Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 8 Matchups, In-or-Out, #MattLife

You know, if you look at the passerating, they're good teammates. The passerating of Kirk Cousins when targeting Josh Doxon has been very good. Especially in tight windows of Harmon, a good friend of the show Matt Harmon had tweeted out one of those NFL next gen stat numbers. And it was Kurt Cousins in tight windows that Josh Doxon. It means almost a perfect pass rating. So every opportunity for Josh Doxon will be there. This is a game that I have Washington actually winning or I guess I have to say almost winning.

due to my prediction. Yes. But I think Doxon will get the opportunity. If I had to take a flyer, I'm certainly taking it on him this week. Yeah, I would rather have Doxon than Pryor than Pryor. Doxon's gotten more and more involved. As every week has gone on and Pryor's gotten less and less involved. Doxon. So if you were to take- We got Doxon here. If you were to take Pryor- Is that a Jurassic Park? Dang it, Mike. How'd you know?

Because I'm the reference machine. I was trying to get one over on you that the listeners would hear. Oh, nope. Nope. I got one over on you yesterday. Yeah, I think you're making a mistake if you're still believing because of where Torel Pryor was drafted in fantasy football. We're past that. Yeah, you've got to be able to move on. And we say this all the time you don't win a championship at the draft.

We're going to get things wrong. You win championships through the year by making the right start-sit decisions. It's so important to just change your mind. You're going to be wrong. We're going to be wrong. And the worst thing you could do and the worst thing we could do is just say, no, just keep waiting. It's going to happen. Do you think Trell Pryor may have slipped like an ADP list in to Jay Gruden's desk? Like left it on his desk with the highlight. I don't know if you've seen this, but people think I'm a...

Look where I was drafted, Jay. Give me some snaps. All right, the Steelers, that's good advice, by the way. The Steelers take on the Detroit Lions in Detroit. The Lions are three-point underdogs. Yeah. And, yeah, that's about how I'd have it, too. 45.5.5.5. Under. You know, Big Ben is a fantasy quarterback. He's off the radar a little bit. Lev Bell's been absolutely incredible. We don't have to discuss starting him or Antonio Brown.

Juju Smith-Schuster, we talked about it earlier. He's going to play in this game. Artavis Bryant's going to be inactive. And I think Smith-Schuster, let's put it this way. Would you rather play Juju or Doxon? Oh, I'm going to go with Doxon.

Man, that's really tough. It's very close. You're in very similar situations. I think I lean Doxon as well. We've seen him involved in the red zone. Yeah, the home player, higher over under, according to Vegas. Yeah, if you're going to fly. Fly high. Yeah, I mean, fly to the sun, right? That had worked for Icarus. I was going to say it did not work for Icarus. Why? What happened at the end of that story? Is that the JJ story?

Hey, as soon as Ingress took off, I turned away. I didn't watch the rest of it. He got to the moon, right? He got there, didn't he? He's still living on the sun. What happened? Oh, my goodness. Living on the sun. Yeah. Yes, that's good advice. That's how the myth goes. That's staying in the flames. That is. But I, look, the advice I think was good there, Josh Doxon.

Jesse James has not been targeted the last two weeks since Fancy McDonald's been involved. You can kick him to the curb. Yep. Matt Stafford, Amir Abdullah, Theoretic, Golden Tate, coming off the buy week. It's going to be tough. It's going to be real tough. The Steelers have just been smothering teams. That's the best way to put it. Because when you, that's the perfect descriptor for both being a good defense and not letting.

the opposing offense ever have the ball. They just been smothering offenses. Levion Bell has been killing clock. He has, he's as much as part of their defenses. Absolutely he is. Absolutely. So it's, it's going to be, you know, difficult. Thankfully, Matt Stafford at home, the comeback kid, you know, you could see some, some points happening at the end of this game. I do agree. Theo Riddick is a guy that's still on a lot of waivers.

right now. You're going to be okay there. Yeah, I'm going to make it. I'm going to pull through. Some dry cereal this morning? No, no way. I would never. Never. I genuinely paused right here. I feel like I've reached the point as a father where I need a secret fridge. I was going to say that you got that yet. Your, your first mistake was putting the cocoa pebbles in the family pantry. You're 100% right. It's on me. Don't look at the top of my closet.

