Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 5 Matchups, Bounce Backs

wide receiver core. So you can't touch him. Charles Clay is the main. I was going to say Charles Clay is, he's like an elite tight end now for fantasy purposes. And yet the Bengals, they're even stingier than the builds when giving up points to the tight end. But at this point. Yeah, it's not a great matchup. You got to play it, right? Absolutely. It's not a great matchup for Charles Clay. I don't love it. But you have to play him because they, I mean, he's necessary.

The bill's offense can't work without Charles. Mr. Necessary. That's exactly what he is. Predictions on the game. Who wins? I'll take in the Bengals. I'm going to take the Bengles. I'm going to Bengals. Okay. The Jets take on the Cleveland Browns. They're giving tickets away. All right, Cleveland. Well, I guess I should give respect where respect is. Yeah, you should. The two and two jets. They're tied with the pets. The Browns are one-point favorites at home in this game. 39 point over under.

Cleveland. Good for you. Miles Garrett going to make his debut for the Cleveland Browns this week. Part of why I think their defense will obviously improve over the later part of the year. Not that that will translate to wins, but all right. Let's start on that side of the ball. Deshaun Kaiser, Isaiah Crowell. We've talked about it. Mike, you like Duke Johnson this week. Are you playing roulette with any of the wide receiver options at all in Cleveland? Oh, no. I would, yeah, I would say I would be willing to start Duke Johnson.

I love that these last two teams Charles Clay and Duke Johnson are the best receiving options. It's really true. It is. It is. Deshaun Kaiser's only completed 51% of passes right now. This matchup is, I mean, this is as much as you could hope for for Kaiser at home against the Jets. The Jets defense is 29th against the run. They've been okay against the pass. The one thing I'll say in support of your Isaiah Crowell pick is the fact that this is a game that they should be in.

You know, even if they're losing, they, you know, I don't think they're going to be boat raced by the Jets, which gives the opportunity for carries. That's been, you know, the problem with Isaiah Crowell is, you know, he got 17 carries week one. You go, okay, he didn't perform with it, but he's getting the touches. Well, last week you only got seven. And that's going to be a problem in those games where, you know, they're...

They're not really in the game. Hugh Jack, Jackman has come out and, it's Hugh Jackson has come out and said, you know, he still believes. It's a joke on the show. But it's, you still can't get right. I can't ever say it right. He's really Wolverine in your mind. You know, he came out and he said he loves Isaiah Crowell. So I, I think there is some support there. Yeah. He said that a lot. Yeah. To, to work against my pick.

I believe that the Saints came out and said Peterson's about to break out today. That was the running back. If you have to stream, would you stream McCown? I was going to say, Kaiser or McCown? I would stream McCown. We need to show some respect for the second most accurate quarterback in the league. 70% of his passes completed. Good for you, McCown. Yeah, I mean, I had my streaming option as Hoyer, much riskier, I think than McCown. McCown is, I think he's an okay streamer this week. Brown secondary is, you know, beatable.

They're 23rd against the pass compared to the Jets who are 7th. So I would go McCown if I'm streaming one of these options. Matt Forte did not practice today. Blau Powell, Elijah McGuire are both potential options. Blal Powell, RB2 and flex. We'll be talked about later. Yeah, Blow Powell is a definite start here. I said he will be talked about later. Fair enough. And when it comes to McGuire, I'm, I'm.

much more hesitant. He doesn't get the same amount of touches. But, I mean, we did see the Blal Powell zombie infection. You don't believe it. It's still over there. Gio Bernard last week was able to catch, you know, a pass and take it to the house one of those big plays. So Elijah McGuire could have the opportunity to do that. Eight carries last week from McGuire. Very interesting. Austin Safarian Jenkins. Oh, he's a start this week. Great play this week. I believe the Browns are at the basement in terms of points given up to the tight-in position right around 31.

Yes. In the league. Yeah, the only team worse against the tight end so far for fantasy is the Giants. Yeah. But close second is the Cleveland Browns. Yeah. All right. The Panthers take on the lions in Detroit. The lions are two and a half point favorites. It's a 43.5 point over under. Not going to get into it, but you've got just the assortment of madness, always surrounding Cam Newton, not talking to the media last week. And then the comments he made yesterday are.

Frustrating. Frustrating. Yeah. Immature. Ignorant, other things of that nature. So not happy to see those things keep. You know, he's got a problem with this media piece. But Newton last week, the Monster Week, Jason pumped the brakes on him, takes on the Lions. The Lions defense right now is playing well because they're causing turnovers. They did it last week against Minnesota in Minnesota. They come back home.

I expect them to be able to hold up against the Carolina offense in this game. What do you tell the Christian McCaffrey owner right now as they make starts-it decisions, trade decisions? What should the expectation be? Because you saw a little bit of the floor of McCaffrey's potential last week. So you remind them that he's been targeted 29 times. That's second for running backs. Yeah, I mean, that's what you tell them. Here's the reality. We said this in the off season, the fact that.

