Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 1 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

But the Raiders, specifically, we talked about the Bengals. We talked about Eifford and Jeremy Hill had a good game. AJ Green had a fine game. He just didn't get in the end zone. So from the Raiders side, Derek Carr went down, and this meant very, very bad things from a Matt McGloin. Matt McLeon. Latavius Murray pieced together a game by volume. But by volume. And by pass. Yeah, that's what I was going to say in the receiving game. Everyone was like, oh, he didn't catch a pass in the preseason. That was seven. Everyone by me. Let me just mention something else here.

You thought I'd let it go, Mike. No, I didn't. You guys answered this question. Who was a healthy scratch? Hello. Roy Hulu. Goodbye. Roy Hulu was a healthy scratch. Yeah, so not good. As was Dwayne Boe, the $9 million healthy scratch. Roy Hulu was a healthy scratch, and how did the Raiders do? Oh, come on. It is completely linked together.

If Roy Hulu is in that game. I was going to say there have been a lot of healthy scratches over the last 15 years you can blame for that offense. Roy Hulu changes that entire game around. All right. Let's go ahead. I want to let people know kind of what we're doing during the year, too. Tomorrow we're going to get really into the waivers. If you're waiting to hear waiver names, you probably heard a few today. But we're really going to focus on that tomorrow so that you're ready to sign guys.

We've got two Monday night football games, the Eagles at the Falcons, the Vikings at the 49ers that we're going to be going over tomorrow as well. And so stay tuned for that. We're going to give you your top-to-bottom, waiver-wire pickups, the guys that we think you should jump on, the guys you should ignore. And the guys you might want to target. We're going to talk a lot of buy-low type of situations. Everybody wants to trade. We get tons of trade questions each and every week. So we're going to kind of say, hey, no, don't overreact to that guy. No, Greg, no Ogletrees. Kevin Ogletree signed a couple years ago. So let's go ahead and answer some listener questions for tonight.

Mailbag. Mailbag. All righty, Jaron in Chandler, Arizona. By the way, if you have a question, you can go to the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com, click the submit a question button in the upper right hand corner. It's easy as pie. If you have a desperate, quick question, you can also ask those on there. We've got some 24-hour guaranteed answers if you need them. So Jaron in Chandler says, I play in a league of 10. That's filled with what feels like ultra-conservative.

types and he's talking about trading uh he's offered up trades where he feels like he's offering better value and they are routinely rejected uh it's a rarity to get a trade through any advice on how to encourage trade activity uh have the three of you played in a league where this was an ongoing thing i have my my second i consider i have two like home leagues essentially

And one of them is extremely active and the other one is not. It's like pulling teeth to get a trade through. And I personally believe it's because we're not all real life interacting with each other on a day-to-day basis. So what you have to do is you have to build up the community. This might be a long process. But we have for our league, we have a Facebook group and it's very active. People are in it every single day.

Talking junk. Posting funny pictures. Yeah, you're getting people involved together as a group. And that's where I think the chemistry comes in, where people are willing to trade. And if you're just not talking to that, and you get this completely anonymous, oh, I want to trade this guy for this guy. And there's no conversation and no back and forth. It's just one email. It's a lot harder to get those things done. I will also say there's a boy who cried wolf aspect to the trade offers. If you are the guy that offers like 10 of them a week for...

every week of the year, then it's going to be hard to recognize a good deal from all the other deals that you sent across. So, all right, Zee the Genie in New York. It would have been better if it was Zini. Yeah. Zini the Genie. Zee. I have T.Y. Hilton, assuming he's out, I'll be able to put him on the IR, which we don't think he'll have to go on IR. But what receiver should he be targeting? James Jones, Kendall Wright, Dante Moncrief. Also, is Wheatonworth dropping? Yes.

I think he's worth dropping. I completely agree. There's a team maybe that could be helped by him, but he's no different than most of the guys on the waiver. He can put up points and he can put up stinkers. I would go with Moncrief, because if you've got Hilton, then he's the perfect replacement for that time. He's going to be great during that time. And when Moncrase value drops off, you no longer need it because it's because Tim Hilton's back. I'm not sure Moncrief's value is going to drop off. I think that Moncrose value...

is certainly increased if Hilton is out. But I think Moncrief's value is going to go out. If Andre Johnson looks like he did in that week, and Bill's defense are tremendous, do not underrate the value of playing a spectacular defense. But Andre Johnson looked kind of old. And Moncrief has all the physical tools to get it done. I agree with you. He's the natural fit there. And he's got a pretty good quarterback. Yeah, Andrew Luck.

