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

For now, see if he can get anything going. Is Watkins going to play? No. I do not believe Watkins will play. He still has not practiced. I think he's got another week off at least. So this makes Charles Clay a very good start for the Buffalo Bills. He's sitting at, I think, five right now in the tight-in rankings. He's had a great season. And his...

his rapport with Taylor's building, and his quantity of catches. He's not just like a, he's not a goal line tied in. Speaking of guys who can buy targets, Charles Clay got a hefty contract as well. Yeah, that is absolutely true. Nine for 111 yards last week. And that was removing that 30-yard touchdown that was called back. I've had a lot of questions about Kindle Wright or Blank this week, and a lot of people don't want to start Kindle Wright.

I started. I'm telling you, Kendall Wright has had two out of three great games in this offense. He's the number one option for Mario, and the Bill's defense is too good against the run in general. It's going to be great against the run against Tennessee's running game. This is going to be through the air.

Kendall writes the underneath guy. I would expect five or more catches from him and the opportunity to score a touchdown because the bill's passed. He's 29th against the pass. He's our consensus 23 this week that puts him as a wide receiver too. Yeah. Yeah, that's a complete start. So on the other side, Titans defense is sixth against the past, 19th against the run. If Carlos Williams can go, we're rolling him out without any qualms. I'm rolling out either. If Williams is the guy, he will shoot up my rankings or if it's Booby Dixon. I like him a lot too.

Okay, let's move on to the Browns facing off against the Ravens. The Ravens are heavy favorites in this game. You have Josh McCown and you have Joe Flacco. Flacco will be without Steve Smith. I don't think anybody's starting Flacco this week. He's a desperation stream. Because he's at home. Yeah, at home. So I don't mind it. I really like Kamar Aiken this week. And my full stream ahead is Josh McCown. I like him.

Even though it's on the road for him, I'm not sure which Browns receiver is going to do it. So I'm not really keen to start any of them. I guess Benjamin, if you have to, right? But I like McCown as a streamer. What happened to that Dwayne Bogey you liked a lot? He's resting. He's resting with a lot of money. He's laying on his bed. Yeah, he's actually swimming in a big bank vault of gold coins.

Not unlike a Scrooge McDuck. Yeah, well, he's a pretty terrible wide receiver right now. And I'm going to go on my weekly don't play the tight end against the Ravens watch. So Gary Barnage, when you went and picked him up after the last two weeks, don't play him. He might be legit this year, but I don't.

like the matchup at all for the tight end. All right, I've had a lot of questions about Duke Johnson. He's one of the biggest waiver-wire pickups this past week after he had a high volume of catches last week. I like him. I had to sign them in a bunch of leagues that I'm rolling, you know, I had to sign them in all the leagues where I have Shady McCoy but couldn't get Carlos Williams or, you know, different injuries. Who do you start between Duke and Crowell now? I start Duke. The snaps are starting to favor. Standard League as well? Yeah. The snaps are favoring Duke Johnson. I mean, Crowell actually had a

a good game last week quietly if you had taken his running and his catching. But Duke Johnson's just, he's getting the snaps. He's getting early down running work and pass work. I mean, that's where we liked Duke Johnson was his PPR value, catching the ball. And the first couple weeks, nothing. Squadoosh. But then the last two weeks it has really, really picked up, including that delightful wheel route for a touchdown. Oh, that was a great catch.

Just a great catch. I like Duke as well, especially in PBR leagues. Anything else about this matchup before I move on to this next one? Justin Forsett. Oh, yeah. Love him. Yeah, and he bounced back. People should feel more confident. If you were one of the ones that bought low on him, the carry numbers were there. I think you saw pretty much all four set except for, you know, some opportunities for him to get rest. He just, he needs to find paid hurt.

That's it. I mean, if he gets in the, if he gets in the end zone, people are talking about him as a running back one right now. He has to benefit a little bit from Smith's absence as well through the air. That's part of why I love him so much. Yeah, I agree. So this next matchup is the Bears at the Chiefs and it's my. Oh, I'm all over that. It's almost upset of the week. I love it. The Chiefs are nine and a half point favorites over the Bears. Stop.

Over the bears. Stop. I haven't done well. I don't know if I just condemned the bears to the biggest, like, largest margin of defeat this week because my last two almost upsets, I might change the segment to almost, almost, just to give another separation of accuracy. No, the past two weeks have been rough, but I think the bears have an opportunity here. If Jeffrey returns...

And Cutler had them in the game. They won the game last week. It just changes their offense. Forte is still a consistent running back. Your offense, Bennett, I don't know. What do you guys think? They're a completely different team. If Alshon Jeffries out there with a healthier Jay Cutler, they are a completely different team. But Vegas, Vegas knows that. Vegas still has them at 10 points. Yeah, but one of the things Vegas will always keep into, in mind, is.

what people are going to bet on. It's not just what's going to happen, but what are people betting on. And people are betting, just like Mike said, on the history of what has happened with the Chicago Bears over these first few weeks. And they're a completely different team. I've got Jay Cutler as my stream of the week. So I'm really hoping you're right here, Andy, because there's no way they win without a good game from Jake. The Chiefs at home are a completely different team. I will agree with that. I just don't see them as near double-digit favorites. I think that's crazy. If Al-Shon is out, I love him.

If he's out there, not out. Yeah, yeah, okay. If Alshund is out. You said if he's out, you love him. I'm like, that's sad. Well, if he's out and he's on my opponent's team, I love him. But if he plays, he's a wide receiver one for me. Are you doing the Macklin Apology now, or? We've already talked about this. I'm just trying to set this up on every show. Give him one more week. Jeremy Dirty Cake Macklin is, he's great. He just is, it's about his opportunity.

