Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 5 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Trade Targets

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With your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome into the show. Doing whatever I want. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Your new host. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright, that is me. You're looking good, Mike. You're looking good as well. Thank you. Jason Moore. Jay Grizz in the house? Jay Gris in the house.

Looking fine as well. Andy Holloway and his lovely family, they are taking a well-deserved vacation. Yeah, they saw what happened to talk girly this week. Oh, okay. I got to go. I got to go. I'm not going to be here for this. I'm only here for the good girly. I don't want to hear these two guys gloat. So he left. He went to Disneyland. So like I said, my name is Mike, the fantasy hitman writes. Jason Moore.

You can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Jason is at Jason FFL. I am at FF Hitman and the missing Andy Holloway, our fearless leader. You can find him on Twitter at Andy Holloway. Man, it's going to be a great show. It's going to be a wild and out show. There is no limit. We're going to Nick Cannon Wild Out. There's no, this could be five hours. It could be seven hours. You don't know.

I mean, you probably know because you started the podcast by now and it probably said how long it was. That's not. We don't know. That's not very fair. They live in the future. So today we'll do the fancy rewind. A lot of news. A lot of, uh, lot to recap from this weekend. A lot of sad news. Yeah, there were plenty of injuries to go around. Uh, but there's also positivity. We'll talk to stud muffins are raising canes rising stars.

Got to always talk to poopers. When you talk the ups, you've got to talk the downs. But we're going to get into the quick question. Which underperforming player or players are you targeting in trades? It's the end of week five. People are making the push for the playoffs right now. You are getting ready. So Jason, who are you targeting? You know, I've got a decent size list of players that I would be targeting.

It always comes down to... Giving your third favorite. Okay, my third favorite player to target would actually be DeMarco Murray. Okay. You would be my third favorite. I know a lot of people have to be freaking out about DeMarco Murray. And no one... I am one of them. Yeah, no one is freaking out more than whoever owns DeMarco Murray, which is what allows you to buy a player low. Their owners are done with them. The DeMarco Murray owners...

they probably don't have a great record because they have been relying on them. They've been starting them. And he's been letting them down week after week after weeks. So you say, well, Jason, why would you possibly want to buy into that and bring that landmine onto your team? It's because I don't believe he is a landmine. I think he looked all right. He ran for over four yards carry. He had 14 carries this last week compared to Derek Henry's four. And of course, he didn't produce much. They didn't have a quarterback. I mean, Marcus Marriota was gone. And I think that that was a big.

part of the problem. I mean, I know the dolphins aren't great, but that's one guy. But when I say I've got a list of guys, it's all about the price. I mean, you know, there's, there, I'm not going to be trading for Isaiah Crowell because I don't believe he's ever going to get it done, but the guys like a day. Teams are actually willing to pay you money to take Isaiah Crowell now. I will give you a second round pick in next year's draft. If you take Isaiah Crowell and start him.

Like if you take him and start him, I'll give you a second round pick. Who are you targeting, Mike? I mean, DeMarco Murray, it's, it's an okay one. The nice thing for Murray is that Henry's doing nothing. Henry is is underperforming as well. The guy all target, it's JJ. I know I have voiced my concerns about him. I'm still concerned about him, but 25 carries for running back. You just, that doesn't fall off of trees.

25 carries and the similar to the Murray owner, the JJ owner, you know they're freaking out right now. Yeah, you know, some of these guys, a perfect example. Mari Cooper, you, oh my goodness. There's going to be leagues where you can find him on the waivers, but you're going to be able to.

trade for Amari Cooper as cheap as possible. I told people last week, I traded for Amari Cooper this past week. I sat him. I mean, you don't want anything to do with Cooper right now, especially while Derek Carr is gone. But he's going to come back. His last three games were against three of the best defenses out there. So if you can get him pennies on the dollar, he's another candidate that I wouldn't shy away from. I would not start him until Derek Carr's back. Amir Abdullah.

is a guy that after this down week against a very difficult Carolina backfield. But again, you talked about the carries, the JHAI is getting. Amir Abdul is getting the work and he's getting it done. So I, you know, I would be willing to take him on if I can get him affordable. Probably my two favorite, though. You said my third favorite, so I skipped down to tomorrow. My two favorite guys are guys that I actually believe in. I think they've looked good. I think they will perform well the rest of the year. And they both had slightly down weeks.

My number one would be Keenan Allen. Love it. Keenan Allen has been targeted, you know, top 10 in the league. His hands are usually great. This last week he had a couple drops that made his stat line down a bit. But he is very important to that offense. I like everything I've seen at him. And Alshon Jeffrey, no one expected him to have this monster big blowup game against Patrick Peterson. But Carson Wentz is the real deal. Yes. I mean, he looks great. I trust him. And I...

