Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 3 Matchups, Under Pressure

Montgomery's long-term prognosis because he's been downright amazing so far. I'm firing him up as if that doesn't matter at all. I mean, he's getting levy on Bell levels of snaps. I mean, most running backs are not out there for 90 plus percent of the time. And that's what Montgomery is doing. So even if he comes down to the 70, 75 percent of snaps, he's still on the best offense. He's still the guy on that team.

Maybe one of your owners, your league mates is freaking out over this. This is not moving the needle for me. Okay. Any other news that you guys want to get into before we talk about a little bit of these practice reports? You can just throw out a couple names of like DeMarco Murray did not practice on Wednesday. You need to monitor that situation. Terrence West.

did not practice. It was reported that he had that soft tissue injury. So Buck Allen would be all systems go. And Alex Collins becomes a flex worthy type of a situation. And of course, Jordan Reed. I love Michael. Did not. Hey, Jordan Reed. And also I would throw out. So Jordan Reed was not at practice. But Rob Kelly was practicing in pads Wednesday's practice. So that's good news for his.

Outlook for this week and bad news for all the people desperate to start Somaget P. Ryan. I'm one of them. I'm laughing because Jay Cruden's quote about Jordan Reed is just too funny. Speaking Wednesday, Coach Jay Gruden said Jordan Reed is, quote, not healthy right now. Yep. He says that quote is just every day.

It's like Memento. He just has a tattooed on his body. Yep. So he can remember. That's so disappointing and frustrating. Yeah, it is. Tyler Eifford not practicing either. Are you good? I've been getting a lot of questions. Yeah. Tyler Eifert. Where, what's your Tyler Eifert? I'm starting Tyler Eifert if he's healthy and fine. If he's not, you don't. But do you drop him? I'm going to say people are saying, do I move on? I wouldn't. I mean, this is a guy who average more.

points per game than Gronkowski last year in Gronkowski's super year. When he's healthy, he's a superstar. You just have a team that basically they've stunk. He had a touchdown called back due to being a penalty. He was targeted towards the second half of that game. You got a new offensive coordinator. You know, the case for...

Look, you cannot find tight ends anywhere. I agree. I would absolutely hold them. It's the same thing with Jimmy Graham. If he was out, if you were dropped by someone else. If they're on the wire, would you pick them up? Right. Then don't drop them. That's a great way to put it. Think about yourself in another league. If he was available, then then you don't drop them. Yeah. All right. Let's get into the forecast and then we'll get into the starts of the week. Fantasy forecast. All right. Your once a week reminder, if you've got a Thursday night player.

in your flex. Get them out of there. Take them out of your flex. Put them in one of your starting restricted position spots, running back wide receiver, whatever that might be. You don't want to lock yourself into that flex position when you don't have to. It gives you more flexibility. I was going to make the joke if you didn't. I should have let you. All right, the Ravens take on Jacksonville in London.

This is an early game, 6.30 in the morning. So us west coasters, you get to wake up, roll over. And there's going to be Givorius Allen in my face. I have to set an alarm. For goodness sakes on Sunday morning, it's ridiculous. I'm fine with it. All right. Jacksonville is, they're three and a half point underdogs in London. So this game is obviously neutral sight.

And what do we think the fantasy storylines are here? Is Gervorius Allen in line for kind of the best fantasy production on the Baltimore side? And then what do we expect on the now struggling offense for the Jacksonville Jaguars? I see both teams here trying to run the ball. I would take the under, even though it's a very low over under at 40. You've got two fantastic.

past defenses on each side of the ball and two teams that have been run on a little bit this year. So, you know, I think it could be a good game for Leonard Fournette, a good game for Buck Allen. I'm not really wanting any of the pieces in the passing game. We talked about this on the Waver Wire show, right? Your Alan Hearns could be great. Marquise League could be great. We're not sure who the main target replacement is yet for Alan Robinson. And while I want those guys, I'm certainly, certainly not playing them against the Ravens.

Someone might have a good game, but I'm not going to. I mean, the process says you don't start those unknown commodities against such a great past defense. Here's something very interesting. When you look at the percentage of a team's target shares at the wide receiver position through the first two weeks, and shout out to T.J. Hernandez, who threw the chart up on this. Marquis Lee is like number five, but the production hasn't been there whatsoever. Hopkins far and away, number one.

with almost 48% of the targets last week in Houston. But Marquis Lee has had the targets. Hearns with the production last week, I think it just adds to the, you're not really going to get that one right. I don't think you really want to play with that fire unless you are desperate or it's a deeper league. Watson? Benjamin Watson, you can play him? Benjamin Watson, I think, is a guy. If you're in a full PPR league, I think you can play him. Okay. All right. Let's turn to the Broncos Bills matchup.

