Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 8 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, News

We'll need to refine that groove they had going in the passing game. I know that they're having great success right now with Devante Freeman, but I would hope that the Falcons see that Freeman can't sustain that kind of a workload. You can't have him touching the ball 25 to 30 times a game with that frame. Maybe you can, but in my personal opinion, just watching what happens to other running backs, you can't do that. So they need to get.

Matt Ryan back on track. Yeah, Julio Jones might catch five touchdowns this week. That'll work. For my quarterback, I mentioned him in passing earlier. Jay Cutler is my start of the week. He's at home. He's got his tools back that he hasn't had for a while, and I think he's got a decent matchup. So I am fine playing Jay Cutler this week, and he's available. He was also my stream of the week because he's available in almost all leagues. So get him and play him.

I'm taking Matt Stafford at the Kansas City secondary. Yeah. Because the Kansas City secondary, they've stunk against the past. I'm going to buy into the fact that new offense just plain has to be better than the old offense. It's just a, you know. The JBC? You know, when the water's all the way out of the glass, you...

It's either out of the glass or it fills, and so it's got to get a little bit better. So I'm okay going Stafford in this game. We talked about Tate and Calvin maybe getting some more targets this week, down the field as well. They're going to focus on the downfield passing game. So my wide receiver start of the week is actually Tavon Austin. It's interesting. I went down the line a little bit, okay? And so this is your flex play. I'm okay flexing him. At home against San Francisco. San Francisco is 30th against the wide receiver position.

Gurley is opening things up for that game, and Austin is actually strung together enough semi-consistent games of late to give me some confidence in him. This is approaching Mike Ditka levels with that one. Yeah. Right, right. So Tayvon Austin is may start of the week. I'd be okay flexing him this week. If you want...

a confident Jason's start of the week. Well, you got it here. I am very confident in this start of the week, which is Dante Moncrief. Yeah. Against Carolina? Carolina's great pasty. Hey, what? But Jason. Josh. Is that the voice of public opinion? That was. What does the voice of public opinion say about your pick of Moncrie? But he's going up against Carolina's the third best past defense. And I would say,

That's a new voice, public opinion. However, public opinion, what you have to look at is Josh Norman is incredible when it comes to covering wide receiver ones, which is why I've got T.Y. Hilton is like my 40-something wide receiver. But because of that, you have a great number two here that's going to be able and going to need to catch passes. If you look at the games that Carolina has played, they have given up only two big games the whole year.

One was week one to Alan Hearns, not Alan Robinson, and one was week four to Vincent Jackson, not Mike Evans, gigantic games. So I expect Moncrief to have a good game here. If you've got him, you're probably him and hawn because of Carolina Dee. Put them in. That's great. I'm going with Martavis Bryant. Big Ben is back. Yes, it's a tough defensive match up against Cincinnati, but there's just too much. I think the Steelers have too many weapons. And Antonio Brown,

I don't think there's a happier person in the United States of America than Antonio Brown right now saying my quarterback is back. I'm finally going to be an elite wide receiver again. And you have to defend Antonio Brown. You have to defend Levion Bell. And I think this just opens things up from Martavis Bryant. And he does what he does. He does alien things with the football. I love Bryant. All right. So that leaves us with.

The tight-in position, Mike, kick us off. My tight-in, I'm going with Lederius Green. Philip Rivers has no choice right now. None whatsoever but to throw the ball. I think Antonio Gates will be out. He's trying to find that MCL that he's so enamored with. And Lederis Green, if you look at his numbers, even when Gates was back and both tight-ins were playing, Green was still giving you very capable tight-end weeks.

Green is one of those elusive guys that we've been waiting years for him to break out. And it's happening right now. People aren't really talking about it. This is the breakout. This is what is happening right now with Ladarius Green. So I love him. Assuming Gates is out, if Gates is in, then he's still a good start. So my tight end start of the week is a mostly forgotten about man right now.

Crockett Gilmore. You could probably get him on your waivers. He started the year strong, got injured, and was dropped and was forgotten about. I think he's got a baseline of 5 for 50 this game going up against a very suspect tight-in defense in San Diego. They're going to be throwing the ball a lot to keep up with Philip Rivers. I think he's got, if he's searching for that touchdown, he gets in. I've got him as my number six tight-in this week.

I'm going to go ahead and stay in the old man flames with Ben Watson. He's been pretty consistent this season. The Giants can't cover the tight-end position. And so I think we'll see another kind of, you know, in the same vein of what Jason said with the baseline being fairly high for Watson. He's been targeted a lot. They're actually playing pretty well. The Saints are playing a lot better than they had been. And so I like Watson as kind of the past-catching tight-in target there. So Ben Watson, my tight-in start of the week. I dig it. That wraps up our starts of the week.

Well, you guys got anything else going on? We've got, you know, like a minute left before the show's got in. We got the daily dose. Tomorrow? Dose coming up tomorrow? Yeah, we'll have that. Yeah, let's preview tomorrow's show. So we got the daily dose. The rest of the games. And we got our man, Joe Juan, the FF underscore scientist, is dropping it hot. Woo!

Yeah. It's hot. The one believable set of the week. Hot staying in the flames. Yeah. So we've got good stuff for you tomorrow. Be sure to check out the website, the fancy footballers.com where you can submit your questions directly to us. If you got an urgent question, we can get back to you quick. Let us know about it. Thanks for listening to the show. Thanks for those iTunes reviews. And we'll go ahead and catch you tomorrow. Sound good? It sounds great to me, guys. I don't know. What do you think about it? Sounds good. I'd love to talk to you guys tomorrow. Okay.

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