Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 4 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

past catching target. Now he gets all of those guys back, and I think there's been an unfair wrap on Andy Dalton. So we'll talk about that. And Gino Ackins on the defensive side is back, which makes a huge difference. Huge difference. To the game flow. And the fact that they're not coming back from a thousand points down. I mean, you know, Andy Dalton having to go out and sling it 35 times is not going to end well, generally. So that breaks the question then. Would you start Andy Dalton over Andrew Luck?

This week, no, I don't have the guts. Yeah. Yeah, this week, Andrew Luck has a great match. That just has to do with your kind of the way you play fantasy. I mean, if you're the kind of guy who's like, you need to punish Andrew Luck for his performances for you. And you're happy putting him on your bench. You can do that. I'm not that kind of guy, though. So let's talk about AJ Green exploded at your chance to buy low on him. He's gone. Gone.

We're starting green. What about Marvin Jones as a flex start? I like it. I can dig it. The Chief's defense, the secondary at least, has been highly suspect. And I think that Marvin can bust loose. I'm talking not a great game, but, you know, 50, 60 yards. Is Charles the only guy you want to start on Kansas City heading into Cincinnati against that defense? No, Zeus. Oh, that's right. Zeus isn't every week to start for me. And what do we think about Tyler Eiff for a chance to bounce back?

Absolutely. He dropped a touchdown because of semantics of the new catch rule. If that rule is slightly different, or if it's the same rule as it was five years ago, then Eifert would have had a great game. Yeah, I like almost all the Bengals. What about Jeremy Hill? Oh, man. Jeremy Hill or Bernard, who would you start between him?

That's the first question. I'm still going to start Jeremy Hill because I'm a glutton for punishment. He's still technically the starter on the team. I want to see where we have him. You can keep talking about that. I'll see our comparison where we have the two guys. And the, I mean, the chiefs, they have a strong. We have geo ahead. They have a strong running game, but we saw Eddie, and injured Eddie Lacey handle them pretty well. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with Aaron Rogers, but, uh, it, I'm still, if you have Hill.

I don't know if you have a better option. Or maybe you grab Dionne Lewis, who's on a bi-week, so he's not helping you this week. But I can't think of a lower-tiered option that you grabbed with Hill, who can be... Would you play Devante Freeman over Jeremy Hill? Yes. That's a good one. Yeah. Can I have you guys rank these three guys that I know I see a lot of questions on for this week, these three guys? Jeremy Hill, Justin Fawcett, and Lamar Miller.

So you got Lamar Miller against the Jets in London, Justin Forset. We just talked about... Give me Forset, then Hill, then Miller. I would go Hill, Forset, Miller. And I go same as Andy, Forset, Hill, Miller. All right, let's talk about the Texans heading into Atlanta. Atlanta is almost a 7-point favorite. This is a high 47 point over-under. You've got the potential for Arian Foster to return in this game, and this is my...

Oh, no. Andy's Almost Upset of the Week. I love hearing you're almost upset of the week because every time it just punches me right in the junk. Listen, the Falcons defense is not that good. They are a bottom half defense. They gave up a ton of yards on the ground to Joseph Randall. A ton of first half yards. I understand.

I understand, but they give up four touchdowns to running backs last week. And they're not great through the air. If the Texans get Arian Foster back and their defense plays more up to par to what we expect it to be, which honestly in fantasy, it's been underwhelming. I saw a lot of leagues where Houston was dropped this week, and I don't blame you because they haven't scored and they're not getting turnovers. But I'm telling you right now, this is my upset.

pick of the week because Houston has the type of defense and they've been kind of in every game that they've been in. And so I think they can stop the run in Devante Freeman and that will force Atlanta to find another pass catcher than just Julio Jones. Maybe they can win the entire game just on the back of Julio Jones, who by the way, in an article today said he can do a lot better than he's doing. Good. By the way, he's on pace for 2,300 yards and 21 touchdowns. Julio!

