Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 7 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

Gino Smith went to the locker room, right knee injury, didn't return. They said they think he's fine, so we'll see what happens next week. Fitzpatrick let him do a win. It's a mess. Fitzpatrick also came out and said he didn't think anybody believed in him anymore. I did not get to see it, but I saw the reaction on social media that it sounded like there was kind of a pity party going on. Is that the way it seemed? I don't know. I don't know yet. We'll see what happens. I don't know who's going to start the next game.

I'm sure. I think Brandon Marshall owners would be a lot happier with Fitzpatrick behind center. Either way, I think it's all right. Personally, I do too. All right. Brian Hoyer, six weeks. He'll return. And then Josh Norman got a concussion. So next game is against Cincinnati and London. If he's out, you can start Agent Green like always. Man, that catch. Yeah, the Hail Mary. The Hail Mary at the halftime. That was, I don't know if I've seen something like that where he, he.

was just batting the ball to him like... Like a kitty cat? Yeah, like a kitty cat. Like, come here. And then it stuck in his hand. Incredible. It was perfect. There are a few players in the league that are routinely spectacular. Julio, AJ Green. You probably say Odell Beckham Jr. Antonio Brown. I mean, that was...

Part for the course for AJ Green. He just does stuff like that. Any other news you guys have heard about this morning? Are we moving on? We'll move on if we need to hit the button. We'll hit the button. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Let's talk about quarterbacks that performed this week. You had Andrew Luck against Tennessee. Went 27 for 39, 353 and 3. Yeah.

Drew Breeze, Drew Breeze on the road. Yeah, got it done. 367 and 3. All the worries aside, you know, I know I benched Breeze for me. Didn't turn out too bad because I had another stud muffin and Andy Dalton. But yeah, he got it done on the road. I was very impressed. It's interesting because Dalton got it done. Two touchdowns, 308 yards, but did it on 19 completions.

compared to some of these other guys like Drew Brees, who did it on 37 completion. Well, that was one of the worries about Dalton was that they would get such a big lead. And the reality is, I think he finished for my team in our format with 30 points. But he had 26 at halftime. Yep. Yeah, well, this game was more competitive than expected. Because they did get down and they scored a couple of times. Hogan even scored, brought the game, you know, within a few points. So.

Look, we've had listeners talk about Tyrod Taylor. He was 7 for 35 in a touchdown, 221 through the air with another touchdown, you know, claiming that we don't give him enough credit. What do you think about that? Because at this point in time, you add this to the rest of the weeks he's had. He's been pretty good. What do we do with Tyrod Taylor moving forward? Man, it's tough. Well, now you have Goodwin dealing with a concussion, so that could take away one of his deep threats.

Taylor was the 12th ranked fantasy quarterback before the week, put up 30 this week. He's been above 20 in five of seven games. And he's got, no, I'm not buying in. New England, Seattle, buy week, Cincinnati, next four weeks. Yeah, that's, he's just such, he's such a tough start. Yeah. And that's why, you know, sometimes I've made him my start of the week because he's got the potential to be a big blow up.

You know, he's right now on the season including this week. He's the number seven quarterback. But you're going to have to take some huge risk when you start him. It's not like Mariota. Yeah. If he throws touchdowns, gets in for touchdowns, it's not going to come in yardage. It's not going to come in volume completions. Yeah. And I would rather my quarterback come through yardage through volumes so that should the touchdowns not come because they're.

the least predictable thing, then I'm not ending up with a six or a seven. I'm ending up with a 14. How about Blake Bordles versus Tyrod Taylor? Where are you going to go to? Ooh. At this point, I think I'd take Taylor because he's already playing better. You got the baseline on the ground. There was a point in the third quarter, I think, where Bortles had eight yards passing. Eight. Well, you know, the Raiders defense have been locking everybody down.

