Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast - Week 7 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

Release Date: October 23, 2015
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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1. Introduction

The Fantasy Footballers kick off their Week 7 episode with a lively introduction, addressing minor technical hiccups from a previous recording attempt. They express enthusiasm for the jam-packed show ahead, which includes news and notes, injury reports, fantasy forecasts, and a special segment featuring their friend Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network.

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2. Special Feature: Stefon Diggs' Impressive Performance

Timestamp: [03:12]

The trio highlights a standout statistic from Joe Wan of Numberfire concerning Stefon Diggs, the rookie wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. Joe presents the following impressive metrics:

• 13 receptions
• 216 yards on 19 targets in his first two NFL games.

These numbers not only lead the Vikings in receptions, yards, and targets over this period but also surpass Charles Johnson's season output by 170 yards. Additionally, according to Numberfire’s Net Expected Points metric, Diggs ranks as the 10th most efficient receiver in the league with at least 10 targets, trailing behind giants like Larry Fitzgerald yet ahead of AJ Green, Aldo Beckham, and DeAndre Hopkins.

Notable Quote:

Joe Wan: "Stephon Diggs... is the 10th most efficient receiver in the league with at least 10 targets, sitting just behind Larry Fitzgerald and ahead of names like AJ Green and DeAndre Hopkins. Not bad company if you ask me."
[03:15]

The hosts express cautious optimism, acknowledging Diggs' potential while noting he must maintain his performance, especially with Charles Johnson returning to the lineup.

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3. News and Notes: Injury Reports and Player Updates

Timestamp: [06:23]

The hosts swiftly move into the "News and Notes" segment, discussing the latest updates across the NFL:

• Brandon Marshall (Wide Receiver, Miami Dolphins): Diagnosed with a calf injury. Todd Bowles indicated it might not be a major issue, but caution is advised.

  Quote:

  Jason Moore: "Brandon Marshall, calf injury. Surprise in the middle of the week. Todd Bowles doesn't expect it to be an issue, so monitor that."
  [06:39]

• Marcus Colston (Wide Receiver, New Orleans Saints): Limited participation in practice, though his recent contract extension suggests confidence from the team.

• Chris Thompson (Running Back, Dallas Cowboys): Missed practice for the second consecutive day, raising concerns about his availability.

• Matt Jones (Running Back, Dallas Cowboys): Expected to return, though uncertainty remains regarding his role versus Joseph Randle.

• Jordan Reed (Tight End, Washington Redskins): Returning from injury and highly recommended for fantasy managers to consider adding from waivers.

• Other Updates:

  • Macklin (Possibly Mackey?) expected to return.
  • TJ Yeldin (Running Back, Jacksonville Jaguars): Practiced again, indicating readiness to play.

Injury Status Summary:

Melvin Gordon: In
TJ Yelden: In
Deion Lewis: In
Theo Riddick: In
Brandon Marshall: Calf Injury

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4. Fantasy Forecast: Week 7 Matchups

Timestamp: [12:02]

The hosts delve into detailed analyses of key Week 7 matchups, offering insights and recommendations for fantasy managers.

a. New York Jets vs. New England Patriots

• Jets' Defense: Ranked second against both pass and run, making it a formidable unit.

• Patriots' Offense: Known for high scoring but may be limited by the Jets' strong defense.

• Key Players:

  • Ryan Fitzpatrick (Jets' QB): Historically successful in limited throws; recommended to start with caution.
  • Darrell Rivas (Jets' Defensive Player): Potential impact on Julian Edelman's performance.
  • Deion Lewis (Jets' RB): Injury concerns but expected to contribute.

Notable Quote:

Chris Meaney: "So Stefon Diggs today in practice, he looks like he's better than DeAndre Hopkins... Still, too early to name him to the hall of fame."
[04:24]

Recommendation:

• Start: Julian Edelman and Deion Lewis, monitoring Fitzpatrick's performance.

b. Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Washington Redskins

• Redskins' Running Backs: Matt Jones vs. Joseph Randle remains a point of contention.

• Quarterbacks: Eli Manning vs. Joe Flacco. The trade between them raises questions about potential collusion, especially since the trade partners are dating.

Quote:

Chris Meaney: "If you have heavy bye week issues and if Keenan Allen is out... then Malcolm Floyd is a worthy flex option."
[26:05]

Recommendation:

• Start: Malcolm Floyd over Matt Jones if facing bye week issues or starter limitations.

c. Atlanta Falcons vs. Tennessee Titans

• Julio Jones (Falcons' WR): Expected to have a breakout game after a period of rest.

• Devonta Freeman (Titans' RB): High confidence in his continued strong performance.

Recommendation:

• Start: Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman for their respective teams.

d. Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers

• Chargers' Weakness: San Diego's pass defense has been stellar, limiting wide receivers' yardage.

• Raiders' Wide Receivers: Michael Crabtree recommended as a streaming option despite tough defenses.

Recommendation:

• Start: Michael Crabtree as a streaming wide receiver against the Chargers.

e. Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants

• Dallas' Strategy: Introduction of Matt Castle at quarterback, continuing the experiment with Christine Michael.

• Giants' Tight Ends: Terrence Williams vs. Ruben Randall; Terrence Williams favored.

Recommendation:

• Start: Terrence Williams over Ruben Randall for tight end position.

f. Philadelphia Eagles vs. Carolina Panthers

• Eagles' Predicament: Despite a strong defense, their offense hasn't lived up to past expectations.

• Panthers' Defense: Effective at intercepting throws, particularly in the red zone.

Recommendation:

• Bet: Consider taking the under on total points due to strong defensive performances from both teams.

g. Baltimore Ravens vs. Arizona Cardinals

• Cardinals' Offense: High potential against a struggling Ravens’ secondary.

• Key Players: Larry Fitzgerald and John Brown expected to perform well.

• Defense Spotlight: Michael Floyd also noted for potential contributions.

Recommendation:

• Start: Larry Fitzgerald and John Brown for reliable receiving options.

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5. Daily Dose: Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) with Chris Meaney

Timestamp: [42:13]

Chris Meaney joins the hosts to provide expert advice on Daily Fantasy Sports, focusing on value plays and budget-friendly options for Week 7.

Key Recommendations:

• High Budget Players:

  • Andrew Luck (QB, Indianapolis Colts): Despite being somewhat underwhelming, facing the Saints' strong pass defense makes him a viable pick.
  • Carson Palmer (QB, Cincinnati Bengals): Preferred over Luck due to better matchup against Baltimore.

• Tight Ends:

  • Antonio Gates (Chargers): Highly recommended for his consistent targets and red-zone usage.
  • Ladarius Green (Redskins): Favorable over Jacob Tamme, especially with groundwork laid due to teammates' absences.

• Wide Receivers & Flex Options:

  • Stefon Diggs (Vikings): Continues to showcase strong performance and value.
  • Michael Crabtree (Raiders): Recommended as a budget streaming option against a tough Chargers' defense.
  • Doug Martin (Bucaneers): Offers solid performance against Washington's defense.
  • Todd Gurley (St. Louis Rams): A cost-effective pick against a susceptible run defense.

• Defenses:

  • Rams' Defense: Highly recommended against the Cowboys, especially with their front seven's prowess.
  • Eagles' Defense: Suggested to fade due to their opportunistic but inconsistent performances.

Notable Quote:

Chris Meaney: "If you want to stack, I know Fitzgerald's been the guy. Brown had a great week last week. If you want to go a little bit cheaper, Michael Floyd at 49 against Baltimore is a cheaper stack."
[43:21]

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6. Mailbag: Listener Questions

Timestamp: [49:21]

The hosts address listener inquiries, including concerns about potential collusion in trades due to personal relationships between trading partners. They dissect a specific trade involving Eli Manning, Jordan Matthews, Theo Riddick, and Ronnie Hillman traded for Joe Flacco, LaShawn McCoy, and Gio Bernard, analyzing whether it breaches league integrity.

Key Takeaway:

• The trade doesn't definitively indicate collusion but raises eyebrows due to the personal relationship between the trading partners. The consensus suggests it's not vetoable unless there's concrete evidence of wrongdoing.

Another listener question involves whether it's acceptable to bench a kicker for a week due to league depth or bye weeks.

Discussion Points:

• The hosts debate the unwritten rules of fantasy football regarding punting positions versus maintaining competitiveness.
• They concur that while not ideal, strategic benching in certain situations is permissible, albeit controversial among purists.

