Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

really much of anything going on there. The only thing that you could be excited about at this point, this early for next week going forward would be DeMarco Murray there for the Eagles. They're going to have to run the ball more. Ryan Matthews got hurt. So DeMarco Murray is the only guy I've got a little bit of faith in right now this early of the week for next week. Yeah, and Bradford's injury was to the non-throwing shoulder. He might miss a game or two would be my guess. All right. Peyton Manning. Who! Hall of Fame. I've never seen.

A lower score ever. That's the lowest score I've ever seen in our league where you penalize, you know, most leagues penalized for interceptions the way ours does. Do you know what its total was? Did you see it? I don't know, but I do know this. I was playing against a team that had Peyton, and I was worried. I put up a winnable score, but not like a I have to win. I was worried, and then I no longer needed to worry. Do you want to take a guess? I'm going to go negative five.

negative 7.1. That's nice to play against. Can you imagine if you're in a position where you, like that was the game? You just need a couple points from Peyton. Here's what I like. I don't think that many of our listeners had a problem. Yes. Playing Peyton Manning because we've been saying for a month and a half to don't play him, to trade him if you can and get rid of them. But.

That's no good. And now it's looking like he's going to miss a week. That's the report is that they're expecting him to miss a week, but it's still very early. He reports came out about, you know, further injuries that he was already playing through and then got even worse. So it might be Brock Osweiler time. Yeah, torn plantar fascia. That's not good. That's not good. So, and generally the prescription for that is rest. So if they're in a position where they feel.

and comfortable. I mean, this isn't very fantasy relevant because we're not saying to start Peyton anyway. But it does impact the skill players on Denver, but the truth is, I don't know if it impacts them better or worse right now. I have to believe that the offense can get better with Peyton being out. Peyton is leading the league in interceptions because he has been throwing bad interceptions. I mean, they're bad interceptions. Yeah, they're not like, oh, it's not his fault. The receiver's not running the right route. He's not playing good.

As crazy as it is, it's a good thing for the Broncos offense to have Osweiler in. Yeah. All right. A couple of quick notes. Justin Hunter, fractured ankle in week 10. Victor Cruz, season-ending calf surgery. What a year for Victor Cruz. Just did nothing at all, which I think was Jason's prediction from the beginning. And then, yeah. Sorry, Vic. And Tony Romo, we expect him back this week. Just an alert for everybody. If he's sitting on waivers for some reason?

Yeah, I don't know. Do you, would you, if he's, if he's on waivers, do you just stream him? Do you have faith, you know, week one? He's coming up against the dolphins in week 11? Possibly. Yeah, possibly. I mean, we saw Big Ben come off the shelf yesterday and go bananas. The best backup quarterback I've ever seen was Big Ben. Yeah. And the worst starting opportunity. I mean, if you're Landry Jones, do you just roll your eyes back in your head?

Big Ben's, all the reports came out that morning. I got tweets that were like, do I start Big Ben? I said, no, no, no, no, no, no. Right. He's the backup. And then, you know, he's active. Yeah, he's active, but it's Landry Jones. He would have to get hurt. Three, two, one. Boom. Done. Yeah. And I'm going to make a prediction. I think Big Ben won that starting job from here on now. I think they're going to announce it in the future. Yeah, I mean, you know, they're on by.

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Definitely buy an extra ticket for me. Yeah, we'll do. All right. This week's fantasy stud muffins. I'll be Mike for a second. Oh, my gosh. Sit your phasers to kill. That was Mike. That was Mike. That was Mike. Yes, Kirk Cousins, 20 for 324, four touchdowns.

Somehow was my start of the week this week. I take no credit for that. Mike left him sitting there on the table. It was like he came to a feast and took the wrong item off. Well, he was Mike's stream of the week early. We said as a group that we really liked his matchup on our Tuesday show last week. He was the first guy we said to get off of waivers. And if you did it, you got the first quarterback of the league, of the week.

The number one quarterback is how I would say that. The first. The first number one quarterback is the proper English. And as he would say, how do you like that? How do you like that? Oh, Kurt? Yeah, Kirk Cousins. So, yeah, Mike got off the air, I believe it was Monday or Tuesday, and just said, in his league, he's like, I'm starting Kurt Cousins this week. Yeah. He knew he was streaming in the beginning. And he did. He picked him up and he played him. So he has the Panthers next week.

Yeah, so you can now drop Kirk Cousins. This is what's incredible to me is that the NFC East is in such a race that Washington's right in it. I mean, they are battling right now and, you know? Yeah, absolutely. They're in it. I mean, this is, the Panthers don't have very many tough matchups ahead. People are talking about, is it too early to talk about the Panthers going undefeated?

