Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 2 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Eulogies

do worse than Isaiah Crowell. The one thing I want to say on the shady game is I want to keep our eyes on the Carolina defense. It's hard to know if they are great, which they very well might be great because they played the Niners and Buffalo. And so no matter what, they look great. But they just might legit be one of the best defenses again, how they've been, you know, the majority of this last decade. So we've got to keep an eye on them. All right. Got nothing, a couple honorable mentions here. Nothing.

production-wise from the Cardinals backfield, nothing from the Bengals backfield this week. We talked about Blunt. You saw basically nothing out of the New Orleans backfield, which is unfortunate because you have three pieces there. You did have Camara had three catches, 50 plus yards receiving, but do you guys have any... It's a trouble. It's a troublesome situation because they've been down by a lot in both games now. Yeah, I know Breeze ended up fine with an okay fantasy game, but it took a...

a full comeback effort. I mean, Super Bowl's not looking good. Oh, no. Yeah, that's long gone. Yeah, they're not making the playoffs. We've moved on. We've moved on to 2018 Super Bowl predictions. Oh, that's what mine was all along. You didn't know that, Jay? Oh, you wanted the 40-year-old version of Drew Brie's got it. Is there concern for the New Orleans offense? Yes.

Not for me. I think the offense is going to get it back on track. And they miss Willie Sneed right now. And Willie Sneed's coming back soon. So I'm not too concerned. We know any offense in which the backbone is Kobe Fleener has concerned. Or Willie Snee. Hey, Brooks, I believe we're supposed to do a check. I mean, I guess we got to wait until Monday's done. But Kobe Fleener's probably going to be still in the top five tight ends. So, hmm.

Hmm. Hmm. Yes. Yeah. We all choose hills to die on and you can die on that one. Amari Cooper. He's not dead on that hill. Wide receiver poopers. Amari Cooper, Brandon Cooks, Terrell, Larry Fitzgerald. Brandon Cooks in the best matchup he could have possibly had at least just, you know, they're taken on the Saints. He's a freaking magician, man. He knows how to make things disappear. Just in. Oh.

I can't stand you, Brandon Cooks. Yeah, this is why I didn't want to drive them. Terrell Pryor, obviously, is disappointing people. Not those that listen to me, but. Which version of you? Oh, come on. You know, I think you worry about Terrell Pryor as a whole. At this point, yes. Cooper, he just got Crabtreeed. Yep. And also Michael Crabtree is the best wide receiver for that team.

You want, I mean, they're a great offense and Crabtree is like locked and loaded as the goal line. As he should be. He's amazing. There you go. So honorable mentions, uh, Hilton. Yeah, don't play the Colts until further notice. Uh, look, once again, outperform Moncrief. That's really the key point there. If you lose your starting quarterback, it's really bad for wide receivers. You saw that with Hilton, Moncrief, Diggs, Thielen. I mean, go figure. Uh, backup quarterbacks not as good.

I'd go by low on Pierre Garsohn this week, if you could. With the down week against Seattle, it's early in the season if people aren't sure about him. He's a target. Ted Ginn, Jr., Mike. How are you feeling about Tegin? I still actually feel okay. It was because he caught three balls, but he had six targets. And two of those misses were both in the end zone and narrow misses for touchdown. So I think you're going to see that a lot.

It's fair point. But he's getting opportunity. And if you're not, Jason, if you're not concerned about the offense, then that means good things, in my opinion, good things moving forward for Ted Ginn. I am on the side of, I don't think it's going to happen for Ginn. You've got sneed out of the offense right now. It's an unproven situation in a new offense. And those two things and the lack of production concern me.

Jordan Matthews did nothing. Kenny Britt, I think your time is done. I mean, Brits doing nothing there. He's been Higginsed. Yeah, we'll talk about that tomorrow. All right. Jimmy Graham, terrible game. He got banged up as well in this game. Charles Clay did not bounce. It was a bad matchup for Clay. I'm Mr. Clay, but Carolina is a bad matchup for Titans. Clay and Hooper both.

regressed significantly from week one. So Clay then against Denver, who the, they've been giving up points to the tight end. You saw old man Whitten getting it done. He's still okay moving Clay forward. Yeah, I mean, you can beat Denver with the tight end, but I don't think it's like one of those defenses where it's locked and loaded that you will. He's okay. He'll probably be around my tight end 15, so maybe you would start him, but hopefully you've got a better option. All right. Let's go ahead and.

Give some updates now for Monday night. The news right now is that Odell Beckham Jr. is going to test the ankle and pre-warm-ups. If you had to do, let's play in and out with Odell Beckham Jr. today. I am voting out. Ooh. I'm going in. Yeah, I think I lean out. And here's the deal. I've had a ton of Twitter messages. They say the same thing. They say, look, if O'Dell Beckham Jr. is active. I need four points to win.

Do you play Beckham or do you play Shepard? I need eight points to win. Do you play Beckham or do you play Shepard? I have a mailback question and they're right under their exact same thing. Five points. Let's put that to test right now before we close the show out. You're five points behind your opponent. Well, I got to give. Justin and Cleveland. Justin in Cleveland. Five points behind in a full PPR. If he's playing, do you play him fresh off the injury or does Sterling Shepard get him the five points? In a full point PPR, I go Sterling Shepard.

because I think you'll get five in a full point PPR. I mean, Sterling Shepard will have at least four catches. I do not think that is a guarantee with O'Dow Beckham Jr. if O'Dell Beckham Jr. is active and you're at the five point mark, I would probably go with Beckham. I would too. But I don't think he'll be active. So I think you're going to be deciding between Shepard and Ingram and maybe, you know, Marvin Jones, whatever you have is your backup plan. Be ready because you're not going to find out to late today.

And it's an unfortunate situation. Jason, you are no doubt Buckham Jr. owner. Are you concerned with him beyond this week? No, no, not in the slightest. Also, breaking news. Breaking news. The judge has denied the NFL's emergency motion for a stay in Ezekiel Elliott time of an area injunction. I'm really glad that came through while we were doing this show. There you go. So keep your Zeke, drop your McFadden. Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I guess that simplifies the waiver show. We'll talk more about it tomorrow as well. I've still had a couple of leagues where I've actually still held on to McFadden because I just wanted this to happen. Now he's released. Will you read that one more time for me? Breaking. Judge Mazant denies the NFL's emergency motion for a stay of the Ezekiel Elliott preliminary injunction. Okay, gotcha. I just wanted to make sure that I was reading it the right way and it wasn't the opposite. So.

Zeke, we believe he's playing all year now. This year, I believe he's playing all year now. Okay. All right. I'm sure we'll have to talk about it again. Tomorrow's every day. They'll do something. We're going to do a brand new podcast called The Zeke Report. It's going to be eight times a day. No. No. And, no, that is it for today's episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Thank you for subscribing for leaving us reviews on iTunes. And for, uh,

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