Oh, and 181 receptions is his current pace. Which would break. Do you know what the record is? Do you guys know that? It's got 150. 143? Do you know who did it? Juris? Yeah, it goes rice. No, Marvin Harrison. Oh, yes. Yeah, 143. So he's on pace to smash that record, which, you know, I'm sure he'll get hurt before then. All right. That being said, all of that almost upset of the week mess, who do we...

Are we starting Foster if he's active, is the first question? 100% we are starting Foster if he is active. I don't think they're going to just throw him out there for 10 or 15 carries. I agree with that. I think he's either all in or all out. I agree. That's what they've done with him in the past almost every time. And there's been plenty of times where he's come back off of an injury. And every, you know, he rocks it, game one. My number one wide receiver on the week is in this game. And his name is not Julio Jones.

DeAndre Hopkins? He's my number one this week. I thought you just said Steve Smith. No, Steve Smith's my number one in PPR, number two in standard. Hopkins is my number one in standard. Gotcha. So Julio's three in both of those, by the way. But DeAndre Hopkins. I love Hopkins this week. Target Monster. Good defense to play against. Falcons are 24th against the pass. If you have Hopkins, you're starting him and you're dancing. That's my thought. Yeah. So Hankerson? Hankerson. Hankerson over Roddy.

Hankerson over Roddy? Yes, absolutely. All right, you have to at this point. Would you flex Hankerson? Is that a consideration for you? He's among that crop of guys we always talk about. That's just that weird, nebulous, kind of gross guys, but sure. Three strikes when you bowl is called a turkey. Turkey. What is it when, if Roddy whites, it's three gooses in a row. Retirement. I believe that's what that's called.

Oh, I think him and Andre Johnson might have to go out. Oh, man. Hang out. I don't flex. Go bowling. I don't flex the wide receiver two for Atlanta right now until they figure that out. We knew, you know, Kyle Shanahan targets one guy. You know, he's always great for that wide receiver one, but his wide receiver two's haven't ever been. By the time you're ready to play Hankerson, Devin Hester will be back. So get ready for that. I think Devin Hester is what's cleared. Was he?

Yeah, so definitely agree with Jason then on that. I don't know. I like, as long as Roddy's going to keep doing this, I like Leonard Hankerson moving forward. Mike, if Foster is declared out before the game, who do you start Alpha Blue over? And Alpha Blue is the guy, right? Yeah. I think Alfred Blue is the guy with the volume, at least, that he got last week. I think he had 31 carries or something just crazy. If you're wondering about...

Where I have these guys on my rankings, I put Blue and Foster directly next to each other because I don't know the situation yet. So they're both ranked kind of low. If we get more information, I'll update my Foster ranking, and I'm sure we will all do that. He's all over the place because for me, I ranked blue as in he's playing and I have Foster pretty much out. I put zeros in there. Yeah, actually Foster, you don't have, uh, I believe I gave, Mike, I don't have a roster. Yeah, I gave, I gave him, uh, one.

One carry for one yard. So that he's there, but not really. And to answer Mike's question, I've got Alfred Blue. If he is the guy, I've got him over Bernard, Lamar Miller, C.J. Spiller, and Dunbar. All right. Let's get into our starts of the week. Starts of the week. All right, my start of the week at the quarterback position pains me to say because I'm facing him. Oh, it is a glory. I feel like you're just trying to jinx me.

You know, it would, it has crossed my mind. It's Philip Rivers at home against Cleveland, bounce back game coming off, I believe, what, two losses in a row? Yes. So I have them at 300 plus yards, two touchdowns, at least. So I love hearing that. Philip is my start of the week at quarterback. Let's go ahead and go over to Jason Moore. I'm going with the Red Rocket, Andy Dalton. We talked about these guys yesterday. Not only do I think he's a streamable guy because.

somehow only 39% ownership for the number three. After waver. Wait, is that like today? I haven't checked it today, but that was yesterday after waver. You know what that is? That is ginger discrimination. Yes, it is. It is ginger discrimination. But I've got him. We talked about him enough yesterday and today. I believe he puts up great numbers with all of his new weapons. Hold on. I'm looking up this ownership because I've got to see what this is at.

