Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 17 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

Two, three, one, one, one, three, four. New strategy next year. Second half draft? Trade for. You redraft midway through the year? No, you trade for Wilson halfway through the year. Russell Wilson's by start of the week. All right. Let's go ahead and flip over to the wide receiver position. We've got three interesting names here. I'm going with Steve Smith. This is his last game in the NFL. The Baltimore Ravens have nothing else to play for if not for Steve Smith. Steve Smith, somebody who came back.

to that organization after a devastating injury last year, simply to say, you put your confidence in me. I'm not going out this way. I'm going to come back and give you something, which is what he did this year. He's been their best wide receiver the past few weeks. I really, really like Steve Smith in this game. Now, we're not talking 200 yards and two touchdowns necessarily. But I think Steve Smith has a bona fide high target game, so I like him. I'll jump in here because I'm doubling down again, America.

with the jaguars things are going crazy over here in week 17 when you're putting all your faith in the jacksville jaguars alan robinson i just i like what happened i like that the coaching staff pulled their head out of their keysters and said we got to figure out different ways to get allan robinson the ball sure he's not what we that sophomore year from out robinson i think that's going down as the outlier

as his average catch has returned. He's at 11.8 yards for an average catch. His rookie year, 11.4. That sophomore year is 17.5, so that's going to be the outlier. However, I still think he's a great wide receiver. He's big, can get things done against that Colts secondary. So I just, I think that he's going to return back to that. He's a startable wide receiver too, and you can have some confidence in him. So I'm pumping it up, pumping it up.

Pump it up. While the heat is pumping, I am going with Golden. That was the worst transition of all the time. I'm going with Golden Tate. Golden Tate got off to a slow start as well, the first half of this year, but the second half of this year, he has been exactly what we hope for in preseason. Detroit needs this game. Detroit is extremely motivated, and they're playing against the Packers, who you know are going to be able to put up points.

But the Packer's secondary has been atrocious. They're the 31st ranked team against wide receivers. Golden Tate hasn't had less than five catches in, when was the last time? That was the last six games. He's had five or more receptions every single game. Two of his last four games, he's over 100 yards. He's a yards after the catch guy. And if you're going to do it, Green Bay Secondary is a game. You're going to be able to do it against. How many games did you say he's had five or more catches? Consecutively.

four, five. Oh, I said six. It's been 11 games. Yes. Since Marvin Jones had a five catch game. Oh, Marvin Jones. Marvin Jones has been in double digits two times. You burn brights. His first three weeks. He burned the brightest against Green Bay. His first three weeks, he was amazing. Since then two double digit games, both were 11, two touchdowns since week three. From what I understand, from what I understand, he cannot. He's not a number one. He cannot handle press coverage.

He cannot get off press covers. You press Marvin Jones, and he presses the off button. I mean, it just doesn't happen. It's like Major League. I can't remember the guy, but he couldn't hit the curveball. Yeah. You find the one weakness and you just destroy him. Is that, we got tight ends. I'm going with Eric Ebron this week. He was an eight catch guy last week, great week, faces the 20th ranked tight-in defense this week in an important game for Detroit, obviously, playoff matchup.

or a playoff deciding game. So I'm going to go with Eric Ebrand. I'm going to re-roll them this week and chase those points. You guys have some tight-in picks? Yeah, my tight-in pick is a guy that helped me grab a championship last week, who has been on fire lately, who is almost going to be Mike's pump the brakes as soon as their starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor went down. It's Charles Clay. Well, he didn't go down, got pulled. He went down to the bench. Yes, he went down to the bench to save the team cash.

So here's the deal. Mike alluded to this a few episodes ago in the fact that when Charles Clay has played with E.J. Manuel.

He's actually performed better than when he's played with Tyrod Taylor. He's had seven games with E.J. Manuel, and he's averaged 11 fantasy points per game in a PPR. He's had over two targets and almost two receptions more per game with E.J. Manuel. With how Charles Clay has been playing, their matchup against over the last five weeks, the Jets have been the worst against tight end, I think there's a good storm here where...

Look, if you've got your Lockton Loader, if you've got your Kelsey's, and you've got your Olsons, you've got your Jimmy Grams, you're in the championship. You very well might have them. But if you're in that championship and you got there and you're going, I don't have a tight in, Charles Clay's on a lot of waivers. He might have been picked up. You might have got there last week on his back. So.

