Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 14 Matchups, Quadruple Waterbet

Five touchdowns in that span was great. Now he's back at practice. Are you more excited about Josh Gordon over the back the playoffs or Chris Hogan returning? Gordon. Just because he's back, I don't necessarily expect Chris Hogan to play. They can rest him and get him fully recovered. John Ross, first round pick of the Bengals has been placed on injured reserve. When you say John Ross, it makes me giggle. Just.

John Ross finishes the year with negative fantasy points. Zero catches for a wide receiver, one carry, and a fumble. Yeah, I remember that play. He looked, I will say this, genuinely. When he took that jet sweep, he looked very fast. Yes, he is very fast. Until he fumbled. Okay. Marcus Peters, we talked about it. He's being suspended by the Chiefs. Okay. All right.

You're in the tailspin. I don't know how suspending your best player works. I mean, I get it. Send a mess. I mean, you have to, you have to do something with Marcus Peters. This is not the first time that he is absolutely lost control. And if you watched what happened in this game, this man completely lost control of his all emotions in his body. And so you have to do something with the player for his future. And unfortunately.

that's suspending him. When you said lost control, you have me thinking about your Costco purchase again. All right, tomorrow, remember, on Friday, we go through In-N-Out and we'll give you all of the updates on every injured player and what you can do to prepare guys like Zach Ertz, who's still in the concussion protocol. Will Trey Burton get the start there? Joe Mixon, didn't practice yesterday, but we obviously didn't expect him to having the Monday night game.

Will he be available this week, or will Gio Bernard be a solid start? Sterling Shepard with the hamstring injury. Hunter Henry, knee injury, not on the injury report. We'll update you on him. Carmen Williams and AP, all of those guys tomorrow. The big news for you today, injury-wise, is the Mark Ingram news that he's supposed to play tonight. And the Saints are supposed to get Marshawn Latimore back. That's great. That's great for the Saints secondary. That's great for their chance to slow Julio Jones, which is the goal, right? Yep.

And what else do we need to say? Get your Thursday night players out of the flex. Don't forget it now in the playoffs. Yes. Important time. Make sure you plug them into your running back slot or your wide receiver slot. Fill up those non-flexible roster spots first. The inflexible. That was the word. Inflexible? Is that a word?

So a good example would be if you have three great running backs and you're going to play Markingham tonight. Don't put them in the flex, put them in the running back spot so you can play a wide receiver just in case. Just in case one of your other two running backs gets injured in practice. Yeah, I really, by the way, people coming out of the woodwork with their fun playoff stories, getting into the playoffs. A lot of people, they listen to you, Jason, which is, I mean. Shocking, I know. I've set almost a life precedent that I don't do that, but I should.

Because they listened to you. They're 0 and 5 teams, 0 and 4 teams, 1 and 6 teams. They didn't give up. And that's exactly what we said, what you said in week 5 and 6 when people were desperate and crying and weeping. And you said, do not give up. Because right now is the time that you can take advantage of the waiver wire. You can take advantage of other teams giving up. Three weeks from now, we will get a ton of emails saying.

Oh my gosh, I started 0 and 4 or 1 in 5 or whatever the case was, and I just won the championship because I didn't give up. Hashtag foot clan title. If there's anything I learned from an American tale, the classic cartoon, never say never. Anything, wherever you are. That can happen. That happens. It can happen in reverse. If there's anything I've learned from outer space on a quest across the galaxy, it's never give up.

Never surrender. Nice. Brooks. Complete it. Never surrender. Yeah. We'll take it. I guess we'll talk about masks now. It's basically what Jason just said. I don't know what you're looking for. I'm looking for an inspirational quote. Fantasy forecast. You're looking for an inspirational quote? Yeah. And Brooks just copied Jason. It was incredible. He didn't know. At least he jumped in. It was incredible. I mean, it was one of the more inspiring things I've heard.

Never surrender. Never surrender. All right. My grip forms hammer. We are in week 14. The Indianapolis Colts at 3 and 9, they travel to Buffalo to take on the bills. And we don't have a line in this game, and that's because we don't have a quarterback in this game. We don't know if Tyrod Taylor and Nathan Peterman are going to be the start. You know, who will be the starter for Buffalo? We are in a situation now where you're looking at.

