Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 4 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

Rawls or Abdullah. I've had tons of these questions and I think it depends on your situation. Totally. But I think Rawls is the safer play. I think he's going to get guaranteed points. And the goal line. One of them gets to go against the lions and one of them gets to go against the Seahawks. Well, Abdullah could decide to turn. Right. I guess if if Abdullah can go against the lions definitely play him. That's very good advice.

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Fingers crossed. Abdullah could go over to Seattle where they commit to the running the game. I'm very excited about Jimmy Graham. I believe Jimmy Graham's going to have a great season. I think we saw what he'll do last week. He's still running routes. They got to involve him. And without March on Lynch, the offense has to funnel a little bit heavier through Russell Wilson, who's been okay for fantasy so far.

Did you see the, it's kind of jumping back to the other game, but the quote of Clay Matthews taunting Colin Kaepernick? Yes, I did. Saying, you are not Russell Wilson? He also kissed his bicep after a sec. Oh, that is just doing him dirty. Yeah, I mean, Clay Matthews has a very fun attitude about it, though, because he's just kind of like, you know, we're grown men clowning on each other out there. It's not a big deal. I just make it up as I go along. He's not JJ Watt where he feels serious when he rips off the other person's celebration. That being said,

Isn't it really a compliment to Russell Wilson? Because that's... Of course. I think that that's like... That's the whole point. Yeah. Well, right. But I just mean, from me, looking, I would assume it would be just as hard to chase down Russell Wilson or Colin Kaepernick just watching them on the field. But his admission is like, no, no. It's not as hard to chase both of those guys down. Nice sneakers, bro. All right. Let's move it on. So we want to thank our sponsor real quick. Fan duel. So if...

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Beautiful. All right, guys. Let's talk, uh, let's talk some stud muffins. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Let's talk about, uh, let's talk about my start of the week. Let's, the number one. He ended up the number one. Is that right? That is correct. I didn't even know that until you told me that. Thus far, we still have two quarterbacks to go. Russell and Matthew. Who will not be the number one quarterback? So Philip is in the top three, no matter what. No matter what. So Philip Rivers.

23 completions for 358 yards, three touchdowns. It took him a little while to get going in this game. He only had about 12 points at halftime in fantasy. However, he got it done. And I believe there was three missing starters from his offensive line. So that's what happened. If you watch the game early on, there was a particular play near the very beginning of the game where the linebackers just hit the A gap.

and came running completely free right up the center. It was ridiculous. And so there's a credit to that team and that offensive line coach who managed to get things going together because it wasn't just Rivers. I mean, Woodhead had a pretty decent game. Melvin Gordon was the, we really liked him, but the game flow just didn't work out for him. But Rivers was great. If you have Rivers right now, hold on to him. The schedule is going to be great for him moving forward. And he gets Gates back. He had a great game.

Sammy Biscuits. Sammy Biscuits. He's back. I hope people made some money on those GPPs. We were like maybe throw him out for a fan duel bigger tournament because he was, you know, he finished great. I think he finished as the number two maybe. Yeah, Sam Bradford had a good week. He had a 39 yard or two Miles Austin of days past. Yes. Drew Brees came back with a big game last night.

ended with an 80-yard touchdown, which always boosts the stats, but he's 3159 for N2. And we talked about McCown and Cousins. Both of those guys completed a lot of passes, 356 yards for McCown, two touchdowns. Kirk Cousins had 290 yards in a touchdown, although I'm not signing or starting Kirk Cousins anywhere. This is just more like his mom called and wanted us to mention his name. However, I think we need to start taking Josh McCown series as a streamer. Sure. But this is back-to-back.

High volume weeks. It's just he's got to be listed. Duke Johnson helps that offense a lot. Yes. From a standpoint of like you can take it out of the backfield and do something with it. Young legs, fresh legs. Duke really got it done in the passing game though. The touchdown, the deep touchdown was just, that was a great pass. And a really good catch. Yeah. So it was a fantastic play overall. Breaking news. Let us have it.

Joe Philbin has been fired. Sorry, Joe, but hashtag sorry, not sorry. I tweeted a little note about Joe Philbin over the weekend that I won't repeat on the show. Now, out of curiosity and the breaking news, is the defensive coordinator and or offensive coordinator still around? Let's see. I don't.

No yet. It is very breaking. Entire coaching staff are fired. They should do that. Nodomacu has kicked Joe Philbin in the head. Wait, that is not a real news story. Okay. So, he's gone. This can only mean nowhere to go but up. You have to hold out the hope for Miller. You guys want me to take over this coach? Because I can tell you what to do. Do you want to know? I want to know. Okay. First.

on offense, you get Lamar Miller more involved and you get Devante Parker more involved. You don't keep throwing the ball to Greg Jennings or rotational Richard Matthews as your number one guy. While they tried to throw to Guinea Stills, he finally caught one at the end of the game. But they kept throwing all over the play. The play calling is of how many fades do you have to miss on before you think?