I would definitely be looking to trade for Alshan and Keenan Allen. All right. Let's get into the rewind. Weekly rewind. The big news. The big news of the weekend. Odell Beckham, broken fibula, will need surgery. It was horrifying to watch. You knew from, at least, I mean, I knew watching that first replay. I said to Jason, I'm like, that's broken. It's the way he's like twisted. You knew it was really bad. You could tell by his reaction. I mean,

Beckham's been giving us a little bit of that shady action lately where he'll go down writhing. You're like, I think he's okay. But this one was different. And it sucks. I thought, oh, another play acting. And then they showed the replay and you're like, oh, his foot turned the wrong way. I mean, that's going to be broken. It's no good. And so a lot of people are asking, okay, what do you? Yeah, what do I do now? And I was all ready to talk about my number one target for Odell Beckham.

replacement is keenan allen i love because he's he was on a down week he's not it's not like trying to buy antonio brown which is nearly impossible or a j green i mean those guys are sure if you can do that absolutely pick them up but the price of those guys is going to be astronomical meanwhile you may be able to get keen and allen for an okay price right and not just devastate your team you know rob peter to pay paul

So to speak. Exactly. No, that's why Keenan Allen's a very good replacement. The questions become, what about the other weapons there? All of them went down. For the Giants? The four wide receivers, four starting wide receivers went down all with ankle or foot injuries. Dwayne Harris out for the year. And then you have the two.

Brandon Marshall and Sterling Shepard both injured their ankles before Odo Beckham. They are considered right now week to week. Sterling Shepard's going to be getting an MRI, I believe, today. I had questions on Twitter that were, okay, how much does this bump up? Let's say Sterling Shepard is back this week. Brandon Marshall, Odo Belkham are out. I think Sterling Shepard is a talented receiver, and I'm staying as far away from every New York giant right now as humanly.

possible. I don't trust Eli Manning without Odell Beckham, let alone without Odell Beckham, possibly without Sterling Shepard, without Brandon Marshall. Their upcoming schedule this week, they're going and playing the Denver Broncos. It's not optimal. I would say the most difficult matchup for wide receivers in the entire league. They're following that up with the Seattle Seahawks. If you're depleted.

Your offense is bad. You're already 0 and 5. You're going up against two of the more difficult matchups in the NFL. I am avoiding completely. The Giants News continues as Orleans Darkwa, who was looking pretty nice. He has a couple great runs. He had a great touchdown run. He was knocked out with a calf injury. Wayne Galman looked competent in replacement. I believe he had five receptions, so he, at least he's catching the ball.

Wayne Galman is going to be hot property when it comes to the waiver wire this weekend. It's rare to find a running back who can start. But again, I go back to the fact that if they are depleted on offense and they've got this crazy difficult schedule that, you know, I mean, someone on the Giants will have fantasy production. It will probably come from the running back who is catching the ball, which usually you think of Shane Marine in that role.

I think now the Gaulman news is like, okay, so is it going to be Gaulman? Is Vering going to be healthy? It's just so murky. Again, I would let someone else deal with that issue. Sure. Devante Parker left the game with an ankle injury. He also left the stadium on crutches. It is a sprained ankle. Charles Clay was carted off with a knee injury. That one looked pretty bad. So Mr. Necessary is off the field. It would seem.

Which means we have a Mr. Very necessary. Yes. Nicoliery, the replacement tight end came in, was immediately getting targets. So he will also be hot property on the waiver wire. Jordy was dealing, Jordan Nelson dealing with a hamstring issue. If you were watching that Dallas, the Dallas Green Bay game with the Packers incredible comeback, Aaron Rogers does it again. He did it without Jordy Nelson on the field. Yeah. Everyone's screaming, why is Jordan? He didn't look right the whole game. Yeah.

That's correct. So you'll need to monitor practice this week. So Matt Stafford, he was hobbling all day. He says he'll be all right. We have Travis Kelsey suffered a concussion. Chris Conley with the Achilles injury. And for the Texans, JJ Watt and merciless, JJ Watt is he's done. This is a broken leg situation. I researched a little bit about what the break was. And you go, holy crap, that sounds horrifying. Yeah. Some people are mentioning that other players have had.

the same injury before, been out a couple of weeks. I believe Des Bryant had that. But for my understanding, you know, same injury on paper, very different injury in reality. There's much more, the severity to JJ Watt is much different and he should be done for the year. This is bad news for the Texans defense, which from a fantasy football perspective could be decent news for Deshaun Watson.