Oh, wait, no, they've been giving it up to everyone. You know, I don't know why you guys have been in that Gus Bradley camp for so long. I am not a fan of that coach. Yeah. Hold on. Let me hide this picture I have here. Yeah. Sorry, Gus. Running backs. Let's talk about some running back. Oh, you skipped over. No, no, no. James. James. James Winston, 269 and 3. Mike Evans is very good. Aaron Rogers had the good week. Jason, I saw you on Twitter telling people sell, sell, sell, sell. Yeah, no, I really.

I would sell because Aaron Rogers has not looked to his normal self, but he just put up a week that says, I'm my normal self. And so while he's got a couple good games coming up, in the fantasy playoffs, people are always asking, who's got good matchups, who's got bad matchups? He has two horrific matchups in the fantasy playoffs. I'm guessing one of those is Minnesota. Yeah, I want to say it's Minnesota and Seattle. I will vet. You will vet? Yes. Turbo vet. Let's see.

All right. He's got, so weeks 14, 15, 16 is Seattle. Ooh. And then he's got Chicago and then Minnesota. So you've got to get past Seattle. That's not going to be good. No, that's not good. No, that's why I'm saying you'll get a haul for Aaron Rogers after this week. Aaron Rogers has the name to get trades done. He put up a point total that will let people know he's back.

He will do that for the next two weeks, so I think. Well, I agree. Atlanta, Indianapolis. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. You're going to be able to get a haul. If you want to wait a week or two, that's fine, but depending on your trade deadline. Good week from Winston. Good week from cousins. Pulled it together. Wasn't looking good in that game. Mike was facing Matt Jones. And when Matt Jones fumbled into the end zone, I could not hear audibly the words that Jay Gruden was saying. But I saw.

Expletive, expletive, Robert Kelly, expletive, expletive, as in, we're going to get him in the game, and we're going to take Matt Jones out of this game. Jones did get back in the game. Speaking of, Twitter had my back on this one. I gave Matt Jones a very heartfelt apology last week. Someone needs to apologize to you, Mike. Someone owes me an apology. Matt Jones? No, no. I don't agree. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

You said it yourself. We got back in the game. Yeah, yeah. But it didn't help. Fumbles are going to kill him. He has not earned the illustrious Adrian Peterson can fumble all you want, and you're back in the game title. He's got the Stephen Ridley. He's got the Idis. Yeah, he does. He does not run and protect the ball. Running backs, stud muffins. There are a lot of them. Holy freaking crap.

Jay Ajai. Jay Ajai, 28 for 2.14 and it touched in against the very respectable defense. There's only four players in NFL history, two of which are in the Hall of Fame, that ever put back to back 200 plus yards rushing. Well, what do you do with Jay Ajai? Jay Ajai is the RB blank for the rest of the season.

In fantasy football, Jayae is the RB. I'm going 16. Yeah, I'm still going with the two. I'm going. I am going eight. Oh, okay. I'm going to give him a top 10. You got him a one? I do. It's a done deal. Here's the problem. Here's the problem for me. The team spent the entire off season burying Jayae. They wanted nothing to do with him.

They went and they got Arian Foster coming off of a ruptured Achilles. That was after they tried to sign C.J. Anderson. After they, yeah, after they had courted C.J. Anderson. They spent the beginning of the season trying to bury J. Ajay. Doesn't matter. I agree with Andy on that one. It's a result. It's a results business. I don't know. I totally get that. Four years trying to bury Kristen Michael. Guess who's starting in their backfield. Just saying that it's. Boom. Boom. That it's so.

That's why I'm saying it's difficult to know what to do with him. Here's why I gave me 214 reasons this weekend. I think he is going to be their leadback going forward. The lead back for the Miami Dolphins, I think in general, is going to be less valuable than the lead back for most other teams. I cannot fathom that he's able to continue putting up 200 yards on the ground. Only four players in NFL history. I just said, have ever done that? He's coming back down to Earth. And from Earth, I think.

He'll be on the Dolphins and he won't score very many touchdowns, but he'll get the lion's share from here forward. Yeah, I like him. I like him as a top 10. Melvin Gordon scoring touchdowns, 22 for 68 and 2 on the ground, 6 for 53 and 1 through the air. I just making up for last year. I just want to compare these lines real quick. JJ, 28 for 214 yards. Melvin Gordon, 22.

