Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 14 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Playoff Madness

He's just looked really bad. He has looked terrible. And you somehow turn that into a point in his favor for next year. No, no, no. He stinks. I'm just saying. T.Y. Hilton, nine for one 15 and one touchdown. Emmanuel Sanders, Mike, start of the week, delivering the goods. Tyreek Hill, we talked about him. Six for 66 and a touchdown. Don't forget about him. Tarek the freak. Jordy Nelson. Monster game again, two touchdowns. J.J. Nelson. His brother.

You realize that J.J. Nelson is on this list. From one carry with two touches. Yeah. Both touchdowns. So fantasy football people, like bad beats are out there. Yeah. There you go. J.J. Nelson, one of the top scoring wide receivers of the week, two touches. Yeah. A 56 yard touchdown run and an eight yard reception. Three touches for D. Jax, but 102 and a touchdown. And Devante Adams, again, efficiency, four for 104 in a touchdown.

What about Kenny Stills? Are you buying into... No. Stills at all? No. They're far far away. Especially not without Ryan Tannahill now. Yep. Very fair. Other guys that did not let you down, O'Dell Beckham Jr. finding that slant and go. And he means go. Four for 94 in a touchdown. Demarius Thomas 10 for 126. That's nice. Him and Sanders both delivered for you. I had them back to back in my rankings, too. I think I did as well. I mean, it was the Titan secondary.

You can beat him. What do you think about the Sammy Watkins game? They have Cleveland next week. Watkins was four for 54 and a touchdown. I like it. I mean, he's healthy. He's looking better. He's getting snaps. And that was, I mean, for him to even finish four for 54 and one in that, in those conditions. I mean, you look at Big Ben. Thank goodness. He was throwing interceptions just all over the place. I mean, there was wacky stuff going on in that game.

And Dantrell-Inman, I think is worth pointing out as well. He had another good game, six for 71 and one. That's three weeks in a row with a touchdown for him. And if you go back, you know, to week eight or so, he's pretty much catching five balls a game on average. Coming up against Oakland, followed by Cleveland to finish out the playoffs. Yeah, that's not bad. I think if you did not have the Falcons defense and you did not have Libyan Bell, one of the guys that won you this week was Tyler Eifford.

Yeah, big performance from Tyler Eifford. My start of the week. I'm just, no, I'm just saying, because a lot of people, and what's funny, what's funny, no, no, no. I said, you know, look, I know this guy's probably obvious, but there's going to be people who have Tyler Eiford and someone else. And Mike, you played against one of them, and you were so happy. Yeah, he had, he had Zeus on the bench. And after Thursday, I thought, what a sucker. Yeah, Zeus over 100 yards. And I told you, I was like, I think I would still rather play Eifer.

and he did pretty good. All right. Other efficiencies at Titan, Zach Ertz had a great game, 10 for 112. He is balling out, man. It made sense. This week it made sense. You know, Green Beckham was going to be out. Matthew's first game back from injury. So this coming week, no, every week. Every week. Zach Ertz is on fire right now. He's got a great rapport going with Carson Wentz. Now, this coming week, though,

He goes up against Baltimore, who's pretty much best against tight ends. So you've got good, hot, on-fire tight-in against a great defense against them. At tight-end, you don't know. I mean, it's hard to have other great options. If you're already locked into Zach Kurtz, you know, we'll talk about our matchups and tight-ins to start this week. And maybe there's an option on your waiver wire that is better than Zach Hertz. I doubt it.

But it's hard to imagine. Four of six in the last week's for Zekker. And what's bad? Double digits. If he plays Baltimore and catches half as many passes, you're probably still pretty happy with Zekirts. Yeah, fair. Caugh Rudolph delivered. Charles Clay had a good game. Finally got a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. And he made a big deal out of it. Travis Kelsey, we talked about him. Great game as well. So let's go ahead and talk about some of our favorite guys this week.

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They're great. And now I'm distracted by food. Sorry. Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week, some guys that we really like this week that can have a fantasy impact on your week 15 matchups and your playoff matchups. For me, it's Tevin Coleman, guys. Hey, welcome back, Tevin. It's Tevin Coleman. I told a lot of people that I felt pretty good about Coleman this week. If you wanted to start him, look, there's only so much to go around without Julio Jones. But Coleman's an integral part. And look, Mike was facing Devonta Freeman.

one of the poopers of the week. They gave the ball to Tevin Coleman. We just saw what Ballal Powell did to San Francisco. He ran hard and he ran well. And that's what Tevin Coleman can do. Seem what everyone is doing to San Francisco. Yeah, I mean, and Coleman was an early season powerhouse. So if Julio misses more time, I think it's even more reason to love Tevin Coleman in next week's matchup. But even if Julio's back, I think you have to give him consideration. I mean, this is a juicy, juicy matchup. And if there's one thing we know about the Falcons, they're scoring touchdowns.

It's hard for me to see Tevin Coleman not find his way into the end zone next week against San Francisco. So he's my Raising King's Rising Star. Yeah, I'll piggyback off of that because you just mentioned my Rising Star. I did? You did. San Francisco? Oh, yes. Oh, play them. Play them early and often. No, it's below Powell.

Belal Powell is a guy, if you remember back, if you were part of our ultimate draft kit, and you had that, you saw in our sleeper section, Belel Powell was one of our sleeper selections in the draft season because he is extremely talented and we thought, hey, Matt Forte is in a new location, he's a little older. If he can't get it done, watch out for Belal Powell because he can.

