Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 8/9

Some more touchdowns. Yeah, I like that. I like the way you tied that all in there. And, you know, the nice thing is he's a young guy. Young guys are exciting. Speaking of another young guy, Theo Riddick had a really good game. If you watched, if you were awake, if you're on the West Coast, I don't know. I thought it was spectacular to wake up to football. But if you watched that London game, Theo Riddick came in and he...

He made a couple impressive catches out of the backfield. And the report, he went eight for 74 through the air with a touchdown. He's definitely not the between the tackles runner, neither is Reggie Bush really. And these two guys are going to split time, Theo Riddick and Reggie Bush. They're on by this week. Riddick is a guy that I don't think you have to pick up. No, I would agree. He's not a guy I expect to continue to put up numbers like this if Reggie Bush has relevance. But he's a young guy.

And if Bush is out for an extended period of time, Reddick is a guy you could put in there. I would expect, because they had, like we said, the lines are on by this week, I would expect that Reggie Bush is back. Yeah. When the buy is over. So Redick is the guy probably, you can take him out of the oven. Right, you get, you pull him out. But whenever Reggie Bush goes out and gets dinged, which he tends to do, you fire up Theo Riddick.

And reports are that they're going to share time, probably with an interest of Reggie Bush not getting hurt. So a couple of Brandons we can go through really quickly. Just give me the... We got Brandon and Brandon. Brandon. Brandon Lafelle had a monster game, target-wise, and catches. 11 for 124 in a touchdown. Brandon Cook, six for 94 in a touchdown. And also had a four-yard touchdown run.

Studs going forward. Brandon LaFelle, Brandon Cooks. Do you think that Brandon LaFelle is sad that he doesn't have Cam Newton throwing him the ball anymore? No. No. Who was the other guy that... I'm trying to think of the other receiver. Who went to New England? But anyway, Lafell, we'll just stick with him. He, I actually really like Lafell. The New England offense has gone. Franz Kafka on us.

It is metamorphosized. I can't read Brandon Lafell's name without getting pissed off. Because I dropped him. I signed him last week in our league, in our dynasty league, and then I dropped him for Justin Hunter, and he had his breakout game. So Stud going forward, you like Lafell? What about Cooks? I do like him. Cooks is going to be a completely hit or miss. It just happened to be his turn. Kenny Stills didn't have the bomb touchdown. Cook's got it this week. Yep. I am not relying.

on Cooks. If you got him, that's great. I'm not going to dump him or anything like that, but he's, I have little faith in Cooks right now. Yeah, two hit or miss. Alan Robinson had a big game, five for 82 and a touchdown. He collected that garbage. Yeah, he did. Garbage time touchdown from Blake Interception Man Bortles. I read today that they want Bortals to not throw more than eight interceptions the rest of the way.

Yeah, good luck with that. I like that the bar is, you're allowed to throw eight. It's not, go out there and don't throw any. I mean, it doesn't really matter. Alan Robinson is the best of the worst. I still like him. No, he's good, but you can't count on him. No. Larry Fitzgerald had a turn-back-the-clock performance, seven for 160 and a touchdown. 80-yard bomb. 80 over that was one.

But still, if you take that away, he went six for 80 and a touch, six for 80. Which is not bad at all. Different for him. John Brown, his counterpart, five for 119 in a touchdown. Arizona's wide receivers there. Any value going forward? I think John Brown is going to be, he's similar to Cooks, where. Would you rather have John Brown and Larry Fitzgerald? I would rather have Larry Fitzgerald. Okay. I think that he's going to be more involved in the.

the game plans. And when he, what, where you would say John Brown is good is when you, if you watch the entire game, as us Arizona Cardinal fans did, they, Carson Palmer and Bruce Ariens, he loves going deep. And Brown's that guy. Brown's the deep guy. So potentially for our, for our next segment where we talk about poop, you could talk about Michael Floyd, but.

He was very close on a couple of plays because the Cardinals just, they will go deep constantly. You will have one or two attempts at getting John Brown deep a game. At least. Because Arian likes to air it out. So if you need a home run guy, like I think that would be the best example for this. That's a good. If you're a guy that's like you're losing in your matchup and you need a chance at a 25 point.

fantasy game, you're going to go with a guy like John Brown over somebody maybe like, well, even over Larry Fitzgerald probably, but more so over a guy like Alan Robinson, like a guy like Marcus Colston, a guy that's going to give you more run-of-the-mill catch numbers, Ruman Randall, those guys. I'd rather be rolling John Brown out there and say, hey, hit a home run for me. Yeah, John Brown, extreme ceiling, equally as extreme basements. Yep, so let's move it on down the road.

pooped in his big boy pants. It's getting smelly. Oh, who do we got here that have pooped their big boy pants? Guys that we expected to do better this week. Quarterbacks, maybe you didn't expect them to do better, but Joe Flacco, 195 yards, two picks, no touchdowns. So that was a abysmal fantasy performance if you started Flacco. Cam Newton, the hype train and the hope.

was riding high two weeks ago it is it's not doing so good anymore the past two weeks he's not been good this week 171 passing yards no touchdowns uh one interception one fumble and then he ran he was against seattle he ran 12 times for 24 yards yeah but i don't jino jonathan stewart could run against seattle yeah gino smith he's on here just because it's funny that i think he had a quarterback had negative five and a half points

Not that anyone played him, but can you imagine? Yeah, if I go through these guys real quick, I say Joe Flacco is still a startable fantasy quarterback. What about Cam Newton? I think Cam Newton is too. Both of these guys that take off the poop list because Cam Newton had for the, and we'll talk about this a little bit later. Cam Newton is my start of the week, I believe. Wow. And he is, yeah, he's run for.

