Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Fantasy Football Questions, Mailbag

Charles in Boston. That's the one we just read. Super duper. All right. Michael in Boston. Should I start Lamar Miller or Latavius Murray this week? The dolphins face the bills and the Raiders go into Pittsburgh. They're both road games. Who would you start if you had to choose between those? That is a close one for me.

It's really, really close. Standard league. I think both guys are going to be decent, but I would lean Latavius Murray. Latavius Murray has been doing it week in, week out this year. I know he had those two benchings for fumbles, but even during those games, he was performing well, and he's done it against good matchups. You look at this last week. He had a tough matchup, and he ran right through it. So I would go Latavius Murray. Yeah, it's a Murray runs through it. Oh, is that like a river runs through it, choke? Just move on.

That was a stretch. Very close for me, but I'll lean Latavius Murray as well. What do you guys think about Murray rest of the season? If the same question between Miller and Murray rest of season, do you have a guy that you prefer? Is this still Murray's same answer? It's probably Murray, man. I'm jumping in. Me and me and the Raiders. We are best friends now. All right.

Yeah, Lamar Miller is a guy I see with a higher upside but a lower floor. So you're going to have a little bit more volatility from Miller going forward if you need the big games. I kind of lean Lamar Miller here just because when you get in the playoffs, you need those big, big weeks. Latavius, I see, is really solid, like a great number two. Yeah. Ricky in Cleveland wants to know which two running backs does he start this week from this McCluster of running backs. PPR.

This is PPR. Yeah, PPR League. Alfred Blue, Theoretic, T.J. Yelden, McCluster, as I said, and Gio Bernard. Yelden is probably in automatically for me. He's locked and loaded for me, too. Yelden's been very solid, and he's getting better. I take Bernard. And I would take Bernard with the PPR. The question is, it's a Thursday night game against the Browns. That sounds very much like a hill of a game. Yeah.

Ooh. Hey? All Hill will break loose. So that means Joe Bernard is going to get about 30 points. Right. So go with Geo Bernard. Yeah. And while I love theoretically in a PPR, I don't love him on a biweek. Yeah, I wouldn't start biweek guys. Historically, you know, I looked at the metrics on that. Historically speaking, biweek guys have underwhelmed. Yeah. Yeah, they have not put up solid fantasy production. We had a guy in our league start Austin's Farian Jenkins last week.

injured and he put up the same amount of points as a buy week guy so that's kind of what you're looking at for buys uh get it together game yeah shout out get it together game oh blast oh i stick a fork in him all right tray in spartanburg south carolina all right who's got the best rest of season outlook randall

Emmanuel Sanders. I love this question because one of these guys has been far better than the other one coming in, but I believe rest of season it's still going to be Randall Cobb. He is getting over his shoulder injury while Emmanuel Sanders has just entered into his. And I believe that after this Carolina week, I don't like the matchup this week for Randall Cobb. But after that, the schedule gets really good for Cobb. His health looks completely back and I think he'll

return to that wide receiver one status that we've been waiting very long for him to get to. Emmanuel Sanders also has a pretty delightful schedule with just a couple bumps in there with the Patriots game, most notably. You guys notice that Jason has very rosy outlooks for his current roster. Lamar Miller, Randall Cobb. I agree. The future's bright for Jason. I think better days are coming for Randall Cobb. I do, too. And I'll take the...

Superstar quarterback who's in the prime of his career. Yeah, I agree. You could focus on the recent game and be discouraged by it, but I wouldn't. Or games if you're the Randall Cobb owner. Right, right. But I mean, more specifically. For Rogers. I mean, they played each other last game, and obviously the, you know, the Packers didn't fare well. So Nick in St. Louis, should I start Brandon LaFell or Tavon Austin in the Flex?

this week. Other two receivers are AJ Green and Emmanuel Sanders. PPR. PPR. We just talked about Tavon Austin where he is getting it done every week, but it's on such limited work. It's low catch. It's really hard to trust him. If you want to go for it, I'm not going to stop you. That's not a mover I think, oh, that's just crazy. You can't do that. But I would still lean the fell. He was on the field for over 80% of the snaps.

for New England, who is putting up over 30 points a game. So I'm going to go with Brandon LaFelle. I'm going to agree with you. I'm going to lean for LaFelle. And we'll make it unanimous. I just like the matchup against the Redskins a little bit better. All right. Jared in Los Angeles. Rest of season question. These are great. Jordan Reed or Tyler Eiffert. Oh, man. Holy guacamole. Yeah, that's...

