Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 1 Matchups, In-or-Out, Kareem the Dream

roster construction do you have running backs it's a pretty close to an auto except what other offers were people getting for kareem hunt after last night's explosion well the one offer that i wanted to pose because jason's saying package gillessly in a piece would you take gillisly and a piece and try and get kareem hunt is that enough of an upgrade for you i i would and so when i say that you need to take advantage of this and and find a trade for gillisly gillisly gilis going to be good he'll have plenty of

use in that important role, and I like him, but his consistency won't be there. Kareem Hunt, on the other hand, I think will be very consistent. He will score fewer touchdowns than Gillisly this season, but he'll be someone you can plug and play every week, and when he doesn't have a great game, he probably won't crap your team the same way that Gillisly will. That's what Char West got. One carry. Because Green Hunt was tired.

from a 50-yard run. So just a couple more of these offers. I mean, you're talking Jordy. Wow. In a PPR. Okay, so here's a, here's a interesting one. It's a full PPR. So Robinson and Jarvis Landry for Kareem Hunt. Alan Robinson? Yes. No. No, I wouldn't do that either. Okay. But I will say this. Is this true Devanta Freeman plus Calvin Benjamin? Yeah, that to me is a yes. That's an easy yes. And I've also seen multiple people.

multiple like different humans because you would think this would only be you would think this would only be one crazy guy on the planet that have been offered levy on bell for kareem hunt straight up do that immediately please do that immediately go off if you've got cream hunt go offer him for ridiculous lunacy look at one point like last night in our league of record i was browsing through there were seven patriot offensive player starting and that's with amandola on somebody's bench that's the level of uh

That's the amount of patriots that are being consistently started in the distribution of points. We talked about last night, and Mike brought up Edelman. The real problem to me, yes, Edelman was part of it. A lack of rapport with Cooks was part of it. But Eric Berry, shutting down Rob Grankowski, Rob Grankowski disappointed all fantasy owners last night, and I want you to know, do not worry about Rob Grancowski at all. It was Eric Berry. He had done this before. Mike had brought this up. So there's a lot of players.

Brandon Cook's only had three receptions, but he had 88 yards. He was okay for you. He was in the 10-11 point range. And then we could talk about Tyreek Hill. Tirek Hill, fifth consecutive game with a touchdown of 65-plus yards, was electric. What did you think of the usage of Hill? Because to me, he's Edelman plus D-Jax built into one player right now. It's incredible. I mean...

When Jeremy Macklin was out weeks 9 through 13 last year, he averaged seven receptions a game. They used him just like they did yesterday last year when the opportunity was there last night. He had seven receptions. He also was involved in the rushing game. They looked for him short. They looked for him deep. I mean, because he can outrun anyone in the NFL, literally anyone.

he is a must play. I mean, he's an absolute, there's no matchup. If you're playing against the Denver Broncos, I'd play him because he can outrun anyone. And the only concern now is he limped off the field. I was worried it was going to be a hamstring. Looks like it came out that it was cramping, which I think is, you know, I mean, we don't want that, but it's better than a muscle play. But speaking of Eric Barry, this huge blow for the Chiefs, it.

Sounds like an Achilles injury, and we're talking substantial time, if not the entire season, which this changes everything for the Chief's defense. Yeah, and Marcus Peters left with a calf injury. And Danny Amadola left with a concussion. Jason literally said with the amount of hits he was taking that his health meter looked like it was at 20%, like he was in a video game. And no more than five minutes later, he left the field with a concussion. I do feel like I need to institute rule 80-11.

Oh, and that is when Danny Amandola is on the field and Julian Edelman is not on the field. Oh. He's in my lineup. Rule 80-11. I like it makes sense. All right. Hey, look, I feel like we could talk about last night's game forever, but we don't have time for that. I do want to reintroduce a little segment. We're back for the regular season. Put Clan Friday. Oh, man. You dance like a white dude, Jason. No, that was my Muppet dance. I was dancing like, I, like.

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good. You did it so good, Justin. Hey, Roak, thank you for the support. Yes. Absolutely. So let's go ahead and get into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right, Mike, what are you hearing about Ezekiel Elliott? Can we please stop talking about this? Nope. But the ruling on Elliott's restraining order is supposed to be due by 5 p.m. Eastern today. And if that goes, if that passes.

