Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 3 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

Trade them because we say, oh, that's what you do. Can you get something of real good long-term value from a guy who might just be one week? Let me ask you, Jason. Would we be talking about that differently, though, if Philadelphia's offense had been gangbusters? I mean, then you see this huge opportunity for Ryan Matthews because you're like, oh, DeMarco went out and he had 200 yards and 10 catches in the first two games. He struggled, so I think...

our perception of Ryan Matthews is probably different. I agree with that. The Jets really is the tiebreaker here is I don't expect them to turn it around on the Jets this week. But hamstring injuries, if you've got Matthews and you can't get value for him, hamstring injuries tend to leak back into... And they can get worse really easy. Alshan Jeffrey did not practice. Do we expect them to play? No. I don't think so. Do you expect Cutler to play? Yes. They're now saying he might play after...

ruling it was the only two bears continue to spend a large amount of their time on injury manipulation stories have you seen i mean no it's why the advantage they've got has been tremendous it's really working they are they are almost almost in every game i'm going to take a quick detour bears related that was that they're that's sad because they're not even almost barely in a game we we did not talk about this last week um and i

I apologize for that. Jeremy Langford took a touchdown away from Matt Forte last week. He took some serious snaps away. And Matt Forte has been a little bit banged up. Do we buy into, I mean, among all the handcuffs you could sign, is Jeremy Langford somebody that you should consider signing? Only if you've got Forte, in my opinion. I think there's better options to have as handcuffs, generally speaking, right now around the league. He's a bench stash. And watching him, because it was the Cardinal game, he looked fine. He looked pretty fast.

just for that, the old eyeball test. But that's been the question with Forte. I personally had to really eat my words after week one where he looked just, where Forte looked spry, he was getting fully used. But my concern was always, could he hold up for the long term? And they're already working in other running backs. So I'm not selling Forte. That's not what I'm advising right now. Sure, sure. But it's something that you need to keep in mind. Well, and he was limited.

And if he's limited and they've already worked Langford into the rotation a little bit, I think the workload is going to be decreased possibly. All right, so Victor Cruz is out. Arian Foster, Bill O'Brien said he doesn't expect him to play, but if you read the quote, I really believe that Bill O'Brien is playing games. I really, really do. Did you read the quote? I saw it, and I remember thinking, okay, so he's not out. Exactly.

But I still... I don't expect them to play. If I had to choose one direction based on that quote, I'd say no. But he said, I quote, I'm not sure about this week, but I would say sooner rather than later. So, Andy, are you going to be watching your roster at, you know, 9 o'clock Pacific? Yes. And then if he's in, you're going to put him in ahead of them. Well, let me ask you guys, what would you do in my situation? I have T.J. Eldon against the...

New England Patriots, Jonathan Stewart against New Orleans, Chris Ivy against Philadelphia, but Philly might now have their linebackers. And then I have Arian Foster sitting on my bench against Tampa Bay, who's the 25th against the run? I think I would. Who would bench if Foster's in? If it was my team, I would bench none of them. Okay.

That's fair. I mean... You just don't know yet, and you've got three decent options. Arian could easily outperform all three of them, but he could also go in for a couple touches as a warm-up game, get five touches for probably 50 yards. And... Now, you are the person I'm playing in this league. So don't play Arian Foster is what I'm saying. Just don't play. What do you do, Mike? I play Aaron Foster. I don't know right now.

I don't know of those three who I bench because I like all three of those guys. I might be able to withstand a victory if I plan. By benching. That's not as easy as you think to withstand victories. It's such a burden of my life to take them on. Let's talk dolphins. Lamar Miller didn't practice. Jonas Gray is doing the roster dance all year long on all these teams. Yeah, back and forth. He was cut, then practice squat, then active.

Then cut, then active. Then practice. And now he's back on the active. So it sounds like the dolphins are at least preparing for Lamar Miller to sit out. Or being limited. Right. It was already a situation where I'm probably bench. I've told everybody to bench. Oh, that sucks. Are you playing Lamar Miller? Nope. He is on my bench. Wow. It's a tough matchup this week. Wow. Yeah. All right. Jordan Cameron helps to play. They said he was moving around decently on the side for practice. He had a groin injury. So it.

That's a, we'll wait and see. Josh McCown was cleared. He is going to start. Mansell's back on the bench. And there is one player that I think this affects. Benjamin? Benjamin. Yep. He has seemingly had a rapport with Mansell. And his catches have been limited and his production's been limited. So if you, if you spent a lot on Benjamin, you might be disappointed this week. I can't believe they're going back to McCown. I can. I can.

No, no, no, I'm saying I could go back to McCamp because Mansell turns the ball over too much.

Four fumbles in two games? Not only that, but I don't think there was anything to change what the entire idea of your offseason, all your practice, all your game plan, all of that. I mean, this last game, they literally rolled Mansell on every single pass play. It's not the game plan that they came into the season with. They did win, though. Fair enough. They did win, and they have a winnable matchup this week if they play well. All right, so the last bit of news, DeAndre Hopkins.

Yeah. What are you hearing about him? Apparently he has a concussion out of nowhere that nobody knew about, and it just popped up on the reports yesterday. So he's in the protocol. It could be rough for him to actually make it through and test out of the protocol to play this weekend. So if you have Hopkins, you need to have backup options. Yeah, okay. I agree with that. It is week three.

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Through your body? Through my body. Mike, you've played through me. You play some jazz flute? All right. Washington. In New York, the Giants are favored by three points the over-under and this game is 44. Are we expecting fantasy production? Do we expect a Vietnam-style flashback for Kurt Cousins?

As he digs on Washington. Oh, the Thursday night game. You're talking about... The massacre. That was brutal. You were last year... I was a recipient. When we had about six listeners listening to the show, you were a big Captain Kirk. Sure was. And then he did fantastic for a few games, and then he played the Giants, and he lost everything.

He lost his house, his wife, his kids, his dog. I don't think Kirk Cousins is going to implode. And here's why. Because I think Washington's run game is legit. Washington, you mentioned last time, they've got the new offensive line coach that was from Dallas. Bill Callahan. And they have ran for more yards than any other team so far this year. Matt Jones looks awesome. And there's a great one-two punch behind Alfred Morris. So...

This is going to be, I'm really excited to watch this game to see is their run, because New York's run defense has been pretty good this year. And Washington's run offense has been great. So I want to see who is more legit. Who is true? Something's got to give. Something's got to give. And I think it's going to be really telling for weeks four and on to see how good this run offense is. I think Kirk Cousins has a fine game. I think a couple touchdowns is in the cards for him tonight.

I think it would be a pretty good game. And like you said, I actually, let me see your opinions, because I have mine on this. If you're starting Morris or Jones, who do you start tonight? Oh, Morris, for sure. It still has to be Morris, but, man, I really want to flex Matt Jones. I think he can have a good game. I am with the Morris Company as well. I have Morris, the highest of the three of us. We actually have them really close. I'm at 21. Jason, you have him at 23, Mike, 22. So that's an RB2.

Do you start the New York running backs here? Who do you start Jennings or Verene? Verene had a great game through the air, not so much a good game on the ground, but have they found a formula or was that simply the matchup against the Falcons? I think it's more of the formula. I think they brought him in in the offseason to play the role that he's starting to understand in McAdoo's offensive system. You also saw that Rashad Jennings was Terrible.