Starts of the Week + Week 15 Breakdown, Notoriety of Toughness

and the loss of Mike Evans all factoring. Early this week, I would have definitely been on the Jamest side. I think I am on the Tanna Hill side. Houston, who Ryan Tannenhill is playing, that's the team that just gave up like 303 to Drew Locke. Lock it in. Yeah, so it's a fine matchup for a fantasy court. Yeah, it is. It is. Ronald Jones, and you don't have the risk. Yeah. You know the risk. All right. Ronald Jones. Speaking of risk. Peyton Barber, both risky out.

options this week. Ronald Jones should be a great play. Should be. Not good. Should be a great play. You know, I've said, I almost made it my start of the week and I was like, what am I doing? I don't want to do that. He's won with past protection away from not playing anymore. He was back in the double digit carries, had five targets last week. I believe last week he had both Peyton Barbara and Ronald Jones had the exact same amount of carries. So this is kind of a time share where you could play either piece.

I expect, and you guys have been better on calling the lines this year, but, like, I think the Buccaneers easily handle the Lions this week. And if that's the case, the running game should be good, but it is so risky. I don't disagree. I don't disagree. Bo Scarborough on the other side. Is he a Bowflex this week? No. The Buccaneers can do one thing on defense. It's shut down running backs, and Bo Scarborough is just a grinder.

Adrian Peterson or Bo Scarborough? Adrian Peterson. Okay. I'll pretty much answer whatever name you throw out there. Chris Godwin should have a very, very high floor. Kenny Galaday, we're going to talk about him later, huh? Yeah, I mean, these are two guys who are going to have an immense amount of the target market share of their respective teams in Chris Godwin and Kenny Goladay and two great wide receivers, both facing poor.

defensive units. So, yeah, sign me up across the board. All right. We have a Bradshawd Perryman Justin Watson bet, right? Yeah. This is a real thing. Real exciting. Scotty Miller returned to practice as well. That is a problem. Well, it shouldn't be if you're a superstar, right? Scotty Miller shouldn't stand in the way of a superstar. There's, look, it was Mike. Mike Evans was the only reason that Justin Watson couldn't get on the field. Eric, and also.

Scotty Miller. So here's the thing, Fookland. Scottie Miller is the one standing in the way of Superstar. The Buck's regime that came in, they drafted Scott Miller as their small speed guy. I mean, Bruce Ariens has like a thing. Yeah. He has like, I need a 170 pound 4-2 wide receiver on the outside. He's done it everywhere. He's gone. I need this. He's got like his.

You know, some players, they take their system and they force it. That's, that's Aryans. And by players, I mean coaches. They drafted Scott Miller this year. They did not, this was not the regime that drafted Justin Watson. And so Justin Watson has been relegated behind while he's implementing the future. But once Justin Watson got on the field, he was great. Because I do believe he is a good wide receiver. Bashad Perryman has.

Huge opportunity this week, but he sucks. Like, he's had two good games. He does not. I don't understand this conversation. Why does Brashad Perryman suck, but Justin Watson is good? I don't understand that. Okay, here's why. Because we can't prove that Justin Watson doesn't suck because he can't get on an NFL field. Brashad Perryman, you have seen, he is, his draft capital says he gets to play a career in the NFL.

He was a first round pick, if I'm remembering that correct. Paramar? But he's on a new roster. He could have been like his 13. He could have washed out of the league. He's already played for Cleveland. He's already played for Baltimore. And now he's starter above Justin Watson. When Lequan Treadwell's contract is up, he will be signed somewhere. And when you sign someone, you are invested in them. He literally wasn't. Treadwell wasn't signed when he was let go. He was a free agent for the whole offseason. And then he got re-signed by Minnesota. He was re-signed.

