Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 16 Waivers & QB Streamers, Bad Beats

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And Mike Wright. Happy Tuesday. Oh, it is for many a people. Well, it is for you. Yes, it is. I agree. Because, what, you found out Ace Ventura is on Netflix? Ace Ventura, too. Yes. So, I mean, it doesn't get any better than that for Jason. No, no. It's not these rhinos. Welcome to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Thank you for joining us.

It is Tuesday, December 19th, and we are officially in week 16 of the NFL season. It's championship week, people. If you're not tilting this very moment, you're doing it wrong. Because I have already, I've already performed a full 720. My tilt is so hard. Wow. As I prepare for championship week, I am invested. That's Tony Hawk level. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. I've, I've grabbed, I'm holding down left. I'm holding the circle.

Mike, are you going to pull the maneuver of benching your roster right now? I'm considering it. I am definitely considering going with, I'm facing Andy. I need all the edges I can get. You don't want to let me know who you're starting. Yes. You're going to do that one? Yeah, I may do that. Look, people fear me. Makes sense. Well, to be fair, your team is 12 and 1. 13.1 now. Yes. Thank you for the correction. 13 and 1. And avenged his only loss to Brooks. It's true.

It's going to be a long time to avenge this upcoming loss. Am I right? Champions. High five. Wait. You guys are on the same team together? I'm me and the foot claim. Oh, okay. All right. Well, we'll see what happens. It'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it. What do we got on the show? We got some bad beats, some close wins. We got the waiver wire. Got the QB streamers. It's got the review of last night's game. Which, outside of Julio not having a monster game, you know, you kind of got what you wanted from the other big pieces in the game.

I had to share a story from last night, though, because you guys will enjoy it. And occasionally things happen in our lives that are funny. And this was one of those times. So last night, late last night, I went to meet my sister at a coffee shop for a cup of coffee late last night. She just bought a new Honda Civic. And we both arrived. Spoiler? No. No spoiler? What do you mean?

Does she have a spoiler on the Honda Civic? Oh, I was thinking you're saying I'm spoiling something in the story. No, no spoiler. Okay. So she just bought a new Honda Civic and we happened to pull up at the exact same time to the coffee shop. She doesn't know I see her, but like we pull in and I'm behind her and she parks in one spot of the parking lot, I park in the other. So I walk over and, you know, we're a funny family and we like to joke around with each other. Jason, they think they're a funny family.

Well, I'm no Jason family, but, uh, so I, I decide to walk over and I think it'd be really funny to kind of be looming outside her car door when she opens it because she'll get scared, right? Right. Okay. And, uh, always scare the girl in the parking lot of it. Yeah. Well, that, that's exactly right. It's your little sister. It's funny. And, uh, this is where the story went sideways because, um, pepper spray. Oh. Well, it wasn't my sister. Oh!

Oh, no! No! No! You're... Oh, that's the worst. No, no, it was a mid-60s woman. Oh, my. And I'm in a dark coat, in a dark parking lot. What have you done? Just feet from her. Oh, my goodness. Hocking by her door. And here is, and she happened to own a brand new civic. Wow. So I have never felt more like some sort of predator.

and criminal than I did in that moment. I hope you apologize profusely to this woman. Did you buy her coffee? I held the door open for her. I tried to explain myself, but how do you explain yourself? Oh, I was trying to just terrify another little girl. My sister, don't worry about it. Yes. So that was my night. I terrified an old woman. I hope you learned your lesson, good sir. I, you know.

What was great is as I approached the car, I was like, I'm not sure is that our car. I'm like, that's definitely your car. And then I proceeded to terrify this poor lady in the parking lot. So you had a better night than I did if you won or lost. Yes. So follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers on YouTube. The website's the fancy footballers.com. Harass me on Twitter. At Andy Holloway harass.

Jason at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF. Hitman. And we'll jump back into this Monday night game briefly. Doug Martin was inactive. Mike, Jason got the crampus. Yeah, you certainly did. However, it did come out that this was a team rules violation. I think it was running backs who are running for like under two yards of carry. Oh, I thought it was like running backs running backwards. They missed the game. The violation was being putrid.

on the field. How do you have a team violation the third to last week of the season when you might be cut? I mean, that just, and he's already had issues. Because if you're Doug Martin, just trying to put myself in the position of what's happening to Doug Martin, I mean, you got to be tilting, right? You're, you're a pro athlete. You believe in yourself, which you should, and you're in the NFL, you're a stud. He signed a big contract. He's trying to make right after his mistake of getting suspended. He's had a,

He's had some injuries. He's been bad. Got benched last week. So there was probably some lashing out that happened. That's just my, the way I think things went down. Now going forward, he's supposed to be active. Yeah. Peyton Barber didn't do anything to secure that role. In fact, he fumbled away one of his best opportunities.

