Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 8 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

The whole first part of the season, he looked like an old man. And then this game, he looked like just some young stud. Eight for 114 and a touchdown had a 53 yard or got behind the defense. Obviously, the Giants don't know how to play defense at all. And we didn't put him down here, but the need for Sneed was he was just behind Brandon Cooks. Yeah. So of ODB, you know, I guess Dwayne Harris was the other beneficiary from Eli six touchdowns, but it was kind of the Watson, Cooks, Sneed.

Colston, if you had any of them, you were a good shape. And we mentioned him earlier. Michael Crabtree had a big game, seven for 102 and a touchdown. He's a very wide receiver two startable right now. All right. Running backs, you know, I don't see him at the top of the list, so I got to add him there, guys. Joyke Bell. Ooh. I was, I didn't get any messages from you about Joyc Bell yesterday. You mean his Aida, carry average? He finished one spot ahead of Levy on Bell. That's right. That's true. Yeah, I mean, hey, Joyc looked.

Good. He did not do much, and he really doesn't belong in this section. But seven for 56, I had to bring him up because, well, you know, now that Carr's doing well, I mean, pretty much, I don't know if I've missed on a prediction this year. So it's natural that Joick would come swooping in to win me that bet against Amir Abdull. Yeah. By the way, is Amir Abdull is still on the roster? Maybe. Maybe. I'm not sure. We're going to have to take a deeper look, but he's not still on my roster. Jim Bob. Jim Bob Cooter came in.

and with the new offensive scheme. And clearly, Jim Bob Cooter is a big fan of Joick Bell because Bell got the majority, or not majority, but got a bunch of carries. Riddick was in there. And Amir Abdul, I believe, played one offensive snap where he lined up in the slot.

No, he had one carry. Oh, he had a carry? One carry for three yards, Amir Abdullah. And that's why he was running it out nine yards deep from the end zone. He's like, I got the call! Yeah, I don't blame him. No, I will say the new recipe did not work. No. They lost horribly. Because their offensive line is atrocious. And Stafford's not playing well. Stafford's not playing well. All right. Todd Gurley, if you haven't heard of him, he's a running back for the St. Louis Rams, and he's ridiculous. He's in that category. I was talking to somebody this weekend.

much like AP is still, he can be having a bad game, so to speak, and it just takes one play. And a 71-yard touchdown will do it, and, you know, I played AP two weeks ago. AP was having a horrible game into the third quarter, breaks a 60-yarder. I mean, it's just his skill set, the way he breaks tackles, he's going to be, I think he's the best guy rest of the season. Yeah, it's now that Lev Bell is down, I don't blame you for that. And a news memo to the Rams organization.

I know that the concrete on the sides took out two opposing players, but maybe you want to protect your own guys like a Todd Gurley. That would be, yeah, without question. So let's turf up the outsides there, people. Unbelievable. Yeah, okay, so let's talk Charkandric West was 20 for 97 in a touchdown. Yeah, yeah. And Mike's start of the week. Yeah, I got one. Caught four passes. Dionne Lewis had a big week. We didn't get to talk about him very much, but he on Thursday night, six for 93 in a touchdown through the air.

He ran through the air. The greatest of ease. So do you expect, let's say both these guys, the Charzard and Dionne Lewis, are they their full bore moving forward? Yeah. Yeah. You start them every week until otherwise proven. I assume we'd take Lewis over West. Yes. I would. Offense. Just, yeah, because of the offense. And especially in points per catch type situation. Although West is, he gets it done through the air too.

Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson both had big weeks. Hillman hurt himself. Finally. Hillman heard himself in the third quarter gave Anderson many more opportunities than he might have normally had, although I think Anderson would have been the kind of clock killing back anyways. Anderson looked okay. He looked okay. The Packers secondary. For a while, Matthews was out of the game. Well, they lost their, I think they're two top TVs. Yeah, they did. Shields and I can't think of the other guy's name right now. Yeah, then they got worn down because.

the Packers' offense couldn't get anything done. And so I don't know how much to make of it. Anderson didn't overly impress me. He ran through open holes towards the end zone, which is, you know, I guess good for a running back. That's what was missing before from the Broncos was wide open holes. So maybe have they figured something out on the offensive line? You guys buying into my thoughts that the Denver offense can get it together? Yeah, maybe. The fact that they can put it together the second half. I mean, their defense is so far. They're good. They're really good.

