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

And they'll go, what are you talking about? He'd say, okay, well, give me the box combo, subcoil soft for extra fries and extra sauce. Yeah, fair. Visit raisin canes.com to find your nearest location. Took my sister out to lunch at Raising Keynes this past week. Well, you're killing me, man. I'm so hungry. Yeah. Poopped in his big boy pants. All right, these are the guys that if they were on your roster, you might have lost this week or struggled. Hopefully you had some other guys in the stud muffin segment.

that could carry you, that could help you if you started Russell Wilson or Eli Manning. Ho-hum, Eli Manning, 196, and Zip. The bigger story to me is Russell Wilson. You know what he's on pace to run for this year? I saw it. Was it 88? 88 yards. Russell was because he's hurt. And you watched, he's had his buy week already. And he gets no time off. And you watched him in that Arizona game. If he could have run last night at all.

On any play. They completely knew he would not run. Right. And I think if he could have run, that game is completely different. I think Seattle probably easily wins the game. But he can't. I mean, his ankles are extremely taped up. He's got a huge brace on his knee. It's panic time on Russell Wilson because that's what his game is. His game is built on his legs. Their team can get it done, but for fantasy, he's not going to get it done for you with these numbers. No. All right. At the running back position.

I'll call him my super pooper of the week because Jordan Howard, seven for 22. This was a Thursday night game. We've already told Howard we'd see him at the crossroads. Oh, that was good. That was funny. I like that. Oh, yeah, you weren't here for that. I wasn't. I enjoyed listening for that. Yeah, that was funny. It's at this point, you missed your window to probably trade Howard for big. If you have a chance because he's young, do it. What's with this next guy?

What happened to Terrence West? I don't know. Eight for 10. I know that he left early with, he got dinged up and missed some time and Kenneth Dixon took over. But the eight for 10, this is one of those games. I got to go back and watch on, on the replay because I didn't, I wasn't able to catch a lot of it. Now, by Dixon taking over, did you mean one carry for zero yards? I just meant he came into the game. I mean, this was an atrocious performance. Now that's the Jets, but we got some breaking news.

Breaking news. Ian Rappaport reporting that, as we call him, Gerong Brown, has torn his ACL. So Arizona Cardinals, Geron Brown, that's, for fantasy purposes, it gives a bump to Michael Floyd and John Brown as he had been cutting in. It does. Not good news for the Cardinals. Our day just continues to suck. If John Brown doesn't make it back next week, by the way,

I think Michael Floyd against the worst secondary in football maybe is a strong play. As long as it hits them in the hands and not the bread basket. I don't want to tell you. The Michael Floyd bread basket is full. Not accepting footballs. Yeah, neither is Matt Jones. So Matt Jones stunk as well. Do you think Terrence West, you just have to hold this week and just say this was just an anomalous? You played the Jets. This is just not. Yes. Okay. Dixon didn't come in and take over.

So it's still Terrence West. All right. We pumped the brakes on Kristen Michael this week. We knew he's playing in Arizona. He went 16 for 52, not the worst performance. It was, I thought they should have been given him more carries. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. As a, as a fan watching, I did not want to see him get more carries because I thought he could do something with it. But yeah, I mean, we pumped the brakes. Hopefully you didn't start him anyways. Wide receivers that stunk. We talked about Alan Robinson. What about Jordy Nelson, guys?

Jordan Nelson, I think, you know, this is when you've got three wide receivers and you don't throw the ball a ton, he had a large, you don't throw the ball a ton. You throw it more than anybody in the entire league. Okay, I'm saying in general for Aaron Rogers usually is near the middle of the pack in total attempts. And I'm saying going forward, you have to realize you're going to have guys of these trifecta that might not, and really it's a, it's a quattro now with Thai Montgomery in there.

However, he did have that long-pass interference call early in the first. I believe he had another red zone target. I'm fine. Fantasy points. Four weeks in a row have gone down. I would like to have Jordy Nelson. I'm going to take the other side of this. So, Jordy. He's no longer a one consideration. Jordy or Alan Robinson? Jordy. Give me Alan Robinson.

