Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 11 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, News

He has not been used. He's been more of a decoy. And it's lingering. I mean, that hamstring isn't going away. So I'm steering clear of John Brown. If Michael Floyd is in the lineup, I would start him. If John Brown is in the lineup, I'm pretty much, I'm not starting John Brown under any circumstance this week. If both guys are out, Gerard Brown becomes an absolute fantasy starter.

If both of those guys are out in a game like this on private time... So you would start Jerome Brown. Yeah. If those two guys are out, you're talking about the number two on a high passing offense. Why in the world would you not start him? You've seen this year he can make big plays. He's looked great. So if he's going to be the number two... And by this year, you mean... His only year. Sunday. No, it's not his only year. He's been on the team for three years.

John Brown's been with the Cardinals for a while. That being said, last game was really the only game of relevance because we saw the injury to Floyd and Brown wasn't doing anything. Let's move on here. Bears coach John Fox says the running back rotation will be tricky once Matt Forte returns. Uh-oh. This is concerning for one fantasy player, and that is the player that owns them both. Because...

I guess it's concerning for more than that. But that is the biggest concern because you kind of want the bell cow in a good situation where the running backs been producing all year. Langford comes in, gives you two great games. Forte gave you great games before that. And now if they're sharing, you know, if it's 75, 25, 25. Just take some value away from Forte. It does. It takes some value away. And we don't really know when he's going to return. Even the context of when he said that, maybe that means a couple more weeks off for Forte. So we don't really know. John Fox is the worst.

Well said, Andy. Very astute. And then we talked about Alshan Jeffrey with, or we didn't yet. Alshan is listed on the injury report. Groin and shoulder injuries. Earlier this year, he had calf and hamstring injuries. Uh-oh. Yeah, he's not healthy. We saw last game the combination of that health with a healthy defense across the field in the Rams.

He didn't get a lot of use. And so all of a sudden this week, we've got a similar situation. We've got a guy who has shown some true injuries this year, missing games, hampered in games. Now he's going up against the Broncos. You know, they get a keep to leave back from suspension. To me, he is a guy that you can, you can.

sit if you've got the luxury. If you have other good options, I don't look at Alshan Jeffrey and go, well, he's the number one. He's going to have to get at least six catches. I mean, I would not be surprised if he has six for 75, but I'm not surprised at all if he has three for 23 this game. If he kills you. Right. And so I am willing to, you know, I know I have the luxury on my personal team, but I am benching Alshon Jeffrey this week. You know, I've got...

Randall Cobb and Mike Evans ahead of... Guys that you prefer over the risk that is Alshan Jeffrey in this game. Yep, exactly. All right, so a couple other notes. You know, the Titans game is tonight. David Cobb is active and should get some carries. Do we expect him to be the long-term guy? I mean, a couple weeks from now, will he have relevance?

That's what you're watching for tonight. I don't think that we can have any expectation. Is there a coming on party for him? I don't think it will. I don't think it'll happen tonight. The Jaguars Rundi is surprisingly decent when you talk about yards per carry and what they give up. Yeah, they're a little enigmatic because they're great against the run statistically like you're saying. But fantasy-wise, they've actually given up quite a bit to the running back. Right. But put it this way. Let's say Cobb comes in and has 10 carries for,

10 yards, but he gets a touchdown. Are you excited about that? Do you go into the next week thinking, ooh, Cobb's the guy? Probably not. Yeah, at least he's got youth on his side, but yeah, you're right, because Antonio Andrews is being used. He had a bad week last week. Kind of a mess. It's kind of the same thing for the Titans. Stay away from the running backs. Carlos High didn't practice. Do you think he'll play? No.

No, I don't think he'll play. He hasn't played in a while. He shouldn't play. He's got a serious injury, and so Sean Drone, and this is not a good matchup, so you're going to stay away from whoever's. Seahawks. Yeah, the Seahawks in Seattle. You just, this is keep Carlos Hyden on your bench or in your IR spot, and don't worry about his backup. And last bit of news, but very relevant tonight. Yeldon's been out of practice a couple games, but he's listed as questionable, T. J. Eldon. He says he'll play.

