Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 6 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, TNF Preview, News

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast – 2015 Week 6 Summary

Release Date: October 15, 2015

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Introduction

In the Week 6 Fantasy Forecast episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright dive deep into the latest fantasy football insights, providing listeners with strategic advice for their lineups. This episode covers player starts, injury updates, team matchups, and valuable news to help fantasy managers make informed decisions ahead of their Week 6 matchups.

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Key Discussions and Insights

Player Starts and Must-Starts

One of the primary focuses of this episode is the discussion around Drew Brees, Brandon Cooks, and Willie Snead as potential must-starts. Mike emphasizes the importance of these players:

Mike Wright [02:26]: "The Falcons allow 288 passing yards per game. That is 29th in the league. Drew Brees, Brandon Cooks, and Willie Snead are must-starts for the game tonight."

The trio debates whether to prioritize Brandon Cooks over Willie Snead, with Jason advocating for Cooks due to his role as the primary target:

Jason Moore [18:39]: "Cooks is the first target. They're both good options, but I would go Cooks over Snead."

Conversely, Andy supports Willie Snead, arguing that Snead is emerging as the Falcons' top option:

Andy Holloway [18:46]: "I'd go Snead over Cooks. It's just everything looks like that Snead is turning into the number one option right now."

Injury News and Impact on Lineups

The hosts provide critical updates on key injuries affecting fantasy decisions:

• Andrew Luck: Concerns persist about Luck's availability, with some beat writers questioning his ability to play. The consensus remains optimistic about starting him if he’s active.

  Mike Wright [06:52]: "Now, ESPN Colts writer Mike Wells. Now, he's not the only one. There are several beat writers who seem to think Andrew Luck is not a sure bet to play on Sunday."

• Lorenzo Taliaferro: Placed on injured reserve, leading to increased value for Buck Allen.

  Mike Wright [08:22]: "Lorenzo Taliaferro is on injured reserve with a foot injury. This bumps up Buck Allen a lot."

• Odell Beckham Jr.: Not practicing, raising concerns about his availability for the upcoming game.

  Mike Wright [10:26]: "Odell Beckham Jr. Is not practicing on Wednesday."

Fantasy Forecast by Position

Quarterbacks:

• Eli Manning: Andy endorses Manning as his quarterback of the week, citing his favorable matchup and consistent performance.

  Andy Holloway [43:46]: "My quarterback of the week is Eli Manning."

• Andy Dalton: Jason champions Dalton as a top fantasy QB, emphasizing his role in convincing signees and favorable matchups.

  Jason Moore [45:14]: "I'm going to claim him as my start of the week."

• Colin Kaepernick: Mike recommends Kaepernick for his advantageous matchup against Baltimore’s struggling pass defense.

  Mike Wright [46:07]: "I'm going with Colin Kaepernick. He faces Baltimore, who gives up the second most points to fantasy quarterbacks."

Running Backs:

• DeMarco Murray: Mike highlights Murray's potential against the Giants, noting his past performance and the Giants' defensive struggles against the run.

  Mike Wright [47:28]: "DeMarco Murray is rounding into form. The Giants are in the bottom half and points given up against running backs."

• Justin Forsett/Buck Allen: Jason recommends Forsett or Allen based on their advantageous matchup against San Francisco's weak run defense.

  Jason Moore [47:46]: "I put a big bid in for him because you don't know. Maybe, maybe this is just the opportunity he needs."

• Shane Vereen: Andy suggests Vereen as a PPR (Points Per Reception) play, especially if Beckham is limited.

  Andy Holloway [48:28]: "Shane Vereen is going to be very involved."

Wide Receivers:

• Willie Snead: Andy confidently starts Snead against the Falcons, citing his growing role and trust within the offense.

  Andy Holloway [49:40]: "Every week his snap count has climbed... He has the trust of Sean Payton and Drew Brees."

• Golden Tate: Jason opts for Tate due to his matchup against a Bears defense that frequently gives up touchdowns to wide receivers.

  Jason Moore [50:23]: "I'm going to say go ahead and play Golden Tate. Look for a bounce back game."

• Alshon Jeffrey: The hosts discuss the potential of picking up Jeffrey, especially if Des Bryant returns from injury.

  Andy Holloway [32:04]: "If it’s ahead. Have more confidence from that four yard line."

Tight Ends:

• Richard Rogers: Mike recommends Rogers for his increased involvement and favorable matchup against San Diego.

  Mike Wright [52:45]: "Richard Rogers is my start of the week and I am confident about him."

• Zach Ertz: Jason endorses Ertz, highlighting his talent and improved involvement in the Eagles' offense.

  Jason Moore [53:40]: "My tight end stream start of the week is Zach Ertz... he is a very talented pass catcher."

Strategic Matchup Analysis

The hosts analyze team defenses to identify favorable matchups:

• Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions: With Chicago giving up only one quarterback this season, Andy promotes Eli Manning against a potentially vulnerable Bears defense.

  Andy Holloway [26:45]: "Peyton Manning, the Hall of Fame quarterback versus an Oakland defense who's given up a quarterback one every single week."

• Miami Dolphins vs. Tennessee Titans: The Dolphins' defense, struggling against the run, makes Alvin Miller a viable RB2 option despite mixed performances.

  Mike Wright [40:49]: "The Dolphins are dead last against the run."

• Cleveland Browns vs. Denver Broncos: A discussion on Denver’s dominant defense and its impact on Peyton Manning’s performance.

  Andy Holloway [26:45]: "Cleveland is another plus matchup. Three of the weeks they've given up a top 12 quarterback."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Mike Wright [02:26]: "The Falcons allow 288 passing yards per game. That is 29th in the league. Drew Brees, Brandon Cooks, and Willie Snead are must-starts for the game tonight."

• Jason Moore [18:39]: "Cooks is the first target. They're both good options, but I would go Cooks over Snead."

• Andy Holloway [49:40]: "Every week his snap count has climbed... He has the trust of Sean Payton and Drew Brees."

• Jason Moore [45:14]: "I'm going to claim him as my start of the week."

• Mike Wright [52:45]: "Richard Rogers is my start of the week and I am confident about him."

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Conclusions and Recommendations

The Fantasy Footballers Podcast for Week 6 offers a comprehensive analysis tailored for fantasy managers. Key takeaways include:

• Prioritize Must-Stars: Players like Drew Brees, Brandon Cooks, and Willie Snead are highlighted as essential starts, especially against weaker defenses.

• Monitor Injuries Closely: Staying updated on player health, such as Andrew Luck and Odell Beckham Jr., is crucial for making last-minute lineup decisions.

• Exploit Favorable Matchups: Target players facing defenses that historically give up high fantasy points, such as Eli Manning against the Bears and Richard Rogers against San Diego.

• Flexibility in Lineups: Utilizing depth players like Shane Vereen and leveraging PPR opportunities with receivers like Kendall Wright can provide edge in tight matchups.

Overall, the hosts emphasize the importance of informed decision-making based on up-to-date news and matchup analysis to maximize fantasy football performance in Week 6.

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Transcript

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Mike Wright]

Hey guys.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey.

[Mike Wright]

We're back again. Football tonight, Thursday. I lost it a little bit there. Thursday, October 15, 2015. The year we're getting so close to that Back to the Future date.

[Jason Moore]

You know that I watched Back to the Future one with my children last night.