Kids. It's all. It's just cereals and ding-dongs. It's just, it's, it's basically a little Debbie Isle. Yeah. And ants. And a lot of ants. For the record, I do not have any snacks in my closet, but I cannot promise that I won't going forward after such great discussion. I was going to say, this is really opening your eyes. So Theoretic, Jason.

Yeah, Theoretic has, you know, look, he has not been that involved over the last several weeks. I mean, since week two, he hasn't had more than four carries on the ground. But with the Golden Tate injury, with what we've seen from the offense and their struggles of Mir Abdullah, they gave him so much opportunity to get the job done. And he'll get still the first opportunity. But I think they have to go back to Theoretic.

which you kind of started to see right before the buy at New England. He had five receptions for 45 yards. Theoretic is a great pass catching back. If you're in any kind of PPR league, I believe this is a week where if Philly, I'm sorry, if Pittsburgh is winning the game and killing the clock, you're going to have those two-minute type of drives where Theoretic thrives and you just get a little dump-off, little dump off, another eight yards, another nine yards. And, you know,

It's hard to find running backs right now on the waivers, and he's available in a good chunk of leagues. So not little Debbie, little dumpy? Little dumpy. And speaking of changing your mind, Jason. I think that would be Mike Tolbert, though. Sorry, go on. Speaking of changing your mind. Eric Ebron. Oh, that's a little lumpy. Oh, Eric Ebron has not just changed my mind. Please do not bring up his name. He has changed my heart, my soul. Is it cold, dark? I would rather start Darren Fells than Eric Ebron. Eric Ebron has.

rightfully been given the bench. Yeah. Monday night football, the Broncos, the Chiefs, Chiefs seven point favorites at home and Arrowhead. I will take the Chiefs to cover in this game. Divisional matchup, I know that the, you know, the overrunners, 43 points. I just don't see a bounce back game from Denver coming against this Chief's defense. I know they haven't been good. But, you know, it's a chicken or egg thing here, right? How bad is the Denver?

offense been. They just got shut out by a team that, you know, the Chargers, they're a solid defense. We certainly believe that now. They're going to play Tom Brady this week. We'll find out a little bit more about them. But I just do not have confidence. I've been saying it for a long time. I don't have confidence in C.J. Anderson. I do not want to start him. I want to do anything in my power not to. Demarius Thomas is the only player in this group that I really like this week because of the presumed deficit.

Now, this is the NFL. The Broncos might win by 60. I mean, we don't know what's going to happen, but I really, I like Demarius Thomas. Yeah. That's the only player I want to play on that entire offense. The Chiefs get beat by chunk plays. We saw Amari Cooper return. Cooper. He certainly did. They're allowing a 14 and a half. Thank you. The defense, they are allowing 14 and a half yards per completion.

completion. I mean, that's ridiculous. So I love Demarius Thomas this week. We can't expect Emmanuel Sanders to play. Benny Fowler. Benny Fowler. Emergencies. Some teams are having that high alert. Is Benny Fowler worth a play? After what he did last week, yes. Yes, he's worth the emergency play. If you're in a by week, deep league, we have a 14 team listener league. You're in a pinch. I played Benny Fowler last week and he got me.

Five for 45. Five for 45. I mean, yes, he's an emergency play. What you just said about their passing defense, what I think that they'll be able to do, the chiefs will be able to do. You know, that's all it comes down to. Now, maybe this is a hard-fought game. Maybe the Broncos D is what keeps them in this game. But on the offensive side, are you still starting Alex Smith at home against Denver? That's a million-dollar question. And would you play Smith at home against Denver over Watson on the road against Seattle? Yes. Yes, I would.

