Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Injuries, Mayhem

Most of the time, I would say yes. Most of the times you do. They've given up 12 receptions this year to wide receivers. Look, wow. Last year I know Antonio Brown went off on them. No one else did. I think like the whole season. I'm benching everyone against them unless he's into. All right. Russell Wilson, no touchdowns. I'm concerned. If the wide receivers are beat up and that ankle is still not right, I'm concerned. I think that it is dependent upon the health of the two wide receivers. So I am.

To be determined. Are you, if you're Russell Wilson owner, do you just hold? You just play it? Well, you roster two quarterbacks? Yes. I roster two quarterbacks if the wide receivers aren't healthy. If the wide receivers are fine, I start Russell next week. James Winston. Oh, you're wet. Oh, you're wet. Splash. Oh, James, one touchdown, four picks.

And he doesn't even have big boy pants. You guys wanted to give him big boy pants last week. I said, come on. He was my streamer. And here's what I thought would happen. I thought that he would throw three bomb touchdowns right over Brandon Williams head. But you want to know what changed? Brandon Williams didn't play football this week. They brought in a guy off the street who could actually play. Two picks for Cooper. And he got two picks.

And all of a sudden, the Cardinals D looked fine. So what you're saying is Winston threw two picks to a guy off the street. Yeah, who is cool. Who is 10 times better than rookie Brandon Williams at this point in his career. James Winston was trying to set up the perfect game script for fantasy. But then he did not follow through. I know. I was like, I was fine with those early picks because I'm like, great. Let the Cardinals get up. The difference between great quarterbacks and OK quarterbacks is great ones do it every week. And OK ones dominate for fantasy every other week.

James Winston's in the second category. That's for now. He could have got, look, he had its opportunities. I didn't get it done. He failed. Running backs, look, it's hard to say they poop their pants when they got injured like Abdullah and Rawls and Martin and Woodhead, who did poop their pants for you, but, well, they were hurt. So, you know, long term, you're going to have to follow us, listen to the show. We'll tell you what's going on with those guys injury-wise. Let's talk about the guys that were healthy. Carlos Hyde.

Yeah, 14. You knew it was going to be a top matchup. Yeah, he was not startable for me this week anyways. The guy that was... I was unhappy with how I played. I guess it's better than him being happy with how he played. The guy that I think pooped his pants the biggest because of the matchup, the opportunity, and the expectations was Rashad Jennings. I was super disappointed. I thought for sure Rashad Jennings was borderline...

RB1 for the week. For the week against the New Orleans Saints. And he gets 13 for 27. Do you know that there were 14 carries given to Shane Vereen in this game on the ground? I was going to throw out the, like I talked about at the beginning of he was, some people are reporting. His hand is wrapped. He was seen with a cast, which would explain very much not the inefficiency, the workload, but why Shane Vereen was getting everything at the end.

Yeah. All right. Todd Gurley, look, he faced the Seattle defense. 19 for 51, definitely flashed at times. Are you concerned with Todd Gurley? Yeah. I'm concerned that he's not matchup proof until he has a quarterback that can actually scare a defense. Well said. Jeremy Hill, 11 for 22, including some goal line stuffages. Yeah. Not a good game.

No, he stinks. And here's what I mean. No, here's what I mean by Jeremy Hill stinking. I'm not saying that he's not a good football player. I think he's an exceptional goal line player in most situations, but he stinks for fantasy football because I'm never confident. In fact, I am actually confident that if he doesn't get a touchdown, he's not going to do anything for my fantasy team. He gets the ball and he's running for, you know, two yards of carry right now. That's not going to get it done. How does that make you feel, Mike?

Oh, terrible. I wanted him to be good again. I drafted him in our league of record. I took him over Jonathan Stewart. I regret that now, even with Stewart's current injury. TJ Yeldin had every opportunity this week. Now, Gameflow did not do him any favors. They got blitzed by the San Diego Chargers. But Yelden. Gameflow sure did him a favor. He got eight catches. Yeah, all behind the line of scrimmage for like 10 yards total. I've never seen so bad a passing line. Embarrassing.

