Fantasy Football Today - Week 8 Weather, Injuries and Start or Sit (11/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Getting you ready for week eight with some weather updates and some injury updates and more right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5. Good morning. It is Sunday. We are ready for football. Adam Azer and Heath Cummings on Fantasy Football Today in 5, a podcast that gets you caught up fast on the fantasy news and advice that you need to know. Follow and stream us on Spotify. Heath, no matter what happens today, the big winner is Daylight Savings Time. Hope you enjoy that extra hour. Extra hour of research in the morning is fantastic. I really celebrated Halloween. Celebrated the heck out of Halloween.

Starting point is 00:00:33 It was great. Now it's week eight. I'm sure you did. Okay, well, I'm going to ask you the same question to start. Any games in jeopardy of being postponed? You don't have to ask me that anymore. We're not doing that anymore. We don't do that anymore.

Starting point is 00:00:42 It doesn't exist anymore. I was a little worried about Monday night. I might send out a worried about Monday night. I might send out a note about Monday night to have replacement options just because the Giants had a COVID scare, the Bucs had an equipment manager test positive, so it's not the worst idea, but we expect it to be played.

Starting point is 00:00:57 Let's talk about Seattle and San Francisco. Any running backs you like in this game? Who's playing? No. Listen, I think with Tevin Coleman back, you have to really be cautious with the 49ers running backs. Tevin Coleman, Jamichael Hasty,

Starting point is 00:01:12 Jarek McKinnon, all three have top 10 upside, but it might be dependent on who's the first guy to run through an eight-yard hole and not anybody touch him for 30 yards. That's what 49ers running backs do. I don't know who that first guy will be. They are boom or bust

Starting point is 00:01:27 flex, nothing more. DJ Dallas is really interesting if Chris Carson, Carlos Hyde, and Travis Homer all can't go. We kind of expect they all won't be able to go, but they're all going to try to go before the game and pregame warm-ups. That means

Starting point is 00:01:43 if you were considering using dj dallas you have to have a backup ready somebody else playing a late game thankfully there's a ton of games that you could choose from and sunday night games uh monday night game like whatever but i would be very hesitant using any back from this game if dj dallas is the only healthy one to see the best back in this game he would be my is the only healthy one to see the best back in this game? He would be my highest ranked. I assume one of those three 49ers running backs would probably be better,

Starting point is 00:02:10 but who in the world would know who it would be? You're going to get a lot of questions, so I have been defaulting to Tevin Coleman. I'm definitely not going with Jarek McKinnon. What about you? If I had to choose between Coleman and Hasty I'd probably start Hasty What are you thinking about the weather today?

Starting point is 00:02:30 It's not great all my weather information comes from Kevin Roth you talked to Kevin Roth earlier in the week it's changed a little since you talked to him he has three games on Sunday morning in the red that's the Patriots at Buffalo

Starting point is 00:02:44 you weren't going to play any Patriots anyway. Might be a problem for Josh Allen, though. That's the Raiders at the Browns. And that's a game with Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield, two of my favorite streaming options coming into the week that I'm a little bit less interested in. And then the third one in the red was Minnesota at Green Bay. Again, Kirk Cousins, another streaming option for some people.

Starting point is 00:03:06 And then also I think that Cincinnati Titans game, not quite as bad. And all of these are basically wins. There's, I don't think, much concern besides that. But it's really, really windy in these places. And it might just be something to consider if you have a kicker or if you have a wide receiver and you're trying to decide between that guy who's playing in one of these games and another guy who's not. I would use this as a tiebreaker, not as something where you have to bench all the quarterbacks and wide receivers in these games. Okay, well, one of those games that you mentioned, Bears hosting the Saints, Michael Thomas.

Starting point is 00:03:40 I didn't mention that game. Oh, you should have mentioned that game because that one could be a bad one too. That one is not in the red or the orange it is in the yellow i think it's a little bit later right so i think they're gonna miss i think it's a four o'clock game okay i'm sorry so one game that kevin initially mentioned that apparently the forecast has gotten better which is a good thing saints bears um when you look at that game michael thomas out but alan robinson in uh your thoughts they are like can you trust any saints wide receivers and are you starting Allen Robinson? Traquan is a number three wide receiver for me.

Starting point is 00:04:09 Allen Robinson immediately becomes my start right back in my lineup, not even worried about it. He gets 10 targets a game. Sorry, Dallas Goddard is going to play, start or sit? I would like to start Dallas Goddard unless you have someone

Starting point is 00:04:23 you really feel good about it. Tied in, I'd start Goddard. Unless you have someone you really feel good about at tight end, I'd start Goddard. Phillip Lindsey is probably going to play. If he plays, start or sit Melvin Gordon and or Phillip Lindsey. I lowered Melvin Gordon from a top 10 back to a low end number two running back. I'm probably still starting him. Lindsey is a flex. Right in that Jemichael, Hasty, Tevin, Coleman,

Starting point is 00:04:47 all the other running backs you don't quite want to start but behind the guys like the baltimore ravens running backs behind the chargers running backs um in the flex range are you feeling good about the three big replacement running backs this week jamal williams boston scott giovanni bernard bernard concerns me a little bit titans run defense has gotten better lately, and he's got three new offensive linemen, and they haven't been able to run the ball well all year. The thing is, that's the thing. His offensive linemen that he lost weren't

Starting point is 00:05:14 good in the first place. They don't have good offensive linemen. Two starting tackles at a center though. I mean, now you've got second stringers at three spots. Yeah, I would anticipate he will have more receiving yards than rushing yards. And I'm not sitting Giovanni Bernard. We've got 11 games now where he's played without Joe Mixon or he's received at least 10 carries.

Starting point is 00:05:37 He's pretty much 11 for 11 and delivering at least running back to production and about 50-50 for giving you 18 plus PPR fantasy points. I'm starting Jamal Williams as a top six back. I'm starting Giovanni Bernard as a top 12 back. I'm starting Giovanni Bernard as a top 12 back. I'm starting Boston Scott as a top 18 back. It'd be very unlikely I'd sit any of those guys. Okay, everybody. As I sit here at 815 a.m. Eastern, it feels

Starting point is 00:05:55 like this could be the lowest scoring week that we've had all year due to the weather, due to the buys, due to the fact that Thursday was kind of a dud. We shall see. Thanks a lot for listening to Fantasy Football today in five. Make sure you follow us and stream us on Spotify. And for Heath Cummings, I am Adam Azer. Good luck in week eight.

Fantasy Football Today - Week 8 Weather, Injuries and Start or Sit (11/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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