Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Full Stream Ahead, Daily Dose, Matchups, News

All right, let's talk St. Louis Rams, Washington Redskins, everybody's matchup of the week. The Foles Cousins battle that we've all been dreaming of. This is right up there with Brady Manning. They're 1-0. The Rams are 1-0. Foles was okay last week. I mean, they beat a Seattle off. They beat Seattle, and they scored a lot of points to beat Seattle. So...

Is there anybody you're starting in this game from the St. Louis side? And tell us about the running back position because Mason should be back, Cunningham had a good week. That's the position that I think you're going to be starting this week. I think Trey Mason, all expectations are that he's going to be back and he's been practicing enough where I think he's going to get.

the workload. Benny Cunningham is going to go into the background. Trey Mason is definitely a startable player this week. He's pretty much the guy from both teams that I feel comfortable starting. I mean, Pierre Garson. I would start Pierre Garson this week. In PPR, I will start. And in DFS. Yeah. Because he's a good value. If you need another guy that could blow up. Yeah. I still think the Rams defense is going to dominate.

Washington. So I'm not excited. Like, I like Pierre Garcon going forward, especially while Deshaun Jackson is out, and he's going to get his. He's going to get, you know, five catches for, you know, 55 yards. So there is a good baseline there where you hope for something big, and if not, you end up with something. But I think the Rams are really going to shut them down. And seeing what they did to Seattle, I expect that...

Kirk Cousins is going to be looking at the sky a lot. And I agree with that. I think Kirk Cousins is going to be under duress, which is why I like Pira Gorson and Jordan Reed to take quick passes. Now, what do you guys do with Alfred Morris this week? I play Alfred Morris. Yeah. So Jason and I disagreed right there in case you missed it. I play Alvin Morris because he's...

You know, they have to take some of the pressure off of Cousins in a game where he's getting, you know, if you don't, if you can't establish the run, he'll be staring at this guy even more than Jason's anticipating. And for me, it's just, it's just going to be volume for Morris. And he, he tends to break off two or three 10-yard runs, you know, just against anybody. And the Dolphins defensive line, I mean, they added in Domican Sioux. Wait.

Last week when Washington played the Dolphins. And Alfred Morris ran all over them. That's fair. So I'm not, I think the Rams defensive line might be slightly better as a hold of their front seven. But that gives you some hope, at least if you're going to start off. So, Jason, people who have Morris are probably staring down decisions that are things like Morris Woodhead. Yeah, when it comes. Because it's going to be somebody they drafted later to start over Morris. Yeah, I was going to say that that.

A lot of people that have Alfred Morris are going to have to start them because they took them early. But if you ended up with a Danny Woodhead or an Amir Abdullah type of player, those are guys I would start. Let me ask you a few. Do you mind? Sure. Would you start Alfred Morris or Melvin Gordon? I would start Alfred Morris. Melvin Gordon's got an equally bad matchup. What about Doug Martin? That's tough. Is that the line kind of? That's where it is. And I think I would go Martin over Morris. David Johnson? David Johnson.

That's the answer. You wouldn't start David Johnson over Alfred Morris, would you? No way. No. I'm, yeah, no. Rashad Jennings? I really want to, though. I'm not a Rashad Jennings believer this year, so I think it would go. I would start Trey Mason over Alf. I was just curious. All right, let's talk C-Hack. Sea Hacks. Yeah, take that C-Hs. Yeah, Cardinal fan. We got you. The C-Hacks.

That's a good one. Did you see the tweet that Russell Wilson put out last week? The 1-0? The 1-0? Followed up by the Rams account. Followed up by the O-N-1. The Rams account tweeted and say, don't delete this. I kind of like it when team accounts troll players. Oh, I love it. Very entertaining. Just silly. All right. Seahawks and the Packers in Lambo, Russell, Aaron Rogers. Yeah, no kidding. That was the, what, the curse catch?

Yeah. And last year. In the Super Bowl in overtime? Last year in week one, Seattle dominated. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So Marshaun Lynch had an okay game last week. Fred Jackson got involved a little bit. Eddie Lacey, we like starting Lynch and Lacey, right? Yeah, you still have to start him. Yep. And what were your guys' impressions of the Jimmy Graham tenure in Seattle after week one? It was okay.

The coverage on the touchdown was just horrific. It wasn't like a typical Jimmy Graham has outbodied someone. So I'm not, I'm still not completely sold on the Jimmy Graham experiment up in Seattle. I mean, they decimated their offensive line to get him. I'm still sold on Jimmy Graham as.

what he looked like last week. I think if you compare him to a Greg Olson, to a Travis Kelsey, to me, I see them about the same. I think he's going to get looked at a lot in the red zone, but I do not compare him to Jimmy Graham of last year. But he's better to me than I would rather have a Jimmy Graham than a Martellus Bennett or the next tier of guys for sure. All right, let's talk about another name. Well, we'll go through two things here. I think this game has so many fantasy implications that we have to mention it. So let's start with the

wide receiver core of the Green Bay Packers. James Jones, Randall Cobb, Devante Adams, put him in order first, and then second of all, I read a stat about James Jones that he, in the last 24 games he's played with Aaron Rogers, he has 20 touchdowns. Yep, that's what he does is he scores touchdowns, and that's why he's...

he's so hard to start. I mean, last week, we have the overreaction, you know, because we saw two touchdowns. One of the biggest waiver guys. Four targets. Yep. Right? Yep. Four targets. That's what he got. So if you are doing the praying spray open for the touchdown, James Jones is a great option for that. But I'm still going to rank them. Devante Adams, who led the team in targets, then Cobb.

than James Jones. I'm going Cobb, Devante Adams, than James Jones. But I think that was well said on James Jones. He very well could get another touchdown this week or any week. It's just so hard to start a guy that isn't really used in the offense. It's like starting a tight end at your wide receiver position. And one quick moment. Do we need to talk about Tyler Lockett in the fantasy sphere?

