Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 14 Matchups, Daily Dose, Mailbag

both these guys could get two touches and that's it yeah it's hard to start either guy well i'm blunt has been so bad for three straight weeks the higher upside guy is is clearly white yeah so i mean if you're in a playoffs and you're in a pinch where you've got to start one of these guys either one could put up zero yeah so the only thing you're caring about is the ceiling and that's going to be white so that's really i can

I like that argument. All right. So deeper, deeper leagues, you're starting a running back from the Houston Texans, and his name is... Oh, no. That's his name. That is his name. Good answer, Mike. That's the name. Is it Polk? I'm asking you. I think if I'm going to start somebody... Last week, it was Chris Polk. He was 12 for 61, and he caught...

One pass caught a touchdown pass, though, so that's hard to rely on. You know, Grimes is getting six, seven, five carries a week. I think it's got to be Polk because we have to assume here that you're going to be down in the game. And if you're down in the game, Polk is the better pass catcher. You don't think so? I'm not going to assume they're going to be down at home. The game line is only three points. Their defense has been playing pretty good, and we saw what happened last week with Philadelphia. I would go with...

I'd still go with Blue. I think I'm going to go with Blue. Because of the history of it being him. Could they make, was last week a transition to Polk? Very well could be, but I'm just going to stick with the history of Blue. Blue's had that times where all of a sudden he's got a game with four carries, and then he comes back. He's got 37 carries next week or something like that. So anybody else you need to talk about? Chandler, you're starting him if Gronka's out? Yeah, yes. Okay. Would you start him over Jordan Reeder, Travis Kelsey? No, no. Okay.

Anybody else you want to talk about in this game? We got one more matchup and then we got the daily dose. Shorts in Washington are okay lower end starts. I don't have a problem with them. Do you have a preference with one direction or the other, though? Man, it would probably, I guess, nope, nope, I can't make a case for one or the other. Sorry. All right, the Giants and the Dolphins on Monday night football. This game is basically a pick-um game.

It's in Miami. The Giants have had some struggles. They're very up and down. You can count on Odell Beckham, but can you count on any other offensive player on that team? Eli Man. Including Eli. I think you can count on Eli. I would start Eli over some of the other options. Okay. Because in part of Odell Beckham. Honestly, after Eli and ODB, I think you're looking at, I mean, I would think.

Will tie is as good an option as tie fighter as anyone else. I mean, I'm not starting any of the running backs. If you have to start one, you know, I guess you go with the standard PPR question of, you know, Vareen versus, but I mean, you're not, you're in the playoffs. No, I'm not starting any of these guys. The people listening are in the playoffs and they didn't get to the playoffs with the Giants backfield. So.

You know, but they might have got there with the Dolphins backfield. Lamar Miller. Yes. Back with 20 plus carries last week. Yep. You got to go full confidence with Lamar Miller. Landry had a tough game, but they only threw for 86 yards. I think that changes the Giants that have given up 250 plus and 83% of their games. The Landry Parker storyline. I'm very, you know, I've told a lot of people, Flex, Devante Parker. And I do not blame you at all. Matthews.

We saw him be a very productive fantasy player in this system, and he is out because of his broken ribs. Devante Parker is, dare I say, a more talented player than Richard Matthews, as was evidenced in one play. He jumped on the touchdown catch. So high. Yeah. And, yeah, he had moon shoes on. So I love.

I love that as a sleeper pick. Who would Parker? He'd be quite the sleeper pick for Monday night football. You'd bring him in there, end of the week, give you a big game. Glory play. We've recommended him to a lot of people. Mike, who do you like better between Jarvis Landry and Devante Parker? Standard score. I'll still go with Landry. I'm going to stick with Landry, too. Landry's been a target vacuum for almost the entire season, so I will stick with him. Good. But I think Parker is a...

I like it. Interesting play. I like it. All right. That does it for Fantasy Forecast. Let's take a few minutes. Let's get into the Daily Fantasy Sports and discuss some of the guys that our good friend Chris Meaney likes for this upcoming week number 14. A Daily Dose. After a little bit of a hiatus from our favorite part of the show because he is an adorable man. Chris Meany from the Fantasy Sports Network is back.

to drop some daily fantasy, some daily fantasy knowledge with us and the Foot Clan. How are you doing, Chris? You guys are so sweet to me. I miss you guys. How was your non-thanksgiving break? Because up there in Canada, you guys don't get the sweetness. They don't celebrate Thanksgiving? Not like America does. No, not like America at all.

Ours is in October, but we love it just because there's so much football. So we're just like, yeah, football all the time. Special football day. What's that? Special football day. Yeah, it's just the football, right? For us, we're just like, we love the American Thanksgiving for plenty of reasons, I suppose. But football, obviously, the big one, you get the three games, which is plus. I did okay last week. I had not James White, but Brandon Bolden, and I still did okay.

So it's tough to pick which New England running back is going to be the guy, but I actually think now it's James White, but I could be wrong. So let's start at the top then before we get into the specials like James White. The quarterback position, who are you paying up for, or is there a lower-tier guy you like this week? Again, pretty safe with Cam. My favorite quarterback is Big Ben, Ben Rothesburg. I just love that offense so much. The Steelers are just...

It just seems like every single week they put up about 30 points. I know last week somebody won a million dollars with Ben, Bryant, Brown, DeAngelo Williams, and Steelers D. That's actually unheard of. I've never seen anything like that before. I wouldn't expect that to happen again.