Yes, which is what I think limits their offense a little bit. What limits their offense? Their defense being so good. And here's... He switched topics mid-conversation. I still don't get it.

I'm saying... How does their defense limit their offense? Their defense limits their offense because they're not going to be in high-scoring games. I see. I see. Okay. Their defense stops them from having Peyton throw four touchdowns. There'll be a game like he threw none last night. And there'll be a game like last night where they have to kill the clock for 11 minutes. And as long as Peyton Manning can get a week off in between every single game, then he'll be all right. Hey, you know, he got it done. They got it done. So let's go ahead. Latavius Murray had a big game.

20 for 113. I think we're all starting him going forward. Tight ends. Another start of the week from Andy. I'll say it for you, so you don't have to tune your own horn there. I was pausing because of that. Benjamin Watson. We already... Nine for 147 and a touchdown. I didn't, you know... It's hard to talk through so many great predictions. Ben Watson had a huge game. Wait, wait, Andy. Who was your quarterback start of the week?

Yeah, I didn't want that to come up. Okay. All right, Matt Staver didn't get it done. I will admit that. I sometimes I throw those in on purpose because I just don't want to overwhelm you guys. It can't be fair to Mike. Because when in doubt, throw Matthew Stafford out there as your start of the week if you need to lose one. Jacob Tammy had another big week. He's been kind of, you know, rotating through the top 10 tight ends every three weeks or so.

But it's nice to see. Tim for 103 in a touchdown. Grankowski obviously had a big week. Heath Miller was back in the fold. That was the interesting one to me because you saw the, you know, the offense as it was intended to be, or at least, you know, player-wise. And Heath Miller was good news going forward for a guy that's on the waivers. And Heath Miller, if you remember, started the season quite well when Levy on Bell was out. So he may be a guy to monitor or just snatch him up. Snatch him up. Yeah.

All right, Gary Barnage, he's legit. I owe you an apology, Gary. Yes, six consecutive weeks. Yeah, at this point. And double digits. The flames are big. And, you know, if you watch the game, which we obviously did, Phoenix, you know, we're out here watching Arizona come back. Thank goodness in that game. Oh, man. He looks fine. I mean, he looks like a top read for Josh McCallon. The concern would be if McCown can't play. He's got sore ribs. He looked like he was in agony.

during that game, but stayed in the game for the most part. Barnage is legit. So keep them going. And then, yeah, that's it for tight ends. Let's go ahead and move on to some of the guys that struggled this week. Poopped in his big boy pants. All right, Aaron Rogers, guys. Aaron Rogers. I believe I said this last week, I would start several people over him. And here's the problem, though, when you have a guy like Aaron Rogers is

Do you have the courage to put him on the bench? Well, I think I said I would do that if I had someone like Andy Dalton, who also stunk. He ended up working it out okay. I mean, Andy Dalton didn't end up quite as bad as Aaron Rogers, so you would have been okay, but obviously not the game we were expecting there. You know what I'm excited for? I'm really excited for the 29th to see Tom Brady come and play this defense and see who wins. To play Denver? Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be Tom Brady, but.

slash Belichick. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, this was kind of the week of the quarterback. There were not a whole lot of struggling quarterbacks. If you count Stafford in the big boy pants, which I don't, he had a really bad week. But most everyone else, excuse me, most everybody else had good weeks. Rogers was the huge disappointment. If you went into last night's game hoping to get the bare minimum from him to win, you were very disappointed in what happened. You got the bare minimum. You know, I will say this.

Maybe you give all the credit to the Denver DBs. But the separation wasn't there. Devante Adams had his first game back. He looked slow. James Jones getting off a press looked like you couldn't do it. The only one that looked good was Randolph. Yeah, he looked okay. The first read for Rogers was always gone. It was just kind of not an offensive performance. I mean, Lacey did okay. He scored. But I mean, just not a good offensive game. You got to just move on if you're an Aaron Rogers owner.

