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

He's got Dallas, Philadelphia, and Indianapolis the next three games. I like the Indianapolis game, but I'm not feeling Dallas or Philadelphia. Definitely not as an R-B-1. Indianapolis defense played pretty darn good yesterday. So it's hard to see. Hard to see Martin having big weeks the next couple weeks. Eddie Lacey, we know he had a horrible game. He actually got negative points in a lot of leagues because of the fumble. He's not startable. Nope. Nope. And then Ronnie Hillman.

was questionable to play this whole week. They activated him, and then if you activated him, you were disappointed. So he was questionable to play, and then his play was questionable. Yes, that is correct. That's what you're telling me? That is correct. He had, I believe, 0.8 points in our league. So he was basically not on the field. Anderson looked better than he did.

I don't know. CJ Anderson, let's get it going. I have no clue what to do with, they can't run the ball that's part of their offensive problems. Very similar to what Stafford face. Stafford's interceptions go up, efficiency goes down, can't run the ball, offense predicated on the run. It's not good. They finally lost. I just wanted another CJ Anderson hype train to get going. Yeah, of course. Hey, did you see Christine Michael got exactly zero carries? Yep. Yeah.

All right. Wide receivers that stunk. There weren't a lot. Dante Moncrief was three for 30, and that qualifies as a horrible pooped your pants if you were starting him, which I believe you guys both would have started him. Absolutely. A.J. Green and Demarius Thomas both were, you know, below average games. Both put up about seven points. Did I say, I said their names right, right? AJ Green and Demarius Thomas? Yeah. This was a Sanders game.

That is the one thing that's going to happen right now. When an offense isn't that efficient, you don't get the Crabtree Cooper both good combo. You don't get the Hearns-Robinson combo. You kind of get one. And we didn't talk about this guy for having a monster game, but T.Y. Hilton. What? Yeah, what? What was all that foot problem talk?

All of a sudden, his foot looked fine when he was running lightning speed. You ever got an injection before? There's some tricks they can do to make your foot feel better. But it just was all week of gloom and doom MRI. T.Y. Hilton's foot is terrible. He's going against the best defense in the league. And T.Y. Hilton said, I'm finally going to have a good game here. Not finally. He's been good all year. Yeah. Stefan Diggs.

I was worried about him because it was the Rams all week. Everybody who asked me, him as a flex option, I was not recommending Diggs because it's just a tough matchup. He still was 3 for 42. Mike, you said he almost had a big touchdown? Yes, I can't remember the D.B. But the D.B. just stole it from him like it was his milk money. So, Diggs almost had a huge game right there. Yeah. So he also jumped on one of the fumbles from Adrian Peterson and saved the game.

for the team and you will get no points for that in your fantasy leagues but good contribution all right tight ends that did not perform charles clay has disappeared yeah what happened here charles one for six jordan cameron has never appeared one for six and gary barnage had the bad week on thursday night with the uh two for thirty five so moving forward are you barnage were okay starting absolutely

Charles Clay, we'd rather start somebody else? At this point, you have to, man. It's weird. How involved he was in the offense and to nothing now. I mean, that's multiple weeks of one catch. All right, so we have the Monday night game tonight. The Bears and Chargers are facing off. Let me ask you this. In our league of record, we have one guy who is down by six points, and he has Jay Cutler. And the other guy has...

He's only down by six? He has Martellus Bennett and Jeremy Langford. What are the odds that Cutler can overcome those by six? So he's got to outscore Langford and Bennett. By six with Cutler. So it's got to be all Alshon, Jeffrey. Or Wilson. Or Marcus Wilson or, you know. Yeah. I put it at a 35% chance. I think he's got to. I think he can do it. But the odds are not ever in his favor. I agree with Jason. I would go a little bit lower, maybe around 20.

But Alshon Jeffrey is the man, and Alshon Jeffrey is going to eat tonight. So you're starting rivers. You like Stevie, or do you like Malcolm Floyd? I like Stevie as in... Or do you like both? I do like both. I like both in this game. And people have asked, well, I don't get the Stevie Johnson love. The Stevie Johnson, it's a bit of putting pieces together. But Keenan Allen's gone for the year. We know this.

We believe that Stevie Johnson will slide into that role for the offense. At the beginning of the year, Philip Rivers was comparing Keenan Allen and Stevie Johnson saying, these guys are all basically interchangeable for me. And if a quarterback feels strongly about it and he's, that Stevie Johnson's taking that position, then of course I'm going to like Stevie Johnson better because you always want the, you would want Keenan Allen over Malcolm Floyd weekly.

So that's where I lean to Stevie Johnson, but I still like Floyd in a game with a beatable secondary. And you got to remember Stevie Johnson is coming off of an injury. He was coming off an injury before the Allen. You know, first week of the season, he was six for 82 in a touchdown. Second week of the season, he was five for 45 in a touchdown. Like he has performed this year. This is not just a guy coming into that role. This is a guy who has done it a little bit. And that was a guy who was not getting Keenan Allen's targets.

