Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 13 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, News

Jim and the Rock Stars, is that big for you? Are you truly, truly outrageous? Oh my goodness. He's trouble. He is outrageous. This guy's trouble. All right. Hey, one thing I do know about this game is that I love AJ Green. Yeah. AJ Green had a huge week last week. He's not going to let you down this week. The Browns give up multiple touchdowns to wide receivers 72% of the time, and AJ Green is a wide receiver. A pretty good one.

That statement had me very confused. Well, I should have. It was meant to confuse for just a moment. The Browns also, believe it or not, they're not very good against the run. Yeah, I was going to say we have, I have instituted the NBA jam methodology here of good game, heating up on fire. Jeremy Hill is heating up. He is heating up to me. So what is this, Jeremy Hill, Eddie Lacey, C.J. Anderson?

Disappointments abounding in the beginning of the year, and now maybe? So last week against the Rams, he was 16 for 86. The cold weather. The cold weather could have something to do with it. 16 for 86, his best yard per carry game of the season. He got knocked out with an ankle injury. For those who are monitoring his situation, he's not even on the injury report. He is practicing in full, so the Bengals don't consider it even, it's nothing. There's nothing wrong with his ankle.

Hill is a guy I like. I like him this week. Against the Browns, like you said, they're just a horrific running defense giving up hundreds yards weekly. So Hill is a guy that I don't mind is an RB2 this week. Passing touchdowns given up by the Browns over the last three weeks is eight. That's, that's, wow. Eight passing touchdowns. Two weeks? Now you flip it to the other direction. You had Cincinnati gave up.

quite a bit to Arizona, but the defense has been stout otherwise. Is Travis Benjamin startable this week? Just kind of as the... Yeah. Let me ask you this. Benjamin Aiken. Oh, okay. Would you rather start Travis Benjamin or Marvin Jones? Marvin Jones. Me too. Man, it's probably Benjamin. Hmm. Hmm. Very interesting. Probably. All right. Let's go ahead and move on here. Let's talk 49ers and Bears.

The Bears are favored by a touchdown at home, still in the playoff hunt, and been playing pretty well. What do we think about this matchup? What is there to think about this matchup? There's not much. And again, I'd love to have an upset here, but no.

So I'll try and go through this one quick. You start Forte over Langford. Langford? Langford. I think the split widens a little bit this week to Forte. Last week was his first game back coming off that injury and it was about 50-50. I would expect it to be closer to 60-40. Of course, Langford can score a touchdown. We know that he's very capable of doing that, but it's still Forte. For me, Sean Dron, the fantasy vegetables.

You got to start him. If you get any kind of points for catching the ball, you have to start. Sean Drone. You just close your eyes. You got to plug your nose so that the taste isn't as bad. Have your wife do it if you can't move him into your lineup, have somebody else come in and make the switch. Tight ends. Zach Miller. Okay, so here's where we can pause. Zach Miller, how do we feel about him going up against the 49ers? I like Zach Miller a lot.

I really do. I've looked at this. I'm a gronk owner. I've had to look at Titans a little bit more intensely than the average folk. And Martellus Bennett is not long for the Bears. Stinks. And John Fox is, John Fox is not a fan of Martellus Bennett's attitude. And there have been reports that last week's injury, last week's, you know, inactive. Inactive was more related to mental than it was to physical. Oh, John Fox. That he's been brooding.

And there's a reason Zach Miller's been getting more targets and been integrated into the offense. I like Zach Miller a lot. I really do, moving forward. I mean, he's still a second tier tight-in. He's not going to dominate and win your league. But I'm totally, I mean, over Bennett? Oh, he's definitely better than that. If Bennett's active in this game, I'm starting Zach Miller, over him. Over him and probably over no other wide receiver on the waiver. I mean, right? Tight-in. Tight-in? Yeah. No other? What do you mean? I'm just saying.

