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

the kind of three-way situation. It would take an injury for him to fully unleash his potential. Yeah. Two injuries, probably. Maybe. So let me clarify, because I think Mike and I are in the same position here. You don't drop David Johnson because you think, oh, we're done with him. But you would drop David Johnson if there was a better potential. Like, would I drop David Johnson for Kristen Mike? I mean, you drop a Mirabula right now, don't you? Yeah, because I just don't see the...

I don't see the potential right now. The difference is Amir Abdullah has had his opportunity. He's gotten the workload. He's been the starter, and he's stunk. Okay. With David Johnson, you're going, if someone goes down ahead of him or something like that, if he gets an opportunity, I don't think he'll stink. Okay, so the Cardinals defense is obviously a great play this week at home against the kind of limited options in Baltimore. Now, does Baltimore, they're having a terrible season?

Do you start Steve Smith just because he's Steve Smith? Yes. Okay. I do. Is there anybody else you start there, Forset? Oh, yeah. He's an RB1. And Flacco, you stay away from. It's secondary in Arizona. Right. And for how great the Cardinals' defense is, it is possible to run on them. We have seen that. So I'm not afraid to start Justin Forset at all this week. Before we talk to Chris Meaney, I want to just mention one thing. We didn't get to linger on the game from last night. The Seahawks took care of the...

49ers. If you saw the highlight of the game that was Colin Kaepernick hitting his trainer in the face with the football, go ahead and YouTube that. But I will say, did you guys happen to catch the collision between the 49ers secondary and a one Jimmy Graham? Oh, did you see that hit? When he made him drop the ball? Yeah, that play. And seeing that in hyper slow motion just affirmed why I'm glad I'm not a football player.

Watching Jimmy Graham's face. I know. His face through the helmet when the shoulder went into his heart. It was like a crash test dummy. Oh, my goodness. It was a clean hit. It was a great hit. Beautiful defense. Jimmy Graham Truther. That was a delicious mashup for Jimmy Graham. It just really shows to me that Jason is right about his every other week potential type of situation where...

What was interesting, too, is they, I feel like they had 400 carries on the goal line on the first drive. Like, they just kept trying over and over again. They didn't run any plays to Jimmy in that situation. Lynch had a really good game. He looks like he's completely fine and back. And so let's go ahead and talk to Chris Meaning. I will say Jimmy Graham's first catch was spectacular.

where it was just a seam route up the middle in traffic. I mean, that was great throw, great catch, but the volume is just not there. He's not getting any smaller. He's still going to be a mismatch. The problem with a guy like Jimmy Graham is if you want his big weeks, you are going to have to play him every single week and just live with this crap that he gives you of two catches. Well, I mean, let's be honest. We just said Lederius Green is the number nine tied in.

You get crap from almost all tight-in. Yes, yeah, but I'm saying... Even Eifford's giving you the three. Yeah, Mike Evans, Mike Evans to me is a guy that you've got to play every week to get those big weeks. But you don't have to play him every week because he's a wide receiver and there's other options. At tight end...

You know, I would be much happier rolling Jimmy Grant out there. It's more of a statement of saying, like, oh, this looks like a great matchup. It doesn't necessarily come to fruition. Exactly. Yeah, no, it's fair. And they won the game going away, and he wasn't involved. So let's go ahead and spend some time talking Daily Fantasy Sports with our good friend, Mr. Chris Meaney. The Daily Dose. The fantasy footballers are joined once again by Daily Fantasy expert. Chris Meany. What is going on, Chris? How are you doing today? Good guy.

Always a pleasure to join you guys. I love seeing you on the Fantasy Sports Network every day. One of my favorite shows in the program, actually. Well done, all you guys. We appreciate that, and we can stop calling you the Gary Barnage guy because you're now the Stefan Diggs guy. Nice job last week. Yeah, he seemed to be okay again. It was funny because Bridgewater, I like him again this week, nine targets to Wallace, nine targets to Diggs.

