Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 2 Matchups, News

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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Jam-packed show today. Let's get to it. It is going to be a busy one, and I'm excited. We have so much news. We've got all of the matchups for week two.

I love Week 2. You can start to... I love Week 2. You can see a glimmer. I love Week 2 because you get a glimmer of trends. You get a glimmer of something, you know, which players were Week 1 mirages? The Ogletrees of the world? The Ogletree. Yeah, we still remember Mr. Ogletree from Week 1 a couple years back. And which ones are the Anquan Boldens? Remember his? Remember his?

Oh, yeah. His rookie year comes out that first week. And, you know, it's like, ah, you know, it's just, it's not going to happen again. If you picked him up that year, he was good in week two. And week two. Yeah, and week four. And week three, four. Yeah, very good show. We got to start to the week on the show today as well. I'll have to brag on behalf of my colleague, Mr. Jason Moore, who was a perfect four for four last week. And we're not talking like,

Kind of okay starts of the week. We're talking like home runs on all four of them. The pressure's on. Yeah. So don't fail all of our listeners. I will do my best. And you know we have this morning I tweeted out. We now have 2,000 people on Jointhefoot.com. Yeah. It is the best community of fantasy football listeners in the world. In the world. Nay. In the universe. The universe. You know, all inclusive here.

We'll include the Martians. We've also got our debate of the week. Jason and Mike are facing off. Very excited about that. Yeah, it makes it very easy. Oh, the trash talk begins early. I wish I was wearing a glove so I could just take it off and slap him across the face. That's how we introduce the debate. We are gentlemen here. I challenge you. Why do I feel like you would struggle to get the glove off? Because I got fat hands, all right? Why you got to be so mean?

Uh, you guys want to jump right into that? Let's do it. It's time for the fandings.com debate of the week. Always a good time. I get to be the judge today. I get to sit, uh, sit on the sidelines and listen to YouTube, bicker and decide which one of you is the winner. Now, with that sound, I don't think you'd have like the little leather glove. You'd have a boxing glove.

Right, that's true. I just pull that and throw it at him. Oh, is that what you do? This reminds me of the men in tights. Oh, that's all I was thinking of. He picks up the night glove and knocks them out. All right. Fantastic. It's time the fandings.com. Debate of the week. It is a simple question. Should you start or sit, Thomas Rawls? I should really be a part of this debate. Yeah, I know. I was going to say this. Coming up based on later in the show. But go ahead.

All right. I will, I'll kick it off with a little bit, let you have the floor, Mike. I believe that you should this week start Thomas Rawls. Now, I am not personally predicting this massive game. I have him as an RB2, but I believe that you drafted him, where you drafted him, he's needed to start in most of those rosters. And I think this is an opportunity where you can start him. Pete Carroll has come out.

He has said he's the starter. And if you look last week when he wasn't the starter, when it was, you know, the quote unquote week two of preseason, he got 12 carries. And so coming up this week against a team that Carlos High just had an excellent fantasy game against, I think you can trust Thomas Rawls to have at least 15 carries. And if he gets that, it's going to be okay for your fantasy team. I say start him. Oh, okay. I would sit him down. I'm not playing Thomas Rawls yet. I'm not ready to commit.

to a guy coming off of that ankle injury. He did. He got in some work, but the thing is he was, he was massively outproduced by Kristen Michael. I think that Rawls is going to take the job of the primary ball carry, but Kristen Michael is not, you cannot throw away what he has done. He has been dominant in preseason. He was over five yards of carry last week, while Rawls was not anywhere close to that. And look, I know Rawls is still coming back from the injury, but for me,

I'm just not ready to put a guy into my starting lineup. There's going to be other options that you likely have on your bench. Maybe you got a Jeremy Hill. I'm going to play him over Thomas Rawls this week. It's a, look, and Carlos Hyde did end up with a decent fantasy, not decent, a great fantasy day. That was because of the touchdowns. As far as the rushing, you know, the Rams did keep him in check for most of the game. So when you combine that, you combine Russell Wilson is,

is banged up. Maybe the running game is not as effective because the Rams are able to key in on the running game and they don't have to worry about Russell Wilson running around. I'm just not ready to throw Rawls out into my starting lineup yet. Yeah, I think they could be pretty confident about keying in on the running game against Blaine Gabbert as well and letting him throw it at will. Here's what I would say this game is going to be low scoring because as you mentioned Russell Wilson is hobbled a little bit with that ankle.

