Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

Probably over Tammy. I think that Green's continued involvement is more related to Stevie Johnson has been out the last couple games, and he has returned to practice. Stevie Johnson is on track to play, so I'm not. So you start Benjamin Watson over Larry's screen? Yes. What about somebody like Larry Danelle? I would still go with Danelle. Okay.

I completely agree. The upside of the first tight end on a team is probably why we shy away. But, you know, you might get a game. Yeah, I completely agree because Philip Rivers may have 750 yards in this game. It's very possible. He's just throwing the ball so much. And they can't run. Their offensive line is not healthy. I think Franklin is back this week. So that will help the run game for San Diego.

But as a whole, it's been terrible. So that's why Philip Rivers has to throw. Mike made the point earlier in the week. Based on the by weeks of Dalton and Rogers, there's a good chance with Rivers with a good game. He's going to be listed number one on your Yahoo ESPN leagues at the quarterback position. Yeah, let me throw out a name if you have heavy biweek issues. And if Keenan Allen is out. Like back to the future heavy or just like, okay. No, like real problems. I think.

that Malcolm Floyd is a very worthy flex, especially if Keenan Allen is out. Malcolm Floyd always. But even without that, he always has his career games come against the Raiders.

He has for, I think, the last two or three years just torn up the Raiders. You've got a great matchup here. He's the guy that I think is going to be a really sneaky flex option, kind of like a Robert Woods. If you're looking and you've got one of those leagues that's deep and you need a guy. I've never given the proper amount of respect to Malcolm Floyd. I feel like he's one, he's like one year away from being what Colston is this year. He's just, because he's so here and there.

Yeah, that's hard. You can at least, the thing you know you'll get from Floyd is at least one for 30 or so. He catches a bomb at least one per game. It's just can he get you a touchdown or can he get you multiple catches? We made a mistake then with the Keenan Allen situation. We didn't update the Keenan Allen and Antonio Gates. They both did miss practice and we left them off the list earlier. So apologies. Poor form. Apologies. Might have something to do with the fact.

that we've been trying to get this show up. Yeah. But Gates will play. Gates always misses practice and plays. That's just an age thing, I believe. Maybe. There was a play. I saw it happen when he dinged up his knee towards the end of the game last week, and that's what he's been missing practice with. But I mean, what do we think about, Antonio, or I'm sorry, about Keenan Allen because he's a monster when he's in there, but he came off the field last week, hip injury, not practicing, some concern.

I worry about it. You know, the report that I read said plenty of optimism that he's going to play. But it's hard to be optimistic when he's not able to even be a limited participant in practice. Would you handcuff him with Malcolm Floyd? I mean, would that be a situation for the guy? If you have Keenan Allen, you're starting Keenan every week. So if you threw Floyd, I mean, would this be kind of like throwing Hankerson on your bench if you're a Julio owner? I think it's exactly like that because this is not every week.

I guess so that's what makes it different. Hankerson against pretty much any team, I think, is going to be okay if Julio goes. But in this matchup, Floyd is a great play. Floyd, or Stevie J. We have to move on to the next game. However, Danny Woodhead or Gordon? Who would you rather start? It's still Woodhead for me. Crabtree or Cooper?

Uh, Crabtree. Okay. Cowboys at, which is surprising, but I don't, you know, the target numbers and then. Crabt, I think Jason Verrett, and he's the spectacular corner for the Chargers, I think he will be on Cooper. Okay. So, sleep, play mitigation. Yeah. Uh, Cowboys face off against the Giants in New York. The Matt Castle era begins. The fanfare is just, I got my jersey. It's in the mail. It's on its way.

They made one of them. Matt Castle makes his debut. We've got the Christine Michael Experiment continuing in Dallas. You don't think you'd start him in any league format, do you? I have two leagues where just simply because of biweeks and injuries where my bench is loaded up with guys that I cannot drop, my hand is being forced that I have to play him. You're just going for the gold. Yeah, and it's not a confidence. It's just a...

I have really no other option unless I want to drop Michael and pick somebody up, but I don't want to do that. Now, did you say you like Rashad Jennings in this game? I do. I do like Rashad Jennings this week. Since a couple weeks ago, there was this Black Ops report of, oh, Rashad Jennings might be losing his job. Since that time, he has just been great. He has been heavily involved in everything. Last week, I really liked Shane Vere in the Monday night game.

until Rashad Jennings was catching every single pass. So moving forward, I have confidence in Jennings that he can be like a low-end RB2. Well, I mean, he's most carries he had had all year last week. 13 carries, caught three passes, like you said. He's actually caught two or more passes in every game since the first week of the year. So he kind of gives you that, you know, he's probably going to score eight, nine points at the minimum.

And maybe he breaks off a big run or something like that. You know, I kind of like and appreciate how they've used him slowly to start the year because we had been saying, you know, he's going to start with a bang and get injured because he's kind of an injury prone guy. But they brought in the third back and they've kind of used him sparingly. But now they need those wins. And so I think it is time to really unleash Jennings. And he could be a mighty fine play.

Play I like the most in this game, though, is Jason Witten. The Giants have a terrible past defense against tight ends. When the Cowboys played them the first time, granted, that was a Romo-led Cowboys, so it's very different. But I think there were three touchdowns to the tight end in that game against the Giants. Right. If you had to start Terrence Williams or Ruben Randall, would it be Williams? It would be Randall. Really? Yes. Okay, I'm willing to make that bet with you if you want it. I'd go Terrence Williams. Let's do it. All right.

