Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 6 Matchups, The Daily Dose, TNF Review

Yeah, exactly. On that line, I would go. But you'd start Larry Fitzgerald over Brown. For sure. Let's say you had a roster with, you know, another big-name wide receiver with, you know, another big-name wide receiver two needs to be Antonio Brown and Larry Fitzgerald. Oh, it's Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald. But how about, so let's go through some guys here. James Jones. I'd start Brown. I would as well. T.Y. Hilton. I would start T. Y. Hilton. I'd probably start T. Y. Hylton. Yeah, Jarvis. P.P.R. Jarvis Landry. Jarvis. I would.

Man, I can't even say these. It's so hard. You know, yeah, I'd probably probably start landry. All right. This one's a tricky one for you. Kendall Wright. I would start Kendall Wright. I would not. I can't even like... What a world. I'm like, I've got a bitter face when I say these things. Do I even believe that? I mean, I probably...

I probably lied about three times because I think when the day came and I'm setting the line up and clicking the save button, I don't think I could take Antonio out. I would just hope he makes a big play. Because it does just take one or two with Antonio Brown, and he's pretty good. So we didn't help you. All right, Panthers going into Seattle to face the Seahawks. I think Carolina wins this game. Okay. Is that, do we need a... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Andy's almost upset of the week. There it is.

While I don't agree that they win, I definitely think it's possible, but I love the Carolina defense. As far as fantasy, fantasy goes, the Seattle offense is not a super high-powered scoring game. And also, you got Luke Keekly back, which maybe he should be. Thank goodness. Thank goodness he's back. For fantasy, yes. Not for his brain. Well, for the defense, for the team, for himself. I mean, he wants to play football. It's nice that he's healthy. The opposite side of the ball.

Bobby Wagner, it was likely to be out for the Seahawks, which is monumental. Which is a huge deal just for the defense as a whole, especially for the running defense. Yes. Yeah, he sat again, and yeah, I think Bobby Wagner will probably be out. So would you be okay flexing Jonathan Stewart? Yes, I would. Is there any wide receiver on the Carolina Panthers that you would want to run out there? Somebody's going to have a decision to make. They need a flex guy.

With buy weeks and things like that. So I'm going to start one, and I'm going to start... None. I would start just not. No, I mean, if you had to pick one. I'm saying in this matchup with Cam Newton, I know what you're saying, but I'm... I will have an empty starter spot before I play. There are... There are 20 wide receivers on the waiver wire. I would play over Tedgin Jr. this week in Seattle. You know, Bobby Wagner might be out, but their corners are great. Cam Newton is not... I mean, maybe one of them gets in the end zone...

You know, I wouldn't be shocked if it turns out that, you know, Ted Ginn Jr. gets two catches and gets a touchdown. But I'm definitely not starting one of these guys in Seattle. Mike, which wide receiver would you start if you had to start a Carolina wide receiver? If you have to fly on one, it's Ted Gid. Okay. Marshaun Lynch is expected to be back. We talked to Fred Jackson on Wednesday. We know that Rawls will be relegated to that backup.

first and second down roll, which is fine. I mean, he'll have probably five or six, seven carries in this game, depending on Lynch's health. Are you just, are you fine rolling Lynch out there? It's not the best matchup for him, but he's back in the lineup, right? And he's at home. So that's where Lynch really puts the touchdowns, generally speaking, is at home. Yeah. So anything else from this matchup you guys want to discuss? Greg Olson is a great play this week. I believe we saw Kim Chancellor fail epically.

against the tight-in position last week. So Greg Olson is a high-level tight-in. Yeah, Eiford had a huge game. What about the Jimmy Graham apology tour? I mean, is he, you know, Pete Carroll, Peach Cobbler came out, and he said he wanted to get the ball to Graham more.

