Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Spooky Studs, Develish Duds, Rising Stars, News

And it just shows you that Ingram could have performed in this game. I mean, you had the opportunities on the goal line. The Saints won the game. Look, my feelings on a star running back getting benched for one fumble are well documented, but I will repeat them. It's two fumbles now. In a game. He would cost him. All right. He's not a fumbler, though. All right. Another pooped in his pants guy is our only sit of the week this week, right? Rushel. Yeah, we got it. Rushel.

Look, what, four weeks? Four weeks with no touchdowns through the air is no good. Because if he cannot move around, he is not Russell Wilson. So do you expect that this is, do you expect he's not going to heal up this year? And he's going to be. Until next year, he's not running. I truly believe that. I have a hard time believing that this is going to be the Russell we see the rest of the year. If he has that knee brace on, which I believe he will. The knee brace. He cannot run. If he's looking like the mummy, he'll.

You can't run with that much tape on your ankles. Cam Newton won the game, but lost the game for fantasy owners. Yeah, if you told me that, you know, it was what, like 40 to 30 or what was the score for the Cardinals game? I mean, if you told me that Carolina boat raced the Cardinals, I stopped paying attention. I would have assumed Cam Newton had a monstrous game, and he was 14 of 27.

212 yards, no touchdowns. He normally, it was 30 to 20, and he normally salvaged those games with the goal line rushing touchdowns to save himself from the passing situation, and it just didn't come to fruition in this matchup. He ran for 43 yards, but, I mean, it just was, when you don't throw for a touchdown, it's over for you as a fantasy owner, you have so many better options. Spencer Ware went out with a concussion, so he obviously pooped your team, but you couldn't, you know, if you started Ingram and Ware, you were.

You can't blame the injury, guys. The guy you can blame. Yeah, I want to know what you think about James White. I said it last week. I was scared about James White, and I am equally scared right now. He got two carries and two receptions in the game. The week prior, he had zero carries and two receptions. You were fine with him because he got a touchdown. But if he's not getting in the end zone, he is not going to be good enough for a weekly start. And while this is terrible news for those relying on James White,

A lot of those people that are relying on James White also have Dionne Lewis on their team. And if James White is not getting it done, not being a real asset for the team or necessary, I think that gives the window for Dionne Lewis to come back into that role with carries, with receptions. I completely agree with you. This was the performance that made me think, wait a minute. If they're not utilizing him enough, he had a brutal drop, by the way.

He had a wide open. No one on, he was a pass back across the field, Brett Farr's style, except for, you know, accurate and on time and without defenders in the way. And he was like standing there with a bucket catch, like Jason would have tried to make in our old fantasy football, our flag football league. I would have made that catch. And if he just catches the ball, he walks into the end zone. I will say this. So it could have changed his performance quite a bit. I don't know how I feel about it moving forward, but Tom Brady was throwing 60-yard touchdowns.

I mean, like, you had the huge one to Chris Hogan. You had the huge one to Julian Edelman. That got called back and then turned into the one from Hogan. You had the huge gronk touchdown. It just, it didn't feel like they needed him to me. Well, you're right. The question, though, is we are in the time. Dionne Lewis is back at practice. He was back at practice, started practicing. Now they're on their by week. You know, so now's the time to pick him up. They come back against Seattle.

that's not the best of matchups after that. It looks great. So I would say this is the week to pick up. Tim Hightower sure had a fine time rushing against Seattle. All right, it's time to fly, guys. Wide receivers will let you down this week. There were some big names in this list, including T.Y. Hilton, who was, he was dealing with a hamstring, but that is, I'll say that is a concern. Came back in the game. Moving forward.

They obviously didn't go to him. Maybe he was just trying to be Deukai at that point, but a concern. Julio Jones, again, the ankle didn't look right. Three for 29, but Matt Ryan got it done. Again, Muhammad Sunu was involved. You had the deep pass to Gabriel. Julio's done this this year, where he's had a couple of these games where the matchup looks better than the outcome. Well, the matchup with a Green Bay allowing deep receivers is.