That's such a split. I can answer it. It's going to have to be Tyler Eifert. Even though Jordan Reed on a per game when playing basis has been just as good, actually better than Tyler Eifert, you have to have that caveat, right? You have to say, well, that's if he's out there. I mean, before the season, we were high on Jordan Reed, but we said,

How long is it going to be before he gets injured, and it wasn't that long? And so how long is it going to be, you know, over and under on Jordan Reed missing another game? You know, do you expect him to miss another game the rest of the season? Probably. Probably just based on history. So I would, if I had to have one of these guys, I'd like either, but I would much rather go Tyler Eiff. If you're the gambler, right? And you want to go, go big, you go with Jordan Reed. I think.

I got to just go to Eifford side because even with the gambling side of things, Eifford's so high on the list of tight-ins that I want that it's, you know, if this is like Jordan Reed or Eberin or something, you know, I'd be like, oh, just, you know, run with Reed and let it burn down. Jordan Reed or Barnage? It's Barnage. Barnage. But Barnage is the hard. The hard part of this is the rest of season. Really? So rest of season, no, I'm saying rest of season. Would you rather have Tyler Eifer or Gary Barnage?

Gary Barnage. Barnage. Really? Workload. I am so late to the train. I guess I just... You got to jump on, man. Go look at what he's doing. No, I realize what he's been doing because I've been trying to throw cold water and I can't. I mean, there's been maximum barnage happening. Stay on those flames. I mean, there's a... He's a barnyard dog. See, he's the barnacle. So you're telling people right now, you got Tyler Eifer, go trade him for Gary Barnage.

Not necessarily. Well, if you can one for one it. Let me ask you this. You got Gary Barnage. Do you go and trade for Tyler Eifer? No, you hold on to Barnage. Yeah. Okay, I'm just saying I would rather have it. Well, here's a follow-up. Barnage or Gates? Barnage. Barnage. Barnage just because of the injury, but that's close to me. All right. If Keenan Allen misses any period of time, Antonio Gates is going to, as long as he can get back in tune with his MCL.

Because we know the MCL's big. A big part of his game. We saw that as last week. It's a very important part of the knee. Martinez in New Mexico. Is Jordan Matthews still a must-start player? No. No. But he's a guy that I don't want to cut. I'd rather have him on my bench. I've got a name for everybody. Is a startable player, but definitely not a must-start player. This is the part of the show where my selfish desires in my own leagues get destroyed.

because obviously we're here for the people. We're here for the Foot Clan. Yeah, what are you doing? I'm signing Nelson Aguilar and stashing him in some leagues, not because I think it's this week. You know, he's practicing again. Huff has done nothing with the opportunity. Jordan Matthews is struggling. Aguilar was the top pick. He's sitting there on your waiver wire in most leagues. If I had to grab a guy with later season upside potential, I'm taking a chance on Aguilar. Maybe it's just me.

But he's been, you know, he battled the injury. But they got, they need somebody. If both Matthews and Aguilar are on the waiver wire, who would you grab? It's Matthews. Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right. Barron in Houston. Oh. Are McMannis and Gaskowski, the only kickers you keep through the bye weeks? He has Hauskabai coming up. Doesn't know if he should drop him or not. He is ranked fourth among kickers.