I think you can play him despite Tyrod Taylor going to the bench. I like it. And I'm following the narrative that Antonio Gates is chasing the touchdown record. He wants to retire. He wants to be done with this game. So if he gets his two touchdowns, he's going to be out. Breaking news. Antonio Gates is retired. Oh, this is a sad face. What's going on? Oh, no. There are some stat corrections that we need to talk about. Oh, no. Amari Cooper.

has lost a reception for four yards. Oh, oh. Frank Gore's lost a rushing yard. Michael Crabtree was given a fumble. What? Wow. Oh, no. Hey, this could be happy music, too. Did you or someone you know lose a fantasy football championship by less than a point or maybe even less than two points?

What? Go check your roster. You could be a champ. Pretty crazy. The reason the sad music is there is because I was alerted to them being up by a listener moments ago, Colin, because I'm going to give him his day in the sun here on the show because of his day and sadness that is approaching. He had written me and told me this crazy story where he basically...

ended up, you know, winning by 125.06 to 124.72. But he had to Mari Cooper. Oh, no. Got a point adjustment, lost by half a point. My goodness. You're still a champ to me. Don't tell him. Don't tell your opponent. Don't tell your league. They might not check. They're checked out. You are the champ. So those point adjustments are pretty significant.

Those are pretty significant. Oh, wow. Especially the, like. The Crabtree fumble. The crab tree fumble at least. That's two points in a lot of leagues. Well, yeah, it wasn't a fumble lost, though. Oh. So it was just considered one fumble. That would, you know, if you have a play where you catch the ball and then you fumble and recover it yourself real quick, and then they don't see it. And then the league goes back and says, I don't know, we counted that as a fumble. That's what happened. So the Oakland Raiders, if you, you already mad at.

at the situation, sat at the situation with Carr. Now Crabtree and Cooper are going to affect your team. And then the Frank Gore won rushing yard may affect some people. That one's less significant because that's probably 0.1. Well, unless you're on that threshold. What did that knock him down to? Frank Gore went 99 yards. Oh, he went to 72. Okay. So he's okay. But yeah, the Cooper one's the big one because losing your reception, 0.5, losing the four yards.

Yeah, that's, if you're in a half point, that's almost a full point. You lost. If you're in a full point PPR, that's that's one point four points gone. Brutal. Roodle. Hope you played against them. Well, I, let's move on. Let's get happy. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom, boom kicker of the week. Oh, there's a lot of good kickers out there named Justin Tucker.

It's sad you don't make Canton Zorro your final week. Oh, Canton Zorro can never even be talked about again in this segment. Please don't ever do that to me. Look, there's great kickers. There's Justin Tucker. There's Stephen Gaskowski, Cairo Santos, Venetary, a lot of good options. But this week I'm going with Vegas. Okay, because there is a 56 point spread on the New Orleans Atlanta game. And you are not going to put up.

56 plus points without a kicker being heavily involved. And Matt Bryant has been great all year. I'm going with the favored team in a gargantuan over under. I think points are going to be scored. Put Matt Bryant in. He was my first boom, boom kicker of the week. He is my last boom boom kicker of the week. This is a Bryant sandwich, if you will. Although really, he's just the bread. So it's a... The tweets are coming in, man. No! The tweets are coming in. Are any of them victories?

Not yet. Oh, man. Lost by 0.06 this morning due to the stat correction. Oh, I caramba. We did say if you won by less than a point. I mean, I gave the warning, Mike, you corrected me. I said, you know, you might not want to brag too much until Thursday. Hope you listen to me, not Mike. Man, that is, you know, you're right. It's going to go the other direction, too.

I mean, but as often as someone loses, 100% of time that someone loses, the other person wins. So every single one of these guys, we're probably going to hear more of the stories of the losses because it's felt more. But man. All right. That's a little joy for your life. We had David Johnson bringing home a footclan title. That was the two little girls singing the David Johnson and Zeke's song there. Love it.

All right, just so you know, we've talked a little bit about the other shows coming up in the off season, but we will be here talking playoff football as well with the NFL playoffs going through January, the NFL playoff challenge and some of those fantasy things. We're going to do a little bet here in the studio. You guys can play along with us. So thanks for listening today. We've got our footcast now. If you're a supporter over at join the foot.com, you can have more fantasy footballers. So much foot. So much foot.

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