Just wait for next week. Wash your hands and move on. All right. Running backs have struggled, guys. Talk to me about Gio Bernard. Man, the Bengals game, the usage was very interesting. Gio Bernard basically didn't touch the ball at all. And he's been highly productive with his touches, so I was very surprised at his usage. And Jeremy Hill, who was actually running pretty well, they had a situation.

where the Bengals were on the five or the six, first and goal, and they just, they come out throwing. You know, just throw, throw, throw. Eventually, Andy Dalton throws the pick. So it's a, I don't know what's going on. Very puzzling. With the play calling up there. When you, week after week after week, talk about your running game. We need to get the running game going. We need to get Hill going. Hill's kind of going. You're inside the five, and then you don't even give them a chance to run it in.

Bernard was one for 12 on the ground, two for three for 22 yards through the air and only saw three touches in the game where Hill had 16 touches. Through the year they'd been splitting pretty evenly. Now they play the Browns next week. What do you expect from the backfield? Jeremy Hill show. I think he's going to be running downhill and he's going to get the ball.

Against a porous... So you would start him over Geo next week? Absolutely. I personally would. All right. There was some buzz this week about Andre Ellington getting more involved in the offense. He had three carries for zero yards. He didn't catch a pass. Hopefully you didn't play him. But, you know, it's the Chris Johnson show in Arizona. Even after two fumbles, they were still using Chris Johnson. Yeah. I mean, Chris Johnson was second in the league in rushing going into this game. I mean, he's been getting it done. He looks...

fast. They're not going to use David Johnson in a huge role, but 109 yards again, 30 attempts for Chris Johnson. So let's say for the people who your trade deadline or whatever has not passed, Chris Johnson, they're on a buy week, the Cardinals have the buy next week, and the schedule gets a lot tougher for the Arizona Cardinals. Are you buying, holding, or selling Chris Johnson? Hold. I think I would hold him as well. He's just, he is a,

starter on a good offense. Even in bad matchups, he's going to get... 30 attempts? Yeah, I mean, because once they got the lead, they just were pounding it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's just, like Jason said, good offense, take the top dog in a good offense. All right, Chris Ivory, we mentioned, had a really bad game. 15 for 17, 3 for 24 through the air. You know, got you single-digit fantasy points, so that's not what you want to see.

At the wide receiver position, disappointing game from Marvin Jones, if you're expecting him as a wide receiver 2. And did you see the hit that Marvin Jones received? No. My goodness. Still breathing, though. Yeah. He was, that occurred when the massacre was happening. Like, it just was a rapid fire of injuries. Marvin Jones looked, pull up the hit real quick. Marvin Jones looked like he was going to have to be.

sent to the hospital for a ruptured spleen of some kind. Get smashed by Mike Mitchell. Yeah. It was. It was a perfectly legal hit. I'm not calling it dirty at all. Just saying it was a huge, huge hit. Didn't he leave the game for a while? Yes. Oh, there's no way he couldn't. No, I know. I'm just saying when we say he pooped in his big boy pants. There is injuries to me. I mean, you could say Steve Smith pooped in his big boy pants, but no, we didn't. I guess that's fair. There is a screenshot of the hit.

where he is basically broken in half. Yeah, he's folded in half. Yes. I mean... Oh! Ouch! Wow. Good for your spine. This is a violent hit. I'm warning you. What are you doing? I was trying to watch the video and give you the play-by-play on here, but then I got a bunch of commercials. All right. Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah, that's disappointing in a big win. Two for 22. It was a little disappointing. And then the big one,

for me, and I think everyone was hotly anticipating the return of Des Bryant. Two for 12. Richard Sherman said, no, no, no, not today, Des Bryant. No, no, no, Des Bryant. There it goes again. Great. I can't pull it up without getting sound. That's a big hit. That was a monstrous hit. I'm glad he's alive.