Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 8/9

Facing New Orleans, their 27th versus the pass. Newton has 10 plus carries in two of his last three games. So it's more of a, I'm expecting him to come out and get a better performance this week. So I like Cam Newton. I wouldn't hesitate in starting him if you're an owner. That's bold considering the... Considering he just pooped his big boy pants. Well, he did do that, and they actually played pretty well against the Packers. What about against the Seahawks? Which the...

Oh, are you talking about New Orleans? Oh, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. Where I, considering that they came out with a 70-yard, the game started with a 70-yard touchdown pass. Right. And then I think Green Bay ended the game with 22 points or something like that. So I think that's decently bold. My running back, I'm taking him, he's going to shut it down with his last chance. I think this is his last chance to be the main feature back, Brandon Oliver.

San Diego. Now, I'm going with him. Last week was average for him, 13 for 36, on the ground, 7 for 27 in the air. I'm going with this. I like San Diego to bounce back. They lost, right? Am I remembering that? You're in the right week. You're correct, yeah. And Miami just gave 100 yards to Denard freaking Robinson. Are you kidding me? Two weeks in a row for him. I know Miami had some linebacker issues.

But if DeNard Robinson can do that, then Brandon Oliver, by golly, he better have a decent, too good game. I like it. I like it. I'm going Alfred Morris at Minnesota. Who, he looked 50% good yesterday. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think the play action's back a little bit in Washington with Colt McCoy and his legs. Who's the quarterback? Whether it's McCoy or whether it's Griffin, you have a guy that can move.

A little bit more. You left out cousins. I did on purpose. He's not coming back. No, he's not coming back. Captain. Brutal. I saw him grinning on the sideline with that win yesterday. I was like, oh, my goodness. But yeah, Minnesota's 26 versus the run. I just think Morris is a talented running back that is probably the one suffering the most from the quarterback carousel right now. So I think this is an opportunity for him to break out. So if you have him, I'd start him.

wide receiver, I am taking the aforementioned Alan Robinson. You are an Alan Robinson fan. There's his targets, man. I love the targets. He liked the ball being thrown in the general direction. And the Jaguars are playing the Bengals who have really been lousy on defense lately. I'm going to be impressed if he has a good game. I admit this one's a bit bolder, but I really do think I have a couple spots where I have him.

And I'm choosing to play him over some more conservative plays. I'm going to go Alan Robinson because I think he has a big week. Go for the glory. I'm with Andrew Hawkins. This guy's been playing great. Double digits in his last three games. Going up against the worst passing defense in football in Tampa Bay.

That's for Tampa Bay. Oh, that's for Tampa. Yeah. Yeah, they're awful. And he's the go-to guy for them. When they need a big first down, when they throw a screen pass, Andrew Hawkins is the guy. And, you know, I'm not going to argue with production. I think he's a good start this week. I think people have been afraid to start him. Yeah, I would agree with that. But I like him this week. Jordan Cameron. Yeah, Jordan Cameron's out. We'll not be there. Tight end. I'm going with Zeus. Travis? Zeus. Is that that they call him? That's what Evan Silva calls him.

And I agree. If you look at him, it's good. Who was robbed? Have you said his name yet? Travis Kelsey. You do that a lot. You do that a lot. You think that you already said it, and then you start talking about him. He was robbed of a touchdown last week. And I know this specifically because I played against a Jamal Charles owner. Kelsey got in and Reed called the time out because he wanted to look at the play more.

But for some reason, he called a timeout instead of just calling a challenge. Did he challenge it? No. He ended up not doing it. Sounds like Andy Reid. Yeah, he was too cowardly to do it. I don't know why you was. Because he knew that Charles would just get in the next play. But that hosed me big time. But so I'm taking Travis Kelsey. Bitterness is kind of the overarching theme for you. Like a lot of your feelings towards these guys get a little bit marked by how they defeated you in Fantasy of the Weekes.

The listeners, if you don't know me personally, I talk at length about my RAF problem. You do have an RAF problem. And that means I have a resting angry face. You look like you're an angry, angry man. Where I will be sitting. I could actually be in a very pleasant mood. But apparently because of my face, I just look angry all the time. Yeah, yeah. Your first impressions, you know, that you're angry. So a lot of things come out.

appear to be angry, but I am not an angry person. I am like Santa Claus. I'm jolly. Yeah, please like me. But anyway, so why am I taking Kelsey? The Jets have allowed a touchdown in five of eight games to the tight end, and four of those were multi-touchdown games. Boom. So I'm taking Kelsey. Yeah, nice start. I have Tim Wright. I'm going bold again. Watch him get inactive. No, Tim Wright.

He scored. He managed just to score something. The tight-in for New England. Three out of the last four games, he scored a TD. More targets are going his way. Denver can't cover tight-ins. This game's going to be a... It should be. It should be a fantasy bonanza. I don't know what the over-under is in Vegas on this game, but it's got to be a lot of points. And I think a guy like Tim Wright can benefit from coverage rolling Grankowski's way. I just noticed our defensive starts of the week are playing each other. Oh, I know.

I know that. I saw yours. So I'm going with Washington and my reasoning. I think both of these are good starts, by the way. My reasoning for going with Washington, and they actually played, I thought they played very well. They did. Yesterday against the Cowboys. Haslett knows what he's doing. But the overarching theme of I'm starting Washington because Minnesota stinks. That's a good reason. It's ironic because I'm, my D is the Vikings D.