Christian McCaffrey might be the most talented player in the world, but they are not giving him. He's a compliment. Yeah, they're not just getting rid of Jonathan Stewart. He is really their number two running back and playing that third down, scatback pass catching role in addition. So if you're in a PPR league, it's got a very, very safe floor. But you're going to, this is what you've seen out of him is what you're going to get. In our league of record, you know, he's 10.7 points, 16.7 points. That's, you're going to have a guy that's probably going to average around 11 points.

but be fairly consistent at it. It's unfortunate that, well, first of all, would you play McCaffrey or Duke Johnson if you had to start one this week? I think I'd play Duke. I'd go McCaffrey still. The thing about McCaffrey that I think is frustrating is simply his expectations as a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. When a team does that, you think, okay, well, this person, especially if it's a running back, you need to give them 15 plus touches every single week.

give them a very featured role. So it's weird to have spent that pick and him just kind of be a compliment piece, especially at the running back. The Panthers have done it before. We've talked about the rookie running backs and like Hunt, right? All the big plays from Hunt. You saw big plays from Cohen. You've seen big plays from Delvin Cook. But then you've also had the kind of the inverse where, I mean, you read those numbers that are not very different than.

Mixon's numbers. I mean, Mixing, McCaffrey, P. Ryan, they've never made a big play this year. I mean, that's basically the gist. They are, you're waiting for them to break one off. Yeah. To go kick cat. McCaffrey had one play where it was almost a, it was a huge yardage play, but he didn't score on it. Kelvin Benjamin or Funches, who do you start? I'm still, yeah, I'm going to still go. I'm still going to go. I'm still going to go, Kelvin. I would too. Amir Abdullah, big week last week against Minnesota.

I like Abdullah this week. I mean, if you've been starting, keep starting him. Golden Tate disappointed me last week, but he's still the wide receiver to start in Detroit. Is he not? Yeah, certainly. I would agree. Amir Abdullah, I mean, the guy's getting work. I mean, two of his past three games, he has over 85 yards on the ground. He's essentially made theoretic problem. So if you own theoretic, somebody said he hit the waiver wire on Twitter, right? How much fab do I spend on Theoretic?

I'm not excited about Theoretic with Abdullah active. So I would have told him a couple bucks at the most. And I don't know. There might be better options. And you have Theoretic down here who has 21 targets on the year as less than Mark Ingram. That's less than girly than James White. I mean, the theoretic is this is his specialty. Yeah. You're supposed to be in the top three in targets. Yet you find yourself.

Just the middle of the pack. Yeah, he's at best. I mean, most people right now would still have a hard time saying, okay, let me have Duke Johnson and get rid of Theoretic. But Duke Johnson's more involved than. Yeah, I'd make that shift. We are going to hop into the 49ers and Colts matchup. Before you do that, we want to thank today's sponsor, Bomfell. All right, for most guys, maybe all guys. Shopping.

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All right, we're going to move on to this next matchup. I'm going to throw something out there right now. A little bit of breaking news. Kenny Britt, he's been repeatedly condemned by Hugh Jackson. He did not practice today. It's Thursday. Knee groin injury. Maybe he was punched in the groin by Hugh Jackson after his performance. I'm going to throw Ricardo Lewis out as a deep sleeper this week. I think you can play Ricardo Lewis. Really? He's getting the – he's already been getting the snaps. He's just not getting – He had a good game last week.

Ricardo Lewis had, I believe, seven, eight targets, six catches last week. I think you have an opportunity in a juicy matchup where last week, yeah, he had five for 64. Okay. And if Kenny Britt's off the field, I just want to throw him out there. He's one of those deep, sneaky, your opponent thinks you're stupid, and then maybe it works out for you type of place. All right. The 49ers take on the Colts. Boy, you have some interesting matchups this week, don't you? This is a.

The bottom of the barrel is playing one another in several games. You know, the Browns and the Jets and now the 49ers Colts. Colts are one and a half point favorites at home, 44.5 point over under. I thought about making Brian Hoyer my start of the week this week. Mike, you brought up a point in the office yesterday that Brian Hoyer and I believe one other quarterback are the only ones to have faced top 15 passing deeds in all four weeks. Dak Prescott. Yeah. And so Hoyer has had...

He's shown signs of life at times. Now, I know Jason, you don't like the fact that he's probably not going to have Marquis Goodwin in this one. Right. I don't because of the fact that you have one good defender across the field. You know, if you look at the Colts secondary, you've got Vante Davis. He's great. And then just exploitable options galore. So you just need two weapons, you know, if you're the Niners. And right now they've got one. Pierre Garsohn will probably be. Well, they got hide.

Well, sure, you know, some dump-offs from the back field. That's somewhat, you know, helpful if he gets two or three receptions. But, you know, who's going to step up? Could it be George Kittle? Aldrich Robinson. Yeah, I mean, you've got to have somebody step up. But this is a matchup where Hoyer, look, if the, if the offenses come out and sputter and they're terrible and it's a low-scoring, boring game, you're not going to get much value out of it, obviously. But this is the type of game.

where if the defenses can't stop each other, just like we saw with San Francisco and the Los Angeles Rams a few weeks ago, we have plenty of history of Brian Hoyer throwing 350-yard games, multi-touchdowns. That's why I made him my stream of the week because while he's risky, I mean, he could be pulled in this game if he sucks. His upside, you know, is that top six type quarterback. You know what they could use right now? Bruce Ellington. Seriously. They could really use him. Yeah.