Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 16 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

Okay, if there's anything to play for at all. But remember, Buffalo is where Jay Ajai got 28 carries for 214 yards in a touchdown. That's pretty embarrassing. And at that point, at that point, Buffalo was supposed to be a good run defense. Right. And then Buffalo, you know, oh, man, Jay Ajai exposed some stuff. I feel like.

They have some payback. You know, J. Ajai, I agree. Jay Jai had those three monster games, 204, 214, 111. Since then, he has not crossed 100 yards, and that's dating back almost seven games. I haven't buried. I haven't met 24. So right at the end of the RB2 list, doesn't mean you can't start him. I just temper those expectations, and I wouldn't expect what Jason just brought up his monstrous 200-plus yard game. I will say, just recall, the Bill's running defense as of late has not.

been very good you had that levy on bell explosion before that against oakland they gave up 135 and two touchdowns on the ground a hundred yards before that to jacksonville so it's it's not out of the question for me that a job you can have a fine game okay so what do you do with landry because i did not like jarvis landry last week

I felt like I was right. And then he got that 66 yard. Only three catches. I buried Landry as well. Yeah, he's, it's, Matt Moore is a much different quarterback. Matt Moore will go deep. So it, you have to lower your expectations for Landry. I would still play. The bills only give up 19.3 completions per game, which is second best in the entire league. So there's not a lot to go around necessarily for that wide receiver core.

Landry falls in line, right? You're still starting here. Yeah, I would still play if you don't have a better option. And I would still play stills as a wide receiver three because it takes just one play. The Dolphins defense has allowed five yards per carry and now faces my number one running back of the week. Ooh, the slippery fish. LaShawn McCoy. I, you know, I'm only disappointed, Mike, that you didn't make the championship game in our League of Record where you have McCoy because I wanted.

the normal weekly occurrence where you complain about McCoy the whole day, but he always has two touchdowns and 5,000 yards. Yeah. I'm going to miss it. Hey, can you do that for me even though you're not? I certainly, you're playing for third place. I certainly can. And the Shady McCoy owners out there, I know that they're right there with me. Yeah, enjoying owning him. That's for sure. Sammy Watkins is not healthy.

That's what Rex Ryan came out and said. He's not 100%. He only played 64% of snaps. I don't have a confidence level in Watkins this week, not with all the other options that are out there, all the other potential good plays like a Robbie Anderson, those type of guys. Do you guys disagree with that on any front? Nope. I do not disagree. And then before we move on, Dion Sims, two touchdowns last week. Well, you might as well bring up Charles Clay too, because Clay has two touchdowns over the last two weeks. So anything there for you guys? No.

Dion Sims scored both as touchdowns when Damien Williams failed and then Jay Jai failed on the goal line. You think they're both going to fail. Yeah, but I don't think that means Dion Sims is going to have two touchdowns again. No, I agree. Three? Right. Yeah, I'm saying he's going to go to three. I'll say this. They'll be lucky to get on the goal. Adam Gay's offenses have notoriously used the tight end, especially around the goal line. Ryan Tanna Hill has never been able to get the ball going with a tight end.

So it's worth noting. I bumped Dion Sims up in my rankings, but I don't think I've bumped him up to the point where you can play him in a championship week. Same with Charles Clay. I would rather start Charles Clay because he's much more involved in the offense throughout. There's more yardage. Yeah, exactly. If he doesn't get the touchdown, he's not going to crap your team. But I still think there are better options that I hope you have if you're in a championship, unlike me who I am playing Charles Clay in a championship. Yeah.

Yeah, Dionne Sims is at least on the field. You know what I mean? You're going to have an opportunity around the goal line if they get there, but that's what you're banking on. I hope you have a better option. Falcons, Panthers, 52.5 point over under underdog in this game. This game, to me, is going to be very interesting because I think there will be points put up on the board, or as Jason said, on the clock. Thank you. I love Cam Newton. We'll talk about him in our starts of the week later. Hint.

