Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Sits of the Week, Stat Quiz, Week 11 Mailbag

Obviously, Breeze is not playing this week, so you're stuck. But rest of season, rest of season questions, there's a lot of those things. And I just don't like the schedule for Dalton compared to Breeze. And I don't like Dalton this week. Yeah, that prime time. I mean, he buckled on prime time. He's kind of known to do that. He's got Sunday night again. I like it. Yeah, I'd play somebody else. All right. My quarterback sit of the week is actually the opposite of your opposite of staying in the flames. It is great. Yeah, it is a guy who has been on fire.

There's a guy who we would say maybe stay in the flames with. I cannot believe this is your pick. I know. I know. It's my pick. I am in shock. I am not because I picked it. It is Jay Cutler. Jay Cutler has been on fire. We normally recommend when they are this hot to stay in the flames, which is the exact reason I picked him. Because people might say, I need to keep rolling him.

And I don't think it's going to happen this week. He plays the Broncos. The Broncos have not been okay. They have been otherworldly against almost every single opponent they have played all year. In terms of quarterback? In terms of quarterback and passing game. Not necessarily the run. The run they've been middle of the road. But against the passing game, they have shut it down. They shut down Aaron Rogers. They shut down everybody they played. Andrew Luck.

Had a decent game two weeks ago. And then last week, they still were awesome. They didn't give up a whole lot, but they didn't have Akeeb Talib. He'll be back this week off of his suspension. There's no reason that I think the Broncos will do anything other than have a great defense again this week. That doesn't bode well for Jay Cutler. Hold him, grab him. He was a waiver wire claim. He's got great playoff schedule.

but sit them down this week. All right. So who is your running back that you are staying away from? Well, I hope that most people are already staying away. I don't think I'm breaking any crazy news here, but I, there is no world in which I would want to plug in Jeremy Hill. And this is, you know, Mike, we sent him away, and we could finally have a little bit of realistic talk on the Jeremy Hills. We have to prepare for the kind of...

intervention that we're going to have when he gets back. We're going to have to break. We're keeping the news from him about Krista Michael because we know he would just, he's not going to have fun in the happiest place on earth if his favorite player is. Yeah, we got to, we got to keep him in the dark. Jeremy Hill ran for a nice, healthy two yards of carry.

last week. Only got seven carries anyways. It's a good reason to only get seven carries. Comes up this week against the Arizona Cardinals in Arizona, whose run D has been awesome. I don't see any reason to think. I mean, sure, Jeremy Hill could get in the end zone. He's got that. You know, if AJ Green gets tackled at the one, maybe Jeremy Hill will be okay, but seven of ten weeks. He hasn't even gotten double digits in fantasy. I don't think, I think there's a lot of better options out there to start.

Very fair, very fair. My running back sit of the week is James Starks. A lot of reasons for this, but the biggest one has to do with going to Minnesota who just plain knows how to play defense under Mike Zimmer. They're ninth against fantasy running backs in terms of points given up. There are variables in play with James Starks. Everyone can come out and say James Starks is now the starter, and I...

That is absolutely correct. Here's what I also know. They have never won a game with him as the starter this season. They have struggled on offense. The offense is having a problem. And you have the variables with Eddie Lacey if he happens to be active this week. And you mix that in with the matchup. And I just don't like James Starks. I love the pick. He was the bona fide full-time starter against the hapless Detroit Lions. And he didn't do hardly anything with it. And now Eddie Lacey might be back to eat a little bit into that workload and a great matchup.

So, yeah. Was that the intentional eating of the workload? Because that's Eddie Lacey tends to. Yeah, that's what he does. He eats everything. Yeah, so he was inactive. It's like a goat. Oh, great, great. That one will stick. All right, I'm going to give you my wide receiver because you're going to kind of understand the theme here because he's, it's AJ Green.

AJ Green, you heard me talk about Andy Dalton. I don't like AJ Green shadow by Patrick Peterson on Sunday night football. I think there are other options for Dalton and the offense is going to struggle a little bit. And I just don't like the matchup in general. So I'm, you know, if you have AJ Green, give me a situation there. Give me some other players. Would I start them or sit him over there? Would you, well, I think one of our first questions, AJ Green or T.Y. Hilton. I would play Hilton. AJ Green or Alan Hearns.

Yeah, that's a tough one. That is a tough one because you have AJ Green and his big playability. But right now, I'm going to say Alan Hurons. There you go. That's the level of sitage. Yeah. That's a real word. If you've got a Mike Evans or someone like that, you would start him over AJ Green. Exactly. Okay. So my sit of the week at wide receiver is a guy that we just told you yesterday to pick up on the waivers. Kamar Aiken.

The reason we love Aiken is he is the number one target. He's going to get... 14 targets last week. Exactly. He's going to get 10 plus targets every single game. The problem here is another one of matchup. First, you have to realize that not everybody is... You know, some guys, we talk about being matchup proof. There are certain players that they rise to the occasion and certain players whose talent really takes advantage of the worst opponents on those occasions. Well, Camar Aiken...

He was a middle of the pack type of wide receiver. He's not an otherworldly talent. That's why he wasn't in the wide receiver one position. Steve Smith was. He's been thrust in there, and now he's going up against the Rams, who have just been next to the Broncos. They are the next best against the pass. So I'm just not loving his talent against that defense. I know that the Jay Cutler team carved up the Rams last week, but I think that's the aberrition. Yeah, okay. So let me put that into practice here. Would you start?

