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

Oh, you would offer it. I would send that trade to the luck owner. You about freak me out. No, no. I don't want, you would get a middle finger back. No, you would. From you guys, but I'm telling you. Yeah, there might be someone you can take advantage of. So anybody else that jumps out, I mean, Decker and Marshall both had touchdowns last week. They have a very capable receiving core and a very good defense. I think this is going to be a very fun Monday night game. Yeah, I'm excited for this one. Love Brandon Marshall. I think he's an every week start. I have found myself this year because of

our fantasy predictions being a huge Jets fan. That's funny. I just really rooting for him. Well, in part, Todd Bowles. Yeah, maybe. Ryan, Fitzpatrick, Fitzmagic is another one of those low percentage-owned players who is a solid streaming. I agree. We're going to talk about that in a moment in the full stream ahead section. But right now, we're going to visit with Chris Meena of the Fantasy Sports Network and talk a little bit of daily fantasy sports.

The Daily Does. All right, the fantasy footballers are excited to welcome in Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network yet again. We're going to talk some DFS. Chris, how you doing? Not bad, guys. Thanks for having you on. Well, we're happy to have you back. It was a fun week one for the DFS world. Give me some of your impressions after week one. Who are some guys that stood out to you and who were the winners in week one?

Obviously, Carlos Hyde on Monday night really stood out for me. This is a guy that I think if you were playing a Monday contest, and you could also, you know, you can play just a Monday night contest on Fandall, and I think I know I was part of that, and I was back and forth, you know, I want Adrian Peterson, I want to Marco Murray.

And here it was Carlos Hyde, who had 31.2 fandal points. It just, like, went off with 168 yards. I didn't see that coming. Now, Carlos Hyde was actually pretty good last year when he had some carries, four yards for carry, right? So, I mean, this kind of came out of nowhere, but I think if you had Carlos Hyde in your lineup, you were obviously very successful. Julio Jones, again, very successful, 30.6 points. That was from another Monday night as well. The Philly stack didn't really work out as I thought it would work out.

It's still, I didn't think Bradford would throw that much as well. He didn't find the end zone as much as I would like him to, and he's still a nice value price for this week. But I think, I mean, Carlos Hyde and Julio Jones fantastic last week. Travis Kelsey as a tight end was really good as well. So I think if you had any of those guys, you were really, you were in good shape. Even Matt Forte, 25.1 points, a solid play.

And again, even if you didn't have Kelsey, maybe you had Ifer. So Eifford was pretty solid, too. I saw a lot of people that had Eiford in their lineups, they cashed. I was going to ask you about Bradford this week because I thought he was a good value as well. I also was sadden because last week if you had Bradford or Jordan Matthews, we were furious they didn't throw the red flag on that pass.

to Matthews because that would have made a huge difference for fantasy owners. I suppose if you had Matthews, it was kind of the opposite. You were really excited and happy. So let's talk about some value players because everyone, if you're going to cash big time in the grand prize tournaments, you need to have these sleeper low-cost guys to pad your bench. Are there any value players who you are targeting this week? Well, it's funny. I actually have...

a lineup in right now that I just love, and I don't, like, Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, and Jordan Matthews are my three widows. Now, Antonio Brown is 9-2, Julio Jones is 8-8. Jordan Matthews is 7, and I still think at his price, it hasn't really jumped up. Last week, he was 6'5. We saw what Bradford was able to do with Jordan Matthews, you know, over just over 100, Jared. You guys touched on it. That would have been a touchdown. He would have found the end zone. He would have ended up with over 20 fandual points.

That would have been great value at 6-5. I still think at 7, it's great value. I think what we saw in week one with Jordan Matthews is what we're going to see every single week. This guy's a mismatch. He's lining up in the slot. He's a huge body. Philadelphia's going to run a lot of plays this week, or this year, not just this week. I think he's going to get double-digit targets almost every single game. I think the same for Julio Jones. I think the same for Antonio Brown. I think all three of those guys are going to get double-digit targets.

