Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 5 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Injuries

Yeah, looking good today. That's a good idea. That's what I call him the uncle. Look, here's what Eli Manning can say is, saving grace, is that he was not as bad as Ryan Tannahill. Oh, Ryan Tannahill. I don't know that Ryan Tano Hill really has big boy pants. He hasn't looked good for a long time. Only through the ball 18 times, 191 yards, zero touchdowns, two interceptions. That's not good for your Jarvis Landry's, your Devonte. Landry, with the lowest targets of his career.

Yeah, it was not looking good there. I think Ryan Tannel has not longed for the Dolphins. No. I know they gave him a contract, but I feel like that if I remember correctly, the contract was team friendly that they could get rid of it. Tanna Hill should be gone before Gase. Adam Gage should be allowed to stay and try to rebuild that team. Moving on to some running backs. We had Isaiah Crowell who, yeah, I mean, he's been tearing it up, but you, this was not the matchup.

that you really wanted to play crow well and i understand you that he's if he's your two you had to play him but against the patriots you knew they were going to get blown out so it was not ideal matt jones another clunker but i i don't i don't know if i would

put big boy pants onto Matt Jones. It sticks that he's a start of them. Here's why Matt Jones had big boy pants because of the week before. The week before when he blows up, and this is why we say this before, and I'm sure we'll say it again, but you don't chase points. When you got that big weekly blow-up game and it's kind of the first, you don't chase those. Oh, that was on my bench. Now I've got to start him. Look at the matchup. If it's good, then continue with it. But if it's not, like this one wasn't, Baltimore's got a pretty good run D.

You know, I was disappointed with him. I thought he would certainly do better than this, especially in a game where the heavy cross wins mean you need to run the ball. Maybe that was part of the problem, though. Defenses could kind of load up a little bit more, less afraid of deep balls. You're not going to throw a deep ball with 20 mile an hour crosswinds. That certainly did not help him. Matt Forte is another running back who has now been, I believe the last three weeks in PPR formats has been outproduced by Bilal Powell.

Yeah, I really like Belal Powell. You know, the problem is they eat into each other's workload, kind of what we saw to start the season. We were not high on Forte coming in. You know, really felt like, man, we got that wrong. Yeah, that looks pretty bad. Because Forte was on fire, but the gas seems to be running low. He is certainly a continued to monitor. What do you do if you have Forte? You're starting him if you have him, but are you looking to... I'm not looking to unload him. Would you look to acquire him?

If I could get him low right now, if an owner has become disenfranchised or disappointed by him by the last couple of weeks, I would because I still think that Matt Forte is running back too and he has weekly upside. I think that it was a tougher matchup for when you're talking about running the ball for the jets against the Steelers because you know that the Steelers were going to score a bunch of points. But moving forward, I think Forte will still be a usable running back. Yeah, if you need running back help,

you might be able to get him cheap enough. The guy that I would definitely target who pooped in his big boy pants this week is C.J. Anderson. C.J. Anderson is very polarizing. I'm glad you wanted to focus on him. So you're talking, you want to buy Anderson right now. I'm certainly buying Anderson. He's a guy that I wanted to buy earlier, but he was too expensive.

I mean, you know, he looked like he was going to be a top five back rest of season after those first two weeks. Now he has three weeks in a row where he hasn't been that great, right? He had 14 for 37 against Cincinnati, then 19 for only 49, but he got a touchdown. So he saved himself last week against Tampa Bay or the week prior and now against Atlanta, 11 for 41. But you have to consider with Paxton Lynch in there.

They did not worry about the passing game whatsoever. Paxson Lynch couldn't get it done. You know, that game script also got away from them because Atlanta started the game up, and it's very rare at home for the Broncos to start in a hole with that defense. So there's a lot of things that kind of made this okay to me. I mean, he only had 11 carries, which is by far his lowest total of the season, and that was kind of a game script thing. So to me, C.J. Anderson, if people aren't.

believing that he's a top back. I still believe, you know, top six back rest of season. There's not many guys I would rather have. I love C.J. Anderson. I've professed my undying love for him. But I will play the devil's advocate and read you some numbers that are kind of startling. Sure. 10.3, 19.7, 23.9, 25, 41.4.4.

I have no idea with that. Those are the snap percentages of Devante Booker. Oh, sure. Who is rising in trust, rising and playing time. So I think that you're, I still believe that C.J. Anderson is the primary guy for that team. But clearly Booker is, is gaining the trust of the coach. And he's going to eat into C.J. Anderson being a, you know, that.

that's 65, 70% snap percentage guy. Yeah, and I agree that Devante Booker will get more involved. But, I mean, the last three weeks, you got four carries, seven carries, and six carries for Devante Booker. I think that'll continue. I think he'll get six or seven carries a game. And that's a decent chunk of work. That's a running back that is involved in the running game. But that's not a guy that's, I mean, that's not going to scare me off of thinking that C.J. Anderson is the lead back. And if you look at the red zone work,

That's C.J. Anderson's. The volume finally fell out. The bottom dropped. Lamar Miller had eight carries for 20 yards. This was another one. You know the matchup is going to be bad, but you can feel safe. And you had that warm blanket of he's going to touch the ball 20 times. This one hurts. And then he did not. Look, Lamar Miller was on my aforementioned, uh, you know, we should put in the pooped in his big boy pants section. Me. Okay.

My goodness. All these guys are on Jason's team. Yeah. All of all of these players belong to me for sure. I had Eli Manning, Lamar Miller, Jeremy Hill. Yeah. I mean, we, I, Sean Jackson. We've not talked about it. So Kyle Rudolph. Jerich McKinnon had an unfortunately down game. Matt Asiata was the was the man for Minnesota where McKinnon, he looked good last week, still got 20 carries, but 20 carries for the.

