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

playing against the Oakland Raiders. So a lot of good options this week. Yeah, absolutely. And then the wide receiver position, guys that stood out stud muffins this week, the big boys, Antonio Brown had another monster game because when him and Big Ben are on the field together, he does this all the time. Brandon Cooks, what do you make of Brandon Cook's kind of breakout right now? Because he's had a fairly consistent run. He had a big touchdown in this game, five for 98, two touchdowns. What is he going forward?

He's a very good option. He is a wide receiver two. He's a guy that you start week in, week out. Two weeks ago when I had him as my start of the week, I did research between him and Sneed because both guys look great. And all the numbers actually said, you know who I really want out of these two? It's Cooks. And we've seen that since then. Sneed puts up a goose egg. Cooks is the guy. Drew Breeze has figured it out. But again, bye week next week. So don't play him.

Yeah, yeah. It was an impressive game. He's been in double digits for a while now. He seems more reliable than he had been in the beginning of the year. The offense just kind of hit a wall, though, in that game. The game seemed like it was heading towards shootout, and then it was over. So Martavis Bryant, monster game for him showing that, you know, we talked a lot in the beginning of the season. Do you like the combos, right? Like Brown and Bryant. If they're on a team like that, you can. I mean, I believe the number for Antonio Brown was like he put up a 37-point game in our league 34.

Yeah. Two touchdowns. Well, Martavis Bryant just put up six for 178 in a touchdown. Yeah, if you started both of those guys from the same offense and the same game, you had two of the top four wide receivers. That's incredible. Yeah, he had a huge, huge week. Who do they have next week? They have nobody. Right, they're on by. So don't start him. A lot of bye weeks. Yeah. All right. Doug Baldwin had a big game against the Cardinals last night, seven for 131, 134 in a touchdown.

You treat them like you treat all Seattle wide receivers, which is... Bench them. Yeah, bench them because you don't expect it to happen. It's going to be someone every week who has the game, but predicting whether it's Lockett or... I will say Paul Richardson pulled his hammy after kind of seemingly being involved, but it doesn't matter. Yeah. O'Dell Beckham Jr. had 4-104 in a touchdown. Mike Evans was 8 for 1-26, and I don't know how many drops he had. I know he had a few. Yeah, he had a couple. I knew he had a couple that were... One would have put him right down in the red zone.

But he came through. They got the win. Cowboys have lost seven straight games, I believe. Eric Decker, not to be forgotten on Thursday night football, just keeps Eric Deckering. He's my favorite, he's my favorite player. You know, it's like him and Alan Hearns, to me, are the same exact guy on different offenses. They are just, they are the main red zone threat for their team.

They're the guys that are looked at, even though they've got other great options in Brandon Marshall and Alan Robinson. You know who he is to me? He's what Anquam Bolden was when he was in Arizona. Because he's not really a two. It's one A, one B. Yeah, absolutely. And he's, and you know this when a team, he has six catches, by the way, in four straight weeks. And you know this when a team looks to him in the red zone. When you have a guy that you're willing to look at in the red zone, that's a two.

You know you have a 1B, not a 2. Yep. So he had a big game, and then who else do we have? Travis Benjamin bounced back. Great to see with Johnny Manzell in there. It gives you a little bit more faith that if after the buy, they come back with Manzell as the starter. Both him and Barnage both had decent games with Manzell. So a little bit more faith in the passing options despite the quarterback change. All right. Here's one I got wrong, guys. Jeremy Langford.

Well, you got him right a week early. Yeah, but I didn't see this coming against St. Louis's defense in St. Louis with the possibility that Forte was going to be there or not. I think we all thought he'd be out, but I didn't see this coming. A absolute monster game from Langford, 20 for 73 and a touchdown on the ground, but more importantly, seven for 109 and a touchdown through the air. Just pretty much a dominant performance by the entire offense there, minus one player that we'll get to in a little bit.

