Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Good Vibes / Bad Vibes, Fantasy News

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compromising. Give Harry's a try to date. To the fantasy footballers podcast, coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome back to the show. We're back. Oh, my. I'm bringing the energy today. Oh, my. Two cups of coffee type of morning.

Oh, my. Yeah, yeah. Welcome in. Welcome in, everybody. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike, the fantasy hitman right in the building. Good morning, America. It's a happy Friday to all of you. Did you guys watch every snap of the first, preseason week four? Yeah, I, you know, that's my kids, my kids were just happy football was on. They put it on. They watched the games.

They reviewed them for me, and I'm bringing you my seven-year-old's advice today. The Broncos are colorful. Right, right. He loves the Broncos. I am a Cardinals fan, and it makes me upset. But it's all logo-based. And that's how you are. As a kid, I mean, I'm pretty sure like 80% of kids love the Bengals. Yeah. Bright orange. It's a tiger. My two-year-old loves him. Yeah, and people love the Denver horses. The Denver horses.

Yeah, the Denver Horses. All right, well, we've got a good show. We've got a good vibes, bad vibes show for you today. We're going to kind of be just kind of giving a lay of the land, how we feel about players. You have things like depth charts that are settling now at the end of the preseason. Some of you have drafted. Many of you are drafting this weekend, including ourselves. League of Record on Labor Day, we have a big draft. I got a draft.

I have a draft at 4 p.m. today as well. And I'm looking forward to it. Sorry, I was flashing back to the draft. Oh, yeah. With the draft. There's nothing better. There's nothing better. No, there's really nothing better. And this is the time of season where all of our close friends are texting us with every one of their picks as well. What do I do in this situation? But it should be a lot of fun. Have a good quick question for us today. And let's just jump into that right now.

So the quick question of the day is this. Can you explain the stat corrections and when they happen? And an add on to that question is, have you ever had stat corrections change the outcome of a matchup in any of your leagues? Any horror stories from this? So explain stat corrections what they are, when they take place, and that type of thing. Mike, you can explain the stat corrections, and then I'll give a story from this past season. Well, sure. So every...

You know, every service kind of keeps track of their own things as they're getting the information from their stat company. Yeah. And then once everything is done, because they're trying to get everything to you immediately. So they're live tracking. After that, they will go back. And every once in a while, they'll figure out, oh, well, so-and-so got charged a fumble when they really shouldn't have. Or this guy, he actually got...

nine yards instead of 10. Sometimes it's things like the past was actually behind the line of scrimmage. Yeah, so it's a run. So it's a run, not a, not a, you know, that's what it's, that's what it's real bad because then a quarterback loses an entire touchdown. And these things usually happen, which what sucks is they happen like Thursday, like Thursday, like Thursday, toward, more towards the end of the week. The audit happens Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah, and usually I think it's Thursday morning when it, when it rolls out to.

The audit happens Wednesday or Thursday, but I think it is usually Thursday morning where, for instance, ESPN, they'll be adjusted last season. Well, let me say this last point. There's normally about 10 or 11, maximum of about 20 normally, minimum of about 5 or 6.

Stat corrections every week. And a lot of the times they're related to the defense. A sack or a fumble or something that is not. Someone's credited a tackle when they shouldn't happen. Yeah, every week when there's a super close game. You're just hoping. You're just hoping for that stat correction. And last season, I just told this story on our footcast over at join the foot.com. But what happened last year? I got off to this awful week one start.

Greg Olson stunk, Alan Robinson stunk, Lamar Miller stunk, Sammy Watkins put up a zero, and my team just lost to what was supposed to be the worst team out there by about two, I think it was two points. And then, lo and behold, a stat correction actually made us tie, and then I had the tie breaker on my bench, so I won.

After I had lost. After I had died. I'm trying to recall. I know there was a situation involving you and a playoff matchup. I think this was back in 2011 or 2012 where you went to sleep in winter and you thought you were moving on to the playoffs. And then you woke up. A loser. You were out of the playoffs. That's no good. And last year in week 16, forget exactly what it was. But we have several people saying there was like a slide at the end of the game or someone took a large sack.

What was that play in Week 16 where people were like, they had won. They had been guaranteed their championship and something at the end of the game. It's just terrible. Yeah, and I would add this to the question to the answer as well. Sometimes you get a league where you see something on the field that doesn't seem to be reflected properly.

