Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, News

Jonathan Stewart. I take Stewart. Jonathan Stewart. You want that? We got it. Waterbed. The best part of that is Jason has now bet against himself. No, I know my rankings. I need to move Jonathan Stewart down in my rankings. Because when I did that, I hadn't done enough research on Tennessee's run defense. And the more that I looked at it, the less I like the matchup for Jay Stu. Okay. So I am fine with that. Put it on the board. I'm putting it in.

All right. What else do we need to talk about this game? You're starting Greg Olson? Yep, always. You are starting Antonio Andrews? You can have... If you're backed into it? You can maybe flex them. All right. Anything else you guys want to talk about there? Delaney Walker is a go for me. Fresh off of his two touchdown performance? Yeah, that's what I do. I chase those points. Chase them. Hey, at tied in, you'd chase points. Bears at the Rams. The Rams are heavy favorites here, and I don't...

I think that's appropriate. They're at home. What is the headline here? If Forte doesn't go, you roll Anfurt out, or do you not because it's the Rams in St. Louis? I think you can roll him out because he's going to be a true RB1 for the team. Have the bell cow close type of roll. I don't think Kadim Keri is going to eat in too much. However, it's a bad, terrible matchup. So you're looking at a, you know, as far as fantasy.

you know, a lower end RB2. That's how I've got him ranked is kind of just, he's all right. He can definitely play for your roster, and he's going to put up points because his baseline and usage is going to be high. But I don't expect the big breakout game like we all did last week just because of the matchups. I'm still playing him. If Forte's out, I'm going to play him. Jonathan Stewart or Langford? Langford for me. Probably Stewart. Let me consult my rankings before I make a...

buffooned to myself. Langford, yeah, it would be, oh, Jeremy Langford 13, Jonathan Stewart 12. All right, so Jonathan Stewart's the guy right now. Buy a butt hair. Buy a butt hair. That is your only unit of measurement for some reason. It's accurate.

Okay, so you're, I think we handled most of the big guys in this game. I don't think any of us are super confident in a specific wide receiver. I will be curious to see what Devin Funches does from a snap count perspective moving forward. So I'm paying attention to that as a kind of down the line guy. Wait, what? And I'm alone. Wait, what? What do you mean what? I said I'm paying attention to Devin Funches as snap counts. We were talking about the, we were talking about the Bears and the Rams. Oh.

But that's good. I mean, I would look for Devin Funches's snap cameras. Yeah, I rolled my sheet back up there. I will be very surprised if he gets over. He was traded. He was traded. If he's over 0% for the Bears Rams game. All right. Yeah. So there's a little tidbit for the last game we talked about. Yeah. That's fair. For the Bears, Alshon Jeffrey is a full go. I'm starting to like Tavon Austin because of the carries.

that are getting involved in there. He just seems to produce. He's so quick, he makes a big play every game. Yeah, his baseline is much higher with that. And the Bears' defense, that's who I was just going to bring up. I think Tavon Austin is an absolutely flex-worthy player in this game. His baseline is decent, and he could break something off in any game. His speed is electric. Now, these teams have statistically both very good past defenses. So...

Does that impact your kind of ceiling for Jeffrey in this game? The Rams are exceptional at home as well. Not for me. Jay Kotler feeds Alshon Jeffrey. Yeah, not for me either. Jeffrey's my number one right now. Yeah, it did for me. I think he's going to have one of those games that's like, you know, six for 68. It's not going to be a terrible game, but not going to be that crazy. Do you think that Devin Funches is going to come watch this game? Do you think he's going to visit after?

I think he's going to come right out of the tunnel in the starting lineup. He's confused. Yeah. Funchis really needs to get it together. Funchis is so confused right now. He doesn't know what's going on. Get it together, David. What plane do I have to get on? Okay. Cowboys, they take on the Buccaneers in the Matt Castle, James Winston Barnburner. All righty. Yeah. We all love tempering expectations for offensive players because of quarterbacks, don't we?

Yeah, it's really fun. Des Bryant, we saw it last week. He can still make plays with Matt Castle, even if Matt Castle just throws it up into the sky. That's probably the best go-to weapon. Alleyoop! Boy, he went high, though. Yeah. Much higher than the defense. Where do you have Des Bryant this week on the rankings? I do like him. He's, man, it really stinks, though. But we only have one more week. One more week of Des Bryant not being a top.

Three guy. So Tony Romo will be back next week. I have Des Bryant very high this week in this matchup. Top three guy? Oh, I have him as a one, low-end one. Which I think is probably more reasonable. But the way I started it out, I thought Des Bryant would produce. He is what their offense is at this point. What you're telling me is you're admitting you're not a reasonable man. Correct. Clearly not. Yeah, clearly not. Darren McFadden is in every week's start right now. Absolutely. What do we think about Doug Martin?

I have some thoughts about Doug Martin. I think Charles Sims is going to start to cut in a little bit more and make it into one of those uglier timeshares that we don't want, which I super don't want. I think Doug Martin doesn't deserve that. He's been playing very well this year. I know he fumbled the ball and got benched, but, you know, so did Sims. So...

But that's what I expect. I expect his production to come down as Sims comes up and they just share that. They're both good backs, but it makes for fantasy, it makes it a worse situation, I think. So are you going to start Doug Martin or Charles Sims? I would start Martin. Yeah, Doug Martin over Sims. Martin is my start of the week this week. Whoa. So we'll talk more about this matchup because I couldn't disagree with Jason Moore. So, wait, I couldn't disagree with Jason. Also, wait, more, more or more. Jason Moore. More, more.

Yeah, he couldn't disagree with Jason more and more. There you go. I see what happened. That's where I was going. Cole Beasley had a big game last week, the touchdown monster himself, the overwhelming physical freak. No, nobody called it. Yeah, are you doing anything with Beasley this week? He's, you know, he should be. Wait, what's that sound event? He's Michael Jackson. Put me in, coach.

