Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 6 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

But when it hits. Yeah, it hits very large. Yeah, yeah, he'll win your week. Golden Tate, I almost signed him. I almost signed him on Sunday morning. Oh, could have should have. Saw him on the waiver wire, eight for 165 and a touchdown. Back in business for the year? You know what is interesting there? I think he benefited. He had a couple downfield targets, but he's had that all year long. He looked like he had his mojo going, but they were.

They usually throw a ton of balls to the running back. And without Theoretic there, Justin Fawcett was not very involved. Zach Zinner was the lead back and he was not very involved in the passing game. The receptions, I think that he benefited from the absence of Theoretic with extra targets and in situations like that. I think you're absolutely right. Terrell Pryor, two touchdowns, nine for 75. This dude is a beast, man. When I watched how terrible.

the throws were that he had to catch. I mean, he has some wide, like, there was, there was an important fourth and five or something near the end of the game where they ran this, they sell out to run, and just to buy open a one-on-one situation with Terrell Pryor. And they get him wide open, wide open in the middle of the field. And Cody Kessler runs around and throws it directly into double, he forces him to move into double coverage.

But then Terrell Pryor just goes up over the top of the guys and grabs it. He's a beast. And so when you've got a guy that's got that kind of freakish athleticism, you're safer in some of these situations. What is the impact of McCown and Corey Coleman's return? Because to me, I don't buy into Pryor losing value with Coleman. I mean, if the offense is improved, look, you still had this monster game from Pryor, but he only had 75 yards and they lost. And a lot of this was last ditch effort here.

What is your thought, Mike, on Coleman and McCown? McCown, I think, improves Troll Prior. I love Josh McCown as my fan. When I have a wide receiver, and Josh McCown is throwing the ball, I love it, because he just throws it up, and he's a much better quarterback than Kessler. We know that McCown has a monster strong arm, so I don't think Prior loses value. Coleman, he had the one big game. I totally get it, but he's still a rookie.

This missed time is not going to help that out. So I'm fine still with Prior to 40. The only thing that I would say is we've only seen one game with both of those guys there with Josh McCown and Corey Coleman there. Corey Coleman had a monstrous huge game. In that game, Terrell Pryor was 3 for 32 and no touchdowns. So on the heels of this monster game and with Terrell Pryor being really good, if you can get top value for him in a trade personally because I...

I think things aren't going. Right now, he is the center piece of that offense, and there is just no other option. There will be other options as the season goes on, so I'm willing to look at moving him. All right. Kendall Wright had a big game. We'll talk about Cole Beasley, by the way, in a minute as well. He was one of our stud muffins of the week. Julio Jones, Kendall Wright, last two names on my list here. Monster game from Kendall Wright. He only played.

a limited amount of snaps in this game. It was very low. It was a very low amount of snaps. He was 8 for 133 in a touch. So you're saying you're not buying into Kendall Wright moving forward? Well, I'm just saying the potential for outlier is there because of the matchup, right? We just talked about the fact that the Browns are a sieve. And because of the very limited, you know, you had Delaney Walker.

basically did nothing. You had a complete goose, I believe, from Tajay Sharp. Walker. And you didn't have right on the field very much. I'm not saying he can't be something, but between the injury history and the low snap count, I'm just kind of throwing it up there as the outlier week for now.

Could be. You could also argue that his low snap percentage is because he's been coming off of injury and it's going to continue to ascend. And if he ends up playing, you know, 70, 80% of snaps that he would be what we had hoped Taj Sharp could be. And we've seen it in the past from Kindle Wright. So it could be an outlier worth at least just keeping your eyes on. Right. Right was banged up on that touchdown catch. If you happen to see it, he, because he had to go up to get it and landed really hard. Has he ever not been banged up on a plane? Yeah, I'm.

