Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 7 Matchups, In-or-Out, Bye Bye Bears

Then it comes out. Don Jackson is going to start. Then it's like Nile Davis is active, but it's going to be kick returns, not a lot of carries. Ty Montgomery. I mean, and then Don Jackson gets hurt. Oh, Professor X. I mean, Don Jackson went from the practice squad to the greatest luck in the world to losing your shot because of an injury. Did you get to see the entire game? Most of it? Yeah, I think so. So you saw the shot that...

That Professor X took. He just got blown up. You really want to call him Professor X. And nobody knows why. Very bad. Because his middle name's Xavier. Yeah, he actually goes by Xavier on... If you added him on ESPN, he's Don Xavier Jackson. They changed that. They pulled that out. What? Yeah, now he's just John Jackson. They pulled his middle name out. If your name is... Got to keep it tight. Look, if your name is Don Jackson, look, I mean, that's just a plain name. Sure. You got to get Xavier in there. Yeah.

That's sweet. That improves your name 300%. Yeah. You can drop the Xavier when you go into insurance sales. All right. Odell Beckham Jr. in or out. Going in. Julian Edelman. In. Ty Hilton. Did I say Ty? Oh, in honor of Jason.

Oh my goodness. This is how fast I'm going through this. T.Y. Hilton. He returned to practice. He's missing a couple of practices every week, but he's expected to play. That might have been my worst moment on the show. By the way, Jason did want us to tell people that, in his opinion, buying low on Alshan Jeffrey might be a good idea because if Cutler returns, you know how Cutler is with Alshan. Yeah, that was a great point. Thank you for bringing it. Wing it, sling it. You know, Alshan will have some upside. He hasn't scored this year, though, and he's making everybody's.

Eyes rolling to the back of the head. But I bet you can get him super cheap. Will Fuller. Well, he's expected to play, but. Denver. Denver. Jordan Matthews. Full practice. I expect him to play. Terrell Pryor. I don't think that he's going to play. And if he does play, limited. Limited with he's been missing time with a hamstring, missing practices. I think he's a guy I would pivot away from. Okay.

All right. Robert Woods is not practicing today. And he's been in a boot for the last couple days. Not looking good for Robert Woods. A few more names here. Alan Hearns? I think he's going to play. Deshaun Jackson. This is the big question for me. D. Jack's incredibly juicy matchup, but missing practices. Today, I have not gotten an update if he practiced today or not. But when you miss Wednesday and Thursday, you got to assume the.

The worst. He will at least have to plan for it. Okay. Other wide receivers of note, Dorset. Who cares? I said of note. Steve Smith. Yeah, I don't think he's going to play. John Brown? I think he'll play. I think he's going to play. How excited are you about John Brown, though, this week against Seattle? I'm not. All right, tight ends. Jimmy Graham. He should be in. Jimmy Graham will just not practice at all, which, to be fair, I mean, Seattle's.

giving him the time off, which he probably needs on that. It's smart. He can go all out. Tyler Eifert. Tyler Eifert. Welcome back. Welcome back. Look, he practiced. I think he's going to play. And if I have Tyler Eifert, I've been stashing him. And he's active. Unless something very negative comes out this weekend. I'm going to play Tyler Eifert against the Browns. I'm going to hope for that touchdown or two. It helps Dalton? Yes, tremendously. Jordan Reed.

uh jordan reid's been a very curious case with his concussion he well because he came out and said he was hiding it yeah i mean i'd not good it's that's a tough situation for players but he he practiced limited he had the no contact jersey on he didn't practice thursday he's seeing a specialist today i doubt that he will play but the the thing with reed is if he's a if he is allowed to play you play he's just it's the rule 86 yeah i mean he's just full board too i mean this is not something that you if he's a

You know, if he's active, you play him. He's not nursing a hamstring. Right. Julius Thomas. He'll probably play. Who cares? Yeah. Eric Ebron. Nope. Charles Clay. Yes. And Charles Clay, for those who looking for just a gross barfie tied in that you got to play, if Robert Woods does not play, Charles Clay has been catching passes. I think he's an okay start. All right. Now, last week, we do this every Friday, or not every Friday, but we do it every week.

We play on the draft app. And last week, it was me versus you versus Jason. Yes. And five players per team. And I'm happy to say on the back of my running backs, decent running backs last week. Yeah, who did you? LaShawn McCoy, you're the slippery fish. David Johnson. Oh, my God.

So I had them combined with Cam Newton, AJ Green, and Amari Cooper. So you bench the rest of your team, and you still beat me. I beat Jason by 14 because he actually had Drew Breeze in that monster game and O'Dow Buckham Jr. And then Mike, I doubled up on your score. Yeah. You did have Lamar Miller, but you got nothing out of Mr. John Brown. I went with the power. You went with double Browns. I went with the Palmer Brown stack. So, yeah, every week we jump into the play draft app. It's awesome. Yeah, it lets us keep that kind of.

preseason fun of drafting a team. It's not salary cap daily fantasy sports. It's drafting. And so we do that every week. Mike and I just this morning did a head to head. So you can do it in leagues. You can do it head to head. We did a head to head to head. And I'd like to take a little poll from the listeners on whose team's going to win. I'm hoping to I think I'm almost undefeated against you both all year when we've done head to head. Almost except I've certainly won.