Obviously, the Rams do not know how to score. So this game is going to be a running back centric game. It's also going to be a game where they're going to try to get the ball out of Russell Wilson Sands. And I'm talking about Seattle. I think they're going to want to hand the ball off. And if Thomas Rawls were to get 22 carries in this game, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Now, again, being lower scoring, I don't think he's going to go off for a monstrous game. But I think he's...

I think he's very safe to get a ton of touches, and that's what I look for in fantasy. We need not go on because we're going to discuss Thomas Straals a little bit later when we get into the starts of the week. Hint, hint, Mike, I never have a chance because you've already decided before the debate begins. Look, you guys chose the debate topic, and you knew my situation, and I think you had a very well-crafted dissenting voice. I think it's important to have that on the show. I think it's very wrong, and so I give it to...

I give it to Jason. But look, you already knew on the show yesterday. I said I thought Thomas Rawls was going to have a breakout game this week. I think that we've also seen Pete Carroll repeat himself. Darrell Bevel came out and said he's always been our starter. He looks great. This morning he came out and said he represents everything our team wants to be. That's what they said about what Thomas Rawls does. So basically my contention is they want him to be the Bell Cow.

And they want Michael to fill in. And Michael's done a good job at that. But I'm going to give it to Jason because I was already pre-decided, as you said. So not a fair debate whatsoever. You know how I like my fights? Unfair. Unfair. That's exactly right. Don't forget. Follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. And check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com, where you can submit questions to the show.

Can learn a lot about what goes on here at the fantasy footballer's headquarters. And make sure you head over to iTunes, subscribe to the show, and review. And, hey, if you want to jump in on that debate yourself, make sure you grab the fandigs.com app. Oh, absolutely. And you know what was cool about fandings last week is they had stuff going on on Sunday night football? And it's a really good app if you want to debate, if you want to vote.

participate in these different types of debates. You want to crush people's spirits like mine have just been destroyed? We're going to actually tweet this exact debate question, the link to it. If people want to get your back and they think you're right, go vote. Go tell us. I need you. So go to Fanning's on the app store or go to Fanning's.com. Let them know you found out about them from us. Let's go. Let's talk about some news. News and notes from around the league.

We got to blitz it, guys. You ready? Hold on. Okay. All right. So Adam Schefter is reporting Sammy Watkins, questionable for tonight. He wants to play, probably will play. I statted him in my week two rankings to play and do play poorly. Yeah, I did too. I really hope they shut him down. I think it would be good, even if you are the Sammy Watkins owner for him to be shut down. Give him some rest on that foot. This isn't a game I'm excited to have.

any player in, to be honest. It's just a friendly reminder, though. If you do play him, put him in the wide receiver slot. Any players make sure they are in your wide receiver or running back, not in your flex if you can avoid it so that your flex is open should things fall unexpectedly different as the week goes on. Yes, yes. You don't like it when things fall unexpectedly different.

Yeah. The Seahawks have reported they're considering Russell Wilson a full go. That's from offensive coordinator Darryl Bevel. Not planning to have him limited in any way. So that's good. I'm going to believe that. I've decided to drop Matt Ryan in a league. I'm starting Russell Wilson. Oh. Okay. And that is against me. Yeah. And that is against you. And it's just to start your studs thing. I love Matt Ryan this week.

I mean, I hate Matt Ryan in general, but I love him this week. Sammy Biscuits is back in Minnesota. He's like a bad penny. Name the Viking starting quarterback. Can you normally trade a penny for a first round dropping? Oh. So he's the Viking starting quarterback. Quickly, quickly, quickly. Any, you know, what are the fantasy implications of biscuits behind center? Uh.

I think it will help the Vikings in general, some of their role players and Adrian Peterson, but Bradford is not a startable asset. If you've been following news, there are a number of players that have been sat down for a day or two of practice, including Arian Foster. Adam Gase came out and said from a practice standpoint, as far as going full pads, he basically said a guy that gets so much contact on Sunday doesn't need contact during the week.

So he says, if there's something we need to practice with him on Thursday or Friday, we can get that in. So don't worry about Foster. Dee Will, give an arrest day on Wednesday. Yeah, he's 39. He touched the ball about 50 times as well. Yeah, Julio Jones, Jonathan Stewart, both limited. You got to pay attention to Jonathan Stewart because if he plays the Broncos, he gets hurt. That's just how it works. So just pay attention to his reports this week. Devante Parker practiced in full.