Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 4 Matchups, The Daily Dose, TNF Review

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Hello, everybody. Happy Friday. It is October 2nd. We are the fantasy footballers, and we are back again. Fresh off of a Thursday night, Michael Vicking. Yep. Or something like it. Really gross scobie snacks.

I will talk about that with sadness. So much sadness. We have a good show for you today. We have the second half of our fantasy forecast. We're going to preview the games for week four. We're going to talk about Thursday night football. Go through the news and notes. Talk about some injuries. Guys, you need to start. Guys, you need to sit. We're also going to have our daily dose segment and spend a few minutes with Chris Meena of the Fantasy Sports Network and talk about some DFS trends. I talked to them about some trends and some values this week in DFS and Fandul.

And we have some mailbags. So it's a jam-packed show. It's a good show. You guys ready? Yeah. You excited? Yeah. How's your beard today? Mike, how's your beard? Soft? Okay. Supple. Smelling great. Okay. That's some handsome fancy right there. I wanted to mention that you said you have sadness about the game. Yeah, you have the inverse, right? I say your sadness is my gladness.

So we got the yin and the yang, all balanced out. Let's just talk about there right now. By the way, you can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We are on YouTube and the Fantasy Sports Network, so wave into the camera, fellas. If you have a question, you can go to the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com, click to submit a question button. We answer them on the show. We're also on Instagram. Mike is snapping a picture right now of my sadness and his gladness.

And my hot notes for the show. So here's the problem that I had. Mike and I are facing off in a league. And he's got Justin Tucker. He's got Justin Forsett. I have only players named Justin. Only Justin. And then he has Justin tuck. No, no. He has Antonio Brown. And I need to try to survive this. We talked about the fact Brown.

might suffer from Vic having a short week. Mike said that on the show yesterday, and they were very vanilla in their game plan. And Brown fortunately dropped a touchdown, and his streak's over. Yeah. The five for 50. The five for 50 is over. However, and he had a streak, by the way, of 16 straight games of seven. Seven catches, yeah. So that's over. Internin Brown did not have a big game, and so we'll talk about that today. But my issue is that you gained like 15 points.

with this stupid overtime that never should have happened because Scobie should be able to make a field goal because he's a professional kicker. And if he makes one of them... Just one. He doesn't need both. Tucker went from six points in our league to 15 because of that. Fawcett gained another four or five in the overtime. By the way, Fawcett looked great. He gained... I think it was the second most yards he's ever gained in his career. Really? I didn't hear that. So are we not afraid of him anymore?

Justin Forset is... They were super committed to the run, by the way. They were, and the snap for people, I saw Talley Farrow and Buck Allen in there. Look at the snap counts. The snap counts are insane. Justin Forset, over 60 snaps. The other guys had, I think, in the teens. They had what were called breathers. And even Buck Allen came in and failed on third and fourth down, or second and third down on short yardage, giving him a breather. So...

Fawcett looks very good. If you traded for him this past week, you bought him low. You're probably happy right now. Now, Jason, I'm going to give you credit because you came out and you said Heath Miller was going to be awful. And he was awful. He was not good. And I'll remind you and announce to our listeners that off the air, we actually made a water bet about Heath Miller. So I believe you will be getting the Piper paid.

Not if all the other tight-ins get hurt this year. That is true. Every single one. So quick question for the day then. We talked about the game a little bit, but rest of the season, Antonio Brown is the wide receiver number what? Well, I'm not going to go rest of season. I'll go rest of injury. You're going to ignore my question and do something different. Well, because the season, we don't know when Big Ben is going to be back. If Big Ben is back in four weeks, then Antonio Brown is back. But let's say rest of injury for me, Antonio Brown is wide receiver.

um 8 to 10 i would say the he's still a one i will say rest of season on the whole Antonio brown will be the wide receiver 2 from here on now including the time with michael vick last night you when i was watching that game i was like man mike called this beforehand with how just just the little timings that were off there and how you everybody

Listening right now, if you do not have Antonio Brown on your team, you need to be making an offer for Antonio Brown because the owner could be scared off, and he was two inches away from having a hundred yards and a touchdown. I mean, he dropped a perfect pass for a 30-yard touchdown, and then he had a 30-yard out that was just, he caught it, but his tippy toe was on the white just by a millimeter. I mean, you're talking about...

The same exact game, the same plays, the same short practice, Michael Vick was a hair away from being a great performance. And it's only going to get better as they've got practice, as they've got time. They have a long time now. Yeah. It's not just Sunday to Sunday. They have Thursday to next Sunday. You have plenty of time. So.