Hint. Ooh, you're out of a bounce back coming then. A bounce back from what? From last time they played. Oh, I thought you meant from last week where Cam Newton was the top five quarterback. No, no. This is a different team that just demolished Cam Newton last time. Yeah. Demolished. Well, I, you know, I like Cam this week. I like Matt Ryan. I don't think, you know, you're going to sit Matt Ryan. People have asked.

Would you sit Matt Ryan for these other kind of upside plays, not a change. Matt Ryan was, he was almost my start of the week, so certainly not a guy you need to sit going to Carolina. He's a start of every week right now. Yeah. He is Julio, if he plays, you're playing him? Yeah, oh, absolutely. I'm just confirming for the people. You brought up yesterday. Last time Julio faced the Panthers, he had 300 yards. I think he was resting up for that. He's like, whoa, that Carolina game looks good. I'm a rest up to win. I need 400 next time.

Yeah, this will come down to the Panthers defensive line versus that offensive line for Atlanta and what they can do to give Matt Ryan time. The Panthers defense for all of their faults, the one thing they do well is sack the quarterback. They're the number one team in the league in doing that. So can they cause enough problems for Matt Ryan? Probably not. Probably not. This game's going to be a high scoring game in my opinion. Here's what I want to know, guys. I mean, are you, what do you do with Ted Ginn this week? Because Ted Ginn, I play him. I mean, every week right now.

They seem to be back in that groove towards, you know, of last year, where Gin is getting two or three deep shots a game. Last week, he could have easily had a second touchdown. He just barely dropped another bomb. He has scored in four of the last five weeks, double digits in four of the last five. His floor is the two for 21 game, but his ceiling is so high.

What's crazy is the last five weeks he has outscored Kelvin Benjamin in fantasy football. That's nuts. Since week 10, so weeks 10 to the present, he's number 7. He has wide receiver 7. Yeah, you've got to play him. I would play him. I mean, it's like Andy said, the floor is sub-basement levels, but they're, they've realized that they can't just.

lock on to Kelvin Benjamin and you've got to get Ted Gain involved. Yeah. What about the running backs? You good with Jay Stu this week? Totally. Yeah, I'm pretty high on Jonathan Stewart this week. I like Freeman and Coleman. Coleman's obviously down the list a little bit compared to Freeman. Jonathan Stewart over his last five games has been in double digits for fantasy every week except for the one week where he went to Seattle.

The number one running defense, you're not going to fall any running back for not getting it done on the road in Seattle. Outside of that, 12 points, 23 points, 15 points, 16 points. I think Jonathan Stewart is a guy you must play against a bad Atlanta defense. At home, Jonathan Stewart should not be on your bench. So here's a great question for you guys to debate, because we already talked about Jaya. Would you start Jaya or Jonathan Stewart? Because that's a great question. You know, I have Jonathan Stewart.

12 spots ahead of Ajai. I have Stuart 12. Ajai is 24 right now as we just put our rankings up last night and these, you know, these are going to bounce around. But you guys both right now have Jay Ajay above Jonathan. Yeah, Jai needs to me. I already have a note on my list. I remember where I have him and I don't like where I have Ajai. So Ajai will be moving down for me certainly. I believe below Jonathan Stewart. I like, I want to play Jonathan Stewart. I worry about playing Ajai that shows me where my rankings should be.

Taylor Gabriel has been on fire. Do you ride those flames into your fantasy championship week, even if Julio Jones is back? Yeah. It's like Ted Ginn. I mean, you're reluctantly going to play him. Is the reluctancy simply...

Because there's no volume. Is that true, though? Yes, it is true. Well, the last two weeks he's had three receptions in both games. And those were the weeks without Julio. Ironically, the two weeks prior, he had more four and five receptions. Those were the hardest guys to play. Yeah, they really are. Gabriel or Ginn? Ginn. Ginn. Yeah, I'm going to play Ginn, too. Yeah. I'm going to make sure my rankings say that.