Oh, my gosh. My point is, Brasad Perriman sucks. I have breaking news. Bradshaw Perryman will have a better game than Justin Watson. And you know it's true. If Scotty Miller's active, yes, that's true. It is true. All right, here, let's help the folk plan here. No. Are there any of these guys? Are you starting Perryman? I mean, because I would take a shot on Perryman. I would. In your playoffs. Yes. If I had to, I mean, if I need to start somebody, yeah.

Mike? Yeah, it all comes down to the options, but I'm willing to flex Perryman. Will you flex O.J. Howard over Perryman? Because that could be a decision in a flex position. And I would flex O.J. Howard over Perryman. I don't think I would. You know, the only thing that's kind of strange is if you look at the last five games the Lions have played, they have given nothing up to the tight end position. O.J. Howard was on the brink of start of the week category until I looked at that and said,

Well, this is, you know, they're the ones that stop the Kyle Rudolph run, I think. You know, you just have a weird situation there where they're on fire against tight ends. I don't know why that is. All right. Texans and Titans, both eight and five. Battle for the division. Titans, three point favorites, a 50 point over under. Juicy. I mean, who don't you start in this game? Watson and Tannenhill are in. Ooh, yes.

Tannahill number five starts it question. Tana Hill or Dak Prescott? Who do you go? I'm going with Ryan Tannehill. This one is very close, but I lean Taney. Like just Dak Prescott, he's at home. He's much better at home. So I think that Dak is a fine play this week. But Ryan Tanyhill, those are fires. I mean, those are melting the dragon aches. This fires are so hot. Derek Henry, he's in your lineup. A.J. Brown.

Is he in your lineup automatically? Yes, he is. As a two. The number one starts a question on the website, A.J. Brown versus Darius Slayton. AJ Brown. That one's easy. Yeah, I agree. Dary Slate. I mean, I get it. Dary Slaten had a big monster game. He's had several of them and now has a great matchup as well. But he does not have the talent level that A.J. Brown has. Both of these players have had big blowup games and have a good matchup. So go with the more talented higher capital player in A.J. Brown. To me, that's not.

Just a talent question. It's a quarterback. It's quarterback. Well, it's quarterback and Sterling Shepard is still there. That's what it is for me. Golden Tate is still there. That's what it is. A.J. Brown is the alpha of the team. But my. Oh, the voice of public opinion. But Corey Davis is still there. Exactly. Yeah. That's that's helpful.

I'm with you, Mike. The reason I didn't make, like, Darius Slateon must start of the week. And that's not an anti-Slatan take. I think Slate is just as talented as A.J. Brown. I think that they're very close. But when you look at Golden Tate or Shepard or Shepard or Slate, they could all have the big week in the matchup. Yeah. And A.J. Brown and Rahim Moster in the flex. What do you think? That one's really close. I play Moster. I'm going Moster. I, man, I find myself.

we were talking about this on the footcast. Like, I just, I can't get fully on board with Rahim Moster. I've noticed that. And look, I should be able to. He is, I've, I've always thought he was great. I have said earlier in the season, I think he's better than Tevin Coleman. And Kyle Shanhan has come out and supported him. Just the volume, man. The volume is still not at a place where I feel like you can fully trust him.

Well, we'll talk more about him later. Carlos Hyde, is he okay as an RB. Yeah, he's a fine volume play. Hopkins has been on fire. I'm going to start him. Pretty much the best wide receiver over the last eight weeks. And that's probably it for that matchup. Yeah. Do you do anything fuller, QT? You're getting crazy with any of these secondary options for the Texas? Not in Tennessee. No, I don't think so.

Miami Dolphins at 3 and 10 take on the 2 and 11 Giants in a real doozy. Giants at 3.5 point favorites. I do like them to win this game, 46.5 point over under. Ryan Fitzpatrick versus Eli Manning. This matchup has a combined 22 losses. Between the two teams. That's so bad. Like, how is that possible?

