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

Des Bryant, I don't know how much you were expecting this week. I hope you started somebody else. But he was still in that category of like if he's starting and you don't have a really better option, why wouldn't you want to take the chance on him? You know, Castle, Seahawks, Des coming back off injury, it just didn't work out. Yep. So, but let's say moving forward now, with Matt Castle as the quarterback, how do you feel about Des Bryant? Yeah, I mean, wide receiver 2, 3.

Yeah, middle-of-the-road startable guy in your second and third spot. With upside, with in-zone upside. I mean, Des, if there's one thing he does, if they can get around the goal line, maybe they give him a shot. Yeah, that's a big if. So let's say these other guys who are like twos right now, so I'm Marvin Jones, a Willie Sneed, even kind of higher, Stefan Diggs. Are you starting Des, Brian, over those guys? No, no, not right now. Yeah.

All right now, so let's go ahead. Jason Whitten had a bad week at the tight-in position. I'm not super worried about it, but I mean, you're kind of in that, you'd rather not start a cowboy situation. Unless it's Darren McFadden. Yeah. Derry McFadden was... Just from quantity. Just chipping away. Yeah. We got to get into the mailbag. Let's go and answer some listener questions right now. Mailbag. Mailbag. Yeah. All right. If you have a question, you go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com.

Click on the submit a question button and send it into the show. We answer a few of these as often as we can. James in Annapolis. Who do you want rest of season? Stefan Diggs or Amari Cooper. Who? That's a clever question. I'm going to go with Amari Cooper. I think Derek Carr has been too good. He's a much better quarterback than Teddy Bridgewater. They're going to air it out more. This week, obviously, I think, was matchup based. But I would go Cooper. Yep, I'm sticking with Cooper. Yeah.

I'll hang with Mr. Cooper. Okay. Jones, or Jonas, not Jones. Jonas in Seattle, huge fan. After last night's game, would you start either Denver running back in your lineup in which one? I would start Ronnie Hillman. Yeah, I agree. Well, you've got to monitor the injury. Correct. I'm not going to start him if he's not playing. But I mean, let's say that Ronnie Hillman is out. Never say never, Jason.

Okay. He'll say he's out. Is this fival? Never, say never. No, it's not. Would you start Anderson if Hillman is kind of limited all week? If he's out, I'm not saying out. I'm not saying limited all week. If he's limited, I would not play CJ Anderson. Okay, no. Fool me eight times. All right, Andrew and Newton. Who should I start this week?

Drew Breeze against the Titans or Big Ben against the Raiders? Wow. Big Ben did not look so good. Are those both road games? I would have to check that. Yeah, do you chase the points here? I don't think you're chasing with Breeze at this point. Yeah, I don't think so either. Because she's kind of ramped up. And the Titans. Not that seven isn't burning hot white flames. It's in, it's in.

New Orleans. The Titans going into New Orleans. Then is Drew Breeze for sure. Yeah, and the Raiders are going into Pittsburgh. But yeah, go ahead and go with Breeze. You get Breeze. Breeze looks healthy. Big Ben does not. Maybe another week. You see how slow he was? Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. He just, the opening drive was great. And then everything after that was pretty rough. All right. Mauricio. There you go. That's way better. In New York City. New York City. You can't do two out of one.

If next year's fantasy draft was tomorrow is Todd Gurley, the first overall pick. Yep. Probably. Yeah. If it's any kind of keeper dynasty, definitely. Yeah, and I love Bell is in the consideration. Yeah, but he said tomorrow. Good point. Tomorrow, and honestly, Julio Jones. Julio Jones will be in, he'll be talked about as a top three pick next year.

Connor in Astoria, New York. Hey guys, I'm down four and a half points going into tonight's Monday night football game, and I need to withstand a big victory. I have Hilton and Moncrief with one receiver spot open. Who's a more of a sure thing to come up with at least five points? It's not even close to me. The league is full point PPR, and I'm fully aware of the Josh Norman effect. Thanks for your help. T.Y. Hilton, going away. I would say Dante Moncrief.

Oh, yeah. So you're going to be the tiebreaker here. And Andy, you and I have a water bat. It's so silly. No, we got a water bet, right? Moncrief might have the bigger game. Oh, that's what I'm saying. It's so silly to say he's more safe than Hilton. I mean, Hilton's their number one wide receiver. He gets it every week. Have you seen, so does Moncrief. Moncrief has been double digits every single week with one exception where they had Matt Hasselbeck throwing the ball in Houston.

I just think it's ridiculous. I don't understand how that could be ridiculous to say a guy that's getting double digits. He's more safe when he's not being covered by Josh Norman. So where's a water bet here? Straight up. Hilton versus Moncrief. So last week, Moncrief is 4 for 34. Okay. Okay. So if he does that this week, does this guy end up winning his league? In full point BPR, I guess he does. Yeah. But that's not necessarily. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Now you're jumping out four for 34. Thank you, Mike. What is the bet? It's just T. Yilton versus Moncrief.

We already made a bet. This is another one. This debate is about getting to five points. It's not about who's got the highest upside for the game. I'm not making a Hilton versus Moncrief. I don't think Hilton necessarily scores more than Moncrief tonight. I'm just saying from a purely logical standpoint, it's just like saying, okay, Julio Jones is going up against Josh Norman, and you've got...

Hankerson on the other side. No. Who's the safe for five points? And Hylton is not Julio Jones. And Hinkerson is not Moncrief. Hankerson has had several, I mean, many, many worthless games this year. That's what I'm saying is the difference here. Is you've got a good number one and a great number two. So target wise, T.Y. Hilton, 1477, 13.9. Isn't targets going to give you a bit of an indication of what's going on?

Yeah. Okay. So here's Moncrief. Disagreement with that. Here's Moncrief last three weeks. Seven, nine, three. So that's not much different. All right. Let me summarize this three. So you will not take the bet. Is that correct? Let me summarize it. Because I don't, the bet is not what we're talking about. Let me summarize it. You will win no matter who, which one you start. That is what I really believe. Fair enough. I do believe that. You'll win with, if you need four and a half points, go either way.

Are we good? For me, my rankings say Hilton. This is not about you, Mike. Well, that's the tiebreaker there. So go Hilton. So Mike's going, this is a Bermuda Triangle. Mike's going Andre Johnson. I'm taking T.Y. Hilton. All right. That does it for today's show. According to our friends at Pro Football Focus. Oh, good. Moncrief has been out bad our wider. No, no, no. I'm just saying Josh Norman has been the second best cornerback in the league. That's fine.

Watch Hilton get two tonight, and I kill this guy, and then we're all sad. One of us won't be. Yeah, all right. We're out of time. This is Andy Holloway, Mike Wright, and Dante Moncrief. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening to the show. Talk to you later. Go to jointhefoot.com. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web.

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