Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 3 Matchups, Daily Dose, #FootClan Friday

I'd probably go Aziata. Wait a week on Ivory. Chris Ivory or Dwayne Washington. I'd go Ivory there. Okay. Delaney Walker returned to a limited practice on Thursday on track to play.

Antonio Gates was not practicing on Thursday, so you need to monitor these. We can obviously give you the updates here on the Friday show, but there are going to be reports on Friday practices. There are going to be reports on Saturday, and Mike will catch you up on Sunday morning on Twitter. We'll keep posting things. Really important news, speaking of the days of the week. Alshan Jeffrey missed practice again on Thursday, missed entirely. And the reason... Yeah.

Here's what's really important. If you have Alshan Jeffrey, as I do in, he's one of my most own players, he plays Sunday night. And that stinks big time because what that means is you might be in a situation where you have to go to your lineup and you have to choose someone on your roster right now to drop in order to pick up a wide receiver or running back. That plays Sunday or Monday night. Yeah, that plays Sunday night or Monday night. You know, you've got guys like Jacob Tammy.

What you need to do is move guys like Alshan Jeffrey out of the wide receiver spot. Make sure he's set to go in your flex. That way you have more opportunities should Sunday night roll around. And he's ruled out of the game. You can put in other positions. But definitely monitor that. We saw last year when he missed practice. A lot of times he just, you know, they say it's a game time decision. He didn't get on the field. All right. Bucks tied in. Austin Safarian Jenkins was arrested on a DUI charge. This may be the end of the road for ASJ. Guys, such an idiot.

He is because he's super talented, but he's super stupid, you know. And so the DOI charge, look, Cameron Brate might be somebody you need to just, if he's got it all to himself in the future here. Yeah, possible. He's a streaming candidate at the tight-in position. And then Sammy Watkins was not present for the start of practice on Friday. If he misses the game, you know, good luck scoring Buffalo. I mean, I just don't know what they're going to do.

against the Arizona defense. I mean, they'll be at home at least, and maybe he can throw it deep to Markey. I say they're going to hope Goodwin can burn somebody. So that's all the news I want to get into. We have tons more to cover. We obviously have the forecast and the daily dose. So anything else you guys want to add on the news? Let's get to these games. All right, let's do it. Fantasy forecast. All right, let's jump into the Browns heading to Miami to take on the dolphins who are almost 10-point favorites in this one.

We have a 42 point over under. I'm a very, Mike did a periscope yesterday. A lot of people had questions about Tannahill, like Tana Hill Stafford or Tana Hill Ryan. Look, I'm a pretty big Tannahill fan this week. I like what I saw three wide receiver sets. You heard me talk about Devante Parker as a maybe a surprise flex guy as I started the week yesterday. So look, I'm going to buy into the at home against Cleveland equation here.

and I'm taking Ryan Tannahill, and I'm playing him over most guys, and you can go check out the rankings. But do you guys think I'm crazy? I don't think you're crazy, especially with Arian Foster being out. I mean, obviously Ryan Tannahill, he's my start of the week. The one worry that I have is, you know, kind of like we saw yesterday, when one offense is extremely inept. And I don't think that the Cleveland Browns are going to be able to get it done with their, you know, with Cody Kessler in at quarterback.

When you're up, you know, you run the ball. So maybe this is an opportunity for Jay Ajai. That's exactly what I was going to ask you, because you said when you're up, you run the ball. That makes sense. But what is the outlook for him? And would you play Ajai over an Aziata? I'm asking for a friend. Yeah. I think I would. I think the opportunity, when I look at who has the larger upside, right? I don't believe in Ajai. But should a Jai B.

Be the guy in this game against Cleveland in a game they should be winning at home. His upside is, you know, multiple touchdown, you know, Ligarrett Blunt type of game where if he gets the carries, I love King and Drake. To be honest, I'm avoiding most players in this game other than Jarvis Landry and Ryan Tannahill. I know you also like Devante Parker, right? I do. I do like Devante Parker. I'm definitely avoiding everybody on the brown side other than Isaiah Crowell.

I don't feel great about barnage, but if you need to stream a tight end, you could do worse, in my opinion. The dolphins right now are the 31st ranked run defense. I think they're going to lean on Crowell by necessity. Look, you saw last night a perfect example of an inept offense with no passing game that could still produce fantasy numbers for a running back, albeit not huge numbers, but good numbers like Lamar Miller put up. So I think Crowell is good for a couple of receptions, probably 20 carries. So I think you have to roll them out there.

And he's been really, really good. He's averaged, what? 6.8 yards per carry on the year because of that huge run. I'll say a 75-yard run will do that after two weeks. Number four, fantasy running back through two games. And the dolphins have not been good against the run. True. So let's move on. Redskins Giants. Talk about this game. Look, Cousins Manning. I feel like this is another game that really could be a high-scoring affair. The Giants' defense has been better than we expected. And Kurt Cousness has been worse than we expected.

