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

for a big play or two big plays. Detroit qualifies. Detroit does qualify as they have given up nine wide receiver touchdowns in seven games. In seven games, nine touchdowns. And four of those games, four of the seven, the wide receivers combined for over 170 yards. I'm flex and Fuller this week. You have held on to him. You've wondered what to do with him. I think this is the time that he can get back in there and have another.

big game for your flex that puts you over the edge. All right. Tight ends? Yeah. All right. I'll give you mine. It's Gary Barnage. And it's even, uh, the McCown news makes me feel even better about this. Yeah. Look, the options are just plain limited in the passing game for the Cleveland Browns, but the Jets have been a bad secondary. They're 24th against the tight end. No matter who's behind center. I think Barnage is seeing consistent targets. He's a top 12 tight end right now. I think he's a start of the week for me. I don't know. I like it.

Gary Barnage is a silent assassin right now. Yeah. Because there's no buzz. He just grabs his lunch, pound goes to work. There's no buzz about Gary Barnage because of you had the young Jason week. You had the trash start and everyone was on bailing on Barnage. But he's back, man. He's back to putting up weekly production. Yeah. All right. Jason? I am going. We talked about this earlier. I think Tyler Eiffert is an absolute, absolute start of the week. Here's why. He has.

every bit as big a chance at scoring a touchdown as any of the barfey tight ends that you'd be considering starting him or the other guy. If you're telling me, you know, whether, okay, do I start Tyler Eifer or Julius Thomas or Fleener against Seattle or Charles Clay or, you know, all these other options that you'd be considering when you're not sure is Tyler Eifert back yet? Well, he's got as good a chance to have the game that they're going to have.

But he has the ability. If they, they've already said his role is supposed to expand in week eight. If his role expands and he does what he did last year, I mean, he's got an upside that these other guys don't have. He was the number, what, six tight end on the season last year. So I think you, I think I am fine starting him because when you're looking, I mean. You're looking for some upside. I'm looking for upside. Yeah. And I think it'll take a week, but I don't, you know, everything you said there.

With the barfey tight-end options that you have, totally fine with it. Totally fine with it. Unless you're talking about putting them in over some of the bigger names. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm not starting them over Reed or Olson or any. Mike, close us out before we get to the new segment. I'm just ready. How was Jimmy Graham not one of our starts of the week? Because he is for me. Oh. Yeah, he is. You didn't get to the last guy. That's funny. Jimmy Graham. I agree. I give my seal of approval. Revenge game.

He's back. You really like revenge game narrative. I love revenge game narratives. He's back. And on top of the revenge game narrative, which is a little bit silly, I admit this. His last four games, the worst he did was five for 53 against the best fantasy tight end defense in the league. And that is Arizona. He has two games over 100. Plus, we saw Greg Olson just get loose against this team. So, yeah.

Fully foot loose. All right. So Jimmy, lock and loaded. Jimmy Graham is my tight end start of the week. All right. It's time. It's time. Now, listen, if you've listened to this show long enough, you know one thing and you know it for certain. It's a guarantee. Jason loves kickers. There is nothing that Jason loves more than kickers. And we trust Jason is right now the ninth most accurate fantasy analyst in the world.

He's performing well, and you can lean on him for the position he values most, which is the kicker position. And so we debut with fanfare. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. Oh, this is ridiculous. And I would refuse, except that drop was too good.

To not give you one. Give us the boom, boom. Give us the boom, boom kicker the week. I mean, this is, win a week for me. This is easy low hanging fruit. You already have them on your team. You're not signing him off of waivers because he's the best kicker, maybe in the history of the league. And I'm going with Adam Venetary. He doesn't miss. He's made like, he's made more kicks in a row at field goal than his age and he's 43 years old. More kicks in a row at field goal.

More field goals in a row than his age. He's going up against Kansas City. There's a high over under. Yards are the most, yards are basically the most correlating stat to kicker production. Sure. So there should be yards put up, but Kansas City's got a pretty stout defense. So you are locking. I feel like we should have made him, boom, boom. We should have made him put on. We need to get a kicker's jersey, like a venitary jersey. And for the segment, he needs to put it on.

So just to be clear, you love kickers. You study kickers all the time. And your boom boom kicker of the week is Adam Vinitary. I recommend getting rid of the kicker position wholeheartedly. All right. We're at an hour. My voice is gone. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll be back today twice. Oh, we will. We have a exclusive. Yeah, this is great for the voice, right? You got a we got a live stream today for Jointhefoot.com listeners. So, hey, look, if you're not part of Jointhefoot.com,

Get in today and you can be part of the live stream. You chat with us. We do giveaways on there. We also have our exclusive footcast episode. So the extra episode every single week this afternoon with all footclan questions answered. We are all day every day. This is all we do. Sign up. Jointhefoot.com today is like being a Devante Booker owner. Yeah. You've got it all lined up for you. Yeah. Get in on it.

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