I would see Zach Miller is probably what, the 15th tight end or so? Definitely better than Martell's Bennett, but we're not talking about him being like a top eight guy, are we? No. I expect this game to be lower scoring. You know, John Fox is going to see the 49ers offense that can't do much, slow the game down. And 49ers defense has kept some games lower scoring. So I agree with you. I'm trying to see where we have Zach Miller. I'll tell you what the 49ers defense has not done, and that's kept.

low-scoring games on the road. We will be getting into that a little bit more when I talk about Jay Cutler. Yeah, and I'm going to advance McDonald's, the guy that I want to talk about from this game, but I'm going to delay that for another segment we have coming up. Hint. We are the worst. Hint. All right. Jags Titans? I guess. Yes. Let's move on. We got to. Bolden. Do you guys have any thoughts on Bolden? No chance I start him. Okay.

Zero chance. The Bears' secondary second in the league. The 49ers average about 200 yards a game, and those things shouldn't mix in Chicago very well. So let's talk Jaguars and Titans, Bortles, Marietta. I like Marioita as a stream this week. I really do. You know, we're always, we only get to say a few names that we really like, but he's one of the guys that I really like this week. He had a good week last week. He had that rough week on Thursday night, I believe it was.

He had a rough week in the last patch, but he had a big week before that. So, Mario, I really like him in this game. What are your thoughts on Mario and Bortles? And who would you rather start between the two? I guess it's Bortles. I would still rather start Bortals. I know that the matchup from Marietta is excellent Jacksonville. Last week, they just gave up four hush downs to Felipe Rivers. So it's not awful to want to stream Marioita. He's just, he's not as high in the list for me.

Guys, Alan Robinson, it's a great start. Tennessee, let's move to the Tennessee offense. I guess there's more questions on there. David Cobb, there's all these reports now of the coaching staff from Tennessee. We want to figure out a way to get Cobb the ball more. Haven't they set that for like four weeks, though? And when you say that, aren't you the one making the decisions on who's going to get the ball?

Yeah. Like, what do you have to figure out? You hand the ball to him. It's not like a wide receiver. It's not a wide receiver that's like we've got to, you know, make plays that get him more open. No, it's called for the owner. You know, the owner of the team that's not making decisions on the field. Like the coach saying that, he should just say, we're going to. You could, from the style, he's just, hey, Marriota, could you hand the ball to him? Do the guy behind you? The guy standing behind you? So stupid. This is not an offense I want a lot of shares in.

uh mariotta gives you a baseline he's been running a little bit more under the new uh head coach and you know delaney walker i really like because nobody has more a higher percentage of passes caught by the tight end than the titans do he is your start of the week for the rest of the start of the year not my start of the week this week but he he could be

He was almost mine. I like him here. If you're in a standard non-PPR league and you need a tougher flex, I'm okay with Andrews on the Tennessee side, not as anything special, but as a guy that's at least, you know, I don't see Cobb getting much work. I don't really love Yeldon for where he's been on the Jaguars side. He was going up against San Diego, which is such a great matchup last week, and he did nothing. He looks like he's slowing down. So.

I'm not digging most of these matchups. I do love me some Alan Robinson, though. I have mixed feelings about Alan Robinson. The Titans are the six best past defense without Hern's on the other side. I know his talent is superior, and he's probably going to be forced-fed some targets. But this game's in Tennessee. The Titans defense is okay. I temper my upside with Robinson a little bit. And that's, I understand that. But Alan Robinson, to me, he's joined.

He has joined that wide receiver one core of guys. I don't care about a matchup. You're probably right, and I should probably be moving him there myself. So we got three matchups I want to get through real quick before we get to our starts of the week. But I want you guys to know, listeners out there, the starts of the week are coming. So stay tuned for that. Seahawks, Vikings, in Minnesota, this game is a pickum game by the Vegas line. And I kind of agree.

