Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

Groin? Ah, my groin. So, are we worried about it? Yeah. At least a little bit. Jason, you're a Jeffrey owner. I am a Jeffrey owner. I'm a little bit worried about it because we, you know, we say we don't like when things crop up in the middle of the week, and especially if they're on the Chicago Bears, because you get absolutely no information. He's due to do. I mean, there were reports like, whoa, we saw him walking around without a limp. Like, give me a break. That's not news. That's nothing.

Really, I feel like right now you're going to assume he's in because he's been playing through injuries. He's in a contract year, but keep your ear to the wire and, you know, have a contingency plan in case he's a game time decision and ruled out. How have the Bears not resigned him? Jeffrey? Yeah. How are you letting? I just, that's crazy to me. Also, a thing to know with Jeffrey, I had him a little bit lower in my rankings already just because of the matchup. It's not.

a very good matchup for him this week going up against the Rams. So if he is hobbled and that, you know, I mean, I'm not saying you sit Jeffrey. I might sit Jeffrey, I guess in truth, I might put in Mike Evans over Jeffrey. He's.

a viable option if I'm scared about the groin and the matchup. If you need a direct handcuff, when Jeffrey was out, that's when we saw Marcus Wilson actually be valuable. Royal probably misses another game again. So Marcus Wilson could be just a handcuff option for you if Jeffrey was to sit. That's where I would go, unless they had a better option. Des Bryant, will he play? Yep. Will he be good? He'll be, he's a low-end one for me. Alan Hurons, we talked about him this week for Blake Bortles. Is Hurons going to play?

Everything said no, but now there's expectations out of Jacksonville that he is in fact going to play with his foot injury. He has mispractice. I'm pretty sure every single week this year and played. So I'm going to have to lean towards playing. In or out, John Brown. In. Emmanuel Sanders. Ooh, that one, I assume he's going to play, but he's got an ankle and a shoulder injury that he's dealing with. And a quarterback problem. Yeah, Peyton Manning is nicked up. Sanders had a big week last week.

Yeah, I expect Sanders to play. Willie Sneed. Has not practiced at all this week yet, so that's not the greatest. He has a delightful matchup against Washington this week. I assume he's going to practice today, but keep your eye out for that. If he doesn't practice today, then there's some... Serious doubt? Yes. Vincent Jackson? Out. Probably out. Kindle Wright. Out. Yep. All right, tight ends.

Austin Safarian Jenkins, the ever... Yeah, there was a note about him that he's still not cleared. He's been practicing for... He doesn't understand why. He's practicing for two weeks, and he's still not been cleared to play, so I guess out, but I don't understand what's going on over there. Nobody does. Jordan Cameron? I've actually not heard an update on Cameron lately. Has he been playing?

No. Well, let's, I'm just curious. I didn't see him last game. As in all year. Yeah. So he was limited at practice with a hamstring. It seems like he'll play. Larry did now. Got that neck problem, man. Says out. I'm thinking out. Yeah. You don't mess around with a neck. All right. Any other news and notes worthy of discussing here before we move on?

Nope. Got a lot to cover. I think we got everything else there. So before we move on, I want to remind everybody about the free sports manias app. It's one of our very favorite apps. Let me tell you one of the things I love about it. I can load in all of my fantasy teams and the football teams that I'm...

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Almost upset of the week. Oh, is it coming? What was my one last week? I don't know. Oh, is the Rams Vikings. And that one went down to a last second field. Yeah, that was the definition of almost, right? That was a good almost upset. Nailed it. Although I did make a bet. And we're going to pay out the water bets, by the way. Oh, yeah, we have to do that today, hopefully. I made a bet with Jason, and I should have gone with that one, but the 49er game. The Falcons 49ers, and I won that one. Yeah.

So I don't know how I did. Darn it. Me and Blaine Gabbard have no clue how that happened. Oh, Blaine Gabbard knows because he's a professional quarterback. All right, the dolphins head into Philadelphia and take on the Eagles who are favored in this game. High point, high scoring, what am I saying? Vegas spread? High line, yeah. High over under. High over under. 49 points in this game. Tanahill Bradford.

I like Bradford as one of those streaming options. He was kind of my second option on the streaming list. Yeah, it's not too bad. Not too bad. He looked like, to me, it's about Jordan Matthews. And that's why the passing game has been struggling. He was kind of the number one. There's really no other number one on the team. It had to be Matthews. And just with all those drops and the mental mistakes, it's been horrific for Matthews. And last week...

With making tough catches, I think that that could give him the confidence to help him out in the stretch run. So I like Matthews in this game, and so facto means that Bradford is okay. Yeah, Bradford scored way more fantasy points when his receivers have caught the ball compared to when they did not. That is a true statement. So DeMarco Murray, what are our feelings about him? This game, rest of season. He's an RB1, and I think that that's in both. I think that's in this game and rest of season. His usage is great.

Because of the offense of Philly, you kind of have to pick your poison with certain things. And they use him a lot in the passing game. He gets a screen or two that busts for a decent gain each game, and he's got a nose for the end zone. So he's a fine play. He's not going to be your Todd Gurley, but he is as solid as your middling RB-1s that you can find. Well, consensus-wise, we have him at number two this week.

