacks. Let's get through these guys. Jason, kick it off. All right. If we're kicking it off, I'm going to go with Carson.

Palmer. What? Yeah, I know. This is a little bit surprising. And I'll be honest. This week was a little bit of a tough one to pick. A lot of tough matchups with some of those guys. We are into week nine, right? Is that right? It's week eight. It's week eight, but that's okay. Oh, man. We are into week eight. And this is the first week where when I finished my rankings and I've looked at the quarterbacks, all of the guys that are pretty much in my top 12 are the names you know. I mean, I like.

All of your normal, your Tom Brady's and your and your Aaron Rogers and you're Andrew Lux and your Joe Namath. Joe Namath is going to be great this week. And so. Or Namath till. Hey, by the way, as you say, Joe Namath, you called out Gino Smith for not being tough. And Gino Smith had a torn ACL. I looked at his Twitter. Maybe it's updated since then. There's been no apology. Yeah, I would. Yeah, exactly. Because he's Joe Namath. He wears animals on his back.

drinks a lot and says things that everybody takes his cannon because he won a Super Bowl. He does wear very short shorts. If you do not remember that from... Who wears short shorts? Joe name it. Oh, all right. All right. So getting back to Cars of Palmer, here's why I think he is an okay start this week. You have... They were able to move the ball last week.

They weren't able to score, but that was against a really, really, really good passing defense. Like Mike said, they're the number one in the league at not giving up points. Carolina's defense has been good at stopping the run and terrible. Their secondary is awful. They've got rookies there kind of as starters. And David Johnson, if David Johnson is not tired from last week.

I mean. What was the stat you said about the overtime situation? Or what were we talking about with David Johnson's? There's. You were, you were pumping the brakes a little bit on him in the studio. Yeah, a little bit. You know, I'm not sitting David Johnson ever. But my expectations are a little bit lower because historically when a team plays deep into an overtime, they're not that good the following week. Much less than Monday night. Right. And so, yeah, well, Sunday night in a short week. And, but here.

I'm still picking Carson because the Carolina secondary has been terrible. I think that they might not be able to get it going with the ground. And because Carolina is coming off of a buy, I think they're going to be able to score. And so if they do it, I'm fine playing Carson Palmer. All right, Mike, I'm going to double down with James Winston, who is my stream of the week. I'm making it my start of the week as well. Oakland, they're giving up monster games to quarterbacks if they have a legit wide receiver weapon.

You want to talk about a legitimate wide receiver weapon. Mike Evans is averaging the most points for a wide receiver in half and full point PPR leagues. The Raiders stayed on the road. Now, I don't know if there's anyone who's actually done a study on this for a team that goes to the East Coast and then they stay there over the week. I mean, they didn't get to go home. So I'm buying a little bit into that narrative. And I like James Winston and the Tampa Bay offense.

All right, I'm going to jump in with, yeah, I agree with Jason. It was a tough week to kind of grab onto somebody that wasn't one of those auto starts, the Tom Brady's and the Aaron Rogers and the Lux. So I'm going to go with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Double down. This is Jason's stream of the week. So, you know, I believe in the matchup. It's called Cleveland. And if McCown, which by the way, a new report moments ago, all signs point to McCown starting this week. And so this just.

improved the odds of Fitzpatrick having to go to the air longer in the game if McCown can move the ball a little bit. You saw this last week. Andy Dalton had to keep passing because Cleveland got enough points on the board and Cleveland's defense can't stop him. So I like Ryan Fitzpatrick as the start of the week. Before I have to take another deep breath and talk, I'm just going to give you my running back start of the week. Do it. Spencerware. It's Spencerware against the Indianapolis Colts. And here's why this is a big start for me. I would start them over every single running back this week except for.

DJ and DeMarco Murray. He's my number three running back this week. Spencerware is lined up to dominate. It's a great matchup. He's doing it all right now. So I'm going to stay in the flames of Spencerware. He's my number one running back. That's pretty good. We are in much accord on this. My start of the week running back, Devonzi Booker. It's his time. CJ's out at least for this week that we know. We've seen the talent 4.8 yards per carry.

And the chargers are among the best matchups for a running back. And you're looking at Devante Booker being the guy. So I expect a lot of carries. I expect him to score. I like Devante Booker a lot. You just plug him in. You've been holding on to him for this moments. This is perfect. Yeah, when we were picking starts of the week last night, Jason had already chosen his. And there was Warren Booker. And I didn't even put one in because I just said, whatever one might take, I'm going to take the other guy. So love it. Mike or Jason, who's your guy?

It's Mike. It's C Mike. Yeah. Kristen Michael. I pumped the brakes on him last week for the Arizona game, which was wise. He did not have a good game. This week, I'm hitting the gas. Okay, I'm saying fill her up, take it for a spin because I don't, I mean, I feel like I'm willing to put a bet that he scores a touchdown. I mean, I just don't see in this game against New Orleans with the offenses going back and forth, I don't see, and especially with that Rundee.

How does Chris and Michael not score a touchdown? Oh, yeah. And so if it's a perfect matchup. If he's getting, you know, a bunch of yards and gets touchdown. He's had two multi-touchdown games already this year. I could see one coming this week. The touchdowns are the reason why he is so highly ranked for me. I'm starting him over everybody. Yep. All right. Let's move on to the wide receiver starts of the week. I'm staying in the embers. Okay. We have this monic, you know, this phrase on the show, stay in the flames. When a guy has put together successful weeks back to back.

I consider last week to be the beginning of a potential blaze for Devante Adams, a breakthrough type of week. I'm staying in the end. But then he'll melt. I'm buying in. The target bonanza that takes place right now in that Green Bay offense, the fact that they have to run through the air, so to speak, Atlanta, you know, a great matchup. It should require more of the same from Rogers this week. I like all the receiving options. We talked about it earlier. The reason.

Adams gets my start of the week is because he's the most trepidacious decision for fantasy owners this week. And I think you can flex Devante Adams. And last week, 32 fantasy points, two touchdowns, 13 receptions. Very few owners got those points. Yeah.

Exactly. So I think that there's an opportunity this week. I'm going to go out on the limb. And Jason, I'm going to kick it to you because you've got another Green Bay wide receiver running back tight in kicker, whatever he is. I don't know. Yeah, I'm going to stay with that same game. I mean, the Atlanta Green Bay game, that is going to be, Vegas has it as the far and away highest scoring game. I don't see why they would be wrong here. And so Ty Montgomery is a guy that you might be starting, but you might have other good options. And I'm saying.

Start him over other really good options because his floor is as high as anybody's in the league. You've got Nile Davis coming in. He's going to take a couple of touches away. But the majority of the snaps, I mean the vast majority of the running back snaps are going to go to Ty Montgomery lined up in the backfield. They're going to be passing him the ball. If you look at the matchup with Atlanta, right? Last week I had to have in Coleman as my start of the week because when running backs catch the ball against Atlanta, they crushed them.

How about a wide receiver catching the ball as a running back against Atlanta? It's just, it's a perfect storm and his ceiling. If he gets a touchdown, he's going to be great. But I mean, his floor is just massive. He had 98 yards two weeks ago receiving. He had 66 yards receiving. That's 20 catches in the last two weeks.

receptions, not just targets, 20 targets. Especially beautiful in PPR League. Yeah. And then he added 60 yards on the ground last week. All right, Mike. All right. I didn't have the courage. This is interesting. I did not have the courage to make Brock Osweiler my stream of the week. But I'm going on a ledge here. I'm living like Aerosmith on the edge. Will Fuller. I love it. Every bad secondary he has played, he has torched them.