Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 16 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Playoff News

You just jump high point at it, and then he ran it into the end zone. And that counts to seven points or six points. It count. It was like Luke Keeckley was wearing a football hat. Oh, right. And he just took the hat off. Who took his party hands. Yonk! Thank you. That's a pretty good way to describe it. Nine for 178 in a touchdown. Brandon Marshall, eight for 115, two touchdowns sets a career high in touchdowns this year under Ryan Fitzpatrick's.

Or, I mean, with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Beardliness. Beardliness. Alan Hearns and Alan Robinson. Monster games. Combo maker. Oh, that 90-yard touchdown. Yes. I'll remember it forever. This is exactly what I mean. You're a little focused. I'm a little focused, but I'm... All these names. Very happy. And you remember one. Oh, no, no. No, during the game, I remembered two. Alan Hearns and Dernard Robinson.

whom I hated every time that they touched the ball because they had half of the right name. Go on. Oh, because one was in Allen and one's a Robinson. Doug Baldwin still. I don't know if I want you to win or lose tonight. Doug Baldwin had a good game. All right, you guys know what touchdown number that is for Doug Baldwin, right? Remind me. Oh, I want to see if you know. 14. 14. 14. Yeah. 14 touchdowns for Doug Baldwin. Eight for 118 and a touchdown.

Jordan Matthews had another, hold on, hold on. Oh, the garbage man can. This man. I tweeted out about Jordan Matthews. Waste management is his new nickname. I said sanitation engineer superstar. That guy gets it done. It's incredible. When the game is out of hand. Yeah. When the game is done, he gets it done. DeAndre Hopkins. It's the game after the game. Jordan Matthews. The game after the game.

Led by your team captain is Jordan Matthews, Danny Woodhead. And Austin Safarian Jacobs. In Austin, Zafarian, with one second left. Told you he was great. All right. DeAndre Hopkins, Brandon Cooks, Don Trell Inman, Pierre Garson, other guys that got it done. Cooks was my start of the week. Yeah, he... Not that it took much insight to start that guy the way he's been playing. Brandon Cooks has been bawling out. Balling out. Do you happen to see his catch amongst, like...

Oh. Five defenders. The one where Drew Brees threw it right over the guy's hand and then... Under three other hands. It was like you had to choreograph that and film it six times to get that shot right. Where they've been the bullet? Wanted. Oh. Yeah. Wanted. Yeah. That's what happened. I was going to go with the like a mission impossible laser web. Sure. Yeah. And then the ball just found the right trajectory, right path right through for Brandon Cooks.

All right, so anybody else who want to talk? It was nice to see Hopkins come through for fantasy owners when it mattered. He had Brandon Whedon throwing the ball, of course. It's always kind of a given, yeah. Garsohn also, he made his mark in that game for sure. Garcon, to me, is a lot like...

in Anquan Bolden now where, you know, it looks like his speed isn't there anymore. I don't see separation on the underneath routes from Garcin the way he used to, but he's just a solid, dependable wide receiver and a good compliment to Jordan Reed and Deshawn Jackson as the Redskins begin their Super Bowl run. Yeah. And Don Trill Inman, if you're going to rely on that from Don Trill Inman, you should not. After watching him play, he's just, man, that guy drops a lot of passes.

Running backs that came through this week, none more important than DeAngelo Williams and Tim Hightower. These guys were money. DeAngelo in part because Big Ben wasn't and because of some 4.

fortuitous down on the one situation there where Williams had two touchdowns. He came through in a big way. He also caught six passes for 53 yards. Tim Hightower was monstrous turning back the clock, 27 for 122, two touchdowns, three for 47 through the air. And we tweeted out, so hopefully you were following us. C.J. Spiller, when the news was pouring out, Spiller's going to be inactive. Yep. And we're not sure what that means for his future.

In New Orleans, it can't feel good. Oh, he's got to be gone. When Chavar's cadet comes in and plays very well, including a 40-plus-yard touchdown catch from Breeze. And you're like, well, C.J. Spiller is, is he just not that good? Or he just can't stay healthy? Square peg, round hole situation there for Spiller in New Orleans. There's no way he's back. They said he was banged up all year, I think, to justify the healthy scratch.

The healthy scratch. All right. The unhealthy scratch. So who else? I mean, big surprise this week for everybody was the performance of Frank Gore in fantasy football with two touchdowns, 15 for 85. And you also had big games from Latavius Murray. David Johnson had a very big game in total yards, got another touchdown. Buck Allen had a very good game. Any of these guys that you want to talk about? For next week, I think.

Buck Allen is interesting. I don't know what his matchup is, but you got to believe he has worked himself back into the good graces of Coach Harbaugh for Baltimore. So do you guys have trust in him moving forward to week 17 after coming off? You know, he really depends on the Bengals situation for sitting guys next week. You know, after what happens tonight, if they're still in it, then I don't love Beck Allen.

Yeah, I agree. I was just going to bring up the Bengals. That's their matchup in Week 17. I don't really like that matchup for his skill set. That's fair. Latavius Murray had a big game. He did. He had a great matchup against the Chargers, the worst running defense, not the worst. The worst or the second worst. I can't remember who's statistically worse. I think the Browns are the worst. So he grew a good matchup. He did what Lamar Miller could not do.