Maybe it's just Jason. Maybe I just shut Jason down. So today, we did a head-to-head. After the failure of my Palmer Brown stack said, screw this. I'm going chalk. Yeah. I'm going chalk, baby. All right. So at quarterback, I have Bortles. You have Brady. Yep. We'll give you the advantage there. The advantage. At running backs. Oh, goodness. I didn't see you running backs. Yep. You have Love Bell and David Johnson. I have DeMarco Murray and Devonta Freeman. Now, Murray.

is one of my favorite matchups of the week. He's got Indianapolis. So is Freeman. I mean, I like, Freeman. I like your running backs a lot. I just happen. You have the names, but they're going up again. David Johnson, Seattle, Lev Bell, against New England. I think it's close. And then wide receivers, I went with a couple of great matches. Mike Evans versus San Francisco and Alan Robinson against Oakland. Yeah, you, you fully went matchups. That's true. All of them are matchups. You still have names.

I felt like I went matches last week. So I'm just taking the big names. Brady, Bell, and Johnson. And then your wide receivers are AJ Green and Julio Jones. I went to the president and I said, give me the coats. Because I need the big guns. You got the launch codes? Yes. So we'll see who wins this week. I'm curious. I think people are going to vote for you with those names. Maybe they can see between the lines. Maybe they're on my level. So, hey, if you want to play with us on the draft app, you can go over to playdraft.com.

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what you call expert drafts? Yeah. They'll take the top players out. You're where you would kill my strategy from this week. Sure, sure. So we're going to get into the rest of the matchups, the fantasy forecast. Before you do that, we do want to thank the sponsor of today's show, our good friends over at Harry's. All right. What do you love most about Harry's, Mike? What do you think? What's your wife love the most about Harry's? What I love about Harry's is that my wife enjoys them.

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Me and Ty went out there. Goodness, somebody has to make up for Jason not being here, and apparently I volunteered today. He leaves an aura. An aura of stupidity. Grammatical and spelling issues. Look, I need some help in these matchups. All right. I need to overcome Jordan Howard. I'm sure there are people out there that need to overcome Cameron Meredith or Brian Hoyer.

Well, I'm not sure if you were going to do it with the Ravens and the Jets matchup. Is that where we're starting? The wise guys have this as a 40 point, 40 and a half points over under. They do not expect much to happen. But even with that, I think you have a couple good fantasy options in here. Terrence West is emerging as a stud. He's passing the eye test. Now he's got the opportunity. He's getting the workload. He got in the passing game last week.

I mean, he's passing the thigh test, too. The big old thighs. The MJD thigh test. Getting into the end zone. Yeah. I mean, he's playing, you know what? I can't think of anybody in preseason like two years ago. We talked about this. Ingram looking special in preseason, different players. Yeah. This preseason, it was Terrence West. Yeah, absolutely. You could see it. I mean, we, we had all, you know, we were planning and hoping for that Dixon takeover. I don't think it's going to happen now. And Terrence West is the reason. Oh, Dixon is simply a handcuff. Yes.

I completely agree. You go over to the other side, Forte and Powell versus the number one running defense. No, not good. Not good. We've talked pretty at length about the Jets and the circumstances behind center. You're not starting Gino Smith. I still like Brandon Marshall a lot, though. Sure. I mean, yeah, because you have to, I mean, you're going to throw the ball. You're going to be, you know, your past defense has been bad. You haven't played well, and, you know, the Ravens.

Look, it's going to be Marshall. He's big enough to do it against Patrick Peterson when you know it's only him. I think Marshall's fine. I think everybody else is stay clear. You look at the numbers. The Ravens' offense is scoring 10 points a game. That's bad, right? That's 29th in the league. Until we take a look over to the Jets. The Jets are scoring eight points a game. That puts him a dead last. So like I said,

Not a lot of offense, but there's at least a couple guys who I'm okay playing. How difficult is it for their owner to sign the check each week for Ryan Fitzpatrick? You think that that's one of those, my pin is blue. Like you can barely, you just can't. Ryan Fitzpatrick's my quarter, bu, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not good. Hey, you've heard my take. You deserved it. So with Steve Smith likely to miss is, you know, is Wallace?

To me, Wallace would be the play here on the wide receiver corner because if Flacco plays and you have Wallace and they want to take some downfield shots, the Jets secondary hasn't been good. Yeah. Another low over and under. Another game sure to be not as great for fantasy as you'd hope. The Vikings and the Eagles. By the way, I'm positive, pretty positive that the Vikings played the Bears and Matt Barkley next week.

That might be the first negative yardage game in the history of the NFL where a team, I mean, I've never said trade for a defense. But if you need a win. Look, the Vikings are already the best defense in the league. And then watch that be a trap game. Matt Barclay comes out and smokes them. No, not going to happen. Man, my almost upset looked great in the third quarter when it was 10 to 6. Well, it looked great until the horror broke his arm, man.

All right, Vikings, Eagles. Eagles are underdogs by three points, 40 point over under. You've got Bradford, you've got Wants. You have the committee of McKinnon and Ozziata taking on the committee of Matthews and Sproles and Smallwood and Barner. Oh, my. I steer clear of pretty much all running backs in this game. I mean, you have two defenses that have been, you know, the Vikings obviously elite. The Eagles have been pretty good. This game's in Philly.