Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 10 Matchups, Bobbing for Apples

with any kind of confidence is Devante Adams. He's been the only guy with kind of more of a connection with Hunley. Outside of that, I don't want a Packer. I'm still okay playing Jones because I think we know what it is. McCarthy said he's the one two down back and Montgomery will come in for pass protection and third downs. The Bears defense are giving up over 20 points a game to the running back position, so I'm still okay.

You're concerned that Jamal Williams may be the goal line back? No, he came in and he cleaned up at the very end of a game that was, it was garbage. Would you rather start Doug Martin this week against the Jets over Aaron Jones? Yeah. What about Derek Henry against Cincinnati? I'd probably play Aaron Jones in that situation. On the Chicago side, I'm not starting to anybody but Jordan Howard. Oh, gave me that Jordan Howard. And their defense. Outside of Pittsburgh this week, I think the Bears are my favorite defense.

option against the Packers at home. They're a ferocious defense. They give up, you know, just 13.4 points per game to the quarterback, 8.5 to the tight end. Other than giving up some points to the running back, they've been great. Yeah, and Jordan Howard, I expect him to just continue to be an absolute monster. I'm not worried about the Packers' run defense. They're giving up over 23 points a game to the running back position.

ranks near the very bottom. So I love Jordan Howard. However, the Chicago Bears wide receivers have caught two touchdown passes this season two. Yeah, that's not good. Two. The 0 and eight Browns go to Detroit to take on the four and four lions. Just before we move on from the Bears, do you have any interest in Dion Sims as a potential streaming?

tied-in candidate or a pickup and stash with Zach Miller being out for the season. Passing volume issues. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I don't have interest watch for it, but it wasn't like Zach Miller was getting a ton of volume anyways. Sure. The Browns take on the Lions in Detroit. Lions are 12-point favorites, 43 and a half point over under. I know you guys like Matthew Stafford and the Lions this week. You should.

Golden Tate, Marvin Jones. Kenny Galladay's actually been practicing. We may see. We may see him back on the field. That recovery is so smooth. That recovery has not been smooth at all. A long note. A long note. T.J. Jones rounds out the wide receiving core. Amir Abdullah, look, I was hard on him to begin this week. He was almost my start of the week. He's not mine. I mean, I think you're going to see work.

from other running backs. If they get out by a big lead, I'm not sure Amir Abdullah is going to be able to, he's not a wear down type of guy where you wear the defense down and just grind it out. You can play him. Would you play Aaron Jones or Amir Abdullah? I think I'd play Abdullah in this situation. I might play Jones. Wow. So you are, you hopped off the express onto your horseback and rode away. No, the Cleveland Browns are dominant against running backs. Yeah. I mean, they're seventh in the league.

Only giving up 18.5 points per game to the position. Eric Ebron, no thanks. Okay. We're going to talk about this a little bit later. Oh, my gosh. Are we really? We are. We are. It's not pretty, but the truth is Cleveland is. How are we friends? I, man, I don't know how I'm friends with myself if I'm being honest. And if you look in the show doc and see my tight-in.

start of the week, which, spoiler, is there a Gibran? It's a whisper. I had to minimize the font because I'm not proud of it. This is because the Browns are 31st in the league against the tight-in position. They're 31st in the league, but that doesn't do an accurate job of just saying how bad they are because you would think. You'll do that. You would think, yeah, I'll do that. Sure. DeShon Kaiser, Isaiah Crowell. You're not playing anybody on Cleveland. Probably not. Would you play?

I would play Duke Johnson. Yeah. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. Oh, my goodness. Yes, sir. Hey, last week I was out there with all the, oh, you know, guys that finished great, like Alvin Camara and Alex Smith as much starts the week. But it's just like, oh, that's too easy. I'm going deep. You are putting your face in the toilet and going, oh, yeah. And I'm coming up with an apple. Oh, yeah. You're coming up with an apple. I'm Bob for apples in the toilet. In the toilet. I'm finding Eric Ebron and Duke.

