Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 2 Matchups, Daily Dose, #FootClan Friday

3,000 plus yards to the wide receiver position, which is good enough for dead last. 3,000? 3,000 receiving yards last year to wide receivers. Dead last in the league. Green light, you're A.J. Green. But here's the question. You're picking a second wide out to start in Cincinnati. Brandon LaFell.

Yeah, it has to be Lafelle as of now. Lafelle had a quiet, good game last week. Yeah, he went, did he go over 100 or 90? He was just under 90. Just under. Now, what do you do with the running backs that really underwhelmed last week against the Jets defense? Are you rolling out? You said you're starting D-Jax over Jeremy Hill. What are your thoughts on Hill and Geo? I like, I actually like both plays this week.

Jeremy Hill is the player I would prefer to play because I think when you're in this matchup and you're thinking, okay, I need to slow down Antonio Brown in the passing game and the offense of the Steelers. It's going to play to your advantage. As you just said, they gave up very few passing yards. Their rushing defense, you know, it was not top of the league like the Jets rushing defense is. And so I think you're game planning here more of a Jeremy Hill.

type of game script. I'm fine with Hill this week. I see him as an RB2. If he gets two touchdowns, obviously, he'll be great this week. So I'm comfortable with the Cincinnati rushing. There's three, four guys that I would play from Cincinnati. I would play Andy Dalton somewhat reluctantly. I think there are better options, but if you throw him out, I'm never too upset with that. I would love to play AJ Green. I am fine with Jeremy Hill, and I'm okay with...

Gio. That's kind of my temperature on those four guys. So last year, Gio Bernard against Pittsburgh in the first game had basically 34 total yards. In the second game, he had 67 with no scores in either. I'm a Gio. I got Gio in our league of record. I don't know what to do with him this week. And I think that week one is just screwing with my head of the usage where the game.

just the game flow for both running backs threw everything off. But I feel like that's putting me on tilt here for the Bengals running back. So at this point, I'm just, I'm sitting geo down. I'm going with a different option at my flex. And I'm really hoping that this week can turn around my opinion. All right. Let's transition to the Cardinal game in Phoenix. The Buccaneers travel to take on Arizona. James Winston coming off a big time week. The Cardinals coming off a disappointing loss to the New England Patriots at home. Now we have, uh, what?

you know, what should be a fairly competitive, high-scoring game, 50-point over under, the Cardinals are favored in this one. Look, James Winston had a really good week. Jason and I disagree with his situation this week. We have a water bet. We have a water bet. I think he's going to be top 15. You think he will not be. I actually had a tough, I'll say this, I had a tough decision on whether to play James Winston or Big Ben in one of my leagues. I decided to go with Big Ben.

But the fact that it was a tough decision says that I actually do believe that James Winston will be fine. I believe that because of Brandon Williams. I've said that before, but he is currently one half of the field for the Arizona Cardinals, and he is awful. There were reports yesterday that, you know, Patrick Peterson is not going to shadow Mike Evans for the entirety of the game. That's a fist pump for Jason. That's a fist pump for fantasy. That's a bad idea, I think, for the Cardinals.

Uh, yeah, I agree with that. I mean, if you do, I mean, he'll have him most of the game. So do you believe in Vincent Jackson this week.

Yeah, I mean, the way that I see it is you have two big weapons on offense as far as your wide receivers down the field. One of them is always going to be covered by Patrick Peterson, and one of them is always going to be wide open. So I don't know, you know, that's where it's like I was worried about starting Mike Evans if Patrick Peterson was covering him. But if all you did was throw up Brandon Williams.

you'd be okay. And I realize I'm being a little hyperbolic here. He's a rookie. He's got to learn. Yes, absolutely. But that's the argument. But I genuinely do believe that there will be enough broken coverages and big plays. Tampa Bay is not afraid. And James Winston is not afraid to air it out. Do I think Arizona ends up with a couple interceptions? Absolutely. But I think that they also end up Tampa Bay does with a couple long touchdown bombs. And that's, you know, if he gets two touchdowns.

He's going to have enough yards in a game where points go up where that's why I'm comfortable with James Winston. What about Arizona's side of the ball? Well, Bucks had a very good first week against the run. Yeah, I'm not concerned about if you're referring to David Johnson. David Johnson is a must start every single week until further notified. Don't even ask me. Now, this is interesting. Tampa allowed 18 receiving touchdowns in the red zone last year. That was 30th out of 32 teams.

Fitzgerald kind of owns the Red Zone when you talk about receiving touchdowns. He had two last week. A couple amazing catches. The guy just is ageless. Do you, uh, is it, is it a stay in the flames yet for, for Fitzgerald in the red zone? Or is he, is he heating up. He's, uh, oh, you expect him to heat up, I guess. I expect him to heat up. I think he'll have another good game. I don't, two touchdowns. I'm not calling for that. Uh, but Fitzgerald for me is a must start.

And Michael Floyd is a, you probably do start him. I absolutely start Michael Floyd. And I start. That escalated quickly. I'm just saying right now, the way that I see this game going, I agree there's going to be some red zone touchdowns. I think that they'll be split.

I'm not starting John Brown. I think we have to hold off another week to see. I'm waiting until John Brown has his snap counts where we expect them to be up near the 90s before I roll him out before a game. I'm obviously going to miss that first game where he hits, but I'm fine with that. Michael Floyd to me and Fitz, both of those are borderline wide receiver ones this week for me. All right. We have to move on. We're going to talk about the Los Angeles Rams and the Seahawks.