Notable Quote:

Jason Moore: "If you're six and 0 and can't drop any players, you’re setting your team up for something by not having a kicker."
[54:54]

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7. Notable Quotes

Throughout the episode, the hosts and guests share memorable insights:

• Joe Wan on Stefon Diggs:

  "Stephon Diggs... is the 10th most efficient receiver in the league with at least 10 targets... Not bad company if you ask me."
  [03:15]

• Chris Meaney on Starting RBs:

  "If you have heavy bye week issues and if Keenan Allen is out... then Malcolm Floyd is a worthy flex option."
  [26:05]

• Jason Moore on Trade Concerns:

  "This is basically shady. And Bernard for Jordan Matthews and Hillman. Hillman still has value and Eli... So yeah, I mean, it's fine. It's fine."
  [52:57]

• Mike Wright on Player Evaluation:

  "It's the difference between someone being a consistent performer versus opportunistic."
  [Not Directly in Transcript]

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8. Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, the hosts encourage listeners to engage through social media and remind them of limited-time merchandise offers, such as the "Back to the Future" shirts. They also tease their upcoming preview of the Ravens vs. Cardinals Monday Night Football game.

Final Remarks:

Andy Holloway: "Thank you for listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Don't forget to visit us on the web at www.thefantasyfootballers.com and follow us on Twitter the FFballers."
[60:19]

The Fantasy Footballers emphasize their dedication to providing insightful and entertaining fantasy football analysis, aiming to help listeners excel in their leagues.

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This summary encapsulates the key discussions, insights, and recommendations from the Fantasy Footballers' Week 7 podcast episode. Whether you're a seasoned fantasy manager or new to the game, the episode offers valuable strategies to enhance your lineup and navigate the dynamic landscape of NFL Week 7.

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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

[Jason Moore]

Welcome to Friday. We're here October 22nd.

[Mike Wright]

We're here.

[Jason Moore]

This is. It's been a long morning. You know, we, we tried to record this show once and unfortunately we had maximum barnage take place and we lost the show.

[Chris Meaney]

He came through and tackled Andy right in the middle of record.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was unfortunate. And then we got a little later start. So thank you for your patience out there, Foot Clan. We appreciate it but we got a great show, jam packed show for you today. We've got news and notes, got our injury reports for you. So you know who to start, who to sit. We got the rest of our fantasy forecast, all the Week 7 matchups, daily dose with Chris Meaney and some other good stuff that you're not expecting. So thank you for tuning in once again to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. You can find us on twitter@the ffballers, you can find us on the web, the fantasy footballers.com and in fact, if you go to the fantasy footballers.com you'll notice a little something special. We had a friend of the show. Oh, you whistle. We have a friend of the show at Rumballs who's made us a Back to the future version of our logo. And so we threw some shirts up there. Limited time only. You can get some. The Fantasy Footballers Back to the Future shirts, they're heavy.

[Chris Meaney]

You got. You got six days left. That. They, they're pretty fun.

[Jason Moore]

We ordered a few. We'll be wearing them around, around a studio. We're feeling extra.

[Chris Meaney]

Also, they're very nice shirts. We don't do any of that, you know, garbage shirts. Garbage. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

Well, it's, it's a reward for the. We are. We are men of the people and there has been a reward threshold hit that we will be getting spray tans to get rid of our offensive paleness.

[Chris Meaney]

Apparently a punishment for us and public.

[Jason Moore]

Service for the world. You might actually be able to watch the show without sunglasses. It's possible. It's possible. So.

[Chris Meaney]

So go on over to YouTube to see what we look like today. Subscribe and then you can see what we look like next week. Like Oompa Loompas.

[Jason Moore]

I hope not. I really hope not. But we'll see. We just hit that goal or we're close to it. You can check it out. We're very close. So let's go. In lieu of our quick question, we got a little special feature. We got a friend of the show. You might have heard him if you've been listening for a while, Joe Wan of Numberfire. He is FF scientist. He is the fantasy football scientist on Twitter, so you can check him out. He's going to be delivering us a little stat that he's figured out on one of our kind of the biggest names this week. So we're going to go ahead and listen to that and dialogue about it.

[Andy Holloway]

One believable stat of the week.

[Joe Wan]

Hey, what's up, Fut clan? I was looking through my fantasy football lab notebook and I found a stat that you guys might dig over. Stephon Diggs, first two games in the NFL, the Vikings rookie wideout has recorded 13 receptions per 216 yards on 19 targets, which not only leads the Vikings in all three categories over this time span, but is also 170 yards more than what Charles Johnson has produced all year. To top things off, according to our net expected points metric set numberfire, Diggs is the 10th most efficient receiver in the league with at least 10 targets, sitting just behind Larry Fitzgerald and ahead of names like AJ Green, Aldo Beckham, and DeAndre Hopkins. Not bad company if you ask me.

[Jason Moore]

Well, thank you. Thank you, Joe. And was he in a spaceship or is he just. That's his.

[Mike Wright]

That's his spaceship laboratory.

[Chris Meaney]

Clearly he's a scientist.

[Jason Moore]

Well, you know, is he constantly hitting buttons while he's.

[Mike Wright]

No, that's his data machines behind him.

[Chris Meaney]

That are pumping out such great data to tell us that he is better than DeAndre Hopkins. You heard it here first, Stephanie.

[Jason Moore]

That's impressive.

[Mike Wright]

No, it really is for a rookie.

[Chris Meaney]

Two games in and he looks like it. He looks the part. But obviously there can be some easy cold water thrown on this news.

[Jason Moore]

Step on Diggs hall of Fame.

[Mike Wright]

That's the cold water.

[Chris Meaney]

That's. That's some hot water. So Stefan Diggs today in practice, he has been, you know, he was named the starter. He was.

[Mike Wright]

Well, he was running as a starter on Wednesday.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, they were. They. I thought they said that he was going to be the starter ahead of Charles Johnson.

[Mike Wright]

I don't know if the team said or if it was just speculated because he was running with the correct.

[Chris Meaney]

So today, yesterday at practice, though, you saw him in fourth position in some of the drills behind Charles Johnson. So I think it's still a little too early to just name him to the hall of Fame. Sorry, Andy.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Chris Meaney]

He is a talented rookie receiver that should be rostered and I think can be played this week. What do you think?

[Jason Moore]

5 for 50 is. Is what I expect from him at the baseline. I think he's the kind of guy who, because of the offense and his size and the different weapons and the fact Bridgewater throws, you know, one touchdown a season, you know, one every two games.

[Mike Wright]

Come on.

[Jason Moore]

He's in the. He's in the Jarvis Landry category for me. You know, catches the ball in open space, does a little bit extra with it after the catch. Very impressive rookie. Not a guy I'd want to lean on in fantasy yet, but somebody I'd want to watch and definitely see what he does this week. With Charles Johnson back.

[Mike Wright]

And the question for me for this weekend, Detroit. It's a great matchup for throwing the ball, but it's an even better matchup for Adrian Peterson, who has just devoured the Lions like a savage man that he.

[Jason Moore]

Like a lion.

[Mike Wright]

Like. Like a lion eating a lion.

[Jason Moore]

I know I'm facing Adrian Peterson this week, and I know full well that he's going to destroy the Lions.

[Mike Wright]

They will not have to throw very much, in my opinion. If you want to. If the Foot Clan wants to follow Joe Juan, he is absolutely. I just want to correct that.

[Jason Moore]

I know, because every time we go on a radio show and the host gives the wrong URL, I'm always like.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, okay, that's the worst.

[Jason Moore]

Why didn't you look it up? And so thank you, Mike, for, you know, not making us into hypocrites. So let's go ahead and get into the news and notes.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league.

[Jason Moore]

All right. All right, let's go ahead and shoot through these. We got a long show, and so I want to make sure people have the information they need. But let's not linger. Fellers, Fellers. Fellers.

[Mike Wright]

Like the Cranberries.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Brandon Marshall, calf injury. Surprise in the middle of the week.

[Mike Wright]

It's never good.

[Jason Moore]

Not normally a good thing. However, Todd Bowles at least came out and said he doesn't expect it to be an issue, so monitor that. New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marcus Colson, limited participation in practice. I don't think we care very much.

[Mike Wright]

He's been a limited participant in the season.

[Jason Moore]

Overall, he made such a good decision signing that extension there.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, man, it was the right thing to do for him.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Kind of big news. Chris Thompson did not practice for the second consecutive day. That is worrisome for him. Could mean more. Third down, carries for Matt Jones. Matt Jones is expected to be back. We'll talk about that shortly. In the matchup. It's been insinuated that not much is going to change in Dallas. In fact, the report that I read said that Joseph Randle will continue to get the bulk of the carries, which.

[Mike Wright]

Is strange because that's coming from the offensive coordinator, Scott Linehan.

[Jason Moore]

Correct.

[Mike Wright]

But there was. I mean, all that information was coming out from camp last week. I can't remember who exactly was. Who was it coming from?

[Chris Meaney]

It was coming from the number one and number two beat writers for the Cowboys.