Now, to fill out the rest of my lineup, I needed some value. Again, Sam Bradford is still another nice play. Seven-five. His price hasn't changed. So he's still seven-five. I also think that I could go Carson Palmer. I think Palmer is a good match, but seven-eight. All this guy's done, since he's healthy, he score at least two touchdowns, dating back to last season. He gets at least two touchdowns. Last week, he had over 300 yards and some scores.

He was also a nice play, and he's only 7-8 in Chicago, not a great secondary. So I like that. Those two quarterbacks, I think there's some value to be had there. And even with those three wide receivers, I can plug in Bradford, I can plug in Palmer.

You've got to go a little bit cheaper. Danny Woodhead is 6-2. What are we hearing about Danny Woodhead lead? That this guy's actually going to get some goal-line carry? Sure, fine. Let's ride it out and see how it's going to happen. Also, you've got to remember that you get half a point for a catch. Danny Woodhead could catch. He's getting some passes. He's catching in the backfield. It's not a bad price at 6-2. I love Ivory at 6-9 as a running back as well in Indianapolis. Not a strong running defense, but we saw from Ivory in week one that he got a lot of play. And that's what I'm looking for. Guys, they're going to get a lot of targets.

A lot of plays, can catch in the backfield. And then my tight end is Jordan Reed at $5,000. As long as Jordan Reed is healthy, and he is right now, he's a strong play. He's not somebody that I was targeting in drafts, annual leagues, redraft leagues, but he's somebody that I just love in DFS. It's much like Aaron Foster, I talked to you guys last week, is that when he's healthy, you can play this guy. And Jordan Reed at $5,000 and $11 targets last week is not a bad play for this week as well against St. Louis.

So for those listeners who are newer to daily and maybe they haven't played yet and they're thinking about playing, you're mentioning the different price ranges. Give us that price range of what a wide receiver one normally is or what a real true sleeper is. What kind of numbers are regular for the guys that are being bought a lot or the guys that are sleepers?

you know, so that we can understand when you say a guy's 5,000, is that a great deal or is that just, you know, average? So it is a good deal. So basically for guys that are new, you have $60,000 to spend. You need a quarterback, you need two backs, three wide-outs, a tight end, a kicker, N&D. So that's an average of $6,667. So your top quarterback, you're looking at the board here, your top quarterback is Aaron Rogers at 9-3. Then it goes down to luck at 8-9.

Breeze at 8-9, Matt Ryan at 8-7. All these guys really have good matchups. I mean, Aaron Rogers' matchups not the best. There's some bodies missing in Seattle's defense, so it's okay. Andrew Luck at 8-9, Drew Breeze at 8-9, Matt Ryan at 8-7. You're paying for them. I think it's an okay price. But what you get down, if you can find a quarterback that's below $8,000, I really feel like there's some value there. So San Bradford, again, at 7-5, Carson Palmer at 7-8.

There's some value to be had there. Even, I don't love it, Andy Dalton at 6'9, it's more of a contrarian play. So if you're going to play in big, big tournaments, you kind of want to be a little bit different. I mentioned I have those three wide oats. Julio Jones, Antonio Brown, and Jordan Matthews, actually expect those guys to be heavily owned. If I want to go into a big tournament with thousands and thousands of people, I kind of want to maybe not pick those guys, maybe just have two of the three.

And if you're playing in a cash game, a head-to-head of 50-50 with a smaller pool of people, you want to pick your best roster. You're not looking for long shots. So again, maybe I wanted in a big tournament, maybe I will go Andy Dalton. Why not at home? I'm trying to think that people will not play him. Maybe not a lot of people will plug in Andy Dalton. Maybe not a lot of people will plug in Brennan Cooks. I mean, I'm getting questions on Twitter. Should I drop Brennan Cooks?

No, you shouldn't drop Brennan Cooks. I mean, he had one bad week, right? Yeah, the overreaction Monday. We get it all the time. So I think that Brennan Cooks may be a strong play, and he's got a great matchup. It's 7-4. I think any wide receiver that's in the 7 mark is really, really nice because the average that you spend, as I mentioned, is just shy of $7,000. So you can make up some ground by getting a short guy. That's why I think Jordan Matthews is $7,000.

