Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 11 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

All right, Chris Mortensen says C.J. ProSise will remain the starting running back for the immediate future, perhaps adding a little bit of a pat on the back to anybody who wants to roll him into the lineup this week. He was almost my start of the week. He was not, but he was in consideration because I think he is. So you are unequivocally starting C.J. Procise above Thomas Rawls this week. This week, yes.

And I think Rawls will be great going forward. The next few weeks, Rawls is one of those kind of Rise from the Ashes fantasy players. But this week, I think CJ ProCise will have the majority of carries will be used also in the passing game. You'll see Thomas Rawls in the role that he was in when he was back for a little while where he and Krista Michael were sharing the load, which kind of capped Rawls value. But then you're also going to have Pro Seis.

in the receiving game, which Chris and Michael wasn't really in. Would you start C.J. Pro Seize against Philly or Mark Ingram against Carolina tonight? I think I would start C.J. Pro Seize. I don't love the matchup against Philly, but at least they're at home and not in Philadelphia. Okay. All right. Very reasonable. Let's move on here. Jordan Howard was correct, apparently, that he had not been injured in any way, and he practiced in full. Wait a minute.

You're telling me John Fox was wrong or was feeding misinformation? Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. Let me mark that. Look, I think right now I realize we've made a grave error in this show. Is Mike verified? Oh, let me check. Is Mike verified? Nope. Nope. Okay. Stay away, Mike. He's actually, you guys think he's on vacation. He was suspended from the show due to some trust issues. So.

Deshaun Jackson returned to practice on Wednesday. I, you know, I don't want to do the Deshaun Jackson dance anymore. Not only is he not fun to try to start when he's healthy, he's often hurt, and I don't even know if he plays this week. So. Yeah, I think most fantasy owners are hoping he doesn't because the relevant players right now are your Jameson Crowders and your Jordan Reeds and even your Vernon Davis. You're going to hear me talk about Vernon Davis in a little bit. So, all right.

Some other guys that did not practice just to keep you aware of what's going on. Remember tomorrow on the episode, we have our in or out segment where we give our final word on whether we think guys are playing. These guys did not practice. Grab Gronkowski, Thai Montgomery, Jeremy Macklin, Will Fuller, Jekwiz, Rogers. And then you have some kind of veteran rest days probably for Larry Fitzgerald, DeMarco Murray, and Jimmy Graham. Sound good? Sounds great. Any other news before we get into the matchups?

Do you hear about Isaiah Pete? And it's not super fantasy relevant, but that was a sad story. He lost part of his leg in a car accident today. I don't believe the accident took place today. I believe the accident took place about a week ago. But I did not hear an update on it. I knew he was in critical condition. So he lost part of his leg. Yes. Yes. It was last weekend when the car accident happened. That is very sad. Yeah. Thoughts and prayers.

with isaiah yeah and his family that's that's tragic all right we're going to move on get into the matchups for the upcoming week as soon as i um soon as i find the right button here hold on i'm still searching fearless hero fantasy forecast fearless hero yeah it's very very interesting phrase

It's definitely fearless leader is the phrase that I should have said once again proving. How's Ryan Griffin, by the way? Is he doing well? He's good, man. We're holding hands. Okay. All right. Teams on by this week. A final reminder, Atlanta, Denver, New York. That would be the Jets in San Diego. In terms of Thursday night football updates for tonight's game between the Saints and Panthers. Jonathan Stewart's not on the injury report at all.

Second time in his career. Okay, that part's not true. But good news, nonetheless, for those starting him. Next week, there are no buys, and then week 13, we have two buys. Well, because that makes sense, right? That makes a lot of sense. So let's get into the matchups. Let's start with the Bills and the Bengals. The Bills and the Bengals. This game's in Cincinnati, and so they're favored by 3, 47.5 point over under. Andy Dalton did show up on the injury report yesterday with a shoulder injury, which is pretty rare for him.

Yeah, and I'm not surprised to see him show up considering the way he was just manhandled at the end of that game. Certainly worth monitoring because they're giving up sacks at a record pace right now. They're 32nd in the league when it comes to the average pass attempts per sack the Bengals are. Every 11 pass attempts, he's getting sacked. Now he faces a Bill's defense that is number one in the league, sacking the quarterback once every 9.6 pass attempts.

