Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 5 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

is still ranked with the bottom for offensive touchdowns. They're just not happening. All right, David Johnson. David Johnson of the Cardinals is the odd man out because the Cardinals love Chris Johnson in every way. They say... They should, too. Carson Palmer said that he... And by the way, he's like fifth in the league in yards right now, Chris Johnson. And Palmer said he picked up the offense faster than anybody seen.

and Ariens is glowing about him. And so this is going to be the Chris Johnson-Andre Ellington platoon, where you can start which guy, how many of them? I'm starting Chris Johnson. I think Ellington will be relegated back to where he's better. Where he's better. But not better for fantasyness. Correct. Both of these guys, I think, will be startable after this week. This week it's still Chris Johnson, but when Andre Ellington gets all the way back, I think you're going to see a situation where...

Andrei Ellington is succeeding enough through the air where both of them can put up points. Yeah, probably in PPR leagues. Did you guys see Bruce Ariens quote about David Johnson, what he was said? Because someone asked him. I love how completely blunt he is about the situations that are in his back feed. He's the anti-John Fox. So they asked Bruce Ariens, well, what do you do when you have a three back? How do you get everyone work? Well, it's easy. The young guy sits. Yeah. I mean, he just put it plainly. So DJ's a stash. He's not a start.

Washington. That would be nasty Nate. Nasty Nate Washington and Cecil Shorts. They're both out tonight. Who is the non-Diondri Hopkins wide receiver to own? That would be Mumfrey. That would be Mumfrey. Mumfrey and Sons? Mumfrey. No, that's an incorrect pronunciation of a band. You went wrong there. Or an awesome nickname.

No, you want to own. I think he's actually an, okay, start. I haven't meant 29, I think, this week. He could be. Keith Mumfrey. Last week, he had a pretty good week, and then you have two guys out this week with Nasty Nate Washington. What did he do last week? Mumfrey had four catches. Two platinum albums? Four for 56. Four for 56 last week, Keith Mumfrey. Jalen Strong will probably get snaps for the first time in his career, but I like Mumfrey more than...

I think there's two guys to start. We've already talked too long. It's going to be a low-scoring Thursday night football game. So I like Aaron Foster, DeAndreggins. And we've talked too long about it already. J.J. Wat, if you're in. Keith, Malfrey or Kamar Aiken? Aiken, for sure. Deshaun Jackson back at individual drills. When he returns to the Redskins, he will be a boom-bust wide receiver two. Okay. Just like he always is. Jordan Reed is not practicing. Is he going to play this week? No. No. Is he going to play next week?

No, probably not. Carlos... I saw an interesting thing on Jordan Reed. When Jordan Reed gets a concussion, he either misses the entire year or six weeks minimum. Well, that's not good. Just saying of his history. What happens when he mixes a MCL sprain with it? He starts working at Denny's. Oh, all right. Carlos Williams has a concussion. We know about this. Booby Dixon's the guy to own. That is not a phrase I thought I'd ever utter.

Um, he's the guy to own right now if you have to start somebody. Carlos might play, though. He might get cleared. He didn't practice. So keep an eye on Carlos Williams. Keep an eye on the news. We'll let you know tomorrow what's going on with Carlos Williams. Julius Thomas has not been cleared. He's catching passes. He's very close. I don't think he's a bad stash for a tight-in, needy team, especially when we talk about Jordan Reed and other guys going down. He has the physical tools and the paycheck to support some targets.

You would think he could buy some targets with that money. He may have to. No setbacks for Big Ben. So Big Ben owners, just wait. Yeah. Well, there was reports that, well, Week 7, that's what he's targeting. And then Big Ben himself came out and said that that's not true. He'll be back when he's back.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you for that. Did you guys see the, there's these Xbox commercials with all the pro players. You know, that's one where like Marshall Lynch is up in the corner. I didn't hear the whole time. Yeah. There was an extended one I saw on YouTube where the guy's explaining to Drew B's how he needs to change all of his play calls to be more conducive to fantasy. And so it's called Going Deep. And so he just puts him in situations like, all right, what am I trying to do here? And Drew Brees is like, get a first down. He's like, wrong.

Go deep. He brings him all the way to the, like, the end of game. He's like, you're, like, situation is, you're on the 20. You're out by 45 points. You're about to take a knee. What do you do here? He's like, go deep? He's like, correct. You go deep. It was pretty entertaining. And it's kind of what we always want from my guys. All right. Matt Jones has not lost the trust of Jay Gruden. Who do you like more this week? Jones or Morris? Oh.

