Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 5 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

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Chewbacca? It's Monday, October 12th, and I'm disappointed. Oh, in myself. I'm very happy. A very happy man. Why are you... Oh, okay. You know, when you say it like that, you make it sound directly proportional to my disappointment. It is. I'm so happy. Because I'm disappointed? No, no. I'm sure it factors in. But not entirely. Listen, I need to come clean on something, guys. I...

I made a mistake. I made a lot of right decisions this week, but, you know, one wrong decision can turn you sour. And I'm sour because I traded Tyler Eifert in a deal for Charles Clay. And I lost by 10 points in one of my leagues. And, well, the gap between those was a lot more than 10. And your trade... Can I get an undo? Your trade is likely leading to a loss for me.

Well, that I don't mind. And I am so happy. All right, welcome to the show. Week 5 is nearly in the books. We've got a Monday night football game tonight. And I think the Chargers win that one. Really? I do. I think they do too. But we'll see. Really? Really? I think they do too. Thank you. So we're going to do the fantasy rewind today. We're going to talk about what we saw. We've got some big injuries.

What, wow. Uh-oh. Uh, we've got this week's fantasy stud muffins on the show today. I mean, not literally on the show, but we're going to talk about them. And then we got our pooped in our big boy pants section, which I did with that Eifford trade. And then we got some mailbag. We're going to answer listener questions as well. If you want to get a hold of the show, how do we do that? How do people find us? Uh, it's the internet. All right. So where else, do we say we're the fantasy footballers?

Well, I mean, the intro guy did. Yeah. There's two great ways to find the fantasy footballers. One is our website, the fantasyfootballers.com. You can submit questions on there. We answer them all the time. The other is join thefoot.com. If you think that you are one of our main fans, you love our show, join our community at jointhefoot.com. That's where we spend a lot of our time as well.

We're also broadcast on the Fantasy Sports Network, and our show can be watched on YouTube. You can follow us on Twitter at the F.F. Ballers. We are fresh off of a finger-bleeding Twitter blitz. We broke Twitter. We did it. We really did. So we had our, well, we hashtag Ballers Blitz. We had a non-stop. This was part of the reward for our supporters on Join the Foot.com. It was a non-stop Twitter blitz. It started at 10 a.m. on Pacific Time. And we went till six.

Now, at about 3.30 in the afternoon, Twitter stopped us. Twitter said, you have tweeted too much. You must be a robot. They said, you need to wait a little while. And so we said, no, we will not wait. We will go over to Mike's Twitter at FF Hitman, and we will continue the blitz until we break his. And then we broke his. And so that is a successful Twitter blitz. Yes.

Which I don't know exactly how many... I wonder if I can find that right now. How many questions were answered in that amount of time, but I got really tired. Yeah, that was exhausting. I feel like if I played a game of basketball or something and went home, I'd be far less exhausted than that Twitter blitz that destroyed my brain. So speaking of our friends at Sleeperbot, who we opened the show with, I just got an alert from them saying that because they...

But the Chiefs thinking that Jamal Charles is out with an ACL tear. The Chiefs will work out. Drum roll, please. Ben Tate. I don't know how serious they're taking this ACL tear. Well, you know what? Their season's over. The Chief season's over. Yeah, probably. They're one and four. They lost Jamal Charles. They're losing games they should win for the second straight week in a row. It is not looking good there. Here's what you need to do, Andy Reed.

You have a... That you're talking to me first. No, no, this is a note to Andy Reid from me. You have a player on your team who is... Oh, no, this is a Travis Kelsey. He is a monster of a man. What did he do this week? Yeah, he did, yeah. Poop. He did okay. As we'll see when we get to the tight ends. There's a weird tight end. You know, this injury helps the Travis Kelsey owners because of goal line. And it should. But you have Travis Kelsey in your teeth. Yards after catch for Travis Kelsey, I don't have the number in front of me.

But that guy is just a monster. Every time he catches the ball, he gets at least five yards, I feel like, after contact. He is ridiculous. Get him some targets. I want those new stats that are like, he does this. I feel like he does this. The stats.

Well, I feel like Julio scores 20 touchdowns a game. I wasn't prepared for this. I know. Is that like the windshield chill? You know, it's 80 degrees out. Feels like 102. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it feels like Kelsey goes for about 500 yards. I'm going to look it up. Yeah, you should. Then you'll sound legitimate. All right. Quick question of the day. What do you do with Peyton Manning? Oh. He's about as hot as a Klondike bar right now.

So, that ties everything together because what would you do for a Klondack bar? Right. Well, that was where it was coming from. I would trade him for Eli Manning. I'd trade him for a Klondack bar. Here's what I would do if I had Peyton Manning. I would stream him if he's got a good matchup. Wait, Oakland's a good matchup. No, that's fine. I mean, you're not always going to, I mean, it's not just you get a good matchup so you get a good score. Is Trent Delfer available? Oh.

And then I would wait until he has a big blow-up game, has one of those three touchdown games, which are going to come. They are? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. If you look at him this year, he's kind of gone back and forth between throwing for some touchdowns and then throwing for some picks. Boy, you can't you? Oh, man, that is... He was one of those interceptions was Owen Daniel not breaking to the left in the end zone for a red zone target. Ah.

