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

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Darn right. Browns at the Eagles, Philadelphia. We get, this is kind of like one of those games where this is an interesting game. It's fun. It's going to be fun to watch. I mean, it's going to be fun to see how things shake out. You got Wince making his debut. You have RG3 making his debut for the Browns. His re-debue. Yeah. I said this. Hopefully he doesn't go ragdoll every 30 seconds like he does seemingly all the time. If we could get Robert Griffin.

and C.J. Anderson on the same team. They would just, and then get Gronk, because Gronk does a little ragdoll as well, like at the end of his place. I said this to our... Some guys don't look good going down. To our group of writers, surprisingly, this is the game I am most excited to watch because there are a lot of questions. Cory Coleman. Correll Pryorillian. Exactly. The list goes on. Do you agree. Beckham.

Honestly, I want to see how is Doriel Green Beckham used? How does Ryan Matthews look? Carson wins. Does he have a report with Earths? There are nonstop questions in this game. So when it comes to the game I'm going to have on watching live, this is going to be one of those games. But with that many questions in a game, what can you reliably start for fantasy football? Or do you take these kind of crapshoot options where you go,

I'm rolling the dice. I am, sure. And let me, we asked about 400 questions about this game because this game has about 400 in it. Here's, here's what I'm going to say. I would start Isaiah Crowell. I'd be willing to start him as a flex. I'd be willing to play Ryan Matthews. I'd be willing to flex Darren Sproles. And I would start Ertz and Barnage. And I'd be okay with all those. Those are the guys that I'm okay rolling into your lineup. I wouldn't be making desperate lineup moves to change out any of those players.

I'm not, I'm going to wait and see him. Prior, Coleman, Jordan Matthews, Greenbackham, those guys. Do you prefer Barnage or Ertz in this match? I prefer Barnage. I prefer Barnage. Just from a touchdown chance perspective, I like Barnage's odds there in the red zone. You know, I think Earth is going to be really involved this year. I was so much more confident with Bradford. But I think I can get there with wins because Ertz is talented. He's been paid. He's a good player. If you look last year, you know, 700 plus yards, I think he's going to be there again.

But I'm going to wait a week. Yeah, I would throw Jordan Matthews as someone that if I had a lower flex option, I would be okay throwing him in there if it's a PPR league. He's going to get his targets out of the slot. The question is really the touchdowns. This.

Sadly, I don't think this is going to be a very high scoring game. This should be kind of a lot of mistakes made in the game. And you're going to have a couple people with fantasy value and relevance. I think talent is going to win out here. That's why I still believe Ryan Matthews is a talented back. I am fine starting him. All right. The Vikings traveled to Tennessee to take on the Titans, Sands Teddy Bridgewater. This is the opposite of that Raiders game. Whatever the actual opposite of it. Can you?

reverse the theme song of Bonanza and let me play it. Yeah, there you go. You got it. Look, you're not benching Adrian Peterson. I am on an island believing that Peterson is not going to have a prolific game this week. And so I'm willing to stand there alone. Understand that the two guys across from me,

Both believe in Adrian Peterson very, very much this week. Very much. I do not disbelieve in him. I just do not have him as a top five type of guy this week. I don't think that you can just move a different quarterback into position here. And week one on the road, look, Peterson can overcome a lot. They're going to give him the ball plenty. I just choose to believe that the Titans middle of the road run defense is going to be okay at home. Stack in the box against Adrian Peterson. That's how I think it's going to play out.

Sure. Let's take a look at the pass catchers here. If there's anyone you're willing to start, for me, the Vikings, look, I don't, the quarterback situation is so up in the air. I don't really feel confident starting any of these guys. Are you willing to throw out your late round man crush, Mr. Tajay Sharp? Are you throwing him out week one?

No, I'm probably not. Okay. I think he has the potential to catch five or six passes in this game, but it's a very good Vikings defense, a very good Vikings past defense, top half of the league last year. And, you know, they want to run the ball there. I just don't know if you're going to have enough production from Sharp against this defense this week. And that's fine. You know, he's a wide receiver four for me this week. The biggest question I have is going to be DeMarco Murray.

Because what we've seen in the preseason is that he has looked really good, that the Titans want to run the ball. He has risen up my rankings on a season-long basis. But now they come into week one and they've got the Vikings who I still believe are going to be riding the emotional high of doing it for Teddy. That would be the emotional low.

Well, but you get up for doing something, you know, in the face, to get down, fellas. In the face of adversity, and we've seen this before. And I think, you know, Coach Zimmer is the type of coach that can really rally their guys. And so that's why I've got AP is my number one running back. So I'm just curious, like, what is DeMarco Murray going to be able to do in this matchup? I don't think the Vikings have the offense to run away with it. No, I think Murray's fine to start. Murray's a, an RB2 for me this week.

