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

When Brady knows he's going to be under pressure and they have to just be very methodical, the surgeon Patriots offense, but we have not seen that yet. If you have Edelman, are you waiting for a game before you roll him into the lineup or are you just rolling him out there? I still play him. He was speaking about his lack of statistics and just basically saying, at least his take was I'm fine physically. This offense goes to different people on different weeks. Sometimes it's your week. Sometimes it's not. Ooh, that sounds like a Patriots answer of Julian Elman is pissed off.

Maybe. All right, Mike, you're going to be at this one. You're doing it right. Sunday night football. I was going to be. My pops usurped you. Yeah. Yeah, you gave me a ticket. My dad called, give me backs on his tickets. No, I gave it back. Your dad actually was nice. He was like, no, you can go. And I was like, no, I'm not taking your ticket. The Seahawks take on the Cardinals in Arizona. You know, the Cardinals are two-point favorites at home.

which might be a surprise for some people with the Seahawks at 4 and 1. Cardle's sitting there at 3 and 3. 3. 3. This is a game with the 43 and a half point over under, so we're not talking a high-scoring affair. I think we'd all agree that these are two very good defenses. So what are the fantasy decisions being made here? We know David Johnson's not coming out of your lineup. Never. I want to ask about a couple guys on the other side of the ball.

Chris and Michael, Doug Baldwin, Jimmy Graham. How do you view those three guys this week? And speak maybe at length a little bit more about Baldwin and is he going to get back into the swing of being what he was last year? I saw a stat about Russell Wilson's passing numbers when he targets Doug Baldwin compared to any other receiver and they're so much higher, higher pass rate, higher completion percentage. I don't know if Doug Baldwin could get it going.

this week. I mean, I think he's still a fine play. You put him in there. But this, the offense is a little, is not what we saw at the end of last year when they had to go to these really quick passes. And Doug Baldwin was the extreme benefactor. We've seen the woke one soaking up nearly half of the touchdowns for the Seahawks. I know Jason wants to pump the brakes on Christa Michael this week. I, for me personally, I don't have that same approach.

We've seen the Cardinals give up points to running backs. Their defense has tightened up in the last couple weeks, but before the Matt Forte and the Jets' debacle last week. Well, they gave nothing up to Gurley. Right. But in the middle of that, you had Carlos Hyde, who had a nice game. They gave up over 23 points to the running back.

So I'm just saying that I'm not benching, Kristen Michael. Maybe you want to lower your expectations, but I think he's still playing. So here's the narrative, too, that I want to get into. We just talked about the fact that the Steelers only average one sack every 30 attempts, basically. The Seahawks are near the top of the league. They average a sack every 10.4 pass attempts, which means there's going to be pressure on Carson Palmer. So who's the beneficiary in the wide receiver core? Because to me, I think Larry Fitzgerald's got to be at the top of that list, especially in PPR leagues. You know, Larry plays inside, in the slot.

those quick outs, the run through the air type of passes that you saw a Thai Montgomery run last night where, you know, it's two yards in and out. I think if he has to get the ball out of his hands, Larry's kind of the number one target there. Also, possibly David Johnson in the passing game. Yep, I would completely agree with that. I don't, I'm not going to play Michael Floyd in this contest. I prefer not to play John Brown in this contest, but we saw Fitzgerald last year going to Seattle. We all remember, I guess the Drew Stanton dance was on a,

on an Ellington run. But Larry had himself a game. Drew Stan looked like he was doing a little bit of that on that David Johnson run down the side line last week. I saw him getting pretty pumped up. Yeah. So I think that covers that game pretty well. Let's move on to the Monday night game. And then I'm going to talk about Daily Dose here in a second. The Monday night game is the Texans at the Broncos. The Texans at the Broncos. Broncos heavy favorites in Denver. But the game has only a 40 point over under because you have a couple of

pretty stout defenses and pretty... It's less about the defenses to me, and it's more about the fact that the offenses just aren't... There's nothing alluring about them, right? I completely agree. You know, Simeon should be better at home this week, coming back off the injury, but the Texans have been very good against the pass. And so, to me, I am wondering this. Let me ask you this. I talked about Doug Baldwin. I'm facing this decision in a league. Would you start Anderson and Booker? Ooh. Because the...