If you get return yards, I like him. If you don't get return yards, I think from just an offense perspective, they just don't use wide receiver enough to make him valuable. His highest upside is capped for me because of the offense. He'll have big blow-up games. Now, if you get return yards, you can use them in a weekly basis because he's going to accumulate enough of a baseline. Dynamic player. Yeah, I agree that if anybody can do it as a wide receiver up in Seattle, it's lock it, but he's just, Jason's right. The offense.

holds him back so much from being a real fantasy producer. All right. Last game for our matchup section before we go to the interview section here. Did we skip the? Nope, we're going Jets and Colts. The Dolphins Jags. Oh, you're right. We got two. Let's go then. Dolphins and Jaguars here. Dolphins and Jaguars. Give me the cliff notes on this game. You're starting, I'm still starting Ryan Tannehill. I am super excited about Yeldon. I just want to say that.

Yeah. I want to see what Yelden does. I think Yelden looked great, and we saw Alfa last week, really take it to the Dolphins Front 7. So I like Yelden, and I actually like Yelden, a good bit this week. Does DeVante Parker do anything this week? No. It's still, Devante Parker is a hold. Yeah, I'm not dropping him if I have the room, because it's going to take some time for him to emerge. Will you be worried about Alan Robinson if you don't get a big game from him in week two?

I'm not going to be super worried about him yet. I don't expect him to have a good game in week two. I think that it's just a bad matchup. Don't you just start off worried about a Jaguar if you own one? Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think that his limitation is the Jaguar's offense, and it's going to be one of those matchup things where you need a good one. I don't think this is a real great matchup for him. The only guy that I'm really excited to see in this is my boy Lamar Miller get back on track. Yeah, the thing to watch is the play calling. Yeah, the pro.

The Dolphins, because it was ridiculous last week. Mike. Yes. What's the latest on Julius Thomas? The latest of Julius Thomas is still going to miss some weeks. And I just, I'm not holding Julius Thomas personally. I don't think he's... I'd rather hold Antonio Gates. I would much rather hold Antonio Gates than Julius Thomas. I don't think that Thomas is worth being a slug on your bench for the time that you have to hold him. That being said, if you've got an IR,

You can hold him without holding him, whereas... Yep. As opposed to a suspension. I'm just not... There's no suspension slot. But I agree with you. I think when he's back, he's not that great. At what point does ESPN add a suspension slide just because of the way... You know who can... Josh Gordon. NFL.com. Their I are. You can put suspended players in it. Oh, come on now. On NFL, you can, but not on ESPN. Support our suspended players. Oh, my goodness. All right.

That makes me want to talk about Daryl Washington, which is just unrelated to any of this stuff. But the Arizona Cardinals linebacker, what in the world? Do they just ignore his appeal? I mean, is he just not playing? I had honestly completely forgotten about D. He's a real player, like a pro bowler. And they just didn't respond to his appeal. Well, Roger Goodell. You do the things that DeWash did.

All right, Jets at Colts, our Monday night game, very excited about seeing this matchup because the Jets intrigue me with their coaching staff and their players. Ivory, obviously, has been a name we've talked up a lot, and I like the fact he gets workload that he's running kind of, he's like this year's Ingram to me, you know, where. Right. So far, he looks the part, he looked apart in preseason, and then he performed two touchdowns. I think he was the first Jets running back with two touchdowns in, like, an opening game and, like,

I don't know, since like the 30s or something weird. Factoid. Yeah, and I got it wrong. But Fitzpatrick. In factoid-ish. Fitzpatrick and Luck. Is Luck going to jump Monday night game? Is he back? Yeah, he's back. I don't love the matchup. And when I say he's back, I don't think he's back to being one of the best or second best of the week. But he's going to put up, you know, a couple touchdowns. So, Mike, we're going to pretend he puts up three.

Three? We're going to say Andrew Luck throws three. Okay. Who do they go to? Three touchdowns. They land in the arms of Moncrief, Moncrief, and Alan. That is so much Moncrief love. Yeah, yeah. So they don't land in the arms of Andre Johnson? Yeah, I'm just predicting. Okay, so Alan I can buy. Mike, give me the three names. I would spread it out. I would go with one for each, Alan.

Moncrief and Johnson. All right. Maybe Gore gets one. Yeah, I can see Gore getting one through there. Goodness sakes, Gore better do something. I'm going to start freaking out. It's another tough matchup. This is another guy where I'm looking to try to acquire Gore after this week. Just like last year, before the year we talked about Eddie Lacey was going to get off to a slow start those first three weeks and that you...

And you can trade for him afterwards. We were talking about that. Here's the one problem I have. And I have to mention it on the show. I told Mike about it yesterday. There have been rumors about a reunion between the Colts and Amad Bradshaw. That's true. Now, I'm not saying it's happening, but...

They do have a major depth issue at the running back position, which means bringing somebody and makes sense unless you just want to run Josh Robinson as your only running back. And they've had so many problems with depth at running back. So I think there's a realistic chance they would bring Bradshaw back in the next few weeks. And if they did that, I would be very concerned about Frank Gore because Bradshaw is productive when he plays football. And he goes immediately in. He goes immediately in. He goes right in. He becomes the third down guy immediately, in my opinion. Now, let's...

Let's take a look at just an interesting hypothetical I'm thinking over here. Carson Palmer has a huge game. Another huge game against the Bears. Andrew Luck has a... Stinker. Has a stinker. The trade sounds insane right now. But I would offer Carson Palmer for Andrew. No, you would not.