[Mike Wright]

How funny.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Really? Yeah. We're getting, we're getting. It's almost October 21st.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. So tell me if you like. Okay. From a scale of, you know, PG to R, Back to the Future is as benign as it gets. Right. But I won't.

[Andy Holloway]

No, no, no, it's not.

[Jason Moore]

I thought it was.

[Mike Wright]

It's pretty benign. But if you watch it with your kids, you have a different sensitivity.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. If you've got your six year old children and it's a lot of incredible.

[Mike Wright]

How much profanity is in that movie that I didn't notice until I watched it with my kids. Right. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

A lot of curse words. And also a rape scene.

[Mike Wright]

And a rape scene.

[Jason Moore]

There's that.

[Mike Wright]

But you don't.

[Andy Holloway]

You know, man, the 80s. You could do a lot with PG in the 80s.

[Mike Wright]

It's funny cause I have another story to tell you. It's Star wars related but we'll get to that. Welcome to the show. This is the Fantasy Footballers podcast. We've got our. You know, this is like my favorite show of the week. I love the Thursday show. We preview the upcoming games. Week six is at hand. We've got the Thursday night football game.

[Jason Moore]

Starts of the week.

[Mike Wright]

Which is the best. Yeah. So check us out on the web. The fantasy footballers.com connect with us on Twitter @the ffballers. We're on YouTube. We're on the fantasy sports network. We are on jointhefoot.com our fantasy community on there. So check that out. Guys. Guys.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

The Falcons. The Falcon. Quick question for the day. The Falcons allow 288 passing yards per game. That is 29th in the league are Drew Brees, Brandon Cooks and Willie Snead. Must, must, must starts for the game tonight. You enjoy that? Did you enjoy that, Mike? Yeah. You just replaying snarts?

[Andy Holloway]

You sound like a Dr. Seuss character.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, I think.

[Mike Wright]

Would you snart him in a train?

[Andy Holloway]

I would not snort him on a plane.

[Jason Moore]

They are all start worthy saying must starts. When I say it's a must start, that pretty much means, you know, there's nobody. I'm going to start over them.

[Mike Wright]

But like, doesn't it mean you must start?

[Jason Moore]

Right? Yes, that's what I'm saying. So. So it's dependent on your roster.

[Mike Wright]

When I say must start, I mean must start.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Depending on your roster. Now, irrespective of your roster, would you. Do you have to start them?

[Jason Moore]

I would start all of these guys.

[Mike Wright]

I would not snart them if I had this other guy.

[Andy Holloway]

Listen, these are must start guys unless you must not start them.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, well, this question has gone sideways.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm playing all of those characters in my lineup.

[Mike Wright]

If I got them, it's a divisional game. It's at home in New Orleans. I like him. I like them all. And Snead is riding, rising up because Colson should miss at least tonight's game with the injury. And so we. I thought he's going to miss a lot more, but now it's looking like.

[Andy Holloway]

Maybe not even if he did not. We're going to talk about Willie Snead a little bit later. More at depth. But he's just, he has risen from. From nothing to now. He's getting major play time.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to get into the news and notes. We're going to talk about injuries, concerns for your fantasy team. Man, in one of our leagues yesterday, it was crazy.

[Andy Holloway]

In our league of record.

[Mike Wright]

It was. It was insane.

[Andy Holloway]

Pull up the.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, the trades that took place.

[Andy Holloway]

Not the actual. We're not going to throw the trades.

[Mike Wright]

No, no.

[Andy Holloway]

But the names of guys who have been moved.

[Mike Wright]

There were so many trade. So we're in a keeper league. You can trade draft picks and stuff. So a little bit more action happens during the year. Teams are, you know, bailing out on their seasons or they're just trying to mix things up. But in one day. Here's the name of the players that were traded. Jamal Charles. Okay. For keeper value, Rob Gronkowski, Matt Forte, Amari Cooper, LaShawn McCoy, Mark Ingram, Doug Martin, Emmanuel Sanders, Andre Ellington, Jonathan Stewart. All traded same day.

[Andy Holloway]

Not saying that was just in the last Week that wasn't all in the same day.

[Jason Moore]

95% of that was.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, a couple days. But man, it was, it was insanity.

[Mike Wright]

It was crazy. It was very.

[Andy Holloway]

If your league's not doing that, it's, it's very fun.

[Mike Wright]

So also I have. You said you showed your kids Back to the future. This has been the week of Star wars for my two boys. I have a six year old boy, I have a four year old boy. This is the time of Star wars in their lives. The new movies are coming out, so we borrowed all six of the movies on Blu Ray and they're, they're going crazy. They just, they're in love with these movies. And so today in this morning, I was making some Chewbacca related jokes and I'm making the Chewbacca sound around the house and Nathan starts doing it and everyone starts doing Chewbacca this Chewbacca around the breakfast table.

[Andy Holloway]

I think I know where this is going.

[Mike Wright]

And Nathan's. I don't know if you do.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay, go ahead.

[Mike Wright]

So then, Nathan, because you might have heard it already from my wife when you.

[Andy Holloway]

I think I heard it from your child. Yeah, I got it from the horse's mouth.

[Mike Wright]

There you go. So Nathan goes, you know, I bet Mike, I bet Mike could do a really, really good Chewbacca. And we're like, why? He's like, because he kind of looks like Chewbacca. So I just wanted you to know if you need a Halloween idea, I.

[Andy Holloway]

Ran and they asked me, you could do a great Chewbacca, right?

[Jason Moore]

Let's hear it, Mike. Let's hear. Oh, the answer is no.

[Andy Holloway]

It could be better.

[Mike Wright]

All right, let's get into the news and notes.

[Jason Moore]

News and notes from around the league.

[Mike Wright]

I really.

[Jason Moore]

That was pretty good. Well, I got to grow my beard out. Oh, that was not.

[Mike Wright]

No. All right, we all tried it. Now, ESPN Colts writer Mike Wells. Now, he's not the only one. There are several beat writers who seem to think Andrew Luck is not a sure bet to play on Sunday. And that's the gist of this. So fantasy wise, if he's starting, you're playing him, right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yeah. And the last, I feel like the last two weeks, all the news being leaked out there was, oh, he's a sure bet to play. He's a sure bet to play through the middle of the week. And then of course, he doesn't play. And now it's.

[Mike Wright]

But he's practicing and he's making all the throws.

[Jason Moore]

Exactly. And now all of a sudden it's like, oh, he might not play. It just seems like they're doing stupid misdirection. I expect him to play.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, you're saying maybe it's the Colts trying to put that.

[Andy Holloway]

It's the old John Fox.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, the old one, too.

[Jason Moore]

Trying to. Trying to get a little foxy.

[Mike Wright]

All right. Marcus Colston is listed as doubtful. He won't play tonight. Sammy Watkins does expect to play. They said 40, 50 snaps in the game against the Bengals.

[Jason Moore]

I don't see him as a guy you want to put in your lineup.

[Mike Wright]

Not with all the other options out there. Not with the guys that are kind.

[Andy Holloway]

Of up and coming with Taylor banged up. Tyrod Taylor may or may not play with his MCL sprain. If he does, then he's limited. If he doesn't, then Sammy Watkins is limited by EJ Manual. So.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, and I will. It's funny because I guess the Cincinnati newspaper, because it's. The Bills are facing Cincinnati every. Every week. They do a Madden simulation and they just put it in the paper. So they did the Madden simulation and they did one simulation with Tyrod Taylor and they did one with EJ Manuel because they didn't know who's going to start. When they did it with Taylor, The Bengals won 13 to 7. When they did it with Manual, the Bills won by like two touchdowns.

