Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 4 Matchups, In-or-Out, & Daily Dose

The Saints, when you're a team whose defense is not your strong suit, I mean, the Browns are going to give up points. So you have a Jaguars from last year or a Saints situation, even the Colts whose defense hadn't been very great, where you just have opportunities for volume. So that's my take. What do you guys see prior rest of season? Do you agree in the wide receiver two with week-to-week wide receiver one upside? I agree with that. I think you're going to have most of the time a wide receiver two.

upside of wide receiver one but you will get those games i believe because it's the brown's offense where you know he he falls off a little bit but you're going to get those games with just about any wide receiver out there a j green will have a game where he just disappears happens every year so you know i i agree i think overall rest of season he should be valued right now as a wide receiver too does josh gordon return this year

No. No, I don't think Josh Gordon ever retains. Josh Gordon is done in Cleveland. And as far as, so let's address, do you drop Josh Gordon in a redraft league? Yes. I know yesterday I said, hold on a second. Yeah. I can firmly say yes. Okay. I would drop him now. Yeah. Cross the board agreement here. All right. Golden Tate, according to Jim Bob Cooter, they said they want him to get him, they want to get him more touches as the year goes on. The touches aren't a problem.

I think the problem is that Golden Tate isn't doing anything with him. Yeah, that's the problem. He used to be yards after the catch guy two years ago, and last year it came down a lot. Now you wonder if it's a trend. He also used to be a down-the-field guy. And now, you know, the yards on target are so short and small. He's getting so many by the line of scrimmage. And I don't know if that's just right now to kind of get him.

jump started and saying, hey, if we can't get him down the field, let's get him involved in the screen game and maybe get him going. I like the fact that they recognize they need to get them involved. You know, it's three weeks into the season. We jump off of guys way too quick. It's nice to hear this news. I definitely would not start Golden Tate until he proves that he's come back. But it makes me, you know, look, if somebody dropped them this news, I'll pick him up. Yeah, sure.

Okay. Jason, let me ask you this. I don't understand what happened on the show yesterday. I saw some people tweeting about it. Did you ingest or in sincerity recommend starting Stafford over Rogers this week? Oh, yeah. No, that was in sincerity. I really, really would because as it was pointed out to me, yes, Aaron Rogers is on bye.

And so I just like to be accurate. I want to make sure that my advice is golden. And I would definitely. I would have started Ryan Tannahill over Rogers. Yeah. See, that's a hot take. But no, my point was, was, you know, other quality, other quality quarterbacks that are playing. I think that you're going to be hard pressed to find one better than Matt. Don't back off the best fantasy advice you've ever given. Yeah, don't back off. I stand by it.

Texans coach Bill O'Brien is taking over play calling duties. Now, Bill O'Brien ran the offense two years ago. Last year, handed it to his offensive coordinator. This year, he has decided to take the reins back in the upcoming week. Not happy with what the offense did, obviously against New England, where they struggled immensely. You know, you never know if this is a good situation, a situation that will bring them out of a funk. I would like to see some more creative play calling.

So I thought that he was, I called him, what did I say, Bill O'Boring last week. Yep. It wasn't Bill. Yes. Apology. I know no apology because he could have taken the. Is a good coach. This, I am going to assume, is a good sign in the sense that they were very unhappy with their.

offense last week. And they're saying, we need to make a change and we need to be more offensive-minded. And that makes sense with losing the key piece of your defense saying, look, if our offense doesn't get it together, we're not going into the playoffs. And so this is good. I'm going to throw a name out there just to pay attention to in case something happens this week with him that you might want to stash him. And that's Tyler Irvin. I thought he was good coming out of college. He fit kind of the Dionne Lewis James White role. And Bill O'Brien was.

you know, formally from that type of a system, but they haven't used them at all. So just, just throwing them, you know, the deep sleeper look. They've used him on kickoffs, and he was. Well, yes, he had an issue. Yeah. All right. So we have yet to bring this segment back this year. And so we're going to do it now. We're going to break down all the injuries in this edition of in or out. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in?

Or out. In or out Russell Wilson. In, no doubt. In or out. Jamal Charles. I lean. I lean out. I think he's going to get a couple of snaps. I think out. Just firmly out. I lean out. Tevin Coleman. The ankle injury, been limited through a couple of practices, but I think that he plays. Yeah, he'll play. Chris Ivory. Play. Chris Ivory's in. Rashad Jennings. Ooh. I think he's going to be out. I think if you've got the cast on the hand and it.