Johnson, and I do mean Duke Johnson. Oh, no. That's right. Deal with it. I wish you're for sunglasses. For what? Now I know why we're a friend. I would describe your fantasy prowess is bobbing for apples in the toilet as well. Mm-hmm. I can find a championship anywhere. Good luck to you. The Steelers. They take on the Colts. Are you seeing a theme this week?

Really good teams playing really bad teams. Nice. Work by the scheduling department. The Colts, they're 10 point underdogs at home in this game. It's hard to do. And a half point over under. Big Ben and the Steelers. I think this is a game where, look, I think Martavis Bryant, I think he catches a deep ball in this game. Ooh. I think he has a surprise, a surprise top.

15 performance this week. What? I don't blame you for that take. It's a sneaky snart. I mean, he's a huge downfield threat against a team that that is like what they are best at is giving up downfield threats. They're best at being bad. Yes, that is their forte right now. So the question is just, is it going to be juju or is it going to be Martavis Bryant, but.

I think this is the morale boost opportunity for Martavis Bryant. And I think you're going to see this game progress into one where, look, the Colts defense, we've talked about it. They're struggling. 29th against wide receivers, 24th against running back. Losing pieces. Losing pieces, losing games. If this game gets out of hand, I don't think that you're going to see Martavis off the field. I think you're going to try to get him into...

this offense in this game. In fact, I think Juju's a little bit of a trap in this game because of this. I mean, Juju Smith-Schuster, love the guy, love the talent. I think it's a little bit of a trap. If you need to start him, you can start him, but I think Martavis has the ability to surprise. Certainly. Do you have any interest in Jesse James? No. Not really. No. I don't think they're going to need him against the Colts.

You know, usually you see those tight-in matchups necessary when, you know, it's like... He'll probably just run out about five yards and sit Indian style on the field. Right. And just wait. He'll catch two of those. Do you remember when we played flag football? Why are you going to bring this up? And we were playing in the wrong division. Yeah. Oh, I know where you're going. And it got to the point at the end of the game where one of their guys actually sat down. The safety was just sitting down on the field. That was very... That had to feel bad for the...

Quarterback. Yeah, I was the quarterback. Yeah, we shouldn't have been in that division. I didn't feel very good when I saw that I could not beat a sitting safety. Yeah. That's a true story. That's humiliating even now, bringing it back up. Jacoby Brissette. The Colts. Speaking of humiliation. I'll play Ty Hilton. Yeah. Really? Yeah, I will. I will. He's T.Y. Helton. Yeah, you.

I'm not, listen. I know, I know the ping pong ball of great games, terrible games. But there's a, there's a trend I think that's important to realize with his ping pong. It's not, it's not just the, you know, the Tyree Kill where it's good, game, bad game, good game, bad game. This is, oh, you played a horrific team in the San Francisco 49ers and you went ham. You played Houston, which before last week was 27th against wide receivers, meaning 27th the best, meaning bad.

And he had a great game. But when he played Cincinnati and Jacksonville, he had 3.7 points and 2.3 points in fantasy. And now you're going up against Pittsburgh, who's as good as those two teams against the wide receiver. I don't want to trust T.Y. Hilton. Now, that being said, he is the type where if you don't have a good alternative, you can plug him in and hope that he just goes off for, you know, he's averaging over 20 yards a reception right now. So if he just gets one long bomb,

you're going to be safe. I don't think that happens against the Steelers. It's more than my... Yeah, I like the fact that Pagano said they need to get him the ball. They got him the ball. He had a 36-point fantasy week, number one wide receiver on the week. And he's T.Y. Hilton with the track record. So I'm going to just bank on the fact that Jacoby Preset has to throw from the first snap to the last snap. They're probably down in this game. Let's put that to test, though, Jason. Would you rather play Devin Funches against Miami this week or T. Yilton? Funches.

