Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 2 Mailbag Questions, Trade Questions, Start/Sit

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I feel like that's really tempting to me because Greg Olson is an ultimate buy low. I think his value is where you can get him for Chris Ivory. If you add Doug Martin, that's a need position there. If you've got, you know, garbage tight in. He already has Jordan Reed. Yeah, then probably not. I think that ivory can be a solid too all year long. We had Nick Mangold on and he talked about how ivory looks.

different. And I've heard a lot of things coming from the Jets organization that Ivory looks the best that he's looked since being up in New York. And he was a great runner in New Orleans. He just didn't get freed. And now he's finally freed. There's no Chris Johnson taking reps away from him. It's Chris Ivory. That's the guy who's going to get all the goal line work. I'm not moving him right now. So from a cell high perspective, you're kind of, just like Carlos Hyde, it's a position of.

sustainability, you envision them to be able to keep it up. Right. Well, and let's say someone, an extreme panic, like we were talking about earlier, let's say someone freaks out, like, I will give you Adrian Peterson right now for Chris Ivory. Yes, then I will trade Chris Ivory, but unless I'm getting blown away by an offer, then I'm not moving him. Fair enough. All right, here's a tight-in question. We still don't really know which tight-ins are going to do it.

for the year. I mean, it's been one week. We see some ups, some downs. This owner, Leon and Mira Mesa, says he has Vernon Davis and Richard Rogers. One, should he address this position? And two, who should he drop to sign if you want him to sign somebody? Here's who's available. Saffarian Jenkins, Austin Saffarian Jenkins, Jordan Reed, Heath Miller, Larry Donnell, and Brent Selleck. So should he address it? And if so, who should he drop? Yes, for sure.

I think there's two or three guys out there that I like better. Two or three guys that I like better on your waivers than either Vernon Davis or Richard Rogers. Who should you drop? Probably both Vernon Davis and Richard Rogers. Only carry one tight in. Grab another RB flyer. And then I would pick up probably ASJ. Did you say Jordan Reed was out there? Yes. Oh, then Jordan Reed. Yeah, for me, it's... I like Reed more than ASJ. Yeah, I would rank them Jordan Reed, and then I would actually take Heath Miller.

At least for these couple games. He looked really good. He's going to get extra targets. He might score a touchdown this week. With Martavis out, and his value may go down. But then after the next three weeks, you can readdress the situation. All right. Here is another trade question. Joey and Bocca Raton. So should he trade C.J. Anderson for Mark Ingram and Pierre Garsohn. It is a PPR league. Hmm. That's, no, I'm not going to do it.

I'm still, C.J. Anderson's upside is just tremendous. They've got to get something going in Denver. It was just one week. I think the Baltimore defense is very good. And if Peyton Manning, let's theorize, if Peyton Manning, the demise is happening right in front of us, what are they going to do? They have to run the ball. They don't have a choice. And while the offensive line has looked shaky,

at best. They have to run the ball, and Anderson is a much better fit for that than Hillman. Hillman is a nice auxiliary guy. Hillman is a Giovanni Bernard to me. He's not a guy who can sustain it and be a workhorse. I would agree with that. Yeah, I agree. I think it's just mostly a matter of what we feel about Ingram. Because Ingram, I like, Ingram, though. Didn't he catch, he caught like eight passes? It was, you know, he's not thought of as a PPR guy.

But they were using them that way in the preseason, and they used them a lot that way in game one. So the value of Ingram to me is higher than I expected it to be. Preseason, I've got CJ higher than Ingram, but Ingram was pretty close already. Right, but does the Ingram, does that change once C.J. Spiller is back? I think he's not going to catch eight balls a game, or he'd, you know, lead the history of the NFL from the running back position. So I do expect that that would change a little bit. So would you make the trade or would you stand pat?

I would not make the trade, no. I don't draft a guy in the top five, six, seven in the draft and trade him in week two, unless his legs fell off. I mean, I just got to give my guy a shot. Otherwise, I've completely blown the value I used in the draft. So I can't see a circumstance where I do that right away. All right. So here's a waiver question, Des injury related. Luke in your teeth, yo teeth.

No, your teeth, Andy. Yeah, I know. All right. He lost Des Bryant. He has Megatron, Alan Robinson, and Devante Adams left. Who does he grab off of the waivers? Moncrief, Harvin, or a Seattle wide receiver? Moncrief. For sure? Moncrief. What about the... We haven't talked about it because you can't talk about every single player every single week, but Percy Harvin had a very good game. Percy Harvin had a very good catch. Yes, a good play. I don't think that's true.

I think you guys are very wrong on that. He had a 50-yard touchdown, and I believe his- And he had a carry out of the backfield, and I believe he had five receptions for 79 yards, a touchdown, and a carry. Okay, so he had five receptions for 79 yards. One of those catches was 50-plus yards. So four catches for 29 yards. Yeah, we count the 51, though, in football. Okay, so you're, let me hear it next week, Percy Harvin, 50-yard touchdown. I will make a Percy Harvin bet if you want. Yeah, let's hear it.

