Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

Yeah. It's been lingering for a month. Most of his career. Vincent Jackson. I think he's going to be out. Okay. I agree. And so we like Mike Evans. Yeah. You know, he's a lot like the Alan Robinson type where you have to play him if you want those big boom weeks. So hopefully he's not your number one. Oh, I love him. Yeah. No, no, no. I like him, but I liked him last week. And you just never know. And then tight ends, Austin Sferian Jenkins.

Is he going to play? He's been limited all week. I think he's going to be out. I think he's going to be out, too. Ladarius Green in a, what, protective boot? Yeah, I think he's out. And then Larry Donnell. Larry Donnell. He had the neck injury last week. I think he might be out. Yeah, I think all three of those guys are going to sit. All right. You know, that sounded like a more, you know, pretty nice report. More guys playing than not. So long as you're not a tight end. Yeah, that's true. So before we get to...

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All right, let's go. Titans at Saints. Does the beat go on for Drew Brees? That's the question everyone wants to know. I think it does. Yeah, but you've got to temper expectations, obviously. You mean not seven touchdowns? Not seven touchdowns. Oh, man. He's been throwing mostly ones and a couple of twos.

this year. So now where, what do you put the over under on his touchdowns this game against a beatable defense in Tennessee? They're middle of the pack. They're not the worst against the pass, but they're definitely beatable. Well, they, you know, the Titans stink against the run. So I think Ingram has a big game. I think you're looking two to two touchdowns probably for Breeze, two to three. Yeah, I would put the over under at two and a half. Yeah. All right, two and a half. So you take the under, Andy.

Uh, no, I'd take the over. You take the over, so you're going to three. I'd go three. I think we're going to get the old three by three. Yeah, I do too. Yeah. So good game to start. Drew Brees. Do you start him over Cam Newton? Yes. You start him over Matt Castle. No, I'm doing. Uh, so we think Mario's playing. What is the impact of Mario da playing, but right out? Uh, that's, that's brutal. I think you get, you have to give the big boost to Walker to any Walker. I like him. Start of the week.

It's good. I like him a lot this week. And let's see what we can get out of Doriel Green Beckham this week. Can we finally get some targets over to his direction? I think the fantasy community really would like to see what he could do, given an opportunity. I completely agree. Tell me a couple things here. One, tell me how you would rank the Saints wide receivers in terms of starting them. I would definitely rank them cooks.

than Sneed, then Colston. Okay. Now I would go Sneed cooks, Colston. Yeah, but monitor Sneed. Yeah, of course. Of course, what the health? Yes. And then lastly, with Kyrie Robinson out, CJ Spiller had a somewhat productive week last week, especially in PPR formats. Would you flex them out? Yeah. I think CJ Spiller is a flexible option. He can touch his toes.

But he is able to go... Is he more flexible than Chris Thompson? I don't know. Chris Thompson can only get to his ankles. I was genuinely hearing that question. Yeah, you were. As in what are his muscles like? I've seen him do yoga. His warrior three is just pitiful. I would rather... Yoga, dude. Yoga is just called... You know what yoga's called for me? Tall guy falling down. That's my best yoga move. It's tall guy. Awkward bird falling down.

That's all I like it. I would go Spiller over Chris Thompson. Yes. Oh, yes. I don't mind Thompson this week. And Ingram, man, I think Ingram is just going to start eating the rest of the season. No Robinson to snatch away touchdowns. I think they all go to Ingram. Of course, Spiller can get him from distance, but anything up close is Ingram now. Let me recommend something to fantasy players. Now that the situation is a little more clear in New Orleans.

You want CJ Spiller on your team if you're an Ingram owner. Ingram does have a history with some injury issues. If he's getting a larger workload now, you never know what's going to happen. You're coming into the playoffs, and Spiller would be a guy that could step into that role if he had to. They don't want him to be between the tackle all the time, but he could do it. And so you kind of want that handcuff if he's available in your league. So that'd be my advice to you. The Saints are favored pretty heavily in this game.

So it'll be a good one to see. But in New Orleans, they play well, and I expect a lot of fantasy points from that side of the ball. The Raiders go into Pittsburgh. So how do you guys feel about Marriota knowing that the Saints are kind of near the bottom of passing defense? He has the chance, I think, to put up a big game. Kendall Wright is crucial. Yeah, there's so many other.