And the overarching reason is because Washington stinks. This is really funny to me. They're two really bad offenses that are probably going to throw interceptions. A third string and a second string quarterback, a rookie quarterback, and a cult? What's the over under of defensive touchdown scored on this game? It's like two. It's like two, yeah.

So if you got Washington or Minnesota, I'm fine starting both of those defenses. Any other thoughts? No, let's move it along. The fantasy footballers versus the world. All right, we take on the world here. We go through five start sit questions. And we check them out on fantasy pros.com, which you can. They have a start sit feature where you type in the names of the players, and they will tell you.

what the expert consensus is of who you should play. You can tell the fancy pro system. I have a standard half-p-pr or full PPR system. So whatever you need, they got it. So I go on there. Yeah, this is always fun. And I do my best to pick what I think should be difficult to answer questions. So we're going to start it off with Mark Ingram or Ahmad Bradshaw. Mark Ingram is playing the Panthers and Bradshaw is playing the Giants.

This is a tough one. For me, I lean on the Bradshaw side. Now, I absolutely can see that. I'm going to, especially if the other two characters and the running back committee of the Saints are not playing, I would tend to lean Mark Ingram just because, although Sean Peyton will screw me because he'll say, hey, Travarez Cadet, let's get you some carries, buddy.

No, I can see both guys winning this matchup pretty easily. Do you got, I'm pulling it up? I do know it, yeah. Oh, yeah, interesting. The experts have spoken. 63% are going Mark Ingram. That's true. However, just for the record, if you flip that over to PPR, 89% like Ahmad Bradshaw.

Whoa, let's split the difference and go half point PPR. And it is still overwhelmingly for Bradshaw. Yeah. So I say that and check that because Ingram doesn't catch any passes. So if you're in a half PPR or PPR league, Bradshaw is your guy because he catches everything luck throws out of the backfield. All right. Question number two versus the world. Tori Smith versus Pittsburgh or Andre Holmes versus the lusterless.

Seattle defense? I don't know. This is a horrible question. This is a tough one. This is a pretty bad one. Tori Smith had, although... Yeah, I'll just take Tori Smith. You're going to take Tori Smith. Pittsburgh, I know, has allowed their bottom five, I think, in the league of allowing pass plays of over 20 yards. Holmes had a garbage touchdown last week. And Seattle did hold the Carolina passing game in check.

Yeah, I got to lean Tori Smith. Both of these games are on the road, but because Oakland is going to Seattle, I will lean Tori Smith. Yeah, and we are, you know, didn't Tori Smith get banged up? Didn't he get banged up? Is that overwhelmingly affecting this? That's possible, because he put up a goose egg. Yeah. Was it because of a concussion? Did we not talk about this? Yeah, I mean, I just...

He's undergoing concussion test right now, so I think that's impacting this. I think this is a terrible decision that you made to compare these two guys. I forgot completely that Tori Smith had gotten that concussion thing. So the overarching consensus on fantasy pros.com, their start sit feature is Andre Holmes, and that is because of the hesitation with Tori Smith. If these guys are both healthy, I think Tori Smith probably wins that. But I'll never know because he's not. My man Mike Clay still going tory Smith, though. There you go. That makes me feel good.

Shout out to Mike Clay. He should listen to our podcast. He should tweet the fantasy footballers. Oh, there you go. If we ran our Twitter. Yeah, if we ran our Twitter. We've got to get that thing going. Next one. Mike Wallace versus the Chargers or Alfred Morris versus Minnesota. And obviously I'm going to go Alfred Morris. He's my start of the week. Yes. And so this is a flex question.

and I usually like to have a running back in my flex because I know he's guaranteed to get some carries. I don't like Minnesota's defense very much, but I think they're serviceable. And I'm, man. Make a choice, man. Make a choice. Okay, Wallace, I'm going to take Wallace to have a bounceback week. Wallace is the consensus choice. 67% to Mike Wallace over Alfred Morris.

Not seen on the podcast was me making fist saluting What is that? Yeah, what do you call it? By definition, you're literally. No, because a pump is out. So you're like, you're like, I'm pulling a diesel horn right now. Yeah, that's what I was saying. You look like you're on a, you're a train engineer. Mike Wallace takes the cake there. Here's another flex question for you. Kelvin.

Big Man Benjamin or Brandon Oliver. No, I specifically did this one. The big O, as I call him. What, the big, what you see? From the Phoenix Suns? No, just Oliver Miller. His last name's Oliver. I specifically did this because I have habitually. I thought you were going to say because you have this decision in your league and you needed some help. No, I would say because I, by accident, always end up putting my start of the week in the.

in the versus the world section. So you did it on purpose? This time I did on purpose because I did a running back versus a wide receiver who I also like very much. There you go. Who are you taking? Am I, I, I think I'm fraudulent if I don't take Brandon Oliver. This one's not even close. Really? No. And for me it was Calvin Benjamin and then I looked it up. So I should have said it first, but I was too eager.

Calvin Benjamin, 81%. I was going to say, if this was my choice of Benjamin versus Oliver going into my flex, I would want to lean Calvin Benjamin just because of the match. Sorry, Brandon Oliver should start. But I'm going to start with my keep of my start of the week. Yeah, let's go through this last one here on Fantasy Footballers versus the world and see what we get. We got Terrence Williams versus Arizona or Andre Johnson versus Philadelphia. For me,

This is pretty tough, pretty close. I bet it ends up close on Fantasypros.com. I take Andre Johnson. Yeah, so Andre Johnson probably gets more targets. See, when I was grabbing this, I wasn't really factoring in the Romo injury. Well, neither are they, so. It's not in there.