I'm not panicking on Antonio Brown. I'm not thinking that he's going to be the same receiver that he is with Big Ben, but I think he's going to be fine. I think he, as much as came out and said that he wasn't going to be the same guy, or that the rapport can't, you can't just manufacture that. He said that, but he knows that Vic does different things, and he's Antonio Brown. He's going to get separation. He's going to make the catch as night. That touchdown is a nine times out of ten he makes the catch. And we always talk about the squeaky wheel.

Someone had tweeted there was this span of time where Vic was just going to Darius Hayward Bay because for some of he... He was probably more open. Not when he was in double coverage. Yeah. Antonio Brown is on the field. But they were saying Antonio Brown came off the field just furious slamming his helmet. Michael Vic came and sat down next to him. Antonio Brown left. He said, I'm not having any of this with you, Michael Vic. Throw me the freaking ball.

All right, well, let's go ahead and get into the news and notes. We're going to catch you up on injuries and everything that's going on in fantasy. News and notes from around the league. All right, I'm going to shoot through these quick hitter type news, and then we're going to get into the injuries, and I want to know if you guys think these guys are going to play. So we're going to go one by one through them. We know that Joach Bell was held out of practice on Thursday. We know Bashad Perryman is now out indefinitely. Now, this report is in dispute.

Which? This report about him undergoing PCL surgery. Oh, okay. This is not accurate from my understanding. The report came out yesterday that he's undergoing PCL surgery. However, I believe Harbaugh said he was getting a stem cell injection. And so for repairing of the knee. So I don't know if both happened. I don't know if one happened. But we do know that generally you don't play immediately after you have surgery of any kind. So he's still struggling. We don't know when he'll make the...

get on the field and Steve Smith got hurt yesterday. A back contusion took a helmet to the back and couldn't get loose. And you know if he couldn't get loose, it was probably pretty significant. So Charles Johnson didn't practice on Thursday. What else do we have here? Okay, so Kristen Michael News. We talked about this off the show. We talked about it on the show. That's Kristen Michael Watch. I just wish you had never said the drop comment because you would just be riding high on this potential.

You, like, bailed a little bit. Yeah, because there was, we had gotten to the point where... But you've been the man. You've been the man on this. Jason Garrett said, Chris and Michael's in the mix to be active. Generally, we want our... He's going to be active. The question is just, will he get an opportunity? We still don't know that. Okay. We'll talk about this with Andrew Luck. The Colt signed Josh Johnson this morning. Rett Row. That's not generally... Yes, that is the proper response.

It's not normally a good thing. Well, Anderluck has barely practiced at all with his shoulder, and I think his throwing arm, correct? Correct. And so this is interesting because the Colts have a very short week after this game. They're on Thursday night the following week. Against the Texans. And generally, you would think, okay, up against the Harroars, that the Colts, maybe they sit him because it should be.

The Jaguars are lower level team. Jaguars win the game if luck doesn't play by the way. Right. And normally you're like the Colts would be okay. Except they're one and two. Yep. They have to win. So I...

This is an interesting situation to watch. He was taken out of practice because during practice, it got worse. And then they said, we're putting him on the shelf basically until Sunday, resting that arm. So there's no way to know. We will not know until then. So I guess we'll just have to wait for our McFly segment here in a second. Yeah, pick up another guy.

So that you're in the ability, you know, Derek Carr is probably sitting on waivers. You go grab him, have him ready to go. Last bit of news before we get into the rest of the injuries, Nelson Aguilar has played 83% of the Eagles snaps this season, which is, I believe, 1% less than Jordan Matthews. Correct. His time is coming. That's just inevitable, I think, doesn't mean he's going to be a superstar. Just means that he's going to have opportunity. And if you had to flex a guy, I'd be okay with it.

If you had to flex any of the... You're on by weeks. You've got some injuries in the wide receivers. Non-Amari Cooper, you know, rookie wide receivers. He's clearly the next guy to own. Who do you want to hold right now in a gentle embrace? Nelson Aguilar or Devante Parker. You can only have one of them on your bench. Which one are you holding right now? It's got to be Aguilar just on opportunity. And Parker's opportunity is growing. It is, but there's so many more mouths that...

seem to need to be fed there. And the guy feeding them is struggling, the team struggling. I just, I don't know. I think for both guys, they'll have impactful games this season. So if that answers the question. So anything else we need to mention before we go through the in or out? Nope, let's do it. All right, let's do it. What's it going to be it fly? Are you in or out? All right, I'm going to shoot through these. Andrew Luck, in or out. What do you think? In. Drew Breeze. In.