Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 5/6

super talented receivers just needs targets and needs he also uh another step for him is he is the leader in the league in terms of uh uh losing my mind here uh yards distance of a catch the longest catches so he's averaging something like 23 yards a catch so the and it's they're they're at home they're playing the redskins the redskins defense is abysmal awful yeah so well not up front but um secondary is pretty bad

So tight ends, we have, oh, you're going Baltimore as well. Yeah, I jumped on the bandwagon. So Owen Daniels. Yeah, I like, he had a pretty good week. And this is just one of those hunch weeks where, because I like Joe Flacco a lot this week too. But I don't know, I just, I have that, I like it. I have that gut feeling that he's going to score a touchdown. I know fantasy people really like their analyst to say, I feel it in my gut.

And you do. But you know what? Sometimes you got to play from the good. There you go. And you got the Ravens defense. Oh, yeah. Buccaneers? Buccaneers offense, yeah. I like it. And then my tight end and defense are Delaney Walker, which is kind of, you know, it's kind of a not a high risk in terms of a start. Wait, who are they playing? The Jaguars. Yeah, I think he's a really good start against the Jags. And then the Patriots defense against Buffalo.

That is interesting. It's in Buffalo, but I just don't think that this is going to be a good game for the Bills. The secondary in New England is number one in the league. Kyle Orton is okay. He's much better than E.J. Manuel, but I just don't see them moving the ball. The Patriots, which... You're not allowed to disagree with me. Oh, I'm just going to say that... Sorry, no, we're moving on. ...is clearly obvious if you watch the game.

that if the offensive line holds up, Tom Brady is still okay. So I don't know if the offensive line is going to be able to hold up against Buffalo. How is that going to affect the Patriots defense? I'm just talking about in terms of game. Sorry, I should have specified. Yeah, okay. Well, do you like the Patriots defense at Buffalo? Because I do. They're my start of the week. Maybe. All right, we moving on?

We are introducing a new segment, which we don't have a super awesome sound bite. I apologize for that. But I think this could take over as the new favorite segment of the week. There you go. I really like it. We're calling this. What are we doing? We're calling it the fantasy footballers versus the world. Wow. That's us versus the world. So what we're going to do, it's basically a start-sit game, but we're going to play where we...

I tried to pick five difficult choices that owners have to make. And that we are going to check our analysis and we're going to see what the fantasy pros consensus was. Because if you jump on fantasy pros, you can do this to your heart's content. You should say, should I start or sit X versus Y. And then they will tell you...

which fantasy experts agree with you. Or disagree. And there's over 100 experts on there. So we will give our opinions and we'll see what the expert opinion is. And you can choose whether to go with us or with them. So first matchup here. Number one, Golden Tate versus Minnesota or Kelvin Benjamin versus the Bengals. Golden Tate all the way. Golden Tate all the way for me. Because Calvin's not expected to play. Let's say Calvin Johnson plays.

uh it's still golden tape for me i am going to i'm actually going to lean calvin benjamin uh okay i think the last week was a just a little blip and the i don't know the both both on the road they're both and the bangles i mean i just what happened they're the bangles that's what meant to me is they're still the bangles you had two weeks

I know. To get ready for that game. And that's, see, that's what happens in the playoffs to them, too. So as we look onto Fantasyproves.com, I think our disagreement is pretty close on there. We've got 56% of experts agree with me and say to go with Golden Tate, while 44% have Kelvin Benjamin. But that's pretty close. That's good for the game, because we have not looked at these percentages, by the way. No, we haven't.

And so I was just, I looked at ones that I thought were close. We're going to end up close. Yeah. And that, that is pretty close. Right on. So the second one here that we got is Ruben Randall, ooh, versus Philadelphia, or Brian Quick, the up-and-comer versus the 49ers. Yeah, the Enfuego, Brian Quick. This is a tough one. Who do you have? This is a ridiculous one. I was...

I've kind of been on that Ruben Randall bandwagon. Why? He just touchdowns. I don't know. It's obviously you're picking him here. This is a really, really hard one. And the 49ers, the DBs, it's Ruben Randall. You got to leave, Philadelphia is so bad. So you're going to remember. Yeah, I flip-flopped right in the middle of my sense. I'm going Ruben Randall.

Boy, this is a tough one for me. I'll go ahead and agree with you on Ruben Randall, although it's really close. This one is close. Okay. Ruben Randall, 52% to Brian Quick's 48%. See, one of the nice things about using fantasy pros for this, too, is if you've got experts that you agree with and you like, you actually get to see what they choose individually too. So if you're a fan of, I think you're talking about Mike Clay earlier, you can go on and see who Mike Clay.

thinks is better between these two because they just compare the rankings. So that is another good decision by you, a very close one. We both went with Ruben Randall over Brian Quick this week. Moving on to number three. Number three, Frank Gore versus the Rams or Andre Ellington versus Washington. Ooh, well done on this choice here. This is tough. I am going to go with Frank Gore.

Really? Yes, I know. I think you were expecting me to say Andre Ellington. I think Ellington's week last week was obviously defined. I mean, he's a great player, but he had two touchdowns. And they were both, well, one of them was that you don't like me calling things fluky, but the passing long touchdown. From Logan Thomas. I mean, that throw was. 80-yard touchdown. Was a.

