Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

Who was that? No, I was just kidding. Alan Hurons had another monster game. Yes. He is the Michael Crabtree of the Jacksonville Jaguars. He certainly is. Is that seven games in a row? He's been very, very good. Five for one, two. Because he didn't score the game before, I don't think. Five for one, 22. Because it was his by week. Told you. Five for 122 in a touchdown. Alan Hurons is a, every week's start without question. At this point. It's six. Six games in a row. He's had a touchdown. And Alan Robbins? Alan Robinson.

Took care of business. We were, I was, I was not, I was worried. He smoked. I was worried about Revis and Robinson was fine. Okay, so, Julio, 10 for 137. Is that right? I will, I will double check that. I don't know if that's the right number or not. Yep, 10 for 137. 10 for 137. The Falcons are looking mighty fraudulent. They have, in the last four weeks, they've lost three games to bad opponents, and then they beat Tennessee by three.

That's not good. Not good. Mike Evans, my start of the week, eight for 152, six drops, the most drops by wide receiver in a game in 10 years. And they were bad drops. And so he is simultaneously a stud muffin and a pooped in his big boy pants. Because eight for 152 with six drops, he could have had 250 yards. There's, we'll tweet out the repeating gif of his six drops.

It is delightful and entertaining to just watch him. Not if you're a Tampa Bay volleyball this ball over and over. The score of that game, I mean, was the result of a defensive touchdown at the end of the game. The game was close, and they couldn't get it done because Mike Evans dropped six passes. He would have had 250 yards. And a touchdown. Yeah. So here's a surprise. Cole Beasley, nine for 112 and two touchdowns. He was the man last night in their riveting six straight loss.

Uh, Cole Beasley, is he a waiver consideration? Sure. I mean, he's one of those... The correct answer was no. No, no. He's one of the... He's one of that pack of those, when you're, when you're searching for a receiver and you know he can do it, he's just, he's probably closer to the bottom of that barrel. But, but when you're just desperate and you throw a guy out because...

Cole Beasley's one of those guys. Jordan Matthews. Yeah. Jordan Matthews! Hurray! Is this going to propel him to superstardom? Maybe not superstard him, but he looked a lot better. He looked a lot better with his catching. When he was running into the end zone? No, no. Not even that play, but he made a couple tough catches that he had been dropping. I agree with you. So I still, he's in the wide receiver three.

And that's fine. To me, he's moving up because the drops to me were mental. Yeah. So mental as in like a... I make players in week nine. I make them show me it more than one time in the entire season. That's perfectly fine. So we'll see. The jury's out for me. Jason, do you have any thoughts on Matthews? I love how many targets he gets and his opportunity. I'm fine playing him because his floor should be high.

All right, big running backs this week. Stud muffins. DeAngelo Williams. Ba-pa-p-pa. I had a couple. 27, 170. Two touchdowns. Two for 55 through the air. Monster. I heard some people that were saying this was before their waivers went through. Like, man, I was planning on putting 50 waiver fab. But after listening to your show, I feel like I got to spend it all. I got to spend all 87. And they did. And they got them. And they're happy.

Because he's really good. Let's say DeAngel Williams does nothing for the rest of the year. DeAngel Williams got you a victory on his own yesterday. And it was impressive. Total yards through the roof. He's the man. And when I say that, he's going to continue to be great. He has the Browns next week. Well, I got a tweet or a message. The Browns. Well, yeah. Yeah. And somebody said, here's what they said. They said,

Is this time, is this, do you just go trade DeWill on the heels of that and his monster game and go get a King's Ransom for him? What's the ransom? No. No, correct. I don't. I keep DeAngelo Williams. And then I play him because that offense is too good. And it was just set up for Lev Bell and you're going to get similar production from DeWill because no one else is rotating in. It's so funny. We've got a guy in our league of record whose team.

was not very good after the draft, right? And I always said, you don't win championships as a draft. He now has DeAngelo Williams and Devanta Freeman. I mean, and it's like, can you get a much better combo than those two guys who, before the year, if we were to say, oh, you're starting running backs, Dee Will and DeVantza Freeman. Like, what's happening? Yeah, you would have, I mean, both of those guys are baseline high, high boom. Yeah.