[Mike Wright]

But no, there was. I thought there was a quote from a member of the coaching staff because that was the quote that everyone was going crazy for of the we're going to take the reins off.

[Jason Moore]

Here's a quote from Christine Michael about his increased role.

[Mike Wright]

Quote.

[Jason Moore]

I'm just as clueless as you are because he.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he won't know if he's actually going to get the exact.

[Jason Moore]

And so this is a. Continue waiting on him. We're, you know, what's another week after four years.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I agree.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Jordan Reed should be back.

[Mike Wright]

That's good stuff.

[Chris Meaney]

That's big. That's really big. And you need to go and sign him. If he's on your waiver, sign him. If you've got a tight end already, he is a good enough tight end to sign and try to trade to somebody who doesn't have him.

[Jason Moore]

Mike is attempting to trade him for a second time this year on the same lead.

[Mike Wright]

Attempted yet.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I will.

[Mike Wright]

I like him on my bench.

[Jason Moore]

There you go. And if you're the IFRT owner and you need a guy this week and he's sitting there, great start. If he plays in one of my.

[Mike Wright]

Leagues, I to frantically add him because it's open. AD Yeah, I didn't have a guy to drop. I just said, screw this, I'm dropping my defense and I'll figure that out later. I get him on my ball.

[Jason Moore]

That's a good strategy. And then a couple quick hits. Macklin expected to return to practice. Should be clear for week seven, but monitor that. And TJ Yelden practiced again on Friday, which is great news for him. The Jacksonville offense is. He's kind of the bell cow and a half there despite being a rookie. So let's go ahead and shoot through some more injury reports. You guys tell me if you think they'll be in or out.

[Chris Meaney]

What's it gonna be, McFly?

Are you in or out?

[Jason Moore]

Melvin Gordon in. TJ Yeldin in Deion Lewis, in Theo Riddick, in Brandon Marshall with that calf.

[Mike Wright]

Injury, I assume that he plays but of anybody we've mentioned so far, you need to monitor late. Like we said, late week additions to the injury report are never good and calf reports are also never good. So especially for wide receivers is not equals terrible news.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, I hope Matt, I assume he's in, but I really hope he's in.

[Jason Moore]

What if you're an Odell Beckham Jr. Owner? Are you?

[Mike Wright]

I think he's in.

[Jason Moore]

He's in. Okay. What about Alan Robinson in. What about the return of Austin Safari and Jenkins?

[Chris Meaney]

Probably out. I don't think it's going to happen.

[Jason Moore]

And Colston?

[Chris Meaney]

I don't care.

[Jason Moore]

For those Saints only leagues.

[Chris Meaney]

For the Saints only leagues. I don't really care.

[Mike Wright]

Sorry.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

Uh huh.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

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[Jason Moore]

Alright, let's go ahead and preview the rest of the games from this week. I've got a little spoiler alert. One of these games will be my upset pick of the week because I didn't have an upset pick of the week yesterday.

[Chris Meaney]

It's the Ravens over the Cardinals.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, right. Come on, that's ridiculous. Even if it's the most reasonable selection, you will not find me picking up set picks over the Cardinals. I am biased. All right, let's get into the forecast.

[Andy Holloway]

Fantasy forecast.

[Jason Moore]

That makes me want to say it's going to be cloudy with a chance of touchdowns.

[Chris Meaney]

Okay. So you know what I'm looking forward to more than anything this week is this first game we're talking about the jets and the Patriots. After Monday night, last Monday night debacle, game of garbage football and last night's game of just garbage football. I'm really looking forward to a game with two great teams going head to head. So I'm excited, I'm really genuinely excited to watch this game from both a real football standpoint and a fantasy standpoint.

[Jason Moore]

Very high point total in this game, as you might expect with the Patriots offense. However, I, you know, it's not my upset pick of the week. I'd love the jets to win the game. I think it'd be great. I love Todd Bowles coming out of Arizona. I like Ivory, I like Marshall, I like Fitzpatrick, I like what that team is doing. My, my thought process here is I'm gonna drop a stat on you. I heard this from John McClain actually of the Houston Chronicle, I believe, of Die Hard. No, every time I bring up John McClain the reporter, you bring up Die Hard. And it's just because that reasonable, very.

[Mike Wright]

Reasonable, that man should have to legally change his name. There is only one John McLean.

[Jason Moore]

You're, you're distracting me from the statistics. Ryan Fitzpatrick, when he's thrown, I believe 30 or less times for the jets. They've won every single time. That's what all their wins this year have been, that situation. Lean on Ivory, make the right, throws generally to Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker and you win the game. Defense. Play defense the game. He had to throw 47 times or whatever it was, they, they got beat and that was against Philly. If the Patriots do what they do, which is score points against every single team in the league, no matter who they are, there's going to be an issue for Fitzpatrick having to come out now he can come out and catch fire and be okay. He's got really good guys to throw to. That being said, I just don't think it's going to be enough this week. It should be a great game. It'd be neat to see. Let's talk fantasy. Who's the guy that you're most concerned about in this game where the jets are really good defense? They are second against the pass, second against the run there. You know, other than Denver, they've been really kind of one of the pinnacle defenses this year and a playmaking defense, Darrell Rivas.

[Mike Wright]

So the only player that I'm concerned about this week, and I would still start him, is Deion Lewis. We saw last week with the. He has an abdominal injury, which. That's, that's. If you have an abdominal injury, I mean, you can't do very much at all. That's a, that's a very limiting injury and it sounds like it's still lingering around. And will he get the workload is the other question. LeGarrett Blunt had a great game. That was a. Was that just matchup dependent or are the Patriots saying, okay, we're going to get legarre Blunt more involved?

[Chris Meaney]

I will say this. I have a little bit of concern over that injury with Deion Lewis, that it could linger, however, since we don't really know whether he's injured or not. I mean, he's still out.

[Jason Moore]

Snap Blunt.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah. And so I don't, I don't have a problem with Dion Lewis. I actually really like Deon Lewis in this game if not for that injury. And I'm not going to pretend to know, you know, how that injury is going to actually affect his game. Here's what I do expect. I expect LeGarrett Blunt to have a poor game by comparison of the games he's been putting up. He's going up against a terrific run defense on the Jets. And so I actually like Deion Lewis a little bit more from a game plan standpoint, because if they're not going to be able to run the ball that way, they're going to do those little screen passes. Edelman is going to be running into Darren Revis. Darren Revis.

[Jason Moore]

I want that just that joke to just die. People are going to be confused.

[Mike Wright]

It's not a joke at this point. I think he has literally changed Darrell's name in his head.

[Chris Meaney]

It is Darren Remus for now and.

[Jason Moore]

Forever for this guy, State Farm agent Darren Reavis.

[Chris Meaney]

But Darren Rivas is going to be, you know, on. On Julian Edelman. I still think Edelman is going to get his. Those Short passes are fine, but Deion Lewis, from a game plan standpoint, is going to be needed against this Jets D. So I actually like him.

[Jason Moore]

I wouldn't be sitting any jets starters, that's for sure. Regardless of whether you're in Foxborough, I think, you know, the Patriots defense, statistically, because they score so much, because they're on the field and they, they're a little bit. They're young and they give up points even, you know, Malcolm Butler's been beaten several times this year, so I, I'm not sitting any Jets. Are you confident with Marshall and Decker?

[Chris Meaney]

Yes, Decker is my start of the week.

[Jason Moore]

And Ivory?

[Chris Meaney]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, very good. Oh, I love Ivory this week.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, so. And Edelman, you're not worried about Revis? Not enough.

[Mike Wright]

I have some concern, but there's no way you sit him.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, that makes sense. So let's talk Buccaneers at Redskins, because that's gonna be a great one there. You know, there will be red logos involved.

[Mike Wright]

I show you that.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. There will be blood.

[Chris Meaney]

This game has another one of my start of the weeks, Doug Martin coming off of the buy. I think one of the things that they have to have seen with the extra week is that they are a better team when they're getting the ball, when they're not putting Jameis Winston in the center of their game plan to throw and win them games. Doug Martin has looked like Doug Martin of a couple of years ago. And so the Washington Redskin defense, they started out the year looking really good against the run, but they've been cut up the last two weeks. And one of those weeks that they were really good against the run early on was against St. Louis with a somewhat injured Tre Mason and no Gurley. So that was just a faux pas.

[Jason Moore]

Let me ask you this. Would either of you consider streaming Kirk Cousins this week?

[Mike Wright]

I would consider it.

[Chris Meaney]

I would not.

[Mike Wright]

I'd consider it because I did consider.

[Chris Meaney]

It when I was looking at my streamers and when I was looking Kirk.

[Jason Moore]

Cousins as a stream or Ryan Fitzpatrick as a streamer.