[Jason Moore]

Wow.

[Mike Wright]

So that game's broken. No, but I actually think Tyrod Taylor is going to play. I'm going to put that out there. We'll go through everybody tomorrow. We'll be. We'll be saying, do we think they're in or now? But catch you up with some news now. Kind of a surprise. I don't think we expect it. Lorenzo Taliaferro is on injured reserve with a foot injury. This bumps up Buck Allen a lot.

[Jason Moore]

Yep. For sure. He is the guaranteed backup because Talia Farrow is out and Justin for sets. Ankle is a concern right now, so.

[Mike Wright]

So pick up Javorius.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, absolutely. I picked him. I put a claim in for every league that I did not yet have him in.

[Mike Wright]

All right, Marshawn Lynch.

[Andy Holloway]

Do I need to bump up my fab bid here?

[Mike Wright]

Because you heard that.

[Jason Moore]

No, you don't.

[Mike Wright]

We do have waivers going through and six minutes.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, you know, better adjust my numbers.

[Mike Wright]

Me too. Maybe I do, too. So lynch is ready to go. We have. We released our rankings yesterday. Our week six rankings are on the website, the fantasy footballers.com we got. Somebody was complaining yesterday that they weren't out sooner. I want to kind of give a very quick perspective on that for people. We could come out with the rankings on Monday if we wanted to.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but they could.

[Mike Wright]

They would not be accurate or as accurate as they could be. And so we try to, you know, we try to do the balance between accuracy and more information happens later in the week and getting them to you so you can make decisions. So you know, we normally release those on Wednesday towards the evening time. It depends on when we all finish them. As soon as a couple of us get our rankings done, they're up on the site. So where do you so lynch right now. I know there's a disparity there. I have him at 9, so I'm the highest. I just think he's going to come back in and have a good game. He's playing Carolina. I don't blame you guys for having him lower. Mike, you have him at 16. Jason, you have met 20.

[Jason Moore]

The whole reason, just Carolina 100%. I think he comes in, I think he gets all the workload but it's Carolina and their offensive line hasn't been good anyways. So it's more matchup than my expectation of them not being used.

[Andy Holloway]

Agreed.

[Mike Wright]

All righty, let's go ahead. And what else do we got? Devonte Adams returned to practice. I don't know if he'll play but this is a good sign for him. It also means if you can get value for some reason in your league for Ty Montgomery because of his one blow up game, anything at all, I would go do it right now. Odell Beckham Jr. Is not practicing on Wednesday. John Harbaugh says he expects Steve Smith to practice to some degree on Wednesday. Do we think he'll play?

[Andy Holloway]

I think he's going to play. He's old man strength. Steve Smith can't count him out.

[Mike Wright]

All righty. And Lashawn McCoy surprise return to practice. Do we think he's the guy that's going to get the ball this week?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm maybe next week. I'm not thinking that he will.

[Mike Wright]

So do you think Carlos even makes it back?

[Jason Moore]

Carlos?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think so, man.

[Mike Wright]

So are we seeing the EJ Manual?

[Andy Holloway]

Boom Heron and Booby Dixon.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

The wow. In an update, Odo Beckham will not practice today on Thursday either.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I mean it's not looking good for him. That's trouble.

[Andy Holloway]

He's a Monday night game.

[Jason Moore]

Dwayne Harris is the guy. He's available on your waiver and I've answered some of these questions. If you've got Odell Beckham and you want to have him in your lineup. But you're not. You're a little worried.

[Mike Wright]

Well, isn't Randall the guy or.

[Jason Moore]

Yes. Yeah. But Randall may or Randall to me is also an injury risk. I think that if Odell Beckham is out, then Dwayne Harris is going to get a lot of targets and be a valuable guy. And I just know he's on the waiver. Ruben Randall is in probably half the leagues owned. So I'm just saying that's a great option for you.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And Randall will practice today, so monitor him a little bit. I'd much rather start Ruben Randall than Dwayne Harris if all things were equal. But that's something you have to monitor. And the hard part is, is what Jason said on the show yesterday, which is it's a Monday night game. So if I can bank on somebody else, I'm going to bank on somebody else. I'm not going to try to play the same game I played this past week with Eddie Royal and Marcus Wilson because they don't have the luxury of a Sunday morning start.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Did we mention Ahmad Bradshaw?

[Mike Wright]

Not yet.

[Jason Moore]

That's my favorite piece of news.

[Mike Wright]

Ahmad Bradshaw has been signed by the Indianapolis Colts in a great move. They absolutely need to ensure the running back position. They have Josh Robinson and Frank Gore and this is perfect for them. The question is how involved will he be? What do you guys think?

[Jason Moore]

So my for my case, give owners.

[Mike Wright]

Of Gore either peace of mind or paranoia.

[Jason Moore]

I've got a pretty good amount of shares in Frank Gore and I will say this, in all the leagues that I had him in, I made trade offers with him in it. I don't think it has an immediate impact on him. He's not going to come right in and just be used. But Ahmad Bradshaw around the goal line, his has been so good with Andrew Luck in the passing game that I expect that to happen again. And you haven't seen Frank Gore used in that pass catching back role and really there hasn't been one. So eventually come two, three weeks from now, I expect Ahmad Bradshaw to be worked in the game flow not. You don't have to wait for an injury to Frank Gore and he's going to be kind of that passing down pass catching back and I think he's going to have some value. We saw last year he was a top, I think he was a top five running back when he was healthy in the beginning of the year. So there is an opportunity here on a good offense with a good player and he is definitely on my way.

[Mike Wright]

So you're a Gore owner in one of our leagues of record. Does this make you disappointed?

[Jason Moore]

It does make me disappointed. And it also makes me have to put in a pretty hefty bid on Ahmaud Bradshaw because I feel like I have to have a mod if I've got Frank Gore.

[Mike Wright]

All right, two quick bits of news before we get over to the fantasy forecast for week number six. ESPN is reporting that we know that Matt Castle is now the starting quarterback in Dallas. They are considering, according to Mr. Edwarder, making Kristen Michael the starting running back.

[Jason Moore]

So hard for you to say.

[Mike Wright]

It's like pulling teeth over Joseph Randall. They also signed Rod Smith, running back this week because obviously Michael's not going to work out. So, no, I'm not. That's not true. That's not true. At this point. I've been give, you know, wait, what happens? I've been giving people. They've asked me, you know, is it worth rostering Chris and Michael? I said, yeah, yes, of course. Take the chance. The offensive line, so good.

[Andy Holloway]

And they're also making an offensive line change. They are replacing their left guard with Lyle Collins.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

The rookie.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And the Steelers activated Martavis Bryant, so.

[Andy Holloway]

It sounds like he's good to go.

[Mike Wright]

And he is practicing normal. He's not on the injury report, so that's good news as well. So we're gonna go ahead and talk some games.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

They're always pushing out new stuff. It is one of the absolute must have apps for fantasy football.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And they're doing this thing now where they're rating people's accuracy as well. So you can kind of see who's on target week after week and the picks that they're making. And so you can kind of get a score on there and you go on there every day and talk with people. It's fun. So check out the Sleeper Bot app. It's one of our favorites. Let's go and get into the fantasy forecast.