Sherpico in Zanesville, Ohio. What? What is? I like it. I think the names are unique. That's a great Sherpico. Looking for your input on who to activate for Monday night in his PPR league. This is a great question. This is tonight. Ryan Matthews or Tevin Coleman. Thank you. I know my answer, but I'm just going to. Every single flex question in the entire week one has been Ryan Matthews related. That is 100% factual. Yeah.

So answer the question. I'm laughing over here because I feel like my answer has to be Ryan Matthews. Just because I'm not joking when I say I've literally been dreaming about him scoring a touchdown. I know it's going to happen. Honestly, the answer here has to be Kevin Coleman because I think he's first right now. But I will also say if this was my team, I'd put Ryan Matthews in. I would go for that glory. So.

I'm going Ryan Matthews. You answer both questions there. I'm going Ryan Matthews. Okay, you're officially saying Ryan Matthews. Mike? I'm going with Ryan Matthews. Well, I'm going to Evan Coleman. I want like something lower than a water bet here because I'm just... I've already got a water bet going on with Coleman. No, with Matthews. No, I know. Ryan Matthews. And Brandon Coleman. By the way, I won our water bet with the Joey Randall McFadden, didn't I? Yes, yes, you did. Joe Randall out touched Jeremy McFadden. Was there any other bets this week?

There are some few, but that will be paid off later because we have a Teddy Bridgewater versus Cam Newton. This week? Yes. Oh, okay. And there is Ryan Matthews versus Brandon Cole. So we'll run down those tomorrow too. So John and Tampa wants to know standard scoring 16-man War League. Monday night football flex options between Kevin Coleman or Mike Wallace. Hmm. And then he just throws in. He'd like to know who the best running back in Atlanta is going to be. I still. If you just want to just let him know.

I still think the best running back will be Coleman or if you want to break it down even more the guy who gets the trust for the passing game. I think that's a good point because they're going to be able to protect Matt Ryan. The offense is going to be predicated on the passing game and letting him get the ball to Julio Jones, get the ball to Roddy White. Right. And we've seen Freeman in that role and he hasn't been great.

But we have no idea. When the bullets are really flying, can Coleman hold up? Well, and we need to recognize that from a rookie contributing perspective across the board, whether it's Melvin Gordon, whether it's Amir Abdullah. If you want to be on the field, you need to be able to protect the quarterback because not every single play, you're going to get a screen pass you can take to the house. And so that is a really good point, Mike. Jason, between those two guys, Wallace and Coleman, who are you starting tonight? I think I'm starting Tevin Coleman.

I like Mike Wallace a little bit, but I feel like either one, you have to get a big play. The winner between this matchup is going to be whoever breaks a bigger play, and I think Tevin Coleman's just going to have more opportunities to break a big play, so I'm just going to opportunity. Two speeds, so by deduction, if people asked you Matthews Coleman-Wallis, that is the order in which you'd have the misflex options. That would be correct.

And for me, I'm going to go with Kevin Coleman because all news says that he is the starter, and Devante Freeman has been very limited with his hamstring injury still, so it's just kind of the opportunity where we know Coleman will touch the ball, and it...

It's very possible that Wallace only sees three targets. These things can happen with a wide receiver. Very excited to see the debut of a little known running back, Adrian Peterson in tonight's game. That will be exciting to see. We'll see some Carlos Hyde Action, a bunch of fantasy implications across the board. Very excited to see the shootout between, or is it a shootout, 55 over under, Philly and Atlanta? Do you expect the over or the under in there? I'm taking over.

Whoa, yeah. I almost, I take the under. I think these things sometimes. I think the Eagles are going to put up 44 points. As a Bradford owner, I am very excited. I was going to ask, how are you feeling about Sammy Biscuits tonight? Sammy Biscuits. I am feeling like I might have made a mistake not starting Tom Brady or Carson Palmer. Well, there are two options. But I think Bradford, if he's on the field, he's going to produce. A couple touchdowns guaranteed. Come on now. All to Ryan Matthews.

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