Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 11 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

Uh, sir, I apologize. I know that I only had you 14 spots away from being perfectly dead on accurate at the 15. I had you as the 15th wide receiver this week. Shame on you. But you were the best. You're the best wide receiver that's ever played the game, and Jerry Rice has nothing on you. Yeah, he, uh...

He looked pretty good. Yeah, you knucklehead? I had to call him out. Mike, you heard this. I had to call him out on the air because I didn't want the fantasy footballer's name to be dragged through the mud with your ranking of DeAndre Hopkins. I had to message, well, he's got a bad matchup. I had to message on Slack immediately after hearing it of say, what is...

What is going on? It's Hopkins. I believe he said Jason's Hopkins hate is insanity or something like that. I'm still standing by the fact that was only 14 spots wrong. That's what I will roll. That is correct. All right. So Hopkins, yeah, pretty good. Five for one, 18, two touchdowns. James Jones resurfaced from the Meyer, from the bog. He came and rose and made it honestly a really great touchdown catch. Six for 101 and a touchdown and probably single-handle lead.

made a lot of people angry who were facing him and thought he'd do nothing. Tyler Lockett was 4-442 and two touchdowns. He has his games here and there. What do you think of Tyler Lockett going forward? Great future or a great dynasty type guy, but he not seen here in his stat line is I think he had five or six targets. So he's not getting high volume week to week. You never know who it's going to be for the Seahawks if it's going to be bald win.

curse or Jimmy Graham. It's a roulette up there where you can't depend on a fantasy guy week to week. Pop quiz. How many touchdowns has Julio Jones had in the last seven weeks? Seven weeks? Seven weeks. I'm going to go with zero. Two. Two touchdowns in seven weeks for Julio Jones and keeps getting it done, nine for 160. Are you concerned about him at all? Or do you just...

Roll him out there and know that he's going to be the best. Yeah, you're not concerned. His floor is ridiculous. I mean, if you're getting 16 points in a standard. Did you hear all the Vante Davis one-on-one against Julio in this game? Dun-dun-dun. That's what they did. They said they're going to roll Vante out. I'm like, thank you. Yeah, that to me says he's not going to get double coverage because you're going to put Vante on him. And then Vante had to leave the game because he got hurt. And as soon as Vante leaves the game,

I understand that Julio got 15 targets. How did he not get 25 targets? They might have won had they done that. Just throw him the ball. I mean, on that last drive to try to tie the game, you had a blatant terrible drop by Leonard Hankerson in the middle of field. He's been really good at that, though. Hankerson? Yeah. To his credit, that's one of his skills. Very consistent with those drops.

As is always the case when my fantasy teams face him, Deshaun Jackson emerged from his doldrum of a season. Five for 87 and a touchdown, a 56-yard bomb. He will do this, and it is hard to predict when he does it, you're happy, and when he doesn't, you're not. However, I would start him. I'd flex him, going forward. Yes, yeah. He's a guy, if you, everyone, you want a little boom in your lineup week to week. Got to get a little boom in there. Oh, he's got to have a little boom, boom.

but you don't want every single player in there to be a Deshawn Jackson type, but he's a perfect flex where if you're, you feel steady about your points and then you just need a little adrenaline shot and go to Sean Jackson. Terrence Williams, 4 for 79 and a touchdown. In fact, Matt, I'll give him a shout out here. Matt, our intern, we have an intern from NYU that helps us out with some of the show. And he picked Terrence Williams to be one of the better guys.

for the rest of the season because of the return of Tony Romo. I don't know if I saw that happening when he said it, but definitely first game back, really good game for Terrence Williams. Prime time last night, J.J. Nelson, 4 for 142 in a touchdown. I think a lot of people were probably saying who's J.J. Nelson. Those that weren't are probably saying, well, do I need to go sign this guy? No. No. Yeah. Once the health of John Brown and Michael Floyd get back, you've got...