Okay, we've missed five times a row. Maybe we should hold off on calling the fade passes. Yeah, it was gross. So that's where I would start on the offense. I would use your first round pick. No. I would involve him in the offense. You know, he's a giant superstar in the making, and you throw him like no passes. Actually, the only contribution I saw from him yesterday was the touchdown that got called back because of the pick. Right.

the one to Landry. So, kind of disappointing there. So, all right, wide receivers, they had big games. Tavon Austin. Tavon. There's got to be nobody better than him in the screen game, the wide receiver's screen. He just always seems to, you know, he plays with a fury. He had two touchdowns, 96 yards through the air. He had another 20 or 25 rushing. Do you start to consider Tavon Austin a flexible guy?

He's getting close. Here's what I consider him right now because watching the game, he was as fast as he's ever been, and that's always been his huge thing. They're using him more and more, targeting him more. So he is now not flexible yet, I don't think, but he is rosterable. And before I have seen him on waivers and left him on waivers. And now you really do have to consider it, especially with the emergence of Todd Gurley, going to open things up there. Do you guys want to hear a funny staff?

Of course. Always. This one comes from Field Yates, by the way. So I've got to give them credit at Field Yates. The Patriots hired Bill Belichick in 2000. How many combined coaches has the rest of the AFC East had in that time? Just that division? Yeah. Wow. So that's been 15. In 15 years. 15 years. Combined. I'm going to go with 25. 21. 21. 21 coaches.

For the AFCE, so, you know, I've always been the kind of, I mean, you have to have the right guy, but the way Cincinnati's done it, the way New England's done it, you're going to have down, the way the giants have done it. Jason and I were talking about this with Coughlin yesterday, and say what you will about Coughlin, you can like him, and it cannot like him. They've let him work through tough times in the division. I think the Giants win this division, by the way, this year, and I think it's just a testament to Coughlin. This will be the third time they've been...

Oh, are they going to fire Coughlin? And then he comes out and wins the Super Bowl. Yeah, I know. The last two times it was like, oh, they didn't fire him. Oh, he just got us to the Super Bowl. He gets two more years. And then by that time, they're about to fire him and he gets him back to the Super Bowl. That's crazy. So, all right, Alan Hearns, start of the week by Mike, the Fantasy Hitman, 11 for 1116 and a touchdown. I tip my cap. That's beautiful. That was beautiful. I remember getting the tweet this week or the text this week and they said, Hearns TD.

Yeah, I was very excited. We want to come through for you guys. I was happy with just the touchdown, and then he decided he was going to have the best game of his career. Yeah, well, I mean, that's a good time to call him your start of the week, don't you think? Yeah. And then Vincent Jackson reappeared. You got to hit the button for Vincent. Oh, the Garbage Land Dance. Why have you not put, there's a name missing, by the way, in this wide receiver list, yeah. Who are we missing? His name rhymes is Smare Me Smacklin. Oh, because I just went through.

I was going through the tops. Uh-huh. Yeah, it was kind of one of the tops. You're right. He just didn't score a touchdown, but he was like 11 for 149. He was the sixth highest wide receiver this week. Well, he's higher than Mike Wallace and Leonard Hankerson, I'm sure. He is one higher than Mike Wallace. Okay. And he is two behind Leonard Hankerson. Oh, Hankerson scored. Okay. Yeah. Jeremy Macklin had a great game. Thank you. That's all I want. Yeah. And I just wanted you to say that without me having to hit the Garbage Man button. One other guy worth, worth mentioning because of.

Future injury as well who had a top 10 wide receiver game was Kammar Aiken. And with Steve Smith being out, I think he's a name we should keep on the radar. He can be started next week if you need to. I'd rather start Kammar Aiken next week than... Is it Kama or is it Kamar? Yeah, I kind of follow Jason's lead there, but I believe it's Kamar. But we'll... We've got to hit the YouTube again. Yeah, yeah. All right. I do... Leonard Hagerston had a good game. That game...

I'm going to just share my story from the league. Yes. This is called nightmare. It's called the nightmare. I was playing Mike. I lost the mic. Handily. I had Arian Foster and Julio Jones. And the worst combo of events happened in that game where just a boat racing. By the way, this was my almost upset of the week that is now going to be called the almost almost upset of the week. When it was zero, zero, it was almost an upset. It was very close.

I mean, just ridiculous. I think I've picked the two biggest blowouts the past two weeks. So I'm like two for four now on the year, which is whatever. They're tough picks. But...