I still have confidence that that's what this offense is going to do. They can want to do it all day long. The truth is there's not enough targets in Seattle to go to everybody. It could be Tyler Lockett. It could be Jimmy Graham. It could be Doug Baldwin. But it's not going to be any one of those guys week after week after week. There's just not enough offense. You got to spin the wheel, the wheel of Seahawks. Yeah, not exciting. Not an exciting situation. You know, when you do reflect on what happened with Jimmy Graham.

penny pinching in New Orleans and the fact that he always wanted to play with Drew Brees. It's just, you know, you get what you get. I will say this. And you don't throw a fit. That's what I tell my kids. I say that too. I don't blame Graham at all for getting as much cash as you can. You have a limited lifespan in the league and you're risking your body and your health. So I don't mind that at all. Yes, but here's the caveat. And we saw this with Randall Cobb. Yes. You aren't necessarily getting the most money.

If you penny pinch, you need to combine your expectations for that next contract, too. You generally can get two big contracts. Randall Cobb made a lot more money by taking less money to stay with. Jimmy Graham's going to sign with the New York Knicks next week is what he's going to do. Yeah, because Cobb can play out his current contract, still be young enough to play.

And Green Bay probably won't want it back. And he can still go cash in. The second contract, he can go sign with the Raiders. Exactly. There you go. All right. The Ravens go into San Francisco and face the 49ers in what should be a barn burner. Just an offensive, you know, the bold and Kamar Aiken battle that we're all waiting to watch. You know, this could be a higher scoring game than we expect just because both defenses are really not looking very good. And it's just like. I would stream either quarterback.

I would be willing. As long as Steve Smith is back and we have some confidence in him, you know, Crockett Gilmore is back. I said that out loud. Crockett. You know, the 49ers are the 30th ranked defense against the past. The Ravens are the 25th. The Ravens can't stop anybody. This is why Kaepernick's my stream of the week. What else do we say about this matchup? Hyde has missed a lot of practice time, but there's really no other options there in San Francisco. No, he's...

Hyde is, he's interesting because it's, you can see the talent when you just watch him run, but the team is really letting him down with just, with a workload of letting him do that four-quarter run, where the defense down, they just, they haven't been able to do it. But this is a, this is a game where I feel very confident in Hyde. This is also a good week. If you've got some bi-week struggles that you need to place someone off of waivers,

Play Toy Smith. Toy Smith is on a lot of waivers. Revenge game. And, you know, it's a revenge game and their defense is bad. Every now and then, Troy Smith's going to have a decent game. Another hot tip for fantasy owner, sign Giovarius, Alan, if he's on your waiver wire. Yes. Whether you are a four-set owner or not. There are a lot of things that make a waiver wire signing beneficial. You know, there's a few things here. Tally of Farrow.

The kind of goal line, one of the guys that were spelling Forset is out for the year. Buck Allen is a rookie. He had a 44-yard run last week. He had his best game as a pro. He's figuring the offense out. And Justin Forset has an ankle injury that probably will not keep him off the field, but you never know when you re-injure that. And he's older. And they're not going to give Forset every between the tackle carry all season long. They just, if they don't have to. The Ravens actually signed a new goal line back. His name is Joe Flacco.

Oh, you were so disappointed last week to see. I was furious. Well, it just shows you that, you know, Forset isn't built to necessarily be that, so they'd mixed it up. Well, he was. And that blind bootleg was pretty nice. Yeah, it worked out. But I can see you cursing the screen while that happened. Uh, ferociously, yes. We just got a sleeper bot alert. That's that Andrew Luck looks ready to go for week number six. That's good. There you go. So, we'll see. It's good.

We'll see. So, okay, anybody else of relevance in this game you want to talk about? No. All right. Chargers at... Like, absolutely not. Chargers going to Green Bay, and they are up against it. This game has a very high over-under, as does the next game, the Patriots and the Colts. Now, the Chargers, they kind of, you know, they blew it last week. It was a close game. They lost a close one to the Steelers. Now they have to go into Lambo.