Camar Aiken or would you start Jordan Matthews against Tampa? Jordan Matthews, assuming he is healthy and out there. Would you start Kamara Aiken or Marvin Jones against Arizona? At that point I would have to go Kamar Aiken. So, you know, these aren't sit over everyone. But, you know, Kamar Aiken is the number one target. He's got a terrible matchup.

But Marvin Jones is probably the number two or three target and also has a terrible matchup. All right, the tight end I'm staying away from this week. I have less confident in.

confidence in is a guy that is on a lot of rosters with other tight-ins, and that's Antonio Gates. I don't think Antonio Gates has a very good week this week. The Kansas City defense is known for stopping the tight-in position in fantasy football, and obviously that translates to real-life ability, and they stop the tight-ins. They're in the top six against fantasy tight-ins. He doesn't quite look himself right now athletically, and I just think the Kansas City defense as a whole has been...

ascending week after week, six sacks last week, five the week before. I understand Gates is going to get his targets, but I just don't see a big game from him. So if I had another comparable option to Gates, if I'm, you know, obviously you don't get a roll Barnage out. A lot of people have that situation. Barnage is on by, but if you have a comparable guy, I would be sitting Gates. Yeah, I hear that. The guy that I would be sitting who is normally a starter is Martellus Bennett.

You know, the last couple weeks has actually been the second tight end on their team. I don't expect that to continue. I don't think Zach Miller is going to continue to have just amazing catch reception for touchdown week after week. But that being said, he's splitting those targets now. Martell's Bennett used to get all of the targets. Now they're getting Zach Miller more involved.

And once again, you know, you see the pairing here as well against that Broncos defense. Broncos have been exceptional against the tight end as well. They've given up very few large games to the tight end. I don't think that Martellus Bennett is going to get it done. And he has a name that you normally start. He's going to hurt a couple of fantasy teams that decide to roll with him instead of flexing in someone better. Well, would you flex in Eric Ebron?

Absolutely. Great example. He's on waivers, or at least was. Maybe you picked him up. I would play Eric Ebron over Martell's. What about Charles Clay against New England? Charles Clay. You saw him get used again this last week. He disappeared for a little while I would rather have Charles Clay. I'm with you. I'm with you. So those are our sits of the week. And obviously next week, while Mike with us, he'll give us his as well. But he's, you know, riding a roller coaster or something right now. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, can you do that with that beard? Is that legal? Can you get that? Wouldn't that get caught somewhere? No, not say woo. Oh. I'm talking about would the beard get caught in some of the peripheral, you know, you're on a roller coaster. No, Disneyland doesn't discriminate. They don't discriminate against beards. Hipsters permitted. All right. Let's get into the mailbag. Mailbag.

I forgot it. I was waiting. I was waiting since money. And I forgot. I was just sitting here and then it didn't happen. And I went, oh, that's me again. Oh, the absence of Mike is felt. We need you. Oh, my gosh. That was like a gunshot. You said it's so fast to sneak it in there.

All right, this is the mailbag section of the show. We are answering questions from the listeners, trying to give you some perspective, trying to relate these things to some of the decisions you have to make on your fantasy team each and every week. If you have a question, it's real easy. You go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click the submitted question button. If you have an urgent trade question, you want some feedback on your roster, who to start, who to sit, that's where you go. You can also call us 302-464 TFFB. Leave us a voicemail question. We're going to answer some today.

Are you ready? Let's do it. All right. Here we go. Let's go with Matt in Philadelphia. Who is a better keeper pick going into next year? Jeremy Langford or Dionne Lewis. This league is a PPR, but let's just talk about Langford as a talent. Let's talk about Lewis for those that are dynasty, keeper league owners. I think we're kind of seeing Langford's talent.

time maybe evaporating soon in terms of relevance this year. I don't want to speak too soon though because it's John Fox and maybe Forte's at another six weeks for all we know. But we're not expecting it. So both of these guys are projecting more towards next year. Yeah. So the real question for this answer is what's going to happen with Matt Forte, his contract. Is he going to be resigned? If Forte leaves, if Forte is not a part of the Chicago Bears next year, then clearly.

The answer would be a runaway home run. Langford would be the guy. So your high upside pick as to, you know, who you want to keep, I think the highest upside would be Langford if you have to keep them early. Which you most likely don't have to do. Right. So if you don't have to do that and Forte is back, Langford is a guy that you're going to be able to get later in the draft. And, you know, I'm not excited about keeping either of these guys, to be honest. Do you have a gut feeling on Forte's situation? Do you think he'll be back? Because I do not.

You do not think he'll be back or you do not have a gut feeling? Yeah, I feel like he will be back. Yeah. I mean, I just don't think that there's a better option for him to go elsewhere. That being said, they were threatening, not threatening, but they were, you know, accepting trade offers.

They are looking to build the new bears. Well, the new bears are Kevin White and Jeremy Langford, Alshan Jeffrey, hopefully, if he's re-signed, which is just still bewildering to me that he's not. Well, you saw it right last year with Dallas. They needed to sign Des. They needed to sign to Marco Murray. Yep. And they signed the wide receiver because running backs are easier to find, and they've got the guy in tow. Exactly. You might be on to something here. Yeah. And so.

Talk to me about Dionne Lewis, though, because Lewis is going to be coming off an ACL injury in an offense that's always remaking itself. I like Lewis. They stuck with Lewis. They gave him money. So is Lewis just going to slide back into this role next year? No. He could, but he's not just going to slide back into it. When he comes back...