Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Fantasy Football Questions, Mailbag

Really? I mean, because I guess the expectation is Hyde will be back. There's a mish-mashed in the backfield and the offense isn't very good. But, I mean, he's in consideration. Okay. That's all I wanted to check. And Pierre Thomas came in and he had, he was basically the spell Sean Drone. Would you rather have Sean Drone or like a Chris Thompson, Alfred Morris? It depends on your team and what you need.

Yeah, and maybe the matchup. But Drone is in that category of that guy that you can pick up and start if you need to start him for a week and you don't have good options. So are you guys telling me that I should sign Sean Drone? Yes. Because I have Dionne Lewis? Yes, immediately. Do you think I can start Deion still for the... Yes. You can start him. I'm going to put him in Aryan in. Yes. And then I'm going to beat you anyways. And it's going to be the greatest moment of my life. Like pouring one out.

For your homies? Yeah. Yeah. One more start. Oh, man. One more start for you. All right. Let's hit the mailbag. Michael in Neptune, New Jersey. Sounds far away. Very far away. Who's the better start this week? James Winston or Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm going to go with your start of the week here, Andy. Hey, hold on. My stream of the week. Oh, I apologize. You're streaming. Get your verbiage right.

Your streaming guy, I would go with Ryan Fitzpatrick. I believe he's got the better matchup. It's a Thursday night game, which I don't love. But the bills are, even though they're known for being this great defensive Rex Ryan team, they're actually not. So I would go with, I would go with him. I'd stay with the magic. All right, yeah, I'm obviously going to go with Fitzpatrick on that one. For Michael. So Jordan in New York City. New York City. Who do I start my flex spot for week number 10? Help him out.

Legerrett Blunt, Michael Crabtree, or Devante Adams. And if you need those matchups, Blunt is facing off against the Giants. And Crabtree has the Vikings. And the Packers are going up against the Lions, which is why I'm going to actually take Devante Adams. Really? Yeah, I am. I don't like the matchup for Crabtree, even though I like Crabtree better than Adams. Maybe you'll go blunt, but I just think the lion's secondary is...

Terribla. And I would love to have Aaron Rogers throwing. I mean, he caught, what, seven catches last game? I'm going to go with blunt. I'm going to go with blunt too. All right. Or as he says, hashtag blunt force trauma. I saw that on his Twitter. How can he fit anything else if his hashtag is so long? That was for game day, and I don't think it really worked well for Dionne Lewis. What was Lewis's hashtag? No, I just mean like trauma.

Blanc Forst Trauma? Yeah. Oh, okay. I see where you're going. I think he changed him. Yeah. All right. Alex Sarkis. Look at what he needs to do. Alex Sarkis in Massachusetts. Hey guys, who would you rather have rest of season? Stefan Diggs, Sammy Watkins, or Alan Hearns. Oh, man. Those are three great guys to have rest of season. I'm going to... I have them in that order. Really? Yes. Diggs, Watkins, Hearns.

With the caveat that obviously if Watkins is injured, I won't select him. Yeah, that's the problem with Watkins is the injury concerns. You saw the talent last week. It's nice to roll a guy out that can put up a monster game. And then the Monday report was, and Sammy Watkins is walking with a noticeable limp. Because that's what he does. Yeah, I know. And let me just for a minute, you guys think about it. I admitted this to you guys in the studio yesterday. I have a bit of a problem trusting.

wide receiver twos. And I say that that would be Michael Crabtree, where Cooper's the one. That would be Alan Hurons where Alan Robinson's the one. That would be Eric Decker where Brandon Marshall's the one. But I don't think that's the right way to go about it. It's just mentally, in fantasy football, I'm trying to outfit my team with highest potential, and I'm not trusting sometimes the Ryan Matthews of the world. Yeah, and to clarify for the listeners, what you're saying here is not that you have a problem with that on purpose.