But Langford, what do you even do with him as a fantasy owner? Because you know Forte is coming back. Mike said last week Forte just steps right back in. I completely agree with that. It doesn't mean he won't have a little ancillary role, but you don't. I mean, what do you do? You start him. If Forte is back, you don't start him. He could still...

be okay. I mean, we saw earlier in the year, he vultured a couple touchdowns from Forte, so he could be used in that role, but I don't want to trust that. I would expect against the Broncos, Forte sits one more week, and even though it's a good, tough matchup, at this point, you have to put Langford as a running back one next week against the Broncos at Forte's out. Speaking of running back ones next week, Char West has to be. Absolutely. He plays the...

He plays the Chargers next week, and their porous run defense. This week he was 24 for 69 in a touchdown, and then through the air, three for 91 and a touchdown. Yeah, and Nile Davis wasn't even the backup. He was inactive. Yeah, I mean, Nile Davis was a healthy scratch. That's because they have plenty of faith in West. Charkandric West is the guy, and he's running, you know, he's making people forget a little bit about Jamal Charles because he's...

Doing enough. If you went and grabbed him as the Charles owner, you're pretty happy right now. Absolutely. The same way that you are, if you're a 14th owner and you grab Langford and you get those two games out of it, just. This is why heading into the playoffs, we've been saying this the last week or two, if you're headed to the playoffs, this is time to get your handcuffs now. Because these guys can step up when your stud goes down and you've got a guy to play that could step up and be big. For instance, if you are a Marshaun Lynch owner.

You might want to sign Thomas Rawls off the waiver wire. Yeah. When Lynch is dealing with abdominal. Abdominal, the abdominal snowman. Yes, yes. That's... Or if you're the Lamar Miller owner, the next, you know, one of the next guys on our list, you grab a jai. So let me get some perspective there on West real quick. Rest of season. I want you to answer some of these for me. Char West or Lamar Miller.

I think I'm going to go Char West because he doesn't have anybody behind him that could really impede his carries. He's been playing great. And I think Ajai, as the season goes on, could get more and more involved. Char West or Christopher Ivory. That's tough. I'm going to go with Ivory, surprisingly, I think, because his red zone usage has just been fantastic. They're a team where they get on the goal line.

They're going to give him the chance to score. And he looked fresh to me this last week. He gets 10 days of rest. Char West, last one. Char West or Justin Forset? I will go for set on that. Forset's usage. He didn't have a very good week this week, but his usage has been great. The offense moves. He's involved in the passing game. So I'm going to go for set. All right, big games from Adrian Peterson.

If you've heard of him, 26 for 203 in a touchdown. Lamar Miller had another good game. Not so much on the ground. He was out yardaged. That's a professional phrase right there. Oh, yeah. Out yardaged by Jayae, despite 10 less carries. He was 16 for 43, but he did get 6 for 50 in a touchdown through the air to salvage his fantasy day.

Well, we've seen this a lot this year from Lamar Miller. His usage in the passing game is what gives you confidence in starting him because he's game flow kind of proof right now so long as they don't destroy someone and take him out of the game. Yeah. We talked about it a little bit on Friday. LaShawn McCoy had a big game. Love McCoy moving forward. Yeah. As long as you can stay healthy, which has been a problem. Jonathan Stewart, another game with 20 plus carries, another productive game, got into the end zone.

He had a couple other end zone chances that he missed out on. He had that early touchdown. I was worried because we have the water bet between LaShawn McCoy and Jonathan Stewart. And I was worried at the beginning. But LaShawn McCoy, he finished ahead. So you get wet. With the Wheel of Water Act. There were a bunch of videos that came through this weekend. Oh, they're so good. So if you take, if you have, it makes sense, right? Like if you made a bunch of bets with people.