For 68 yards. Yeah, that's going to happen if you compare anybody to 214 yards, Mike. Just saying. Melvin Gordon's dominating for fantasy owners. For fantasy owners, yes. And for this team. Yeah, he's absolutely doing what is required of him to be in a top tier running back. They're winning games. He just beat Denver. They just beat Atlanta after 17 point deficit. Melvin Gordon's doing work.

I will not let you spit upon him. I thought about putting him in the rising stars just as almost an homage. Because I see Melvin Gordon as the original Razor Cage Rising Star. Because when we launched it, he had back to back to back weeks in the preseason where we said, look, he's looking good. And he has backed up everything. I mean, you want to talk about how last year, based on the carry count, he should have had touchdowns. And we said it was coming this year. I didn't know it was coming like this. All right. Make it up for lost time. Matt Forte 30.

carries 100 yards one touchdown on the ground another four for 54 and a touchdown through the air i pumped the brakes on mat forte he pumped your face with his fist yeah matt forte came out and and uh spat upon my uh it's like he heard me but do you buy the question for fantasy owners is do you buy into this because if you're a forte owner you're really happy but this might be your chance to trade him well i'm saying as a forte owner i am not happy because i benched him

Oh, man. Yeah, I guess there are. But do you trade him now? Or do you, would you move Matt Forte for Jonathan Stewart? Ooh, Jonathan Stewart. If I can get Jonathan Stewart for Matt Forte, I would, yes, I would take that. I probably would. We've seen a couple of big weeks at a Matt Forte, and at least two of them required 30 carries. Right. And this is still barely over three a carry. Right. And so if, I mean, he had 30 carries yesterday when they had the quarterback switch.

I don't think he's going to be able to get 30 carries most games. If you look at what happened after he got those first two weeks of massive workload, it really tapered off. If he's not getting 35 touches, he's not going to be doing what he did yesterday. So I would look to capitalize on it. All right. Let me do some math for you here. If Jeremy Hill received the same carry count as Jia Jai and kept his yards per carry, he would have gone 28 for 522.

Because Jeremy Hill put up 168 against the Browns despite being half injured and only receiving nine carries. Because he was started against me. That's why. Jeremy Hill, he's just, I can't quit him, man. Every time I think I can move on from Jeremy Hill, I was like I was starting to, you know, I put a toe in the Geo Bernard pool. I had my feet sees in. The temperature was decent.

This is, you know. Move on. So Jeremy Hill. Oh, move on. This was the, this was not Jeremy Hill. Let me ask you. This was the Cleveland Browns. Let me ask you this. Do you trade forte for Alan Robinson? No. No. Running back's more valuable. Would you trade Hill for Alan Robinson after this week? Yeah, depending. I mean, running back for wide receivers, a completely team dependent move. People want to know. Yeah. I mean, if all things are the same and I'm not hurting my running back's depth, then yes.

I would. Legerat Blunt, 24 for 1, 27, and two touchdowns. Beast. Is this the, some weeks he'll do it, some weeks he won't? Yep. But I think he has value every single week. What happened to James White in the second half of that game? Legerat Blunt happened. Yeah, it really did become that script. I remember thinking in the first quarter. It's a danger of a past catching back. Yep. The first quarter in our format, I started James White, had 10 points, and then he finished it.

10 points. I was like, what's going on? Why didn't you touch the ball anymore? Hey, before we jump into the rest of the running backs, I want to thank today's sponsor, Seat Geek, getting you to the events that you want to be at sports. You mean like all NFL ties? You can go to those games? You can go all to those, but not just sports, music, comedy. Do you need a ticket to get in? Then you jump on the Seatkeek app. It's the smartest and easiest way to find tickets. Look, a week ago, we're sitting in the office. I says, hey, Andy, you want to go to the Monday night football game?