We all know he has the talent to get it done. He showed us last year. Now, we are wrong on Matt Forte. Matt Forte has been okay this year, and he's been young enough to get the job done. But this knee injury could be serious. It's looking like, it's way too early to tell. If Forte's out there this week, I'm not going to be shocked. But early indications are people would be surprised if Forte plays this week. This week, they play the dolphins. And if Belal Powell is the only guy, he will be a workhorse.

back. And Belal Powell can get the job done. I know it was San Francisco, but you don't luck into 29 carries for 145 yards and two touchdowns plus five receptions for 34 yards. That's talent. And when you match talent and opportunity against the dolphins who are just, they're a middle of the pack run defense, I love him. I think he's going to be the type of a waiver wire pickup.

like Tim Hightower was last year that can help you win a championship if Matt Forte stays out. If you had to start, let's say Julio's out next week, Tevin Coleman or Bilal Powell. Assuming also that Forte is out, for me it's Belal Powell without a doubt. Interesting. Yeah, I think it's just an opportunity. Yeah, I would probably play. It's a matter of play sufficiency versus opportunity. I would play Kevin Coleman.

I don't, yeah, that's fine. I think both will be nice options. Just reds, yeah, red zone versus quantity. But yeah, it's a, both, both great, both great options. And this is, this is a first for this section. That, my rising star is not a single character. Hmm. It is a multi-group. It is the Atlanta Falcons DST. What? We talked about these guys, the thought,

The playoff schedule for the Falcons DST. Well, everyone's getting ready for the playoffs. You're like, oh, the Patriots, they have a great schedule and they're a good defense. You have the Falcons. They have a great schedule, but I don't know. They're not a good defense. Then they've been playing well. They've been playing well enough. And then they come out and they just smash, smash the Rams. You think, oh, well, it's the Rams.

Golf. Next week we've talked about it's the 49ers and then the Panthers. So I have confidence now. I have confidence to start the Atlanta DST next week. Maybe you've missed out on stashing the bills against the Browns. I think the Falcons are going to be another great option here when you have Kaepernick who's likely to turn the ball over at least once or twice. And then same with Cam Newton. I'm talking this is a multi-week.

Type of a situation for the falcons. You could ride them to the championship. It's very possible. All right. Those were the Raising Keynes, Rising Stars of the Week. Feed your holiday party with a Raising Cain's tailgate this year. Their 24-hour marinated cooked-to-order chicken fingers will make anyone have a holly jolly jolly. Holly and jolly. And while you are there, don't forget to pick up Raising Cain's gift cards for the perfect holiday gift right now by a $25 gift card and get a $5 bonus for free. That's a Raising Cain's kind of jolly. Mmm, delicious.

That's what I'm talking about. All right. Moving on from the more delicious topics. We need to get into it now, guys. Are you ready? Yeah. Poopped in his big boy pants. Well, here's what I want to share with you guys. This is what everyone's been waiting for. Let me share some members of a special club, and they're called the single-digit quarterback club. Russell Wilson, Ben Rothesberger, Drew Brees, James Winston, Derek Carr.

Marcus Marietta, and Philip Rivers. Wow. Oops. Those are some pretty good quarterbacks there, Andy. I hope you purchased some Kleenex to mop up the tears that these guys caused this week. And I hope, honestly, if you played one, which... Chances are pretty good. Chances are pretty good. If you played one, hopefully you played against one.

Because these guys let you down in a big way. I mean, the most disappointing... Who's the most disappointing for you? The most disappointing... I'm just going to let it go. I'm going to let the music go. The most disappointing to me is Drew Brees. He led people to the playoffs, and this is two weeks in a row where he is yet to throw a touchdown. Eight quarters without a touchdown. Nine. Nine? Yeah. Come on. Nine quarters without a touchdown. That can't be true. He threw one to Brandon Cooks, but it got called back on review. Oh, because he dropped it.

That's right. So it wasn't a touchdown. Well, so Drew Brie, I mean, what do you do? Yeah, I'm letting it go all the way through. You got 20 seconds left. James Winston in the same game. My poopiest pants the week is James Winston. Taking on the Saints. The, uh, I got lured in the long play, the long stash waiting for this week. It didn't.

It didn't work out for Doug Martin, who the Buccaneers were crapping all over this week. And Doug Martin goes out here, has a pretty solid game. Didn't work out for Mike Evans. No. Didn't work out for James Winston. Dak Prescott last night. A lot of people counted on him. Mike, you won because Dak Prescott could not deliver in League of Record. Yeah. So, I mean, where do you go from here? Because people want to know, I mean, let's say you survived the Drew Brie situation. Now you've got to go play in Arizona.

Well, you don't, I don't think you start Drew Breeze on the road in Arizona. That being said, I am looking forward to week 16. Drew Breeze at home is very different than Drew Breeze on the road. And I expect that that game will be high scoring the Jamis side as well. If Drew Breeze is getting it done, then James is forced to throw more. So the best bounce back candidate of this group. Ooh, the best bounce back.

For me, it's probably Russell Wilson at home against the Rams. That's exactly what I was going to say. Against the Rams? Yes, against the Rams. Trap game. No. I know the Rams played the Seahawks very well. Seahawks just lost. They're coming home. The ram. Okay. You just, hey. You've planted my flag and I'm going down with Russ. Okay. Because you're, I think you're going down then. Okay. So who's your bounce back?

Uh, my bounce back of this list is, uh, I wanted to say Big Ben, but he goes on the road against the Bengals. Uh, I would say my, the bounce back for me would be rivers of this group at home against Oakland. Uh, that's, that's who I would bounce back with. If we're talking, uh, what's yours day?

I said mine was Russell Wilson as well. Did you agree with that? Okay. I did. Running backs, there were some that did let you down. Jason said most of them didn't, but Devante Freeman clearly, six for six. Now, that was so bizarre. It wasn't that bizarre in the sense that what happened in that game was they got up early. The defense took over and they didn't really need Freeman at all. I remember late into the game, it was like he had four carries. And that was just because they didn't need him. And so I don't expect that to be.