This is a stat I was going to say for them, but he's had 10 or more rushes than two of his last three games. And yes, the production wasn't there in this specific game, but I think you're going to get a pretty high baseline on the way out from what I can see. So we'll see. Hit the button. For Marshawn Lynch. You're worried. I'm, man. Third straight game without a score. 14 for 62. What is going on? Something's happened to that offense. Now, he did.

drop a touchdown catch, which was, man, for... Is that the second or third a week in a row? He's had one that was called back or didn't happen? Well, he had a touchdown called back last week, but this one was, it literally bounced off of his chest at the end of the half, which for Russell Wilson owners was a eight-point turnaround, or eight-point swing, because it was a touchdown, and he should have caught it, but it turned into a pick. But they're not giving him work, is the bigger thing. Another...

So let me ask you, Marshawn Lynch versus Ronnie Hillman, rest of the way. Wow, that's a really tough question. I still have to lean Lynch because he should still get the touchdowns, where Hillman was vultured twice this week to much chagrin of me in multiple leagues. If he scored on those two touchdowns,

That changes two of my leagues. I win. So bitterness is clouding your judgment. That's good to know. But I don't know what's going on with Lynch and Seattle seems to have lost their magic and their luster. They are going back home. I think they have a good match of this. Oh yeah. Oakland's coming to town. So this is, I will say this. I'm already very concerned about Lynch. If nothing happens in the Oakland game.

I'm going, I'm jumping off a bridge. You're going to be really, really worried. Yeah, it makes sense. Lynch has had a rough go of it of late, but I think more of it just has to do with that offense. It looks like something's wrong. I can agree with that. Now, they're still four and three in winning. Some wide receivers, any of these guys, let me just ask you this. Are you worried about any of these guys, these four moving forward?

Jordy Nelson? No way. Julio Jones? Mildly concerned, yes. Steve Smith, senior? Yeah. I think the market correction is starting to happen for Smith. He did. He had a huge touchdown call back on a sketchy offensive pass interference. But he just, he was one of my top surprises from the first quarter of the season where I did not see that coming.

I don't think anybody else really saw it coming. I don't think defenses saw it coming, so they have... Oh, trade. Was there? While we're going, Adam Schaefter has reported the Bucks finalized a trade of safety Mark Barron to the Rams. Oh, okay. So not really super fantasy relevant, but that's still fun to have breaking news while we're doing the show. I was trying to catch something, but... I scooped you. Yeah, you did. I think the deadline just passed, too, so.

I'm too busy looking at the fact that our Arizona Cardinals are number two in the power rankings. Ooh, delicious. Ian Rappaport did say the Cardinals tried to add edge help, but nothing materialized. So back to the fantasy show. So Steve Smith, if you were counting on Steve Smith and not just benefiting from him where you have other guys and you just have to be, you were riding it, if you are depending on Smith, I think there is a...

There is a danger coming for you. There is a, what is, a deep rising sized wave coming for you. Well, it's hard. It's hard with a guy. You see this with veterans a lot of the times. They might start off a little higher and then come back down to Earth because nobody had seen him with Baltimore. I still like him more than Tori Smith. Now, another veteran. Brandon Marshall. What is your concern level with Brandon Marshall?

It's fairly high. I still think he's going to be productive, but I'm starting to drop him down into the Larry Fitzgerald category, where not only is he aging and that offense is struggling, now those don't both apply to Arizona, but you have Alshon Jeffrey on the other side. If Brandon Marshall was all alone, I would expect a correction quicker. Honestly, I'm concerned because I would have expected this last game after he complained.

But he only had three catches for 35 yards, no touchdowns. And the more I watched him... He was targeted in the end zone a few times this week. Yeah, I mean, and that happens pretty much every week. But the more I watch, the more I see Cutler skittish, throwing to Martellus Bennett and throwing to... Forte. Matt Forte. So, yeah, some concerns there. You also had some...

The only two downer weeks really of the year for Greg Olson and Julius Thomas, I wouldn't expect either of those things to continue. But if you were an owner of one of those guys, you were probably pretty disappointed. I was an owner of three of those guys. It ruined my weekend. I will say this about Julius Thomas, which I don't know if we've actually talked about it on the show, but just what, how touchdown dependent Julius Thomas.

Really, when you break down his numbers, how he does rely on that touchdown, which of all the teams to rely on it for. Right. That's what we said. You can probably count on it. But when you roll with a guy like that, you are going to get weeks like this. Yeah, absolutely. It happens. Where Emmanuel Sanders is on the opposing fantasy team that you're playing so he can catch three touchdowns. Put me in, coach. Let's talk waivers.

Yeah, let's see if we can get you some guys to win your week or better yet. Turn it around. Win your league. Yeah, get your championship set up. A lot of trade deadlines are coming up, so waivers are a place that you're going to be able to get a lasting impact. So as we said, we write for fantasy pros.com, which is a tremendous tool. On the Internet's, tons of stuff on there is free, too, where you can get all kinds of information. They like to take...

opinions from experts all over and then they kind of average amount so you're not just getting one opinion you're getting you're getting a lot of experts from around the the globe yeah yeah no a good compilation a good consensus rankings and so that's every week when we do our waiver wire section what we do is we just take the consensus waiver wire rankings and talk about those guys exactly which guys we think are going to make the biggest impact going forward which ones are