36 yards. So let's talk about the Houston Texans offense. Sure. Because that was, it wasn't just Lamar Miller. It was Lamar Miller. It was DeAndre Hopkins until the absolute late garbage touchdown. Oh, the garbage man, can. It was Will Fuller, who did absolutely nothing. One for four. And Brock Osweiler, who like a lot of us, pundits were kind of saying, was not worth that money and was not a great quarterback, is looking like he cannot handle this role.

Now, that was a really tough matchup. That was, you can't blame them in, in that matchup to necessarily say, well, what are you going to do? Nobody, nobody has done anything against the Vikings. Yeah, against the Vikings. So do you buy these players? Or are you scared because this is several games where they've really stunked it up? I'm still willing to buy Hopkins.

I'm not sure if the DeAndre Hopkins owner is going to be willing to sell. I know that if they followed the game, they would know that Hopkins was terrible until the very end. But I imagine that the little boost at the end, they're going to puff their chest back up and be like, oh, no, he's still the top five elite wide receiver, which he hasn't been since the first half of last year. But I think that he's a fine wide receiver one moving forward. I would try to acquire him, but.

And what about Lamar Miller? People have been very disappointed. I would love to buy Lamar Miller. Yeah. Well, I can't have them. I know for our league, but I'm saying for the listeners, for the Foot Clan out there, I would try and get Lamar Miller. The tweets are coming in furious right now. People, what do I do with Lamar Miller? And the answer to me is you keep him or you go and you buy him. This was the week.

where you knew it was going to be really bad. You hoped it wasn't going to be 8 for 20 bad, but the touches are secure for Lamar Miller. No one else in that backfield is going to take his job. Yeah, the whole offense did absolutely nothing. It wasn't just Lamar Miller let you down. The Texans did, and it was against the Vikings, so there's rationale for it. Wide receivers, some big time guns let you down. AJ Green fell back as the Bengals had just a really off day. Julio Jones.

Unfortunately, only two for 29. I thought that he could still be okay and get you low-level wide receiver one production. But that was not to be. Julian Edelman on 10 targets, only 35 yards because stupid Martellus Bennett. Dang it, man. That's frustrating. Everybody that had Edelman played Edelman. Congratulations to you, Martellus, but you hurt my feelings. You hurt my feelings, my friend.

The aforementioned Jarvis Landry 3 for 28. That's back-to-back bad weeks for Jarvis Landry. Well, like, last week wasn't horrifying, but I bet that the Jarvis Landry owner is a little bit concerned. D-Jax continues to have a back-to-back bad games. I'm trying to think if there, if. D-Jex was another guy. If, if you had listened.

You know, if you're on Twitter, if you're on Twitter, you need to follow us. You know, when the wind report came out that there's huge crosswinds, look, Deshaun Jackson is a downfield threat. He's a 20 yards in the air type of receiver, and you can't do that with 25 mile an hour crosswinds. You know, you watch them kick a field goal, and it's like you kick it over one way so that it can end up in the middle.

So we moved Deshawn Jackson down quite a bit. So that's just a good reminder. Follow the Twitter account at the FF Follers. Jump on the Periscope. Join the foot. I mean, we're putting out all kinds of alerts up here, keeping you up to date. So Sunday morning, I mean, I'm with you. I'm with Jason. I had Cousins as an okay play. I had Flacco as a low-end quarterback one. When I heard the news of what was going to happen, I buried both of them. I jumped off of Joe Flacco where I could. And so just.

So follow the show. The social media will help you out. And then the last one I want to talk about just because the coach said he's going to have a big game. Big game coming for Golden Tate. So apparently a big game is three for 39. He dropped the touchdown. So that doesn't help. Drop him from my fantasy roster. Here's a reality. They did try to get him involved.

They gave him three rushing attempts. You know, you're trying to get him going because this team needs him. And I don't know what it is, but he just has not been able to get it done. I completely agree he's a dropable asset right now. You know, there's a lot of guys out there. I would probably rather be holding onto as an upside guy, even than Tate. To me, it's time to move on from Golden Tate. I've seen five weeks. That's enough for me to, even if he blows up.

and has a great rest of the season, still feel good in my choice that I'm going to move on from him and put somebody with higher upside, like Sammy Coates on my bench. Yeah, so last couple players here, we got some tight ends, Zach Ertz, Kyle. Yeah, Zachertz, we, you know, we bought in. I know we were high on him. Yes. Didn't get it going and really had the game script to do it.

You know, so there's no great excuse on Zach Gertz. He just didn't get it done. And Kyle Rudolph, who, I mean, I know we weren't high on, at least I was. And I had said there's a lot of guys on waiver. I would rather play because of the matchup. Houston's very good against the tight end. And they played great tight ends this year so far. They have shut down every single tight end, even without JJ Watt. So going forward, I think you need to look at the Houston Texans as a matchup where if you've got a good tight end.

Look for other. If you've got your whoever it is. Not a weekly starter, not a Jordan Reed or a grunk. Sure. I'm talking that middle tier. Gary Barnage and, you know, Eric Ebron, if he's healthy or Gates or whoever, if you're playing against Houston, you know, Dwayne Allen, right? He's going to play Houston twice a year. All right. So then the Monday night, just a reminder that Doug Martin and Charles Sims, they're going to be out. They're both considered doubtful for some reason, though.

We're getting the nonsense of we're not ruling them out until the game time, even though no one has practiced a single snap and they're doubtful. And I think the percentage of players listed as doubtful who have actually played is so minute. They're not going to play. So Jockwiz Rogers, if you are in a very tight spot, him or Peyton Barber. I mean, good luck. Good luck to you out there, Fookeland. I think Jack Quiz is... You think he's okay for PPR?