You know, Castle being there could end up using him the same way. If you're in a full PPR league, I think that bumps him into a flex consideration type of player. That's a good assessment. Mike Evans, does he get it? It's such a weird world of Mike Evans because 150 plus yards, great fantasy day, six drops. So, I mean, nowhere to go but up, up, up? No, no, he has shown that he can also go down. The drops will go up.

What do you guys have him this week? Mike Evans right now is... I still like him. He's still... I have him the highest at number 10. Jason has him at 19. Mike has him at 15 overall. So we're all starting him. He's all at wide receiver 2 for you guys. He's the one for me. Yeah, consensus rankings. He rounds out our last wide receiver 1 right behind Des Bryant. So they should both be okay, but I don't think either is going to just explode. Austin Safarian Jenkins might be actually on the field this week.

We don't know yet whether that's going to be a good thing for Evans or a bad, but it should probably help Evans a little bit because right now you've got Evans and nobody. So if you're the defense, you can really, really focus in on Evans. And he needs to focus in on the ball. Right. So what else from this game stands out to you? Is there anybody else want to talk about? I like Witton this week. We're going to get to that soon. He's a consideration for me. I think Castle is a sneaky.

Now, here's what I'm saying. If you're in a two-quarterback league... I think Smelly. I think you meant Smelly. If you're in a two-quarterback league, Castle is the type of guy that is probably still out there available, and he would be a playable option. He's got enough weapons with Des, the way that he's using the dump-offs, and DMC is going to be involved in the passing game as well. So I think you've got a good baseline there with Castle.

All right, we've got to move on to the last matchup we're going to talk about today before we get to the starts of the week, and then we'll have the second half of the games tomorrow. The Lions head to Green Bay, and they take on the Packers. And we have a water bet. We do. We do? With a fan. That's right. You sent that to me yesterday. What was this ridiculous water bet? A fan. Mike. I bet a fan of the Lions. Yeah, he challenged the three of us, a three versus one.

He's taking the Lions and he gave us the Packers. I accepted for both of you without even consulting you. Because you are a smart man. Yeah, I'm okay with that. So, Mike, prepare your drawers to be soggy. Is that his name? Yeah. I tell you talking to yourself. No, his name is soggy drawers. Oh, Soggy Jores Mike. Start all your Packers. Start all your Packers. I'm on board. Coming off of two losses in a row, Aaron Rogers.

At home. Yeah, he gets to go and punch the world. Even Vegas thinks this is about an 11.5 point game. Yeah. It's going to be. Nice bet, Mike. Way to go. Way to represent. And let's see. Are there any lines that I'm starting, Stafford? Maybe. We need some information on that Green Bay secondary. Are they going to be down some corners again? Because if they are, then sure. I'll.

The last report that I've seen, they're still pretty banged up there. I expect them to be down at least one, maybe two of their main corners. And we've seen that that has really changed their defense. Their defense at the beginning of the year, when healthy, they were really tough to both pass and run on. And now with the injuries, they have not had quality backups is essentially what's going on. So I do think Calvin Johnson is going to be a fine play.

I actually think Joick Bell is a flex option here that can do all right. Yes. Stafford is, you know, what, you know, what he has been a lot this year. Yeah, your joick love firing you up. Oh my gosh, yeah. Love that. Stafford to me is just outside a top 12. I use one of his game worn jerseys as they blanket every night. So I'm very excited about Joyke. I've never watched it in this game.

What about Devin Funches? How does he perform? Well, Aaron Rogers is going to really spread the ball around, so everyone's going to catch the ball. Funches will definitely get involved. He's going to go right out of Lambo Field right into his arms. So you got Devante Adams or James Jones? Devonty Adams. And I've been asked that quite about this week. Adams? I'm pretty confident with Adams. Or Cobb? Cobb. James Jones or Richard Rogers? Who gets the touchdown this week? I'll go James Jones.

Although, I felt like I was in an eye exam. I'll go, I'll go Jones. But, man, he is, he is finally who we thought he was. I was going to say, man. It just took like eight weeks of great production for us to finally nail James Jones. All right, you guys have stayed with us on the previews. We're going to get to my favorite segment of the week. Let's go ahead and talk about who we like. Starts of the week. All right, guys.

Let's kick this off. I was surprised that my guy was available because he was my extreme of the week. He is. And he is my start of the week at the quarterback position, and that is Captain Kirk Cousins. And there is one reason, and it's two words, and the two words are New Orleans. Yep. They're giving up the second most points per game in the league, the third most passing yards per game, and have a league worst 24 to 4 touchdown to interception ratio.

They are not playing good football on that side, and Kirk Cousins has every opportunity to have a sneaky streaming start this week. And I got Mr. Beebe, Blake Bortles. He is a multi-touchdown machine, and he gets the Ravens. So very similar to the Kirk Cousins logic. And that was my stream. Does he need Hearns?

I think he'll be okay without hernes. Okay. It's a neat little triangle here because I was going to go with Blake Bortals, who was my stream of the week as my start of the week, but then he was taken as well. So I am going right across the field in that same game. This is a bold move, Cotton. Well, my... I like it. I like it. Joe Flacco.

Like we said earlier, you know, you pointed out that the run defenses are legit in both of these games, but the past defenses are lousy. So the ball's going to be going through the air. I like Joe Flacco in this matchup against Jacksonville secondary. So, you know, we've seen a couple games right in a row here where, you know, against San Diego, he had over 300 yards. He had 343 yards and two touchdowns against San Francisco. So when he's in those beatable matchups, you know, he's been doing very well. So even without Steve Smith, I think you can start Joe Flacco this week.