Against the San Diego Chargers. And Lamar Miller had a good game. Lamar received nine of them and got 12 yards in that game. So let's not let's not let him off the hook. Okay, that's fair. But Latavis Murray had a big game. Charles Sims making his contributions as normal. He's been a very reliable, you know, Balapal, James White type of guy this whole entire year. Helps when Doug Martin fumbles twice. Yeah, that's true. Anybody else, Jason did mention Lamar Miller had a pretty good week.

on a very, really bad team that's going to have a lot of change in this offseason. Jerich McKinnon, now it was granted, the game was very out of hand, so who knows how hard the Giants defense was actually playing. But that's two good games in a row for McKinnon. This is more speaking to Dynasty. I'd say long term. Dynasty or a Keeper League, for the people who have been holding onto McKinnon, just hoping, because McKinnon's, his athletic measurables are just,

top of the chart. The guy is an athletic freak. He reminds me a lot of Christine Michael. Not necessarily in play style, but in what's happened to him. Measurables off the chart, these big end of game runs. Michael had a bunch of those in years gone by where he'd come in for three or four runs and bust off a big run. Joey Randall did it too, you know, in Dallas where he'd come in and break up a D. But yeah, McKinnon has a lot of upside and potential, and it's nice to have him behind Adrian Peterson right now.

and is definitely a dynasty consideration. Hey, both of the best tight ends this week, war number 86. Wee. Oh, man. Rule 86. Got it done. And we meet Jordan Reed, but also Zach Ertz. Yeah, Zachertz finally flashing some of that upside. Finally. 13 for 122. Even had a couple drops. Didn't get it in the end zone. But Jordan Reed was 9 for 129 and 2. At one point in this game, I believe a listener tweeted out that he was on pace for about 380 yards and 8 touchdowns.

Not bad. For Ertz, that's also including a completely botched throw by Bradford, where Ertz had scrambled past a broken defense and would have scored a very long touchdown. That would have been like a 50-yard touchdown. Yeah, but Jordan Reed, monster, just a monstrous. His arrow is pointing way up for next year. Now, let's talk immediate. I would not be surprised at all if Jordan Reed.

sits out week 17. When you're talking about resting, I think that Washington is going to full rest a lot of people. They have some linemen who are banged up, I think will be rested. If you rest linemen, you rest Kurt Cousins. You don't put them out there behind backups. And so if you are a Washington skill player owner, like D Jacks, I mean, these guys have been banged up. So you need to prepare for them not to play this week. Rule 86 is that if...

Jordan Reed is healthy. You play him because the reason that rule exists is because he's so often not healthy. He's had a pretty healthy year this year, but that's a really good point. I mean, if I'm the coach, Reed is important to your playoff chances. I would rest them as well. And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention a few more names at Tide-in, Vance McDonald, Travis Kelsey, and Delaney Walker.

Still got it done. Horrible game for Tennessee. We mentioned that he might take a bump down. It did seem like he wasn't being targeted early. Kind of got it done with the quantity of catches in PPR. He probably didn't do much for you in Standard. But Kelsey, yeah, he flashed again. Scored a touchdown. I was yaying for Vance McDonald. Oh, were you? Were you? Yeah. Travis Kelsey.

That was nice for him to finally. And the Cardinals. Thanks, Kelsey. The Cardinals defense, Jason pointed it out in standard leagues. The number one scoring player. Fantasy option was the Arizona Cardinals defense, I believe credited with nine sacks. A couple fumble recover. One of the things we like to bring up here, and, you know, as NFL fans out there, you remember, you know who Dwight Freeney is.

And I believe you know he's on the Cardinals now. He was signed to a veteran contract, much like John Abraham was signed last year to the Cardinals. They kind of signed these over the hill, quote, unquote, pass rushers. But one of the interesting things about Dwight Franey is that his contract is incentive-laden, and he gets paid per sack. Yeah. And that's it. You go out, what? Hey, you want $100,000?

Well, just go tackle that guy behind the line of scrimmage. And he had three yesterday. And I believe his contract is at $200,000 per sack. And so every time he does it, I picture him going to the sideline. And...

Getting a check. No, a big old. A big old, one of those giant sweepstakes checks. They walk over, and he files it away, and then he goes back out on the field and gets another $200K. I mean, that's just a nice way to incentivize. It's like the mouse that comes against his cheese, and then he goes and does his thing, he gets his cheese. Right, right. That's Dwight Freeney. So, all right, let's move on. Whoa, were you good? Poopped in his big boy pants. Our rally cry against kickers. Blair Walsh. Blair Walsh.

probably won some weeks by himself because he was a, a beast. Better than most running back. I'm saying if you get Nerf kickers. If you get bonus points for 50-yard field goals, then Blair Wall scored you a boatload, a scientific boatload points. You done with the kicker talk? We just need to be brought up, man.

All right. You got to give it where it's due. If you're going to talk about defense, you're going to talk about the kickers. Oh, it makes sense to transition from kickers into... Pooh! All right, quarterbacks, we've talked about it already. Cam Newton. Cam Newton, Big Ben, and Tom Brady had their worst games of the season. We saw this last year from Andrew Luck. He had his worst games of the season in the fantasy playoffs. You can't... You can't not start them, right?

Yeah, well, and that's where sometimes, I'm not sure that it's better necessarily to stream than to have this stud. But that is one of the nice things about taking the streaming strategy is you don't ever get locked in on that. This guy's got either a bad matchup or there's this guy with a juicy matchup and I just can't play him over the guy. I invested heavily in at the draft.

You know, that's a freedom. It's freedom in streaming where you go, I'm just going to play the guy that I think has the best chance this week. And you start Kirk Cousins and you're happy because you did it. You make a great point. You get locked into those other guys. I mean, I loved having Tom Brady as my quarterback for half the year this year. I loved it. It was great to lock and load him. But.