J.J. Nelson's, I think, a good, maybe a dynasty type of player because he's in Bruce Ariens' offense, but that's the best case scenario. You don't need to get him. Yeah, and you saw last week it was Geron Brown. This week it was J.J. Nelson. And it was also Daniel Fells a little bit. All right. Running backs needs very little introduction. Thomas Rawls, 30 for 209 and a touchdown and a touchdown through the air. And ran like a maniac. Yes.

I don't know if I was happy or sad to see him colliding with people the way he was. But every time it looked like he was going to go out of bounds on the edge, he would just put his foot in the ground and then knock a person over and then keep running. And through the holes, through the holes when he was running through the middle of the line, he did what really good backs do, which he made it look a little bit easier. He made the offensive line look like they were opening up bigger holes than they were. And that's what you want to see. So he really impressed me a lot.

He looks like Marshawn Lynch with more explosiveness. Youth. Yeah, because he's fast. He's faster than Lynch. He's much faster. And he has more burst. And he's not, he doesn't have Marshaun Lynch's insane balance yet. But, man, if Lynch is out, Rawls is a delightful running back right now. And you have to wonder from the Seahawks perspective, like you want Lynch back.

Lynch is Lynch, right? Like he's been the base, but you don't want Lynch back hurt. So like Lynch half playing versus Rawls doing what he did yesterday. Yes, it was the 49ers defense, but he ran like a man possessed. So Doug Martin, 27 for 235. He pretty much almost didn't play in the second half of the fourth quarter.

They didn't even play him. The Eagles' defense didn't play in the first three, so that was the irony of the situation. Yeah, Doug Martin looked very, very good. You want to talk about great schedules the rest of the way, you know, some of the best ones. You got Frank Gore, you got Jonathan Stewart, you talked about. Lamar Miller. Lamar Miller, T.J. Yeldin. Ingram. Doug Martin. Ingram, yeah, for sure. And Doug Martin. He's another guy that comes to mind is a great rest of season guy to have.

This was a very nice confidence boost for those that had Martin the last couple weeks he struggled. One of the things you don't realize is he's, I think he's top five in the league and carries on the year. He is actually getting, you see him as like a, if he only got more work, but he's getting a ton of work. I'm going to effort the exact number there. And then Spencer Ware was 11 for 96, two touchdowns in place of Chalkandric Wes, who went out with the hammy injury. In about 22 snaps or so. Yeah.

I mean, it's just not sustainable. Well, that game was over. They just gave up. And so moving forward, I guess this is a little spoiler for the waiver show. That's fine. But people are... Spencer Ware, do I need to pick him up? Yes. However, Nile Davis was inactive. And I expect... He won't be inactive. And he will not be inactive. And Davis will get some snaps, too. So it's not just going to be Ware takes over the way that Charizard has.

Very, very good point. Jonathan Stewart was 21 for 102, and he had one for 12 and a touchdown through the air, which means he scored, I believe, five or six times in the last seven games. That's fantastic. So very good for Stewart owners, and he just has that. I don't know. I don't want to go out on a limb too far here. I don't think I am. I think Carolina am I going defeated. I mean, they're 10-0, and their schedule is just... The worst.

Well, the best. Not the worst. No, I'm saying the worst opponents. Okay. Just bad matchup. Mark these. Yeah, once again, thank you with the language. You're welcome. They play Dallas. Okay. Dallas on Thanksgiving. That's a tough matchup. Okay, it is a tough matchup. In fact, I saw a lineup. Ridiculous. The Dallas is 3 and 7. They're 10 and 0, and I saw a line where they were... The Cowboys are favored? By a point and a half. Yeah, I'm not saying that the Cowboys are going to win. But it's a tougher match. At New Orleans. Division game.

Atlanta? Giants. Atlanta? Again. And then Tampa. I like that for New Orleans, you've got a division game. Like, that's a tough. But for Atlanta. But for Atlanta, who's also in the division.

