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

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Thursday, December 22nd. We are the fantasy footballers, and we are back again, Andy, Mike, and Jason. What is a Thursday? A thursday? Because it's the day of thurs. Right. It's when you're really, really thirsty. Oh, you got a bad thursday. You got a bad thursday. That's a bad joke. It's a bad start. All right. Welcome to the podcast.

You're just a weird dude with your questions. I mean. I have questions on your answers. What's a thurs? Who says that? People who are. Man buns say that. Enlightened people who have questions about life. Enlightened people know answers to those questions. Yeah, I'm going to go with Andy on this one. All right. So, people. Real dumb question. Yeah. So what is a thurs then, Jason? Most of the time we just ignore that. A thurs is. I will not be ignored. You will be ignored. Right now. All right. Welcome to the show.

We have starts of the week for week 16, your fantasy football playoffs championship game. Jason's boom boom kicker. We have news and notes. We have the fantasy forecast. We have a great quick question. And it's all coming your way right here on today's episode of the fantasy footballers. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Mike, did you figure out when you're periscoping this week? No. Okay. All right. Keep us posted. It's a secret. Keep us posted over on Twitter at FF Hitman.

Jason's at Jason FFL. I am at Andy Holloway, and the website is the fantasy footballers.com. As I said, it's the ninth day of Foot Clan. Jason's been giving away gift cards and holly jolly goodness over at Join the Foot, so you can check that out. A lot of people are being, they're enjoying your videos quite a bit. Sweet. I'm happy to make them. Happy to give out shopballers.com gift cards. Even if you can't count, even if you don't remember what you're giving away, they enjoy it. Great.

Because I can't count and I never remember. Shout out to our wives. Oh, geez, yeah. We were given a gift yesterday. I see, I don't like opening Christmas gift. I don't like opening gifts. Why? Why? Here's why. Here's why. Because I don't ever want to have to fake a reaction. Yep. I worry that what if I open it and it's not great? Because I'm going to say it's great. But then I'm lying.

You know what I mean? Like I totally get it. Before I open, I'm always like, oh, I've got the anxiety. I had a family member who every time they gave me a gift, I think they built this like self-consciousness into me. Every time they give me a gift, they put it in a box or something else. So I'd have to fake the reaction to the thing in the box just because I didn't want to be rude. Like one time they gave me like some toy I really wanted, but they put it in the box for like a gerbil cage.

So I had to, like, act like I was getting gerbils, and I was like, oh, cool, I get a gerbils. So anyways, we open this gift. I don't give people fake reactions. Well, see, there you go. If your gift stinks, then you need to work on your gift. That's one way to get rid of one anxiety. So here's a deal. Open that gift yesterday. Our wives dropped it off to the studio. And the reaction was awesome. It was really cool. You can see it on Twitter. You can see it on Instagram.

They made some mini versions of us. We got barbied. We pretty much got barbied. It was pretty darn funny, especially for a man bun over here. Oh, he's the best. He's got the neck tattoo on the on the on his neck. Yeah, on his neck. All right, quick question of the day, guys. How do you feel about the finalists in a fantasy football league splitting the prize money? Oh.

Okay, well, I brought this up because I've been asked, I've been fielding this question quite a few times. And I'm all for it. Not me. I'm all for it. If you are in the finals with someone and you, before the matchup happens, you made the agreement say, hey, no matter what, we're just going to split the money. Say everyone takes a guaranteed part of the half of the pot. That's fine by me. Cool. How about before the season we just put in our 50 bucks and then like we all just like distributed evenly amongst all of us?

And they don't play. What? He's saying like, you know, you could say in the beginning of the year. But you don't get 50 bucks. You get like 500. I don't like splitting it. I don't mind making an agreement and being like, hey, you know, 60, 60, 40 or something. But make, put something on the table, man. It's not fun for anybody. The title is still on the line. You're not, you're not saying here we're going to cut the trophy in half. See, here's, here's my only issue with it. Because in truth, like when I used to go play sit and go tournaments, 10.

you know, 10 person, uh, no hold them tournaments. When you got down to the final two, I would always chop, I would, I would be happy. So how was this different? And that's what I was going to say. The only reason I think it's different is because I feel like it somewhat diminishes the championship, like the trophy, the, the, the, because I don't care if I win or lose because now I got the same money as the loser. It's very different. It's very different. A sit and go tournament is a one night affair, too. This is a season long battle for a championship.

If you do anything to diminish that single title holder, I don't like it. It's not the title, though. It's just the money. See, I guess here's the thing. I completely differentiate the money in the championship. Sure. And that, I get it. I'm not, I'm not splitting that. I'm not splitting. Unless my team looks terrible. It is. It looks great. Sure. Sign me up. Okay. I don't know what we answered there. News and notes from around the league.

