Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 1 Matchups, TNF Review, Fantasy News

If you want to take a, if he's out, it's Coates or Eli Rogers is a flyer at the wide receiver position. Matt Jones practicing at full for week one. We expect him to play. Kevin White added to the injury report on Thursday with a hamstring injury. Look, just keep him at the bottom of your bench right now. Kevin White is not somebody I want to have shares of in my starting roster. Agreed. We talked about Kelvin. Look, there was a tweet this morning. This is scary.

It said Char West passed where on the official depth chart earlier in the week. This is from Therz A. Paler, who is a chief's beat reporter. And according to him, West is on top of the depth chart. Okay, but we really need to frame this for fantasy owners right now. When I hear this news, when I watch what happened when both guys were active and healthy last year, I'm still very confident in Spencer Ware's involvement this week against a weak defensive front in San Diego.

I have no, I'm not going to adjust his ranking because I think they're complimentary and I think that Spencer Ware will get his. So I'm going to project Spencer Ware the same. Yeah. And if you guys want to adjust, that's fine. For me, I will just giving you my perspective. For me, I will probably adjust a little bit because I didn't have Charkandric West getting hardly any involvement. If he does get involved based on my stats, I'll have to adjust a little bit. But I agree with you that I still think Ware is a good play. He is the guy I would play.

out of these two guys because he's clearly the goal line back, and I think you're going to get goal line opportunities against this defense. So where is still a fine play? All right, beast mode news. I was with some people last night, and somebody just walks out to me, and they know I do fantasy football, and they just said it. They said, Marshall Lynch is back. That's the news. That's not really the news.

Mike, why don't you jump on this one because you love the source? Well, the source is Mike Florio for pro football talk. They are a little TMZ-esque. They have switched over to that. Maybe they've cleaned it up, but I don't consider them a very reputable source for things like this. And there is a report that Michael Robinson reached out to Marshaun.

and said, what the heck, dude? How about you give the report first? Oh, sorry. The report is that Marshall Lynch is considering a return to the NFL. I thought you'd go out yesterday. Talking about a week four or five return, potentially. The rights for Marshall Lynch are owned by Seattle. If Seattle doesn't release him, they'd have to pay him $9 million. They'd likely trade him or just straight release him if he returned. And then, like I said, Michael Robinson heard the news. He called him up. And this is the quote, record this. Everybody please.

Marshawn Lynch is retired. He told me from his own mouth. Well, there you go. I think if you... I believe that's called Straight from the source. Straight from the source sounds good. How many times did Brett Fav say he was retired? Hey, that's very valid. No, I will, you know, I do not think Marshawn Lynch comes back. I don't. And in our dynasty league where we have a bench of, what do we have like, 2015, 20 players on the bench, you're darn right. I made a waiver claim on them because, you know, I'm dropping...

you know, nobody's to have the chance at the upside. But if you're in a regular league, I think you, you know, where you've got five bench spots, I think you've got to hold off here and not waste, not burn an option on that would be my personal. Sure. And I agree with that. You know, it's one of those things where if you're a team that's really weak at running back and you need a flyer, you can take a chance. But, you know, the odds of this panning out in a way that both he returns and dominates in fantasy.

It's a long pathway to that. It reminds me of the GIF. It's a, of the two guys just shoveling money into the furnace. That's your fab that you've spent on Marshawn Lynch. Unless he comes back. So the Lions agreed to a three-year extension with.

Theo Riddick. Good for you, Riddick. They like Riddick. They love Riddick. I love when a team pays for guys like this, because what it does is it gives us confidence as fantasy people that they will be as involved this year as they were last year. Riddick was the most receptions at the running back position last year. Right, and you wonder, can I really trust it? You know, because Abdullah was hurt for a part of it and, you know, will he be more and more involved? But when you go out and pay a guy, you say, we need that role.

So I think Theo Riddick has to be taken in PPR leagues, you know, as serious as he was last year. We got into this a little bit yesterday. The reason I was going to make that water bat way to we miscommunicated about what you meant was because this team does not, I mean, they don't look at Abdul and go, boy, we got to we got to make, we got to work this guy up into being a workhorse. They have no goal of that, none, zero. From the offensive coordinator saying they don't need a thousand yard back to the head coach saying they don't see him as a workhorse back to Theo Riddick getting an extension.

to Zach Zinner, to whatever it is. This is a team that looks at it as a platoon of weapons that stand behind Matthew Stafford. Yep. That is 100% of the view. So let's, that's it for the news unless you guys have anything else. I would just say I still think Abdullah is the more talented by a wide margin. Yeah, just throwing it. Okay. I'm not going to get into it. Fantasy forecast.