They were one of the worst in the leagues against that type of a play. So it looked like Hulu Jones was going to eat. But I think there was more the ankle hampering him. Doug Baldwin was another huge disappointment. Pretty much. He went hand in hand with Russell. Saved his game at the very end with a big catch, but basically you're right. The two guys that I would point out just to say moving forward, I'm, I'm.

a little bit concerned with. One is Deshaun Jackson, and that's more than concern. I'm just done with him, right? I think he is completely drop-worthy. Jameson Crowder. There's too many weapons there. Yeah, I know. And I was so happy. I traded him two weeks ago. I was so happy to get rid of him because he's the guy that...

You just feel like you can't drop, but you know you can drop him. And he's a wimp, too. He's never. Oh, such a wimp. He's actually never been healthy. Oh, come on. No, I mean it. Look, I get it. Look, a concussion in this last game and he had to leave for a little bit. You know, I'm.

There's nothing you could do about that, and I hope he was okay. But he's injured in and out of every game for his whole career, serious or otherwise. But the other guy that I'm a little bit concerned with because there's a trend here happening, and that's Marvin Jones. Marvin Jones has not been the guy that he was those first three weeks, and I'm not convinced that he's just going to rebound because he had a great first three weeks. He's a 1A and a 1B in different games. You're going to have different guys on that team doing it.

What do you make of Brandon Marshall? Two straight wins. Two straight wins for the Jets. But does he need Eric Decker to be the Brandon Marshall we saw last year? Because he hasn't been. To be the one of last year, yes. Because that was the best year of his entire career. He's going to lose that bet with Antonio Brown. I'll tell you what. As someone who just traded for Marshall two weeks ago and has had Marshall crap his team twice in a row, I am really sad. Wasn't he on by? No, I don't think so. That's not, yeah.

Well, he didn't do anything for me for two weeks. That's for sure. But the reality with that is I'm almost disappointed that Gino Smith has a knee injury because Fitzpatrick has just been so bad. Fitzpatrick almost got benched. It's tragic. Sorry, he has his buying two weeks. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah. Three catches, four catches in his last three games. I'm going to piggyback here on Marvin Jones just real quick. Last five games total, Marvin Jones, 248 yards.

compared to when he had that 205-yard game. Yeah, remember that? How many games? In five games. Last year. That was a fun ride. Well, it lasted. Last year, Alan Robinson and Brandon Marshall combined for how many touchdowns? 28. 28 touchdowns. Do you know how many they have halfway through the season? Three? Five. Three for Robinson. Two for Marshall. Five instead of 20. So you're telling me it's coming. Right. Yeah, they're going to hit the...

They're going to hit the 28 mark. No. No, I'm telling you that this has been a year that we can say it's weird, but it's not. This is the NFL. Yeah. In the NFL, you have the Panthers and the Cardinals and these teams that struggle that you didn't ever expect to struggle. What are those two guys have in common?

I mean, because it's the same reason, both of my struggling. Bad quarterbacks. Their quarterbacks are playing atrociously. Are you telling me quarterback? DeAndre Hopkins wanted to know. Does quarterback have anything to do with your performance as a fantasy owner? That's a fantasy player. Yeah. And really, I guess I should apologize because the number three quarterback, right? Blake Bortles. Was he three or four? He was disgusting. We don't talk about him on the show. Brandon Lafell reminded you why you don't play him. Tight end wise, Greg Olson, one for 11 in a win.

Oof. I think they didn't need him, and I'm going to hope that that was that was it. Defensive scores. Really adjust the way the offense performs rest of the season, or rest of the game. Jimmy Graham stunk. O'Doyle stunk. What the burnage always stinks. It was shocking to me. I'm just going to throw this out. You have this, the Seattle Seahawks are in position to win. You have one play.