Right, which I expect him to get around double-digit targets. All right, we're going to take a couple minutes and hit the mailbag, answer some questions from the listeners. Mailbag. All right, if you got a question of your own, you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com and click on the submitted question button. Send us your question. We try to answer a few of them on the show as often as we can.

You can also find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. All right. Jared in Los Angeles is an Antonio Brown owner. Big Ben has heard again, what do I do with Brown? There's no better person to answer this question than Mike Wright, the Antonio Brown owner amongst us three. The good news is that Michael Vick will not be playing quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It will be Jarvis. Jarvis. Jarvis. I know. I want to do that every time, too. Oh. It's going to be Landry Jones. And Landry showed that. Jarvis Landry Jones is his name.

I like it. Jarvis Landry Jones. He has shown that he can get the ball to his playmakers. Antonio Brown had that over 100-yard game with Jones as the quarterback. It's against the Browns and the Browns are in really bad condition on their defense. So I feel perfectly fine starting him this week. If the news breaks that Big Ben is now out longer, which is still possible that could happen.

Then there could be an issue, but at least for the next two weeks you're okay because it's a good matchup and then he's not playing. Landry Jones, unlike Michael Vic, is a young guy who I feel like Antonio Brown if he came over to him and says, listen, you're going to throw me the ball. He'd be like, okay. And it would be the right decision because if you want to succeed, you should probably throw it to probably the best pure...

wide receiver in football or in the top five. And Jones, Jones gets the ball to Martavis as well. Jones has three touchdowns on the year. All three have gone to Martavis brain. Jason, Andy Hoffman in Tampa, Florida wants to know. Would you rather have Giovanni Bernard or James Starks moving forward? Both guys look like a 1A in a system with two RB1s competing for the top spot. Who do you put your faith in moving forward, Jason? That's, that's tough. It really comes down to who you put more faith in of Jeremy Hill and Eddie Lacey.

And I think at this point right now, there's just no way you could put faith in Eddie Lacey. So I think I'd rather have Starks. Because right now, coming up this week, I would rather start Starks than Gio personally. But that is volatile. So if you need somebody for the long term, if you're looking, you know, for this week, I would take Starks for the long term. Gio at least has his role carved out.

You know, Gio will touch the ball, and it's not like all of a sudden Hill's going to come and take everything. Would you argue then that Starks has the highest upside if you're deciding there? Yes. Because you know what Gio's role is, but Starks role could be complete RB1 if the groin injury isn't better, if Lacey can't get back on the field. Exactly. Higher floor is Gio, higher ceiling is Starks. All righty. Let's see here. Rest of season for Taylor. He says, hello.

It's been a while. Hey. Been a while. Hey. No, there's no, hey, hey. He was inactive. Hey. Oh, my gosh. Rest of season, Frank Gore or Chris Ivory, Mike? Oh, Frank Gore. Yeah. It's got to be gore. The tables turned so quickly. It's got to be gore. I wanted that quote out there in the world. It's not even close. I know. You got to have at least rhyme. I appreciated it. I appreciated it.

I don't know why it's in my head. It's Monday morning. Come on. There's nothing wrong with it. That's a fantastic song. How many carries? That's a great top 40 hit. Frank Gore got what? Like 29 carries? 28 carries, something like that. And he looked, he looked strong and good. Strong and good. He was. My Bradshaw's going to siphon some touchdowns. I do think Ivory will get it going back together. Nick Mangold is a huge part of that offense. Good friend of the show.

Nick Mangold. That's true. It came on the show. So as of now, it's Gore because the Colts seem to be getting the offense figured out. They have what you might consider an easy schedule moving forward. So I'm going to go ahead. Yeah, they're going to take care of business when it comes to the rest of the division. I think they're going to take care of it. Man.

What a horrible division. Yeah, yeah, that happens sometimes. Hey, quick update for everybody. Because, you know, I know you're just waiting with bated breath to find out what my one and four comeback team is doing. I won again. I'm five and four. You're five and four. I was one and four. I'm five and four. You've been withstanding a lot of victories and withstanding losses as well. Aaron Foster, I lost him, lost Dionne Lewis now, which is just sucks.

That's all there is to it. That's fantasy football. And this season has been especially cruel to owners. Wouldn't you agree? Yes. In terms of like Charles, Lev Bell, a lot of one, Charles Lev Bell, Ernie M Foster, Matt Forte, Dionne Lewis, does five RB-1s that you don't get to control that situation whatsoever. In something that I, that's why Lamar Miller, by the way, is the number four, three, or whatever you said. Everyone else is gone. Yeah. What happened to C.J. Spiller?

Nine snaps. Six snaps. Really? Yeah. Oh, okay. Six. So even worse. That's just a crazy situation that I thought needed to be mentioned real quick. Yeah, it's gross. So, hey, we'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow's the big waiver-wire show. We'll be recapping the Monday night game and getting you ready to sign those crucial additions for your playoff run. You want the playoff run. Absolutely. Yeah, we're getting close here. I mean, we're almost into week 10, so we got...

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