Unless you meant fumbling. And then I'll agree with it. Well, clearly that's what I meant. Raiders take on the Saints. We're back into the matchups. Breaking them down. 51 point over under. Let's call this. You know what we need? Mike, this is you've let us down. Big time. You've let this show down. I apologize for what I did. I didn't do that I do not know that I didn't do. Thank you for the apology, Mike. But look, it's clear that we need the Bonanza theme song.

as a drop for games like this. Because this is a fantasy bonanza type of game. They're very, very azure-esque. What? Bonanza. Bonanza? Yeah, the CBS Azer Bonanza curse. Never mind. Never mind. No, no, no. This is the fantasy footballer podcast. I know, I know. I was talking about the game being a big fantasy explosion type of game. I'll get my mind going. I feel like in this game I want to start most.

pieces. I mean, I'm not going to go so far as car and, you know, CJ Spiller in there. But yeah, car. Let me go through him. You just say yes or no. Car. Yep. Breeze. Yep. Latavis Murray. Yep. Ingram. Yep. Cooper and Crabtree. Yep. Cooke's and Cooke. Yep. Clive Welford. He could be sneaky. Yep. Michael Thomas. Probably not just because he was showing up on the injury report. So if he splits with Coleman, I'm going to wait. I'm going to stash him. Kai Forbath.

Definitely. He's been cut. I know. Saints defense. No, no. Do not start the defensive teams. We know the story of the Saints defense 31st in the league and run and pass D last year. So not dead last. Congratulations. But dead last has a combination for sure. The Raiders were middle of the road against the run last year, not good against the pass.

I think this will be a high-scoring game, as Vegas agrees. This is officially Vegas's highest of the entire week. I think it's interesting. The Saints are barely favored at home, basically a heads-up game. I love everybody in this game, like you said. Crabtree's a sneaky start. He was your start of the week. Start of the week. Love Latavius. From a fantasy curiosity perspective, the two things I'm watching in this game, two or three, what is Spiller's involvement? Yep.

What is Michael Thomas' involvement on the depth chart? He's a starter. What is his actual involvement in the game? Does he perform? When you saw Brandon Coleman debut with Drew Breeze, you knew Brandon Coleman wasn't going to be a staple right away. So what happens with Michael Thomas? And then Clive Wofford, I want to see his involvement as well because he came on towards the end of the year. Is he a fantasy time? He's an early round tight end. What does he do? And for me, I really am going to be looking for the Fleener Breeze.

Are they in sync yet? Because I still expect that they might get off to a slow start. But by the end of the season, I think Fleener will be very valuable. Let's go, let's move on. Let's move on to a game that I view in the opposite way completely. The Cincinnati Bengals take on the New York Jets. Andy Dalton, back, healthy. You have Ryan Fitzpatrick that has been signed, that has had a limited preseason of work. We expect.

Brandon Marshall will be healthy in playing, right? Yeah, with the hip? Yes. Yeah, I'm not concerned about it. So what are the storylines from this game? You know, the Jets were dominant against the run last year. Second in the league, looked at part during the preseason. Jason couldn't stop raving about the defensive line. They look great. So talk about you're a Jeremy Hill owner. You're a Gior Bernard owner. What are you doing here? You know.

It's tough with guys like that because usually when you're comparing, do I start this guy? It's not against other great options. You know, if I'm the Jeremy Hill owner, I might be looking between a Jeremy Hill and a Melvin Gordon, in which case I'm probably starting Jeremy Hill. Between Jeremy Hill and Gio, I think this game is one of those where you could argue because it's so hard to run against the Jets that Gio will be involved in the screen game. But then you could also argue,

Very similar to what we saw last night. When there are low-scoring games where neither team really gets out ahead and they both want to be that defensive control the game, it's really a Jeremy Hill type of game because they're going to continue to give him the ball and try to grind out that clock. That's just low production, though. I agree. It's kind of like what we saw from Jonathan Stewart. Exactly. I have geo rated much higher than Jeremy Hill this week. Yeah? Yeah.

That's my, so, especially what I saw in the last pre-season, the third game of the preseason, Gio looked a lot better than Hill did to me. And I think the plethora of ways you get him involved, I haven't rated a lot higher. I don't like Hill running into that defensive line. Yeah, that's going to be bad. Now, I do believe, I forget which, which Jets. One of the Jets defensive linemen is suspended this game. Is that correct? I will look that up. Yeah, so.

If you're looking in this game alone, would you start Jeremy Hill or would you start Matt Forte against Cincinnati? Obviously, Cincinnati's a great defensive front. Seventh in the league against the run last year. Love them this year. On the defensive side of the ball, I think they have the potential to be one of the best teams in the league. Forte for sure. You would start Forte. I have these guys. Why Forte for sure? Because Forte is going to be involved in the passing game no matter what.

Jeremy Hill might catch a pass and he can be involved, but he won't be. That's going to be Geo's role, whereas Forte is going to be involved on the ground and through the air. I'm much more confident in those type of players. I have all these three players when you break down their actual fantasy points on projecting. They're all within 0.8 of each other. So I see a very, they're very clumped together for me. Okay.

All right. Any other storylines from this game you want to get into before we move on to the Browns and Eagles? Really do not like what I've seen so far from Fitzpatrick. And if he's like a streaming option against this defense, I'm not touching it this week. You start Andy Dalton in this game. Yes, I do. Slightly reluctantly. In New York. I still would. Yeah. And, you know, I'm, I'm Mr. Andy Dalton. I'd like to find another option. I'm Mr. Andy Dalton in general, but I would rather find another option as well.

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