Really? Yeah, because Jordy's got Seattle and Minnesota. The same thing we talked about Aaron Rogers in those last two games. Jordy is not getting targeted at the levels he used to. He's not making big plays. Only one game out of six so far over 73 yards. There's just nothing there. There's no volume and no yard. Alan Robinson's playoff schedule also has Minnesota, then Houston, then Tennessee. Playing everybody in the fantasy playoffs. Yeah, it's just a judgment call there. Both guys have been stinking.

So you can take it. It's been stinking with bad playoff schedules. Yeah. So you can take your pick. Jordan Matthews, three for ten. Jeremy Curley, two for 15. I think those guys are going to, they're losing their big boy pants, though. I don't think Jeremy Curley had big boy pants. How about Stefan Diggs? Stefan Diggs, everybody wanted to give him big boy pants. And I said it. Don't do it. Don't do it. This is not the kind. That is like, you know.

There are certain offenses that just do not have the volume. We saw this last year. We saw this with Diggs already. This is the instant replay. He had a couple games with that four-game massive stretch, but when you don't throw the ball that much, it's really hard. Or that well. Yeah, especially with Sam Bradford. There will be a stretch coming up for Diggs, though. Okay, Jeffrey, does he ever get in the end zone this year? Yeah, I mean, honestly, Jeffrey was a guy I had told you guys to tell people to target because I think this injury,

to Brian Hoyer. He is out. I feel like that's going to have to rush Cutler back at some point. When Cutler is back, Alshan Jeffrey is going to be a good option. He's finally healthy. And I don't blame Alshan Jeffrey for having a bad game considering that their second string quarterback got injured and their unprepared third string quarterback came in. But do you, I mean, can you start him in the interim? I mean, right now. No. He doesn't even seem like. Not until Cutler's bad. If Narls Barkley is the quarterback, though. All right.

Jeremy Macklin, I lost this bet. Four for 40. That's not going to put him in the top 10. Called it. I am not supremely worried. I think Jeremy Macklin's going to be what he has always been for the Chiefs weekend weekend. Yeah, which is five for 50. You have a chance for a touchdown, Mike. Brandon Marshall was not good. Three for 39 despite the win. Yeah, that stunk. I traded for him this week and he crapped my team. But you're confident in him.

Yeah, I mean, he's the number one. He's extremely talented. I mean, he's been great all year. This is going to be his worst game of the season. Amari Cooper, Kenny Britt, Deshaun Jackson, three other guys. I mentioned Britt just because he had kind of been pumped up last week. Yeah, we finally start giving Case Keene of a little bit of credit. You guys ready to give up on D. Jacks yet? Yeah, I was going to say, I'm not sure this is a bad game for him. Five for 35. Yeah, it's time to. He's been, he's been poopy. All right, Martel's Bennett only ran 10 passing rounds.

This is this week. He also had limited snaps. I think he, I think he started something like, I don't know, 65% of snaps somewhere around there. I'll bet that. This is the danger of Martellus Bennett. It's the ceiling that you've seen, three touchdown. But you know the floor is literally zero points. 30 and 57 snaps. But when you compare Martellis Bennett in that the barfey tied end category.

I'll take the guy who has the ceiling, so I'm still okay plugging Martel has been in. Hunter Henry and Travis Kelsey, both pooped in their big boy pants this weekend. Henry had just been awarded them. He had just opened him in the mail. He put him on, went out there. Now, I'll say this is one reception was about a yard from a touchdown, but I mean, this is a game where they won. He also had another really nice fade route to the end zone where he caught the ball in tough coverage, but the guy got him.

pushed out just enough where his second foot came down out of bounds. But that was another, you know, you add that play, which was probably a 15-yard pass, and he's 30 yards in a touchdown. You're not too. Why owning Greg Olson is nice. Yes. Because he doesn't have to score. Hunter Henry is part of the roulette. Did you know, one of the pieces? Did you guys know that this week, the all-time NFL record for consecutive 200-yard passing games was broken? What do you mean? A quarterback this week,

through for the most consecutive 200 plus yards in the history of the NFL. That has to be one of the big boys. So you're talking like Breeze? Yeah, Breeze is who I would have thought. Yeah. It was actually an honorable mention for Pants Poopers this week. Matthew Ryan. Ryan?