This math problem ends up with the solution of I'm not excited about Andy Dalton this week. No, I don't think you should be. And I don't think Andy Dalton is excited as much as usual about just playing football on a weekly basis because he's getting his helmet smashed in. The one player in the passing game for the Bills, I think for the Bengals, I would say two players kind of sneak out at me. One is AJ Green.

One is AJ Green. You're going to let that one go. One is AJ Green because he is this year's biggest deep threat. And the bills are one of the worst teams at giving up the deep play this year. That's a matchup made in heaven. And if you could just protect Andy Dalton for a few seconds for like three plays in the game. That was the problem last week.

Right. He could not settle into the pocket and make deep throws that were accurate. What you need to have happened for the Bengals offense to be good is they cannot get down. Because as soon as they're down and they're in a pass situation where the defense knows they're going to pass the ball, they're not able. So there's going to be no garbage time opportunities for the Bengals. Thankfully, they're still a solid team and should be able to do it. The other guy's Geo Bernard. Because if your offensive line.

isn't holding up well and you are in passing situations. I think the cure for that is the screen game where you let guys come through and you dump it over. Yeah, I'm not going to play that card again this week, though. Last week I had confidence in Bernard and things came to fruition with the passing game, you know, with the offensive line not being good, but Bernard stunk last week. Jeremy Hill was the guy last week and he looked okay. So while I agree with you in principle, I'm not feeling very good about Bernard.

You would rather have Jeremy Hill. Yeah, yeah, I think so. Okay. I'm going to go with Hill. Both guys are about what they have been all year, which is a startable asset that you're not super excited to start. I don't think you're going with any other. This isn't the game. I don't think to have confidence in starting LaFelle or, you know, Tyler Boyd.

No, no. On the other side, we're going to talk about Tyrod Taylor. He's my start of the week, so I'll get into the details about Tyrod Taylor. Copycat. He's my stream of the week. Okay. So I agree with you. Okay, good. You're starting the Sean McCoy with confidence. The Bengals defense, we know the story. They've not been good this year. 24th against the run. 17th against the pass. And we'll get into that again with Taylor and how bad the Bengals defense has been.

Robert Woods, okay? A forgotten man because of the buy week in terms of waiver wire pickup potential had a very, very good week leading into the buy. 10 for 162 yards. That qualifies this very, very good. So Robert Woods, spot start this week. I definitely think Robert Woods is a legitimate spot start. He was a little bit banged up.

He got the buy week coming off. I think he should be in good position to, you know, look, if we both like Tyrod Taylor, you have to like his weapon. Yep. And his main weapon right now is going to be Robert Woods. Absolutely. I agree. So, hey, before we continue on talking about the bills. We've got Steelers Browns next, by the way. Steelers Browns. We're moving on to Steelers Browns. That's going to be exciting for one half of the game. Okay.

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49 point over under. So what are the main storylines here that we need to talk about? Because we know about the injuries to the weapons. You highlighted them yesterday. No Wheaton, no Hayward Bay. Sammy Coates is missing most of his fingers or something to that extent. So this is Antonio Brown? I think it's Antonio Brown. I also think it's Eli Rogers. Eli Rogers to me is as. So Eli Rogers is Robert Woods.

I was just going to say he's as good a start as Robert Woods. And I'm going to go with Eli Rogers here because look, Big Ben on the road, we've seen it. His last game at Baltimore was very bad on the road. But Baltimore's, you know, they're a pretty good defense. On the road in Miami was also very, very bad. He did get injured in that game. On the road of Philadelphia, very, very bad. However, those are all okay defenses and or he got injured. They're all not Cleveland.

And they're all, look at week one when he was on the road against Washington. He threw 303. Big Ben is still a good quarterback. And Eli Rogers has come on lately in a meaningful way. I mean, he's got two weeks in a row. And that was with Sammy Coates, you know, out there where he's combined for 10 receptions, 145 yards and a touchdown. Both weeks have been serviceable against Cleveland. I think that you're going to have a fine startable.

game and when you've got your big blow-up potential guys on your roster already and you just need to get points and you're like, I want to get, I want to get 10 points this week. I think Eli Rogers is going to come through in this game. Okay. So here's the thing on the Brown side. I think Troll Pryor is a great player. I do. I think he's going to get paid. I think he's a great wide receiver. But here is what fantasy owners are having to come to grips with.