Fantasy Football 2017 - Pump the Brakes, #FootClan Questions, Playoff Push

and it's still a hard thing for him to go through, but he didn't want to just start the game just because they're trying to check a box in his record. Yeah. I mean, this is the actual thing that happened. And then Davis Webb, they also communicated to him that Davis Webb was going to get worked in towards the end of this year. Absolutely. And so now you have Gino Smith starting this game, and everyone wants to know specifically Evan Ingram, Sterling Shepard.

Can you even count on them? Is there any predictability there? And what do you do? Even with Gino Smith, who while he's struggled in his NFL career, he actually has had a number of very productive quarterback starts for the Jets in the past. Now they get the Raiders this week. So Darkwa, Ingram, Shepard, and Smith. Yeah, so because you see the changing of the guard here.

When you look at the running game, I think that, you know, Darkwa has been the more efficient runner. He's been powerful and looked great. But Wayne Galman ended up getting the higher snap percentage this last game. And if you're looking towards the future and you're saying, okay, we need to know what are our pieces here. They're probably going to give more play to the rookie, which leads me to believe that their running game will be more fruitless. I kind of want...

I think if Darkwell was the clear starter and they were giving him the work, he's talented enough to get the job done. With Gino, Gino is actually a streamable option if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel just because of his rushing yardage. When he last played as a regular starter for the Jets, I think his last four games would have put him on pace for 4,000 yards, 25 plus touchdowns, 8 interceptions, and 300 rushing yards. Now, he's being thrust into a team that stinks.

where all their weapons are injured. And so I don't expect good things all around for the New York Giants. I have more confidence in Evan Ingram's involvement with Gino Smith than I do Sterling Shepard. Simply because Eli Manning is Staling Shepard had a long rapport together. Evan Ingram at least represents that, you know, checkdown option, the bigger target, which, you know, for a catch radius for...

Gino Smith. You need that big catch radius with Gino Smith is your quarterback. But confidence levels, they have to decrease. We don't know what this is going to look like. And we don't know if, I mean, this game could end up Gino Smith for the first half, Davis Webb for the second for all we know. I mean, we just, whatever plans that they have for their quarterback position are based on evaluating for the future. Jimmy Gropolo is going to start for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. Of course he is, because he's the better quarterback, period. Okay. He could struggle, though.

Of course you will. First start. Because it's the San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco 49ers are playing at Chicago underrated defense, you know, the colder weather. I think I think Garoppolo is an okay. Like who would you rather start Garoppel or? I'd rather play Geno Smith against Oakland. Is that what you were going to ask? Yeah, that is what I was going to ask. I'm not sure which one I would rather start on that. You know, we'll.

We'll have a definitive answer here pretty soon. But with these two changes, there's a little bit more research that needs to be done. I guess because of the defense or lack thereof in Oakland, I probably lean that way with Gino's legs. How about neither? Can we do neither? We can definitely do neither. Darren McFadden is retired from the NFL. So he did not sign with another team after he was weighed by the Cowboys. And he is no longer farewell run DMC. Yeah. Man, I can think back to owning him.

with the Raiders and all the promise and hope of DMC being that fantasy just juggernaut. I loved the way he ran when he ran well. He was for a while. He had one solid year, really, in Oakland. One great year. I feel like he had a couple decent. Was it great? Was it really great? That's how it feels in my heart? I don't know, maybe you can vet that. I think he got hurt that year. I think he started the year strong.

in Oakland. I'm going to look up his best year in Oakland. And he also had a really strong year for the Cowboys. Absolutely. I mean, you know, he was. He put up 11007 in 2010 and 13 games. Never played 16 games for Oakland until his final year in Oakland where he only had two touchdowns and 500 yards. So disappointing career, no doubt about it. Only 1,000 yards or more. Two times in his entire career. Two times. Two times. So.

All right, without further ado, I think we're going to preview the Thursday night game. The Washington Redskins take on the Cowboys. Both teams are five and six. The Cowboys are favored at home. This is a 44. Not for me. Really? No, not shockingly to me. The Redskins have had, you know, up and down, a very up and down year. They're five and six as well. And then the Cowboys being at home, I know that Dax struggled, but you've still got past catchers struggling mightily in Washington. You look at last week and all the hope we had for.

Josh Doxton and Vernon Davis and those two guys really didn't deliver. This week, I mean, do you have any confidence in the tight-in position for Washington after the gooser by Vernon Davis? I do. I mean, I really do still believe in Vernon Davis. You know, you can't just go by the last game. He has been a very solid fantasy option at tight-end.

pretty much the entire season. Jordan Reed, shocker, still not practicing. Dallas is, you know, middle of the pack against tight end. And, you know, you just can't overreact to these goose. That's what, you know, the nickname came for Hunter Henry. He was the goose because he went out when everybody thought he was going to be great. Yes. The goose is loose. Someone catch him. You know, and if you just said, well, he had that really bad game, I'm not going to play him.