I don't know how the defense had magical powers. There was a window of one by one, and it fit right in the window. And I think the defense couldn't believe that it fit through the window, and they kind of stopped, and Ellington ran it in. And his other touchdown was off of a turnover where they were just right there. And for me, Ellington's not usually a touchdown guy. Yeah, for me, it's just a matter of, I think Gore will score this week, and I think that.

The 49ers have had success the last two weeks because they've gotten back to the run game. So I'm going to take Gore against the Rams. After, I'm going to go with Ellington because of just seeing what's not just one week, but this is the fresh memory of what Lynch was able to do catching the ball against Washington yesterday. He was pretty nice. And that's what Ellington does.

They pretend he can run up between the tackles, but he can't. Why do we continue to pretend he can do that? I think, yeah, it's that keep on his thing. Just trying to keep balance. So let's take a look at the experts who have Frank Gore at 56% over Andre Ellington. So 56% of experts believe Gore will have a better week. As do I, if you agree with Mike, go ahead and start Ellington. See where that gets you. See where that gets you.

If you like to win, you'll go with me. Oh, I like this next one. You got Ben Tate against Pittsburgh, who's your start of the week. So if you abandon him now, I will call you out on that. I actually did. I had not factored that into this. I didn't do my starts of the week pick before. There you go. And then Ben Tate against Pittsburgh or on the Thursday night game, Amad Bradshaw versus the Texans. Thursday night, people. Thursday night blowouts. Uh-oh. Who do you got?

You've got Ben Tate. I have to go with Ben Tate because I already said Ben Tate. Shoot. Yeah, I'm going to lean Ben Tate too. I have no clue. I have a feeling the experts are going to go the other direction. But let's go ahead and take a look. Oh, wow. I am very wrong. 86% of experts have Ben Tate. Oh, I thought we were going to say over the... No, 86% have Ben Tate over Ahmaud Bradshaw. Probably has a lot to do with Houston's stout defense.

of late. They had a good performance last week. Interesting. 86% think Tate. I do as well. I think the Colts are going to mop the floor. You think this is going to happen? I don't think it's going to be close. That's funny. And so Bradshaw getting a couple of his dump touchdowns would not surprise me at all. All right. Let's go to our last one of the fantasy footballers versus the world.

Michael Floyd. Okay, I apologize. This was... He was also your start of the week. This was not intentional. Well, I'm going Michael Floyd. I would side with Andre Johnson on this one. He's been getting targets, just not performing and not getting touchdowns. So I'm going to take Andre Johnson versus Indianapolis on Thursday night. And the consensus is Michael Floyd. What's the percent? Okay. Cool. But, I mean, that's at least...

Good. Well, I guess the Ben Tate one was not close, but the other four were all. Those were pretty tough decisions. Remember, you can go on and check anybody. Like you said, you could, like Mike said, you can go on and if it's Larry Fitzgerald versus Deshawn Jackson. You want to go see what the experts have to say? And you can actually filter it from standard PPR and half PPR. Yeah, that's very convenient. So it's a nice tool because I know as a fantasy owner.

For me, I always want somebody to validate my decision. And so we look around on Twitter, we look around online, because you like to get that bump of confidence when your gut tells you to do something. And so you can go on there and like if your gut was saying, hey, let's start Ben Tate this week. Hey, you go on to fantasy bros.com and you get a little pat on the back. If you were thinking about Start of Ben Tate, you are correct.

There you go. That's what that means. Bed tape, number one running back them all time. That's right. If you don't get performance this week from him, it's not your fault. It is the expert's fault. So let's go to our final section here before we close it down. Let's answer some questions from you, our faithful listeners. Absolutely. Number one on the board. You got emails pulled up? I sure do. Kind of. They're kind of pulled up. Pull them up. Pull them up. All right.

We got any good questions today? First one from Jeremy in Arizona. He says, should I trade Kaepernick and Greg Olson for Jay Cutler and James Jones? Colin Kaepernick, Greg Olson for Cutler and James Jones. That is a big fat no for me. That is a big fat no for me as well. All right.

I love Cutler. I've loved him all year. He's been doing... He sucks. He's been doing well. He does... He's a good fantasy quarterback this year, but he turned the ball over. I can't stand him as a real life quarterback. And Kaepernick has been okay, but Greg Olson, the difference between Cutler to Kaepernick is... And James Jones has actually played well. We forgot about him because he was on a bye week. But I'd rather have Greg Olson. The...

The tight end is tumultuous at the bed. You're laughing. What is going on here? I'm laughing because I'm seeing the next email that's in here that says to ask the question. And I want to ask it to you, do you drop Michael Floyd to sign Ruben Randall? And I'm laughing because Michael Floyd has been, is your start of the week and he's also your. Okay, here's what happened.

I don't control these things. Well, no, I mean, the emails are the emails. Michael Floyd is the best wide receiver in the universe. Okay, so clearly you do not drop him for Ruben Randall, huh? No, but here's why I guess that's a legitimate, you at least have to ask, because he's been, he's had three just stinkers. Duds. I mean, they're bad. And who knows what's going on with the quarterback?

But Palmer, you don't bail on him now, though. I don't think you do. That's my thought is I don't bail on Michael Floyd. And a lot of that has to do with depth chart to me. Like Ruben Randall on the depth chart to me versus Michael Floyd. Floyd's probably the number one in Arizona. Yeah, I think he is. So that's where that decision comes to me. So sorry to cut off your Greg Wilson hyping. That's all right. Let's go ahead and look at one from Mark W from...