DFS: Debate Team - Is Tom Brady the No. 1 QB Option in Week 10?

Each week, two of theScore's DFS experts weigh in on a contentious daily fantasy topic. This week: Is Tom Brady the No. 1 QB option in Week 10?

Jason Wilson: Tom Brady is the best quarterback. He is a sure thing every single week. His lowest yardage total came against the Cowboys in Week 5 where he "only" managed 275 yards to go with his two touchdowns.

To put that into perspective, the two QBs with more total yards, Philip Rivers and Drew Brees, each have two games where they threw for fewer yards. Rivers also hasn't had his bye week, so Brady actually carries a better weekly average.​

That should be enough to win this debate. Brady owns the air every time he hits the field. As a Dolphins fan, I hate this, but I have to admit his greatness.

While the Patriots showed their system could succeed without him, Brady has such a command on the field that he could succeed just as well without the Pats. If he were behind center in San Francisco or Dallas or Detroit, they'd all have winning records. How can you possibly argue against him?

Josh Wegman: Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time, but he won't be the greatest fantasy football quarterback this week - Aaron Rodgers will be.

Home-field advantage in the NFL has a bigger impact than any other sport on the planet. Rodgers has a great matchup at home against Detroit, while Brady has to go on the road to face the Giants.

Rodgers has tamed the Lions throughout his career; he owns a career 10-2 record with 22 touchdowns and five interceptions for a 111 quarterback rating. So far this season, Detroit is coincidentally allowing a 111 quarterback rating to all NFL QBs this year, the second-highest in the league.

While the Giants don't boast the same defensive personnel from Super Bowls XLII and XLVI where they held Brady to a combined 31 points, Steve Spagnuolo, the defensive coordinator from SB XLII, is still with the G-Men. It's the only defense to truly have Brady's number.

Even in regular season action, Brady owns a pedestrian 87.3 QB rating in three games against the Giants.

Jason Wilson: 466. 275. 312. Those are Brady's passing yards in his three road games. All of them wins, obviously, since the Pats are undefeated. Home-field advantage matters if you're not Tom Brady. If you are Brady, it's just another day at the office.

Since you're pinpointing the Lions D, we ought to compare them to the Giants. The Lions have allowed 2,016 yards in the air. The Giants have allowed a whopping 2,772 - most in the league. The Lions have allowed 14 touchdown passes. The Giants? 17.

Detroit has managed to sack opposing quarterbacks 20 times. The Giants have had a terrible pass rush, sacking the QB only nine times. Brady is going to have all the time in the world and carve through the secondary like a hot knife through butter.

You can't put much stock in Brady's numbers against the Giants compared to Rodgers' against the Lions. Brady hasn't played a regular season game against the Giants since 2011. Rodgers plays the Lions twice a year.

While the Giants won the last game they played, Brady still threw for 342 yards and two TDs. And this was at a time when Julian Edelman was but a bit player. With as much turnover and evolution within the teams, comparing today's Patriots-Giants matchup to the matchup of 2011 is a bit unfair.

Rodgers will probably put up good numbers, but not quite at Brady's level. No one will.

Josh Wegman: Edelman may not have been a factor in 2011, but Brady still had a 122-catch Wes Welker, a 17-touchdown Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez.

Detroit is allowing an alarming 73.1 completion percentage against - the highest in the league. This will simply be too easy for Aaron Rodgers, who owns a career 65.7 completion percentage - third highest of all-time. Where does Brady sit on this list you might ask? Twelfth, behind QBs such as Tony Romo, Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan and, dare I say it, Matt Schaub.

The Giants have forced 13 interceptions, while the Lions have only forced four all season. Rodgers and Brady are both two of the best protectors of the football in the league (five interceptions combined) but the likelihood of Brady throwing an interception this week would be higher than Rodgers in my estimation.

New York's low sack totals have come without their best pass rusher, Jason Pierre-Paul, who made his return last week. JPP provides a huge boost and will certainly draw double teams based on his name alone.

Speaking of additions and subtractions, Brady will be without his third-leading receiver, RB Dion Lewis, who suffered a torn ACL and is done for the season.

Lewis leads the entire league with 43 broken tackles. Do you expect LeGarrette Blount (36 career receptions in six seasons), Brandon Bolden (30 career receptions in four seasons) or James White (12 career receptions in two seasons) to be even half as productive in the passing game as Lewis was?

I know Belichick finds guys out of nowhere, but if any of these backs could catch and break tackles in open space like Lewis, they would have produced. They've all been on the Patriots' roster longer than Lewis.

Jason Wilson: You creatively left out the individual interception totals between the two. Rodgers has thrown three while Brady has thrown only two. Both are impressive, but Brady has also thrown 76 more passes than Rodgers. Again, career totals don't matter as much as the here and now.

Where's Matt Schaub? Brady has completed 68.6 percent of his passes this year. Rodgers? 64.7. Who cares what happened last year or the year before? Or in 2011 when the Pats last played the Giants? Those numbers hardly matter when it comes to this week or this season.

While the Giants have racked up a relatively high number of interceptions, eight of those were distributed among Kirk Cousins, Matt Cassel and Sam Bradford. Not exactly the caliber of Brady, are they?

As for Lewis, it doesn't matter. Edelman and Gronkowski are all Brady needs through the air. And did you forget about Danny Amendola? He's caught a pair of TDs and had a couple extremely productive games. He could easily step it up again.

That's the beauty of Brady and the Patriots - they elevate receivers to the level they want. Every time a Randy Moss or Wes Welker was allowed to walk, people started saying the sky was falling and the Patriots were done. Wrong.

If there is any rule of thumb everyone should have learned by now, it's don't bet against Tom Brady. Just ask Roger Goodell.

Josh Wegman: While Brady may have a slight edge in terms of statistics this season so far, let's take a stroll through strength of schedule, shall we?

The best defense Brady has seen all season is the stingy New York Jets, followed by Rex Ryan's underachieving group in Buffalo. Aside from those two, Brady and the Pats have seen Jacksonville, Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami and Washington - some of the absolute worst units in the league.

Rodgers has also had his fair share of cupcake games including, Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco and San Diego, but the other four? Seattle, St. Louis, Denver and Carolina - four of the top defenses in the league. Denver, St. Louis and Seattle in particular have given up the fewest, second-fewest and third-fewest fantasy points per-game to quarterbacks.

Yet, Rodgers still has a remarkable 19:3 TD/INT ratio. Brady's 22:2 is exceptional, but I'll take the guy who's been through the gauntlet.

Rodgers has also done this without Davante Adams for most of the year. Adams, without a doubt Green Bay's No. 1 downfield threat, went down in Week 3 and didn't return until Week 8, where he was eased back into action. Week 9 was the first week where he wasn't on a pitch count, and he recorded seven catches for 93 yards against Josh Norman and the Panthers' defense.

Not only am I expecting a great outing from Rodgers, I'm expecting a possible record breaking performance against a Lions D who's best pass rusher - Ziggy Ansah - and best corner - Darius Slay - are battling injuries. Yet, you're banking on Brady to fight his Giant demons?

Let's not forget that fact that other elite QBs such as Drew Brees (at WAS), Cam Newton (at TEN), Andy Dalton (vs HOU) and even Brady's counterpart Eli Manning all could outscore Brady this week. The odds are clearly against you, Mr. Wilson.