but that you actually... Yeah, that's a weakness for me. Yeah, it's a weakness. You need to put a little bit more trust in the fact that wide receiver 2s are viable fantasy options. I feel like for every Alan Hearn's success story, there is a Ruben Randall. Okay? There is a situation where a guy is supposed to be that, and then poof, he's gone. I mean, even Marvin Jones has been good.

but he alternates weeks. And so for me, I just feel like the two has the highest odds of being, you know, poop in their pants. And there are guys this year that have not done that. Crabtree has done it every week. Hearns has done it every week. It's a challenge for me to trust those guys in a line-off. Because the opposite thinking to that is the one always gets the best defender. Absolutely, absolutely. So it leaves the two open. And there's certain teams that are more susceptible to this, as we've seen. Looking at some schedule stuff here, Diggs.

Remainter schedule still has to play Green Bay, Seattle, and Arizona. And I know that Hearns has a very majestic closing. There's not a single matchup on Hearns's schedule left that I think is tough. San Diego, maybe if they can get everybody healthy, but this season that's been just impossible for San Diego to do. But I'm going to go with...

It's tough to go with to pass on Watkins, but because of health, I would go with Hearns. Yeah, you know, I believe a couple days ago, I had said Sammy Watkins, I see as a wide receiver one. Since I said that, I've been thinking, man, he's just not healthy enough to actually be. I think if he's healthy and on the field, he's Jordan Reed. A weekly one, but he's just not healthy on the field. And so I'm going to pass on Watkins as well and take as.

crazy as it is just based on schedule. I think I do have to go Hearns. His schedule is unfathomably good. Let me ask you this because it walks us into this question to me. And you guys both said Hearns, I said Diggs. The Vikings are a winning team. They are six and two. The Jacksonville Jaguars are very unlikely to be in the playoff mix.

How does that affect these players towards the end of season? Because if you're tooth-in-nailing it, yes, they have some matchups that appear hard. But if they're hard matchups, that team is ambitious towards the playoffs. The other teams maybe are out of the playoff mix. We know very quickly that defenses can change, right? Where you have a week where two or three weeks goes by and all of a sudden, you know, the Chargers pasty doesn't look very good. So...

Does that change your opinion on any guys' ends of season? Because I like guys on winning teams, and that's part of the motivation for Diggs. And that's fair, but Minnesota is a running team, and Jacksonville is a throwing team. The Yelden has been, he's been okay, he's been pretty much solid the entire year, but that team will win because of Blake Bortles in the passing game, where Minnesota, I mean, the weather is just, I don't want to be the full weather guy.

But it's going to get colder, and Adrian Peterson is the man who will take the Vikings to the playoffs if anybody's going to do it. So that's – so that steers me away from Diggs. I still like Diggs. So the funny thing about this conversation is all these – these are great options. Yeah, I like all three of them. It's just you have to get into the ticky-tack stuff of who do you prefer, and it's herds for me. Yeah. Pat and Indiana wants to know.

This is a must-win week. Half-point PPR. So must-win, do you start Chris Ivory on Thursday night against Buffalo at home, or do you start Jonathan Stewart, who's been playing very well and going up against the Titans? I know my answer to this. Jonathan Stewart. Those are my two starters, by the way, in our League of Record. So you're playing them both, but I'm going to go with Jay Stu. The volume of the carries.

is going up. He's getting about 20 a game right now. You know what's disappointing about Jonathan Stewart? And I'm going to actually lean Stewart this week as well. Jason, who do you lean? Yeah, I do lean Stewart because of the short week for Chris Ivory and really for Nick Mangold, whether or not he can get out by Thursday. And the bills, while they are not the best defense, they are pretty decent against the run. So bad matchup, short week.

injury risks. I think you could have a very lousy game from Chris Ivory. And if this is a must-win week, you've got to get points out of that position. Let me tell you what I'm disappointed about for Jonathan Stewart. You want to hear it? The number four. Do you want to want to know what that number is? I'm intrigued. The number four is the amount of receptions he's had since week two. Yes. Four. Let me tell you this number. 47. 47.