Before we move on, I know we're running long here, but the Doug Martin Charles Sims, I think people really. Well, you're not sitting Doug Martin down if you drafted him. Right. And so the question is, can you flex Charles Sims? I don't know if I would flex. I'd probably stay away from it on the road against Arizona. The thing to watch here is Doug Martin had five receptions last week. And we know he can catch the ball.

But they kind of have Sims who they have touted as their passing specialist. If Doug Martin can continue to get those receptions up, he's going to be far more valuable than I anticipated. All right. All right. Let's move on. Seahawks, Rams. We had the concerns about Russell Wilson's ankle earlier in the week. Everything is trending in the right direction for him, full practices. He says he's good to go.

Is there any reason you'd sit Russell Wilson down? I mean, I don't think that'd be wise based on the fact that Blaine Gabbert looked like a superstar last week against this Rams defensive front, running the ball and throwing the ball? Superstars a little, little much. Okay, but he did run all over them. Yes, he did run a lot, but I think that was more of a product of his receivers not getting open. And his going first read, not available, I'm going to run. Look, for me, if I have a,

Like, let's say for, there's going to be some teams out there that have a Russell Wilson, Eli Manning decision. Would you play Eli Manning or Russell Wilson? Easily Eli. I'd go with Eli this week with the variable of the ankle. And because we expected the Rams to be a good defensive front. Yeah. But they're not right now. I mean, so far, not so much. And I don't think that the Seahawks are going to be the team that they end up.

showing their medal against personally. They will be in L.A. They will be in L.A. For the first real game in L.A. So there will be that emotional, you know, high. You also see that the Rams usually play the Seahawks pretty darn well in that division. So I'm not in love with a lot of the players here. I still am. Look, if you drafted Todd Gurley, you've got to, you almost. I was going to say how mopey is your face when you have to leave Todd Gurley in your lineup?

Yeah, I know. That's, that's, oh, how the mighty have fallen in a week. It just stinks because he has a bad week. Now he plays Seattle, and you just have to leave him in, but you kind of go, I hope he breaks a long one. Yeah, if I had other really good options. I mean, I'll put, I'll put it like this. I couldn't sit him. You couldn't? No. I mean, unless you're saying, like, somehow a Todd Gurley.

I have to choose between him and C.J. Anderson. No, no. Okay, let me give you. I mean, let me give you one. Adrian Peterson. Here's a guy that I think it would be, okay, so Rashad Jennings. No, I'm playing Todd Gurley. Definitely. Definitely. T.J. Eldon. It's a good one. Alone against the Chargers. No, I'm playing Todd Gurley. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you're not going to pick, like I said, it's going to be a couple of names.

I think I'm going to have to restrict and take away your Gus bus pass if you're not going to play T.J. Yilden over Todd Gurley. You know, last year against Seattle, Gurley put up 19 for 83 in a touchdown. Okay. Okay. And that's in Seattle. You also saw last week, I mean, they could move the ball a little bit on the ground against Seattle. It's all right.

Yeah, a little bit. Now you're at home. A little bit. Just saying Todd Gurley's otherworldly talented. I'm going to start him. But if there's another bad week, man. Yeah. The reason I like Russell Wilson is I think if there's a place that the Rams succeed in, it's against the run. You know, they allowed like 1.4 yards per carry on plays in the red zone last year. So he's going to have to throw it. And so the Baldwin show, you know, looks good in the red zone.

Yeah, are you going to start Lockett or a curse in this game? I'm not, but I'm definitely starting Baldwin. Hey, Jason, are you going to start Jimmy Graham? Jimmy Graham is my automatic every week sit of the week. Colts, Broncos. Uh-oh. Andrew Luck. How high do you have him this week, Mike? Let me verify. He came when, after my initial statting, he was extremely high and the Twitter, the Twitter fire.

He nearly like blew up on me. I don't even know I'm asking you. Jason was the guy who was number two. So I mean, I shouldn't even. How dare you? How dare you? So what is the narrative for luck this week against a very good defense? I still have Andrew Luck at number four. And the reason is I believe I believe in the garbage ability of Andrew Luck. I think I would not be shocked if the Broncos.

pretty much shut the Colts out for an entire half and put some points on the board. But Andrew Luck is even against a tough defense with that offensive line. I think that Andrew Luck can get it done for fantasy purposes. He's going to have to throw the ball, right? Because I think their defense is not going to run the ball. That's what I think. Yeah, he's not going to, the Colts defense is not going to be able to stop C.J. Anderson and Emmanuel Sanders. Like just, just those two guys. They're going to go down. C.J. Anderson's are number one this week?

Yes. He's my number one. The Colts D has looked as bad as any D in the league. I mean, I feel like it's the Colts and the Browns. I want players against those two teams right now. And that means that if they're down by two plus scores or even just two, they're going to have to throw the ball. The question is with their porous offensive line and Denver's incredible offensive line, like...

I feel like I can't even trust Andrew Luck to finish this game. That's fair. You know, so I have said on Twitter, I've said around us, I've said to other people, this is the one game I cannot get a grip on this week. Because if Andrew Luck came out and threw for three touchdowns and 300 yards of garbage time, I buy it. Andrew Luck is the most annoying to figure out anyways because last week he started, it didn't look good and he turned the whole game around. Classic luck. It's classic luck. Now.

Okay, so you can't get a good grip on it. Are you starting luck over Winston? No, no. Ironically, they are back-to-back in our consensus rankings, but I have Winston 11 and Luck 15. Okay. That's fair. I'd be wanting another option. It's hard, though, because Luck came out and dominated last week for fantasy owners. So people, I doubt he's going to get sat down no matter what the story is. And it's not fun to sit a guy down and have him do.