But it was Diggs who's catching. Unfortunately, Bridgewater, you just can't throw touchdowns. It's only three on the year, which is discouraging. But, again, Diggs is a nice price 5-8 against Detroit. And I will agree with one thing you just said, that I love seeing myself on your network as well. Yeah, you guys are good, man. Everyone around the network loves to watch. Hey, man, we really appreciate that. So let's get into the DFS for the Foot Clan.

Let's start at the topic. We always do. Who are the big budget guys that you are spending the cash on this week? Well, Andrew Luck, I think, is certainly somebody that you could spend on 8-9. I guess he's been somewhat of a disappointment this season, but he's going up against the Saints. They've allowed the second-most fantasy points to quarterbacks this season and a lot of yards through the year. I'm going a couple, a few hundred dollars cheaper with Carson Palmer at 8-2. I really love the matchup against Baltimore.

He's just been a really safe quarterback this year, averaging 20.2 fandal points per game, which is the fifth best among quarterbacks going this week. Of course, Brady is 25.5, but he's got a tough matchup against the Jets. I really think it's a tough matchup. I'm fading everybody in that New England offense, actually, especially Edelman. I think Revis will be paired up against him. I love Palmer. Baltimore has allowed the fifth most yards in the air to quarterbacks and the most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks as well. So I just think that's a really nice matchup.

Even like Fandu aside, he's my number one ranked quarterback this week. So I love that. And I'm paying for Antonio Gates. And I feel like he's going to be heavily owned in a lot of contests. And sometimes a lot of people want to fade. You know, I don't want to own this guy because a lot of people are going to own him or they're going to own him. But I'm not worried about that at all. I mean, 18 catches in two games. He picked up exactly where he left off last year with double-digit touchdowns too. So I love Gates. And again, you know, the reason why we liked Barnage.

you know, a few weeks ago was because he was going against Oakland, and he is a terrific match against the Raiders who have struggled to cover tight ends. All right, so let's talk some value, guys. Do you got another Stefan Diggs in you? Can you do it again? Again, if you want to stack, I know Fitzgerald's been the guy. Brown had a week last week. If you want to go a little bit cheaper Michael Floyd at 4-9 against Baltimore, it's a cheaper stack. It's just really tough to...

pick a wide out in that offense. I love Michael Crabtree this week at 5-9 against San Diego. San Diego is a team that has struggled against the run, so Murray might be a nice option as well. But Brett is an elite corner, and I think he's going to be on Cooper. And that leaves Michael Crabtree. 48 targets, eight targets in every single game but one. And that one game, he was bothered by an ankle injury. He was sidelined for a little bit of that game. Pro football focus said that Crabtory was the seventh best wide out.

through five weeks. And you know what? There's been a lot of talk after the buyers that they want to get him more involved and that he's actually been excellent. So 48 targets is really, really nice for Crabtree. So I like Crabtree. I also like Stefan Diggs again, too. A couple running backs, maybe some cheaper options. I'm staying away from Christine Michael. I don't understand all the love with Michael. I think we all want him to be good. And I do want him to be good. But, I mean, this guy is the most snaps in a game is 17. The most rushing attempts in the game is nine. I think it's going to take some time. I like McFadden.

You got to remember that McFadden's kind of taking over this Dunbar role, and you get half a point for a reception. This guy had nine catches a couple weeks ago against New England, so if he can be involved in the passing game, and if he could get nine to ten catches again, you're looking at a few points that way, and maybe, just maybe he can find the end zone. A couple other guys that I really like that are not cheap, cheap, cheap, but certainly not. They're not going to break the bank.

I love Doug Martin, 7-2 against Washington. You saw Chris Avery had 146 yards against him on the ground. The week before that, Freeman, 153 yards against him on the ground. So I love Doug Martin at 7-2, and I think Todd Gurley at 7-4, and I mentioned San Diego can't stop the run, 5.4 yards per carry the most in the NFL. So Todd Gurley at 7-4 is another cheap price. I think this guy eventually is going to be one of the top backs in all of, you know, pricing and fangle.