All right. Thank you for that. I think Morris was close to being a start of the week. He looked good last week. Great matchup. But at the same time, you have Chris Thompson. Oh, I love Chris Thompson this week. I almost had Chris Thompson as my deep start of the week. No, that's fine. Because New England, if they come out off of the by week and, you know, are massacring Washington, Alfred Morris is not going to be the guy. We know that because they're going to be down by too much and he's not the past catching guy. Chris Thompson's been in a lot.

Yeah, I don't know who to make here. I like Chris Thompson, like you said, is a desperation flex. All right. Last, what do I have here? Last bit of news. Chris Givens. I wanted to mention it. And I have. What did you say anything about him? Why did you say, well, hold on. Where did Chris Givens go? Chris Grimmons went to the Baltimore Ravens. He's a deep threat. No, what I'm doing is explaining to Jason he's wrong about, he's talking about Alfred Morris and the Patriots.

The Redskins don't play the Patriots. The Redskins play the Falcons. And the Falcons have a porous run defense, and they could get boat race there, too. But at the same time, I'm just... I had mistaken because the two games that I statted out as being the biggest blowouts were the New England and the Atlanta game. So both of those guys, the past catching backs in both situations. Because I've got Joseph Randall actually is my start of the week for New England. So same exact. Whoa. I know. We'll argue on this one little bit.

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We love the C-K. All right, let's go ahead and talk some week five matchups. Fantasy Forecast. By the way, I really like that Chris Givens trade for Baltimore. Absolutely. Chris Givens is a great nine runner. That team is missing. That's really what will open things up if he can get on the field and just burn it. I still think there are people that wonder if Tori Smith was anything more than that.

Yeah. And so it's a great value for them to get Givens who's made a mark in that role before. What he does, what Smith did for that offense was tremendous. It opened it up. Exactly. And so speaking to with Steve Smith, injury update. He's missing this week. I think we've now figured out that it was back fractures or was it rib fractures? It was rib. It turned out to be rib. Micro fractures is what I've heard. But either way, that sounds like it sucks.

Steve Smith's one of the toughest people in the game. Him and Anquan Bolden, I think, would play if it were humanly possible to play and there weren't people holding them back. So it must be very painful. It will not shock me to see Steve Smith play next week, but this week it's not going to happen. All right, the Colts at the Texans, we've pretty much exhausted everything there is to say about this exhausting matchup. Other than start Aryan.

Foster. I hope you have a good pizza pie tonight because that might be the best part of the day. Well, come on now. NFL football. Yeah. It's NFL football. That's what they tell me. I will watch it. Where's Arian Foster in your rankings, guys? He's got to be top 10, maybe top five. So we expect a full workload now? Do we expect it to take off the... Foster is my number two this week. I'll go 85%. I don't think it's going to be completely filled to the brim of spilling over, but it's going to be a lot.

I think at this point, too, the way their season is going, you have to, you know, we watched Hard Knocks, you see Bill O'Brien, they have to put it into their best player's hands and just take the best shot at getting some doubles. I mean, tonight is a golden opportunity at home against Matt Hasselbeck. All right, let's move on from there. Anything else about that game? I guess I shouldn't, you know, you're starting Gore, you're starting Aryan. Are you starting Moncrief? Yeah, I'm still going to start Hilton. I'm not starting Hilton.

Oh, I love Moncrief. I would start both those guys. I think they're both. What was Moncrief's line last week? I'm ashamed to say I did not see it. I want to say it was like four for 75 and one. I don't think it was that high, but he was still fine. He's more of a, to me, his floor is higher than Hilton because of the possession type of his catches. Possession type. He was six for 75. That's a good week. Yeah. Yeah, I still like Moncrief.

Okay. I just wanted to check on that. All right, let's go ahead and move on to the Bills facing off against the Titans. The Titans are coming off the buy and a down week for Tyrod Taylor. So are we okay starting him this week? Yes. Tyrod Taylor was very close. It was a funky game flow that kept him out of the end zone. I still believe in Taylor moving forward. Well, he threw a touchdown.

But I said more. He had more touchdowns. He threw into clay that got called back. Yeah. You're right. What do we do then with the running back situation in Tennessee? Because people have probably signed Antonio Andrews last week. You said them all. And if you saw the quote from Ken Wisenhunt, it was, I don't care who's getting the ball.

Which is a very strange quote from a head coach. But a very, very expected quote from somebody who's never been able to run the ball. Yeah. You have no idea who's going to get the ball. And they're going up against the top rushing defense. You just don't play them. You hold on to them and hope, you know, that something is exposed. But I can't imagine being in a situation where I've got one of those guys in my lineup and being happy. Yeah. Yeah. I would still stash Andrews.