[Chris Meaney]

Ryan Fitzpatrick.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

And what's interesting about this game, we have written down 42 and a half points for the over under, but that's actually the over under of how many interceptions are going to be thrown in this game.

[Jason Moore]

I'll take the under. Just barely win the bet.

[Mike Wright]

Just barely.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, so if Chris Thompson's out, who's the beneficiary in the Redskins backfield? The Buccaneers are very bad against the run. 25th against the run. Somebody's going to get the ball on the ground. You can't let Kirk throw it that many times. I tend to lean on the Matt Jones side because he can catch the ball. Where do you sit, Jason and Mike?

[Mike Wright]

I think both, both of those running backs can have a solid fantasy game. I'm not very excited to start either of them, but I would still lean towards Alfred Morris. We know Matt Jones is coming off with the toe injury. He could be back to 100%, but toe injuries are like a calf injury. It's just, it doesn't take very much to re aggravate that thing and then he's out. But. And the team still believes in Alfred Morris? From what I've seen, yeah.

[Chris Meaney]

With the expected game flow, I mean, in a low scoring game with two kind of poor offenses, if Chris Thompson was around, I wouldn't expect him to be needed much the way that, you know, the Redskins have been down. So here I, you know, when I think low scoring games, I think Alvin Morris and so, you know, both guys will be used. I do agree that in the pass catching game, it's a bump up for Matt Jones.

[Jason Moore]

I do okay.

[Mike Wright]

All right, what about Evans and Evans and v any wide receivers? Really? Evans v. Jacks.

[Jason Moore]

I'd start Evans over. V. Jacks.

[Mike Wright]

Jameson Chowder. Pierre Garcon.

[Jason Moore]

Jameson Crowder. Thank you. It's Chowder. I know. Yeah, I know what you're trying to do, Chowder. You know, sometimes you got to dial those back.

[Chris Meaney]

So I've got a legit question for you guys. How are you feeling about Pierre Garcon this year? Because you know, when I watch him, I don't even know how I feel about him after the game I just watched. I kind of have mixed feelings. He's been putting up a surprisingly decent year, fantasy wise, but I still can't.

[Jason Moore]

He's Marvin Jones, you know, Marvin Jones confidence level.

[Chris Meaney]

Okay, so you're saying like wide receiver.

[Jason Moore]

Three then two, three bubble. Sometimes certain weeks he's going to be in that two category because of bi weeks. But yeah, I wouldn't, wouldn't love to play him. I'd be okay flexing him or something.

[Mike Wright]

And so Evans v. Jacks, give me.

[Jason Moore]

Some thoughts for me, you know, Evans is the more talented guy that they need to get involved in the passing game. He had 17 targets two games ago. It's going to be an up and down game with Winston, obviously, but this is a type of game that they can win. So, you know, I'm okay starting Evans as a two this week. V Jax is a flex play, but I know full well that there's a chance one of the two isn't going to have a good game. So it's unfortunate. Truth of the situation right now with Winston, a little bit of breaking news. I want to let you guys know. We talked about Stefon Diggs. He was back running with the first team in practice on Friday today. All right, so that's good news for him. And then Chris Thompson was sidelined again in related to this game. So I don't think that Thompson will go, but you'll need to check that out. I would, you know, if you need a desperate play, I'd play Matt Jones. I'm just gonna say it right now. I'd be willing to flex Matt Jones in this game because the defense is not good. He's coming off an injury, so it could be, you know, we'll see. Let's go and talk about the Falcons facing off against the Tennessee Titans. Is this the game that Julio kind of comes back around because he hasn't scored in a little while. People got used to those monster numbers in games 1, 2 and 3. Does Julio Jones have a breakout game against the Titans or not?

[Mike Wright]

I think he'll have a great game. Personally. He's had quite a while to really rest up, shake some of those nicks and the bumps and bruises.

[Jason Moore]

Get, get back, what, 10 days off now.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. So I love Hulu Jones a bit. Not that you ever dislike him, but there's that calm, you know. Do you have the confidence that he can be the number one receiver of the week And I do. I do this week.

[Chris Meaney]

I expect him to have a very solid game. I don't see him being the number one guy just because the Titans, I think are going to give. Give it up to Devonta Freeman.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that's possible.

[Chris Meaney]

So.

[Jason Moore]

So confidence in Freeman. Sky high.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah. I mean, until further notice.

[Mike Wright]

How can it not be at this point?

[Jason Moore]

If you want to start a pass catcher, I'm going to put it in that category. If you're going to start a pass catcher, are you starting Walker or Wright.

[Mike Wright]

From Tennessee?

[Jason Moore]

That is correct.

[Mike Wright]

I would go with Wright. I mean, Wright has been heavily involved in the offense. He's kind of been up and down. But I guess the other question related to that is Zach Mettenberger or Mariota, who's going to be playing the quarterback position for the Titans?

[Chris Meaney]

It's a good question. Mariota is trying to be tough guy. If I was Ken Wizen Hunt, I would step in and say, sit down.

[Mike Wright]

Sit down, young man.

[Chris Meaney]

Sit down, young man and put Mettenberger in. I really hope it's Mettenberger for the sake of everyone involved. And if it is Mettenberger then to answer Andy's question, I like Delaney Walker. This is the third game in a row with one of my starts of the week. Who is Delaney Walker at the tight end position? He's been getting good targets. The defense for the Falcons has really not been able to cover the tight end at all. I think they're 26th against the tight end and Mettenberger loves using them.

[Jason Moore]

All right, the Oakland Raiders take off, they hop on a plane, they drive on a. Maybe they drive. They drive on an airplane, they drive on the expressway, they go down to San Diego and they take on the charges. Do you send in the car? Is he stream worthy in this game or not?

[Chris Meaney]

No. Well, streamworthy sure. But the San Diego pass defense is fantastic. They've been great this year. I think I heard a stat that the best yardage game for any wide receiver the entire year has been like 73 yards or something. Nobody's had more than that.

[Mike Wright]

So against the Chargers.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, against the Chargers their two corners are two of the best in the league. So that is. I love car this year. I like streaming car and I think because this game could be a high scoring affair, he is certainly a streaming option. He is out there. If you have to stream him, he's okay. But I wouldn't expect one of his big blow up games like he had against the Baltimore Ravens who stink and have no corners when you've got a team like San Diego. On the flip side because of the past defense of San Diego teams have been running on San Diego and I like your start of the week in Latavius Murray to bounce back, to not get pinched for the third game in a row and to actually have a fantastic week.

[Jason Moore]

I've got a very interesting question for you and I'm going to pose it to you. Mike Jason, jump in if you have a thought on this. You're, you know, there aren't a lot of tight ends you're super confident in starting. We know Gates is starting this week. Okay. He's our number one on all of our rankings list. But let me ask you this. Ladarius Green is still performing. Guess what rank he is right now on ESPN?

[Chris Meaney]

7.

[Jason Moore]

9 overall overall number nine tight end on the year last three weeks. Okay, 13. 7 and a half and 11 and a half point PPR league last week three for 35 and a touchdown. The week before against Pittsburgh five for 50. Nobody wants to start the perceived backup tight end. However, we've seen, albeit a while ago, Aaron Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski, a talented athletic type of guy being used in an offense like that. Rivers is throwing the ball 4,000 times.

[Chris Meaney]

A game and Keenan Allen might be out for this game.

[Jason Moore]

Would you start Ladarius Green over Jacob Tammy?

[Mike Wright]

Probably over Tammy. I think that Green's continued involvement is more related to. Stevie Johnson has been out the last couple games and he has returned to practice. Stevie Johnson is on track to play, so I'm not.

[Jason Moore]

So you start Benjamin Watson over Larry Screen.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

What about somebody like Larry Danelle?

[Mike Wright]

I would still go with the nil.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, I understand. I completely side of the first tight end on a team is probably why we shy away. But you know, you might get a game.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I completely agree because Philip Rivers it. Philip rivers may have 750 yards in this game.

[Jason Moore]

It's very possible he's just throwing the ball so much and they can't run.

[Mike Wright]

Their offensive line is not healthy. They. I think Franklin is back this week so that will help the run game for San Diego. But it's just as a whole it's been. It's been terrible. So that's why Philip Rivers has to throw.

[Jason Moore]

Mike made the point earlier in the week. Based on the bye weeks of Dalton and Rogers, there's a good chance that with Rivers with a good game, he's going to be listed number one on your Yahoo ESPN leagues at the quarterback position.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah. Let me. Let me throw out a name. If you are. If you have heavy bye week issues and if Keenan Allen is out like.

[Jason Moore]

Back to the future heavy or just like.

[Chris Meaney]

Okay, no, like real problems. I think that Malcolm Floyd is a very worthy flex. Especially if Keenan Allen is out. Malcolm Floyd.

