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

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then this is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. Hey, Foot Clan, Week 6 is here and our rankings are up on the website, the Fantasyfootballers.com. You can also head over to join thefoot.com if you want to see our premium projections and our flex rankings. Let's get to the show. A fantasy footballer's podcast. Coming to you from the Fantasyjox.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. The place to be.

It's right here. Oh, with the three of us on the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Do you know that? I did know that. And shout out right now for the YouTubers, YouTubers, real quick. We are all wearing, we are team Jason today. Wow. This was not planned. Now, we all wore the exact same double stuff t-shirt. Well, I will say this. It was a strategic choice by me. As we got some shirts in the mail yesterday, I knew.

knowing Jason you knew he'd wear I knew he would wear his own personal shirt yeah and I said well I'm gonna wear it you just play right into his narcissism yep hey it's a double stuff double stuff it's a triple stuff except right now triple stuff a triple double stuff welcome to the podcast we have a great one for you today we have our starts of the week on the show our week six matchups we get those kicked off on the show today we also have our news and notes catching up on some of this injury madness going on always

Interesting towards the beginning of the week. Guys missing practice. Oh, did they miss practice in a bad way or a good way? Spoiler alert. Everyone missed Wednesday's practice. It seems that way. Certainly guys like AJ Green, people see that red Q show up, that questionable tag. Well, he seems like he's okay. But we'll get into that. What else do we got going on today? Got a good quick question. We've got some articles going up on the site.

Got our quarterback one primer. Look at the matchups that we will talk about here. There will be an article about that. And if you miss the starts of the week, which you shouldn't because you're listening to the podcast. They're on there too. They're on the website later today. Maybe you forgot what they are and you want to check it out. Don't forget. You can find us on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. Head over to the website, the fancy footballers.com for all those articles. And you can submit questions to the show on there and join our community, our fantasy football community over at Join the Foot.

dot com guys quick question of the day which teams running backs are averaging the lowest yards per carry i think you already know the answer to this one but we can talk about it again what teams running back so i guess what team what team is it was worded this way but i mean really it's what team is averaging the lowest yards per carry on the season i have a couple guesses i don't i don't know 100 but i'm the exact same the the teams that come to mind

are the Vikings, the Rams, and the Jags. Those three teams. Oh, really? What comes to mind for me are the Jags, the Giants, and the Lions. It's the Vikings. It's still the Vikings. It's still the Vikings. They're still averaging 2.6 yards per carry. You know, the reason that people don't think they're still doing poor is because they've started scoring touchdowns. They're a winning team. They're a dominating team, right? Five and O.

Five and O. They look great. Their defense is amazing. And the running backs are not killing you in fantasy. Aziata and McKinan had a good game two weeks ago. Right. And Aziata had a good game last week. Just shows you how bad Adrian Peterson was. He buried him. How bad. Yeah. You know, Aziata is a weird guy because I don't know. You're a weird guy, Ace. I don't know what to do with him. I mean, sitting there on waivers in our league. I mean, this is a five and O team with.

You know, a platoon at running back. I feel like I'd rather grab Aziata than a flyer on a four set or somebody. Yeah, the thing with Aziata is, you know, I feel like he's not all that different than a Jeremy Hill type. You plug him in and you hope for the touchdown. And if you get it, you're happy. And if not, he's going to crap your team. And the last two times, he's got it. Last two games, he's got it. That's the guy that they go to for that. I wouldn't start him this week.

No, no, on by. Smart. News and notes from around the league. All right, Jordan Reed being evaluated for a concussion. He had two of them in college. He has four now in the NFL. This is bad news. Six years, six concussions. Uh-oh. We need to remind people the reason for Rule 86. The reason for Rule 86, which is when Jordan Reed is playing, you start him, is not because Jordan Reed is so good.

It was a part of it. Well, sure, that's half of it. But the reason it came up is because Jordan Reed was very often not playing football because his injury history was robust and he had a hard time coming back from injuries. They tended to last longer. And now this being his fourth concussion in the NFL, he had two concussions in college, could be serious concern. You've got to watch the protocol. But if he misses this week,

I start to get scared that this might be multiple weeks. What about you guys? I think he's going to miss. I think he'll miss this week. I have Jordan Reed in a couple locations. I have already executed a backup plan. A couple locations, as in teams? Yes. Okay. I've got him for Washington. I've also got him for the Eagles. I'm a few of my teams, but I'm grabbing somebody that I intend to start this week. Who'd you grab for the listeners? I grabbed Charles Clay.

I love the Charles Clayton. Ever since Watkins went down, the targets have been. I mean, Clay's had, I think, back-to-back weeks with five catches. I believe back-to-back-to-back. I'll bet that. I believe you're wrong. I know it's at least two. It's two. Robert Woods and Charles Clay are the past catchers there outside of LaShawn McCoy. I mean, that's... And Clave's an athletic guy.