And we saw this because Devante Freeman almost pooped in his big boy pants. I don't know if you saw his rushing line. Yeah, it was not good. It was like 12 for 12. 12 for 12. That's like Chris Ivory. Oh. Chris Ivory is annoying me if you didn't notice. I can tell. And he came out last week and he called the offensive line out. Yeah. And I'm like, well, that's really going to help. It's time to look in the mirror, Chris Ivory.

I mean, it's both. It's always both. Lamar Miller, 12 for 44, two touchdowns, seven for 97 through the air, where he ate and filled up. Quick question. Quick question. Lamar Miller is right now ranked what running back? Before this week? No, after this week, including this week. An RB1. No, no, no, what number? Four, five.

Three. Yeah, it's got to be really hard. After this week? After this week, he is the number three running back. He's had like two 40-point weeks now. Yeah. In a row. I love it. Not in a row, but within three weeks. Devonti Freeman, Mark Ingram, Lamar Miller. Yeah. Thanks, buddy. Thank you.

He's pointing out another guy that he has on his team. Carlos Williams, nine for one, ten, two touchdowns. Carlos Williams doing what Carlos Williams does. He's good. Big yard touchdowns. Are you secretly hoping LaShawn McCoy sits on Thursday? I am. I think LaShawn McCoy should go to the spa, get him, relax, get a mini-petty, get a full body massage, you know, let that shoulder really heal up and let me play Carlos Williams. Until he gets concussed again.

Hey, it was one time. All right, DeMarco Murray is an RB1, my friends. 18 for 81 and a touchdown, 6 for 78 through the air. The workload is there. That doesn't mean Ryan Matthews wasn't more efficient with his carries, but you can be very confident with DeMarco Murray moving forward. Yeah, yep. Adrian Peterson, 29 for 125 in a touchdown. They just lean on him so much. He's the league leader in rushing now, and it should continue. Yeah, well, continue like his fumbling.

This is old school Adrian Peterson this year. Yeah, yeah. They still won. Yeah, they won. Legeret Blunt, 29 carries career high, 129 in a touchdown. Obviously, Dionne Lewis went out in this game, so Blunt should be a good start with the occasional game that they probably avoid him completely for some reason. It's so frustrating to have a Patriots back like that. I mean, you've got a guy that I think every game could put up a line of 25-101. He did look good.

Yes, I agree with that. You know, he doesn't, he's gotten some, uh, some unfair, you know, slack on that he's not a good player. And I watched some of those runs and he got yards that not every back would have got. So props to you, LeGaritt Blunt. And apologies to Christopher Harris. James Starks, 10 for 39, uh, 6 for 83 and a touchdown through the air. Like Mike said, the screen game. Is he the guy that, could you start him? Yep. Okay. Yep. Yep.

We had some big games from tight-ins, Delaney Walker. Huge game. Seven for 95 and two touchdowns. This is my start of the week, guys. Yeah. Pretty good. He was the number one tight-in. It was just, and it was inevitable. It really was. I mean, it wasn't, I'm not a genius. It's just Kendall Wright was out, and Mariotto was back, and they got to throw the ball to somebody, and nobody wants to throw to Justin Hunter. Nobody wants to do that. Hey, Justin Hunter got a touchdown. I know, I know. But Delaney Walker had a huge week, Tyler Eiffert.

Three touchdowns we talked about at a Thursday night game. Owen Daniels said, this one's my favorite. Owen Daniels said, hey, Vernon Davis, you ever seen these moves? Honestly, Owen Daniels looked like a different player this week. All of a sudden, Vernon Davis gets traded for, and Owen Daniels is like, oh, I got to give it my all. He looked, he looked the same to me. Even the commentators were like, he looks faster this week. Yeah.