It's in Buffalo. Interesting that the bills are only three-point underdogs in this matchup. I think it speaks to how they've played on defense thus far and obviously being the home team. But I guess I expected this line to be the gap to be wider there. 40 and a half point over under says that they think it's going to be a more low-scoring game. We've talked a lot over the past two days about Trevor Simeon. I think you can go back and listen to those, but the gist is that Mike and Jason kind of disagree with the streaming viability of Simeon this week.

Buffalo hasn't given up any touchdowns through the air through two weeks, but has only faced Josh McCown and Cam Newton. The Broncos. Two of the worst. We know their D is outstanding. Push comes to shove here. The Broncos run defense against the Sean McCoy. You're not really benching the Sean McCoy. And this year has been a lot different. We're small sample size, but Denver was very beatable on the ground last year.

Perhaps they have turned everything around, but I'm still playing shady with full confidence. Okay. Yeah, there's no way you've been shady. No. The volume is just outrageous. He'll have bad games from time to time because everyone does, but you have to just keep plugging them in. You do not start another player on that Buffalo team. I do not start Charles Clay either. I think you can start Charles Clay. That's the only guy that I would be willing to start Charles Clay in that matchup. On the other side of the ball,

I almost made C.J. Anderson my start of the week. He has been getting carries that fantasy owners drool over. I mean, you're talking 20 carries, and he's looked great. I mean, you've had some of those classic C.J. Anderson runs. The thing with C.J. Anderson that we have never liked about him in redraft leagues is injury. Is he going to play the whole year? You know, that's the tough thing.

If you've got him this week, he is currently healthy, and he has been great. I'm going to circle back to Charles Clay because I think – I don't think you'd actually start him. Oh, okay. Tell me why. I think I would. Okay, but here's my problem with starting Charles Clay is that he hasn't had enough games in a row to where he's a reliable option. You don't have him ranked in a position where you would start him. I mean, I was going to give you some names here. You're starting Hunter Henry or Charles Clay.

um hunter henry is you you have him ranked you have him ranked much higher i've got him ranked much higher because i see his upside as as extreme i mean his upside is great this week the problem is if they bring him into block like they did week one so he is a boom bust type that would be a roster thing right but gronk kelsey irts rudolph walker doyle do you start him over bennett against cincinnati i probably don't start him over bennett don't start him over ebrun

Reed, Henry, Graham, Fleener, Witten, Cook, Miller. But now you're getting into the streamer position. I think that's all he was talking about is guys you're grabbing off of the waiver wire right now to play. There's a lot of. There's a lot of, a lot of players who this last week lost the tight end. They lost Greg Olson. They lost Jimmy Graham. They lost Tyler Eifer. And I'm saying Charles Clay, look what Jason Whitten did.

against them last week. 10 for 97 and a touchdown. Charles Clay is the main piece for the Buffalo offense in the passing game. It's the only one Tyrod Taylor has a rapport and a trust with. So I do think if you have to pick someone up off of waivers, Charles Clay. Would you start him over Watson? Like, because we just talked about Watson. Which would you rather lean with this week, Watson against the Jaguars versus Clay? Maybe some people are facing that decision. I think I would rather go Clay because we saw his involvement last year.

and this year, whereas Ben Watson's had one game where he stepped into the role we hope he has.

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I want to see if Michael Thomas can have a big boy game. I want to see if Christian McCaffrey can finally have a breakout game. I want to understand what Cam Newton is going to do against a passing defense that is currently ranked 32nd in the league. What are you guys looking at from this matchup? 46.5 point over under. Panthers, five and a half point favorites. The first thing I'm looking at is Cam Newton is treading into completely unknown waters. He is playing without.

Greg Olson. And this is not something that Cam Newton has done with any type of regularity. I mean, Greg Olson is a 95 to 100% snap type of guy. He is always on the field. He has always produced for Cam Newton. What does this team do now that Olson is out of the picture? And I got a few questions on Twitter. Why did you guys mention Ed Dixon as a pickup for the Waverwire show?