[Jason Moore]

Fantasy forecast.

[Mike Wright]

All right. The Falcons are traveling to New Orleans and what should be a shootout because the Falcons are only involved in shootouts.

[Jason Moore]

Are you worried at all about it being a Thursday night game?

[Mike Wright]

I don't worry about that at all.

[Jason Moore]

Never. Okay.

[Mike Wright]

No, not anymore. I mean, it seemed like in the beginning that was kind of the trend and pattern, but we've seen plenty of high scoring Thursday night games at this point.

[Jason Moore]

So Vegas has them at 51.

[Mike Wright]

Vegas knows what they're doing.

[Andy Holloway]

That's nice.

[Mike Wright]

All right, let's go ahead and talk about. We said, you know, we Kind of talked about breeze already. We talked about snead and cooks. If you had to choose between snead and cooks tonight, do you just kind of roll Brandon cooks out there?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Cooks is the first target. They're both good options, but I would. I would go cooks over snead.

[Andy Holloway]

I would. I'd go snead over cooks. It's just everything looks like that snead is turning into the number one option right now.

[Mike Wright]

That's not a waterbed, is it?

[Andy Holloway]

I'd be willing.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yo, waterbed. We get it tonight.

[Mike Wright]

I love it because I'm not even.

[Jason Moore]

We got some waters to pay out as well.

[Mike Wright]

Those videos will hit YouTube soon. We got to pay out all those waters. There have been plenty of them. I lost that stupid Jeremy Macklin bet 90 yards. He got 85 yards. Dang it. All right, so obviously one of the biggest headliners in fantasy football has been Devontae Freeman. He has looked the part. He has performed incredibly. And at this point, is he a hold? He's not a sell high. He's a hold.

[Jason Moore]

I think he is. You know, the more that I've thought about how the Falcons are using him, you know, this isn't. This isn't pre draft season. You know, this is an NFL team that is looking to win games and they have found a recipe for success. They're not going to change that when they're already doing this. Yesterday, Yesterday, I offered. I would give a trade offer. Example. I had Frank Gore. I offered for Devonta Freeman. I offered Frank Gore, Darren McFadden, Tony Romo, and a 6, 9 swap in his favor for draft picks. Turned down.

[Mike Wright]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I would have. Well, I would have turned that down with a slap to your face.

[Jason Moore]

But my point is, you know what?

[Mike Wright]

You won't do that.

[Jason Moore]

I believe Devonta Freeman is in it.

[Mike Wright]

Mike won't be able to start Buck Allen.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, did I get him?

[Mike Wright]

Because Jason took Buck Allen.

[Andy Holloway]

Wow. How much did you pay?

[Jason Moore]

Seven.

[Mike Wright]

Ah, he's actually funny. He spent seven, I spent six. You spent five.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

So you weren't getting them.

[Jason Moore]

There you go.

[Mike Wright]

That's funny, though. I expected to see him on my roster.

[Jason Moore]

And I take it I also got him on Bradshaw.

[Mike Wright]

You spent $10 on him?

[Jason Moore]

I got Frank Gore. Felt. Felt the need.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Yeah. Interesting. All right, so another guy I want to talk about had a kind of a breakout week last week. Jacob Tammy.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I love Jacob Tammy.

[Mike Wright]

Building a rapport with Ryan. Do you like him this week? This week, The Falcons are 29th versus the past the Saints are 23rd versus the pass.

[Andy Holloway]

And the Saints are. They are among the bottom of the barrel versus tight end.

[Mike Wright]

How overrated. How overrated is Rob Ryan?

[Jason Moore]

I don't know that he's rated high anymore.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know how he's.

[Jason Moore]

I love. So there was that tweet, you know, talking about how Rob Ryan wanted. He says, you know, put the blame on Rob Ryan wants the blame. And someone on Twitter was like, yeah, no, no problem.

[Mike Wright]

We'll do over under on like two sideline spats with Sean Payton during the game.

[Jason Moore]

I'll take the over for sure.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, it's one thing to fail at your job. It's another to fight with your head coach every single day. I don't know. He gets on my nerves. So speaking of another Ryan, let's go over to the Bengals in the Bills game. Taylor Emmanuel. I think Taylor plays this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Are we starting Dalton?

[Jason Moore]

Yes, for sure.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Jason Moore]

The Bills have a scary. I will say this, though. If Tyler. If Tyrod Taylor is out and E.J. manuel is in, and if they're running with, you know, their 17th running back on their. As their starter, I don't like the Bills offense as much. You know, when. When one team isn't going to be putting up a lot, there's less offensive production to go around. We've seen that happen with the Steelers. When Big Ben has gone down, all of a sudden the Steelers defense looks better. It's because game flow changes. So. But I do love Dalton.

[Andy Holloway]

And I forgot to tell you guys, I have a workout with the Bills coming up here.

[Mike Wright]

You do? For the running back position tomorrow.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm flying up. They're going to put the pads on.

[Mike Wright]

Chewbacca is trying out for running back. That is pretty good, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, but don't ask me to do Peewee Herman. I found out I can't do that.

[Mike Wright]

All right, you're going to be asked now on Twitter to do Pee Wee Herman. So be ready for that. Listen, a lot of people have Jeremy Hill on their roster. A lot of people are shaking their head every Sunday morning because Jeremy Hill and a lot of people want to know if they can start him at a flex position this week. And I know what I think, but what do you guys think about Jeremy Hill and the flex?

[Andy Holloway]

I think as a flex, you can absolutely start him. To me, he's a fine flex. Play every week just because of the touchdown possibilities. We know that he probably is going to get you 25 yards, maybe 35 if you're.

[Mike Wright]

That's insane if you're lucky.

[Andy Holloway]

Dude, I don't know what's going on in Cincinnati, but he does not look. He doesn't look like he did last year. And to compliment that, Gio Bernard does.

[Mike Wright]

Not look like he looked in a good way. Right?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, exactly. So they have completely flipped. I imagine there was some kind of con for Mortal Kombat soul stealing. Gio Bernard must have taken Jeremy Hill's soul and his football abilities with it.

[Mike Wright]

Well, that's reasonable.

[Jason Moore]

That's probably what happened. It's got some good analysis.

[Mike Wright]

High likelihood.

[Andy Holloway]

But. But Hill is fine as a flex play because he can score multiple touchdowns every week.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to play him. But if you're in that flex role.

[Mike Wright]

It'S acceptable against the Bills. The Bills third ranked run defense.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but weird things happen. I Ford or AJ Green go down at the one that you just give Hill the ball.

[Mike Wright]

There's also the chance that Cincinnati just kind of runs away with this game because of the fact the Bills are just so injured and depleted. So if the Bengals are ahead by a lot, Jeremy Hill should be on the field just to kill the clock. Yeah, he'll be picking up yards one at a time. All right. So Tyler Ifert started absolute monster every week. Absolute monster. So Ifert over Barnage. Yeah. Tyler Ifert's just showing up. What about Charles Clay? Does he bounce back this week or is there just no way to rely on him because of the. The quarterback situation? Because I was really disappointed. He had a huge week nine for 111. And then he came back last week and he only had one and a half fantasy points. If you're in what, a half point ppr.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I don't think you can trust him. But it's not just the quarterback situation. It's his health as well. He had the calf problem. So I worry about. I worry about the health of the Bills. The entire bubbles are not having a good practice session.