Clay's the kind of guy who can make a big play, can be a guy in the seam that Tyrod Taylor finds for one big play, and it changes your week. Charles Clay is back to back to back. He missed a game, right? Was he out for Arizona? Yeah, I believe he missed something. If he missed that game, then it's three in a row. If he missed that game, it is not three in a row because he did not play that game. He's just win active. I'm saying in week two, he was five, week four, and five. That's fine. I don't remember if he had missed.

That's how much we love Charles Clay. Cam Newton. Cam Newton returned to practice on track to start on Sunday. I love Cameron Newton this week because he plays New Orleans and their collegiate defense. I'm a big fan of that. I think this is a week for Cam and for Jonathan Stewart and for this team to get on track. I'm going to buy into that narrative, I believe it. I do as well. You can buy into the numbers. Well, look, he's the number one guy for me and Jason this week.

So Cam Newton back at practice. AJ Green was back at practice today as well. Jamal Charles, practicing fully, says the training wheels are coming off. This is a tough one. I know what my Twitter is going to say this week. It is going to be 75% people saying, do I start Jamal Charles? And you will get very different answers. You will get different answers from the three of us. I am playing, I think I'm in the middle. I'm the mama bear here. You have him 18, right?

Yeah, so I have him as a middle round or mid-tier running back two this week. But what's nice is the matchup is good. Jamal Charles seems to have full confidence that he's ready to go. But I don't know. If you're in a situation, let's say you have Jamal Charles, you probably have somebody else who can start for you. If that's the case, I would start that other player. If you have just been scratching and scraping by with running back garbage.

Then plug them into your lineup. All right. That's my official stance. I have them rated. I'll talk about it more later. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Dolphins expect Arian Foster to play on Sunday. What do you guys expect from Arian Foster? I actually have them ranked around 24 this week. That's fine. That's fine with me. Not bad. Did you say that? Were you going to say that seems high? I don't know. I thought you'd think it was high. You know, I figured you thought I would think that. You thought that? I thought that you thought that I would think that.

But the reality is, for me, I have Arian Foster rated the highest of the three of us. I have them at 15. So a high-end RB2 for this upcoming week. I think that...

What we've seen from the Dolphins is they have some serious offensive woes while Arian Foster has been gone. They haven't been able to get it together. Aaron Foster was used well in the passing game. I expect they're going to need the passing game going this week against Pittsburgh if the Steelers come in and start the boat race. And so I think Arian Foster will have enough usage through the air to be a reliable start this week. All right. Let's talk about Eddie Lacey.

This morning, it was reported that his ankle is, quote, good. So I expect Eddie Lacey to play. I statted him this week. James Starks is missing practice all week due to a death in the family, and he won't be back until Saturday. He still has a knee injury. He still has a knee injury. So I would say that Starks is pretty darn doubtful for Sunday. If you're going to miss the whole week of practice. It was very bizarre yesterday. The blurb came out that said Eddie Lacey far more likely to play than James Starks. What is good? I saw Eddie Lacey get hurt and James Starks finished the game.

Yeah, that was very weird. I'm sure on waivers, a lot of people picked up Starks for the hope that Eddie Lacey would miss and Starks would be the guy. With just the news as it is now, I mean, you would need James Starks to be the starter and have Eddie Lacey miss the game in order to start Starks. So I would say at this point, you can drop Starks and look for another option on waivers because...

that combination is almost certainly not going to happen. Yeah, the only other running back they have on the roster is a practice squad guy. So it's those two and nobody else. And Lacey's looked good. Yeah. He's eating up. Yeah, well. Theo. He's eating up? No, come on. Sorry. Theo Riddick didn't practice on Wednesday with an ankle injury. What are you guys hearing about Theo? Are you worried? Not at all. It's Wednesday. Latavius Murray didn't practice on Wednesday. He also didn't play last week. Do you expect him to be back this Sunday?

I expect him back, yes. I don't. I statted him out. I'll change it later. So we'll find out later in the week. Sammy Coates didn't practice with the laceration on his hand. That is the reason for the big bandage slash cast, whatever people want to say about it. Right. Would have been nice if they said a big bandage. Yeah. Seriously, I heard the, you know, he was walking around with his big cast. I'm like, what did he break? And then, oh, it's a, it's a cut. Yeah, I mean, it's a cast on for a cut. Well, it's a good cut. I've heard it you're talking multiple stitches so that he sliced it up.

But as far as Sunday, he's going to play. All right. I feel confident that he's going to play. Eric Eberin didn't practice on Wednesday. I don't think he's going to play. No, it's looking less and less likely. The original reports were that he might miss a couple of weeks. He missed last week. So continue with that report. Virgil Green's going to play tonight. A lot of hype early in the off season along with another guy, Latavius Green. Latavius Green. Latarius Green. I'm sorry. What did I say? You say a name sometimes and it's wrong and you know it's wrong.

But you just keep going. I do that all the time. Yeah, that was very Jason. Ladarius and Virgil Green. Yes. Not brothers. Nope. But brothers in the position. Who would you rather have rest of the season? Because I think I would take a flyer on Mr. Ladarius. Because they're saying he's going to play in week seven. He's just a better player than Jesse James. Yeah, I would certainly rather have Ladarius Green rest of season. Virgil Green was never brought in to be their pass catching.