And the weekend happened and the games happened. And you're going to pay those out. Videotape them and then post them to Twitter and use the hashtag Wheel of Water. And we will retweet those and enjoy them immensely. There was another English channel water bet, which is just the best to watch. Yeah. So people... My children were playing with the app just for fun and they got an English channel. And so I got to watch Jersey. Oh, they did it to one another? Yep. Yeah. Caleb was playing with it this weekend and he goes...

If you did this to me, that'd be fun, right? I'm like, yeah, you can go ahead and spin the wheel, buddy. So, all right, let's move on now to the tight-in position where Zach Miller is just coming out of nowhere. Is he the next Gary Barnage? He was the first Gary Barnage. Well, long ago. But, I mean, Zach Miller, he had that incredible catch last week of that bullet pass. I've got an easy answer for you. Great. No.

I know. The answer is no. That is an easy, easy answer. He's not even the main target, generally speaking, on that offense for the tight-in position. Martellus Bennett's there. One of Zach Miller's long touchdown runs was kind of a broken play by the defense. They ran into one another, and he burst through. It was kind of strange to watch. It was like a 70-yard touchdown. I believe it was 87 yards. Wow. I think it was an 87-yard touchdown. It was long, so. Yeah, and the truth is, is I say no because

He has a total of 10 catches on the entire season. He has all of his fantasy production in the past two weeks from touchdowns. And big play, yes, don't panic Martellus owners. Don't panic and go sign Zach Miller and drop Martellus Bennett or do something crazy. Agreed. But credit where credit is due. Huge gains from Zach Miller.

Very, very good games. Now, Rob Grunkowski. If he's on your waivers, sign out. He should be on every roster. Very good. Right, right. Grunk, another big game. Jordan Reed was Mike's start of the week, and he got it done it with touchdowns. Yeah. In-zone touchdowns. The best kind. You got two touchdowns, three for 29. Rule 86. If Jordan Reed is healthy, you play him. Yeah. And then Brent Selleck, four for 100.

He's in the Zach Miller category here where he had a big game. It just goes to show that right now you can't trust the tight end in Philly. Right, for sure. And then Gary Barnage, nice bounceback game for him, six for 65 in a touchdown. He's highly targeted. It's also, that was an important game being with Mansell. Now you can trust him regardless of the quarterback. All right, let's talk about the other side of the coin, the guys that didn't do so all this week. Poopped in his big boy pants. It might be done. It might be over. I don't think Peyton Manning.

will be started by a fantasy football player again. Do you agree or disagree? True or false? I think Peyton, you got your record. You hold it alone. You beat Brett Fav, and it's time to hang him up. Do you think that that's going to be a bad memory for him then? Because the game started, he got the record on the first pass, and then he had probably the worst game of his career. I think it will be a bad memory for him for several weeks. And then after that...

He will have that record forever and we'll forget about how it came in that game because how it came came over an entire career. So it'll be a great memory in the long run, but I'm sure it has a very sour taste. And yeah, from a fantasy football perspective, Payton Manning is done. I don't even think you're going to be able to package him and get value for him anywhere now. So at this point, just drop him. You know, Rule 87 is that when Peyton Manning scores negative 7.1, you can't trade him for anybody.

Right. Yeah. So running backs, all right. Not a lot of guys that completely pooped their pants, but there were several that did not have good games. Darren McFadden is really the headliner. He wasn't terrible. No, he didn't. By a quantity perspective, but 17 for 32? Man, that is still about double the yards per carry that Joach Bell got.

Well, he was like 15 for 17. Yeah, well, they can't run the ball. They've decided it's going to be a season long thing there. They're just not going to be. And they won. You know what, though? Darren McFadden, don't be afraid of him going forward. Tony Romo is now going to be back. He's going to take the boxes and open him up. So Darren McFadden is still going to be the guy. You saw 17 carries this last game. I don't expect that to change, but I expect the defense he's running against to change. So I like him. The guy you should be.

really unhappy with. CJ Anderson, you saw in that last game, now granted it was a complete, you know, mess for the Broncos all around, but he wasn't the guy.