[Andy Holloway]

I think Fred Jackson left something behind in the locker room.

[Mike Wright]

What was that?

[Andy Holloway]

Poison.

[Mike Wright]

One day after interviewing him.

[Andy Holloway]

Fred Jackson is a good friend of the show.

[Mike Wright]

I know that's what we say. That's what it's called, a joke.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

It's not. It's not real. All right. The Denver Broncos face again. I can't transition from locker room poison very easily. Well, we like.

[Jason Moore]

We like to see Broncos running poison.

[Andy Holloway]

The Broncos offense in general.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Dude, laughing hurts a lot right now because.

[Andy Holloway]

What is wrong with you?

[Mike Wright]

Because I'm back. The flag football season started and breaking News I was not in very good shape to begin the season. So I feel like I've been in some kind of like, car wreck. It's that second day after and my whole body is just hurting. So laughter hurts and. But laughter is not what really comes to mind when I think of CJ Anderson right now and the running game, Denver, in fact, the offense right now. Are we still in the place where we just assume they will figure it out?

[Andy Holloway]

Here's. Here's what some interesting research. I was breaking down defenses versus quarterbacks to see who's giving up. Who's actually giving up top 12 performances. And here's. Here's a. An interesting note we found with Peyton Manning, Oakland. In five weeks of play, four of them, they. Oakland has given up a quarterback one. There was one week where they didn't, you know who they were playing? Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning, the Hall of Fame quarterback versus an Oakland defense who's given up a quarterback one every single week.

[Mike Wright]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

Could not score quarterback one points.

[Mike Wright]

That is crazy.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I saw another stat talking about he had with the Broncos. Passing to the wide receiver coming into this year was like 80, 80 touchdowns and, and very few interceptions. And then this year, right now, it's like five interceptions and two touchdowns or something. Crazy.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Now, part of last week has to do with the ageless wonder. Charles Woodson's amazing.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

But let's talk about this. The defense is carrying the Broncos. They don't want to make mistakes. They're the most dominant defense I've seen in a while in terms of the start of a season. In fact, if you own them right now, they're. They're scoring massive points. They're winning you weeks. Yeah, absolutely.

[Andy Holloway]

And this is what I'll say for Manning, if you haven't already dropped him, which I don't blame you at all if you haven't dropped him. But Cleveland is another plus matchup. Three of the weeks they've given up a top 12 quarterback, including two top six performances. If Peyton Manning cannot get it done against the Cleveland Browns, you need to move on because you're never going to feel comfortable.

[Mike Wright]

Marcus Mariota or Peyton Manning this week.

[Jason Moore]

Peyton Manning. I am not jumping off the Peyton chip. I do think he's going to get it together. He's had good weeks this year and I expect this one to be another one.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, dear goodness. The difference in where I have Peyton Manning this week and where Jason has him is Stark.

[Andy Holloway]

Like Robert Stark.

[Mike Wright]

Well, let's put it this way. Jason has him at number three.

[Andy Holloway]

What?

[Mike Wright]

Mike. Mike has him at 11. Okay, I got him at 20.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, take that, Peyton Manning.

[Jason Moore]

All right, so that's a quarterback, one water bet.

[Mike Wright]

No, it isn't. It is not a quarterback, one water bet.

[Andy Holloway]

But how about a top six out of top six?

[Jason Moore]

He's got him at.

[Mike Wright]

I have Mariota at 11.

[Andy Holloway]

I was saying for me, so I.

[Mike Wright]

Could do a Mario to Payton.

[Jason Moore]

Mario to Payton. Oh, water bets.

[Andy Holloway]

The bets are flying. I'm writing it down.

[Mike Wright]

All right, so let's go ahead. And what other players do you want to discuss in this game?

[Jason Moore]

Well, you've got. You've got the wide receivers. Obviously they are going to go as Peyton goes dt and Emmanuel Sanders, which I believe, obviously the both of them are going to be fine. Owen Daniels is a worthless piece of junk, so please do not have him on your watch.

[Mike Wright]

What do you really think? What do you really think, guy who had him as start of the week?

[Jason Moore]

Oh, my goodness. I think I watched every snap of that game with an eye on Owen Daniels against one of the best. I actually, I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolic when I say that I think one of the biggest problems with Peyton Manning this last week, because I went back and I watched the film, was Owen Daniels. They were trying play after play to exploit the tight end defense, but Owen Daniels stinks, man. He. He couldn't do anything. He ran wrong routes. He couldn't get separation. He couldn't. It was. It was terrible.

[Andy Holloway]

So I think Daniel's got five targets, too. So it wasn't like.

[Jason Moore]

You're right, he would.

[Andy Holloway]

They tried to get him involved. Five targets for a tight end.

[Mike Wright]

Now, you remember the last time someone said somebody stinks on this show?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, Mike. So pick up Owen Daniels.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, wait. You can't apologize to Devontae Freeman every day, can you? All right, let's. Let's go. Bears facing the Lions. Can the Lions get off the schneid here? Is this the breakout performance from Joyk Bell we're all waiting for? Hey, I will say I had a waiver claim on Joy Bell.

[Jason Moore]

I did, too, but I got my other guys.

[Mike Wright]

Did somebody not sign him then? Nobody signed him. So it's.

[Andy Holloway]

Speaking of. Because you generally, you think Chicago, that's a good defense to target with your quarterbacks. Chicago has given up one quarterback. One this year.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, because they don't give up the yards. They're not giving up the yards. And they. They've won two straight games. Third against the pass. Alshon, Jeffrey, Mike and I both did you Give him a ranking too. Jason, did you stat him this week?

[Jason Moore]

I did. I believe I've got him actually very high. I might.

[Mike Wright]

Well, Mike and I have him in the top 12. If he plays.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, if he plays.

[Mike Wright]

We have him at 9 and 11. Where.

[Jason Moore]

I'm curious where. Jason has a mystic that he plays, but if he does play, I've got him at five.

[Mike Wright]

He's pessimistic, but he has him at five.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I'm saying if he plays, I think he's going to be great in this matchup.

[Mike Wright]

Marcus Wilson had a great, great week last week, and so there's no reason to believe that if Jeffrey finally comes back, it seems like they're easing him back. So hopefully he's full, full bore. You've waited a long time for him. In one of my leagues, I was waiting on him and Devonte Adams and. And it cost me waiting that long. So it's tough to wait for a guy and not get sour on him. But right now, if you can buy low on Jeffrey, do you do it?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. Oh, give me Jeffrey. I don't look, you might be without him for another two weeks. If your team. Let's say you're a 4 and 1 team or even a 3 and 2 team. If you can get Jeffrey for the long haul, there's still a lot of season left. If your team is in a good position and. And you can get Jeff. Jeffrey is a wide receiver. 1. He has been a target monster. Jay Cutler loves him and his ability. The ability is there for him to shine and get major fantasy production.

[Mike Wright]

Alshon Jeffrey or Des Bryant rest of season?

[Jason Moore]

Alshon Jeffrey.

[Andy Holloway]

I just don't believe any of this. DEZ Bryant coming back soon. So I'd go Jeffrey.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. I was curious. Seemed like a good question for buy lows right now.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And even on a per game, just on an average, not knowing when Des is going to be back, I would take Alshon, but Alshon, Des has multi.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's say Des comes back week seven, he's got multi weeks of. Of Matt Castle throwing him the ball.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that's trouble.