And how are you feeling on defenses? Do you have any guys that you really are leaning towards? Any squads? I love the Rams. They're my number one defense this week, two, four, five, you know, going up against McCowan, who I don't think is all that good. We talk about McCown getting 300 yards, you know, back-to-back weeks. You know, last week they went up again. He went up against a tough defense in Denver. But again, he had 300-plus yards against Baltimore, which makes me love Palmer even more. I just like the Rams. I love that front seven. I just think it's really, really nice.

great line in St. Louis. And that's not the most expensive defense, too. So that's one of the cheaper options at four or five. And I'm also kind of fading Cam Newton this week because there seems to be so much love on this guy. Yes, he had the fourth quarter drive, the touchdown to win the game in Seattle. But last year against Philadelphia, three picks, five turnovers, that Eagles defense was starting to come together. We thought the Eagles' offense was going to be spectacular. It's not. It's the defense that's been okay.

Eight sacks is not among the leaders, but eight sacks, eight fumble recoveries, nine picks. They're just opportunistic. It can make things happen. So I'm kind of fading cam, or I think actually a lot of people will play this guy. That's some fantastic stuff. As always, from Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network up there running a DFS show. Where can people find you on Twitter, Chris?

Yeah, at Chris Meaney, CHR-I-S-M-E-N-E-Y. Anybody have any questions? They can certainly fire away, and I'll be around to answer them. I will say this. If Mettenberger plays this week, play them. Why not? 5-9 against Atlanta. They could be down. That could be a sneaky little play. We like it. And we kind of like Mittenberger as well. So thank you, Chris. We'll speak to you next week, my friend. Pleasure as always, guys. Enjoy the football and good luck this weekend.

All right, thanks to Chris again for joining us. Always good insight on the Daily Fantasy Game. He's the meanest. You know, there has not been a week. He's the mean, man. There has not been a week that's gone by without people messaging me saying, oh, thanks for your tip. I won several hundred dollars. And you take credit for Chris. You're like, that was me. Yeah, well, he's on our shows. We brought him on the show? They're messaging me, all right?

I'm not soliciting them. Say, do you win money this week? Did you win money this week? Hey, let's go ahead and get into the mailbag, answer some questions from the Foot Clan. It's been a while since I said it. If you have a question of your own, go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click on the submitted question button. It's really easy. Also, right above that button, there's this blue button that says shirts. And it has the back to the future shirt in there, which is only available for six more days. And then it's gone. It's gone. And you'll have to go back in time to be able to get it because it won't be available.

And good luck with that. Good luck with that, sucker. Wait. Is that how you sell a shirt? Call them all suckers? Yeah. Yeah, it works. Yeah, it's a good shirt, though. All right, you can also leave us a voicemail question. 302-464 TFFB. Let's go ahead and get into the mailbag. Mailbag. That was nice, Mike! And I am so sleep deprived from having two sick children right now that I couldn't remember if I had already hit the mailbag button.

And whether we were just redundantly mailbagging, but I figure twice the singing is better than none, so debatable. It was only one, so we're okay. We should bump that to thrice. All right, we've got a friend in New York City. New York City. Aiden wants to know, listen, he's facing a predicament in their league, and they need a credible professional opinion. However, those weren't available, so they emailed us.

Needs to pursue some action with the league. This trade was recently offered and accepted. You ready for this? Eli Manning, Jordan Matthews, Theo Riddick, Ronnie Hillman, traded for Joe Flacco, Joe Flacco, LaShawn McCoy, and Gio Bernard. After week six. Here's the tidbit that needs to be paid attention to. These trade partners are currently dating.

Uh-oh. Is this collusion? Does it smell like collusion? I have my thoughts. I want to hear yours first. Okay, so let's... I have my thoughts. One of the things we didn't read in parentheses after Theoretic and Ronnie Hillman, it says both RBs obtained off of waivers. To me? That doesn't... Well, the point that I want to bring up, because he said that. It could be done to make it look better than it was. Well, I'm saying that that's irrelevant.

I can't stand when people are like, you just got this guy off waivers. It's like if they're valuable, they're valuable. It doesn't matter if you just got them off waivers. If you get Charkandric West and trade him immediately, it doesn't matter that he was on waiters. We need like some crime music going on like. Oh, yeah. We need like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's James Bond. It's good. He's a... Oh, I was going to go with a...