Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 15 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

You know, when it comes to wide receivers since they're by, they're not, you know, locked down elite. They've had three games since week seven where no wide receivers had a touchdown. Every other game, they've had one or two touchdowns given up. And Des Bryant is still a talented guy. This game is in Dallas. I'm just saying, I expect him to be a wide receiver one. He gets the red zone looks. He gets the deep balls.

And they need this win. They're coming off of a loss. So I'm, this is more of a confidence boost saying, you know, should I worry about playing Des. I think you can play him. All right. On my wide receiver start of the week is DeShone Jackson. Really? I like Kurt Cousins. I like Deshaun Jackson. He's got the stack as well. He is, I think he is fully back to health. And when you think of Deshaun Jackson, you think of boom, bust. Well, three of the last four games, he has been.

Boom. Boomtown, my friends. Championship boomtown. Four for 51 in a touchdown. Four for 118 and a touchdown. One for 59. That was against the Arizona Cardinals. Seeing a lot of Patrick Peterson. Followed that up with three for 102 in a touchdown. He's getting deep. I think he is a very solid wide receiver two in standard leagues. In PPR, I'd probably bump him down a little bit. But in standard leagues, I love to Sean Jackson to...

to continue the boom streak and catch a deep one. All right. Running back starts of the week. I'm going with Lamar Miller. And this is a confidence boost for people. We had been worried about the ankle and the ribs and the injuries and the problems. He was single digits three of the previous four weeks after a more consistent start to the season. But last week we saw it all. We saw him come out against Indianapolis go on the road and have 21 carries, 107 yards and a touchdown. Here you are home.

Again, fighting for this division. I think this is the game where you can have a lot of confidence rolling Lamar Miller out there. I have them rated very highly this week. And I just feel like he is one of the safer running back plays that exists out there. I know it's been a very up and down season. I know it's not been exciting because everything with the Texans offense is described as not exciting. I mean, even if you just look at Lamar Miller's involvement in the passing game, which used to be such a huge part of his game.

It's all the, you know, the shortest routes, the lowest yards at the point of target. So not always exciting, but this week I have them in my top 12. So I'm going to go with Lamar Miller. I'll hop on for running backs. My start of the week this week is LaGarrett Blunt. Legerick Blunt is a guy that you look at the matchup and you go, Denver has.

the best defense in the league. And that's what I think. I think Denver is the best defense in the league. And so you might be scared to start LaGarrett Blunt, but Denver is susceptible to running backs. They have been all year. Ask Latavius Murray how they fared against them. Remember, the Oakland Raiders got to that point in that game where they just said,

We're going to run it 10 times in a row. They were going to run the same play over and over and over. Yeah. And if you listen to Vaughn Miller this past week coming off of like, he was asked, hey, how was it going up against Marcus Marietta? What did you think? And he goes, well, we had a gameplay, but we couldn't do it because they just kept running on us. I mean, that's what he said. He's frustrated as a pass rush, you know, wanted to tackle that quarterback. Tom Brady has struggled against Denver in the past.

I think Ligarra Blunt is the tool that Bill Belichick is going to use. No team just finds themselves on the one yard line more than the Patriots, I feel like. And Lageret Blunt has a good shot of scoring. I think he's primed for a good game, and I would start him. Mike, I had not seen your start of the week at the running back position until just now. Let me say this. I love it. I love it. I might have them rated higher than you. I don't even know. Welcome aboard. I do. I got them once a spot higher than you do.

And we both love him. So go on. That's good news. I'm taking a running back against the worst running defense in the league. Kevin Coleman takes on the San Francisco 49ers. There is plenty, in my opinion, plenty to go around for Freeman and Coleman. We've seen that he is, he's back, only had eight carries for 36 yards. But he had that all important touchdown. And two for 19 with a touchdown through the air, multifaceted back.

It's just maybe we're looking a little forward here, but Matt Ryan is a curious case to me this week because the matchup is so great for what appears so great for Matt Ryan, but they might do everything through the running backs this week. So to me, Kevin Coleman is a solid flex play at worst running back to at best. All right. I got Matt Ryan number one. So I'm not worried, but I understand. It could be incredible for Matt Ryan this week. We need your tied in start of the week, Mike.

All right, I'm going with a guy who's, make it snappy. I'm going with a guy who's tied with Michael Crabtree for second in red zone targets. Kyle Rudolph, they don't call him the Red Zone Ranger for nothing. He gets the Red Zone targets. He's taking on the Indianapolis Colts. They are beatable. I think that Sammy Biscuits is an okay stream. If you're digging deep and Kyle Rudolph has been a touchdown machine this year. I think that he scores this week. Yeah. And that's hard for you to say because I know you're playing against him in one of our lives. I am.

I'm going to go with Big Gresh. Germain Gresh. Big Gresh. We know John Brown's limited with the sickle cell trade. He hasn't been an involved wide receiver in this offense for a while. Michael Floyd was just released by the Cardinals. He'll get no snaps this week. Zero snaps for Floyd. Obviously, I like Larry Fitzgerald this week, but I like Jermaine Gresham as well. Five catches in each of the last three weeks. I think you can do a lot worse than Gresham. And I think you've got a shot at a touchdown in this matchup with the Saints at home.

I'll be at that game, so I'll be on the lookout for Big Gresh to get into the end zone. I think you can do a lot worse to have them right at the, you know, kind of tail end Fedorowitz level back in tight-in one. Yeah, and my start of the week is Antonio Gates. I liked him last week. He had an okay game. Three of the last four games he's played. He's been over 50 yards for a tight-in. That's great. He's had a touchdown in half of his last four games. He's a few touchdowns away.

From the record, and there's a few games left. They will be targeting him. He had a couple of red zone targets this last week. I think you've got a safe floor with 5 for 50 for tight end and a really good chance against the Oakland Raiders in a high-scoring game, or what I hope to be a high-scoring game.

that Antonio Gates gets in the end zone. I think he's a safe start with a good ceiling. All right. Those were our starts of the week. You can check them out also on the website later today. The Fantasy Footballers.com. We'll have them on there for your review. And look, without further ado, we get to the most important segment. Oh, my. Jason Moore's Ironclad. Locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed boom, boom, boom kicker of the week. You guys out there know we're family men.

We have, each of us have three children. We put our families first, but Jason does not. Jason puts the kickers first, family second. They're most important. Boom, boom, kicker of the week. Oh, man. I have never struggled with a week as much as I have this week. It's really true. I wanted to go Hauska. I wanted to be bold. But I'm not going to do that. This is the second week of the playoffs. Yeah. I'm going to stay in the flames. I'm going to go with who should be the number one anyways.

It's a good matchup for him, and he could kick it from my house. Don't be a coward. I'm not, I'm going Justin Tucker. I'm going, boom, boom. Boom. How could you boo Justin Tucker? Yeah, you have no soul, Mike. And I wanted to find out how far Justin Tucker was about to kick the ball, but she interrupted him with booze. Yeah. You don't know where he's going. He might have been going from my house to just across the street. I could do that.

So Jason Moore's Ironclad locked and loaded 100% guaranteed boom boom kicker the week is none other than Justin Tucker. I will throw out two sleepers. Stephen Hauska and Nick Novak. All right. Sleeper kickers are, you know, from the boom boom room. Yeah, they're just. Nick Novak's the original. Boom boom novac. All right. That's it for today's show. This was the Thursday episode tomorrow. We have in and out. We have the rest of the matchups. We have a great.

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