Yeah, I'm curious. I'm going to check and see if he's an RB2 for me. Probably is. Mike, any thoughts on this game before we move on to the Dolphins and Seahawks? He is. I'm very interested to watch how that running back situation shapes up of the juggerner. Derek Henry, the juggernaut. Can they keep him off the field? Because they have that huge contract from Murray. All the coach speak is that DeMarco Murray is our guy. We're going to ride or die with DeMarco Murray. But Henry through the preseason.

How do you keep him off the field? I think it will be very complimentary and not a... I don't think it's going to be a concern for them. That's my outlook. I think it's just going to be a really good situation for them. The Dolphins, Dolphins fans, when the schedules were released, they went into the rooms and they ripped up the paper and they cursed the sky because they started on the road in Seattle. They just said, well, it's a 15 weeks schedule.

Yeah. We start 0 and 1. We're just going to take number one off of the board. Hey, guys, this is the NFL. Andy, why don't you make this your almost upset of the week? Nope. Sorry Dolphins fans. Yeah, yeah. It's not happening. This is the largest point spread. Vegas sees the Seahawks running away with this. This is the reason. If you follow my Twitter account at Jason FFL, you saw last night, you know the, from Dumb Dumber, the Jim Carrey Giff of him wanting to vomit.

when he sees something he doesn't like. That's what I had to post along with the fact that I actually think Kristen Michael... Hit me! Is a decent play this week. I will say this. I wanted to temper because there's so much Kristen Michael love coming out. I still don't think he is a very great running back. I think he's an extraordinary athlete.

I believe it will be Thomas Rawls coming in. And remember, Thomas Rawls is in this game. It's not like Jamal Charles with where. You know, Thomas Rawls is going to get probably six or seven touches and take some of that away. But the game script here just says the Seahawks should be in a massive lead.

The dolphins have not been good, you know, were not good last year against the run. And so you should be able to run the clock and score touchdowns on the ground. And so whoever that running back is, right now it looks like it's Kristen Michael should be a valuable fantasy play. Let's talk about. You're just tiptoeing so strongly. Just say it. Kristen Michael is great. And he is great this week. No, I will not. I will not say. I think he's great this week. I don't know if I'm going to jump to he's great.

because the guy was cut from made you know from teams he's a strong play he's awake all right so mike give us the other side of the ball here oh with the dolphins break it out break it down look if i'm playing anybody if you're in a ppr and you're thinking i'm going to play landry or player x uh i'm still okay throwing landry out i what are they going to do what are the dolphins going to do besides they're going to have to keep feeding landry the production might not be great but if you're in the ppr situation

Maybe he gets you seven to nine receptions, and you're feeling okay with how everything is shaping out. And what I want to watch from this game is Kenny Stilts. Ryan Tannenhill looked very great and very terrible play to play during the preseason. But he also seemed to have a connection with Kenny Stills. I want to see, are those targets going to be there in a real game? Are they going to take those deep shots? And how is Tanyhill's deep ball?

doing because he's not really known for that. We had Mike Wallace, one of the best deep route runners at the time, and they couldn't connect. So can he get that going with Kenny Stills? I think that's my, besides, of course, the hashtag Awakening. The thing I want to watch the most is Stills. And of course, Mr. Achilles himself, Foster. What's that workload look like? Do they just, do they give him everything? Do they run him into the ground? My hope for Foster in this game is simple. Catch the ball.

That's my only hope for him in this game. Yeah, his production is going to have to come. Catch the ball. The pressure comes to Tannehill. Tannhill dumped the ball off to Arian Foster and get him some fantasy points. Yeah, his ceiling is going to be hard to be high. It's, it's very difficult for him to put up a lot of points in this game. The one guy, we haven't mentioned that I.

am starting in most situations. I think Doug Baldwin is a fine play in this game. All right. The Giants and Cowboys battle in week one divisional matchup. If you look at last year's game script, it needs to change for Eli Manning against the Cowboys. Much like Philip Rivers against the Chiefs, Manning through zero touchdowns against the Dallas Cowboys last year. So I think you have to temper some expectations for him this week. I know other people don't have that point of view.

I think that you just can't project Manning to come out and set the world on fire after that kind of a production against this defense. They know each other very well. Eli Manning is not a must start for me this week. On the other side, you have Dak Prescott making his debut. My number one running back on the week is in this game. Zeke, really? No, Alf. No, it's Zeke. It's Ezekiel. He's my number one running back on the week. Outlandish, as it may be, I just think.