[Andy Holloway]

Good.

[Mike Wright]

All right. The Texans are facing the Jaguars in a game that is basically a pick them. This game is in Jacksonville, is that right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I think so.

[Mike Wright]

I'm assuming yes, based on what I have written down here. But I just want to be sure someone wants to check on me. Yeah. So Brian Hoyer. Andy. Or not Andy Dalton. Brian Hoyer. And is he going to perform?

[Jason Moore]

I hope so. I've got him as my stream of the week Brian Hoyer has been putting up a lot of yards, a lot of touchdowns, and he hasn't even been starting. So this is a great matchup against the Texans. I don't see why Brian Hoyer wouldn't perform this week.

[Mike Wright]

All right. And Bortles, do you think he's playing?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think he's going to. He's been practicing in full and Bortles has been great for fantasy production.

[Mike Wright]

The Texans D hasn't really shown up.

[Andy Holloway]

Nope.

[Mike Wright]

I don't mind Bortles. I saw him signed in a couple of my leagues for streaming plays this week. Not the end of the world. Arian Foster, same workload this week, if not more. People probably don't know this, but Alfred Blue hasn't been practicing. I think Blue is probably going to miss this week. So you're going to have the, you know, Grimes Polk backup situation for Foster, AKA start Arian Foster and smile. TJ Eldon has been banged up, but he should play this week. DeAndre Hopkins is my number one wide receiver.

[Jason Moore]

Ooh, again, he's mine as well.

[Mike Wright]

And he's also Mike's across the board.

[Andy Holloway]

Look, he gets, he gets 30 targets a game and not, not just from Mallet. Hoyer loves throwing the ball to Hopkins. You saw as soon as Hoyer came in the ball or game in the game last week, that's when everything was going to a wide open Hopkins.

[Jason Moore]

So this game has, Vegas has a, has a spread of 40, 43 is the over under on points and I'm going to take the way over because I expect that this, I think that these two teams are going to be able to put up points. You know, there was, I believe it was a low line last week as well with the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Bucks and you saw what happened there. They just crushed it. And I think Foster is going to have a field day here. I think Hoyer is going to have a good day. I think there's going to be a lot of fantasy relevance here and I'm really liking Alan Robinson's matchup this week as well.

[Mike Wright]

So yeah, Alan Robinson is currently a top 12 wide receiver on the season.

[Jason Moore]

A wide receiver. One.

[Mike Wright]

That's not bad.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So let's do some, let's pull up our ranks and let's do some start sit with Alan Robinson because I got. I have a dilemma where in one of my leagues I have the greatness that is Julio Jones who may or may not be injured tonight. My other option is going with Alan Robinson.

[Jason Moore]

I go Julio, never in a Million years.

[Mike Wright]

Would I sit Julio tonight?

[Andy Holloway]

Okay, so let's.

[Mike Wright]

So people are asking that question. So you brought it up because I.

[Andy Holloway]

Think it's a fair question of. I'm leaning. You don't think it's fair?

[Mike Wright]

No, I don't.

[Jason Moore]

I can see the. I can see the why.

[Mike Wright]

Would you give me a reason to say Julio?

[Jason Moore]

The reason.

[Andy Holloway]

Two weeks of him playing while injured and not putting up good points.

[Mike Wright]

He put up. He was okay last week.

[Andy Holloway]

He was okay. Alan Robinson's been great.

[Jason Moore]

He also fell on two months ago.

[Mike Wright]

It wasn't an injury concern. The team was blowing them out. He played 30 snaps, you know, so did their starters.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that's true. But last week, I mean, he fell on a fumbled Devonta Freeman ball for the touchdown.

[Andy Holloway]

Take that. He looked like he could snap.

[Mike Wright]

He also played every snap except for like seven snaps in the whole game.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I'm fine with Julio. The only reason you would consider this is if you've got someone else or.

[Mike Wright]

If news broke that Julio really is going to be. You know, the only time I've ever seen the number one guy really disappoint you when you made the decision to stick with him was last year with Calvin on those distraction games. I don't think they're going to risk Julio's health to put him out there and do nothing with him that would end, you know, teach their own. But I'm just. I don't have it to sit him.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I agree.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, Allen Robinson or have we gone over Macklin yet? No, we have not. But let's just say Alan Robinson or Macklin, you're looking at that decision.

[Jason Moore]

Alan Robinson for sure.

[Mike Wright]

For me, I would play Jeremy Macklin.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. Allen Robinson or my rankings.

[Mike Wright]

Let's confirm that.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's go with just the Allens. The Allen Bros. Hearns or Robinson?

[Jason Moore]

Robinson, without a shadow of a doubt. Hearns is struggling with injury right now. Not practicing. I'm not sure if he's practicing at all or just limited right now, but you add that in and I don't like it.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I would go Hearns over.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, Robinson over. Hearns.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

But he did sit out. Yeah, Hearns sit out on Wednesday. So we need to get into the Chiefs in the Vikings game. The Vikings coming off the bye week. Adrian Peterson back on your fantasy rosters. The game. Vegas has it at 40, almost 45 points. Who do you like to confidently start from this game other than Adrian Peterson? What's your take on the. What's your actual take on the backfield situation. A lot of money was spent on Char Grilled West.

[Andy Holloway]

Charbroiled.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. That guy's name, Shark Hendrick.

[Andy Holloway]

His name is amazing.

[Mike Wright]

It is Shark Hendrick. But, you know, Andy Reid's come out and said, you know, different skill sets. You can't replace Jamal Charles with one guy. Now, Jamal Charles has had issues in the past, even with workload at the running back position. Now you're going to split that across. Guys, I have some concerns.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, Jamal Charles is, you know, it's similar to Arian Foster. There's certain places where it's the line and it's the scheme, but Arian Foster and Jamal Charles are way better running backs than their backups. And so you saw that when Arian was out, it wasn't like the Texans were just great. They had to use a mishmash of guys. And that's kind of what I expect from Sharkandrick West. I would not have him in my lineup. I put a big bid in for him because you don't know. And there's that unknown factor. Maybe, maybe this is just the opportunity he needs. But I'm guessing he's not going to be that special. And especially in this game, the guy that I like from that injury is Zeus. I think that when it comes time to score the touchdowns, they're not going to have the same confidence from that four yard line that they, that they had in Jamal Charles. They're not going to have that in Chirkandrick West. And that's a time to get it to the tight end, the big target. So.

[Andy Holloway]

And there's, there's good news for Travis Kelsey. When you catch touchdowns, you don't have to worry about fumbling afterwards.

[Mike Wright]

It's. It's true. It's one of the biggest perks. All right, so let me ask you this. Tyler Eifert against the Bills or Travis Kelsey against the Vikings?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm still going to go. I'm going to go with Zeus.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, me too. I wonder if my rankings reflect that, but I do think Zeus would be there. I have.

[Andy Holloway]

It's close though.

[Jason Moore]

I've got him at 2 and 3. If it ahead.

[Mike Wright]

We all have them back to back. Mike does indeed have Kelsey one spot over ifrt. I have it the opposite direction. Effort over Kelsey. You know, Ifert is getting so many red zone opportunities and their offense. I have to wonder how much of this is just having Ifrt involved the way they do it has opened everything up. I'm very impressed with him and I'm very sad that I traded him in one of my leagues. All right, Alex Smith, Bridgewater. Are either of them streaming options this week?

