Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 4 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Injuries

Went back and forth all week. My rising star, you could say very similar to Mike. So let me give you some numbers and tell me whether they're rising. 1.3, 1.9, 10, 19. Because that is the fantasy points scored and a half point PPR setting for my guy. My guy. Talking about John Brown. John Brown. And the more important. Impressive.

The more important ascension numbers to me are the snap percentages, right? We saw he was gone through most of the preseason, missed a lot of training camp. Concussion issue. He had reoccurring headaches. And so they eased him back in. He wasn't returning kicks and wasn't involved in special teams. He played on 57% of snaps. 57% of snaps week two. Last week, he's back. He played in 90% of snaps. And you saw what I was doing.

you know, spouting out before the year. 10 for 144. He didn't even get a touchdown and he was a top option at the wide receiver position. He is a rising star and I love him. And if Carson Palmer is not there, I'm benching him because Drew Stanton is the worst. John Brown also benefited that Michael Floyd got concussions in his hands. I don't know if you guys saw that. I did see that. Why don't you explain that to me? What does that mean? He is dropping more than he's catching right now. All right.

So John Brown, Michael Crabtree, Steve Smith, Signior, three wide receivers this week for our Raising Cains Rising Stars of the Week. Don't forget everybody, game day tastes better with Raising Cain's tailgates. Yes, it does. Full of fresh 24-hour marinated hand-battered chicken fingers. I can't say it, but I can eat it. They are. And, hey, pro tip of the week, if you're getting the box combo, you want to get that extra toast, say, hey, I want to sub the coleslaw for an extra toast. Here's another hot tip. You can actually sub out.

the bread for Texas toast if you get one of the chicken sandwiches. That's, you can do that. What? Yes, you can do that. I've done that before. That's not, if you get the chicken sandwich and you, I'm telling you, it's possible. I've done it. Anything is possible. All right, let's move on. Poop in his big boy pants. All right, let's kick this one off. I don't even know if the, oh, I got a finger up. Well, no, I was just going to preface. I mean, if you're new and you're listening to the show and you, is your first or second time in the,

pooped in their big boy pants segment maybe you don't really understand the purpose here sure okay but i wanted to say that we we put these guys out there not just to talk bad about them but to kind of give you fantasy context for the rest of the year like these guys stunk this week but should you matter should it be something that makes you freak out or trade them or do you just withstand you know playing Denver right yeah mar so marcus marriota was bad i was going to say i don't know that his pants are very large at this moment i'm not

Yeah, we can move on from him. All right. Let's move on. Matthew Stafford. Problem. Oh, man. Only 23 for 213 yards. No touchdowns. Two picks. I mean, this was a bad game. And brutal interception. In a very winnable matchup against the Bears. Yeah, I stayed in the flames with Matthew Stafford. And it burned him. It burned him hot. And he had to get out of that fire.

Coming up now, the next few weeks, he plays Philadelphia, which I've been saying for a while is very underrated defense. They were able to bottle up Big Ben a little bit. By the way, the number one defense against Fantasy Whiteouts, I think. Really? I'm pretty sure. Philly followed by the 3-1 L.A. Rams, I'm sure, 4-1 by then. And so, you know, Matthew Stafford is definitely a guy right now that you're not going to cut.

But you might want to hold on to him, pick up another streaming option if there's a better available option for these next two weeks. How many undefeated teams do we have left? We have Denver. We have Philly. We have the Vikings. That's it. The Vikings, we'll see tonight. That is it. That's all that's left. I mean, Denver's going to be in the mix again. Can't believe it. All right. Winston stunk against Denver. Surprise, surprise. Ryan picks Patrick.

Once again, three picks. Ho-hum, 23 for 41. Look, you're starting to hear Gino Smith talk. I don't think it's going to happen yet, but a couple more dud games and they start losing again, you're going to see the fan base push for Gino Smith, which is funny to say out loud. All right, Ryan Tannehill stunk this week as well. Had the one touchdown to Stills, but otherwise let you down against Cincinnati. We talked about that game on Friday.