If I can get... Yeldon did nothing to separate on any play from anyone. Dominant defensive performance by Varet and the San Diego Chargers, DBs. Just a blowout. You already heard me apologize. Or not apologize, break up with Gus Bradley. Well, if I can buy Chris Ivory for very, very cheap, I'm going to do it. I am completely on board with that, Mike, because if you are the Jags and something is wrong, you need a scapegoat.

You need to say, what's wrong with our team? Well, we got no running game. They literally, over two games, have not been able to run the ball at all. If Chris Ivory comes out and runs well in week three, and we don't know exactly what he's been dealing with, but it's been called an illness, which I prefer than a knee injury or a hamstring problem. I've heard that he was trending up. He just wasn't ready to play this week. So my point is if he comes in and runs well in week three, now, you know, the savior is here. They paid him the money. He's here. He's going to get the work. He's going to get the goal line. And they're going to say.

that's what the ailment was. That's the fix. So I agree. Look for ivory on the cheap right now. All right. Let's blitz these, uh, the wide receivers guys. Long term concern. John Brown. Long term, no, but you can't, you can't play him until he starts showing up. I have major long term concern with John Brown this year. Geron Brown playing well hurts him. Uh, and it hurts my heart. Golden Tate, two for 13 on nine targets. I still do not have long term concerns with Golden Tate. But goodness gracious, you sucked. You sucked so hard this week. Dante Moncrie.

injured. I mean, long term, it depends on the injury, but Sammy Watkins. Yeah, I think long term because of the injury. The lingering foot. I don't know. I might be buying Watkins. I might be buying Watkins. I go back and forth of trying to buy Watkins for the cheap and hoping that by the second half, he starts cooking like he did last year. Doug Baldwin.

I'm not concerned. No concerns whatsoever. A.J. Green, 2 for 38, not concerned. Emmanuel Sanders had a disappointing game in a good matchup where the Colts had lost 5 dBs, but Sanders only 3 for 39 on 8 targets. Dude, I was watching the beginning of this game, and I'm not sure that this is exactly accurate. This is how I remember it. I feel like all three of those receptions were first quarter. The beginning of the game, I was like, oh, Emmanuel Sanders looks great. I have no idea how he ended up with this line.

All right. Alan Robinson, three for 54 on five targets. Now he played Verrett. He said he's opened with two tough matches. We talked about that when Alan Robinson is matched up against an exceptional DB, he doesn't. The splits aren't as good. He doesn't perform. The targets weren't there either. No, they were not. Part of that was the, you know, maybe a lack of separation. He is a guy. I would go target right now. All right. Lastly, the four tight ends I want to mention. Gary Barnage, Kobe Fleener, Travis Kelsey, Dwayne Allen.

All of them did not score. They all had under 40 yards receiving. They disappointed their owners. Kobe Fleener. Yet again, Gary Barnage, okay. He caught a few passes this time, but nothing impressive. Who are you most worried about out of the bunch? Who are you least worried about? I'm most worried out of the bunch about Kobe Fleener. Right now, I think he's completely droppable. Oh, man.

I still think. If you go back to my preseason takes, I know I talked about him a lot. I know, look, he is one of my guys, but I even said in that,

He might get off to a slow start, and I want to pick him up off of waivers. I think in week five or six, when they start getting that connection together, I'm going to be back on him. But right now, drop him. That's the thing with the tight end position. He did have. You don't need to have loyalty to these tight ends for fantasy. You drop him, and pick him up. Guy I'm least concerned with his Travis Kelsey. He's a beast. He'll be fine. Yeah, I'm concerned about Duane Allen giving you much of anything this year, too. Yeah, Alan's a, I mean, you took him super late in the draft, and you knew that if he doesn't, if he doesn't get a touchdown, he's going to let you down.

All right, guys, real quick, give me a winner for tonight's game. Who wins the game between the Eagles and the Bears? The Bears. I'm going to take the Eagles. Yeah, I'm going to take the Eagles as well. Hey, that's it, guys. Check up Fantasyjox.com for all your trophy needs with the promo code. Footballers. Huge waiver show tomorrow. Don't miss it. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com.

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