Buffalo is still with a chance at the playoffs. I pumped the brakes on Charles Clay based on the fact that we don't know if Taylor's backing, Clay hasn't been good since he's returned. He's still a little banged up. I mean, you're starting LaShawn McCoy, but outside of LaShaul McCoy, are there any must-starts on this roster? Must-starts, no. But Kelvin Benjamin has returned to limited practice. He is, nah, somewhat. You can't start him in the playoffs.

No, you can't start Kelvin Benjamin, but I think that Zay Jones is at least, he peaks my interest because the Colts secondary is so bad. And they're pretty solid against the run, especially the last six weeks. They are ranked eighth of giving up points to the running back, but they're still down at 22nd for points to the wide receiver. Yeah, I mean, I get that. I get the matchup play. But if it's Nathan Peterman and Calvin Benjamin is back,

That combination says to me there's no pass catcher that I can play. Because then you've got Zay Jones and Kelvin Benjamin splitting targets that are poor targets from Nathan Peterman. A lot of questions. I know Andy you said, okay, you got to play shady. A lot of questions. I've been fielding this week over.

Do I play him if Nathan Peterman plays? And in almost every situation, it has been a yes. In fact, every situation I've come up across so far, it's like, yeah, you're still going to play him. Just temper your expectations. He has the fifth most rushing yards in the NFL since Week 10 at 305 rushing yards. McCoy is too involved in that offense. Now, it...

It might not be a great day, but you cannot leave a guy. He's a lot like Julio, right? I mean, you don't. Somebody yesterday was asking me and say, oh, Julio, I'm worried about that. I'm like, okay, if you want to lose with 235 yards on your bench, you can bench Julio, but that's not going to feel good. No, it's going to feel bad. I had a question that kind of put me on the spot. I said, okay, you always start Julio, you get the great matchups, you get the bad matchups. They had two other guys that were locked and loaded, and the question became.

Julio or Robbie Anderson. Where would you go in that? Julio. It's still Julio. I mean, I would too. Robbie Anderson is just full liquid magma at this time. But he does get the matchup against Denver. So I think I would stick with Julio. All right. The other side, Brissette. He was throwing the ball deep when he started this year. But now over the last few weeks, he's throwing the ball deep the least of any quarterback in football. That doesn't help a guy that likes to go deep like Tyoy Hilton. No, it doesn't.

Man, what do you, Hilton is a great place to start here because how are you guys looking at TY this week? The only, how I look at TY is essentially he is a, he is the quintessential boom bust. He can get you absolutely nothing or he could go out and get 25 points. So I am usually benching TY Hilton. Now, the quick question of the day was if you're one of those just snuck in teams and you're playing against a great matchup,

you might have a spot that needs a guy like T.Y. Hilton, that glory play that says, yeah, I'm going to need a guy who can score 25, who can break off two, you know, screens that are taken to the house. But in most matchups, most playoff teams, I don't think you should be starting T.Y. Hilton because the risk is just too high of having a dead game. Jack Doyle? Yeah, the baby hands, I mean, he's been.

a little bit inconsistent these days. But what tight-in hasn't? Yeah, very, very fair. But, you know, coming off the game, only 16 yards. However, just two weeks ago, you know, against Tennessee, 94 yards, seven receptions. So in this tight-in landscape, you still have to have Jack Doyle as a top 10 option, right? That's the difference to me. Both T.Y. and Jack Doyle, boom, bust. They could, they could do good. They could go away.

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Well, yeah, 41 point over under. Vegas has it as a lower scoring game. You have two great defenses, and that's the focus here. All season long, these defenses have been great, and Minnesota has taken it up a notch against wide receivers over the last six weeks. So there are a lot of question marks because we talk about this. You're heading to the playoffs. You've got certain players or certain matchups. How confident can we be in them? You know, how do you temper expectations? How do you project something like the Minnesota running game? Latavius Murray, Jerry McKinnon, a split backfield against Carolina's

number one ranked run defense over the last six weeks. Yeah, it's extremely rough. I would roll. I still have some confidence in Latavius Murray in that workload. He's, and he's playing extremely well. Because I do, I believe that the Vikings will be in control of this game and they will do their best to ride Latavius Murray and grind out the clock. However, I still have faith. I still have belief.

in Adam Thielen, the elite wide receiver who came out of nowhere. Because the Panthers defense for all of their, how stout they are, they're still ranked 21st over the past six weeks in points given up to the wide receiver position. So I still have confidence going out of Thielen. Probably not so much with Stefan Diggs at this point. Nice thing is we've seen Case Keenum play at an elite level. 74% completion percentage this week 10. Jason.