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

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On Wednesday, today, it is Monday, October 10th. As always, we'll be running through what happened over the weekend. Get you your stud muffins. You're pooped in his big boy pants. Of course are Raising Canes Rising Stars of the Week. I want to remind everyone to check out the Fantasy Footballers.com where we have all kinds of articles going up. We have the burning questions for week six because it is week six. That's nuts. I hope everyone's fantasy team is doing well.

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Get into it. Oh, I have a note here to review. Andy's almost upset of the week. Oh, that's a good point because he nailed it again. He's just been on fire with that thing. Well, he failed again because the Eagles and the Lions. I am still firmly on his side here that when he calls his almost upset and it's close, if they actually win. A wins a win, though. I agree. But the Eagles were favored.

By three points. So the lines had to cover by three. They covered the three and then they won by a point. Yeah, I'm going to take that. I got Andy's back here on that one. All right. Quick question of the day. Which four running backs scored more fantasy points than all of the wide outs on their team combined? We're talking half point PPR. So we're looking for the combination of good, good running games with bad passing cores. Denver.

Strikes me that way. It's got to be the Atlanta-Denver game because Julio, their number one great receiver did nothing. Julio Hones. So I'm going to, I'm going to say. Okay. Freeman and Tevin Coleman. Okay. They got to be in there. So two more. I know for sure David Johnson did if we're including Thursday because I believe Larry Fitzgerald had.

Like 98% of the wide receivers. And David Johnson outscored him. I'll give you a hint. You have three of the four correct so far. We had David Johnson 32 points to 24.7. Kevin Coleman, 24.3.

and Devante Freeman 19.8 and all the Falcons wide receivers combined score 7.7. Wow. Well, there's one last one, one big running back from the week. I will take, I will take that compliment, but that was not a hint, Mike. I'm looking for a hint now. Oh, okay. I'll give you the hint. This team is known for running.

And their, because their primary wide receiver did not play this week. Oh, all right. Okay. Ezekiel Elliott. That is correct. Nailed it. Elliot had a monster day, 30.6 points compared to 27. 27. So, I mean, Elliot, man, that was a spectacular game. He had that 60 yard or so touchdown. Well, let's move it on. We're going to get right into the news. News and notes from around the league. We survived.

This weekend with very little bloodshed as far as fantasy football purposes are concerned. Of course, unless you're Cleveland. Oh, man. Cleveland has a serious quarterback problem as Cody Kessler went out. So they turned to Terrell Pryor, of course, for a couple of snaps, but also perennial backup, the best backup to ever play. Oh, man. Charlie Whitehurst. Charlie Whitehurst, getting it done for another team. He'll play forever.

I believe the x-rays did come back negative on Cody Kessler, which I guess you'd say is good news. I mean, you know, Terrell Pryor was all right in this game. And, you know, I think it is good news that Cody Kessler's there. He's better than Whitehurst. At least there's a little bit of hope for the future.

You know, the nice thing is coming into this week, I'll bet you Whitehurst ends up getting some more first team reps in practice so that in either case they're a little bit more prepared. I can't imagine that Whitehurst was fully ready to be the starter there. Steve Smith, Senor, left Sunday's game in the first quarter with an ankle injury. He was already just dominating. He was on pace to have a huge game. Unfortunately, went down with the ankle injury.

I have seen the Twitter doctors, Gene Bramel and company have said it doesn't look like it's a terrible sprain. The mechanism of the injury was not a very violent one, so we're talking hopefully a low ankle sprain, and we might even have Steve Smith back this week. That'd be great. I wonder what changes obviously other news with the Ravens are that their offensive coordinator, Mark Trestman.

is no longer their offensive coordinator. He's been relieved of duties. Yes, he is out. Look, I love Tressman for fantasy purposes for a passing game, but it was always a curious hire because this is a team that with Harbaugh has always wanted to run the ball. And you saw this last game. That must have been so frustrating to have Terrence West on fire. Just crushing people. He looked. Destroying souls. Great. And they're just constantly throwing the ball.