He is the all-time NFL record holder for consecutive 200-plus yard games. I'm not going to call his game a full poop. No, I agree. Just an honorable. The only reason he's an honorable mention is because he had been, he was consistently in most people's rankings at top three. Sure, sure. So, you know, I said it before. Kelsey and Macklin, if they didn't blow it up this week, I was done. I'm done with them both. I'm done with them both for, I mean, look, you're probably in a position where you've got to start Kelsey.

But you don't have to start Macklin. And there are plenty of options on WaverWire that I would have picked up. I mean, we talked about Tyrell Williams this week. He's out there. We're going to get into that tomorrow on the Waver Wire show. But I'm done expecting anything special from those guys. They don't need to do it. Jason brought up they don't need Jamal Charles right now. They also don't need to pass the ball to Kelsey and Macklin in volumes. They'll get fantasy owners. Nothing. Nothing. Other players, you know, Odell Buckham Jr. had a tough week. You're not sitting him. Blake Bortle stunk.

Just bleh. That's the, you know, those are the only guys that I think are worth mentioning before we get into the Monday night game. I would agree. All right, let's talk Texans and Broncos preview the game for this evening. I know a lot of fantasy matchups are going to be hinging on the performance of players like Lamar Miller, like DeAndre Hopkins. Like the Denver defense? Like...

Demarius Thomas Emmanuel Sanders and the Anderson Booker combo on that side. I had a panic moment. And I regret it now. But I had a panic moment about this Anderson Booker timeshare. And that caused me to go out and trade those guys and some draft assets. I wondered why you made that move. And acquire Mark Ingram. Because I am worried about Anderson.

Now, this matchup, I thought Anderson could play well, but they've come out repeatedly this week and said they want to get Booker more carries. Booker's been hyper-efficient. I am worried about this going from, you know, to become a Devonta Freeman-Tevon-Colman situation because it should. It should become that for them to be a better team. Yeah, this is the same exact team with the same coach, the same scheme, and the same player in C.J. Anderson last year that frustrated fantasy owners because it was like, why is Ronnie Hillman so involved?

The reason Ronnie Hillman was so involved is because that's what they want to do. They want to have, you know, their backs fresh. And so now if Devante Booker, who has looked pretty good, can fill in that role, I expect rest of season. I still think C.J. Anderson's going to be the more productive, I mean, vastly more productive than Booker. And he's still a good fantasy option. But those first few weeks where it looked like he was getting 90% of the touches or even.

Well, he was just 5, 70%. It's not going to happen. He was far more efficient. And, you know, in the beginning of the season, you've had now one touchdown over four weeks for C.J. Anderson. You've had him 6, 13, 8, 10. And look, Booker can get to the edge. C.J. Anderson does a lot of things well. He sure as heck can't get to the edge. He's not fast enough. He's tough. He made some good plays last week that got called back. And again, not selling C.J. Anderson.

I'm just a little bit worried because this offense was Simeon, they don't need to lean on it very heavily. They don't have to be hyper-efficient. And look, C.G. Anderson, yardage in the last four weeks is all you have to look at. 37, 49, 41, 37. He's not even getting over 50 yards rushing. Are you buying Booker? I mean, knowing that Ronnie Hillman last year was a valuable fantasy asset for a long stretch of time. No, I'm not. I'm not buying him.

And I'm far less concerned about C.J. Anderson than you guys. I'm not worried about Booker coming in and taking over. What are the chances that tonight's game? I'm just curious why. Because C.J. Anderson is just what my eyes are telling me. C.J. Anderson is the better player. He's the better running back, and he's the better pass protector. I agree on the past protector. For all of the chaos of the thing that happened was Booker came in and had two or three back-to-back great runs.

C.J. Anderson was still on the field over 78% of the snaps. C.J. Anderson is still the guy for that team. It's not so much that. That's not arguable. But neither are the fact that when he gets those snaps, you're talking about 10 carries, then 11 carries. You're talking about no pass targets until garbage time last week. What I'm saying is if you're on the field for that much time and not producing, how are you going to be better when you bring Booker in for more snaps? I just don't think that Booker's actually going to.