It's not working. It doesn't work. I lean that way as well. All right. Let's move on to wide receivers. Michael Floyd. Dealing with the concussion. He has cleared the protocol, though, so I believe that he will play. But this could be the game we see John Brown take over or dominate the snaps compared to what it's been. So that's an end. Yes. For both of you. Yeah. Marvin Jones. He'll play.

Yeah, it is worth noting because he wasn't injured and then he was on his hamstring, but he will definitely play. Alshan Jeffrey. He had a hamstring issue in addition to the knee just added, man, it is so frustrating to own. Alshan, I'm going to say he plays, and I'm going to say he is a good fantasy option this week. I think he will. Breaking news, Marvin Jones is practicing on Friday to affirm your earlier. Excellent. Does Bryant? We will not play.

No way he plays. And he's not going to play for a couple of weeks. Sammy Watkins. He will not play. He's still not practicing. Brandon Marshall. He will play. And he's going to. Brandon Marshall, I'm struggling with the ranking of Brandon Marshall of the force feeding of targets with Eric Decker, who we're talking about next, I assume. If Eric Decker is out, is Brandon Marshall going to get those massive targets? If Decker is out, Marshall will be great.

I think it'll be great either way. This one, not this week. This one I want to talk about. Eric Decker. Yeah. I am going out, and I've said this from when the news was terrible, I am saying in, because Eric Decker is one hard SOB. He is out there. I feel like he could break his arm and he's going to play. But then if he's out, I look like an idiot. Muhammad's a new. Mike, do you think Eric Decker is playing? I...

I do. He's just too tight. I do too. Philip Dorset, by the way, questionable this weekend. The window's starting to close on him being an exciting option because Moncrief will be back in about a month. Dorset twisted the ankle, listed his questionable. You need to monitor him for the weekend. There might be better options with the injury. Yeah. Well, you know, what's fascinating to me is I actually had Dorset a little bit higher this week. I'm going to monitor and maybe take him out. But you got to keep in mind, he had a good DB on him this last week.

when he got that number two role, he could be kind of a post-type weekly sleeper if he's healthy. All right, tight-ins, Julius Thomas. It's a game-time decision with the elbow. Out of your lineup is what I would say. Because he plays that London game, it's just so scary to, you're going to wake up, forget to check the news. Just find a replacement this week. Jimmy Graham? Jimmy Graham, after his Monster Week, did not practice on Thursday.

Well, I believe, or Wednesday. So I think that he's actually going to sit. Today will be a big factor. If Graham doesn't practice today, he's out. Yeah, I'm going to say in. Antonio Gates. I'm going to say he's out with that hamstring. So Hunter Henry? Yep. Fire him up. Glennie Walker. In? I'm going to go with in as well. They need him badly. All right. Fair enough. Yeah, cool. I also, oh, one other news that just a bit of news that came through, Bryant did not practice to.

Further affirmed. Des? Oh, really? On Friday. Well, I just, just let people know. I am surprised that Des has not already been completely ruled out. But maybe that's some gamesmanship speaking of games. That's John Fox.

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Our independent podcast keeping the things going here. Let's get to the forecast. Fantasy forecast. Okay, let's do it. We've seen one game this week. It's time to talk about the second half of the games we reviewed. You know, if you didn't listen, yesterday's show had the first six games. So you could have, you can go back and listen to that if you want to catch up on any of the ones you don't hear on today's show. Let's talk about the Browns.

I mean, we talked a lot about prior what's happening with Gordon. So we're done talking about the Browns then. Yeah. No way, man. No, you still got the crow. Yeah. I love Michael. Do you do that? I love Michael. I don't think you do it on sound effects, no. I don't know the rules, guys. The Browns travel to Washington to take on the Redskins. Redskins heavy favorites, eight-point favorites at home, 45 and a half point over under. That's because Cody Kessler's the quarterback. Sure. And because they're at home.

and Cousins has looked better. In fact, I like Cousins a ton this week. Yes. I was going in my league of record, I was going to start Cousins over Russell Wilson before I traded Wilson away. So I think Cousins is a great option this week. What do you guys take? I love it. I love Kurt Cousins this week. From the Brown side, I love Crowell this week. He was my start of the week. Washington is giving it up to running backs. The Brown's running backs, they're averaging 6.1 yards per carry.

That's great. I mean, that's amazing. A 75-yard run. That's Hugh Jackson, man. We'll surely boost up your yards per carry. But the fact is Crowell is playing great football. And he's getting the Rock a lot. So I love him as a running back two start. Prior, we talked about he's a must-go. And Barnage. Barnage finally got some work last week. I think that he's an okay option of the barfie tight ends. I think he's a little bit on the top. He's a top layer of Barnager Rudolph.