So let's talk about some running backs to let you down, what the future holds for them. Specifically, let's talk about Tevin Coleman, because Tevin Coleman had been that guy that we said unequivocal, oh, Mike did, Jason did, I did. Tevin Coleman should have been traded last week. Whenever you blow up, touchdown numbers when you're in a time split, that's a great opportunity to trade him. But do you think he bounces back? I mean, he's got Denver this week. He might not even play because of the sickle cell situation.

Yeah, I don't think he bounces back this week, but I think that Teva Coleman is, once he gets through this mess of these couple weeks, Carolina, which their run defense is still good, Carolina and Denver, then I think Coleman will be fine. I think he's a flex, a running back three, and he has upside. You're saying later in the year. Yeah. I think this is the week you saw the shoe drop. We told you Trey Latavis Murray as well, because you're not going to be able to put up.

One touchdown per whatever, 10 carries. Every game. Every single game. He stunks, eight for 19. He stunks? No, I said he stunked. It sure sounded like stunks. I heard stunks. He stunked. We'll have to go to the tape. I like that the Jason Morisms this week had a poll of four things said from just this week by me. Oh, man. Yeah, running through the ground, stunked. You're really.

I'm on fire. And the great thing is, is you're only getting older. Yeah. This is only going to get better. Ligarrett Blunt, the shoe dropped for him. You know, you had Matt Forte, Latavius Murray, Tevin, Coleman. They all stunked, as Jason would say. Charles Sims had a bad game. You couldn't have high expectations versus Denver, but I was just going to ask, did you guys see Charles Sims crawl off the field? No. Was it like a wounded warrior thing? I mean, it looked like it. And no one was talking about it on Twitter.

I posted it out there and no one responded. They didn't report on an injury. He eventually came back in the game, but it was just the oddest thing where he went down hard and it wasn't a get-up-all-jog-off. He literally crawled off because he was right by the sideline. Very bizarre. That's exactly what I would do, regardless of injury. I would roll. Yeah, I was going to say, that's what I would do. No crawling for me. I think the biggest pooped in your big boy pants this week might have been Lagart Blunt. Legerat Blunt, I mean, you couldn't have.

expected anything but huge numbers for the guy who was leading the league in yards, who was leading the league in carries, who got, you know, was going up against a beatable Buffalo defense and went out there for 13, for 53, did nothing. Well, the whole Patriots. Yeah, so it was the entire Patriots team, really. Yeah, I moved, I moved Blunt up on Saturday night thinking, okay, I got to stop doubting this guy. And now he just winds me up. Now you have Brady back.

Blunt is not a one to me. Blunt is not a two to me. Blunt is a flexible matchup play. I think he's a flex option this week and we've got to see what happens. That was what I was recommended. Wide receivers that stunk this week. I want to talk about DeAndre Hopkins because compared to Will Fuller went out had seven catches, 81, and two touchdowns. I don't know how we didn't mention him in the earlier segment because that was a huge game from him. Somebody that's proving himself. Now three weeks.

Out of four, he's had really, really good fantasy games. He's also very fast. Super fast. If he saw him on that return, 21.6 miles an hour. He looked like the fastest man alive. But Hopkins, one for four, what do you make of this? Bad game. Yep, I'm going to go out and see if I can.

by Hopkins. He hasn't been special this year. I still think he is absolutely special. He is an extremely talented guy. And, and that level of talent wins out in the long run. So I'm going to take advantage of this and buy. If DeAndre Hopkins has any Julio Jones in him means 300 yards are coming for, for DeHop next week. I actually had somebody this week asked me whether they should play Sneed or Julio because they said, yes, they said,

Sneed's been, you know, Sneed's coming back. He had those big games. Julio's not been good. And I said, what are you, please don't do what you want to do here with Sneed. I'm going to give you names of guys that stunk at wide receiver. You're going to tell me whether you want to trade for them or leave him alone. All right. Tori Smith. Leave him alone. Leave him alone. DeAndre Hopkins? I would try to acquire him. I'm sure. D. Jacks.