Again, it's a nice play. I like Jarvis Landry at 7-1. I think he's going to get a lot of targets as well. Let me ask you something, because I was running into this in some lineup building, especially in the big tournaments. Like you said, you don't want to pick everybody that everybody else is picking. You're just going to be lost in kind of the mire of everybody having those guys perform or underperform. But let me ask you this. As you build your rosters, there were times when I would put people together, and is it always important in your mind to maximize

the 60,000, or have you built rosters that are falling just short because you like the values and you like the ability for these guys playing? I mean, there are some players this week that I think Terrence Williams at 6300, John Brown at 6200, lineups that you build and you might end up 1,000 or 2,000 short. I mean, do you always go back to the drawing board and then move guys up based on the Fandual pricing, or do you just kind of go with who you think is going to succeed even if you end up $1,000 or $2,000 short? Yeah, that's a fantastic question.

And guys have come in here all the time in the fandle show, whether it's football, baseball, hockey, basketball, and they're just like, oh, wow, I left like $800 off the board. But I like this lineup, so I went back into tinker with it. If you like the lineup, you like it, you've got to roll with it. You don't have to spend all the 60, and you don't need to feel like, you know, you're kind of cheating by not spending the 60. Ah, man, I wish, maybe I should have spent the extra thousand. If you like these guys...

And the lineup I told you before with, you know, those three wideouts, I still left $600 off the board. I just, it is what it is. I didn't want to do it. So you're right. I mean, you get your Terrence Williams at 6-3. That's a fantastic play today, this weekend. I mean, he's the number one guy. Oh, though it does, right? And Dante Moncrief, he got a double-digit targets last week. He's $6,000. I expect the Colts after going into Buffalo, and really the offense is stalling against a great defense. No disrespect to the Jets defense. They are missing Carmardi most likely, but...

you know what, Andy's probably going to put up some points at home. I need to luck, maybe mad. So it's okay to, it's okay to leave some money off the board. You don't really need to feel like you're wasting your picks. Yeah, that's a hard, uh, yeah, that can be a hard mental thing to do when you see that because you think you need to maximize, but you're really, I mean, just like in regular, regular fantasy football, not daily, um, it's not, you know, when you think about drafting.

Right? Before the season, it's not always about, okay, I just need to take, you know, you imagine drafting on ESPN, you see the board that they put out. You're not always, you know, these values are set by guys predicting positions the same way a draft would predict positions. So I appreciate that perspective. And we thank you very much for coming on the show and giving our listeners some more insight into DFS for Week 2 and some values. And I think we got a lot of valuable daily information today. So thank you very much, Chris. Appreciate it.

I'm going to go get a bunch of Jordan Reed. Anytime. I really appreciate you guys have me on. And again, for people that are just new and you have any questions, any DFS questions, don't be afraid to hit me up on Twitter at Chris Meaney. I'll be sure to help out best I can. And good luck to everybody playing. Awesome. Thank you so much, Chris. All right. Cheers, guys. All right. Thank you, Chris, for joining us and talking some daily fantasy. I think, I mean, I'm very excited for week two and to see what we have in store.

The last segment... And don't forget, go to fandual.com and use our promo code, ballers. Ballers. Ballers. That's just too fun to say. I actually, I was looking on one of those fan threads, and there were a lot of people who wrote, Dollar. Ballers. That's funny. But yes, click the microphone and use promo code Ballers. All right. It's time for full stream ahead, guys. Yeah. All right, so talk to us about this section, Mike.

All right, so here's what we're going to do here because we like streaming guys. Now, the ultimate stream guy this week is still Carson Palmer. He's not owned in every single league. I believe he's owned around 64% in ESPN the last time I looked. So I'm telling you right away, he's the number one option for me this week you go to. In terms of streaming quarterback. Yes, but for our particular game that we are going to play.

I'm trying to look at guys who are owned at sub 60%. So these guys are available 40% of leagues, which is, to me, a high amount. So this week, guys, I'm looking at possibly streaming. Andy Dalton at home, it's a matchup against San Diego. Joe Flacko has a great matchup on the, but he does have to travel over to the West Coast against Oakland. Jake Cutler?