That's the amount of receptions he had. That's his career high receptions. He's 47. He's been somebody who can handle the ball in the receiving game back when it was the DeWold days, but they do not involve him in that game at all. And so if he doesn't score, which is very often, he needs quantity. He is a Cedric Benson-esque type of runner where he needs quantity, and that's the only thing that's frustrating with him where, you know, you could definitely say ivory because ivory could stink and get two touch nails. Yeah.

So it's pretty close there. Eileen Stewart because of the matchup. Kin in blank. So Ken is from somewhere. We just don't know where. Or is he from anywhere. Or everywhere. Get out of my head, Ken. Fun question. He wants to hear debated. Who did you start this week? Jeremy Hill or Carlos Williams. That's a fun question. That is an interesting question because with LaShawn McCoy and his shoulder injury.

As of the taping of this, we have not gotten an update. But either way, let's say Shady McCoy plays. Carlos Williams will still be involved. Maybe he gets even more involved. Maybe he gets a couple more touches to rest McCoy's shoulder. And Jeremy Hill is a wild card, man. You have no idea. He's getting the 15 carries a week. But if he doesn't get in the end zone, you're probably going to be disappointed.

with his numbers. And the same could be said for Carlos Williams. So this is a game of touchdown chicken. I agree. And I go Jeremy Hill. Yeah, if it's a game of touchdown chicken. Because Carlos Williams is playing the Jets in New York. So I was going to say, it's a matchup. And Houston on Monday night is, I think has more touchdowns being scored on them than the Jets do. Yeah, well, I believe the Jets have given them two rushing touchdowns all year. So, yeah, okay.

So Jeremy Hill would be my answer. Now, just to ruin the whole thing, if LaShawn McCoy is out, do you go Carlos Williams? Then you go to Jets D. Yeah, I still go Carlos Williams. No, I wouldn't. I do. I mean, I was presuming on that question to make it a fair, intriguing question. I was presuming that LaShawn McCoy would be out. And I still think two touchdowns on the entire year, if you're playing touchdown chicken, I'm taking the matchup.

Now, the interesting thing is when Carlos Williams has played football, the entire year, he's been double digits. He has scored every time. Every game? You are correct. Every time. Every game. He has, he had three rushing touchdowns first, three games, then a passing touchdown, and then two touchdowns last week. Yep. But, man, that's a scary guy to play somehow, because of the quantity of work. All right, Isaiah and Phoenix wants to know, Jason, do I start Kamar Aiken? Wait, wait, what?

Oh, I thought Isaiah actually only asked Jason, and I was going to be very offended. Isaiah wants to know from Jason only. Do I start Kamar Aiken or Travis Benjamin in my flex? You start Kamar Aiken in your flex. There's question marks on the quarterback for Cleveland. You know, it's going to be Josh McCown if he's healthy, he's not healthy. Is he practicing? Who knows? But what we do know is that Kamar Aiken is going to be the number one target.

for Joe Flacco. They've got a great matchup coming up. Why take the question marks. Go with the guy that you know is going to have the targets. I would definitely start Kamariken. I looked at this this morning. Baltimore, for all their struggles, they really aren't the best team to start defenses against. It's not like defenses have scored a lot of points off of them. Because Flacco, while the offense has been, man, he doesn't make a lot of mistakes. And it was kind of interesting. They're just kind of...

They've been in every game. I mean, they're not, you know, if you look at the point spreads, the point differentials of, you know, they're not as bad as their record says, which is what you want in a fantasy matchup. You want a team that is not just, okay, they've been bad on defense, you can throw it, you can score on them, but then they come back and score, and they stay in the game, and the points just flow. What do they do? They flow. They flow out of the football.

You sounded like a... That was like a Frankenstein. Yeah. A little Halloween throwback. Vintage. Yes, Master. Peter. Petter. Petter in Norway. Petter. Oh. Ponchor. Harry Petter. Do I play Antonio Andrews over Charkandric West based on matchups? Ooh, let's take a look at the matchups.