[Andy Holloway]

Maybe. Maybe Bridgewater, if you're feeling sassy.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

The Chiefs have been bad against the past.

[Jason Moore]

One of the sneaky plays for me. I'm not sure how high he was in my actual rankings. I didn't look. But Mike Wallace was out on a lot of waivers. He looked like he had good rapport last week. And this is a very plus matchup. The Chiefs, you know, passing defense has been eaten alive by everyone that's played him. So I think Bridgewater could be a sneaky value here. I don't like Smith much at all in this game.

[Mike Wright]

All right. The new Miami Dolphins come off the buy to face Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans. The Titans are favored at home in this matchup. Now, we had some reports yesterday that the new regime in Miami understands the importance like the rest of the world, minus Joe Philbin of involving the running game, stopping the run. And, you know, obviously we expected their defense to be able to stop the run. Hasn't come to fruition considering they're dead last against the run.

[Andy Holloway]

Look, man, just look at the Lions. The Lions, they don't have a running game.

[Mike Wright]

No. No, it's not. So, Lamar Miller. Have we seen the floor with Lamar Miller?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I think. I think we've seen the floor, and I expect it to be a little bit higher. I expect him to now get off of the floor and start walking.

[Mike Wright]

It hasn't all been opportunity, though. You have to admit that about Lamar Miller. It's been performance as well. He has to be more decisive. He has to play at a higher level, and they have to give him more chances to get into that groove. But both things have to happen. A commitment to the run and Lamar Miller has to perform.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I believe we've all got him ranked as an RB2 this week, which means he's in your lineup. And that's a scary thing to put a guy who you know has been not performing as your starter, but I would recommend doing that this week.

[Mike Wright]

Mike, is there anybody in the backfield in Tennessee that you would feel even partially excited to flex?

[Andy Holloway]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, that's what I thought.

[Andy Holloway]

If. If you're going with anybody, it's Andrews.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

But no, I don't feel good about any of that.

[Mike Wright]

All right. PPR leagues, we're fine with Landry. Right. We're going to keep rolling him out. Now, there's been some talk about kind of shifting the depth chart around in Miami as well. When it comes to wide receiver play. You know, Greg Jennings hasn't performed at a high level yet. He's been starting, so you could see some changes there. Kenny Stills could get involved in the starting rotation. You could also have Devonte Parker seeing more opportunity. So I think that's a monitor. Outside of Landry, you just need to monitor. I wouldn't start anybody in Miami. Do you guys agree with that?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Yep. I really like Kendall. Right. This week. I'm not going to say much more than that because he may be involved in the next segment. Oh, I see what you're doing. Nobody else there that I would consider starting at the wide receiver core. Is Cameron going to be a factor in the tight end? In the tight end world? He is a fantasy footballer.

[Andy Holloway]

Is he kind of very frustrating because he's. He's getting looks. Tannehill has just been. Tannehill has been bad. He's been inaccurate.

[Mike Wright]

Look at the two tight ends from this game. Would you rather start Jordan Cameron or would you rather start Delaney Walker? Because they're kind of in the same category.

[Jason Moore]

I would rather start Jordan Cameron.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's. That's what. It's pretty close, but I would rather start Cameron.

[Mike Wright]

Do you know the Titans are number one against the pass? What? That can't be.

[Andy Holloway]

As far as yards.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It's not fantasy. They've given up some touchdowns, but as far as yards. Their first.

[Mike Wright]

All right, that goes. I think we're going to cut off the games right now. We're going to do the second half of the games tomorrow. We're going to get into our starts of the week right now and talk about the guys that we really like in week six.

[Jason Moore]

Starts of the week.

[Mike Wright]

All right, who wants to kick it off? We got a quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

I'll start it.

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Andy Holloway]

My quarterback of the week is Eli Manning.

[Jason Moore]

Eli's coming. Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

Thank you. You like that one?

[Mike Wright]

No, no, I'm just kidding. That's fine. I just wasn't ready for it.

[Andy Holloway]

He's taken on Philadelphia and Philadelphia. I guess this stat is more related to the wide receivers, but they're giving up a wide receiver one every single week. Last week, I believe they gave up two to a Willie Snead and a Brandon Cooks. But the production is there. Eli is on fire. He's getting it done. If Beckham sits, that does hurt things a little bit. But even if Odell Beckham sits, I'm still comfortable starting Eli Manning.

[Mike Wright]

I don't know why I'm alone on this. You guys both have Eli in the top five this week. I have Eli right at the end of the quarterback one. Part of it is I like guys more than him this week. Part of it is I think Philly's defense is kind of. He's probably going to force him into a turnover or two and then the ODB stuff just mixed up for me. So, you know, I don't blame anybody for rolling him out there. He's your start of the weeks. But I have a little different thought on him, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Well, since I went bottom, bottom, bottom of the barrel for my stream of the week with Brian Hoyer, I'm going tippity top. I'm going tippity top with Andy dalton, the number one, the number one quarterback in fantasy football, as everyone thought, Mr. Andy Dalton.

[Mike Wright]

Now that's you are bold, the top of the barrel.

[Jason Moore]

Well, Andy Dalton on a per game, it's Tom Brady. But here's the deal. The Buffalo pass defense, the Buffalo defense is a really highly touted. People are very afraid of them, but they haven't actually been as good as the fears of the Rex Ryan defense. You've got Andy Dalton that still is, I believe, in a lot of leagues, just not started. Now he's being more rostered but you picked him up off of waivers because of course he was not drafted or on waivers to start the year. And you might have another good option. I'm saying from here on out, I mean, he's got to be a must start. So I'm going to claim him as my start of the week.

[Mike Wright]

Bold, the bold.

[Andy Holloway]

Jason's bold move of the week.

[Jason Moore]

Brian Hoyer, give me.

[Mike Wright]

You could have gone with him if you wanted to be bold. You did, didn't you just go with Andy Dahl.

[Jason Moore]

He's my stream of the week. I went with both.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, I'm going to go with Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick is facing Baltimore. Baltimore gives up the second most points to fantasy quarterbacks. And listen, They've given up nine, nine TDs to quarterbacks over the last four games. Josh McCown just torched them for 457 and two. Kaepernick had a much better game against the Giants this past week. We've talked about it a little bit. You have to be very selective when you start him. But I really like Colin Kaepernick this week. So if you need to stream a quarterback that's sitting there on the waiver wire, Kaepernick, higher floor with the running game, I'm okay with him.

[Andy Holloway]

I see it.

[Jason Moore]

I'm just putting this out there because I see I just went and looked at our rankings. You've got Andy Dalton as the 15th quarterback this week. So some people might say don't start him. That's what I'm saying.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Yeah, I mean I agree. The reason I let you leave him in here at all is because of the fact he's playing Buffalo and people probably doubt him and a lot of people that have Dalton actually have other top tier quarterbacks because he was on the waiver wire. He wasn't somebody you drafted to be this level. So you're, you're making decisions like Peyton Manning, Andy Dalton, you're making decisions, you know, in that Tom Brady, Andy Dalton, whatever it is. So, you know, go Tom Brady. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Really? All right. So running back. I'll kick this off. I'm going to go with DeMarco Murray against the New York. Wasn't he the last Giants?

[Andy Holloway]

Not that that's bad.

[Mike Wright]

I'm just, I don't believe he was my start of the week last week. Was he?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know.