Because the Texans are bad. The Texas give it up on the ground. I think they're going to give it up on the ground in this game from a yardage perspective. They haven't given up a ton of touchdowns to the running back, but I think they're so good against the pass. I just wonder if this game's going to be one on the ground. If you're owning, if you own Anderson and Booker, I probably wouldn't play Booker over Baldwin, but it was an interesting thought that it came into my head. Yeah, I think you can pivot that to just, is Booker becoming a flex-worthy guy?

After last week, we saw him, you know, bust off a couple huge runs. The number still say no because there's no volume there. Right. Single digits. That's where I lean is Booker is not there yet. Maybe he gets there after this game with a crazy. It's crazy how this is a decent matchup for running backs against the Texans. Yeah, while JJ Watt is out. Just saying it's crazy. How many pass attempts or how many completions happened last night for Aaron Rogers?

39. 39. So if you combine the average receptions given up by these two teams, it's 17 and 18. So you're talking about combined, they average less total receptions or completions given up than Aaron Rogers accomplished on his own last night. So I'm not expecting big things out of Hopkins or Fuller, Thomas or Sanders. If you have to pick them, I'm picking the Denver side of things. Sure.

At home, but they're not excited here. And not excited. I mean, how can you get excited for anybody except for this is going to sound hilarious? But Houston, Ryan Griffin, seems to have fallen behind C.J. Fedorowitz. Yeah. I think he's part of that Barfi tied-in group that you can play. Yeah. So what else in this game do you want to talk about? I'll just address the question of a lot of people are saying, what do I do with DeAndre Hopkins? Unless you have, for me, unless there's a clear-cut option.

Like you have a, it's, okay, it's kind of weird, but you're talking flex. Let's say you have a guy like Jacques Wiz Rogers where you know the matchup is so good. I'm okay going Rogers. Other than that, I'm going to leave Hopkins in and just hope for the, you get 50 in a touchdown. All right. Just personally for this one. Before we close out the show, a couple of updates to the news from earlier. Joe Flacco did return to practice on Friday.

So if you are a Wallace streamer this week, that has to make you happy. Basically, if you're on the Ravens, you know what I mean? You don't want to lose your quarterback. Welcome to Brian Horne from last night. We have more shady. Yeah, more shady news. He's now questionable. Look, Rex Ryan said we're not ruling him out at all. The fact that he's not doubtful. And he is, in fact, in the upper 50% of questionable coming off of two days ago.

Or yesterday when it was he's going to miss weeks. The problem now is that if he's active, does he get a reduced workload? Yeah, probably. I would think he would. We saw what happened with LaShawn McCoy last year. You should tell people what happened to your team this past week. Mike went out and he spent. So two weeks, two weeks ago, I kind of alluded to this that I bought Doug Martin, but two weeks ago.

I've kept getting passed. I kept missing out on trade offers. My team is at a point where it has to improve for our league if I'm going to contend for a championship. Two weeks ago, I saw an opportunity where a team has a very losing record. They look like they're about to sell. And I went and I bought T.Y. Hilton and Doug Martin for the long haul to improve my team. Since that time, so my running backs became LaShawn McCoy and Doug Martin.

You know what happened to those two guys. Sure. T.Y. Hilton, then, he returned to practice today, but he was not practicing at all earlier, and people, the news was, you can't, you can't guarantee that T.Y. Hild is going to play. I have Jordan Reed, who is, who is, who is, who is, who is. It just, like, this, this horrific chain of events. You almost went with Hoyer. Yes, and then, kind of a, I mean, I had.

Winston ahead of my ranking, so I said, okay, I'm sticking with this, even though you had the Green Bay secondary matchup problem. So I narrowly avoided that. But it's just been a disaster for the injury front for my team. Joe Hayden, unlikely to play giddy up, AJ Green. Yeah. Terrell Pryor, questionable for week seven, did not practice it all this week. Really don't think I can trust him. I'm going to be...

On my team, I'm going to be playing Doug Baldwin over him. Right. So, all right, that does it for today. Wait, you got something else? Well, we did not address the elephant, which is apparently Jason was hanging out with Chris Meaty, who Meaty came down with. Oh, my goodness. Yes. Chris Meaty was sick, so we cannot get him in. However, no daily dose on the show. However, go over to the Fantasy Footballers.com. We've got you connected. We got some Fandual articles going up. Yeah, we have picks for this week. So do not fear.

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