I'm going to leave him alone. One for five and zero. Okay. Julian Edelman, one cat, one yard. Trade for him in all leagues. If you watch the game, Julian Edelman opened the entire game with a 90-yard reception and run, got tackled sadly on the one. It looked fantastic. And then the whole play got called back. I guess he got tired after that, huh? I can, yeah. Willie Sneed, one for 23. I would try and get him. Yeah, absolutely. He's still good. Brandon Cook's three for 31.

I would trade for him. I think he's going to be good. He, unsurprisingly, just like Drew Brees, has a very big home and road split. And so you've got a guy who's going to have some big games ahead. Cook has pretty much stunk since the first week. If you combine his three weeks after that, they're pretty much equal his first week. So I don't like players like Brandon Cooks. I'm very, yeah, I'm very. Sneeder cooks, rest of the season.

Cooks. It's probably still cooks. But here's the thing you can get Sneed. If you're trying to acquire a Saints wide receiver, Sneed's going to be the cheaper one and the one I would try to get. So it just depends on the cost for cooks. If someone's trying to get that capitalized still off of week one, then there's no way I'm going to pay up for that. Jason, you have Alshon Jeffrey in our League of Record. He was three for 46 this week. You saw Royal.

more involved in the game than Jeffrey. Last week you saw White more involved in the game than Jeffrey. Is this a case of...

being hampered by injuries of no rapport with Brian Hoyer. What are you doing with Jeffrey because his name might be bigger than his production right now? I think it's being hampered by injury. I'm waiting until there's a big blow-up game and maybe you can trade him. I'm holding him in the meantime because I'm not going to sell him on the cheap by any means. I think he's going to be great, but I still worry with how he's been hampered. I worry that he's going to end up missing a few games over the next couple weeks, just kind of getting shut down to try to...

be the Alshan Jeffrey that the bears need him to be. So I'm hoping that he has a big game. And then I would look to move him at that point because of injury. I think I realized what happened. Why were like, why didn't we talk about Will Fuller? Because we didn't talk about any of the good wide receivers. Wait, did I skip them? You certainly did. Are you serious? Rewind. Oh, wow. That's terrible. That makes it harder to have skipped them. Why didn't we talk about?

Julio Jones. Well, let's like, so good. We don't have to spend a ton of time because of this. We already talked about Fuller and Crabtree and Steve Smith in our, in our rising stars, which was my strategic decision. We talked about AJ Green. That's a pro move. Julio Jones did all the talking for us on the field. So let's talk about some of the, uh, let's talk about why we talked about royal too. Don Trell Inman. Let's give him, let's give him some Dap. Yeah, inman, um, big game. He took my, uh, he took my love.

for Travis Benjamin. And he said, I want it. I'll take that. He broke your heart. This is what's going to happen, though. Huge touchdown catch. It's going to be a big week for Benjamin. Then it'll be a big week for Inman. Then it'll be a big gate suite or a Hunter Henry week. Tyrell Williams. Or who knows, the Dexter McCluster week. You never know what's going on. Tyrell Williams stunt. Brian Quick had a big game. Three touchdowns in two weeks for Brian Quick now. I don't know if I'm going to chase that dragon.

Brian Quick is, if you aren't familiar with Brian Quick, he is a name where people wanted him to be good for so long. And he just kept letting you down. So this is like that resurgence moment. Every time he catches a pass, I think it's Kenny Britt. Like at first glance, because they're both big. I mean, Brian Quick's a big guy. I believe it was quick.

and Britt that crashed the golf cart in hard knocks and hard knocks together but quick was like I'm sorry and and Kenny Britt was like ha ha ha ha ha that's very funny it was really silly um okay so well obviously we're going to talk more about waiver guys to pick up like a quick or a royal tomorrow on the show AJ Green had the monster week we talked about everybody else all right so we can revert back to some sadness back to people who stunked all right tight ends