[Mike Wright]

You can take, you can effort that but I, I think DeMarco Murray is rounding into form. The Giants are in the bottom half and points given up against running backs. He was 20, 83 and one last week. I like DeMarco Murray.

[Jason Moore]

I think that's a very good play and I do believe you picked him last week which was brilliant because people were very off and he had a great game. I am going with Justin Forsett or Buck Allen, whoever suits up. Justin for set was out of practice today but I'm basically going with the Ravens running back. I like their matchup. Their O line's been playing a little bit better getting into shape. They're going against San Francisco who has not been too great. They're 27th fantasy wise against the run. So feel free to put Justin for set out there but really if Justin Forset doesn't play, play Buck Allen. He's going to. I think he's in for a big week and he's probably on your waivers right now in most leagues I'm going.

[Andy Holloway]

With this is a PPR play as I like to do occasionally. I'm going with Shane Vereen and I'm doubling up, doubling down I should say on the Giants last week, Shane Vereen 5 for 24 but 8 for 86 and a Hoosh down through the air. If Odell Beckham is not playing or if he's limited, if Randle is not playing or limited, Shane Vereen is going to Be very involved.

[Mike Wright]

I really like that pick. When I see it, it scares me. But when you talk through it, I really agree with you. I think ODB won't play this week and I think Vereen will be a beneficiary, probably the main one. So I really like that pick. Very solid. So who's your wide receiver start of the week, Mr. Wright?

[Andy Holloway]

You know what to do.

[Mike Wright]

I've got the need.

[Andy Holloway]

The need for Sneed.

[Mike Wright]

How long am I supposed to play this?

[Jason Moore]

Forever.

[Andy Holloway]

Until we get sued.

[Mike Wright]

Until we get sued.

[Andy Holloway]

That was the right cutoff. You did it properly.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you. So every week, tell him the name of the player.

[Andy Holloway]

I said, I got the need for Snead. I got the need for Willie Snead. Okay, New Orleans.

[Mike Wright]

There you go.

[Andy Holloway]

Every week his snap count has climbed. He started in the 20s last week, he was in the 70 percentile of snaps for the Saints. He had 11 targets last week, six for 141. It's a plus matchup for me against the Falcons at home. And he. Everything. It's maybe it's a cliche thing to talk about trust, but when you watch what's going on, he has the trust of Sean Payton and Drew Brees, and that is a very important thing for the New Orleans offense. I just. I like Snead very much, so I am playing him.

[Mike Wright]

We're going to find out right away.

[Andy Holloway]

And you get. Yeah, you get that.

[Mike Wright]

Tomorrow morning we're going to find out if you're right or wrong.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

So, yeah, that's exciting. My guy is Golden Tate. Golden Tate. I mean, when your first name is golden, how can it not be?

[Mike Wright]

I don't know. They're on five.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that's true.

[Andy Holloway]

One through five.

[Jason Moore]

Well, and that's why I'm having him as my start of the week this week, because he's a scary guy to start. He's been the second option on a bad05 team who has been terrible both in the pass and the run. So why do it now? Because the Bears give up a lot of touchdowns to the wide receivers and Matthew Stafford was pulled last week. And I think that that is actually, when you look at his stats, you see a lot worse than he's actually played. And so this week, I expect a bounce back for Matthew Stafford. The Bears give up a lot of fantasy points to wide receivers at the position. So I'm going to say go ahead and play Golden Tate. Look for a bounce back game.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going with Kendall Wright. I'm going with Kendall Wright. I still think he is far and above the best option in Tennessee's passing game. He's also a talented squeaky wheel, so to speak. He complained about his involvement level. They had a lot of success in games where he's been heavily involved. He's a PPR type of guy. You don't. You can't really count on touchdowns from Kendall Wright, but he does have the trust of Marcus Mariota. And Miami is one of the worst teams against wide receivers in fantasy 25th of just.

[Andy Holloway]

Of all time, let's say it.

[Mike Wright]

Of all time. And they're at home. You know, they're at home. I like Kendall. Right. I'm okay flexing Kendall, right. This week. You know, he's a possible kind of wide receiver to play in the right situation. So at tight end, I've got to bring this one to you guys. I feel like we haven't talked about him enough. Richard Rogers is my start of the week and I am confident about him. I would start him over Tammy, I would start him over Walker, I would start him over Cameron. I start him over a lot of guys because his involvement is going up. His last two games, he has five catches, six catches, playing on 93% of snaps, eight targets last week, and faces a San Diego defense that is not shutting tight ends down. And so I think he is, you know, he's going to be available in. I don't know what his ownership percentage is right now, but it's got to be minuscule. And so I really like Rogers.

[Jason Moore]

I love that pick. I think that's a great matchup play. In addition to.

[Mike Wright]

He's actually owned in 46%.

[Jason Moore]

Well, there you have it.

[Mike Wright]

I wouldn't have believed that, but it's still. He's available in half of the leagues. Sorry.

[Jason Moore]

So my, my tight end stream start of the week is Zach Ertz, a guy we loved in the early off season who was injured and then not used and then the Eagles offense stunk. But if you look last week, he actually got five for 60. He's been on the field. Aguilar is kind of hurt right now, and this is the New York Giants, who have been giving up everything to the tight end. I feel like it's a good trend with Zachary. Zach Ertz is super talented. That's never been the question as a pass catcher. He is a very talented pass catcher. His health has been the problem. The Eagles have been the problem, and some of the matchups have been the problem. All three of those things are now pointing in the right direction. And I think they're pointing to fantasy.

[Andy Holloway]

Gold for Zach Ertz down the yellow brick road. Ertz was in consideration for me, so I very much enjoy that pick because I love great matchups. Speaking of another great matchup, Jacob Tammy 8 for 94 last week against Washington. Washington has actually a, a decent passing defense. Julio's health, maybe Julio's full go. Maybe. But if he's even a little bit hobbled, Jacob Tammy is a great play. New Orleans is bottom five against tight end for fantasy points. New Orleans, Oakland and the Giants are all targets you want for a tight end. And for Jacob Tammy to already have gotten involved last week speaks well for him being involved this week.

[Mike Wright]

Mike's just trying to get his starts of the week out of the way. He just wants these games to be over with and we'd be able to come in and say, yeah, you know.

[Jason Moore]

Please be a high scoring game tonight. I'm going to be so disappointed if for some reason the script is flipped and it's like a 13 to 20 game. I'll gouge my eyes out.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, but Rob Ryan won't be dancing around on the sideline, hair flopping all over the place. What's the opposite of a silver fox?

[Jason Moore]

A Grey goose, A brown bear?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I'm just trying to bring out better if what is, what is Rob Ryan? He's a silver something. We should probably move on. All right, that's it for today's show. We will have the second half of the games. Tomorrow we will have our Daily Dose segment with Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network giving you all the DFS insight and information you need to make the right picks this weekend. And we'll have a lot of information on the injury situation. I know Carlos Williams is not practicing. LaShawn McCoy is practicing. So we need some clarity on some of these backfield situations. Justin Forcett, Buck Allen, those type of things. So good, good stuff going on.

[Andy Holloway]

That's all you got?

[Mike Wright]

I expect you to jump in once the music starts playing, my friend. Jointhefoot.com Come check out our community.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

Wow.

[Mike Wright]

You got nothing.

[Jason Moore]

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