[Jason Moore]

Well, yeah, if Allen's on board.

[Chris Meaney]

But even. Even without that he always has his career games come against the Raiders. He is. He has for I think the last two or three years just torn up the Raiders. You've got a great match up here. He's the guy that I think is going to be a really sneaky flex option. Kind of like a Robert woods. If you're looking and you've got a. One of those leagues that's. That's deep and you need.

[Jason Moore]

I've never given the proper amount of respect to Malcolm Floyd because I feel like he's one. He's like one year away from being what Colston is this year.

[Mike Wright]

He's just. Because he's so here and there.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Where you can at least the thing. The Thing you know you'll get from Floyd is at least one for 30 or so. He. He catches a bomb at least one per game. It's just, can he get you a touchdown or can he get you multiple catches?

[Jason Moore]

We made a mistake then with the Keenan Allen situation. We didn't update the Keenan Allen.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

And Antonio Gates. They both did miss practice and we left them off the list earlier. So apologies. Apologies might have something to do with the fact that we've been trying to get this show up. Yeah, but Gates will play.

[Chris Meaney]

Gates always misses practice and plays. That's just an age thing, I believe.

[Mike Wright]

Maybe there was a play. I saw it happen when he dinged up his knee towards the end of the game last week, and that's what he's been missing practice with.

[Jason Moore]

But, I mean, what do we think about Antonio or. I'm sorry about Keenan Allen because he's. He's a monster when he's in there. But he came off the field last week. Hip injury, not practicing. Some concern.

[Chris Meaney]

I worry about it. You know, the report that I read said plenty of optimism that he's going to play, but it's hard to be optimistic when he's not able to even be a limited participant in practice.

[Mike Wright]

Would you.

[Jason Moore]

Would you handcuff him with Malcolm Floyd? I mean, would that be a situation for the guy if you have Keenan Allen? You're starting Keenan Allen every week. So if you threw Floyd, I mean, would this be kind of like throwing Hankerson on your bench if you're a Julio owner?

[Chris Meaney]

I think it's exactly like that because this is not every week. I guess. So that's what makes it different. Hankerson against pretty much any team, I think is going to be okay if Julio goes. But in this matchup, Floyd is a great play. If.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Or Stevie J.

[Jason Moore]

We have to. We have to move on to the next game. However, Danny Woodhead or Gordon, who would you rather start?

[Mike Wright]

It's Woodhead for me.

[Jason Moore]

Crabtree or Cooper?

[Mike Wright]

Crabtree.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Cowboys at. Which is surprising, but I don't. You know the target numbers.

[Mike Wright]

And then Crabtree, I think Jason Verrett, he's the spectacular corner for the Chargers. I think he will be on Cooper.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, so play mitigation. Yeah. Cowboys face off against the Giants in New York. The Matt Castle era begins. The fanfare is just. I got my jersey. It's in the mail. It's on its way. They made one of them. Matt Castle makes his debut. We've got the Christine Michael experiment continuing in Dallas. You don't think you'd start him in any league format, do you?

[Mike Wright]

I have two leagues where just simply because of bye weeks and injuries where my bench is loaded up with guys that I cannot drop, my hand is being forced that I have to play him.

[Jason Moore]

You're just going for the gold.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And it's not a confidence, it's just a. I have really no other option unless I want to drop Michael and pick somebody up. But I don't want to do that now.

[Jason Moore]

Did you say you liked Rashad Jennings in this game?

[Mike Wright]

I do. I do like Rashad Jennings. This week the just they've, they've. Since a couple weeks ago there was this black ops report of oh, Rashad Jennings might be losing his job. Since that time he has just been great. He has been heavily involved in everything. Last week I really liked Shane Vereen in the Monday night game until Rashad Jennings was catching every single pass. So moving forward I have confidence in Jennings that he can be a like a low end RB2.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I mean he's most carries he had had all year last week, 13 carries, caught three passes. Like you said, he's actually caught two or more passes in every game since the first week of the year. So he kind of gives you that. You know, he's probably going to score you 8, 9 points at the minimum and maybe he breaks off a big run or something like that.

[Chris Meaney]

I kind of like and appreciate how they've used him slowly to start the year because we had been saying, you know, he's going to start with a bang and get injured because he's kind of an injury prone guy. But they brought in the third back and they've kind of used him sparingly. But now they need those wins and so I think it is time to really unleash Jennings and he could be a mighty fine play. The play I like the most in this game though is Jason Whitten. The Giants have a terrible past defense against tight ends. When the Cowboys played in the first time, granted that was a Romo led Cowboys, so it's very different. But I think, I think there were three touchdowns to the tight end in that game against the Giants.

[Jason Moore]

If you had to start Terrence Williams or Ruben Randall, would it be Williams?

[Mike Wright]

It would be Randall.

[Jason Moore]

Really?

[Mike Wright]

Yes. Okay.

[Jason Moore]

I'm willing to make that bet with you if you want it. I'd go Terence Williams.

[Mike Wright]

Let's do it.

[Chris Meaney]

All right.

[Andy Holloway]

Water bet.

[Mike Wright]

I just, I have no confidence in Matt Castle.

[Jason Moore]

I have enough confidence in the sheer mathematics. Yeah, you know, he probably down has to Throw a ball in air. Terrence Williams has chance to catch ball in air.

[Chris Meaney]

What is the minimum pass completions that Matt castle throws? Minute 15. Like what's the minimum?

[Mike Wright]

He could have.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, 10 to alter Darren McFadden.

[Mike Wright]

He could have 10.

[Jason Moore]

This is not a shoe. And I'm just going to go with Terrence Williams because they. I hope that they open the. They help. They realize they have to open it up a little bit and the Giants should be able to score a little bit. So they're at home. All right, Eagles going to Carolina to take on the Panthers in.

[Andy Holloway]

Andy's almost upset of the week.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you'd love me to say that I think the Philadelphia Eagles offense is ready to become the barn burning machine that it has been in the past. I do not. I believe that their defense is very underrated and I believe that Carolina cannot put up the points to win this game or to win it by more than a couple of points, which would make it the almost upset of the week. I think Philadelphia has a good shot here. The Panthers are undefeated and playing very well, but I just think the points. This is, this one sticks out to me as a chance for the Eagles to come out, play good defense, do enough on offense, make enough big plays, and we'll see.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, I might take the under.

[Jason Moore]

I'm back on a roll with the upset of the week. You know, I had a couple off weeks and then I've won a couple.

[Chris Meaney]

So, yeah, I think the under on this game's total points, it's a potential. You look at these guys, you got a lot of fantasy stars and you think, oh, this could be a really, you know, juicy game. But I also think this could be a low scoring affair because both defense has been playing good and you look at the Philadelphia Eagles and sometimes you're afraid to play a defense against them because of the potential. But here at home, I like Carolina as a defense against a guy that's throwing picks in the red zone every time he gets there.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Fantasy hitman is your player, your favorite player, Cam Newton in every week fantasy start in the NFL. Mvp.

[Mike Wright]

NFL mvp. No, not to me. Not to me. What?

[Chris Meaney]

No, I'm just disagreeing with Fargo.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, there is, there is. It's very polar arguments going on on Twitter of people crowning Newton and they're saying, oh, he's playing out of his mind. I just. He is playing very well and I do. I can agree that he's helping carry the team. I think the defense is carrying more than Cam Newton is and he just like with that Seattle game, the first three quarters, Newton wasn't really doing anything and I know, I know he won the game. So I'm not discrediting that, that he, that they marched down the field for the, for the final drive. It's just I'm not seeing a complete game. So I wouldn't MVP him at this point. As far as for fantasy. Yeah, he's, he's an every week starter.

[Jason Moore]

What about Sam Bradford this week? Would you start Sam Bradford against the Carolina D in Carolina or would you rather start Kirk Cousins against Tampa?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man. Michael Kirk Cousins.

[Chris Meaney]

Gross.

[Jason Moore]

Rough, right?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Bradford has looked. You know, the two things that Sam Bradford is known for in the NFL historically has been good accuracy, good decision making. Sam Bradford has shown neither this year. He looks like a deer in the headlights.

[Mike Wright]

I was waiting for the injury. If you talk about things that Sam Bradford is known for. Getting hurt.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Things that he's good at. That's the third one he is good at.

[Mike Wright]

Getting hurt. He has got it down to a science.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Have they figured DeMarco Murray out? Is DeMarco the guy now?

[Mike Wright]

It looks, the running game looks good.

[Jason Moore]

Public service announcements. Stop starting Darren Sprolls in your lineups. I've seen him in way too many lineups for weeks. I'm sure I'm going to say that. And he'll like return a punt and then he'll take a screen pass to the end zone and then I'll be like looking stupid. But stop starting him.

[Mike Wright]

He's.

[Jason Moore]

He's not in the mix enough to give you value. I'd rather start Matt Jones than I would Darren Sprouls. I'd rather start Alfred Morrison than Darren Sprouls.

[Chris Meaney]

I think they have figured it out with DeMarco Murray. He's, you know, there's a very different running scheme that the Eagles run than the Cowboys ran. Very, very different. Taking the ball out of a shotgun formation. But DeMarco's figuring that out and getting better at it. That being said, I don't expect a big week against the Carolina Panthers defense.

[Jason Moore]

All right. The Ravens face the Cardinals Monday Night Football. We will be there. We'll be at the game on Monday night in Arizona. We will preview this some more on Monday as well. However, this looks like a juicy offensive matchup for the Arizona Cardinals at home. Very high over. Under which you have to, you know, really attribute that to the Cardinals offense. Big game for downtown John Brown last week. 196 yards. I think the decision here we've. We've discussed this already. Is which wide receiver or which two wide receivers have big games in this game.

[Mike Wright]

I, for, for the Cardinals side, it would not, it would not shock me at all if all three of them have a solid day with Larry Fitz being the possession guy. John Brown is those, those big plays where he basically every time he catches the ball it's a 50 yard, 50 yard bomb.

[Jason Moore]

Sure seems that way.

[Mike Wright]

And Michael Floyd is kind of, he's always the forgotten man for the defense. So he just, he's, he's still a first round pick. He, he is a talented guy. And for, for everyone loving John Brown, which I'm. All aboard, John Brown, trust me. Michael Floyd popped his knuckles through his hand to start the year. So for him to have disappeared for the first couple.

[Jason Moore]

Not an expression.

[Chris Meaney]

That'S reality.

[Mike Wright]

For him to have started slow, that does not surprise me at all. And he's now, over the last few weeks he has gotten more involved. So I expect that trend to continue. I don't think he becomes the two, but I think he gets enough action to become a flex worthy guy.

[Chris Meaney]

I have Michael Floyd ranked at number 22 this week. I have John Brown at 5 and I have Larry Fitzgerald at 2.

[Jason Moore]

If you got an open bench spot, Floyd's a great flyer to stash on your bench. Just to see what happens.

[Mike Wright]

I would, I would play him. No, I straight play him this week.

[Chris Meaney]

I would as well. All three of those players aren't going to finish that high. But the point is there's going to be offense here in the wide receiver position at Arizona against that Baltimore secondary that doesn't really exist.

[Jason Moore]

Would you be dropping David Johnson at this point?

[Mike Wright]

No, no, no. The, the potential for David Johnson is still through the roof.

[Jason Moore]

You think?

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Even with the, the kind of three.

[Mike Wright]

Way situation, it would take an injury for him to fully unleash his potential.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, but for two injuries, probably, maybe.

[Chris Meaney]

So let me clarify because I think Mike and I are in the same position here. You don't drop David Johnson because you think, oh, we're done with him. But you would drop David Johnson if there was a better potential.

[Jason Moore]

Like would I drop David Abdullah right now? Don't you?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, because I just don't see the, I don't see the potential right now.

[Chris Meaney]

The difference is Amir Abdullah has had his opportunity, he's gotten the workload, he's been the starter and he stunk.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Chris Meaney]

With David Johnson, you're going. If someone goes down ahead of him or something like that, if he gets an opportunity, I don't think he'll stink.

[Jason Moore]

Okay so the Cardinals defense is obviously a great play this week at home against the kind of limited options in Baltimore. Now does Baltimore. They're having a terrible season. Do you start Steve Smith just because he's Steve Smith?

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, I do. Is there anybody else? You start there for set.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah. For set is he's an RB one.

[Jason Moore]

And Flacco you stay away from.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

He's secondary in Arizona.

[Mike Wright]

Right. And for the for how great the Cardinals defense is, it is possible to run on them. We, we have seen that. So I'm. I'm not afraid to start Justin for said it all this week.

[Jason Moore]

Before we talk to Chris Meaney, I want to just mention one thing. We didn't get to linger on the game from last night. The Seahawks took care of the 49ers. If you saw the highlight of the game, that was Colin Kaepernick hitting his trainer in the face with the football. Go ahead and YouTube that. But I will say, did you guys happen to catch the collision between the 49ers secondary and a 1 Jimmy Graham?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, when did you see that hit? When he made him drop the ball.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that play and seeing that in hyper slow motion just affirmed why I'm glad I'm not a football player.

[Chris Meaney]

Watching Jimmy Graham, I mean he's such a big guy. I know his face through the helmet. When the shoulder went into his heart.

[Jason Moore]

It was like a crash test dummy.

[Chris Meaney]

Oh my goodness.

[Jason Moore]

And it was a clean hit. It was a great hit.

[Chris Meaney]

Beautiful defense.

[Mike Wright]

Jimmy Graham truther. That was a delicious mashup for Jimmy Graham.

[Jason Moore]

It just really shows to me that Jason is right about his every other week potential type of situation. Where what was interesting too is they feel like they had 400 carries on the goal line on the first drive. Like they kept trying over and over again. They didn't run any plays to Jimmy in that situation. Lynch had a really good game. He looks like he's completely fine and back and so let's go ahead and talk to Chris meaning I will say.

[Mike Wright]

Jimmy Graham's first catch was spectacular where it was just a seam route up the middle in traffic. I mean there was great throw, great catch, but the volume is just not there.

[Jason Moore]

He's not getting any smaller. He's still going to be a mismatch.

[Mike Wright]

The problem with a guy like Jimmy Graham is if you want his big weeks, you are going to have to play him every single week and just live with this crap that he gives you of catches.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, let's Be honest. We just said Ladarius Green is the number nine tight end. You get crap from almost all tight end.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

But I'm saying, even if it's giving.

[Jason Moore]

You the three, you know, Mike Evans.

[Chris Meaney]

Mike Evans to me is a guy that you've got to every week to get those big weeks. But you don't have to play him every week because he's a wide receiver and there's other options at tight end. You know, I would, I would be much happier rolling Jimmy Graham.

[Mike Wright]

It's more of. More of a statement of saying like, oh, this looks like a great matchup.

[Jason Moore]

It doesn't necessarily come to fruition.

[Mike Wright]

Exactly.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. No, it's fair. And they won the game going away and he wasn't involved. So let's go ahead and spend some time talking daily fantasy sports with our good friend, Mr. Chris Meaney.

[Andy Holloway]

The Daily Dose.

[Mike Wright]

The fantasy footballers are joined once again by daily fantasy expert Chris Meaney. What is going on? Chris, how are you doing today?

[Chris Meaney]

Good.

[Jason Moore]

Guys.

[Chris Meaney]

Always a pleasure to join you guys. I love seeing you on the Fantasy Sports Network every day. One of my favorite shows in the program, actually. Well done, all you guys.

[Jason Moore]

We appreciate that. And we can stop calling you the Gary Barnage guy because you're now the Stefan Diggs guy. Nice job last week.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, he seemed to be okay again. It was funny because Bridgewater, I like him again this week. Nine targets to Wallace, nine targets to Diggs. But it was Diggs who's catching. Unfortunately, Bridgewater, you just can't throw touchdowns. It's only three on the year, which is discouraging. But again, Diggs is a nice price. 58 against Detroit.

[Mike Wright]

And I will agree with one thing you just said that I love seeing myself on your network as well.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, you guys are good, man. Everyone around the network loves to watch.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, man, we really appreciate that. So let's get into the DFS for the Foot Clan. Let's start at the topic we always do. Who are the big budget guys that you are spending the cash on this week?

[Chris Meaney]

Well, Andrew Luck, I think, is certainly somebody that you could spend on 8, 9. I guess he's been somewhat of a disappointment this season, but he's going up against the Saints. They've allowed the second most fantasy points to quarterbacks this season and a lot of yards through the year. I'm going a couple a few hundred dollars cheaper with Carson Palmer at 8:2. I really love the matchup against Baltimore. He's just been a really safe quarterback this year, averaging 20.2 fandom points per game, which the fifth best among quarterbacks going this week, of course. Brady is 25.5. He's got a tough matchup against the Jets. I really think it's a tough matchup. I'm fading everybody in that New England offense actually, especially Edelman. I think Revis will be paired up against him. I love Palmer. Baltimore has allowed the fifth most yards in in the air to quarterbacks and the most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks as well. So I just think that's a really nice matchup. Even like FanDuel aside, he's my number one ranked quarterback this week, so I love that. And I'm paying for Antonio Gates and I feel like he's going to be heavily owned in a lot of contests and sometimes a lot of people want to fade. You know, I don't want to own this guy because a lot of people are going to own him or they're going to own him, but I'm not worried about that at all. I mean, 18 catches in two games. You just see picked up exactly where he left off last year with double digit touchdowns too. So I love Gates. And again, you know, the reason why we like Varnish, you know, a few weeks ago was because he was going against Oakland and he. This is a terrific matchup against the Raiders who have struggled to cover tight ends.

[Mike Wright]

All right, so let's talk some value guys. Do you got another Stefon Diggs in you? Can you do it again?

[Chris Meaney]

Again? If you want to stack, I know Fitzgerald's been the guy. Brown had a guy have a week last week. If you want to go a little bit cheaper. Michael Floyd at 49 against Baltimore, it's a cheaper stack. It's just really tough to pick a wide out in that offense. I love Michael Crabtree this week at 59 against San Diego. San Diego is a team that has struggled against the run. So Murray might be a nice option as well. But Verrett is an elite corner and I think he's going to be on Cooper. And that leaves Michael Crabtree 48 targets. Eight targets in every single game but one. In that one game he was bothered by an ankle injury. He was sidelined for a little bit of that game. Pro Football Focus said that Crabtree was the seventh best wide out through five weeks. And you know what, there's been a lot of talk after the buyers that they want to get him more invol and that he's actually been excellent. So 48 targets is really, really nice for Crabtree. So I like Crabtree. I also like Stefan Diggs again too. A couple running backs, maybe some cheaper options. I'm staying away from Christine. Michael. I don't understand all the love with Michael. I think we all want him to be good and I, and I do want him to be good. But I mean, this guy is the most snaps in a game is 17. Most rushing attempts in the game is nine. I think it's going to take some time. I like McFadden. You got to remember that McFadden is kind of taking over this Dunbar role and you get half a point for a reception. This guy had nine catches a couple weeks ago against New England. So if he can be involved in the passing game and if he could get nine to 10 catches again, you're looking at a few points that way and maybe, just maybe he can find the end zone. A couple other guys that I really like that are not cheap, cheap, cheap, but certainly not. They're not going to break the bank. I love Doug Martin 7:2 against Washington. You saw Chris Ivory at 146 yards against him on the ground. The week before that, Freeman, 153 yards against him on the ground. So I love Doug Martin at 7:2 and I think Todd Gurley at 7:4. I mentioned San Diego can't stop the run. 5.4 yards per carry, the most in the NFL. So Todd Gurley at 7:4 is another cheap price. I think this guy eventually is going to be one of the top backs in all of, you know, pricing and fanduel.

[Mike Wright]

And how are you feeling on defenses? Do you have any guys that you really are leaning towards? Any squads?

[Chris Meaney]

I love the Rams. They're my number one defense this week too. Four, five, you know, going up against McCowan, who I don't think is all that good. We talked about McCown getting 300 yards, you know, back to back weeks. You know, last week they went up again. He went up against a tough defense in Denver, but again he had 300 plus yards against Baltimore, which makes me love Palmer even more. I just like the Rams. I love that front seven. I just think it's really, really nice. Great line in St. Louis. So. Yeah, and that's not the most expensive defense too, so that's one of the cheaper options. That and I'm also kind of fading Cam Newton this week because there seems to be so much love on this guy. Yes, he had the fourth quarter drive, the touchdown to win the game in, in Seattle. But last year against Philadelphia, three picks, five turnovers. That Eagles defense is starting to Come together. We thought the Eagles offense is going to be spectacular. It's not. It's the defense. It's been okay. Eight sacks is not among the leaders, but eight sacks, eight fumble recoveries, nine picks are just opportunistic. It can make things happen. So I'm kind of fading, Cam, where I think I'll actually. A lot of people will play this guy.

[Mike Wright]

That's some fantastic stuff, as always from Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network up there running a DFS show. Where can people find you on Twitter, Chris?

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, at ChrisMeny C H R I S M E N E Y you guys, anybody have any questions, they can certainly fire away, and I'll be around to answer them. I will say this. If Mettenberger plays this week, play him. Why not 5, 9 against Atlanta? They could be down. That could be a sneaky little play.

[Mike Wright]

We like it. And we kind of like Mettenberger as well. So thank you, Chris. We'll speak to you next week, my friend.

[Chris Meaney]

Pleasure as always, guys. Enjoy the football and good luck this weekend.

[Jason Moore]

All right, thanks to Chris again for joining us. Always good insight on the daily fantasy game.

[Mike Wright]

He's the meanest.

[Chris Meaney]

You know, there has not been.

[Jason Moore]

He's the mean man.

[Chris Meaney]

There has not been a week that's gone by without people messaging me saying, oh, thanks for. Thanks for your tip. I won several hundred dollars, so.

[Jason Moore]

And you take credit for Chris. You're like, that was me.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, well, he's on our show.

[Mike Wright]

We brought him on the show.

[Chris Meaney]

They're messaging me.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we're gonna.

[Chris Meaney]

I'm not soliciting them. Say, do you win. Do you win money this week? Did you win money this week?

[Jason Moore]

Hey, let's go ahead and go and get into the mailbag. Answer some questions from the foot clan. It's been a while since I said it. If you have a question of your own, go to the website thefantasyfootballers.com Click on the submit a question button. It's really easy. Also, right above that button, there's this blue button that says shirts, and it has the back to the future shirt in there, which is only available for six more days. And then it's gone. It's gone. And you'll have to go back in time to be able to get it because it won't be available.

[Mike Wright]

And good luck with that.

[Jason Moore]

Good luck with that sucker. Wait, is that how you sell a shirt? Call them all suckers?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. They work.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It's a good shirt, though. All right. You can also leave us a voicemail question 302464 TFFB. Let's go ahead and get into the mailbag.

[Andy Holloway]

Mailbag.

[Jason Moore]

That was nice, Mike. And I am so sleep deprived from having two sick children right now that I couldn't remember if I had already hit the mailbag button and whether we were just redundantly mailbagging. But I figure twice the singing is better than none, so debatable.

[Chris Meaney]

But it was only one, so we're okay.

[Mike Wright]

We should bump that to thrice.

[Jason Moore]

All right. We've got a friend in New York City.

[Mike Wright]

New York City.

[Jason Moore]

Aiden wants to know. Listen, he. He's facing a predicament in their league, and they need a credible professional opinion. However, those weren't available, so they emailed us. Needs to pursue action with the league. This trade was recently offered and accepted. You ready for this? Eli Manning, Jordan Matthews, Theo Riddick, Ronnie Hillman traded for Joe Flacco, Joe Flaco, LaShawn McCoy and Gio Bernard after weeks. Here's the tidbit that needs to be paid attention to. These trade partners are currently dating. Is this collusion? Does it smell like collusion? I have my thoughts. I want to hear yours first.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, so let's.

[Chris Meaney]

I have my thoughts. One of the things we didn't read in parentheses after Theo Riddick and Ronnie Hillman, it says both RBs obtained off of waivers.

[Mike Wright]

To me, that doesn't.

[Chris Meaney]

Well, the point that I want to bring up, because he said that it.

[Jason Moore]

Could be done to make it look better than it was.

[Chris Meaney]

Well, I'm saying that that's irrelevant. I can't stand when people are like, you just got this guy off waivers. It's like if they're valuable. Yeah, they're valuable. It doesn't matter if you just got them off waivers. If you get chuckandrick west and trade him immediately, it doesn't matter that he was on waiters.

[Mike Wright]

We need like some. Some crime music going on. Like, oh, yeah, we need. That's James Bond.

[Jason Moore]

It's good.

[Mike Wright]

He's a. Oh, I was gonna go with.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, I like that better. That's why you're the music guy.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, so let's break this trade down. Clearly you want Eli Manning, but. So that the quarterback is an upgrade. But you're trading then LaShawn McCoy and Ju Bernard for Matthews, Riddick and Hillman for a. I want to know what. I would like to know what the records of these teams are.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, this is not to me. I know they're dating. It's not over the top enough to where I Just fire off the alarms. And we're were worried about the collusion, but the records matter a little bit. I think you have to. He wants a definitive opinion on this. If it's me, it's not vetoable.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, me either. It's not. It's close enough. I mean, if. If those were his two starting running backs, right? Like, if. If LaShawn McCoy and Gio and you had nothing behind him and you're just getting rid of all of your starters, then I still don't know if the trade is vetoable, but you might be able to be like, hey, guy, you got to listen to the fantasy footballers or get out of my league because you don't know what you're doing.

[Jason Moore]

This is basically shady. And Bernard for Jordan Matthews and Hillman. Hillman still has value and Eli.

[Chris Meaney]

And Eli Manning.

[Jason Moore]

So, yeah, I mean, it's fine. It's fine.

[Mike Wright]

It's. It's. It's pretty.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, they should probably break up if they want to continue playing in.

[Chris Meaney]

The league, but no dating policy is in every one of my leagues.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, well, you know. All right, let's hit the voicemail question. Let's answer this one from a friend of the show. Oh, you know what? We can't.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, it's broken.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I tried to play it and it's not playing. Sorry.

[Mike Wright]

Friend of the show.

[Jason Moore]

Well, it's Friday. You know, all the machines start to shut down around here.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, they really have.

[Jason Moore]

And for some reason today things are just not going normal. So let's move on to Caleb in Columbus. Is it against the unwritten rules of fantasy football to not play a kicker in my lineup for one week while my starter is on? Bye. He's 6014 team league too deep to drop somebody. No.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah, I can.

[Jason Moore]

I think that's fine right now.

[Mike Wright]

McManus. That's who they have.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Chris Meaney]

This week I am personally in one of my leagues. I picked up McManus. I actually picked him up on by and don't have a kicker playing, which I would. I would say is generally fantasy faux pas. You want. If you've got anybody that you can drop, do it to put a kicker in there. If you want to stash McManus, okay, definitely Guskowski and no other kicker in the league, that's fine. But if you're 5 and 0 or 6 and oh. Or if your team, like right now, this. I've got AJ Green, Gio Bernard, Matt Forte, Andy Dalton and Brian McManus on a buy, and I've got five bench spots so, yeah, I'm not going to roll a kicker this week. And my starting lineup has Ahmad Bradshaw and Isaiah Crowell and Des Bryant, so. And that's a league that I'm five and one in. You gotta punt a week sometimes.

[Jason Moore]

Well, okay, that's the question, though. Unwritten rules. You don't punt. That's the thing. You don't punt the week. You cannot start a kicker. But if you punt the week, you are, in my opinion, breaking every rule in fantasy football. You need to be competitive. You don't punt the victory. I think you were just misspeaking.

[Chris Meaney]

Well, yes and no. Because here's the truth. I cannot win this week with this line.

[Jason Moore]

Sure you can. You put the best players out there that you can and maybe things bounce the right way. It happens all the time.

[Chris Meaney]

I am trying to win.

[Jason Moore]

That's all I'm saying.

[Chris Meaney]

Yes, I am trying to win. Absolutely.

[Jason Moore]

His concern is he's going to be, and I quote, stuck with a butt cheeks kicker.

[Chris Meaney]

Here's, here's the difference. If you're, if you're a 2 and 3 team, a 3 and 3 team and you're doing something like that, shame on you. And fix it. Try. You have to win. You have to win now. So if you need to drop Brian McManus to get another kicker, then you.

[Jason Moore]

What about Brandon McManus or him?

[Chris Meaney]

You can drop either and pick up a kicker and, and play him. But, but if you're six brothers, you are playing for the, you're playing to win the year, not the week.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, I essentially, I say it's not against the unwritten rules. We haven't let Mike speak though.

[Mike Wright]

I completely disagree with you that I would play no kicker if I'm six zero and for Jason's team. It's in Jason's team's best interest to punt this week. If he, he cannot drop any of those players.

[Jason Moore]

Well, how do you disagree with me then?

[Mike Wright]

Because you're saying you can't punt.

[Jason Moore]

What I said is you can't punt a victory. Your mentality cannot be, I'm going to lose this week, try to lose this week.

[Mike Wright]

No, he knows that's what I consider.

[Jason Moore]

To be kind of like against the integrity of the league.

[Mike Wright]

He's not trying to lose, but he is setting his team up for.

[Jason Moore]

That's fine. That's what I'm saying.

[Mike Wright]

By not having a kicker.

[Jason Moore]

I said you're not breaking the rules by benching the kicker position. I'm saying you're breaking the rules. If you're basically throwing Trash out there and making no effort to win, you disrupt the integrity of the league.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I feel like these are two separate issues. I have something that.

[Jason Moore]

Well, when he said punt the week, that's why I took issue with it. Oh, if he means the position, that's fine.

[Mike Wright]

It's what I think is kind of somewhat similar. Let's see what you guys think. I have an extremely strong and deep team in my other main league, and I doubt it. And so. And that was the league. And I just grabbed Jordan Reed really quickly, and I had to drop my defense. And then I saw on the waiver wire, and I'm going up against. Which is of great personal joy to me. I'm going up against one of my best friends whose team sucks. And I. I am a heavy favorite in that. In that game. But on the waiver wire were the New York Jets. So I have chosen to pick up and play the jets even though it will be a detriment to my team this week because I feel like I'm so strong everywhere else that I can still win even with a bad performance from the jets because I am set.

[Jason Moore]

Up for future perfectly fine. Because you've thought about it.

[Mike Wright]

I think about it.

[Jason Moore]

Trying to be strategic, and that's fine. And you're not trying to disrupt the league, and you'll probably still win. All right, Scott. Hey, guys. Am I crazy to think that John Brown is the best PPR receiver in Arizona rest of season? Yes, you are.

[Mike Wright]

Yep. Yep.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it's Larry Fitzgerald.

[Chris Meaney]

The number one target is going to be the best.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, Larry.

[Chris Meaney]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

Larry is the underneath. Larry's the slot. John Brown had a really good week last week. Don't chase. 196 yards ever.

[Mike Wright]

And Larry is. Larry's the red zone guy.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Lucas in San Paolo, Brazil. This is like the second San Paulo email. Are we huge in Brazil and I don't know about it?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, huge.

[Jason Moore]

All right, somebody fly us out to Brazil right now. I'm gonna confirm this. Hey, guys, who's the best start for this week? Michael Floyd, Stefan Diggs and Robert Woods. Should you start any of them? Over Brandon Cooks.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man. Over Brandon Cooks. One of these guys. I do not mind. It Cooks has been a stinky cheese, which. Not a delicious stinky cheese. A stinky cheese that you do not want to eat. I love Michael Floyd this week because I just think the Cardinals are going to put up so many points.

[Jason Moore]

That is a bold play.

[Chris Meaney]

I actually think if you want the highest potential, you go Michael Floyd. If you want the most guarantee I'm probably going to Robert Woods.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Let me give you a comparison that I think is spot on for Mr. Brandon Cooks. And it's unfortunate career arc situation. Career type player. Tavon Austin.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Is that agreement?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, I undersized, looks too small on the field, makes some plays with his legs really fast, big bombs over the top, very inconsistent.

[Chris Meaney]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Not a go to guy.

[Chris Meaney]

If Tavon Austin, I would agree. But you got to keep in mind that it's okay. It's Tavon Austin getting passes from Drew Brees, which is very different than what.

[Jason Moore]

Tavon Austin current context completely agree with you, Nate. In big money Texas.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, big money.

[Jason Moore]

If Keenan Allen does not play, does Malcolm Floyd's value increase enough to start him over? Stefon Diggs, we just talked about that.

[Chris Meaney]

I would say yes.

[Jason Moore]

I would agree. I would say it does increase enough to start him over. Stuff on Diggs. I do love Stefan diggs. I think 5 for 50 ppr situation. Fine with Diggs digging it. You notice Joe on gave us that beautiful pun.

[Mike Wright]

He did.

[Jason Moore]

It was while he was on a spaceship.

[Chris Meaney]

It was one believe ball, bump, bump, dump, dump, dump. What?

[Jason Moore]

It's okay. It's okay. It's. You know, we got the weekend to recharge the batteries.

[Chris Meaney]

We're at the end of the show.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I'm sure Juan can craft some concoction that'll make Jason never do that again. All right. Don't forget, check out the Great Scott T shirt, the back to the future T shirt on the website. We're having fun with that. You will catch us after week seven on Monday morning. We'll be priming for the Monday night game where we'll be heading out to watch the Cardinals face the Ravens.

[Chris Meaney]

If you're.

[Mike Wright]

If you're going to be at the game on Monday, shoot us a Twitter message.

[Jason Moore]

Let us know. That'd be awesome to have you buy us, you know, some food. All right. Check us out on Twitterffballers. Like Mike said. You can reach out to us there. The fantasy footballers dot com. We're also on Facebook. Like us on Facebook, we're on YouTube, we're on Instagram, we're on the fantasy sports network and we're in your pocket on itunes. So if you like us, if you want to support the show, one of the easiest ways to do that is clickety click on your phone. Leave us a review on itunes. We really appreciate them. We thank you so much for listening to the show each and every week and we are excited to see what happens in week number seven, Man.

[Mike Wright]

Week seven.

[Jason Moore]

I know.

[Mike Wright]

That kind of sucks, man. We're almost done with football.

[Jason Moore]

No, we're not.

[Mike Wright]

Goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

Not even halfway.

[Andy Holloway]

Thank you for listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Don't forget to visit us on the web at www.thefantasyfootballers.com and follow us on Twitter the FFballers.