Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Trade/Cut + Christine Michael Interview

I have a hard time seeing him. Look, they like West and Forset. They like West and Forset. They do. I completely agree with Andy on this one. It's, Dixon is going to have to go completely gangbusters in order to steal enough of the volume to be relevant. I do think that he becomes the starter this year.

But I worry that that doesn't just mean he gets everything. They still have Justin Fawcett. They still have Terrence West. So I'll go Jordan Howard here as well. Before the year, though, we would have said, hey, they like Buck Allen. Yeah, they do not. Clearly. That question was, oh, this question, I thought it was from Doug Martin. It's from Beau. It's about Doug Martin. Should I be worried about him losing his job or losing a lot of carries to Sims when he returns? Nope. I'd like to answer this one. Sure. With that answer.

Nope, and by a lot. The difference between them on the field, all you have to do is open your eyes. They are completely different players. When I watch Doug Martin, I see an NFL upper echelon running back. When I watch Charles Sims, I see an okay between the tackles upright, not fast to the outside, not the moves that Doug Martin displays on a weekly basis. I was affirmed to that by watching the game this past weekend that I am, I'd be buying Doug Martin.

for his return. I can agree that when Martin comes back, he would be the primary ball carry. But I'm going to add this caveat into this question of should I be concerned when? Because I will say when slash if Doug Martin has struggled, struggled in his entire career with injuries. We know that a hamstring injury can sometimes be an entire season destroyer. So I'm just throwing out that word of caution for if you want to buy Doug Martin, understand the risks that you're buying into it. Doug Martin, Jamal Charles, rest of the season.

Doug Martin. I'll take Jamal. Before we move on from Doug Martin, I would be doing a disservice if I did not mention this as much as I hate to mention it in front of you, too. I've been trying to get Doug Martin in our league. We have an IR spot, so it doesn't hurt the bench too much to have a guy thrown on IR while we wait for him. His playoff schedule. We've already talked about this because I said I grabbed Winston because of the playoffs. In weeks 14, the New Orleans Saints.

In week 16, the New Orleans Saints. I was going to say, do you get double Saints? Oh, in the playoffs. Double in the playoffs. Playoffs. Well, some people need to be worrying about making the playoffs. True. Yes. He is not for all trade partners. Trey in Chicago. He jumped the gun on Gronk this past weekend, and it caused him to suffer his first loss. I think we said on the show, look, if Gronk's active, you're going to play him, and it didn't work out this week. But I still abide by that because...

Of the barfiness of tight ends. But read his backup. He said, do you think Gronk will have a similar role in this week's matchup? And his backup is Dennis Pitta against Oakland. I start Rob Gronkowski again. I start Dennis Pitta. I can tell you right now, he's going to be my start of the week. He's got Oakland at home. Already claimed him.

No, I'm just kidding. Oakland at home, I think that you could do a lot worse. And with Gronk, look, Gronks. Who's throwing him the ball? Gronk's ceiling might be higher, but if I'm Bill Belichick, seeing how little they used to him. How little they used him last week. That makes a pretty big difference, whether it's Brissette or Garoppolo. And the news this morning was Garapolo still does not have full range of motion in his arm. Ah, you don't need that. Just saying, so it's not for Gronk. I think it'll be Jacoby Beef Brisket, Brissette.

Jacoby Beef Briscuit Brissette. I think it's just beef brisette. All right. We'll have to work that out. Don't worry. It won't be a relevant nickname for long. All right. Here's a question, a trade question from Kevin in Texas. Offered a trade for Tom Brady and Brandon Marshall and Dan Bailey for Carlos Hyde Emmanuel Sanders.

And digs. And digs. Oh, okay. That changes it a lot. Hide Sanders Diggs for Brady, Marshall, Bailey. Hide Sanders Diggs. Now, I'll say in our league of record, I just traded Brandon Marshall in a fifth round pick for Mr. Emmanuel Sanders in a second round pick because I don't like Marshall's schedule and I need some wins in the next four or five weeks. So I went with Sanders in the pick. I think Sanders, the squeaky wheel, I think he gets enough attention. And I think, you know,

There was a question earlier about Key Trade Cut on Demarius Thomas. Thomas is performing fine as Simeon learns how to play quarterback. To me, the upside of these guys, I don't think there's more downside. I think you've seen the worst you're going to get from them. That's my opinion on the two wide receivers in Denver. Now, I agree there are going to be games in which it's just defense and running game that win it. But they're two of the best in the game. They get open. They make it easy on Simeon. Between...

Sanders and Diggs. If you say Sanders and Diggs for Brandon Marshall, that's a little bit team dependent, but you've got, you can play matchups with Sanders and Diggs. You're losing the Denver Broncos, but I think the big important piece here is you're losing a starting running back in Carlos Hyde, and you're not getting a running back back. It takes a very rare team this season that can withstand losing a starting running back and not getting one back because there are very few.

reliable-ish starting running backs this season. I would probably take the Carlos Hyde, Denver Broncos, Diggs and Sanders side of this. Mike, let's go to Alex in Portland. Who has more long-term value as a flex play? Terrell Pryor or Jordan Howard? Ooh, that's an interesting question. I think I would, I lean Jordan Howard, but I think it's very close, simple because of what we've seen that prior can actually do.

I don't know that you can expect Jordan Howard to ever just go full BNas and just go off. Like Terrell Pryor has already shown that he can do. The Cleveland offense is going to become very, very intriguing next week when Josh Gordon returns. And Terrell Pryor is, if they mix them in at quarterback again, there could be a lot of sneaky fantasy points on that team.

Yeah, sneaky and scary and all the things. Yeah, very scary. I agree with that. All right. That does it for today's show. Hopefully you enjoyed the interview with Kristen Michael and everything else we had jam-packed into this episode. We've got Thursday and Friday matchup previews for the weekend for week number four. We're in week number four. Hopefully your waiver wires went very well and you've got yourself set up to have a strong week. We'll have all the insight, all of the injury updates, everything you need to know to stay up to date. And of course, Mike will be on.

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