owned, okay, now he's owned in 67%. All right, okay, so Pete after waiver wire. Yeah, that's at least. Well, the buy weeks are here. People are grabbing a quarterback for those situations, too. Okay, for my start of the week, I need you to hit a button for me. Send in the car. Send in the car. Yeah, send in the car. This was Andy's stream of the week, and he will be my stuff. What's his name? Derek Carr. Okay, just making sure. I thought you were going breaking bad on me. I didn't know if you were going branding car, the DB.

or his brother jumping out of retirement real quick. Yeah. But Derek Carr, we talked about back-to-back 300-yard games, two touchdowns on each of those. And Mari Cooper has just, he lived up to his hype. One of those guys who actually did where they said he's the most league-ready wide receiver in a long time. And he's showing it he's just, he's been fantastic. Watch him on tape, he just, he looks great. Michael Crabtree is, I guess, healthy.

and seems to be a capable wide receiver and just everything in Oakland is working right now and they get a great matchup against the Bears. I love that in your notes. It says Chicago has gone full ostrich. They have. They're just burying their head in the sand. We need to sell players. I guess it might just be. We're not going to give you any injury updates. I don't want to go back into that. We can lose by less.

And they're selling the team. There's these rumors of, I'm sure this is just media speculation, not based on anything, but like actually verbally people are talking about, are they going to trade Matt Forte and Jay Cutler? And it's like, what is going on in Chicago? I was going to say, I think with Carr and Cooper, you have a budding Cutler or Marshall situation there. I think you do. You got a gunslinger. You got a target monster that's always open. All right. So the running back, let's go and go.

With Mike, you can give us your running back start of the week. So this is a hybrid because it's Alfred Blue for me or Aaron Foster if he plays. Atlanta is giving up massive points to the running backs. Seven touchdowns that leads the league. And Alfred Blue last week, 31 for 139 yards and a touchdown. And I think the Texans know the only way, everybody knows. I mean, it's just, so I guess it's just being stating the obvious. The only way you're going to beat Atlanta.

Do not let them have the ball. And that would include giving Offer Blue a healthy dose of carries, and I like him. I don't think the Atlanta running game is that strong. I know they shut down Dallas in the second half, but I like Blue in this game. My start of the week is Carlos Williams. We talked about how he is our number three and four for Andy and I running back. Now, that's, of course, if Shady's out. Sometimes people don't feel confident playing backups, feel confident playing Carlos Williams.

Carlos with a cave. If McCoy was somehow active, are you still starting Williams? Flex. Flex. Yeah, maybe flex, but I probably would not start him if he's active. In fact, I've got another. If, in case Shady plays, then my start of the week would be Devonta Freeman, who Tevin Coleman's not back yet. You would start. That's your start of the week against the Houston. Houston hasn't been that good against the run, which is shocking because they should be with that line. Good point. To save characters when I type it out, I've been calling him

Carlos Williams. Kay Willie. Kay Willie. Jump on the bandway. I'm not sure he would love that. Kay Willie. Oh, my goodness. It's been a while since you've debuted. It could have been worse.

Matt Forte is my start of the week. He's my number one this week, which is why I'm putting him on that list. I also really like Melvin Gordon this week. He's my number eight overall running back this week. I think at home coming back against Cleveland, he's looked the part. They've just been down. I think they'll be up in this game. It'll be Gordon time.

Get ready for some, I'm buying Gordon in league. I love the Gordon pick. I mean, I had him as my start of the week last week, and it didn't pan out. And I went back and I watched, and he's running great. And then that pick six in near, I believe, the end of the third quarter, they didn't even play him in the fourth. Because the game was out of reach. This is kind of a random aside, so I apologize, because we were talking about Philip Rivers. Look at Philip Rivers schedule coming up. Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Green Bay is iffy because he's in Green Bay. So that's one. But Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago.