Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 5 Matchups, Daily Dose, In-or-Out

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast - Week 5 Summary Episode: Week 5 Matchups, Daily Dose, In-or-Out Release Date: October 7, 2016

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1. Introduction and Community Engagement

The episode kicks off with Andy Holloway expressing gratitude to the listeners and promoting their fantasy football community at jointhefoot.com. He highlights the benefits of joining, including exclusive shows, giveaways, flex rankings, and premium projections. Jason Moore and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright join in the banter, setting an engaging and friendly tone for the episode.

Andy Holloway [00:00]: "We have the best fantasy football community as part of this show... the best fantasy football community in the world."

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2. Review of Week 4 Highlights

The hosts delve into last night's games, particularly focusing on David Johnson's standout performance with the Arizona Cardinals. Despite a challenging start for the Cardinals and their opponent, the San Francisco 49ers, Johnson emerged as a fantasy football savior.

Jason Moore [04:07]: "19 carries for David Johnson last night... 157 yards on the ground, had another three catches, 185 yards total, two touchdowns."

Andy Holloway praises Johnson's dominance, noting his resilience and importance to fantasy teams:

Andy Holloway [05:05]: "Both guards went down, which is something we should monitor for moving forward."

The discussion also covers Larry Fitzgerald's impressive game despite quarterback Drew Stanton's struggles, emphasizing Fitzgerald's reliability as a fantasy asset.

Mike Wright [05:56]: "Larry Fitzgerald succeeded in spite of Drew Stanton playing horrifically."

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3. News and Updates

Jason Moore leads the news segment, addressing the impact of Hurricane Matthew on the Miami vs. Tennessee game, with both teams preparing to play in Miami. The uncertainty around Cam Newton’s participation due to injury is also discussed, along with potential adjustments in quarterback strategies.

Jason Moore [08:11]: "The Dolphins are preparing as if the game is happening as is."

The hosts provide updates on various players' injury statuses, including Matt Forte, Carlos Williams, and Dez Bryant, advising listeners on who to start or bench based on current health reports.

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4. In-or-Out Segment

In the "In-or-Out" segment, the hosts evaluate players' statuses for the upcoming games:

• Matt Forte is confirmed to play after negative X-rays for his injuries.
• Charles Sims is uncertain but likely to start due to his workload in recent games.
• Dez Bryant is assessed as out based on practice reports.
• Julian Edelman is tentatively in, with concerns about his recent performance.
• Stefan Diggs and Eddie Royal are discussed with varying degrees of uncertainty.

Mike Wright [09:01]: "Cam Newton out."

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5. Matchup Analyses

a. Jets vs. Steelers

The hosts analyze the challenging matchup between the Jets and Steelers, considering quarterback performances and defensive strengths. Matt Ryan is a focal point, with different opinions on whether to start him or opt for alternatives like Joe Flacco.

Jason Moore [23:06]: "Anderson can succeed. His yardage totals have been tremendous."

Andy Holloway and Mike Wright debate the merits of starting Matt Ryan versus other quarterbacks, weighing the Steelers' strong pass defense against Ryan's potential ceiling.

b. Bengals vs. Cowboys

Discussion revolves around Dak Prescott as a streaming quarterback option against Ezekiel Elliott's consistent performance. The hosts debate whether to start Prescott or stick with established running backs.

Jason Moore [30:18]: "You can stream Dak Prescott this week?"

Mike Wright and Andy Holloway share strategies on exploiting matchup advantages and player efficiencies.

c. Bills vs. Rams

The Bills' offense under pressure against the Rams' defense is analyzed. The focus is on whether to start key running backs like C.W. McCutchen and Todd Gurley based on defensive vulnerabilities.

Andy Holloway [33:40]: "I'm going to start McCoy and Gurley."

d. Chargers vs. Raiders

The clash between the Chargers and Raiders is dissected, highlighting defensive strengths and running back opportunities. Potential value plays like DeAndre Washington are examined.

Mike Wright [37:09]: "DeAndre Washington has upside but also downside if Jalen Richard steps up."

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6. Daily Dose: DFS Picks with Ben Cummins

Ben Cummins, a staff writer from fantasyfootballers.com, joins the hosts to provide Daily Dose insights tailored for Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) participants.

a. Quarterback Recommendations

• Tom Brady: Despite a drop in pass attempts, Brady is a viable option given the Patriots are favored by 10 points, aligning with his historical performance.

  Ben Cummins [49:42]: "Tom Brady is definitely in play. Over his entire career, Brady has averaged 35 pass attempts in games where they've been favored by 10 or more points."

• Aaron Rodgers: High upside at home, especially with defensive injuries on the Packers' side.

• Eli Manning: Strong against a Packers' pass defense struggling this season.

• Derek Carr: Noted as a top-tier option against a Chargers' defense allowing the 6th most pass yards.

b. Running Back Recommendations

• Le'Veon Bell: Highlighted as the best running back option, consistently handling a high volume of touches.

  Ben Cummins [52:18]: "Le'Veon Bell is always in play. He's the best running back in the NFL."

• DeMarco Murray: Increased usage makes him a solid pick against the Dolphins' stout run defense.

• Melvin Gordon: Emphasized for his volume and involvement in the Chargers' offense.

c. Wide Receiver Recommendations

• Odell Beckham Jr.: Reiterated as a premium GPP (Guaranteed Prize Pool) play due to his high target share despite price concerns.

  Ben Cummins [55:21]: "Odell Beckham is an elite GPP play."

• Brandon Marshall and Amari Cooper: Identified as high-upside options in pass-heavy matchups.

d. Tight End and Defense Recommendations

• Zach Ertz and Will Tyler: Recommended for their favorable matchups against defenses vulnerable to tight ends.

• Broncos Defense and Vikings Defense: Suggested as affordable yet high-potential defensive plays based on opponents' offensive struggles.

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7. Shoutouts and Community Highlights

The hosts commend listeners like Owen and his family for their engagement with the fantasy football community, recognizing how fantasy football has positively impacted their lives during tough times.

Jason Moore [59:00]: "They said that fantasy football has been part of getting them through some difficult things."

Additionally, giveaways and sponsorship acknowledgments are mentioned, encouraging listeners to participate for prizes and check out sponsors for exclusive offers.

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8. Closing Remarks

The episode concludes with a recap of key takeaways from the week, emphasizing the importance of monitoring player statuses, leveraging community resources, and making informed decisions based on matchup analyses and DFS strategies. The hosts encourage listeners to join their community for continued support and insights.

Andy Holloway [60:19]: "Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Andy Holloway [00:00]: "We have the best fantasy football community as part of this show."
• Jason Moore [04:07]: "19 carries for David Johnson last night... 157 yards on the ground, had another three catches, 185 yards total, two touchdowns."
• Mike Wright [05:56]: "Larry Fitzgerald succeeded in spite of Drew Stanton playing horrifically."
• Andy Holloway [43:27]: "You do not play a running back from the Giants if you're in an absolute pinch."
• Ben Cummins [55:31]: "If you look at his first four weeks, he's actually had pretty similar stats."

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Conclusion

This Week 5 episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast offers a comprehensive analysis of recent NFL games, player performances, injury updates, and strategic recommendations for both fantasy league managers and DFS participants. With expert insights from Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, and guest Ben Cummins, listeners are well-equipped to navigate their fantasy football decisions for the upcoming weekend.

For more detailed analyses and resources, visit jointhefoot.com and follow the Fantasy Footballers on Twitter @theFFballers.

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, we just wanted to thank everyone that supports us. [e-mail] we have the best fantasy football community as part of this show. A huge thank you. Look, if you're a fan of this show, you're not over there yet. Go to jointhefoot.com There are so many things that we do over there, like an extra weekly mailbag show for just the foot clan over there, Monthly giveaways, flex rankings, premium projections. It's so much good stuff. So thank you for helping and supporting the show. Please, please. If you like it, go check out jointhefoot.com the best fantasy football community in the world. Hey, this is David Johnson, running back of the Arizona Cardinals, and you're listening.

[Jason Moore]

To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast coming to you from the fantasyjocks.com studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Rice.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yee haw.

[Mike Wright]

I've not come down yet.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, my goodness.

[Mike Wright]

I'm on the clouds. William Wallace has Cloud 9.

[Jason Moore]

Did you knock William Wallace down again?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Where is he? I don't know.

[Mike Wright]

He's gone. You don't understand.

[Jason Moore]

How do you do that? All right? Nobody knows what we're talking about. Welcome to the show. The fancy footballers back again. I'm gonna be honest with you guys. Last night, every single Thursday night, sometimes I got things going on. So I get to watch the first half of the game. I record the second half and I go back and I watch the second half. First half was so darn boring. I cheated. I said, you know, I'm just gonna look on my phone. I'm gonna break the silence. There's no way this game got exciting. I'd rather just not sit through it. And it was like 3114 cardinals. And I was like, oh, stuff happened.

[Mike Wright]

I forced myself to watch it.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, I watched every inglorious minute of.

[Jason Moore]

It in Glorious minute. Yeah, yeah, we're going to get into that in just a minute. Welcome to the podcast. We're here. It's the Fantasy Footballers. We're back. It's Friday and week five is upon us. We're going to catch you up on everything you could possibly need to know for this weekend, including going through the rest of the matchups. And we've got our Daily Dose segment today. Ben Cummins. Ben Cummins from our website.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Staff writer, the Ben Cummins going to share some DFS picks towards the end of the show today. What else do we have going on? We got all the news.

[Andy Holloway]

It's a. Hey, you know what? Today is. Yeah, it's a Foot Clan Friday. We're giving away. We are giving away a couple gift certificates.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. A couple $40 things for shopballers.com.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So you guys can get some free shirts or mugs perhaps.

[Jason Moore]

Whatever. Whatever you want.

[Mike Wright]

You are very confident.

[Jason Moore]

We already. These are just members of jointhefoot.com that we're gonna randomly select every Friday. However, we forgot last Friday. So we've got two names today. Yeah, two names for Foot Clan Friday winners. Mark Folds. Mark Folds. Congratulations. And James Vetters. Is that right? James Vetters or is he the one that. That's right, yeah. Mark Folds. James Vetters. Congratulations.

[Mike Wright]

I wonder if that's Eddie's brother.

[Jason Moore]

Probably not. Probably not.

[Mike Wright]

You're always thinking better, man.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. So I guess we want to review last night's game.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. So, I mean, started off a little bit rough. Of course.

[Jason Moore]

No, let it ride.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. So it was pretty nasty there at the beginning for Drew Stanton and the Arizona Cardinals. It was equally as rough for the San Francisco 49ers. But there was one shining beacon of.

[Jason Moore]

Hope for the fantasy world.

[Mike Wright]

Fantasy world and my.

[Jason Moore]

The Cardinals.

[Mike Wright]

My Twitter was bombarded. I could see nothing but music notes. But I was very excited about it.

[Andy Holloway]

David Johnson. David Johnson. Oh, man, monster games. He is good. I was listening.

[Jason Moore]

The dreams come true.

[Andy Holloway]

I was listening for this show interview with him this morning. And him in his kind hearted, nice way that he speaks, he just said, basically he said he felt invincible out there. He's like, yeah, I just felt like I couldn't do anything wrong.

[Mike Wright]

It was glorious on Twitter to see. There was. I saw quite a few non believers of David Johnson's talent. Said, I think I got to come around now. The guy is very good.

[Jason Moore]

Thursday Night football can do that. You know, when we set our pre draft rankings, it was not based on the fact that we're from Arizona. It was based on the fact that you can see what you can see on the tape. 27 carries for David Johnson last night.

[Mike Wright]

And he didn't even have to do it through the air.

[Jason Moore]

157 yards on the ground, had another three catches, 185 yards total, two touchdowns, and was going up against the defense that knew what was coming the entire game.

[Andy Holloway]

And he was doing it in the second half of the game without either starting guard.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

So both guards went down, which is something we should monitor for moving forward.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

I offered a lot for David Johnson yesterday morning in our league of record and I was turned down. I offered like C.J. anderson and Doug Baldwin and a pick and DeAndre Washington. And he said, no, he looks like a smart, smart man. Because there are certain players that can win you your fantasy leagues. Lev Bell, David Johnson, you know, Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, some of these guys that can just week in and week out, you get 10 extra points.

[Mike Wright]

Right. And we had talked about, you know, there was just no confidence in anybody in this game. So for those of you, I mean, you. You bench Larry.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, I benched Larry.

[Jason Moore]

You.

[Mike Wright]

I still think you. The result was incorrect, but Larry Fitzgerald succeeded in. In spite of Drew Stanton playing horrifically. Drew Stanton had 11 completions for 124.

[Jason Moore]

Yards out of 28.

[Mike Wright]

It just happened that all of that went to Larry Fitzgerald and Jeremy Curley. Jeremy Curley, number one is.

[Andy Holloway]

We have to pay attention to him.

[Mike Wright]

You have to consider him a flex start every week.

[Andy Holloway]

He has three of five weeks now where he has been a valuable fantasy wide receiver. You know, remember Matt Harmon before the season, the love that he had for Bruce Ellington and that same role in this offense, now that we've seen it three out of five, I definitely think Curly, so long as, you know, Blaine Gabbard stays the quarterback should be a flex consideration.

[Jason Moore]

Let's talk about that. And by the way, Carlos Hyde had a very good game.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, of course.

[Jason Moore]

Over 100 yards again in total offense. And does Colin Kaepernick find his way to the field? Because what's happening is I think Colin Kaepernick's not the same player he was, and Blaine Gabbard isn't the player you want. And so the problem is.

[Andy Holloway]

And Blaine Gabbard is the player he's been.

[Jason Moore]

Now, Blaine Gabbard, despite all odds, had a very good fantasy day because he ran for like 70 yards. Yeah, he was 10 for 70 and a touchdown on the ground. I mean, that's like a nice running back day, which is good because he wasn't really a quarterback.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, the Cardinals. And this is. This is worth knowing or paying attention to going forward. The Cardinals have been really atrocious with running quarterbacks. We saw that with Tyrod Taylor just destroying the Cardinals defense. So the next time they come up against a running quarterback, need to give them pump. Pump up their yards on the.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you're right. So let's go ahead. We're going to move on to the news. Sure. That was a question, apparently. Reminder, everybody, Mike on Sunday, like he always does, he'll be on Periscope answering questions before the game. So check out our Twitter @ the FF Ballers. And that is where he will pop up. His majestic beard will suddenly appear and you can tune in on periscope and ask your own question. And he will try to parse the 5,000 questions.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, it's great, man.

[Jason Moore]

It's good stuff.

[Mike Wright]

It's a Sunday morning party.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's get to the news.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league.

[Jason Moore]

You all right?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Is there any update or information about the Miami, Tennessee game based on the hurricane situation?

[Andy Holloway]

The Dolphins are preparing as if the game is happening as is. I don't think we're going to have any more true information until we get told an official outcome. But right now the last I heard is that Tannehill and the Dolphins are preparing for, you know, to play in Miami.

[Jason Moore]

All right. The Carlos Williams news yesterday looks like. Well, looks like it's not going to happen.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that was a really weird situation. It was, it was the breaking news. They're going to work him out. They expect to sign him and then, then they didn't sign it.

[Jason Moore]

Right. So we're, I think at this point we are going to simply jump into injury updates like we said yesterday, let you know who's in, who's out, what's up, what's down, who's hurt, who to start. I mean, so many injuries thus far this year. So let's catch up.

[Andy Holloway]

What's it going to payment fly?

[Ben Cummins]

Are you in or out?

[Jason Moore]

All right. We did get news yesterday. In and out. Cam Newton out.

[Mike Wright]

He's trending out.

[Andy Holloway]

It's not official, but it's been reported that he's out.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So would you start? How does this change the landscape of that game in general? Because all of a sudden, I mean, does Jameis Winston move up because that game's going to be more competitive than we thought it was?

[Mike Wright]

No, I think Derek, Derek Anderson is a fine fill in for that offensive system for, you know, just spot starts an extended period of time. Maybe I would start to adjust things, but I think.

[Jason Moore]

No, I was talking about Winston.

[Mike Wright]

Right. But I'm saying that I think Derek Anderson is a fine fill in so that the competitive nature of the game will remain almost the same.

[Andy Holloway]

See, and if anything, if Winston were to move here, I think he would move down in the sense that, you.

[Jason Moore]

Know, not getting boat race, no garbage time.

[Andy Holloway]

Exactly. The, you know, the total points in the game. I'm sure the Vegas over under, if the line moves, it's going to move down. Not.

[Jason Moore]

What's up with Trevor Simeon?

[Mike Wright]

I think that he's going to play, but that's a, that's a dangerous play for me personally.

[Andy Holloway]

He has been practicing in part and when you're practicing and you're the starter, I presume you're going to play. But I agree with Mike. It's one of those things where I would not have the confidence to play him even if he's the starter. Even though I like him, I have him highly rated right now because there's such a chance on that shoulder. You take a sack and you re aggravate that shoulder, then you play half.

[Mike Wright]

A game and it stinks because against Atlanta is basically the best matchup for a quarterback right now.

[Jason Moore]

All right, in or out at the running back position. Matt Forte, he's going to play the X.

[Mike Wright]

The X rays came back negative. He's practicing in full.

[Jason Moore]

Charles Sims, Jason.

[Andy Holloway]

Charles Sims did not practice Wednesday, did not practice Thursday. So we certainly have to monitor that.

[Jason Moore]

If you had to take a guess.

[Andy Holloway]

If I had to take a guess, I think he would play because he's been in the workhorse role Monday night game that he hasn't had and he has the extra day. I think they're giving him some rest but definitely have to monitor that.

[Mike Wright]

Garrett Blunt, he's going to play.

[Andy Holloway]

Yep, he's going to play.

[Jason Moore]

Latavius Murray, do you think he's going to play?

[Mike Wright]

No, I don't think so. Arian Foster, I would say no, I.

[Andy Holloway]

Don'T think he's going to play this week. Rashad Jennings, I still don't think he's going to play. I don't understand.

[Mike Wright]

I agree.

[Andy Holloway]

If the issue is that you have a cast on your hand and you can't hold on to the ball, you.

[Mike Wright]

Can'T catch, you can't block, it doesn't.

[Andy Holloway]

Change as weeks go on until that cast comes off.

[Jason Moore]

Wide receiver in or out. DEZ Bryant, I'm going to say out.

[Mike Wright]

He's still not practicing.

[Jason Moore]

Decker did not practice today.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he's going to be out.

[Jason Moore]

Julian Edelman, I think he plays.

[Mike Wright]

But him popping up on a Thursday injury report with his, with that foot, that was the concern over the summer certainly is something to monitor.

[Jason Moore]

Any chance that the lack of performance from Edelman wasn't just preset over the last couple of weeks?

[Mike Wright]

When Garoppolo was in, Julian Edelman was great.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And even when Bersett was in, Julian Edelman looked great. Like, like Mike mentioned, he had that 90 yard reception that came back.

[Jason Moore]

Here's an important one.

[Mike Wright]

Stefan Diggs not practicing with the groin.

[Jason Moore]

Thursday, Wednesday didn't practice.

[Mike Wright]

Zimmer has said that he'll play, but you can't play him until you know that he's fully healthy.

[Andy Holloway]

And Houston hasn't given up a lot. I know they lost J.J. watt, but it's bad matchup. Tough, tough to start Diggs.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Eddie Royal.

[Andy Holloway]

He's my start of the week. And honestly, this morning already I was looking up for more Eddie Royal news.

[Jason Moore]

That dude is always hurt.

[Andy Holloway]

There is not. There is no new information on Eddie Royal. We'll just have to keep monitoring. I still like him if he plays.

[Jason Moore]

Cam Meredith is your sneaky start if Eddie Royal is out because Meredith was already running but more snaps than Alshon. Jeffrey was getting as the three and now as a three, four and now you have no white and no Royal. I think Cam Meredith is one of those guys that you've got bye weeks, you've got injuries. If you floated him out there, he's in 100% of leagues waiver wire.

[Andy Holloway]

I was going to say, if you want that glory play.

[Jason Moore]

Well, that happened. Who was the guy on the Bears that I'm thinking of last year? Because this exact same thing happened. Jeffrey was out, Royal was out. Oh, Wilson. Yeah, right.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Marquis Wilson.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

And all of a sudden he was a play and he was an 18 point week. And I'm not saying that's going to happen for Meredith, but look, the quarterbacks generally throw to the wide receivers. And if he's the only one left.

[Mike Wright]

Or one of the only ones left, opportunity is king.

[Jason Moore]

Ted Gann. Devin Funches.

[Andy Holloway]

Ooh, I love me some Devin Funches. I don't know why Derek Anderson loves Devin Funches.

[Jason Moore]

This looks ridiculous.

[Andy Holloway]

I really believe it's so ridiculous.

[Jason Moore]

Devin Funches caught no more than two passes in the entirety of the year in a game.

[Mike Wright]

Because he catches.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Regular season, five catches in four weeks.

[Andy Holloway]

What did he have this last week?

[Jason Moore]

I'm going to give you the ability for him to double his production to two catches a week.

[Andy Holloway]

What did he have this last week, Andy?

[Jason Moore]

This last week? The 2 for 56 with a 48 yard catch.

[Andy Holloway]

I believe I. I'm not 100 on this, but I believe that both of those passes were from Derek Anderson in limited ed.

[Jason Moore]

If he puts up 2 for 56 and 0, I'm going to be thrilled.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Just thrilled. All right. Yeah. This morning you were singing Devin Funches. Now you're singing. He's all yours, buddy. Tight ends Eric Ebrin, in or out?

[Mike Wright]

Sounds very doubtful. Out.

[Jason Moore]

Zach Miller.

[Mike Wright]

In.

[Andy Holloway]

In.

[Jason Moore]

And another Beneficiary of all the in and delicious. Yes. Antonio Gates.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to say they rest him one more week, but it really is.

[Mike Wright]

A truly 5050 and this is.

[Jason Moore]

I'm seeing Hunter Henry in so many starting lineups this week and it worries me.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, I was going to say be very wary. If you are a Hunter Henry, you're going to play him. If Antonio Gates plays, your production is going to get sliced in half.

[Jason Moore]

Virgil Green, he's practicing.

[Mike Wright]

So yeah, I think there's a chance here.

[Jason Moore]

Kyle Rudolph.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's in Larry.

[Mike Wright]

Larry Danelle, I'll say no concussion protocol. I don't think he's going to make it. Will Ty becomes sneaky of the Barfies.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he's a sneaky barfy. It's a good play in Green Bay. We like that to be a shootout.

[Mike Wright]

Well, if you watched last week, I mean, once Dinelle went out, Will Ty was getting some targets. Clive Walford, I think he plays. He's got a back or he's back to practice.

[Jason Moore]

And Jason, I'm going to let you take this final one. It's very important. Oh, it's your favorite position.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Dan Bailey, he looks like. I don't care.

[Jason Moore]

He's down and he's a very good.

[Andy Holloway]

Kicker and a lot of people have Dan Bailey. So you got to go out and sign some other kicker at random. That will affect your fantasy score. Fantasy forecast.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Jets take on the Steelers. This is going to be trouble. The jets schedule right now is not good. It's not good. You got to go to Pittsburgh. You got to take on the Steelers. They're seven point favorites. Your Darrell Rivas is not practicing today. It does not look like he's going to play. Not that that matters right now. And the Jets, I believe next week.

[Andy Holloway]

Take on Arizona on 10 days rest.

[Jason Moore]

On Monday Night Football country on Monday Night Football. So we've got Ryan Fitzpatrick. Very, you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick's name right now should be associated with having the defense on the other side because he's throwing so many interceptions and making so many mistakes. You don't have Eric Decker, most likely. And so I think Marshall and Anunwa are both very solid plays this week.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, completely agree.

[Jason Moore]

I also look, you can't really sit Matt Forte if he's one of your main starters. But you are going to have to start tempering expectations. It came out that Matt Forte, the X rays that he was seen taking, those were for his ribs. Those were rib X rays. Nothing with the legs or the knees or Anything like that. So he's going to play. But Mike, you made this point on the radio the other day. Bilal, pal, snap counts have been rising and his efficiency has been rising. Is this something where we're going to start seeing more of the time split and you can't. You have to temper your forte exercises.

[Mike Wright]

I have to imagine it is. Powell's a spectacular player. The, the jets, the jets organization really loves him. They've, they showed that love in a financial way.

[Jason Moore]

I like it when people do that. That's nice.

[Mike Wright]

But it just, those first few games didn't make sense. Like maybe, maybe Powell was dinged up and that's why he wasn't getting out there. So Matt Forte is to me, you can't consider him that top five type of running back that he was for Ryan. I'll say this for Ryan Fitzpatrick, The Steelers are 30th in pass defense, so they're giving up yards. If this, if there's any kind of a get right game for Ryan Fitzpatrick, it's this situation where Big Ben is going to rain the points on them. Fitzpatrick will have to sling it out. So I'm, I'm not, I don't have confidence to start him, but it would not be shocking at all to me if Ryan Fitzpatrick throws three.

[Jason Moore]

I don't disagree with you at all. And I have him much higher than either of you guys.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going to move him up.

[Jason Moore]

I have him at number 10 and it was a terrifying thing to do. But I think you're right. And the, the Steelers, they're a much better defense. If you look at them at home this year. They're the number four defense against the run. I don't think Forte and Powell find a lot of room and I think like you said, they're going to, there's going to be a deficit in this game.

[Andy Holloway]

Where do I have Fitzpatrick?

[Jason Moore]

17.

[Andy Holloway]

It sounds about right for, for me.

[Jason Moore]

16.

[Andy Holloway]

I agree that it could be a get well game, but I don't necessarily expect it to be. I think Pittsburgh's, you know, they've been giving up a lot of yards total on the year, but they're still a really good defense and Fitzpatrick has just been the worst.

[Jason Moore]

Now what was this stat nugget you found out about Big Ben? Because you always bring up the home away difference with Drew Brees.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So Drew Brees has about a six point difference when he plays at home versus on the road, which is a very large fantasy points. Yes. He scores about six more fantasy points at home than on the road. Well, when I was looking at this up and I go back to 2014 because I don't want to. Too old, you know, different offensive systems. Since 2014, Big Ben, he has averaged 12.16 more fantasy points per game at home.

[Jason Moore]

That's like Gabbard.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, that's. I mean, that's unbelievable. I don't remember the last time I've seen a split that large. Actually, there is one there.

[Mike Wright]

It's like a Jean Claude Van Damme split. Am I right?

[Jason Moore]

Thank you.

[Mike Wright]

Very nice.

[Jason Moore]

I needed you to find something quickly.

[Andy Holloway]

Actually, there is one other split that is even more egregious than this we'll talk about later. This is. It's like a banana split.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, okay.

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Jason Moore]

So banana splits aren't egregious, by the way. They're delicious.

[Andy Holloway]

Egregiously delicious.

[Mike Wright]

Before we get over to the Falcons.

[Jason Moore]

If you tried to do the splits, that would be egregious.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

We're going to find out this week in Denver. Broncos are at home. They are favored by five points. We have an over under 47. So there, even with the great Broncos defense, there still is expected points on the board here.

[Jason Moore]

I feel like we need to come up with like a something's got to give segment every once in a while whenever where, where there are these matchups. If there's three or four things happening, you know where, where it's, you know, the number one ranked offense versus the number one ranked defense.

[Mike Wright]

It's the unstoppable force versus the immovable object. Yeah, I might have gotten that backwards.

[Jason Moore]

Whatever you said, I'm voting for the Broncos in this case. I have Matt Ryan buried and a lot of people are probably, look, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give a chance to Matt Ryan to overcome my ranking.

[Mike Wright]

I have Matt Ryan.

[Jason Moore]

I just doubt it.

[Mike Wright]

I have Ryan currently as a higher end quarterback too, so I'm not burying him right.

[Jason Moore]

I think Jason and I have him lower. I think we both have him quite a bit lower.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, I feel like they might be tricking me, but I'm buying into this Falcons offense as a whole that it's not just Julio Jones.

[Jason Moore]

So the real question is, do you start Matt Ryan if he's a, if he's a high end quarterback too? Would you rather just, you got to have save the roster spot? Okay, but here's your situation for everybody. This is exactly what everyone's saying, and I've seen this. Do you just sign another quarterback and take up a roster spot? Let's say. I don't know. Let's say you can go sign Joe Flacco against Washington and you're at home. Right. So Flacco's at home against Washington. Do you waste a roster spot on Flacco to play for one week because you're afraid of Ryan? Because Ryan could. He could be all right. I don't think here's any chance. He's going to be amazing.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I would probably just play Ryan in that situation. I'd stick with him.

[Jason Moore]

What would you do, Jay?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm not a huge fan of Joe Flacco this week, so it's ironic you bring his name up. But I would not be playing Matt Ryan in a single quarterback league. There are plenty of quarterbacks I would prefer that you can probably get or hopefully already got off of waivers. I would rather start Carson Wentz or Jameis Winston or Kirk Cousins or Brian Hoyer. Those are some names that I would prefer to have over Matt Ryan in this game. Look, I did. I threw shade on Matt Ryan last week at Carolina, and I was flat wrong, so I could be wrong again this week. Props to him and the Atlanta offense, they look amazing. But you have to question how much of it was that and how much of it was, you know, the Panthers not really being the defense without Josh Norman, as they thought. Did you see that the Panthers starting cornerback, the starting cornerback that was on Julio got cut. They cut him because he got burned so much. He's gone that, I mean, if you've got a guy that is, you know, your starting corner that you're willing to cut.

[Jason Moore]

It's one of the reasons why I'm moving Winston up in my rankings from where I started him is because they are completely. Ron Rivera said they're completely reshaping their secondary. So Josh Norman's kind of important. All right, back to this game, though, like what you're saying there. How do you like Julio yout know, if you don't, if you're in the middle with Ryan, you got to be in the middle with Julio, don't you?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, well, not necessarily. I mean, we've seen plenty of weeks last season where Matt Ryan had, you know, he was outside the top 15. And. And Julio has a fine game. It's kind of like last night. Larry Fitzgerald was fantastic, but Drew Stanton is one of the worst quarterbacks in the league at the end of the week for Fantasy purposes because just the share of where he's throwing the ball went to one target. So I think Julio, I think I've got him statted as my wide receiver. 12. So barely a wide receiver one this week.

[Jason Moore]

Let's break down the other side of the ball. What are some of the trends we see with Denver when they play at home versus on the road? What are we expecting from Thomas, Sanders and C.J. anderson, which are the main fantasy starts in this offense?

[Andy Holloway]

I guess I will continue because I know I have been throwing shade on Twitter this week.

[Jason Moore]

Look, you don't like Twitter, huh?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Take that, Bird.

[Andy Holloway]

You know, when it comes to Emmanuel Sanders, he's been on fire. There have been arguments made out there that he is actually the true number one for the Broncos over Demarius Thomas. And if you look back the last 10 games, it's kind of hard to argue against that. But as I mentioned earlier about the monstrous banana split that's Emmanuel Sanders and really the Denver Broncos because the Denver Broncos are a since I didn't go back through the Peyton fantastic years, but since last year they run the ball at home and they throw the ball much more on the road and that affects Emmanuel Sanders greatly. Emmanuel Sanders, in the last 19 games, he has averaged 19 fantasy points per game on the road and 7.8 at home. So for me this week in a matchup that I think they're going to be able to run the ball, I worry about starting Emmanuel Sanders as a locked and loaded. You know, he's been a top five top ten wide receiver the last couple of weeks.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And on the other side you have, you have demarius Thomas, who's going to go up against Desmond Trufont, who is a spectacular cornerback for the Falcons. So I have, right now I have Thomas up. If you're looking at my rankings, I have him. I'm going to move him down a little bit. So I'm still comfortable starting both Broncos wide receivers, regardless of quarterback position. If it's Simeon. If Simeon gets knocked out and Paxton lynch comes in like a. I alluded to the Falcons are just giving it up to opposing quarterbacks. So I'm still okay playing them. But they're. You got to temper that expectation.

[Jason Moore]

Does the Atlanta offense do enough in this game to where it's not just a kind of a running CJ Anderson oriented matchup?

[Mike Wright]

I think they can. I mean, they're tricking me again, but I'm buying it.

[Jason Moore]

Well, it's just tough. I mean, you get week five, you have enough Data behind you, you start to really see where things, where things fall. So let's go ahead and move on.

[Andy Holloway]

Before we move on, I'm just going to throw this out there. I think Devonta Freeman is a fine start this week.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

With the Tevin Coleman.

[Andy Holloway]

There's a lot of questions around him.

[Jason Moore]

And maybe you should bring up the Tevin Coleman situation.

[Andy Holloway]

Tevin Coleman with sickle cell anemia. They're saying they're going to play him in Denver, which is a dangerous thing to do and I don't doubt that they do. But they're not going to ride him hard in a situation that could cause catastrophic, you know, ramifications. So I think you're going to have. And we've seen that people are able to do a little bit more. It's not much, but a little bit more on the ground than through the air against the Denver Broncos. So if Devonta Freeman ends up with that 65% share of the volume, he's been great and they have to, you know, pay attention to Julio and other options. So I think he's an okay start.

[Jason Moore]

This week, Bengals travel to Dallas, take on the Cowboys. This game's nearly a push. The Bengals are actually favored by a point in Dallas, 45 and a half point over, under. And look, push comes to shove for Dak Prescott once again. This, this offense has been riding Ezekiel Elliott. You've never, you haven't seen more than five to seven carries for Alfred Morris on any given week. Elliott has been over the hundred yard mark in back to back weeks and you look, they're going to be without Des again, but they're getting it done. It's a kind of a middle of the road defense. It's been playing well. They're at home. And in terms of rushing yards per game, like I said, Ezekiel Elliott is number one at 103 per game. So the Dallas offense, where's the fantasy value for owners because. Can you stream Dak Prescott this week?

[Mike Wright]

I think he's a, he's an okay stream. There's, there's likely a better option, but I'm not afraid to throw him out there. He's.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

You're by far the highest on him. You're at 15, I'm at 20. Jason's at 24.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. So he's an okay stream if that's what, where you need to go. For me from the Dallas side, of course, Elliott's every week play, but for me of the past catchers, I know that Butler had a decent game, but it's it's the touchdown. I mean, he was around that 50 yard area. The five for 50. Those. That's. That five for 50 doesn't get it done.

[Jason Moore]

Well, that's. That's called Terrence Williams Lane.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, that's where it's hard for me to decide between the two. You're flipping a coin on which guy gets the touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

And that don't start either. That's why I don't start either.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I'd rather not.

[Mike Wright]

I go with Cole Beasley. I'm going back. I'm going back to Beasley. If you're in a PPR situation, he.

[Andy Holloway]

Wants seven for 50.

[Jason Moore]

Right. He doesn't want five for 50 if.

[Mike Wright]

You'Re in a PPR situation. Paul Beasley's getting it done on a weekly basis.

[Andy Holloway]

And I did bring this up earlier.

[Jason Moore]

Point per Red Beard. That is what that means.

[Andy Holloway]

I did bring this up earlier in the year. That I do think Cole Beasley is even more valuable in difficult matchups because you got to get the ball out quicker. I don't expect his yards per catch to be anything great, but if you're in a full ppr, I mean, how is he going to crap the team if he gets eight catches?

[Mike Wright]

Exactly.

[Jason Moore]

All right, so on the other side of the ball, I want to know what you guys think about the Hill GEO breakdown at running back. Now, wasn't Jeremy Hill a start of the week?

[Mike Wright]

He was. He was mine. I like Jeremy Hill a good bit. I think that he can be very successful in this. In this particular game, his carries have gone up.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know if we said that on this show, but.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, we did. We did.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay, so his carries keep increasing every week. And the Dallas run defense, they have not given up, you know, a lot of touchdowns, but they've given up a lot of yards per carry. So this could be a good game for Jeremy Hill. I would prefer him over Geo. Geo's an okay start here as well. In a flex. He's been involved in the passing game as you would expect.

[Jason Moore]

Now, Mike, you have Andy Dalton, the highest of the three of us. You have him at nine. We both have him at 15 and 16. Tell me why you like Andy Dalton in this game.

[Mike Wright]

It's AJ Green, really. I mean, I think that's no matter what the week, Dalton can succeed. His yardage totals throughout the year have been tremendous, continually going over 300 yards. Last week, he just didn't get the touchdowns. And the Cowboys defense is not to be feared. 19th as far as allowing Yards. So I just. I think that he's a fine quarterback. One low quarterback, one play.

[Jason Moore]

This week, Bills travel to LA to take on the Rams. We've got the law firm of Woods, Austin and Britt.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Which is good for nothing. No, they defend you. They don't defend you from any fantasy opponent in the court of law. I. Look, it's not a pretty picture on the fantasy in the fantasy world in this game when it comes to wide receivers because while Britt or Quick have had flashes, you really don't know which guy's going to do it. And if you had to count on somebody, it'd be Tavon Austin out of that entire bunch for me, just because of the kind of involvement that he has in the offense. But I don't want to start anybody at the wide receiver position. How do you think this game breaks down? Because this has. This has to be the lowest over under the week.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think I've seen. Have we seen an over under in the 30s yet this season?

[Jason Moore]

We have now.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So I mean Vegas is certainly not expecting them to do anything on the offensive side. You've got two decent defenses going up against two bad offenses. You know, there's not much I want here. I'm going to start McCoy and Gurley.

[Jason Moore]

Because who wins the game? Bill's coming off the shutout of the New England, but they travel. The Rams coming back home 3 and 1. Who wins this game?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to say the Rams win this game.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. I got stuck in our dynasty league.

[Mike Wright]

I'll take.

[Jason Moore]

Just like you did last week. What happened to you in your dynasty week last week?

[Andy Holloway]

You're saying how I had to start Katie Skeenham?

[Jason Moore]

No, I. Oh, you started Cody Kessler.

[Andy Holloway]

Cody Kessler. Because my backup quarterback ended up getting injured and my regular quarterback of Aaron Rodgers was on by and there's nobody available on waivers in a dynasty.

[Jason Moore]

That exact same thing happened to me this week and Case Keenum is my starting quarterback. So congratulations to me.

[Mike Wright]

Sure.

[Jason Moore]

He's actually been surprisingly all right in the past couple of weeks. I do think this is a game where you're kind of saying does the momentum travel because the Bills have played so well now. Shady McCoy and Auto Start Todd Gurley been very, very bad in terms of yards per carry. Here's the Just feed him the rock they feed him.

[Mike Wright]

And a huge thing to watch for Todd Gurley. I mean, I'm starting him regardless. Is the news on Benny Cunningham? He was limited again in practice on Thursday, so his status for the game is unclear. Benny Cunningham is the passing downs running back despite Todd Gurley being able to play that role. Jeff Fisher just has refused to use him until last week when Todd Gurley looked great in the passing game.

[Jason Moore]

And you hope that he's teachable. You hope that Jeff Fisher can learn something new.

[Mike Wright]

Can he? What?

[Jason Moore]

But here's the thing. The only thing about Benny Cunningham is that he's not on the injury report.

[Mike Wright]

He's not.

[Jason Moore]

I had not seen him on the injury report. Oh. And so to me that tells me he's gonna play. But if he plays, maybe, maybe Gurley gets a couple more pass targets. Because you know what, when you get Gurley in space, when he doesn't have 18 guys in front of him on the line of scrimmage, kind of better, that's his upside. You remember before the year, what did I tell you the reason was I liked Gurley. It's because I thought he'd be involved in the passing game more than his 31 catches last year. And it hasn't really manifested yet, but it makes such a difference. Well, last week five catches the injury.

[Mike Wright]

Because Benny Cunningham went out four weeks into the season.

[Jason Moore]

You told me that yesterday. We're still on our way through. Right. Things are shaking out.

[Andy Holloway]

Here's the thing with the pass catching role for a Jeff Fisher offense before Benny Cunningham went out. So we're five weeks into the season. What do you think the season high in total receptions has been for Benny Cunningham?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, can't be two. Yeah, I would have gone three. I'll go three.

[Andy Holloway]

Three. So Mike, you were triple and Andy, you were double his high total of one reception.

[Jason Moore]

What?

[Andy Holloway]

So I mean that's not a role in this offense. They don't look for that check down they did last week with Todd Gurley. Maybe they get that going anew. But I just don't bet on new things from Jeff Fisher.

[Jason Moore]

Yep, fair enough. Chargers Raiders really love this game. This is the opposite. I mean we got a 50 and a half point over under. I think points are going to be on the board. Jason Verrett is injured. Derek Carr is the number three fantasy quarterback right now. And you have maybe the debut of DeAndre Washington as a starting running back for the Oakland Raiders. Last week Latavius Murray only had 10 touches. Now he's hurt. I can't imagine if Latavius even plays that his touches aren't limited tremendously.

[Mike Wright]

I agree.

[Jason Moore]

And so does DeAndre Washington have sneaky upside here? I'm talking running back to range.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. He absolutely has the upside. But he also has, he has the downside of if Jalen Richard comes in and gets heated up. I think that they'll go to him. I would expect, you know, that Probability says it's DeAndre Washington, but for me it's, it's not. I'm, I'm locked and loaded. I'm. He's a must start type of situation this week. If you are in a running back purgatory, so to speak, then he's a fine start. But just saying, I'm, I'm not, I'm not all in on DeAndre yet.

[Andy Holloway]

For me, I don't think that they're going to go with that hot hand approach regardless. Even if DeAndre Washington is running incredibly well. We've seen so far this year that he already has and they haven't really gone with him. We've seen games where Jalen Richard does and we haven't gone with him. I think what you're going to see is a close to 50, 50 split, probably more towards 60, 40 in the, in the favor of DeAndre Washington regardless. But if DeAndre Washington gets that volume of carries against the Chargers, he'll be good. I think he's going to be a fine play.

[Jason Moore]

This 31st ranked run defense. The Chargers are in Washington. What I liked is last week had three catches but Andy, they might get.

[Andy Holloway]

Joey Bosa back this week.

[Jason Moore]

Back or you mean like to debut? Sure. Well, I hope Bosa can play corner.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

So because I'm starting Cooper and Crabtree, if I had to start a pair for my start of the starts of the week, it would be these two guys because I have Cooper and Crabtree at like 11 and 13 this week both in wide receiver. One consideration, I think you roll them out there on the other side at the wide receiver. I feel like you are deciding which guys going to have a big game. Is it going to be Benjamin? Is it going to be Tyrell Williams? Is it going to be Inman? And I think that's a tough decision to make.

[Mike Wright]

Jason has made a choice.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I have two. And we've made different choices.

[Andy Holloway]

That's, that's the really thing.

[Mike Wright]

So you're, you're Tyro Williams?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, I'm Tyrell Williams.

[Andy Holloway]

No, no, I'm sorry, I don't believe I am. Wait, my Tyrell?

[Mike Wright]

I thought that's what you had told me.

[Jason Moore]

No, I'm Tyrell.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I believe that.

[Mike Wright]

Your House Tyrell?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, I'm House Benjamin.

[Mike Wright]

All right, I'm gonna throw Inman in into the ring just because I.

[Jason Moore]

You're just gonna choose, choose Inman.

[Mike Wright]

We're gonna hedge.

[Andy Holloway]

But here's the deal. When you have these players, any one of those three can have a big blow up.

[Jason Moore]

We actually have them very close. You have Travis Benjamin at 20, Williams at 24. I have Benjamin at 19, Tyrell at 16.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. The reality though is it's, and nobody.

[Jason Moore]

Respects Inman apparently difficult.

[Andy Holloway]

It is difficult as a fantasy owner to start any one of these guys even in a winnable high scoring matchup. I would rather start a guy that I am sure has volume in his offense but maybe doesn't have the big ceiling that all three of these guys have just so that I know what I'm getting. Sure. And going week after week. If you get a big week from one of these guys, especially if it's Inman because he was doing it in back to back weeks, you trade that guy, you try to find value. Because I don't think there's going to be any one of these guys that goes the rest of the season. At as the predominant pass catcher, I.

[Jason Moore]

See something in our rankings that I think you two should speak to Philip Rivers in this game going up against Oakland. Oakland is like a delightful site for all passing offenses. You both have Philip Rivers ranked ahead of Andrew Luck. When push comes to shove, would you start Rivers over Luck? Luck plays against Chicago, but he's at home.

[Andy Holloway]

You know, the thing with I had Andrew Luck at number four last night. I had him at four and I was looking at my rankings again and I might have moved him down a little too far because I do like the matchup. I expect that the Bears are going to be able to score, but the Chicago Bears have yet to give up 250 yards or more than two touchdowns to a quarterback. So, you know, maybe Andrew Luck comes in and has the best week that they've given up all year. I wouldn't be surprised at that. But how much further than their best is he going to do this season? So, you know, I am fine. If you wanted to start Philip Rivers over Luck or Luck over Rivers, remember.

[Jason Moore]

To pay attention to the Hunter Henry and Antonio Gates news this weekend. And remember that on jointhefoot.com, we released game day alerts one hour before the games begin with all of the information you need to know about who's starting and sitting. We'll obviously be tweeting that information out as well as we get it and kind of spreading that to you so that you can make your decisions. Get Henry out of the lineup if Gates is active, that type of thing. So we need to get into the last two matchups and then the daily dose the Giants take on the Packers Sunday Night Football. This is in Green Bay. The packers are heavily favored. I think maybe the second highest, second most favorite favorite team this week. Eli Manning hasn't had it together this far, but he's my start of the week because I think this is the right kind of matchup. The packers are first against the run, 29th against the pass. And you have Shepard, Odell Beckham Jr. And Cruz. I expect this to be Odell Beckham Junior's get right game. Are you guys on board with that narrative?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Green Bay is giving up 330 yards and two touchdowns through the air in their first three games. You've seen the just how devastated they've become when Sam Shields is not in the lineup. I think it continues. We do not have a full update on Shields yet, but if missing this many games with a concussion is. Is that's a situation with that, that has to be. They need to make sure that he's right before he can get back out and play football. So I think that I think Eli is a great start. I think that the three wide receivers are. I think it'll be Beckham. I think this is. I agree with Andy that this is Beckham's game to really explode. But I'm okay playing all three of those guys this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I mean Eli Manning was loved after week one because he threw three touchdowns. Since then he's only thrown one touchdown. But he's actually played very well. He threw for 368 yards against the New Orleans Saints, but they ran in all the touchdowns. Washington, he threw for 350 yards again. And then last week, of course he was terrible. But who hasn't been terrible against the Minnesota Vikings?

[Mike Wright]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

I think I don't have any problem with. I would love to start Eli Manning. In fact, I am doing.

[Jason Moore]

So what do you do at running back for the Giants?

[Andy Holloway]

You do not play a running back from the Giants if you're in an absolute pinch. I assume that Jennings is not going to play, which means Orleans dark way you have that hope for that touchdown. But I personally, I mean you've got the lowest yards allowed per game from the Green Bay packers on the ground. I don't like the running situation from the Giants.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it would be dark one standard in Bobby Rainey if you're into ppr.

[Jason Moore]

What do we think of Lacey this week? The giants are the 9th ranked run defense. Lacy has been, I believe, single digits in every week except for one this year. Is it, is it time to just have a permanent different expectation for Eddie Lacy? Because right now he's, you know, 9, 6, 12, no touchdowns on the year. Yeah, ho hum.

[Mike Wright]

He has been ho hum. For fantasy purposes. What's. I think where, where it's a little shocking to me with Eddie Lacy is they're not getting him involved in the passing game where he showed that he's got pretty good chops for that. But they're just, they're choosing not to use him that way. They're choosing not to use him a ton anyways, but he's still being very efficient.

[Jason Moore]

Five a carry on the year he.

[Mike Wright]

Was, he had the 100 yard game. So I think that they will try to keep him involved. But you're right, I think it's just that adjust the expectation. Maybe he's now just the lower end running back too.

[Jason Moore]

Isaiah Crowell. Isaiah Crowell or Eddie Lacy, Rest the season. Because if Lacey's not involved in the passing game, Crowell's barely involved in the passing game.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to take Eddie Lacy.

[Jason Moore]

I think I'm going to take Crowell.

[Mike Wright]

I'll take Crowell.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Mike Wright]

That's rough though.

[Jason Moore]

All right, any, any other information from this game we want to share? Well, Aaron Rodgers.

[Mike Wright]

Jason, you like Cobb in this matchup, correct?

[Andy Holloway]

I do like Cobb. You know, look, they're coming off of a bye week.

[Ben Cummins]

They're.

[Andy Holloway]

This is going to be a high scoring game. Aaron Rodgers throws all of his touch. Aaron Rodgers, my number one quarterback this week, coming off a bye at home. He had another very large banana split. So I believe that you're going to have Aaron Rodgers throwing three touchdowns and if he's throwing three touchdowns, I think, you know, I'm giving one to each of their three wide receivers and Cobb is a fine flex play this week.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's get into the last matchup. Monday Night Football. Buccaneers, Panthers. We just heard Cam Newton's out. Jonathan Stewart's gonna be out.

[Mike Wright]

Everybody's out.

[Jason Moore]

Sims might be out. Favorite player in this game.

[Andy Holloway]

What if people.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. When Sims is out, Devin Funches is. I wouldn't be surprised you make that connection.

[Mike Wright]

So if Sims is out, we are looking at a starting situation of Jacques.

[Jason Moore]

Rogers and Fozzie and Cap on the other side, Cameron Artist, pain.

[Mike Wright]

That's delightful.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So look, what do you do here? Evans is a must start.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, must start.

[Jason Moore]

They've been a lot better at home as a defense as a whole.

[Mike Wright]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

So this is why I've tempered my Winston and Evans and those expectations. But I still like Brait. I still like Evans, and I still like, you know, the potential for this game to be that shootout. Maybe not as much with Newton out. Even right now, there is no over under. Right. Because we have basically the cornerback situation. So what's the narrative in this game that we need to understand as fantasy owners?

[Mike Wright]

I think you've really covered it. Sims must start Brait. It's a spectacular matchup. The Panthers are giving up tons of points to tight ends. So he's a nice start for me. Kelvin, I think he's. I think he's still a fine start. Derek Anderson, I know you've got your. Your support here for Devin Funches, but the Kelvin Benjamin's rookie year, he was more successful in those games with Derek Anderson than he was with Cam. So I'm not worried at all about them not having a connection.

[Jason Moore]

Is Kelvin Benjamin a top 10 wide receiver rest of the season, yes or no?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

So you guys both buy in, even after kind of the struggle week. And yeah, he did score last week. Not high volume. Olson. Is Greg Olson a top two tight end rest of season?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Top. Top two. Three. I mean, that he's really on. Right on that two, three.

[Jason Moore]

Cameron Rate was my start of the week.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

So I like him.

[Mike Wright]

So a question I'm asking for. Listener just wrote in. Definitely a friend. Would you start Joe Flacco or Jameis Winston?

[Andy Holloway]

I would start Jameis Winston. Personally, I think that Carolina's defense was a little bit exposed. It's. It's going through that. What are you laughing at?

[Jason Moore]

This is Mike's situation.

[Mike Wright]

No, it's a. It's a.

[Jason Moore]

Somewhere Mike has Flacco and Winston and he plays me.

[Andy Holloway]

But I expect that this could be a game where Jameis Winston, you know, he chooses whether he throws, you know, four touchdowns or four interceptions, and he goes back and forth. I think this could be the touchdown version.

[Mike Wright]

Well, Jameis is averaging 44 attempts a game. That's first in the league. Although you have Jerk Kutter going full curmudgeon, hating everyone on his offense, saying they want to throw less, they want Sims to run less. So we'll see what actually happens.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we're going to move on. We're going to get into the Daily Dose with some fantasy dfs information, things to help you, which guys to start, which good values exist out there for FanDuel. And if you want to play FanDuel this week. Check out FanDuel.com footballers FanDuel.com footballers. You get some free entries. Let's move on to the Daily Dose.

[Andy Holloway]

The Daily Dose.

[Mike Wright]

And now the fantasy footballers are extremely excited to bring in Ben Cummins, staff writer for the Fantasy footballers dot com. He's writing all kinds of fantasy goodness articles over there, and he puts out a weekly FanDuel article. We decided we're bringing him on. We're giving him the big shot. How you doing today, Ben?

[Ben Cummins]

I'm doing fantastic. I get to talk dfs with the fantasy footballers.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah. All right, so you know the drill. We're giving people some quick, some heavy hitters on FanDuel. So let's start out with the quarterback position, as we always do. How are you feeling this week? Do you want to pay up? Are you trying to skimp out on some prices, get some values? How are you feeling this week?

[Ben Cummins]

Okay, so I think there's a few options for both. We got to start at the top with Tom Brady. He's back from the suspension. Last season, he averaged 39 pass attempts per game, which was third Most in the NFL. This season, the Patriots have averaged 28.5 pass attempts per game, which is dead last in the NFL. So we know that the Patriots offensive game plan is going to completely change, and I think a lot of sharp people are going to be on this, but there's probably still going to be a lot of people that fall victim to the recency effect and just haven't seen it happen yet. So they might not play Tom Brady. So he's definitely in play. Over his entire career, Brady has averaged 35 pass attempts in games where they've been favored by 10 or more points. And the Patriots are favored by 10 points in this game. Yeah, I want to look at Aaron Rodgers, too. Back in 2014, he didn't throw a touch or an interception at home the entire year. He averaged 3.12 pass touchdowns per game, which was 1.5 higher than on the road. So he's at home. A great spot for him. In his only game at home this season, he threw four touchdowns and only 15 on only 15 completions. And Eli Apple and Dominique Rogers, Cromartie, I don't think played last week, and I think they're still banged up. So check the. The reports right there. But he's in play. Big Ben as well. He's at home again. We saw what they did last week. These are. These are the most expensive guys. Rogers is 9100. Brady is 8700. Big Ben is 8, 600, but I'm thinking about paying up for him. The jets have given up the seventh most pass yards and six most passed touchdowns in the league. And Darrell Revis is questionable. I'm not even sure how much that matters at this point. So he's in a great, he's in a great spot. I really like Eli Manning too because the packers have given up the fourth most pass yards in the league and Sam Shields is out again. That's a game that I'm really interested in. It's probably my favorite game of the week. It has bonanza potential between Rogers and Eli Manning. And last one and last one is Derek Carr at home. Chargers are giving up the 6 most pass yards and there's no Jason Verrett. So those are kind of your higher options.

[Mike Wright]

Who's your, who's your favorite low, low end guy? That the cheap guy where you're like, I'm, I'm going to the moon with this guy?

[Ben Cummins]

Yeah. I mean, I think we have to look at Brian Hoyer again because look at his price. Yeah, he's $6,000. You know, Carson Wentz, the Broncos quarterbacks are interesting, but they're all up there in salary and you got Brian Hoyer sitting there at $6,000. The Colts have given up the ninth most pass yards this year and Brian Hoyer has been, has finished as a quarterback one each of the past two weeks. So if you're going cheap, I think you have to look at Brian Hoyer again.

[Jason Moore]

Love it.

[Mike Wright]

So let's move over to the running back position. How are you handling it this week, my friend?

[Ben Cummins]

Okay, so Le'Veon Bell is always in play. He's the best running in the NFL, always. His first week back he had 82% of the running back touches for the Steelers, saw six targets, caught five balls. It looks like Eli Rogers is going to be out again. And I personally think Le'Veon Bell is the second best wide receiver on the Steelers. So you're going to get the volume, you're going to get him putting up points. We also, I can't believe I'm even saying this, but got to talk about DeMarco Murray for a second. He's the main guy on the Titans offense right now. I was hesitant to use him weeks one through three because he was only seeing 60 to 70% of the running back touches for the Titans. Derrick Henry was getting some play, but in week four he touched the ball, not he got. He saw 90% of the running Back touches for the Titans. And the Dolphins are giving up the fourth most rush yards this year. So he's in play at 8,400. Melvin Gordon's a guy we got to look at again. Now he only had 36 rush yards on 19 carries last week, which isn't great. You got to check the injury reports with the offensive line. But in week three he touched it 91% of the time within the backfield for the Chargers and last week it was 89. So you know he's getting most of the opportunities and obviously we want volume for running backs. He catches passes, he leads the NFL and rush touchdowns. And the Raiders are giving up the second most rush yards in the league.

[Andy Holloway]

One more.

[Ben Cummins]

I'm just going to throw at you real quick.

[Jason Moore]

Sure.

[Ben Cummins]

Kind of more. This is kind of more gpp. But Todd Gurley interests me a little bit. They're at home. The Bills have given up five rushing touchdowns this year. Three of those were against Forte. If you look at some of their other matchups, they haven't really faced great run running teams. I know the Ravens were in week one where they had, you know, the horrible four set Terrence west committee going on there. Benny Cunningham got hurt last week. He had a hamstring injury and because of that Gurley caught five passes. He caught all five of his targets. We know he can catch the ball. The problems just been he hasn't gotten the opportunities. But monitor Benny Cunningham if he's out. Gurley is really interesting so somebody to just think about it. 7600 if you're going to go cheap. Terence west is an option and he's 6400 so he's a little bit cheaper. It sounds like Kenneth Dixon is is going to play, but there's also reports that they're going to bring him along slowly. He's missed all this time with a knee injury. Buck Allen was inactive for the first two games, so that shows how much they love him. And west first real chance last week he got 20, 21 carries, rushed for 113 yards and a touchdown. And now he gets a Washington defense at home that's giving up the third most rush yards in the league and has given eight, given up eight rush touchdowns, which is tied for the most in the league. And two sneaky PPR plays. You got Duke Johnson and Belial Powell. Duke Johnson has seen 15 targets over the last two weeks and Belial Powell has seen 16 targets over the past two weeks. Johnson's 5300 and Powell's 5100. And if you look at the game flow of those two games, the jets and the Browns are probably gonna have to be throwing a lot.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, sure, let's. All right, let's move over to the wide receiver. Do you have a couple. Give me your GPP guys that you're throwing out this week for the wide receivers?

[Ben Cummins]

Okay. So the number one is Odell Beckham. Absolutely love Odell Beckham this week. Didn't really love some of the stuff he said in the media this week, but I'm not going to let that take money out of my pocket.

[Andy Holloway]

He's.

[Ben Cummins]

If you look at Antonio Brown, Antonio Brown's $9,600, you can get Odell Beckham for $1,100 cheaper. I think he's an elite GPP play. We have all this talk about he's not seeing the targets as much, but if you look at his first four weeks, he's actually had pretty similar stats. He just hasn't caught the touchdowns. He's seen 39 targets this year, which is only nine off the league lead. Sam Shields is out again, which is why I talked about liking Eli Manning. And if you look at the last two wide receiver ones that go, that have gone against the Packers, Stefan Diggs put up nine for 182 and a touchdown and Marvin Jones put up six for 205 and two touchdowns. So I absolutely love Odell Beckham. If we want to look at strictly gpp, I'm interested in Brandon Marshall a lot. You got no. You got no Eric Decker. Brandon Marshall is 11th in the NFL in targets with 39. Same amount as Odell Beckham. He saw 12 last week in the first game. Without Decker, they're probably going to have to throw a lot. I just said that with Belial Powell. And the Steelers are giving up the third most passing yards in the NFL this year. Jordy Nelson is interesting with a for a stack with Odell Beckham, but he's pretty high up there. I think Amari Cooper is another elite GPP play here because obviously the talks all about Michael Crabtree and he's a great play too. But I just, I just look at it and Jason Verrett's now out. Cooper has seen 35 targets to Crabtree's 37. So those are the two guys in the offense. And if this is Cooper's time, he could be a great GPP play because people are going to be off of.

[Mike Wright]

Him moving over to the tight ends. If you're wading through the bar fee middle tier tight ends Give me like two or three options that you're looking at.

[Ben Cummins]

Okay. I really like Will Ty. It looks like Larry Janelle is going to be out with a concussion. You got to make sure he is. But if he's out, Will ties cheap. He's $4,800. He's in my favorite game of the week. Giants, Packers. I already talked about loving Eli Manning. He Ty caught 42 passes last year and most of that was in the last seven games with Dunel out. He caught four passes last week after Dunel went out, which was the most all season. So I really like Ty and Zach Ertz is very interesting as well because he probably has the best tight end matchup of the week. The Lions have given up 12 pass touchdowns this year, which is the second most. They gave up 12 pass touchdowns to tight ends last year, which was the most to tight ends. They gave up three touchdowns to tight ends in Week one against the Colts. They gave up one to Delaney Walker in Week two, one to Richard Rogers in Week three and and one to Zach Miller in Week four. The Eagles love to throw to the tight end. If you add up the targets between Ertz and Trey burton, they've seen 20 targets in three games. And players coming back from injury are always low owned if we're talking about GPP tournaments. So Zach Ertz is very interesting as well.

[Mike Wright]

All right, in the defense, are you paying up for the defense?

[Ben Cummins]

I think I am. You look at the Broncos at 5100 now I again talking about GPP plays They're going against the Falcons, the best defense in the league you can get at probably a low own price because the Falcons and Matt Ryan have been so good. But the Broncos are at home. I don't expect Matt Ryan to keep it up. Maybe he'll just keep shutting me up. But I think the Broncos will have a pretty good game. But The Vikings are $4,800 right up there. With the Broncos as best defense in the league. They're at home against the Texans. We saw the Patriots make Brock Osweiler look terrible a few weeks ago in Foxborough and you look at it, the vikings are only $800 more than the cheapest defense. So I'm looking at them because I also like the Steelers, but The Steelers are $100 more than the Vikings. So I'm thinking probably just play it safe with either the Broncos or Vikings.

[Mike Wright]

I love it. All right. Ben Cummins, staff writer for the fantasy footballers.com youm can find him on Twitter. What's the Twitter handle? My Man.

[Ben Cummins]

Ben Cummins, ff.

[Mike Wright]

All right, I appreciate your time, my friend. Talk to you again later.

[Ben Cummins]

Absolutely. Had a great time.

[Jason Moore]

All right, thanks again to Ben Cummins for joining us on the show. BC making his podcast debut here, sharing some good information. Chris Meaney will be back with us next week and we appreciate Ben jumping on. He's got great articles over on the website and so definitely check out the website, all the resources over there. You can submit questions to the show. And before we go, I do want to give a shout out to Owen. Owen is we. Well, Owen and Todd and Liam. This is a family, a fantasy football family. And I got turned on to Owen's YouTube channel this morning and Owen is doing this fantasy football boy and he does all this research and breaks out these sleepers and it's really cool to see. You know, I have a son that's seven and some young boys that I help get into the fantasy football world even more as they grow up. And so I thought it was really cool. And I know that his brother Liam is going through some tough times and. And Todd, his father. And so I. They said that, you know, fantasy football has been part of getting them through some difficult things. And I just wanted to give a shout out to Owen for his awesome channel. Keep going, buddy. That's awesome.

[Andy Holloway]

And big shout out, guys.

[Jason Moore]

Way to be there for your brother Liam. And yeah, I just wanted to give that shout out before we close out the show.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

See ya.

[Andy Holloway]

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