I can't remember how far out there, or maybe 10 yards. Yeah, 12, 15 yards. You throw the corner fade. To Jermaine Curse. Who caught it? Out of bounds. Yes. But you have giant human being Jimmy Graham. In the revenge game. I'm just saying what. Come on. Draw it up for Graham. By the way. You know the storybook's going to write itself. Barnage was only 3 for 42, but he did get an end zone target that he was a foot out of bounds. I expect the Hawkins touchdown numbers.

and involvement to really kind of, you know, assuming McCown's in there, I think Barnage is going to see his day in the sun. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Anterell Pryor. Neither one of them had a touchdown. So I do want to talk briefly about the Monday night game, and we're going to get into a lot of other names tomorrow. We have our, excuse me, while I adjust my, my, luscious, my luscious beer. You've been struggling the entire show. It's not just that it's hard to talk through. It says very, like, itchy, like.

Oh, yeah. We're a very sweaty mess right now. Yeah. Well, actually, I crank the air down as low as it possibly can go. So we're going to talk about a lot of the waiver wire guys tomorrow. That's what we do on Tuesdays. And we're at the point now in this season where you're making your playoff pushes. And so we want to help you out as best we can. Let you know which guys we really think you need to pay attention to do. And just a reminder, I mean, make sure other than, you know, Derek Henry, pay attention to picking up some of these.

Like put it on your mind right now to pick up some of your handcuffs that you need. I'm talking about the handcuffs out there. Like, you know, if you're a Zika owner and you don't own Alfred Morris because you want to take some flyer on a Peyton Barber, you're a fool. Stop it. Go get the guy that would have the opportunity if your guy went down because that's going to save you. Jason last year won a championship by ensuring that Tim Hightower was on his team. And so you have to be paying attention to that. And not every guy has a bona fide handcuff. But if they do,

Own them. I'm on to like my fifth Tampa Bay running back. I know. You have about seven of them. Tonight we have the Vikings and the Bears. I don't know exactly how this game is going to play out, but I don't think it's going to be very good for fantasy owners. I think the Vikings will be very good. There you go. This game's in Chicago. The special teams, I think, comes through. And, you know, you're going to start Alshan probably.

I mean, you've already made the decision, so it's irrelevant. What I expect him to do tonight is not that much. There are some wind condition concerns that there's possible, you know, crosswinds. Is the wind name Xavier Rhodes? You've got Xavier Rhodes wind. That, you know, I would be surprised if Alshan has a monster game. I'll just put it that way. Your season, your game, your game is on the line. And you, uh...

You need to start a running back from Chicago tonight to win you the week. Oh, man. You need 10 points. Oh. Are you just playing Jordan Howard? I hope you. I hope Ozziata is out there. Yeah, I would hope so as well. But if you have, I've actually had this question from quite a few people because they had to pivot out of the last second time Montgomery News. And they're saying who from Chicago. So play a Chicago running back tonight. Because I think I would just take Howard for this.

the chance at a goal line carry. I'm going to go with Khadim Karee. I feel like I'm going to Kadeem Karee as well. I look. But you're not going to get happy. Happy Halloween. Yeah. I don't think you're going to get. That's what John Fox says every day of his life. I think I'm going to be happy that we're out trick-or-treating during this matchup. I'm going to put it that way. The way that the Minnesota offense looked last week, I don't know if Stefan Diggs is healthy, if he can perform anything like how he started the season. I don't believe it.

Asiata should have a decent game. He has a good opportunity. McKinnon is out. He's going to have the workload to be valuable. And we've seen him, we've seen him be very valuable in fantasy when he's had those opportunities in the past. So if he, oh, Oziata, Trace. Trace. Thomas. Oh, I like it. Trace Commos. All right. Here we go. Tres touchdowns. Mailbag. Mail bag. Yeah. The beard is now knocked out one of my headphones.

So you guys are coming in loud and clear on my left headphone, much like the original Gandalf struggled with when he was getting mixed tapes. Yeah, he could not hear out of his right ear. All right, mailbag time, answering questions from the listeners of the show. If you have a question, go to the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com. And you can also dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB, helping you get through week eight.