Which has been great. Yes. I love the point you had on the last show where he has over 30% of the targets where I believe Edelman is in the lead right now with 34% and he's not far behind. So if the ball is getting thrown, now Alex Smith last week actually had a huge yardage game. He had the most Alex Smith game. He did. He had like 340-something yards and no touchdown. That's how he does it.

Because he's not throwing the ball to Zeus. But you'd stream him at home against the Bears this week, wouldn't you? Yes, I would. Okay. And you'd stream Cutler, Jason. Yeah, I had to make that decision of Alex Smith or Jay Cutler, and I put Jay Cutler higher. All right, we're starting Charles and Forte. Not much to talk about there. If they're not being started on your team, then, well. Congratulations. Right, you have really, really good. You're not starting those guys either. Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson are starting Rhino.

Bears defense is still ranked bad against the past in fantasy and great against the past in regular NFL stats because they're fourth against the past right now. They've been giving up touchdowns through the air, but they haven't been giving up a lot of yardage and things like that. And some of that is because of, I mean, a lot of that might come from just that Cardinals game where special teams really...

put the Cardinals in position to get some touchdowns, you know, easy. Yeah, it is early. The Chiefs, on the other hand, are the worst against the past. Yeah, they're secondaries in trouble. And my point for the Bears was they're 24th against the run. And you will often see that. If a team is really, really high in one defensive area, it's because they're terrible in the other. Teams are running. They don't need to throw. You just run on the Chicago Bears.

We're going to talk Seahawks and Bengals in a second. I do want to remind everybody to check out our YouTube channel because we have started to break the show up into segments as well. So if you only have a few minutes to watch part of the show. Easily digestible. Yeah. Much, much. We come out much cleaner now. Right. We're like probiotics. Fibrous. We are probiotics for your fantasy. The most fibrous show.

available. We're the brand muffin. We're the brand muffin of the fantasy world. Jason enjoyed that. All right, the Seahawks are facing the Bengals in what I think will be a great matchup. In Cincinnati, the Bengals are favored. I think they should be favored. This comes down to me to one fact, and this is before the fantasy equation, but the Seahawks need to be able to score enough points to win this game.

You know who I love this week? I want to know. Oh, please say Jimmy Graham for some reason. The Bengals defense. There you go. I love them this week. The Seattle line's possibly? They just, see, the Seattle is lost. Their offense is non-existent. They won a game last week against the Lions because of one spectacular play by Russell Wilson where he was 50% sacked.

shrugged out of it, dodged another sack, just threw the ball to the receiver, and the DB for Detroit bit and tried to get the pick. And instead, they turned into a huge play. So it was just a miraculous play on three accounts. Without that, Seattle did nothing. And now they go on the road. They're in Cincinnati. Ridiculous defense. They are going, I see at least.

four or five sacks coming up to the bankers. I completely agree with you. And I think they'll be in a position where he has to hold the ball and he has to throw the ball. Yes. Yeah, that's going to be tough. Here's the guy that I'm really curious. So do you start Wilson? No. So you're benching Wilson. Would you go Wilson or Alex Smith? Alex Smith. Really? Even with the, you don't think Wilson can make it up on the ground? He might be able to. Alex Smith is closer. If you were going to ask between Russell Wilson and my super stinky garbage man stream of the week,

I'm taking Josh McCown. Okay. That would be bold. I don't know if my rankings currently say that, but I'm going to. That's a glory play right there where you, somebody looks against you. Oh, he's starting. My rankings, my rankings say that. I've got Josh McCown considerably higher than Russell Wilson, who I've got, Russell Wilson, I've got at 15 because this is a terrible matchup. So here's the guy that I'm really, really curious about. We talked about him yesterday. I dropped them in a couple leagues just because he's got, you know, a bad schedule for the next two weeks. You dropped AJ Green?

No, Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton. So we went up against a great San Diego past D through three touchdowns. He's shown that he's got enough weapons and enough time in the pocket. That offensive line has just completely let him have no pressure. He had no pressure on him against the chiefs who are a great pass rushing defense last week. So this is really like, this is my test of Andy Dalton this week. It's not in Seattle, but it's the great vaunted Seattle with Cam Chancellor back.

What does he do this week? I cannot make out how good or bad Andy Dalton's going to be. I think that I'm putting Dalton in the category I would have put Palmer in last week, which is on fire, at home, tough defense. So a mediocre game from Dalton, a passable game from Dalton is what I would expect. Like I wouldn't drop him to go stream a guy that might be in that same category. I'd rather just roll him out and see what happens. Because...

They've been on fire, and I don't mind riding that, the Red Rocket. There you go. All right. The Rams face off against the Packers. The Packers are also heavy favorites in this game. This is another, you know, can the Rams possibly score enough points against the Packers defense? This is in Lambo, am I right? You are correct. So this might get ugly. Yeah.

So do we like, is there anybody, Gurley? Okay, give me Gurley's rundown because he had a huge week last week, but they were playing from ahead, holding onto a lead. They certainly want to give him the ball, but is this going to be something where game flow could...

disappoint you with Todd Gurley. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I have Todd Gurley ranked. I went this morning. We did our rankings and we stat them, but we don't really look them over until today. And I had Todd Gurley at number five, because I believe he is that level of a talent. But then I started looking at the matchup and thinking he's going to Green Bay. Green Bay's defense has been very good this year, very balanced. They haven't given up a lot, especially at home. And like you said, Andy, I mean...