I don't know, but their schedule, this is like one of their harder games, and it's not all that difficult. So you know what the Panthers do, right? They employ all wide receivers that wouldn't matter if they had a Julian Edelman injury. Right, yeah. You just roll another guy named Philly Brown into the lineup, and you're fine. There you go. So, yeah, Kirk Cousins next week wouldn't start him against the Panthers in Carolina for sure, but he had a monster game and hopefully, you know, by the amount of...

messages on Twitter I got, he won some people some weeks. Absolutely. So Jordan Reed did well too. Some cash. We'll get to that. Big Ben did have a huge week. 22 for 379, three touchdowns. As Jason said, the world's best backup. He had a monster week. If you didn't start him, I don't blame you because no one started him. You don't start a guy that's not playing. Yeah. So if you did, uh,

Shame on you and congratulations. Right, right. He does have a buy next week, okay? We didn't mention it in the news. I'm into the Brown Saints, Giants, and Steelers. The Brown, Saints, Giants, and Steelers are all on buy next week. So I'm not going to put it past Big Ben somehow scoring these type of numbers next week on the buy based on what he did as a backup. Right, maybe. But, yeah, I wouldn't start him. Aaron Rogers is in our stud muffins.

And I just don't feel like that's fair. Well, he was the third highest scoring fantasy quarterback this week, which is why he's there. I know. You saw it a couple weeks ago against Carolina. Carolina, he was terrible. The whole Packers' offense was awful, but at the very end of the game in garbage time, he was able to come back, and he ended up as I think like the third highest quarterback that week. So you've got a guy, obviously, in Aaron Rogers, Hall of Fame quarterback, fantastic.

fantasy option. You can still count on him even if it takes garbage time, but there is clearly a problem with the offense of the Packers. And next week, at Minnesota, I'm not liking the whole game script from a fantasy perspective. There's probably a lot of guys I'm going to start over Aaron Rogers next week. Really? Really? Over him. Over him. Wow. Yeah, that was going to be my question. I wouldn't, I don't think I have it in me to bench him.

Well, I'm not saying that you would bench him because he deserves to be bench. I'm saying there's probably five quarterbacks next week. That will be ranked higher. Exactly. That I would rank higher. And I would, and if they're higher than him in my rankings, I would start. I mean, you know, I would just go with that and start. A lot of issues for that team. Right now, Randall Cobb, Devante Adams can't get off a, I mean, can't get off a man coverage very often. Not much separation. James has disappeared, literally poofed. I think he's in Disneyland with Mike.

I think he's on Space Mountain right now. That's the only place he's going to be celebrating. Yes, yes. So did you have something, Dad? I think the problem with the offense is Devante Adams. He has been thrust into the number one role, and he is not a number one wide receiver. He had a decent line, right? It was like 10 for 70. He had 21 targets. He was throwing the ball 21 times and finished with a, meh, fantasy day. There were...

Three or four times when he had to make a play and didn't. Right. I mean, think about... It was the type of catches that you had to make. He could have tied the game on the two-point conversion at the end. I blame Rogers for that, for sure. It was catchable. Could have let him. Sure, sure. Yeah, I mean, I pretty much agree with you. He needs to be not the guy, but that's the situation they're in now without Jordy. So it's hurting Rogers. Cutler, Jay Cutler, once again, big game, huge, huge passing touchdown.

Two of them. One to Langford, one to Zach Miller. He had three touchdowns again. And they came in and they pretty much just boat race, the Rams, in St. Louis. Did you see that coming? No, I didn't, but I love it. Because if you had, you should have told me I started the Rams D. That wasn't smart. Yeah, well, I was throwing a little bit of shade on Alshan Jeffrey last week saying I would start Mike Evans over Alshan because the combination of this defense, which I think they had only given up two.

passing touchdowns through the air all year. They give up three in the first half to Jay Cutler. So clearly we didn't see this coming. None of them went to Alshan, who we'll talk about in a little bit. You know, one of the things that we can point out here, though, since we're talking about quarterbacks, and we prescribe streaming every week we give you streaming options because every week it's a different set of guys. Kirk Cousins, Ben Rothlisberger, probably Rogers, Jay Cutler, and the next guy, Eli Manning, all five of those guys.

probably are not going to be here next week. I mean, several of them are on by, and they've got – Jay Cutler goes against the Broncos next week. You know, bad matchup. You're probably not going to do it. Kurt Cousins against the Panthers. Every week you've got to look for new quarterbacks to plug in there. Yeah, Cutler had a monster game, but you're right. The matchups say that maybe he's not your stream next week, even though he's been kind of consistent lately. And so he's somebody that you need to maybe – do you put him in the same conversation as Carr at this point? I mean, he's –

Passing Lee is 24, 23, 24, 23, 23, 24, 36. He's a guy that has to be rostered. At this point, you're getting late and you want the streaming options on your bench rather than just relying from the waivers. And so I would pick up Cutler. I just probably wouldn't play him this coming week. All right. So who's next on the...

the stud muffin list here at quarterback. We got Carson Palmer big game late last night against Seattle in Seattle. I mean, you want to talk about a guy. Mike talked about the fact that there has been very little fantasy difference from Carson Palmer between when he faces top ranked past defenses and bottom ranked past defenses. It's like one point different. And right now, after this game, if it's one point different, it's going to be one point better because he put up 363 yards and three touchdowns.

in Seattle. So great game from Palmer. And then the last guy was my start of the week. Joe Flacco in a game that, you know, we knew was going to see a lot of action through the air. Got over 300 yards and three touchdowns as well.