Because it's 21, Mike. Yeah, I was going to say it's not possible. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Idiot. So get this. Ryan Fitzpatrick has played Eli Manning four times prior. All four times Ryan Fitzpatrick was on a different team. Nice. The Bills, Texan, Jets and Buccaneers. And now you get him with the Dolphins. The Giants won every single time. No, they lost to the Jets. They lost to the Jets in 2015. But now who's the idiot? Me. This will be.

An interesting one. The matchup looks really, really good for, you know, obviously both quarterbacks. Yeah. They're lined up to succeed. Eli Manning should start this game. He had a couple big touchdowns last week. The Miami Dolphins defense is really bad. Is it silly to think of Ryan Fitzpatrick as a streaming option if Devante Parker's back, but not think of Eli Manning with potentially Tate, Shepard, Slayton, and Ingram, and Sequin. So like that's five weapons against the...

The one defense that you can always put up a good performance against. Are we missing something? Yeah, I mean, I think we are. I did mention him on my streaming quarterbacks when I said that, you know, Tana Hill was my streamer that because you already had him, that Eli would be in that list. He should be in streaming consideration. Oh, and what a victory lap that would be for.

Fantasy owners. Oh, it would be excellent. These two teams, oh, the frogs are out, Jason. What is going on? These two teams are two of the five worst teams at giving up more than a quarterback's average fantasy points scored. So this is a perfect matchup for Eli and Fitzpatrick to be able to really...

go back and forth on these defenses, hit the over and provide a lot of fantasy value. I think we're all waiting to see what's going on with Devante Parker because the worry is if you don't have Parker, can Isaiah Ford and Alan Hearns really get it done? Nope. And, yeah, I mean, you think no. I mean, Fitzmagic can do magical things. But, yeah, I mean, it's a bad crew. You know, Patrick Laird.

and Isaiah Ford and Alan Hearns is not the group you want to rely on. No, no, there's not a lot of confidence there, and you saw last week what the floor is without Devante Parker. You have the evidence that he didn't overcome it last week for fantasy owners, right? Right. Patrick Laird. Mike, thoughts on Patrick Laird. You can play him the snaps. Are you scared of Laird? Yeah, because he's Patrick Laird on the Miami Dolphins, but...

The opportunity is there. The snaps are there. 20 opportunities last week. We talked about him. He's been putting up fantasy production. It's not pretty, but it's there. The Giants are not a scary matchup for fantasy running backs over 21 points a week to the position. And Patrick Laird is involved in the passing game. So I expect double-digit carries and I expect five plus targets for Laird. Is Patrick Laird even higher of an upside play if Parker's out?

No. I would, yeah, I would say no. I think Parker's the engine for the offense. All right. Do you have a direction that you lean with the wide receivers in New York? And I think this is one of the hardest questions of the week because the matchup's so good, 32 and a half fantasy points per game, the Dolphins are giving up. It's going to be distributed among those guys. Tate disappeared last week. That concerns me. Shepard mostly disappeared as well. I rank them Slayton. Shepard Tate. I do as well.

I was really expecting more from Tate last week. I was too. Almost had a touch, though. Really, really close. Little fingertip away from one. Fingertip slip? Yeah. Nobody else that you're talking to on the wide receiver side for Miami. Mike Gisicki, he's had three monster weeks in the last six. He's had three poo-poo weeks.

Are you willing to take a shot? Yes, I am willing to take a shot, especially if you want to talk about who gets the uptick in targets if Devante Parker is out, it would be Gassiki for me. Yeah, I completely agree. Last week should have had a better game and didn't, and that's oftentimes where you end up chasing what happened last week instead of...

sticking with what the process was. And when you stick with what the process is, which is the uptick and volume, the quality matchup, the getting more involved and actually showing that he's a good NFL player, I think Gassiki is someone you could roll with. All right. Let's move on. Seahawks Panthers. Seahawks heading to Carolina. There's six point favorites. It's a 48.5 point over under. And I just don't see how Carolina wins this football game.