Waterbed. I just take it. I have no confidence in Matt Castle. I have enough confidence in the sheer mathematics. Yeah. You know, team probably down, has to throw a ball in air. Terrence Williams has chance to catch ball in air. What is the minimum pass completions that Matt Castle throws? 15? Like, what's the minimum he could have? Yeah. 10? All to Darren McFadden.

He could have 10 completions. This is not a shoe in. I'm just going to go with Terrence Williams because I hope that they open the – they help they realize they have to open it up a little bit, and the Giants should be able to score a little bit, so they're at home. All right, Eagles going to Carolina to take on the Panthers in – Andy's almost upset of the week.

Oh, you'd love me to say that I think the Philadelphia Eagles offense is ready to become the barn burning machine that it has been in the past. I do not. I believe that their defense is very underrated, and I believe that Carolina cannot put up the points to win this game or to win it by more than a couple of points, which would make it the almost upset of the week. I think Philadelphia has a good shot here. The Panthers are undefeated and playing very well, but I just think the points.

This one sticks out to me as a chance for the Eagles to come out, play good defense, do enough on offense, make enough big plays, and we'll see. Yeah, I might take the under on this. I'm back on a roll with the upset of the week. You know, I had a couple off weeks, and then I've won a couple. Yeah, I think the under on this game's total points, it's a potential. You look at these guys, you've got a lot of fantasy stars, and you think, oh, this could be a really, you know.

juicy game, but I also think this could be a low-scoring affair because both defense has been playing good. And you look at the Philadelphia Eagles and sometimes you're afraid to play a defense against them because of the potential. But here at home, I like Carolina as a defense against a guy that's throwing picks in the red zone every time he gets there. All right, Fantasy Hitman is your player, your favorite player, Cam Newton in every week Fantasy Start in the NFL MVP? NFL MVP, no.

Not to me. Not to me. What? No, I'm just disagreeing with Farquoise. Oh, there is, there is, it's very polar arguments going on on Twitter of people crowning Newton and they're saying, oh, he's playing out of his mind. I just, he is playing very well and I do, I can agree that he's helping carry the team. I think the defense is carrying more than Cam Newton is. And he just, like, with that Seattle game, the first three quarters.

Newton wasn't really doing anything. And I know he won the game, so I'm not discrediting that, that they marched down the field for the final drive. It's just, I'm not seeing a complete game. So I wouldn't MVP him at this point. As far as for fantasy, yeah, he's an every week starter. What about Sam Bradford this week? Would you start Sam Bradford against the Carolina D in Carolina, or would you rather start Kirk Cousins against Tampa? Oh, man.

Michael Kirk Cous. Gross. Rough, right? Bradford has looked. You know, the two things that Sam Bradford is known for in the NFL historically has been good accuracy, good decision making. Sam Bradford has shown neither this year. He looks like a deer in the headlights. I was waiting for the injury. If you're talking about things that Sam Bradford is known for, is getting hurt. Yeah, things that he's good at. That's the third one. He is good at getting hurt. He has got it.

Down to a science. All right, have they figured DeMarco Murray out? Is DeMarco the guy now? It looks, the running game looks good. Public service announcement. Stop starting Darren Sproles in your lineups. I've seen him in way too many lineups for weeks. I'm sure I'm going to say that and he'll like return a punt and then he'll take a screen past the end zone and then I'll be like looking stupid. But stop starting him. He's not in the mix enough to give you value. I'd rather start Matt Jones than I would Darren Sproes. I'd rather start Alfred Morrison.

The endurance bowl. I think they have figured it out with DeMarco Murray. He's, you know, there's a very different running scheme that the Eagles run than the Cowboys ran. Very, very different, taking the ball out of a shotgun formation. But DeMarco's figuring that out and getting better at it. That being said, I don't expect a big week against the Carolina Panthers defense. All right, the Ravens face the Cardinals Monday night football. We will be there. We'll be at the game on Monday night in Arizona.

We will preview this some more on Monday as well. However, this looks like a juicy offensive matchup for the Arizona Cardinals at home, very high over under, which you have to really attribute that to the Cardinals' offense. Big game for downtown John Brown last week, 196 yards. I think the decision here we've discussed this already is which wide receiver or which two wide receivers have big games in this game. For the Cardinals side,

It would not shock me at all if all three of them have a solid day. With Larry Fitz being the possession guy, John Brown is those big plays where he basically every time he catches the ball, it's a 50-yard, 50-yard bomb. It sure seems that way. And Michael Floyd is kind of, he's always the forgotten man for the defense, so he just, he's still a first-round pick. He is a talented guy, and for everyone loving John Brown, which I'm all aboard John Brown. Trust me.

Michael Floyd popped his knuckles through his hand to start the year. So for him to have disappeared for the first couple game. That's not an expression. That's a physical. That's real life. For him to have started slow, that does not surprise me at all. And he's now, over the last few weeks, he has gotten more involved. So I expect that trend to continue. I don't think he becomes the two.

But I think he gets enough action to become a flex-worthy guy. I have Michael Floyd ranked at number 22 this week. I have John Brown at 5, and I have Larry Fitzgerald at...

If you got an open bench spot, Floyd's a great flyer to stash on your bench just to see what happens. I would play him. No, I would straight play him this week. I would as well. All three of those players aren't going to finish that high, but the point is there's going to be offense here in the wide receiver position at Arizona against that Baltimore secondary that doesn't really exist. Would you be dropping David Johnson at this point? No. No, the potential for David Johnson is still through the roof. Do you think? Yes. Even with...