Great question, something we debated at lunch a little bit. I'll let you guys speak to it. I got my own thoughts. Those are the only two that I think are absolutely, I would keep them and not drop them through a buy. The only other guy that is in that ranking to me, Houska wouldn't be there for me. My... Houska, I think, is pretty close, but I am a Justin Tucker owner in many formats, and I'm going to do my best to hold on to him. And that's kind of what I was going to say. You know, I...

They might be the only two guys. They may not. It really depends on your team. I mean, if you're in line for the playoffs, I don't see a reason why you can't stash an extra kicker for a week. You know, that might be faux paw on the beginning of the year when you're waiting for breakouts and you're losing or these things. For me, I've used a lot of my bench spots on playoff prep. Yeah, we're getting into the point of the season where it's not uncommon to see my roster or Andy's roster.

holding two defenses because we know a good matchup is coming. And in hand, so like handcuffs become more important if you know it's a solid handcuff, of course. And multiple defenses and weird things like holding onto a kick around by. These things come into play now in the season. The thing that is going to separate listeners of this show from their league mates is going to be one, two, three of the little things every week.

And a lot of that is going to come down to the kicker or the defense, unfortunately, just based on the fact that scoring in leagues, you know, it's pretty significant for those positions. It's going to come down to handcuffing the back or grabbing the waiver wire ad. And you do one or two, three of those things, and you're just putting the odds in your favor week to week. That's the goal. That's why we exist is we want to put the odds ever in your favor. Yeah, so there you go. Oh, that's funny.

It's like I knew the quote. I didn't, I didn't even know where it came from. It's just in my head. I read this on a mill card once. Right, right. On the cup at Chipotle. Then I hear that, and I'll be honestly, my first impulse was X-Files? Oh, that's funny. And I'm like, oh, no way, that's more like that. Yeah, I mean, you might have been octave high or something. Bob? Immaculate pitch. I'll remind you. That's what I call me. I know. So you were probably dead on. In the alleys. All right, Bob in Los Angeles.

In the flex, should I play the resilient and rising Michael Crabtree, the new starter, Ronnie Hillman, the need for Sneed, or Devante Adams? It's a pretty good group to flex in here. Well, I throw Devante out, by the way. Yes, Devante is definitely out. He's out for me. Well, he's playing Carolina and he didn't look very good and wait and see on it. He's a guy on our waiver wire show yesterday. I almost brought up as a wait one more week. He will be on more waivers after Carolina.

His schedule opens up. All right, so who is it? This is a tough pick. It's crap people, man. Crab people. Well, let's look at the matchups for people. The Raiders play in Pittsburgh. Hillman takes on who? Who does he have? The Colts. And Sneed is facing the Titans. Sneed is a great play this week. And for Ronnie Hillman. I'm taking Hillman. Ronnie Hillman, the Coobes came out.

And he said they're going to continue to split. C.G. Anderson looked pretty good. This is a Bermuda triangle here because I'm going Sneed. I already looked at the board here. I don't have the drop. It's hard for me to bet against Snee. You don't have the drop ready? I didn't put the drop in there yet. Well, then I won't do it. You've ruined it. Do you want to try to find it while you talk about it? Mike doesn't. He's like, I don't want to take this bet because Willie Sneed's the best pick. It's between Sneed and Crabtree for meat. It's, it's.

Crabtree's been great lately. I just really want to build you up on Crabtree so you'll take this Bermuda Triangle water bet. Wait, so the bet would be... I would be taking Willie Sneed. You would be taking Andy, Ronnie Hillman, and Mike would be taking Michael Crabtree. So we didn't help our listener, but we might have helped the show. Did you find it? Yeah, go ahead. Bermuda Triangle Waterbat.

Yes. All right. Our first ever official. Bermuda Triangle. Sometimes things happen just for novelty. Just for the novelty. Bermuda in all caps. Let's be honest. I don't want to be betting Ronnie Hillman at any time in the future. And you have. And I have. Did I lose the Brandon LaFelle, T.Y. Hilton bet? Brandon LaFelle with his four for 48. You lost because T.Y. Hilton.