I think you just needed to flip those around. So maybe they don't go undefeated, but I think that they are in the driver's seat for home field, certainly at 10 and 0. And just playing the recipe of this game for all their games seems to be just get on top and stay there and just keep running the ball. Jonathan Stewart is second in the league, including this week, with attempts behind Adrian Peterson. Third in the league is Doug Martin.

So Doug Martin is getting the ball and running well with it. All right. Bradshaw had a good game. When Gore went out, he was 9 for 36 and 4 for 20 and two touchdowns through the air. Darren McFadden, like we said, 29 for 129. And the next one. And of course, I wrote, I threw that in there. I put the of course. Eddie Lacey. Hey, I've got a story about Fat Eddie here. I was watching football with a friend of mine who does not watch football.

Doesn't really know football that much at all. He was very happy that on a commercial he knew who Peyton Manning was. So that's his level of football. Sure. We're watching the Green Bay game and Eddie Lacey gets a pass and rumbles a little bit and he goes, that guy's really big. And I was like, that shows it. That shows it. You don't know football.

You don't know an offensive lineman from a running back, but you see Fat Eddie, and you have no frame of reference, and you go, oh, that guy's, like, really big. And he meant that as in, like, overweight, because we were talking, and he's like, he just looks really unhealthy. It's like, yeah, that's, that's Eddie. I hope he's back. That being said, 22 for 100. He looks great. This is what Stark's owners were afraid of. This is what we warned of about a little bit in the week. Still said Start Starks because he's the starter. Not anymore.

But now, who knows? And how can you feel confident about rolling Eddie Lacey out, though? Are you kidding me? I mean, the fact you said it that way, I don't even buy that. What? It's Eddie Lacey. It is. Oh, it's Eddie Lacey. It's been Eddie Lacey for like, you know. But I said that Eddie Lacey is the starter again. He will be the start next week. I wouldn't start him. I'm not. I'm not saying whether or not to start him. I was saying Green Bay.

We'll start Eddie Lacey. Eddie Lacey will be the majority carry. He's got a Thanksgiving game against the Bears, and I think Eddie Lacey's going to eat. Oh, my goodness. He eats on Thanksgiving. You know, not to over disparage the man for being larger, there have been great running backs. Jerome Bettis was a Hall of Fame, you know, franchise running back at that size. And Lacey has been that for years. I mean, he just...

Something, maybe it got a little too carried away this year. It seemed like he's a little more... Just the level of cardiovascular health combined with his ankle was a bad recipe. Exactly. Yeah, you got a lot of weight on that ankle, is what you're saying. All right, Ronnie Hillman, 21 for 102. He was the guy. And what's interesting about this is...

Just kind of thinking through things as the week was going along, though. You knew it was going to be Brock Osweiler at the quarterback position. You felt like, or at least I did, like the running game is going to get better because Kubiak has a great running system. We've seen it historically year after year after year for Gary Kubiag, but Peyton Manning cannot run it because he's so beat up and his legs are not there anymore. I thought, well, with Brock Osweiler being able to run

an actual stretch play and do other things that the Denver running game may get back on track, and boom, Ronnie Hillman, 20 carries. Yeah, 21, 21 carries. Gio Bernard and Jeremy Hill both had good fantasy games against the Cardinals last night, which was unexpected. Hill had the two touchdowns. Well, well, Gio Bernard was not unexpected. Okay, I would say with the matchup, some people were tempering, not you, obviously, because you had them as your start of the week. It is. All right, so.

And Geo and Hill going forward, you're starting geo? Yeah. Yep. Okay. Tightens that had big games. Kyle Rudolph came from nowhere. Thanks, Kyle Rudolph. Six for 106 in a touchdown. Vance McDonald was 4 for 100 in a touchdown and made people who were like, do I take a chance on Garrett Selleck? Go, oh, man. And then Greg Olson, 3 for 54 in a touchdown. Delaney Walker, my start of the week, 8 for 109 and no touchdowns. And Tyler Eifert was, he was a touchdown guy. He was a red zone monster. Tyler Touchdown.