Yeah, just the home. The home factor changes that for me. Trevor Simeon, are you even, so you're not even considering it? Trevor Simeon is, you're, I'm not going to consider it. I'm just confirming. Trevor Simeon on my rankings are, I mean, he is the scariest rank I have because he is darn near dead last in my rankings. I've buried him, I think without Emmanuel Sanders in Kansas City. And what we've seen.

Over the last few weeks from him and his offensive line with all of a sudden the collapse of the running game, I have major doubts. Like I would not start Trevor Simeon at all. And he has had those games. And Demeris Thomas and the chiefs, you know, the chiefs against wide receivers, there are reasons to believe DT can get it done and Trevor Simeon can be the benefactor of that.

I just don't see it happening. The trends of, you know, this is more film than analytics. The analytics kind of say Trevor Simeon should be okay because of what Kansas City has been given up to the wide receivers. But man, what I've seen from Trevor Simeon the last few games with my eyeballs is disgusting. Now, going to Arrowhead, I can't trust it. DeMarcus Robinson for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's a wide receiver if you haven't heard of him. He's starting to get some play now that Chris Conley is out.

He looked five for 69 last week. This isn't the matchup, though. I was going to say, we're talking the emergency wide receivers in the biweeks, Benny Fowler or DeMarcus Robinson. Fowler, for sure. I would as well. More established, better situation against the defense. You're starting Kelsey, if he's your tight end. Cream hunt, you know, the Broncos having a lot of rushing touchdown in six games. That's the best in the NFL right now. You might need to temper your cream hunt expectations. He'll still get you 100. All right. Guys, it is Friday, which means once again,

We're going to face off. A daily dose. Brought to you by draft. Now last week, I'm happy to report that I wasn't last. Jason was last. If you didn't see the picture, it was no Pizuki for Jason. Yeah. And if you don't know what Pizuki is, first of all, shame on you. And second of all, it is a pizza cookie. Yeah. I've never had a better pizza cookie. Andy, have you ever had a better pizza cookie? No, I've certainly never had one.

It looked really good. Had gelato that I enjoyed so much. Yeah, Mike and I enjoyed it and Jason. I washed it down with Jason's tears. I did have some basil. I did have some basil. It was very basely. So this week for our draft, we are doing the expert draft. Okay, we've made it super hard on ourselves because this is by apocalypse. You already have so many teams out of the running. And now what the expert draft on draft does is it takes.

all the best players, or at least the top drafted players, and it removes them. So now we're going really deep on a by week, and it looks like yours truly is on the clock. Yeah, you got the number one pick, Jason. Got the number one pick. Each pick five players, one quarterback, two running backs, and then two that can be a wide receiver or tight end from a pool that has been diminished. Who are you taking with number one, Mr. Look, I'm going to take a guy.

that is my start of the week. I'm surprised to see him here. It's Kelvin Benjamin at the wide receiver position. And Andy, while you're looking through, let me just talk about some of the players that are out there. No. No. I took Demarius Thomas with my first pick. Mike's start of the week. So Mike, you got back to back picks here. I was really hoping he would slip through. So I'm going to grab, I'm going to grab Nell. I'm going to grab Andy's start of the week, Nelson Agalore.

and then I'm going to look at a running back over here, which there's a few guys. It's pretty gross. It's not ideal. I'm going to go with, even though the matchup is not the best against Cleveland's run defense, I'm going to take Jerk McKinney. Oh, that's who I wanted to take right there, Mike. You stole them away from me. So now I have to make a tough decision at the running back position or to go with another wide receiver. One of the ways that you can strategize in draft is kind of look at what your opponents have taken.

It's like a real draft. I already know you guys don't like Deshaun Watson, so none of you are going to take him. So if I want to take him, I can. I'm taking Deshawn Jackson. Oh. So I'm going to go Deshaun Jackson along with. All right. Well, so I'm up on the clock with a back to back. I think Matt Forte, the leader of the. It was between Forte and McKinnon for me. The leader of the head-to-head match up there. And then, you know, I got a guy that I'm hoping gets back to me. And I think he might.