Do they have a shot in this one? A shot, sure, because the Chargers past defense has been great. Yeah, very good. They've got really good corners there, which normally is good for the opposing team's tight end to kind of, you know, if you've got really good corners on your wide receivers taking away, you know, Randall Cobb and James Jones, then it's going to be those extra options that sneak in. I think this is a sneaky play week for Ty Montgomery. And, you know, I...

Richard Rogers is your stream of the week, right, Andy? He is. So there you go. I think it's a good matchup for... Are you starting Rivers, Mike? Yes, I am. Even against a very good defense? Yeah, I don't... Like, the confidence is not completely there, but the over-under, like, that's where I'm kind of trusting in Vegas. If you had Sam Bradford, who would you... Who would you start? Sam Bradford or Philip Rivers?

I think I have Rivers higher, but that's very, very close. You have them one higher. Would you start Rivers over Peyton Manning? Yes. Would you start him over Russell Wilson? Yes. What about... What about Colin Kaepernick? Trust me, I completely buy in with you that Colin Kaepernick is... Everything is set up for him to have a good game. I just realized how high I have him, and it's kind of embarrassing.

It is a little bit. I saw it. Yeah. Three. However. Rogers Brady Kaepernick. It could happen, but I just, I have far more trust in Philip Rivers than Colin Kaepernick. I can understand that. I think everybody in San Francisco would love it if they did a little flip-flop with the quarterback position there. All right.

Obviously, we saw Gates break onto the scene. I'm getting flooded with Twitter questions, email questions on the website that are all the same thing. Should I trade Tyler Eifert for blank? Should I trade Greg Olson for blank? I have Gates. Should I trade Tyler Eifford for blank? I have Gates. Should I trade? The answer is, yes, you should trade one of those two. But don't just give them away because... You have debt. Well, you know, I don't need them. They're not starting for me.

They're really needed and really valuable. Go get a good piece. Yeah, I saw a lot that were like, should I trade Tyler Eifford for Eli Manning? Yeah. You know, those type of trades because, you know, you need a quarterback. So let's go get a middle, you know, top quarterback for my number one tight-in. Yep. So we're starting Gates. You know, Green had a good game, even with Gates last week. Green played well just from a football perspective. They seemed to want to use both of them.

And certainly, you know, the coverage that floats Gateway leaves Green, a pretty talented player open a lot of the time. Are we confident in Keenan Allen? As much as you can be in this game. If Stevie Johnson's out, I'm okay with it because all of Stevie's will go to Kenan. Woodhead or Gordon, who has the better game in Green Bay? For now, you've got to say Woodhead. I mean, you just have to say Woodhead until Gordon proves something that he can see the end zone once in his career.

We all have Woodhead as kind of a RB2 this week. Yeah, the only difference for me was how involved in the passing game Melvin Gordon was last week. True. So we could be seeing the change. If you had to predict it, they'd be coming from behind in this game.

That's, yeah, for game flow. And that's why last game matters so much, because normally that means that's Danny Woodhead time. But last week, it was Melvin Gordon in on two-minute drives and those things. So this could be the changing of the guard, I agree. But until it changes, you've got to stick with Woodhead. Well, we got a couple more games. I want to preview the Sunday night game and the Monday night game. And then we also have the Daily Dose. Chris Meaney's coming on to talk some fantasy DFS.

value plays, smart plays this week. Then we're going to answer a few mailbag questions. So I'll have a little longer show today, but it's all right. It's Friday. You guys want a little bit more. The Patriots go into Indianapolis on Sunday night, face the, we assume, Andrew Luck led Indianapolis Colts. Revenge game. In offense, revenge game because of the playoffs. Because of Deflate Gate.

You're really buying into massive revenge-related things today. Well, no, the Arian's one, maybe. This one, yes. The Colts were the ones who reported the Patriots for Deflate Gate. So you just think they're just going to take the, I mean, can they score more than they're scoring right now? Yes. How could, you think yes. Yes, they can. If you look at last game, they did kind of take the foot off the gas a little bit.