Jarvis Landry against Carolina or T.Y. Hilton. Jarvis Landry. Robbie Anderson against Tampa. Oh, Robbie Anderson. We'll talk about him a little bit too. Oh, gosh. Ted Ginn against Buffalo or T.Y. Hilton against Pittsburgh. That one is much, much closer. I think I would lean towards T.Y. Hilton. Mike, you want to weigh in on the Hilton situation? I'm with you. Sorry, I'm looking at Andy. I'm with Andy. I think he's fine to play him. But then going through those names, I agreed with Jason on.

on each start-sit decision. All right, let's move to the Chargers Jaguars. Real quick. Play baby hands. You always play Baby Hands. I also think Frank Gore is okay here. Frank Gore's been surprisingly effective. I mean, the last two weeks, he's been double digits of fantasy points, and Pittsburgh is not. They're great against the pass, and they're middle of the pack against the run. So you could do worse. I'm not saying you need to start Frank Gore, but he's one of those guys where you look for where you can. I think you can. Okay.

The Chargers take on Jacksonville. This game's in Jacksonville. Should have Leonard Fournett back, right? Little Rat Fournet. Maybe. Yeah, they should. And if they do, the Chargers are a great, great matchup for the Jaguars for Leonard Fournett. They have not been good against the run at all. So, I mean, Fournet could be the number one running back on the week, assuming that he finally plays.

Which is a tough assumption. Yeah. Okay. Blake Bortles, Marquise Lee, Alan Hearns, the other options here against the Chargers defense. I'm a little, well, I mean, the Jags are three and a half point favorites, 41 point over under. Weather's not an issue in this game. I don't really, I don't think I want to start anybody but Fournette. I agree. I expect Marquise Lee to be shouted by Casey Hayward and Hearns. I just, yeah.

I'm not really interested in the... Letting the running game do the work here. Yeah, absolutely. In the right matchups, we know, you know, Lee and Hurons, you can play it, but this is not the one. You're saying from the Jacksonville side. Yes, absolutely. And what about... On the other side, it's hands off outside of Melvin Gordon. Because the Jaguars, they're not just the best against the past. They're the best by a lot. They're number one. They're the best in years. Yeah, I mean, they're number one against fantasy quarterbacks. They're number one against fantasy wide receivers.

It doesn't matter who you are. If you play Jacksonville right now, the secondary has your number. They're in your head. It's not just the secondary. I mean, the secondary is fantastic with Ramsey and Bouillet, but they get tremendous pressure. They get sacks. I mean, so it's- Callais Campbell has been an absolute beast. They are a complete package. 7.2 pass attempts. That's ridiculous. That's devastating for an offense.

Any sneaky snarts in this matchup? Hunter Henry? Because you want to avoid the wide receivers? Yeah, I don't know that he's sneaky, but I would start Hunter Henry despite the gross matchup. All right. Let's talk about stream of the week. Josh McCown and the Jets traveling to Tampa to take on the reeling Buccaneers. They're two and six right now. And the wheels are falling off. James Winston's sitting down in this game. You got Ryan Fitzpatrick. I think you got sick from that W he ate. Do you guys see that video? Yeah, it's a bad video. Oh, man. You watch that and you go.

I really, I really hope that's not my quarterback. Do you want to explain? Yeah, so he's in the, in the, uh, pregame warm up, you know, the huddles all around and, oh, a camera comes over. And a camera's in that huddle. And for the camera, this is how I took it. I took it as like, he's just trying to do something unbelievable. This pep talk is just crazy. And so he makes this W, you know, like west side throwing up the sign.

And he starts licking it and, like, biting it and eating it. And he's like, who wants to eat a W? And going crazy. And you look at the teammates and they're like, what's happening? What is James Winston doing? And then he proceeds to go get knocked out of the game and start a fight and get Mike Evans suspended. He did not eat the W. He did not eat the W. Now, is that worse or better than Cam Newton's Titanic snafu? When Cam Newton in a press conference says, you know, they asked him about Kelvin Benjamin leaving. He says, you know,

Look, he's a great player, but the Titanic must go on. It's like, wait, do you know how that movie ends? The movie, not the historical event. The Titanic did not go on for very long. In his defense, I looked this up. He was eight years old when the Titanic came out, the movie. It's not just the movie.