Just trust, in my opinion, what you've got to do in that situation is trust the system to give the appropriate points by the audit time as opposed to emailing your commissioner and telling him to change the points for you. Because more often than not, that is just opening up a can of worms in your league from a debate standpoint. And, you know, they're going to get those things right. When I'm watching and I see a player on an opposing roster, fumble, and then they lose the fumble. And they only get the minus one instead of the full minus two.

I'm furious. Yeah, because I want that update. But it always fixes the next morning. Yeah. All right. So before we get into the news and notes, I want to remind everybody about our Twitter. You can find us at the FF Ballers. We're always tweeting new articles, stuff from the show, exclusive giveaways, things like that. In fact, the giveaway for the signed David Johnson jersey just ended a couple of days ago, and I emailed the winner. Congratulations. And they were quite excited. Yes, I was.

No, he actually, it was nice because the guy who won, he had David Johnson win him his league last year, and now he receives a sign David Johnson jersey. Fantastic. Commemorate it. So that's pretty cool. You can find us on YouTube as well if you want to watch the show. And, yeah, Mike's waving into the camera. You can find us on Facebook, the Fantasy Sports Network. We're everywhere. We're on the web, the fancy footballers.com. You can submit questions on there. Check out the articles. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter where we're sending out.

really neat, interesting stats that have taken place in the previous week. New articles released by our staff of writers, really good writers. We've got DFS articles coming out this year for those of you that play on Fanduel and stuff like that. And it's going to be a lot of fun this year. We're trying to always give you as much good information as we can. Mike is smirking for some reason. I just read the first line of the news. Oh, okay. Well, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and get into that.

News and Notes from Around the League. When we're in need of astute writing, you know, complex linguistics, we turn to Jason because... The champ. Yeah, we turn to, you know, the college graduate here. Hey, I'm a word smith. Okay, you're both college gadgets. I'm the only one that's not. Did you graduated? Yeah. Okay.

That wasn't meant to be a slight. I thought you would. Genuine curiosity. I thought you got close. Well, I did. I went for three and a half years to you of A and then I dropped out. Oh, then a decade later. Then you went back. Yes, yeah. You went, you Larry Fitzgeralded. Yes, I did. All right. So, Jason has written in the first bit of news here. Do you want to read that verbatim for me? Sure. I will read it. In this bit of news, Jared Goff sucks and will be the third string quarterback now because he sucks. That is. Cause and effect. Yeah, that was just a quote from Jeff Fisher.

No, it was not. It was not. Rough, rough preseason go for Jared Goff. I, you know. You know what's funny is. I hate to go back, but I don't hate this at all. Look, I've never liked Jared Goff. The person, fine. The player, no. I watched him, you know, Pac-12 fan, Sun Devil fan, got to see him in California. Never felt like Jared Goff was going to translate, and maybe he'll prove me wrong. He's got a long time to do it.

But so far not so good. Yeah. Last night, I saw breaking news come across my phone about Jared Goff has been named the week one. And that was all...

That was all it said. Like it, you know, the week one. Well, it got to the back. Yeah, dot, dot, dot, dot. Essentially, that was all I could see on the, on the first news blurb. What it ended up saying is the week one, like third stringer. But I thought for a second that they had named him the starter. And I was so excited as a Cardinals fan to just think, wow, they're going two and 14. But, hey, there you go. There is in, there is a checkmark in the corner of Jeff Fisher.

Good job, Jeff. Yeah, he made the decision. Not starting Jared Gough? Absolutely. Do you think he's worried at all? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They traded the world to get Jared golf. They did. Earth. Colin Kaepernick completed 11 of 18 passes for 103 yards and Thursday's game, including a touchdown drive. That was pretty impressive. He added four rushes for 38 additional yards. And I think did a very good job to secure himself a backup.

role on that team? Which means that he could end up starting sometime during the year. Possibly. I mean, that contract is very large for if you're saying this is our backup quarterback. His arm, the dead arm, so to speak. It looked far more alive in the snaps I was watching of Kaepernick. It is a tough day right now for news, by the way, because all of the releases, all of the cuts are taking place throughout the day. So by the time you hear this.

There may be one or two bits of news guys on the bubble that have already been cut. For example, right now, Justin Hunter and Bishop Sanky were both waived by the Titans. That just happened while we were talking. Bishop Sanky, man. Wow. How the fake mighty have fallen. First running back selected of that draft. We have the Bears rookie running back Jordan Howard. He erupted for 107 yards in a touchdown on 16 carries.