He'll have more than five receptions. Oh, done. That's two on one. Waterbed. Five is the over under. Five, no one is wet. Correct. Six. And even when I said it, I really meant that I win with five, but we'll do it exactly as you said it. Five, nobody loses. More than five, I win. So prepare to be wet. All right.

Kyle in Shelton, Washington. I know that some of these guys are obvious, but he has no idea what to do with his flex position. Two, running back, two wide receiver, one flex. He has Lacey Hill for set, while all those guys are playing. He has Jonathan Stewart, but he spelled his last name like Stuart Little.

Neat. Oh. So I took me like two extra seconds to figure out who he's talking about. Like, what guy's name is Stewart? Like Stuart Edelman? Stort. So he also has Stuart. Bring me the decedent. So he has. What's from a? Is that a show? Yeah, it's a reference from Mad TV. Wow. Oh, Stuart. Yeah. I remember that. Stort. Look what I could do.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah. All right. Lacey Hill, Fawcett, Jonathan Stewart, Ivory, A.J. Green, Cooks, Hopkins. Okay. He needs two running backs, two wide receivers, and a flex. Oh, he needs an entire lineup set? It would appear he needs five players to start out of this group. Lacey Hill, Fawcett, Stuart, Ivory, Green, Cooks, Hopkins, Allen, and Marshall. Oh, Lacey. That's, Lacey's playing the Seahawks, but he's still going to be in. Yep.

Jeremy Hill. Jeremy Hill will be in. And so now I need two wide receivers. That's correct. And you've got AJ Green, Brandon Cooks, DeAndre Hopkins. Green and Hopkins. All right. And then a flex. Would you go four set? Jonathan Stewart. Ivory. Ivory. I'm going to go four set. Cooks. I'm going to go with four set. All right. I agree with that one. And that one's a little harder to answer because you have all the good players. That is the type of team where I would look to package.

you know, a decent guy and a middle guy, or even a good guy and a middle guy for another absolutely elite top of the, top of the hill, because you're leaving a lot on your bench, not just where it's like, oh, I might need that depth. It's like, okay, if you don't need, if you lost a guy, you still are making a tough flex decision. So look for a two-for-one trade.

What are you guys his thoughts on Darren Sproles? Now, Sproles had a very good game. He led the team in rushing yards. He was on the field a lot, running routes. Will he put similar numbers, you know, over under 15 points this week against the Cowboys in PPR scoring? Would you think 15 in a PPR league this week? It's very possible. I mean, if you recall last year, Darren Sproles was just on fire to start the season. He really died off.

Yeah, in a PPR-type format, he was huge for, I think, four weeks, and then he really died off, which that's kind of who he is, where it's just going to be inconsistent. Yeah, if you're looking for a flex plan, your options aren't fantastic. Darren Sproles is a better one of those just reaching into a hat type of guys, but he's not a guy who I'm going to depend on week to week as my RB2 or something like that. Let me...

This might be painful for Jason Moore's earballs. Give it to me. Ryan Matthews or Darren Sproles the rest of the year? The rest of the year, I would go, I would go Ryan Matthews. You're thinking about it? I was absolutely thinking about it because Darren Sproles was used in the two-minute drill. He was used on third downs. But in short yardage, on the goal line, it was Ryan Matthews. And I think as the year progresses, he also got...

kind of taken out of the game after he had that egregious middle of the field drop. He was gone for a quarter and you didn't see him. And I expect that it won't be that way going forward. So I think Ryan Matthews is still the guy that I would rather have. But I love Darren Sprouls, more than I thought I would. I have Darren Sprouls at 16 points. He takes the over. So I'll take the over. All right. That's interesting. All right. Here is a question. Should I give him another chance from Richard in Manassas, Virginia? Who do you think he's talking about?

C.J. Anderson. No, Eddie Royal, believe it or not. Oh, yeah. Big hopes for him in week one with Alshan Jeffrey, probably not 100%. Is he somebody that you would give a second chance to? I would prefer to not start him. I would not cut him. I think he could, I mean, I still think he's got the same opportunity he had. I'm dying over here. Did you eat a frog? I ate a cassarito. A cassarito from.

Chipotle, the good folks over at Chipotle. You can wrap a burrito in a cassidia. It's not healthy. You might say it's a little double-stuffed. It is because it's a burrito stuffed inside a cassidia. Yeah. What was the question? For real? Yeah, now I forgot it. It was Daddy Royal. Oh, yeah. Hold on to them, but if you've got a different flex option, I would. Stuff him in your caserito.

Stick them on your bench and wait a week. All right, streaming defenses. Matt and Iowa wants to know what defense is the best defense to stream in week, too. The Saints, Titans, Cardinals, or Chiefs? Why don't we put those guys in order? So let's do the matchups here. Saints, who do they play? Bucking ears. And then the Titans play Cleveland, right? Yes. The Cardinals face the Bears. Yep.

And the chiefs face the Broncos. So I put them at the bottom of the list because I just don't want to mess around with Peyton Manning. I don't care all Deegates. I agree. Go ahead. I'm going to go Saints first because I think the Buccaneers are in an implosion. I think the Cardinals second because they're really the best defense of this group and the Bears have a better offense. Then I would go Titans. Then I would go the chiefs. I think I agree.