Other guys that I think have a higher floor, I would not be shocked if Marriota has a great game, but I don't want to chase after that just because of this defense. Yeah, no, that's a good point. We didn't speak to him flex-wise or stream-wise, I mean. Raiders go in to play Pittsburgh, very high-scoring game. Really don't know what to expect, to be honest with you, because Steelers' defense on one hand has been very good. They played great last week even though they lost to Cincinnati.

But the Raiders have been flying high. And we had our Jointhefoot.com, you know, the Foot Clan mailbag show yesterday. Oh, man. And I think about eight times we sent in the car when the question came up. So we like, do we like car? Yeah. We like car. Do you like him more than Big Ben, though? No. No. No, because of just, you know, Pittsburgh's at home, the weapons. We like Big Ben.

But he looked slow last week. Yeah, he looked very hobbled and rusty. I mean, some of those throws were just bad, especially the final throw of the game where they could have, I can't remember if it was a tie or take the lead, but he overthrew Brown by a couple yards out of the end zone. I mean, that's not typical Big Ben. So Martavis Bryant. What was the snap count last week? We looked at this yesterday. Bryant, over 80% of snaps, which is fan.

He is, if you give Martavis Bryant over 80% of the snaps, get Big Ben a little bit healthier, of course. He's going to go off. Yeah, I think Martavis has the potential for one of those huge weeks just based on the snap count. He does so much with so little historically in his career. And if you give him some more opportunities, it's not like the Raiders are very good against the pass. No, no, not statistically. Second of the worst in the league. So I think this game is a high scoring game.

Yeah, well, you've got two teams that are both really good against the run so far this year. And when that happens, and both teams are vulnerable through the air and both teams have a good quarterback, it's a recipe for a shootout. Even though the Raiders are good against the run, I'm still all in on DeAngelo Williams. I think he can go in and be 80% of Leveon Bell. And with Levy on Bell, if it's a good rushing defense, I don't care because he just, it's...

You get so much production through ground and through air. By the end of the day, you have a good fantasy game. Well, they're not going to be stacking the box against the team with the amount of weapons in the passing game. And then what do we say? Heath Miller. I like Heath Miller this week. The forecast for him changes with Big Ben. And Levon. Levon. Levon. Levon. That's his insurance twin.

Levin? Levin? Levin. They were separated at birth. Well, they'll have time to film some. And Levin'Belle was a parent-trapped away to France. Yeah. The classic American tale. I don't know what my point was. I think we're talking about Heath Miller. Heath Miller with Leveon Bell out has seen an uptick of targets the first two weeks last week. So Heath Miller is back in the tight-end possibilities. Who do you want Cooper or Crabtree?

Cooper. I looked at this yesterday. It's Cooper. Yeah, it's close, but I think Cooper is the more boom factors. Who do you want? Cooper or Martavis Bryant? Give me Martavis. Man, I think I would still take Cooper. Okay. But that's tough, man. I want in on this Raiders Steelers game for sure. All right, we got to move on. We've got to go to the Giants at the Buccaneers. Let me ask you this. Would you start James Winston over Matt Ryan?

No. No. Andrew Luck this week. I have him one spot below luck. I have Winston one spot above luck. Luck. Luck plays Denver. So remind people. I would. Marcus Mariotta? I close my eyes and when I click the button. Winston or Mariotta? Winston. Winston? Winston or Cousins. Okay.

We're kind of opposite seats here. Yeah, I don't like you very much today. Do we think that, now, keep in mind, the Giants just gave up seven touchdown passes to a quarterback, which is why I bring it up, because Winston might be a streamable option. He hasn't thrown an interception, I believe, in three or four weeks. Eli Manning is a must start. Yes, absolutely. This game is in Tampa. They're playing a lot better. I like this game for Mike Evans quite a bit. Evans, you know, you match them up against a team that gave up seven touchdowns through the air. And I think, you know,

If somebody's going to have success in the past game, it's going to be Evans. We know that. What about Doug Martin? Bounceback week for him? I would think so. I think he'll have a better week than last week. But the Giants are bottom half. Yeah, they're right in kind of in the middle on the run defense. But like we just said on the last game, the passing defense is so bad that teams just, they choose to pass on the Giants. And you don't have to run on them because you can pass so well.

And so, which eventually, I think Doug Martin will still get production, but I don't expect kind of those huge week when he was rolling those three weeks where he just monster games after monster game, multi-touchdown games. I'm not expecting that this way. Well, that's where for this game, the guy that's interesting to me, and I've been kind of toying around with how high I think is Sims, because you don't have weapons in the passing game and you've got a really vulnerable.