Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 6 Matchups, News

Staying bold here. I'm going to go with. I need to put on my fire retardant suit here. I'm making Cameron Meredith a flex play this week. Start of the week, Cameron Meredith, nine for one, 30 and one, second year guy. First opportunity to step in for Kevin White and played better than Kevin White. He seemed to be the first read for Brian Hoyer very, very often. I really liked what I saw from Cameron Meredith. So I think you can flex him out there. I'd rather play him over, you know, you're making decisions on guys like.

Tavon Austin in your flex. I'd roll Cameron Meredith out there. Yeah, and I think you said that very well. He stepped in for Kevin White, and he played better than Kevin White was playing. Kevin White's an athletic freak, but he's raw. He's not a great route runner. He's not a super good football player yet. Cameron Meredith, he doesn't have those same talents, but he doesn't, he got the same targets, and he's playing better NFL football. Yeah, I mean, he's a big, lanky guy, too. He's six three.

He's 200 pounds. He can go up and get the ball. He's an undrafted guy, but he's young. He's 24 second year guy. And I was pretty impressed. And you're looking at a guy who also, you know, he was getting more involved the week before, even with Kevin White. So here's an opportunity for Cameron Meredith in a game that I think he can do something with. All right. I'm going to go the other side here from the possible flex play to, I think is going to have a top week. And that is Brandon Cooks. Jason.

He hasn't done it since week. He hasn't done it since week one, Jason. Brandon Cooks has been sucking. But, well, he's at home this week. But, but Jason, he was at home against Atlanta, a terrible past defense where he only caught two balls for 13 yards. All right. Here is my case for Brandon Cooks.

Atlanta. The case for Cooks. Atlanta does not have a good, a great past defense, but you want to know what they do have. They do have a good number one cornerback. Am I correct in that? Would you guys agree with that? I wasn't even listening to you. Would you agree that Atlanta has a good number one cornerback? Truffant. Truffant was on Brandon Cooks. There was no reason not to pass it to all the other wide open players that game. Brandon Cooks did not need to be involved. Now,

Carolina has a good team defense, but do you want to know who their number one cover cornerback is? I would love to know. It's still Josh Norman, and he's not even there. Julio Jones tore him up. Mike Evans tore him up, and Brandon Cooks is at home with Drew Breeze in a game that's going to have a lot of touchdowns, and he's going to tear him up, and so many people are afraid to play Brandon Cooks this week after two complete stinkers. Now, maybe he throws up a third and shame on you, Brandon Cooks, but I'm with you, Mr. Cooks.

I'm with you. Put him in. He's going to have a top week. Put him in your kitchen. You've got Brandon Cooks. Mike has Brown. I have Meredith. My tight-in start of the week. It's Kobe Fleener. Hey. Look, I dug in a little bit. Last year, I was looking at Kobe Fleener pretty long and hard yesterday before I made a trade for him. Ben Watson, that's Jason's thoughts on the trade. I believe I received the word jerk immediately after acquiring him. Yes, you did.

Look, Ben Watson's first four weeks last year as a new tight end in the New Orleans system. Three points, two points. The new started. He wasn't new to the system. Three points, two points, four points, four points. After week four, he averaged 11 and a half a game. This week we're coming off the buy. The involvement of Kobe Fleener, who's, by the way, I mean, he hasn't been good, but he hasn't been atrocious because he had a very good week three. I think there's an opportunity. There are a lot of...

Mike would call them Barfey tight-ins out there. You've seen guys that you think are great struggle, whether it's Rudolph or Brayette or these other players that you've been picking up. I think Fleener is a great play this week. You've got a team, Carolina, that's giving up four touchdowns to the tight-in position. And I think Fleener has an opportunity out of the buy to have them readjust this offense, utilize them a little bit more, and maybe do what Jason said all offseason, which is get it going towards the middle of the season.

Yeah, no, I like that. And I think it's important because you've got so many tight ends that are, you know, you're going, well, maybe I'll just start Jason Witten. You know he's more involved than Kobe Fleeter. And that's fine. Jason Witten's floor is okay. It's a little higher. But, I mean, so what? You're not going to win your fantasy matchup because you've got two more points from the tight end position. Jason Witten is two slices of bread and a piece of cheese.

I mean, that's not a great sandwich. No, you got to put butter on that and melt it before it's anything. If you melt it, I'm in on that. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, I want potential for something great at the tight-in position to set me up as a differentiator. My, uh, I would say, I think you guys are not factoring in the John Coon factor. Uh, is he playing tight-in now? No, why should I be factoring John Coon? Because you both love the, the players for New Orleans. Oh, you're just saying, John Coon, six touchdowns. I thought maybe he really like grilled cheeses.

All right. I didn't know where you were going. I'm going to go with my tight end start of the week. Andy, can you give me the sad, the sad music? I own apology. A flat apology. Not a flat one. Okay, a heartfelt apology to someone I am proud of and I was disrespectful to. No, it is certainly, certainly not Jeff Fisher. Oh, okay. It is Jimmy Graham.

Jimmy Graham, that is my tight end start of the week this week.

You have a guy who has back to back over 100 yards receiving at the tight-in position. He's been able to do this before. He's going up now against Atlanta. Now, like I said, the matchup is juicy. The matchup is great. I mean, Truffant, he's going to lock down someone there. But you know who's going to go hog wild is Jimmy Graham? Because, I mean, you've seen Atlanta. They've given up a touchdown every week except this last one, two sometimes in a week.

Everybody has torched them at the tight-in position. Jimmy Graham is clearly involved. He had an extra week of rest. I like Jimmy Graham. I think you can start him. And it was more of an apology than anything. I'm sorry that I did not believe that you could come back. Neither of he did. No, I certainly did not. He has been fantastic. My tight-in started the week. Delaney Walker was taking on the Browns. We did some digging. We came up with a very interesting stat here for the Browns defense against the tight-in.

They've given up over 500 yards to the position. The next worst team against the tight end has not given up 400 yards. So you're talking, you already have a massive disparity in yards allowed to the tight end. Delaney Walker thrives in good matchups. He is the weapon for Marcus Marriota.

If Marriota is to continue at all what he did last week. Which obviously Andy believes he will as his stream of the week. All right. I did not call him my stream of the week. I was not here. No, I called them your stream. I know. Come on. No, I'm not doing that. You're going to be, you're going to regret retracting by your start of the week. But I think we can all agree that Delaney Walker is a great start this week. I believe in any kind of half point or full point, he is my number one tight end this week. So pretty strong start. Okay.

There's our starts of the week. We'll get into the rest of the matchups on tomorrow's show. We'll also have, I believe, Chris Meaney, will he be joining us? Schedule. We'll have a DFS segment tomorrow. Maybe it'll be me. Maybe. We'll have some DFS picks for you if you're playing on Fanduel. And remember, if you do play on Fandual, or if you're planning on playing for the first time this week, go to...

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auto sort by random statistics, but we try to methodically go through, give you the best numbers we can, and then we fine-tune them as we get weather information, injury information, as things change. We're doing our best, and trust me, the time is being spent. I'm giving mine a fine sweetest massage right now. Yeah, your rankings? Yes. To massage them into place? Yep. And check out fantasy jocks.com, the studio sponsored, where winners go. Use the promo code, footballers. You need more of like a deep tissue on those rankings.

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