That means there is a hold and that Elliott is going to be playing a good amount this season while they try and figure things out once again. Yeah, I mean, we don't know this for sure, but the expectation I've seen from other people I trust seems to assume that he will get it. Really? I mean, again, this is not my own information, so I'm hedging here. The worry, though, for me is if he gets this,

but he doesn't get the preliminary injunction, then what could happen is he plays for a while and then you miss him in the playoffs. All right, I got just one more nasty one. Would you trade Kareem Hunt for Zeeck right now? Wow, that one is great. Oh, my gosh. No, no, I wouldn't. I don't think I would. I mean, if Zique was his situation, you knew it, or if it was a Dynasty League, I would probably, I would say yes. But right now, I wouldn't mess with it. Okay. I wouldn't risk it.

It'd be a, that'd be a big biscuit. It'd be a big, it'd be a big, it'd be a big biscuit. Bengals coach, running backs coach said that they were going to use a hot hand approach at running back. In the context of Cream Hunt, is this the time to go grab Joe Mixing before you see one of these games from mixing? Because I know the hot hand. Mixing's hands are warm. You already know whose hands are hot? No, because I still think it's going to take a couple weeks.

for Mixen to really establish himself. I think he will be good from week one and he will be good the rest of the time, but I will never trust the entire season without injury. I don't trust that Joe Mixon would be given the keys to the kingdom and be given 20 touches a game at all. Like Marvin Jones doesn't do this. If it was Andy Reid, I would say he would see the talent, see the hot hand and really do it. I don't trust the situation here. So while I think Mixon is...

uh probably safer this week than a lot of people think i his ceiling are you willing to play him i'm playing him in two different leagues i am too i have no problem with oh but i'm the most bullish on mixing of this i don't think he finishes you know as a top 15 running back he can my expectations are tempered there because i i expect him to get you know 10 to 13 touches all right the bills added 2.5 million dollars in incentives to lishan mccoy's contract i believe his base salary was six million dollars does this matter mike

It does from the fact that now they're saying, Shady, we need you to stay on the field. You might not be motivated by this team's success. Yes. Let's be motivated by money. That's exactly what it says. LaShawn McCoy is a top three running back. Yeah, he is. Okay. Do you guys want to get into some of the injury stuff? Let's do it. Let's bring it back. What's it going to pay me to fly? Are you in or out? All right. In or out, Tyrod Taylor. I'm going in. In. In.

He's my start of the week, so I sure hope he plays. In or out, Thomas Rawls, Danny Woodhead, and Bilal Powell. They're all going to play. I concur. In and out, Giants wide receiver, O'Dell Beckham, Jr. I'm going in. I think the game is too important in a division rival. But how do you handle it if you don't think he's going to be 100%? You play him. Yeah, you still play him, and I probably play him over most other options. What if you had Brandon Marshall? I would play O'Dell Beckham.

I'd go Beckham as well. Is Demarius Thomas going to play this week? He is. I mean, he's dealing with the groin injury. So that's always trouble. When a player injures, they're growing early. I mean, this is something that can be nagging and last the whole season. So hopefully he's good to go, but I expect him to play. Jordan Matthews, he's going to be out there? I think he'll be out there, but I worry just about what happens the first hit he takes. Right. It's a pain intolerance thing is what I'm understanding.

Jameson Crowder added to the injury report yesterday with the hip injury, wide receiver for the Washington Redskins. Yeah, this is we need more information on this one. He got a limited session on Thursday. Then he's going to play. Okay. And Josh Doxon, Bradshaw Perryman. Yeah, they're both going to play. So not a lot of questionable guys this week. Yeah, week one. Brashard Perriman, if he can do anything, he can surprise us when we think he's going to play. Oh, that's got a history of it.

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All right, this is just in. There are more football games this weekend. Woo! I'm so excited. All right, let's start with the Raiders traveling to Tennessee to take on the Titans. A masterful 50.5 over and under in this game. That sounds like a fantasy feast. This is the game I'm the most worried about when it comes to overall fantasy production, not from the standpoint of that I don't think it's going to happen. But usually...

Every week there is some high Vegas over under game that I'm like all in on that doesn't pan out. And I'm all in on this game. Oh, come on. I'm just saying. Wet blanket. Sorry. What is doing over here? Yeah, seriously. Why are you poopoo in on this game? Hey, we've got two different starts of the week in this game. We believe in it. I'm just hoping it doesn't happen that way. All right, Marioita and Carr, I've decided to start Mario at home over Palmer on the road. Good for you. In place of Andrew Luck. I think Mario is just the floor is going to be very.

high in this game with the over-under the way it is, with the passing weapons he has. That being said, the Raiders did hold Mario to his lowest fantasy point total of the year last year. Payback. This time it's personal. This time it's personal. Look, is this a fantasy feast for everybody? Yes. And if it is, then how do you decide which Tennessee-wide receivers to roll out there?