Yeah, that's that's interesting. Hey, before we go to the next matchup, we want to tell everyone once again about fandings. You've heard us talk about them before. In fact,

In fact, we've done Fan Dings debates of the week on the show before because we love debating topics, right? Our quick questions every single day. Every sports fan loves to be a sports fan. Every fantasy football fan. You like winning things. You like winning debates, winning topics. Well, Mike likes to split the pot, but other people like to win. Likes to actually, you know, take it to the limit. Fannings. I mean, you can go on. You can download their app. It's completely free on iOS. I believe they even have Fanning's.com. You can go check out their new.

website. Sure. That looks good. And, and I mean, here's a, here's a perfect example of a question. Here's one that's on there right now. What excites you more over the weekend? A win by your favorite team or a win by your fantasy team and why. And so people are debating that right now. You can go debate it. I'm going to jump in today because I have some strong feelings about that. And you can vote on that for the next day or so. And just check out all the questions. You can post your own and, and.

Just debate. Just win. And I think there's even leaderboards now where you can show that you are a better thinker than all of your foes out there. And enjoy yourself. Go get the Fandings app right now or visit Fandings.com. Yep. You can actually go to app.Fandings.com. And it's a one button click. And it's free. I mean, that's the thing. It's a free app. It's really great.

to debate one another, and they've redesigned the app to be even better. So we're talking also, look, Christmas is here. I cannot wait to open up presents under the tree and find my JJ Watt signed red mat mini helmet or my Dak Prescott Cowboys Custom Frame jersey or the other hundreds of gifts available at pristineauction.com. You must have some friends who are just shelling out the cash for you, my friend. No, no, you're wrong. You're wrong. You can get.

authentic autographed sports memorabilia at a completely affordable price. And look, it's an auction. So if you snag something at a low price, they don't come back to you and say, well, that's too cheap. You owe us another 50 bucks. No, they don't do that. And they don't have that voice even. They have a much nicer voice over at pristine auction.com. Yeah, see? Yes, yeah. Come check it out. Look, we love them. We've loved them all year long and told you about them.

Literally every single person that we have communicated to about pristine auction, they check it out, they love it. Yesterday, one of our friends sent me a text. They spent eight bucks and bought a signed Jay Feely eight by ten photograph from the Cardinals, and he's like, bring Feely back. He just wanted to go on there and grab something from the Cardinals. We all have those memories, and there's no way.

that you want to commemorate something more than having that on your wall. So it's really cool. Please bring Feely back. So, oh, yeah, you hate Chandlerkins. I hate Chandlerkins. Correct me if I'm wrong. You rated him number 99 in the kickers this week. He is my kicker 99 this week. That's correct. That's a lot of back. All the backup kickers are behind him. All the third string kickers. I'm taking punters ahead of him. All right. Check it out. Pristineauction.com. P-R-I-S-T-I-N-E auction.com. We're talking Redskins and Bears now.

Another very interesting game. To be honest with you, a lot of the matchups this week really intrigued me. You wouldn't think a Redskins Bears game would intrigue you at this time. But the Redskins fighting to get into the playoffs, bad performance last week from Rob Kelly. On the other side, Matt Barkley somehow made three wide receivers, fantasy relevant with Thompson, Meredith, and Jeffrey. Jordan Howard's been on fire. Jordan Reed, the other Jordan in this affair, has been retired. I had a dream.

Last night. Oh, goodness. Another dream. Yes. You two had rated Jordan Reed super high and were recommending people to start them this week. And I was, I had to fight you on it and say, no. In the dream. In the dream. What are you doing? So I'm having nightmares about Jordan Reed's performances over the last few weeks here. Here's what I want to know about that though. If Reed plays, would you play Vernon Davis? We saw last week that Vernon Davis was the better play.