Ian Rappaport saying there's a new groin injury for Adrian Peterson. Does he have a new groin? He has a lot of new body. Same groin, but a new injury to it. When you're out for a long time and then you come back, you know, full force, very common in old age to, you know, re-injure. My guess is that I don't know if he plays. That's what I was going to say. He's probably gone after Minnesota's loss. I feel like, you know, why rush him? They're still in it.

Yeah, they do. I think they have a 1.7% chance of making the playoffs. Sure, you are. Vikings, you're still in it? All right. So do you think he's going to play or not? I don't think he plays. Either way, it was, I mean, we said, I'm not playing him last week. I'm not playing him this week. Todd Bowles said that Matt Forte will not play if his new nerve injury in the shoulder does not improve by Saturday night. Good. Because Blah, plow, blah, blah. Blah, pal.

He will be a spectacular play once again. Yeah, I'm going to have to move him up the rankings if Forte is declared out. CJ Fedorowitz, aptly named the Mad Hatter by our writers. Uh, it has cleared the concussion protocol, return to practice on Wednesday. So he'll probably play and I like him, you know, mid to lower tight end one. He's been a stud all year. I worry about him. Yeah, it's a new quarterback. That's, that's my issue is.

I know last game, Griffin got targets from Savage. But that's such a small sample size to say that Savage uses the tight ends, trusts them with a week of practice as the starter. I have a hard time in championship week throwing out either of those tight ends and saying I'm putting my future on the line with two average tight ends. They could both see targets too. Yeah, I mean, they could. Griffin has had games to me because Bill O'Brien's offense.

heavily utilizes the tight end. It's not just Brock Osweiler. Before Brock was the QB, tight ends would still get targets in Houston. I don't know about that. Think about last year, right? Bill O'Brien was the head coach. I recall the tight ends having several games last year. I recall Ryan Griffin bleeping like once or twice last year. Like, I feel like tight end was not a big, like Houston didn't have one.

All targets went to Hopkins. Bryce Petty's going to start. So start to Robbie Anderson. Yes. Yes. Stefan Diggs is dealing with a hip injury. Ooh. So you're going to need to monitor that. That is troubles. If he's out, I'm hooked on a feeling. Are you? Wow. Oh, wasn't he concussed? No, he was, he was just a blown up. He was just.

He was smashed. He should be good to go, but we've seen what happens in this offensive. Diggs is out. Adam Thielen gets a target increase, and he's already a useful fantasy player. Getting more targets becomes a sneaky snart for sure. Tomorrow, tomorrow on the show we have In and Out.

Guys who didn't practice on Wednesday, Melvin Gordon, Jordan, Jordan, Reed, Jeremy Hill, Tyler, Eifer, Lamar Miller, the Darius Green, Austin Hooper. So lots of injury updates. The Jeremy Hill news is, that's not good. I wasn't expecting him to miss any practice. Rex. Burkhead. Yeah. Probably need to pick him up. Yes, you should. You should absolutely pick him up. All right. You guys have anything else you want to share before we?

Break down the games for week 16. Kind of a big week. Yeah, let's move on to the games. Fantasy forecast. You're excited for the Giants, Eagles matchup? It should be a decent game. Yeah, Janors Jenkins is questionable right now. That's a pretty big deal. Now, obviously, you go, well, who's he guarding, but.

you know, Doyle Green Beckham or someone like that. So I don't- Nelson Agilor. But at the same time, he has allowed the Giants defense to do so much by locking someone down. So that'll be interesting. But I am looking forward to tonight, mostly because I want to watch football. It's been a few days. Okay. All right. Don't forget, week 16, weather conditions. We put out an article on Sunday morning, Eric Ludwig.

writes that and it is a great resource at this time of year to jump in take a quick look see how things are breaking down last week i made a number of morning adjustments like dropping mike wallace down due to the wind in baltimore and uh i dropped erin rogers down a little bit based on weather reports so you want to pay attention to that if you have one of those split decisions it's just a great article to check out

Saturday, we're starting with Saturday games now because it's Christmas Eve. And we're going to start with the dolphins and the bills. Look, I've made my opinion known on what I believe happens in this game. And I did not know the line until just now. The bills are favored by three and a half. I think they win this game. I think they disappoint every fantasy owner for Miami players. So that's my outlook on the game. I think the bills are going to win it.

And I don't like Matt Moore. Despite his four touchdowns last week, he only had 12 total completions. Now he travels. I don't like it. 30 degrees outside. You're not in Miami. You guys share your opinions on starts and sits in this game. Because Jayadjai is one guy that we have to talk about. Last six games, he has like one touchdown hasn't surpassed 87 yards. The offensive line has been an issue for the Miami Dolphins. When he was racking up back-to-back 200-plus games, the offensive line was healthy. The offensive line has lost.

uh key pieces and jahe's play has absolutely plummeted i i'm still okay playing him as a running back too he's a starting running back he's going to get volume but i'm not expecting huge things in the in this weekend against the bills you also i wonder i mean this is this is silly right because total NFL defenses are always you know up for the task they're they're you know they've they've riled themselves up to the new york jets