The tight-in defense is flip-flop this week. Yeah. Because Oakland normally gave it up, and Baltimore normally stopped it, and then the barnage came to town. That was my one regret from this last week. I feel like I was on point for most of my stuff, but I was an anti-Barnage and pro Owen Daniels guy. I...

I apologize. I'm going to toot my own horn on one little issue because I was so boisterous on Sunday morning about it. And that is Marcus Wilson? Marquise. Marquise? Yeah. I believe it's Marquise. Okay. Well, let's just call him MW. Listen, he's the guy who scored, I started him in every single league and told people to start him on Twitter for Cutler because he was the number one and Kansas City ended up blowing that game. And so if you started Marcus Wilson, congratulations.

It didn't help me win this stupid league because they traded Tyler Eifford. All right, let's get into the weekly rewind. Weekly rewind. I have an update on Travis Kelsey. Yards after catch, 214. That puts him... Feels like 250. Okay, well, here the number two guy, a Rob Gronkowski, I guess he had the buy week, but 168. Yeah. So, I don't... Kelsey's number one in that, right? Where's Barnage?

He's number four. Yeah, I was wondering. I was wondering. I'm not sure if this week is calculated. That doesn't even count as barn catch. I'm looking at pro football focus. I think this week is in there. But Kelsey is dominating with all of his catches. All right. Speaking of not that, all right, Jamal Charles tore his ACL. I don't expect, I mean, it's not official, right? But I don't expect him to come back and say he's actually fine. Well, I don't know. We watched Andre Ellington do something.

similar, and then he's back. Yeah, but they did not come out and say the preliminary report on Ellington as a torn ACL. It looked yucky. In fact, I'm going to just double check because... Classic Charles. Oh, it's not about it. He's done it once before. Now, this is the opposite knee, right? That I don't know. That I do not recall. All right. So, Jamal Charles, this stinks for Charles owners. Who's the back-to-own or is there one? Or what kind of fab money are you spending? Because...

I don't know. Maybe this is just me because my teams have enough running back depth that I don't care as much. But I'm kind of blasé on the big fab spin on West or Nile. Am I crazy to be blase about that? I don't think you're crazy to be blasé about that. I mean, I know you've got to go spend money. There's probably going to be more of a time share. There's definitely going to be more of a time share than there was when Nile took over last year or, you know, obviously than there is with Jamal Charles. Here's why I'm a little bit excited about it.

I'm a little bit excited because Nile Davis has the name recognition. He had such a great time without Jamal Charles in the past that I think that that is who the majority of your league mates are going to be putting their claim on is Nile Davis. And I don't think that's the right guy to put it on. Absolutely. Yeah. Which means you're going to get Charkandric West cheaper and have the better player. West is the better player. I don't think he's going to be cheap. West is the better player for sure. He has more pep to his step, all right?

He can break bigger runs, and he's looked better than Nile all year long. As the owner of a Jeremy Hill and a C.J. Anderson, I'll be spending. I'm going to spend some money. Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. So what does spend some money mean? What do you got left in one of your leagues that you'll consider that in? Our league, what do we have? I think I'm in the 80s. I might dump at least half of that. Okay. And now, are you going to put claims in for both guys? Maybe. Maybe, but I'm.

It sounds like West is a guy. Two weeks, I mean, prophetically of the Chiefs, two weeks ago, they came out and said West has passed Davis on the depth chart. All the carries have gone to West. West was the first one in. But I'm going to be extremely aggressive because I need running back help. All right. Asked Sunday evening why Latavius Murray played sparingly in the second half. Jack Del Rio said they were focused on his health. Now, this was a big Twitter topic because Murray started out. He looked okay.

You know, you have to wonder how hurt he is because I would have been focusing on the win as well, but he wasn't on the field. What do we do with Latavius Murray? A couple good weeks, a couple bad weeks now? I don't know. And that's two weeks in a row of a benching, non-benching of last week where, oh, no, we didn't bench him. He just caused two turnovers and then wasn't playing after that. But maybe he was hurt then, too. I mean, it's possible that he was banged up then too. It's very possible. Or, I mean...

He wasn't playing bad, though. It's not like he was playing banged up and they needed to take him out. So if they're really sitting in for health reasons, that means they see him as valuable. Or he's screwing up blitz pickups. And these are, like, I have to go back and watch the tape to really know what was going on. But it's, it's a mystery even to me at this point. All right, T.J. Eldon had a groin injury. He says it is not serious. He caught a touchdown pass. It was actually, if you saw the play, it was kind of funny because Bortles just kept, like,

rolling left and dancing around for like 12 minutes and then found Yeldon in the back of the end zone. So it wasn't like a designed past catch for Yelden. It was an eventuality. But Yelden said the groin injury isn't serious, which would be good news for Jacksonville because he's their every down guy. Julius Thomas did play, had two catches for 20 yards. Do we care about signing him this week? You see a pickup? Maybe. I guess he's no. I mean, he's a tied in. He's worth picking up. I don't know if I'm going to play him right away, but that was quite a surprise.