So next week, this coming week, championship week, it stinks. I assume you have to avoid both. But if you had to take. I'd take Barber if I had to take one. If I'm going in on a Bucks running back, which hopefully you don't have to do that, I would go with Peyton Barber because he fumbled, but he still played at least. He played all right. Better than Doug. Better than Doug Martin. Yeah, I might have to do it though. Play Barber. Yeah, you might be stuck having to play Martin.

Yeah, my, my championship team, down Alf, down Antonio Brown, down Hunter Henry. And listen, Footclan, I've seen people out there. Yes, I've seen people out there going, oh, I got in, but now it's over because I lost Antonio. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Shame on you. You're in it. You get one game. I mean, fantasy football's crazy. Put out the best lineup you can, scratch and claw, and get that hashtag Footclan title. Parap of the rapper says you got to believe.

Deshawn Jackson, Cameron Brayette, O.J. Howard, all injured in last night's game. Cameron Brayette did come back. O.J. Howard was in a walking boot. And Deshaun Jackson, we don't know the status. He, you know, he goes from you don't want to start him to now you definitely don't want to start him. On the other side, Devanta Freeman delivered for fantasy owners. 22 for 125, a touchdown. 22 for 125.

I believe that is exactly what I said. No, 22. I apologize. And then Devonta Freeman, five receptions as well. Now, Julio Jones did not deliver. No. Worst game against Tampa Bay since 2013. Unfortunate. Matt Ryan, nothing special. All right. But on the other side, James Winston, this was just one of those games where James looks like a competent.

good quarterback. I mean, a 77% completion. 130 rating at 290 yards, three touchdowns. And that completion percentage should have been better. His team had a few hands drops where he hit his target. So moving into next week, James Winston is going to be in consideration for a lot of people, myself included, but it's at Carolina. Whatever you do, Mike, don't make the wrong choice of quarterback.

I told you, 720. It's already happened. The tilt is real. I will say for Mike Evans owners, the Deshaun Jackson, the O.J. Howard injuries. When Mike Evans was truly the elite fantasy option, it was when Mike Evans was the only target, and James had to force feed him. He is a great volume player, and he hasn't had the volume this year. So I agree. Both Mike Evans and Cameron Bray.

stand to have much better performances next week if those injuries hold up. Yeah, you really hope that's a good sign for Evans. If it doesn't come down with that 42-yard touchdown, it's not a great night. It's 4-for-40. So it's everybody made the play. He also had the OPI touchdown. You're right. And another 29-yard OPI just play. Yeah, stop breaking the rules. You got Mike Evans, here's what you've got to do.

You go get the tape on DeAndre Hopkins. Yes. And you figure out how does DeAndre Hopkins get away with pushing off on 90% of his plays? Here's the difference. You'll get the tricks. The difference is DeAndre Hopkins does more slapping?

and like pushing down versus Mike Evans does the extend and shove away. Well, when you're really big, it's harder to get away with stuff, plain and simple. True. When you're gigantic, you overpower people on accident. You've got to learn some. Look at Gron. Gronk gets called on more OPI than almost anybody else, and he's enormous. Maybe it's just because when they push people, people fall. That's exactly what it is. All right.

Wanted to share a few bad beats and some close wins that were shared with us by the Foot Clan. Vince Sue won by 0.04 thanks to Cameron Brate, who came back after the knee injury. Wow. Congrats. Yeah, Johnny was in first place all season, three minutes before the game. His opponent switched to O.J. Howard, as they should have. Instead of Cameron Brate, if he had kept in Brate.

He would have won and would have been in the championship. Johnny! Oh, Johnny! Congrats to your opponents! Ouch! Sorry. Larry Smiley playing his son in the semifinals. Needed six points from Julio and got eight. Oh, congrats. Keeping the family in order there. You are the one person happy with Julio's performance.

All right. This one's from at Call Me Rudes on Twitter. Loser of our league runs the beer mile in a dress in Iowa on Christmas. The guy lost because Matt Bryant blocked Fuggo. He had his field goal block. Second year in a row for him, that's a tough one. Blocked field. The game I lost by 0.6, I had Goscowski miss an extra point. And I will not forget. Yeah, this one from at.