So we have Gurley as the Far and Away number one. Our number two is DeMarco Murray. We have Peterson 3, Ingram for McFadden 5 this week as a show. So we like DeMarco Murray quite a bit. Well, Miami is 31st and giving them yards. And the workload is there for him. And people are still skewed at the beginning of the year when Murray just couldn't get it together. That's fixed. He's had over 20 fantasy points, three out of his last four games. So Murray is a fine, solid guy.

Okay, so let's talk about the other side of the ball at the running back position. Lamar Miller has put up two huge weeks out of the past three. What do we make of his kind of, you know, the Eagles defense is pretty good. It's in Philadelphia. Jay Ajay is getting a few more carries. I don't know if that matters yet. But Lamar Miller, what is your take on him? He's a one this week? I would put him in a low one. I would temper your expectations. I think the Eagles are very solid.

defense, and they're very opportunistic at getting the turnovers, which if, and Tannenhill is kind of a turnover-friendly quarterback, right, the season, which would not be a great thing for game flow for Lamar. Yeah, I have him at 17 this week. You guys both have him at 8, so he comes in at 11 on our consensus rankings. That is, just behind guys like Legerat Blunt and Jonathan Stewart, just ahead of Charkandric West and Chris Ivory.

from last night who had a okay game. One of the things that's helped Lamar Miller a lot. So obviously his usage has changed dramatically with the coaching change, and he's been good with that. But the nice thing is that he is game flow proof at this point. He caught seven balls for almost 100 yards last year just in the air. Just last week. Last week. Five the week before. So he is fully involved in the passing game.

He's been fully used in the running game. So that's where we've got him eight. I agree. Even seeing yours at 17, this is a tough matchup. This is a matchup that could prove that Lamar Miller hits his floor. But I think his floor is really high because he's going to get usage and he's going to catch the ball. So he's a safe play to me, but I don't expect a great big blow-up week the way that we've seen two out of his last three. Okay. Let's go ahead and talk about wide receivers here.

Mike mentioned Jordan Matthews. I heard him on the radio yesterday talking about the fact that Matthews is a target for him in trades right now because you could buy him low. He hasn't performed up to par, but he still has the potential, right? In this offense, we saw it a little bit last week. It took him an extra quarter, but he got a big touchdown. What are your feelings on him? On Matthews? Yeah, is that just the basic summary of that? Yeah, I mean, I like him going forward, and he is a cheaper target that I would try to acquire for the stretch run. Okay.

I completely agree. His targets have been there. His catches have been pretty decent. I mean, he's got, you know, one, two, three, four, five games in this short season already that are over six catches. So he just needs to, you know, catch all of them, or at least all of the catchable ones. And he'll go to that eight, nine range where you're bumping up into real wide receiver two numbers as a floor. And then if he gets in the intro. And how do you feel about a Jai?

coming in to take some of that Lamar Miller workload. I am not very worried about it in the sense that if you actually, you know, I've had Lamar Miller and he was kind of one of my hot picks before the season. So I've watched him very closely. They used Jonas Gray a lot. And so here's what I see as the difference, really, is that I don't expect. Jonas Gray? Yeah. Yeah.

Jonas Gray. They cut him now, but they were using him. Sorry. They were using him quite a bit, even after the coaching change, because they didn't, even though they're just running the ball more. It's not like, hey, let's give it to Lamar more. It's we need a running game. And they were using Jonas Gray quite a bit. I expect Ajai to come into that role.

But he's going to be better at it. And so maybe by the end of the season, he grows more. But I think they're comfortable with him. Ajai for now, he's not a guy that you can play. But if you're a Lamar Miller owner, you have to have him on your team. Okay, let's move on to the Saints and the Redskins. Well, let me ask real quick. Let me go back and just ask you about Zach Ertz. Because I'm curious what your thoughts are. He can't get into the end zone right now, but he is getting targeted. So where do you have Ertz? Would you start him? Yes. Yeah, I would start him. Okay.

Yeah, I've got him at 10. Ertz or Richard Rogers? I like Richard Rogers this week. Julius Thomas or Ertz? Tom. I'll go, Hertz. Okay. All right, let's talk about the Saints going into Washington, D.C. and taking on the Redskins. This is pretty much a heads-up game. I like, we all like cousins a lot. I mentioned yesterday how bad the New Orleans defense was. I didn't mention this, though.

The difference, New Orleans is the very worst past defense in terms of expected points against them. And the difference between them and the second to last team, which is Tennessee, is so big that the difference between Tennessee and Arizona, it's the same difference between those two. Arizona is a very good past D. So what I'm saying is they are so bad and they are so bad in excess, right? Like they're just on another stratosphere right now. I thought you were going with like a yo mama joke. No. They are so bad.

How bad are they? I don't have one. You know, that stat and just the truth of how bad they've been has really made Jordan Reed a struggle for me and a lot of questions because this is a week where a lot of teams who have Jordan Reed have another good option. You've got Tyler Eiff or maybe you've got Grunk or Greg Olson. And so Jordan Reed isn't your starting tight end and you are now putting Jordan Reed against other decent wide receiver options. And in a game like this against that