And the expectations that he'll play. He's played at less than 100% this year. Do you expect that to happen? Yeah, I expect him to play because of like what you said. You've seen it this year. He is very confident that he's very confident that he's going to play, which you like to hear from a player, even though you're like, what else do you expect? You still like to hear that. So I think he plays. If you're in one of those open waiver leagues where you have the opportunity to sign anyone right up to game time.

If he doesn't play, Denard Robinson should be a pretty good option, I think. To stream in a desperate situation? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. There's a lot of desperate situations. There are. There are. So before we get into the fantasy forecast, we look at the Thursday night game, we walk through the other six matchups of the week. I want to make sure we thank our sponsor today. We've got a couple of them for the show today. Fan duel. Listen, how's your fantasy team doing? Hopefully very well. Hopefully you're doing well.

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Yes, you'll be ready, all right. All right, let's get into the matchups. Let's start with the Thursday night barn burner. The Titans at the Jags. You know, what's funny is it's hard to adjust your mind to look at the Jaguars differently than you have for five consecutive years in the sense that, yes, this is not a barn burner tonight. But you do have a matchup with a rookie. You know, you get to go see Mariotta.

You get to see an offense has been somewhat prolific with Bortles and Robinson and Hearns. They've done things that they hadn't done in the past. So, you know, all the jokes being made, I think the Jaguars are wearing gold uniforms head to toe. Yeah. Oh, is this one of those color rush games? Yeah. Oh, I'm looking forward to that. So, no worries about the weather in this one, although, you know, some, maybe a drizzle. Maybe a drizzle. Maybe a drizzle. Mariotto Bortles. Do you start either guy?

Yeah, I think Bortals is a fine start. With his weapons, what he's been doing on the year, the defense is an okay, you know, average middle of the pack kind of...

past defense. Bortals is an absolute fine start. If you've got him, I got no problem starting him. I don't expect him to have a giant game. Like I was telling Andy, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a little lower scoring. Being that it's a Thursday, it's a short week, you've got some injury concerns on the offense on the Titans side, which will just help keep the score lower. But Bortles is an absolutely fine play. Marriota, if you're in a two-quarterback league, you know, he could put up some stuff. The problem there,

For me is that Kendall Wright is gone. So, yeah, maybe Doreal Green Beckham steps up this week. You have Bortles, just for the record. You have them ranked number six. You have them ahead of Car, Palmer. You haven't had a Palmer. Crazy. Well, you've got some injuries on the Cardinals' weapons. You've got them going up against a very good pass defense in the Bengals. I don't expect the Bengals of last week to be. I mean, even the Bengals that imploded last week,

Their defense was incredible. We both have Bortles at six, actually. There you go. And then I have, we both have Marioita inside the top ten this week, believe it or not. I think because of the matchup, and because Marioita is coming off not a great game, but then the game before that, he had like four touchdowns. So he's kind of going to do that. He's going to rubber band a little bit, but I think he's streamable.

All right, running backs, we already kind of talked about both these situations, so I don't think we have to linger too much, but Antonio Andrews and maybe David Cobb gets some snaps, and then you got T.J. Eldon on the other side, who is an absolute start, assuming he's healthy. Yeah. And by healthy, I mean active. Yeah, I agree. All right. Wide receiver-wise, Jason just mentioned him. He's a guy that I am streaming this week. I have him in my lineup right now over Marvin Jones.

Oh, you do. And over Kamar Aiken. Well, I don't blame you there. The Marvin Jones thing is questionable, but tell the listeners. Well, Doreal Greenbeckham. There you have. I am going to play him. You are going to. Is that official? I don't want to. No, make it official. I don't want to lock it in at 9 a.m. I might change my mind. Well, you got to tweet out what you do. But he is in there right now. And he's a situation where it's happened before. He's a streamable guy tonight. No Kindle Wright?