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

All right, why don't you go ahead and give us your running back, and we'll come back through with our running back starts of the week. All right, well, my running back, we teased at the beginning of the show. It's actually James Starks. If you're a James Starks owner, there's fear about whether or not you can trust starting him and playing him. Mike McCarthy coming out and saying that he's the starter, the matchup. I mean, come on. This is the Lions. I have said for the last two years that I think James Starks is a very talented running back.

He has always shown that when he gets his opportunity. Opportunity comes, matchup comes. I have him as a top 10 running back this week. So go ahead and start James Starks. And I'm going with Legeret Blunt. Most carries of his career in a single game last week. Pour one out for Dionne Lewis because he's down. And my notes here say Giants defense, sad face.

That is some astute statistical analysis there. That's all you need to know about the Giants defense is a sad face emoticon, and I expect blunt to get a healthy amount of carries. Did you happen to see Jason Pierre Paul's comments on Brady? No. Where he said like, well, maybe he'll be like, maybe he'll have an off day. Or maybe he's sick. I hope he's sick. That would help us out a lot. Yes.

Very honest. I like that. The influenza defense. Yeah, the influenza. It's smart. All right. My running back start of the week is, in stark contrast to Jason's opinion on him, but I think this is muscle hamster time. I think Doug Martin has a bounce-back game against the league's worst run defense right now. And that's the Dallas Cowboys. They are, I think this game stays close, first of all. I think Tampa wins the game. And I think that puts...

Doug Martin in a position to be a cog in that. So that's just, you know, that's where I'm at with Doug Martin. He's my running back start of the week. I know people are super disappointed in him, but that's where I'm at. I'm going to rattle off my final two because I might have to duck out here. Okay. You got to hop on a radio call. Wide receiver, I'm going with Kamar Akin because I believe in Joe Flacco this week at home against the Jags. No Steve Smith. Kamar Akin. He's been.

Decent when he's given the opportunity and the Jaguars. I've been giving up 200 yards and two touchdowns to the wide receiver position the last three weeks. So I think that's a great matchup. Tight end. Rule 86, baby. Rule 86. New Orleans. You've got to say his name. No, he doesn't need to be named. He does for people who don't know who you're talking about. Jordan Reed is Rule 86. Jordan Reed, the New Orleans defense is hemorrhaging.

In the last two weeks when Jordan Reed finally came back, guess what? He's the target leader in Washington. He's Kurt Cousins' go-to guy. The Saints defense, in particular against tight ends, can be atrocious. At home, I love Jordan Reed here.

All right, Lynn, Jason, why don't you tell me who your wide receiver start of the week is? My wide receiver start of the week is a very, very easy call because he's in so many games. It's Devin Funchus. He is going to catch the ball from so many quarterbacks. It is fantastic. No.

No, my start of the week is actually Brandon LaFelle. Brandon LaFelle has come back off of injury, steadily improved each game. Two catches, four catches, five catches, 25 yards, 47, 102 yards. And now he comes up in a very winnable matchup against New York's sad face. They're the 21st.

ranked against the wide receiver. And with the Unlewis going out, more ball is going to be going around to other targets. So I really like Brandon Lafell this week. One thing I noticed in the game last week when it was kind of put away and they were still throwing the ball. They were working on LaFelle. Like he got three or four targets at the end of the game, including a screen pass, giving him the opportunity to get downfield. You could tell they were working that part of the offense out when the game was out of. I love that start. I really like that start. They need them. I have him at 17 this week and I'm going to move them up. You have them eight. You guys are killing me.

Because I have to decide Lafell or Sneed. He's sitting here and he thought he knew. No, I've been leaning. I've been leaning Sneed, but that's just because the Sneed matchup is so great. Yeah. So my wide receiver start of the week. Hey, hey, Foot Clan. I'll see you guys later. Goodbye. See you, Mike. All right. The wide receiver start of the week for me is Pierre Garcin and Deshaun Jackson. Is that allowed? I think they benefit the same way that...

Kirk Cousins is my start of the week. So I think somebody benefits on that side. I think Deshaun Jackson is going to get involved. I think Pierre Garcon is going to be involved, and both of them are going to have good games. If I had to just pick one, it'd be Garcon for the baseline. But he hasn't had any boom games. So if you need boom, go D-Jax. If you need base, go Gar-San. Both have good games for me. Yeah, I think there's going to be a boom in D-Jack's hamstring.

Yeah, see, that's the risk that you run with DJX. So if you need to be safe. Yeah, at least you do know that, though. You know going in, you could get a dud, but you could also, I could easily see him having a great game. My tight end. Mine is Eric Ebron. What's yours?

Yes, you wish it was Eric Ebron, but that is mine. We didn't talk about it too much, but in the Green Bay game, their secondary is really hurt. They have given up a lot of scores to the tight end. Eric Ebron has actually been a fantastic player this year. He's been used in the passing game. He's been used in the red zone. His injury kind of hurt his momentum. He's like, you know how people think about a player?

They started to rise on him. He got hurt. And then he came back strong, but he's on enough waivers where you can pretty much pick him up for about half of the leagues. And he's a great start this week. So I like Eric Ebron. Somebody wrote in asking between, I think it was Vernon Davis. Oh, goodness. And someone on bye. So go get Eric Ebron. Yeah. And the thing is, is they're going to be in a...

comeback situation most likely. They're in Green Bay. They're going to need to throw the ball. And so you've got kind of the production available for him. And so I really liked Eberon. He was a guy that I had selected before I noticed you had claimed him. And so another guy that I like, I can't say that I'm in love with, but I like him a lot is Jason Whitten this week. He still had six catches last week. This is the week I think that, you know, tight in cannot be covered very well by...

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Witten is a good bet for five or six catches and a chance at a touchdown. So, you know, last week it was Delaney Walker. This week is Jason Witten for me. So I'm going to move forward with him. Yeah, and really Jordan Reed is the best start here. I just love Mike's pick. What percentage is Jordan Reed owned? Take a guess, Andy. Oh, by this point. He's been putting up week after week after week. It's got to. This is always a hard. He's got to be over 50%, doesn't it? Well, yeah, he's definitely over 15%. Okay. So, I don't know. I'm going to go 75?

73, which means 27. No, I can see it. A quarter of your leagues Jordan Reed is available in. Again, I think we said this last week. If you're in a league, go look at your waiver. If Jordan Reed is there, pick them up. He needs to be owned. I think what people want to know to is if they're in a situation where they have a Tyler Eifert, Greg Olson, Rob Grancowski, do they still go sign Jordan Reed? Absolutely. Because of injury, because of depth, because of matchup. And honestly,

We do not say roll two tight ends. But if you've got a Jordan Reed and a Tyler Eifert, those are the situations where you might be able to flex a Jordan Reed as your best play. Yeah, that's a good point. So that does it for today's show. Thank you very much for listening. Check us out on the web at the Fantasy Footballers.com. We will be back into the fantasy forecast tomorrow as well as some mailbag questions, the daily dose, and more good stuff. So check us out then. Goodbye. Goodbye. For listening to another edition.

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