Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

by the environment of the stadium. I don't know if you guys saw Josh McCowan run into the wall, but it was one of those things where, because he's on the turf, so that he's trying to slow down as he runs off and out of bounds, hits the patch that is no turf, and just completely slides right into the wall. And he looked like he got hurt on that unfortunate incident, but it...

It could be Manzeltine. Told you guys that Rams defense was going to be a home run this week. Just a home run. Nick Mangold, Center. Yeah. He's on the list because he's on the show. Get front of the show.

And then Joseph Randall came out early and gave way to a very good Darren McFadden game. Randall heard his kind of like, what was it, like an oblique kind of back injury. Yeah. And then Dionne Lewis and Jeremy Macklin both missed. They were both kind of surprise inactive. Macklin was cleared. They held him out as a precaution, which, you know, I thought was ridiculous as a one in 14, but then they won. So, okay, I'm wrong on that. Dionne Lewis, he was out. This caused problems for fantasy owners. And I don't mean...

Lewis fantasy owners. This caused problems for Garrett Blunt fantasy owners because you're probably, you're on the cuss. Do I start blunt? Do I not start blunt over other flex options? When you hear Deion Lewis is going to be out, I would absolutely, if I was a blunt owner, I would have been tempted to throw him right into the lineup regardless of the matchup because of the bulk of carries, goal line opportunities. You're on the field. He had a passing touchdown the week before. So it really, and Blunt was like three for negative three.

Yeah, it was terrible. It's almost a blessing that it was against the Jets. Because as an owner, if you've got someone else on your bench, it helps you make that decision like, oh, I know, I know he's going to be in, but it's against the Jets. Let me put, you know, someone else in. If you've got Martavis Brian on your bench or something like that. So.

I think it was good that it was against the Jets and get them out. We recommend the not starting blunt. In fact, last week the two guys that, Andy, you asked us, who are we worried about in that Patriots game? You said Dionne Lewis because of the injury, and I said Legeribund won because of the matchup. And speaking to the Joseph Randall injury, we saw the reins. The rains came off and he was unleashed. We saw Christa Michael's workload increase 700%.

So, Mike, do you hold on? So here's the deal. Please don't. No, no, no. He's just a complete lottery stash at the moment. And I will say, I have no idea what's going on with Joseph Randall's injury. No, no, just listen. Aryan Foster or Christian Michael rest of the season. If, if Randall is going to miss time and the Cowboys have to rely on Darren McFadden.

then I won't drop him. The amount of conditionals in Christine Michael's career to become a good player is mounting. It is mounting. I'm not just going to throw him away because I would absolutely throw him away. If you have Christian Michael, I would rather have Alfred Blue all day long. Yes, I agree. I would agree. I'm just not going to, I'm not going to just grab some guy off waivers who I think is a bum. But if there's someone who's going to get playtime, I would correct me.

If I can be a tiebreaker here, drop Kristen Michael. He's taking up a bench spot that he shouldn't be taking up. And the nice thing is, is that when you drop... Trade him to Mike. When you drop Kristen Michael, the cool thing is other people that you have to play against might be tempted to pick him up and waste a spot on their bench. So that's really nice. You know who he reminds me of both as a person and a runner? Chris Polk. And that's...

About as high as I'll go. He looks like Chris Polk. He acts like Chris Polk off the field. What's wrong with Chris Polk? Nothing. I'm just saying here's the difference. Chris Polk's a nice guy. No, I'm not saying anything bad about this.

Shrimp and shrimp and rice. Yeah, chicken and shrimp. Chicken and shrimp. Yeah, I'm just saying he seems, here's why I say that. It's not a knock on either guy, but it's a juxtaposition against Darren McFadden, the vet who comes in and plays with the game plan that the Cowboys had. He's not relying on any kind of like, I'm just going to run hard and run fast and try to run through guys. He was trying to, you know, go with the game flow, and it worked.

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All right, let's go ahead and take some time. We're going to get into this week's best performers in the fantasy world. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right, guys, let's start at the quarterback position where all quarterbacks perform well. Basically. I mean, it pretty much is like that on a week-to-week basis. It's exactly why we say quarterback is a streamable position. Obviously, you have to kind of pick correctly, but it's becoming to the point where, I mean, look at this. Look.

list. Kurt Cousins is at the top of it. Yeah, you had asked. I had asked to start him. Yeah, you're like, is he a streamable option this week? I'm like, no. Brian Hoyer's a better option. Brian Hoyer, despite being terrible, didn't do bad at all either. He was the number seven quarterback. Anybody watched the London game?

I did. E.J. Manuel, how did he look in that game? Oh, my goodness. E.J. Manuel, he was my stream of the week. We changed it from Landre Jones, if you had listened through the week. And E.J. Manuel was maybe the worst quarterback I have ever seen in that first quarter. I think he gave the ball away three times. Didn't matter. Didn't matter. He finished right now as the number 12 quarterback. A quarterback won. I expect Carson Palmer to knock him off there tonight. But, yeah, I mean, you want to know who those guys finished ahead of?

Drew Breeze, Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. So Eli Manning, I mean, you know, we say it every week. And so Kurt Cousness had a great game. He had a rushing touchdown and three passing touchdown. Is that correct? You like that? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, go watch that Vine. You like that? Go watch that Vine of Kirk Cousins after the comeback win. Impressive win. Biggest comeback in Washington history, 3130 at the buzzer.

Tom Brady, obviously. In our league format, he's been over 30 points every single game he's played. Just consistency has been through the roof, 355 and 2 in a rushing touchdown. Doing it in a game like this, completely 100% matchup proof. You cannot sit him. This is the guy I'm excited to talk about. You mean my start of the week? I told the world to start him, and he decided. He's like, you know what? You know what? I'm going to just take care of all my points in the first 30 seconds of the game.

Four touchdowns, 282 yards, one in completion. His receivers did help a little bit. Oh, I agree. I think he threw for about 20 yards in the air. It's debatable whether his receivers helped him or Houston helped him. So let's take a look at the Dolphins. They fired their coach, Joe Philbin. They brought in Guns Mahoney to take over. Man, that guy is just... He is a monster.

You know, they're serving Campbell soup everywhere now in Miami. Chunky? Well, yeah, Chunky would be better. So they come back out of the buy two weeks, weaker opponents, but they have destroyed them. Yeah. Are we buying back into Ryan Tannehill and crew of the Dolphins? I bought back in a week ago.

I loved Miami at home. I loved Tanna Hill. You had Lamar Miller as your start of the week, and I like the Miami defense in that game. Yeah, if only Lamar Miller could play four quarters with this new offense, they were destroying him so bad last week that he sat in the four. You're not complaining about.

No, I'm happy because I'm, you know, I'm Mr. Lamar Miller coming into the season. We'll get to him. Yeah, all right. But Phillip Rivers had a good game. So are you buying into Tanyhill moving forward? I'm buying into Tanyhill on the right matchup. Okay, okay. Yeah, I'm not going beyond that right now. Andrew Luck, I was playing against him in a league. It was looking great. He was at negative points. There's something wrong with the Colts, and yet he ended with 3333 and 3.

Thanks to defenders falling down. Yeah. And then Derek Carr had a, that was a fun game to watch. I love, you know, the Raiders, it used to be like you'd want to start a defense against them. I don't want to start a defense against the Raiders anymore. Amari Cooper is a machine. Michael Crabtree is great for a number two type of guy you're lining up. You know, Cooper destroyed for debt, right?

Yes. And who is coming into this week had been one of the top corners. And I don't know if you guys...