The scale is heavily tipped on the outlier side for me, only because Andre Johnson, Richard Matthews, Tajay Sharp, Delaney Walker, and DeMarco Murray on an offense that just doesn't pass the ball a lot. Sure. We'll see. We'll see. Running backs, Shady, the slippery fish. A slippery fish. Man, he's good. He was going downstream.

this this right wasn't swimming upstream he was just going you know super fast i wasn't watching uh that game and i keep getting these texts and it's like oh you know the sean mccoy going crazy going buck nasty as as mike would say because he was and then i get a message that his season's over well it was i believe in fact i said shady mccoy's dead and then well well because he went down in a heap the helmet was off immediately he was clutching at the knee

And the play itself looked pretty bad. Yeah, he runs right into the knee, bends it sideways. He, but he went full Paul Pierce on us where this was a catastrophic injury. Everybody, I'm talking, all of Twitter was, oh, crap. Like, shit, he was tearing it up, went down, goes off to the side. He's, he's able to kind of walk gingerly off. They starts doing drills on the side. What is?

What is happening right now? And then he went back in the game. It was torn up some more. And scored again. So it was ridiculous for 140 and 3. Everybody saw this coming. Jayadjai, 25 for 204 yards and two touchdowns. Also, nobody saw that coming. Shout out to our man, our production manager, Brooks, who I had to play this week.

who played J. Ajaii, so he saw it coming. And I had to deal with that nonsense. I will say on the scope, I was asked directly, do you have concerns about Arian Foss's workload? Not really. I mean, I feel like they awaited for him to come back. He's not going to come back until he's healthy. The team has shown, Adam Gates has shown over weeks that he does not care for J. Jai's play.

And then Ajai was the guy. So that I got three carries. I for many apologies for that. Three carries for Foster, 25 for Ajai. And they won at home against Pittsburgh. And Pittsburgh is the NFL. Pittsburgh is a solid run D too. I mean, it was very bizarre. So let's say J. J. Jaii moving forward. Jaii moving forward is, uh, is one of many running backs on the team. Yeah. I'm not expecting. You don't, you're not saying he's the starting running back. No, I'm no. No.

Interesting. He has not won me over with that performance. It was a very good performance. I need to see it again. If he's on waivers and I have people are going to have to make the decision this week. I mean, I would stash him on your bench. See what happens. I mean, I'm not going to start him next week. Now, Terrence West was 23 for 87 and two touchdowns, four for 36 in the air. Javoria Salon had absolutely zero touches and Dixon was very limited. Terrence West at this point.

We need to have a conversation about him for fantasy owners. Is he a running back to the rest of the season? At least. Is he a one? Maybe. I think he's a high-end two. They seem very committed to him now. And he looks fantastic. He looks great. I mean, four, now with him in the passing game, four receptions, he's a weekly start. Talk about turning your career around. Yeah. All you got to do is get out of Cleveland. Would you rather have Terrence West or Jonathan Stewart rest of season?

Ooh. Both of them had two touchdowns this week. I'll still go with Stewart. I think I will as well. The injury concern would be the only reason. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Stewart, they just, historically, back in the DeAngelo Williams Day, Stewart was used a ton in the passing game. They do that. They don't do it at all now. Fuzzy Whitaker comes in for those passing downs at times. Stewart had zero catches this week. That's the only thing that's kind of frustrating about being a Stewart owner is you need goal line carries.

Or he doesn't give you. And Cam Newton's siph as those frequently. Well, and I brought this up to Jason this week. Talking through this, I think, because it's close. But I think Terrence West would be the better player to own. Interesting. Because, you know, I've said this for a long time, that those Cam vulture touchdowns, they really limit Jonathan Stewart. And if Jonathan Stewart's mostly just a between the 20s guy, Terence West is used in more situations. It's close. I'll say that. At the very least, I'm 50-50 on that.