You would have missed out on a lot of really great games after that from Hunter Henry like this past week. So I am not off of Vernon Davis at all. It happens a lot more at the tight-in position for what it's worth. Last week you saw Jared Cook. We're telling you he's a great start this week. He was one for one last week. That's as close to a goose as you can get without gooseing. You had Evan Ingram had a game like that earlier this year. It happens. Yeah. For everyone. The downfield talent is there for Vernon Davis still. And the weapons are not. I mean, they're limited in their weapons right now in Washington.

Speaking of which, Somazet P. Ryan, you can roll him out there. Certainly. Josh Doxon, Jameson, Crowder. Would you start both as twos? Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know, the defense is a little banged up for the Cowboys. I don't know if we have an update on Sean Lee. But this is a team that has played, you know, if you look at this will be their third game in something crazy, like 17 days or, you know, it's, they are.

they're tired and they're reeling. I don't trust Dallas right now. That's why I'm so surprised at this line. I feel like I don't see how Dallas wins this game. If Jason had a, Jason's almost upset of the week, this would be the game I'd be pushing the button on. Sean Lee's not expected to play. Thank you, Brooks. So, yeah, in that case, I would doxen and I'd fire up all the Redskins. I really would. I want to talk about Des Bryant in this situation. You said you don't trust the Cowboys.

This is one of the reasons I wanted to break down the defensive metrics, not just through the year, but over the last four weeks. And you go look at the Redskins, and you look at the way they've played it through the year. On the year, they're the sixth best defense against fantasy wide receivers. They only give up 22.9 points a game on the year. But over the last four weeks, even with Josh Norman, this defense has been more porous when it comes to every position, but mostly the wide receiver position, now up to 28 points a game given up to the wide receiver.

Des Bryant, I mean, this is a bad Washington Redskins defense from a fantasy perspective over the last four weeks. 23rd against quarterbacks, 25th against running backs, 19th against whiteouts, 29th against tight ends. So now you're looking at a situation where, A, Cowboys' defense has struggled, but the Redskins' defense has struggled and Dallas is at home. How confident would you be in Des Bryant as a wide receiver 2 this week?

Uh, it's tough. It's tough to be, you know, look, he gets enough targets right now from DAC where I guess my confidence in him being the two is decently high. Um, you know, there's, there's, uh, it's not a low over under for Vegas in this game. Des will clearly be the number one target. Um, so yeah, if you're talking to wider receiver two, wide receiver three, I, I think that's okay. Um, really the Redskins.

haven't been that bad against wide receiver. You bring up a really good point. They have had Josh Norman recently. And, you know, so he's been back the last couple weeks when they've been bad against wide receiver. But if you dig a little deeper into those numbers, they were unbelievable against the New York Giants last week. They were all right against Seattle and New Orleans. But they had that game three games ago against Minnesota.

where everything went to the wide receivers, 251 yards and three touchdowns to wide receivers. Well, they knew York last week. You said unbelievable against who, Roger Lewis? Sure. Against the opponent that they had to face. Sure. They couldn't do anything better than they gave up 62 yards to the wide receiver. And I do completely understand. That's as much on Eli Manning and the Giants. So Des, he's going to match up against Norman though. And I'm with you. I think he's a...

a two-three flex position at best. I'd be comfortable starting Alfred Morris in this game. He's looked pretty good. Deeper leagues Rod Smith. We brought him up yesterday. I would avoid him unless you're in a really deep league. And then Jason Witten, he's kind of been up and down on the total target, total reception numbers. Seven receptions last week, Reds can struggle against the tight-in quite a bit. If Josh Norman's locked down, or I'm sorry, if Des Bryant's locked down by Josh Norman, does Jason Witten have?

streaming upside this week. Witten's always that fallback guy to me. Like, I never really want to play him because I don't feel like his upside is usually there unless he's playing someone like the Giants or Cleveland. But, you know, seven receptions, two out of the last three games says, it's funny. You go, if you told me, hey, you're going to get seven receptions out of a guy, he's going to be the tight end I want. But in both of those games,

you know, it's 59 yards and 44 yards. So it's not like he's getting downfield work, rarely getting in the end zone. In the end zone. Witten this week or Charles Clay this week against New England? I really worry more and more. I was giving advice to stream Tyrod early in the week. I told you I'm not on him. And I'm not either, man. I worry that the New England Patriots, maybe it's because I've been looking at the recent defenses.

And I'm focused on that right now. But New England Patriots have been great. And they shut down your number one option. That's Clay. So I think I would lean Witten. Okay. Well, look, let's take a second. Let's thank our sponsors, the sponsors of today's show. And we're going to start with movement watches. That's MVMT movement watches. And look, I've got a problem. Like when people ask me, it's probably not a problem for many people. But when my parents asked me for like Christmas gift ideas.

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