I mean, we were trying to guess the lines yesterday. It's kind of a game we do around the office sometimes. And I think my guess was like half a point because I don't know who's going to win the game. Also, the Seahawks are trending up. Of note, an over under of 41.5. Which is very low. Very low. Yep. So let's talk. Who do we like from any of these things? Clearly, Adrian Peterson is a start. Is anybody and Rawls? Rawls is probably a start, but I think you have to.

uh, lower your expectations for him. The Vikings have been, uh, they give up some yardage, but they've been an overall as a whole, a pretty good defense this year. And people are not talking about the Vikings, which is a very, a diversion here of interesting about the Vikings. There was so much preseason hype on the Vikings. Uh, I love them. Andy really, really liked the Vikings. He said the Vikings were going to make the playoffs.

They're in line to be in the playoffs and no one's talking about the Vikings. It's because they're not high scoring. They're not flashy. Yeah. And they kind of come across the way that the Panthers came across last year. I know the records are a little different where you kind of thought they're a playoff team, but you don't see, you can't envision necessarily, at least I can't, the Super Bowl run for a team like that. And I could be completely wrong. What's funny about that is because what do we want from a Super Bowl team? Well, I want a very good defense.

Checkmark. I want to be able to run the ball. I want to be able to run the ball. Adrian Peterson. Good game management quarterback. Teddy Bridgewater. They are. They are what every checkbox you want from a playoff team. That's what they got. I just think it's funny. But did any of us think they were going to beat the Packers? No. No. Yeah. So that misconception or that conception of them, that perception of them is part of the problem. But it's a good point. And the Vikings, D, I think we looked it up.

Didn't have it written down here, but they've given up more than two passing touchdowns, never, the entire year. To the quarterback. So that tempers your Russell Wilson. You know, he's coming off of a five touchdown game. It's not going to happen. No. Yeah, I bet anything on that. Anybody wants a water bet with five more touchdowns to Russell Wilson, I'll take that water bet. I do see we have a little typo here under the tide end because it's Luke Wilson, but we misspelled it. We forgot to put the extra L. We forgot it's Luke Wilson. Yeah. And Kyle Rudolph's been playing well.

I don't mind starting Kyle Rudolph. I believe the Seahawks are 30th against tight ends, something like that? Yeah, they are susceptible. It's just so hard because every time you think, okay, I got Kyle Rudolph figured out, I'm going to depend on him. He lets you down with one of his wide open end zone drops. So you had his good game, then you have him heating up. Yeah. Is there any chance, you know. There is a chance. Same with Doug Baldwin is in that same category. He's had some good games.

There's a Jimmy Graham. There's a good chance for both. I just don't see either of those happening. Yeah, if I had to, so you start AP, you start Rawls. I think you, you know, you don't expect huge games from either guys. After that, it's really Rudolph that you can start and maybe Baldwin. And then I think that's it. Baldwin, like a wide receiver three. Yeah. That's, I'm good with that. I mean, I don't want anybody else. What about Stefan Diggs? Oh, Stefan Diggs, you.

You burned, Brian. I'm benching him for a while. Yeah, and against the Seahawks. It's not the right matchup to guess that he's going to break something loose. I agree. All right, let's do one more here, and we're going to push Cardinals' Rams to tomorrow. The Jets go to New York where they're from and take on the Giants. Long road trip.

Yes. They... Whole field advantage. Do they take all the jets and spin them three times with their eyes closed and when they open it up, like all the giant's signage is up in the stadium and they're like, whoa, you're in a different place now. They're like when you're a kid, when you pretend like you're going through a time portal or something. Right. So they just add a bunch of flashing lights and fog into their... Into the game tunnel?

Like, ooh, you've transported to a magical world. You put them on the bus and you take them around a few times and then you come back to the stadium. All right, so this is really the focus of our analysis here is they're going on the road to New York. All right, Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, Fitzmagic, facing off against Eli Manning. We like Fitzpatrick as a streamer this week. Yes. What's not to like the Giants give up 250 plus to the quarterback in 80% of their games? And he's coming off a four touchdown game.