When you're putting up production, you always look faster. Yeah, Vernon played nine snaps for everybody that went and grabbed him. We said it would probably take some time, and it's going to take some time. He ran a fly down the sideline that I thought was going to be a touchdown until he didn't put his arms up to catch it. Which is strange to me because most of the time, I mean, I've played a little football. I always put my arms up to catch it. Yeah. Richard Rogers, five for 19, but two touchdowns.

Good luck starting him moving forward. You're never going to know. But there's a lot of tight-ins in that category where you're kind of counting on a touchdown to make a break your day. So I guess a guy with Aaron Rogers is okay? Absolutely. All right. Let's go ahead and talk about some guys that disappointed. Poopped in his big boy pants. So I don't know who pooped in their big boy pants at the quarterback position this week.

Well, there's some... Is there anybody? There's metaphorical big... Yeah, we... Big boy. I felt... Tom Brady had the worst game of the year, his year, and he got like 25 fantasy points. Yeah. Peyton Manning, he... Not from a fantasy perspective, but that just stinks. You can break the record in Indianapolis, and he gets three yards.

Three yards to the all-time record. They had guys there ready to celebrate. They had all the video queued up, and it just never happened. Well, it would have happened, but he threw an interception. It would have happened without the eye gouge, too. He went modern day, Peyton Manning and threw the pick. Yeah, but he wasn't a, he wasn't a pooped. I mean, he had two touchdowns. No, I'm just simply saying. So, I felt like we have to talk about.

that sadness, because that's a historic thing. I was watching with my son on my lap. Like, you gotta see this. Come here, sit down. He's gonna break the all-time record. Let me tell you a tale. Were you really? Yeah, and then it was a waste of time. Thanks, Peyton. And the Rams, my goodness, the Rams, if they could get a quarterback not named Nick Foles, they could be really, really good. That's pooped in your little boy pants. Yeah, but I just, whenever there's a moment,

where I can take a pat shot at Nick Foles, I'm going to take it. You know, I would say Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan is pretty close because from a perspective of he's playing San Francisco, people thought you should start in this week. Yes. And he goes out and he puts up one touchdown. Not a good week. Down at the, you know, down in the low teens 20 range as a quarterback. I mean, when Blaine Gabbard is basically putting up the same numbers as you. I have no clue why the Falcons weren't just...

Saying going the Antonio Brown approach with Julio this game, which they've done in the past. Just, okay, let's every play. Let's go to Julio and see what he can do. Yeah. Against the secondary of the 49ers, which is just brutal. Eli Manning disappointed a lot of people. He was the 21st ranked quarterback this week after the big week before. I know for me, I started him over Cam Newton. Yeah, I was expecting big things from Eli. And Ryan Tenahill stunk again. He only had...

No touchdowns and one fumble. So not a good week. Well, at least he had that fumble. Yep, yep, yeah. All right. Running backs. Doug Martin, where did you go, my man? Oh, we know where he went because Lovie Smith in his infinite wisdom said. To the bench with you. Yeah, you're one of my best offensive players right now. You made a single mistake. Oh, big mistake. But a single mistake. Get to the bench, you bum.

That'll teach him. Sims, get in here. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Then Sims fumbled the ball in the rain, in this rainy world where Mike Evans can't catch anything and your two starters, your two starting running backs can't hold onto the ball. Hey, Bobby Rainey! Go catch this punt, Bobby Rainey. Fumble. It was the trifecta of running back fumbles.

Yeah, which is actually good news for Doug Martin going forward. It's just so stupid. And he hasn't been efficient for a couple weeks either. I understand that, but I don't know, one fumble. More fantasy focus. Moving forward with Doug Martin, he's had two kind of low weeks after being near the top of the running back charts, 11 for 31 in this game, 2 for 12 in the fumble. Doug Martin moving forward, are you okay? I mean, are you very confident with him as a 1? Maybe a 2. I mean, he's really splitting.