What I said to you this week came to fruition. They got on the goal line, and the number, Jonathan Stewart's number was called. Yeah, because you said that the worries over the concussion, they weren't going to call Cam as much around the goal line. That's fair. Yeah. I think that they were going to want to keep him a little safer. If you've got to, and then if Stewart succeeds doing that, which he did this week, that changes the equation. So how does their coaching change with Cam now that they're one in five and firmly out of the playoffs? Do they continue to? I wouldn't call them firmly out of the playoffs. I just did. All right.

They, uh, look, did you see Cam walk out of the, he walked out of the press conference again, and he was moping. And next question, next question. Look, it's tough. You see, when a guy is braggadocious and has so much bravado and celebration, people want to see the other side. And look, he looked like the Super Bowl loss. He was not happy, walked out of the equation. I think he's good enough to get everything back on track. I'm personally.

in the market for cam newton i mean that's kind of my mindset because i think he just i mean look he's still in this loss but up he's 24 27 for 47 for 3 22 and 2 um and a two point conversion so it's tough so we talked about terence west um james white had a monster game through the air 8 for 47 and 2 through the air he's a must uh a must start every week in any ppr format you know what is he in a standardly a three

A flex? Yeah, it's definitely lower. The question for him, we have time. So maybe this conversation is a bit premature, but the Dionne Lewis factor of, or do they maybe to the Patriots say, okay, James White is playing great. We don't rush Dean Lewis back. We let him take the season off. We're going to have a lot more information this week because Dionne Lewis should now be eligible to practice. Sure. And so we'll see whether or not he is. We'll push that forward. Yeah. Yeah, that's.

That's one of those things as a fantasy owner. You don't want to overreact to the future. And I've noticed that with the way I'm thinking about Jordan Howard. Jordan Howard was somebody that I was like, well, he's got a buy week and a couple tough matchups coming up. So maybe I need to go sell them. But it's like when your workload is heavy. There's very few guys with that. Yeah. So I just think you can't overreact there. All right. I'm going to give you some other names. Talk about who you want to talk about. Spencer Ware, Lamar Miller.

Finally. Yeah. Goodness. I got, I got half of them. I called for an Alshan TD. We almost got there. Christine Michael. Kristen Michael could have had three touchdowns. He wasn't getting checked for a concussion. Matt Jones and Ezekiel Elliott. Matt Jones. 16 for 135? He looked pretty good. So fast. Matt Jones. The curious case of Matt Jones. I don't know. Do you want to? No. I think, well, you know what? No, no, no, no. It's week five.

It's week. Yeah. And you have been wronged five times. Not five times because Matt Jones has had some bad games. But let's, let's give it a couple more weeks. If he's, if he's good for a couple more weeks, oh, he'll get one. You will need to apologize to Matt Jones. It might be too late. Lamar Miller finally, finally delivered on the promise of this season, 24 for 149 and one, three for 29 and a touchdown through the air. And then Spencer Ware had a monster game broke his, uh, I believe his yardage.

Mark for his career 24 for 131 and 1 in that rainy day against the Oakland Raiders defense. Jamal Charles was good. He scored. I believe Ware this week out touched him two to one. Yes. We were having a heated debate before the show about Ware and Charles. And I think it has to be brought up because fantasy owners.

Want to know what to do. They want to know what do they do with these guys. And look, it sounds like you're going to have to side with myself or with Jason. No. I don't think that's true because here's what I'm doing with both of those guys personally. I'm willing to buy both of those guys. I don't think that Jamal Charles is not worth owning. But what I had been saying beforehand is, you know, I was almost tempted to make Spencer wear my rising star of the week because.

You know, look, once Jamal Charles is back, Spencer Ware is worthless has been the narrative in my brain. That's been like coming into the season. And the public's brain as well. Yeah, sure. I think that's what people think. And what I am starting to realize, how slow they've brought Jamal Charles back, how good Spencer Ware has been for them on the season, how important to that team, the past where they used to have Jamal Charles really, you know, infuriatingly. Who was the other running back there? Thomas. Michael Thomas? No. Oh, oh, Tom.