Just pass after pass after pass after pass. And it's, the wind is, is out of control in that stadium when we knew. Yeah, crosswinds going crazy. You were talking when the game started 20 mile an hour wins, then you have to deal with crosswind gusts. Oh, hey, breaking news here. No, you don't need a button. Oh. But I, yeah, you're so excited. He's like, oh, I get to do the breaking news buttons. Hopefully there will be a real one later, but.

Starting this week on the fantasy footballers.com, we are going to have a weekly weather report coming out near the weekend so that you can check in on those things. You know, a lot of our rankings are changed late in the week. We don't know early in the week that it's going to be crazy crosswinds. The meteorologists are just not that good. So.

Colin the weather is tough, man. You've got to give these people a break. I feel like that's more difficult than calling fantasy football. Yeah, probably. So, but yeah, the news there, Steve Smith, hopefully he'll be back. Tresman, I don't think Tresman leaving Hirst Steve Smith that much because he's been a part of that team before Tresman was there. But this is great news, I think, for Terrence West, who has looked good.

from camp, from preseason. He is the starter now, and they want to run the ball so much so that they got rid of their pass happy offensive coordinator. Yeah, and of course, Justin Forsett also relieved of duties. Who's next? Kenneth Dixon, if... No, Kenneth Dixon will not be relieved of duties. No, who's next to be relieved? Yeah, and there was quite the cold bucket of water thrown on Kenneth Dixon for this week, not super effective combined with Terrence West, looking dominant again.

So moving on, Jeremy Hill apparently worked through practice this week with a chest injury. This was news that I was not privy to. Somehow I had missed this, which really stinks. I expected big things from Jeremy Hill this week. He re-injured himself in the game in the third quarter. He left. Geo Bernard started the game. The Bengals went down quickly. Geo Bernard was the main guy. So we could, and if Jeremy Hill is going to miss any kind of time, we were on full.

Full on Giovanni Bernard alert. He's going to become a instant plug and play running back, in my opinion. Absolutely. They're a good running team. The issue's always been who's it going to be, who's going to be the one producing. If there's only one guy there, they're a great play. So we'll have to monitor that. And if you played Jeremy Hill, just know, know this. You are not alone. No. You were not alone. And if you got crushed this week in fantasy football, just know this.

Oh my goodness. You are not. That should have been the lead. Alone. Look, I feel like I've got a good team. You have a very good team. I'm one of, I believe I'm leading the division right now in three and one record. And it was the only three and one team taking on the only other three and one team. And I don't think I've ever been spanked like this in fantasy football in my life. This is a league where, you know, if you have a good game, you score about 100 points. I got outscored.

by about 115 points. Jeremy Hill, he was a part of that. What made your matchup so great was the absolute extreme split of the team you were playing against. I mean, starts the week with David Johnson. And this guy, so shout out to Nick. His team just explodes. And your team completely implodes. Yeah. It was like a siphon.

I think what he did was he was like, it's like Shang Sung. He took a slo-out-your-points. Yeah, and he's like, give all your points belong to me. Like, I've never seen a team scored so low. Yeah, yeah. And just imagine if I had Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, if that last touchdown didn't go through, I think I was at like 30 points. So speaking of that game, Eddie Lacey, who looked like just an unstoppable Mack truck, who, yeah, he's slow.

Who cares? The guy's getting it done. You cannot tackle Eddie Lacey. Hard to tackle a Mack truck. I've tried. I don't recommend it. You can go to jail for that. His spin move was on point. He looked just tremendous, but he left the game with an ankle injury. They showed him on the side. It was all wrapped up. And you could see on his face that he was highly disappointed.

Yeah, you know, he tried to get back in the game. They wrapped it up and he went back in the game and then he left again. And so it's a little bit more concerning that way. We'll have to monitor this. James Starks might be a good waiver wire pickup because there are not a lot of great running back waiver wire pickups this week. Usually every week, a couple running backs go down. Really, Eddie Lacey is the biggest name who might be questionable for this next week.