Yeah, I would... Worse than you guys expected. Worse than I expected, certainly. I don't know. I mean, for... It could be. It could turn into one of those. I'm kind of buying into the Giants, their defense. I think that their defense has a fine play this week with the way that Cousins has been turning the ball over. I like Eli Manning a lot in this game, though, with the passing weapons that Eli now has. We know he's...

just destroying as far as accuracy. His past completion is up near 80%, which is just ridiculous. I know it's only two weeks, but that's ridiculous. And they can't run the ball. So I, with Jennings banged up with the hand, Shane Vereen is not a typical running back. He's an okay play because he'll catch some passes and get a couple carries. But I think this is the Eli Manning show where we're going to see, you know, I'm good playing all three.

wide receivers at certain levels for the Giants. Yeah, the one thing I will say about this is, you know, when it comes to Kirk Cousins on the road, sometimes that's over exaggerated that he's great at home and bad on the road. It doesn't work necessarily like that. He's a little bit worse on the road. But what I do like about it for fantasy is he throws more interceptions on the road. He also throws more touchdowns, right, out of necessity. So it kind of leads to higher scoring opportunities because obviously if you're turning the ball over, putting points on the clock.

As I like to say. You know, now the real question for me is, is the New York Giants rushing defense real? You know, they've looked good. Right. And so Matt Jones. Their whole defenses look good. They really have. They really have. And they're at home. Look, nobody throws more than the Redskins. That's why Cousins can stink and still be okay, right? Like stink, but be a fantasy okay player because they throw the ball 75% of the time. Yeah, Matt Jones, I would prefer not to play him.

this week against the Giants. Like Jason said, the Giants are currently the fourth best running defense. I think this is the get right breakout game for Beckham and for fantasy owners to breathe easy. I am not excited about Rashad Jennings because they've already said that that injury is going to linger. You know, with a lingering injury that they're willing to publicly state is that way. The workload's going to be more distributed, in my opinion. I don't think the opportunity. Look, goal line is going to be Jennings, I think. So maybe. If they do that. But how about...

What are your guys' take on Jordan Reed? I know that there's some players out there who are kind of, they're starting to panic on Reed. I'm not panicking on Reed. The targets have been there. He's clearly still the number one read for Kirk Cousins. He's talented. I mean, he hasn't gotten in the end zone. If he had touchdowns, everybody's opinion of him would be completely different. I think Jordan Reed, who am I playing over Jordan Reed? Right. Yeah, no, it's a good question because people wanted, you know.

They wanted what Mike predicted, which was the best player that's ever played in the history of the world. Yes. And it's coming. Look, very few tight ends offer the upside potential of Jordan Reed. And so that's where you're buying into him still. And also Deshaun Jackson has... Oh, very good point. He has been not practicing, and Jay Gruden has said Friday will be a key in determining if Deshaun Jackson is actually going to play. So opportunities for Josh Doxon as a stream? Possible. I would, like...

I like Crowder. Crowder. Crowder. Crowder. It's pronounced Crowder. He's getting a ton of snaps. He's getting targets. He's getting goal line targets. Red zone targets. And he's talented. He's sneaky. He's sneaky. He's a sneaky snark. We're going to take a quick break to thank our sponsor of today's show, ZipRecruiter. Now, it is a nice thing when you do an ad. Like, you know, we had ZipRecruiter on a couple of months ago.

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He's, well, from, I guess, from the Brown's perspective, he's the best. Oh, man, the Browns. Poor Brown. Hey, you got the Cavs. The Raiders travel to Tennessee to take on the Titans over under 47 in this game. I'm pretty high on Marioita this week. I have him very, very high in the rankings as a top 10 guy, a streaming candidate, perhaps because the Raiders are the worst past defense in the league right now. That'd be one of the reasons. I mean, they.

have given up over 500 yards of offense in back-to-back weeks. Their games have been defined by, you know, shootout. And one of those quarterbacks was Matt Ryan. Right. So if you think Matt Ryan stinks, then you need to buy into Marriota against the Raiders. Okay. So a lot of fantasy owners are concerned about Latavius Murray. You mix in the fact that the Titans are, you know, right now a very good run defense.

What are your concerns with the volume? Because that's what it is. It's not efficiency with Murray. It's been volume issues. You've had Jalen Richard get carries. You've had DeAndre Washington get carries. I don't think that's going to stop. I mean, they invested a pick into Washington and he's been good. So what in the world do you do here? I'm still playing, Murray. I'm keeping the faith that he's a every week starter right now. I know that he got, he had some pretty solid volume in the passing game as well. Two picks for Joe Hayden last week, by the way. I apologize. Yeah, you should. I mean, he's great.

He's like, what, he has that same contract that Peterson and Sherman have. I mean, they all got it around the same time. Yeah. So he's great. Well, he was amazing. He's taking a step down. No, he had a great. Yeah, he's a lot of head problems. He had a concussion problem. Yeah, he was not as good with the concussion. You're right. Yeah, that's true. Proceed. But Latavius Murray last week, six receptions for 44 yards. So if, as long as Murray continues to be involved in the passing game, and I don't see a reason why they completely eliminate him from that.