But I'm certainly, I want to pay up for Cam Newton. He's just so consistent, averaging 24 fando points a game that's tops. I mean, Brady's averaging 24.8. I'm not willing to pay for him. I just don't like the offense as much with some of the guys that are dropping balls, and he's missing, obviously, Gronk and Edelman. So I'm willing to pay for Big Ben. On the other side of that, if you want to go, Andy Dalton, I can respect that as well. I do think this time around is going to be high scoring. Last time it wasn't, but these two teams have played some high scoring games before in the past. They've also played some tight games as well. So it's a little...

Unpredictable, I suppose, but I'm still willing to pay for Big Ben. A lot of people like Tyrod Taylor in a terrific matchup, and I understand that as well, if you want to go him and Sammy. But those are the two quarterbacks. Certainly, they're just so safe, Cam and Big Ben. Last week in a huge tournament, I rolled out Blaine Gabbard. It worked out late. Just these type of players, the Blaine Gabbitts, the Alex Smiths,

They have okay matchups. They're just a little bit inconsistent. I'm okay with rolling them out in tournaments. But again, for cash, for 50-50s, for safe guys, I just really like Ben. And also, I guess I suppose I could give a shout to James Winston. Everyone always wants to pick on that secondary for the Saints. So Winston, I mean, now he's got Austin Sparing Jenkins back.

Only played 21 snaps last week, but still second in the team of targets with six. So I like the receiving core there as well, and I even like Doug Martin. But those are the quarterbacks that I'm really looking at to pay up for. All right, let's talk running backs, who are must-have, must-have guys in your lineup. I think it would just be silly not to have LaShawn McCoy in a revenge spot. And you know what? I believe only over the past four weeks, only...

Stuart and Martin have more carries than Lashaw McCoy. This is obviously a game that he really, really wants. He's been vocal all year about how displeased he was for being traded. Chip Kelly this, Chip Kelly that.

It's been a lot of talk this week. It's been a lot of talk all year. The Eagles struggle against running backs. I expect with Sean McCoy, actually, I have a really good day. Even though they only give up five rushing touchdowns, they're still like top 10 in rushing yards against. So I like Michelle McCoy. I like Doug Martin. But again, some of these backs that you can just, you can, if you get them, you can afford higher end, wide receivers and quarterbacks. There's a few of them. I like T.J. Yeldin. Finally, this guy got in the end zone last week against...

You know, he finally got a touchdown against Tennessee. This week he gets the Colts. He's just been consistent all year. I mean, you look at four receptions last week, before that four, three, five, three. So he's getting the catches. He's getting about 50 to 70 yards here and there. So if he can just find the end zone again, I think you can return value at 6'4. Sean Drone is another guy. The Big Salad. That's what we call him here. The Big Salad. Please spread that around Canada. Nice.

Yeah, he's just consistent. I mean, he's getting catches, right? I mean, he's not, he's not blowing anybody away on the ground with his rushing yards. I mean, 36, 51, 37, 58 in the past couple. But again, five catches, five catches, eight catches, four catches. So he's a guy that, I know, Pat and I like a lot, Sean Dron.

There he is. There he is. Yeah, have you heard that. He's a consistent guy. He's getting catches. I mean, Blaine Gabbard is jumping off to him. So if he's going to get five or six catches every game, chipping for 50 yards, if he can just find the end zone again, then there you go. At $6,500, you're laughing. Are you going to take a gamble on Eddie Lacey? We know he was benched for being out past his curfew, his grown man curfew.

But the talk is that that may have been rectified to him regaining his position as the top back. Are you going to risk him in a cash game this week? No, I can't play him. Guys like Eddie Lerner,

Lacey, DeMarco Marie, you just can't play them in cash games. They're just way too inconsistent. I get it. Mike McCarthy says Eddie Lacey looks rejuvenated. He expects a good week of practice. He expects them be productive this weekend. But can you really trust that. It's really hard to trust. But in a big tournament play, sure, why not? You can roll them out in a huge, huge tourney. But in a cash, in a 50-50 head-to-heads, there's no way I'm trusting Eddie Lacey. All right, let's talk some wide receivers.

Wide receivers, the guys that you're paying up for, are you buying Antonio Brown? You like Big Ben. Yeah, absolutely. With Ben, Brian and Brown. I love Brown. How could you not like Brown? I mean, this guy is just so consistent, especially with Big Ben as his quarterback.

He's had big games against the Bengals. This year he had a touchdown. Last year, he had two 100-yard games against them, double-digit targets in both of them. So he gets a lot of play. I'm in on Ben. I'm down on Julio Jones. He doesn't have a great matchup this week. He's kind of been really mediocre over the past few. So if you can't really get Beckham and Brown, in one lineup I want Brown and another one I want Beckham, it's really hard to go both of them. But I also, and I failed to mention, I do like the Russell Wilson.

Maybe Baldwin's stack. I know they've been hot lately. Maybe people will be on that, but it's another nice matchup. Baltimore gives up fantasy points top 10 to quarterbacks, top five to wide receivers. So I like both of those guys as well. Seattle D Lockett. And Seattle D. Pat loves Seattle D. Lockett in. Of course, right? No, with Locket. Oh, with Locket. Oh, okay. We set the pick six over under at one and a half for Seattle. What are you guys taking? Yeah, over under pick six for...

One and a half for Seattle, Pat? Over. Over. Over. He's over. Without hesitation. Yeah, I went over too. So a guy that we like, he was a first round ride, wide receiver pick. He's finally getting his chance. Devante Parker. Are you doing anything with lineups for Devante Parker? Absolutely. I like Parker a lot. I played him in a couple contests last week. He's only 5'9 against the Giants. For sure. I mean, he didn't get as many targets as I wanted him to get last week.