If I Were a Head Coach, Week 17 Starts & Matchups

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Message and data rates may apply. To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Week 17 fun about to begin. Oh, yeah. The best week. I'm, you know, I changed my opinion. I actually think fantasy football should go to week 17. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Look, I'm having fun here today. I'm having fun for all the football people out there playing this late into the year. I'm confused where this is going. I'm trying to be a morale boost for a week 17ers. Yeah, you didn't know where you were headed. I don't know how to go there. I don't know how to. It's okay. I can't tell a lie. We're here. They're playing for championships. You're darn right. We've got matchups today and tomorrow, week 17 matchups. And there's.

DFS. People out there. That's true. Tune it in just to get. Yeah. Thursday, December 27th, show 67. 77. In our history. December 27th. I have a big important announcement to make. Everybody. Stop what you're doing. We have Megalodon giveaway winners. Oh. Which means that Garrett, Gerard, or right, Jared.

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Garrid by chance. If you're the Garrid that won. Yeah. Because I know there's a lot of Garrids out there. Or if you're just Nicole and I won, no, you've got an email. Yeah, check your email. And then if you have an email, you did win. But congratulations. Thank you to everybody who supported us by voting. You can still vote at footclanvote.com. We've got to finish strong. Look, we're here. It's week 17. We're finishing strong. You finish strong too, Footclan. Yeah, Footclanvote.com. Once a day.

I Heart Radio Podcast Awards. We were nominated for the Best Sports Podcasts podcast, so we appreciate your support over there. And get your footclan title shirt at shopballers.com. There was a little debate at the beginning of yesterday's show. As to, I don't know, whether we had a show on Monday. We do. We've got a show on Monday, December 31st, the footy nominations. Our next show after that will be Thursday, the footy awards, and then every Tuesday and Thursday through the prolonged buy week, which really...

It just isn't that long because you spend some time during the NFL playoffs. You talk about what happened fantasy-wise. And before you know it, I mean, you are into draft season and free agency and trades and all of these things that take place. And so yesterday, Jason and I tweeted out are kind of...

first stab at a top 10. We talked about we're going to do a top 10 for 2019 next week. So we'll see where Mike weighs in there. I think, Jason, you put yours out as a half point per reception. I put my net as a full PPR. I did. People did not like my ranking of Devante Adams and James Connor. No, it was in their defense, bad rankings. I didn't like them either. Remember what I said to you when you were reading them to me? Yes, you said, ew. I did say, ew. When I got to James Connor. Yeah. Where was he?

He was like six or something. Six or seven. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? Al Camara at nine was wrong with that. Well, that's TBD on Mark Engram. If Mark Ingraham's not there next year, he'll move up. Right. And even when he was there this year, Camara averaged more fancy points per game. No. When he was in the game, he averaged three points less than, oh, James Connor. I'm talking about it on the year. They will debate all this next week. We'll debate all this next week.

Anyway, quick question of the day. Yesterday at the end of the show, we were joking around. We said if we were an NFL head coach, what would we do to improve fantasy football for the lives of fantasy football players, which would be one of my top priorities taking over one of these teams, which, by the way, you know, I've seen some of these coaches. I can do it. I can do it. I could do it.

If Hugh Jackson could do it. Yeah, that's the one that gives me hope. If John Gruden can do it. Steve Wilkes? Look, you just, if you're John Grin. I don't think he can do it. Oh, that's my point. He's not calling enough Spider-2. Why banana? Oh, my God. Spider-2. You got to get a spider two. Y banana shirt, Mike. That's the Gruden. That's the Gruden call. So we asked Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, by the way. Twitter at the FF Ballers, Facebook.com.com slash the fantasy footballers. We asked for some answers.

Here's what we got from the footglane. If I were an NFL head coach, I would do what for fantasy football. I would rule players out as soon as possible so you could place them on IR. Oh, that would be very common. The next best option, yeah. I would be honest about injuries. Yeah. The whole gamesmanship on injuries, like, you can go ahead and tell, like, just be honest. You know, people can game plan for you and you can still beat them.

Wait, I thought these were jokes, Jason. You're trying to make a compelling logical argument. I would disagree with you. I think the gamesmanship actually helps. Oh, that's ridiculous. So let's not debate the merits. This is just for fantasy. Be honest about injuries. I would give more touches to Kenyon Drake. Well, here's the thing about that. Not be a beehole. Oh, yeah, that's top of the list. Two-point conversion after every touchdown every single time. I'm with that.

I am actually with that. I am with that and this next one. You don't need to take kickers out of fantasy football if you never kick. Right. Take them out of the NFL. Make David Johnson a top five running back. That would be what they do as a head coach. Oh, impressive. Get rid of kickers, go for it on every fourth down. I would make my wide receiver the best in football. Sign and release C.J. Anderson? Interesting. How dare you? You might want to do the sign play in place.

My quarterback would be tight end eligible. Oh, I love it. That's genius. Of course, Drew, Drew Brees goes out to tight end a lot, doesn't he? When Tason Hill comes in? He goes out wide, man. He's more of a fly route. I put him in my wider. Fly route quarterback. I would never kneel the ball. Give me those points. That's what one of our football. Yeah, when it comes time to kneel the ball, fall forward, people. Forward kneeling? Yes.

Start Jason Moore as my quarterback. Yes. For your defense. Play the defense against the Jason Moore starting quarterback. So we don't have news today. We're going to get right into the fantasy forecast. Break down the question marks in these week 17 matchups give you starts of the week. So let's get into it. Fantasy forecast.

All right, the seven and eight dolphins take on the five and ten bills. The bills are three and a half point home favorites. It's a masterful 38.5 point over under. And news broke yesterday that Ryan Tannahill, the dolphins are prepared to move on from him rather than pay him. Seems like a good decision. There was a lot of excitement when Adam Gase arrived in Miami. I don't feel it as much anymore. No. I believe that the Patriots are the, what, they're going to win it.

10th consecutive division title. Never been done before. Never been done before in the NFL. It's only been done in baseball. Hasn't been done in basketball. Hasn't been done in hockey. And you've had 10 years, AFC East. Kalem Blanche, Kenyon Drake, Kenny Stales and Company, taking on the bills. Bill's and Josh Stallion himself, which. Oh, Josh Stallion. Did he put the drop in there? Did we already delete that? What? Yeah.

Brooks is shaking his head, yes. He says it's in. Oh, it's excellent. And Josh Stallion, he's a fine play this week. Very, very, very fine. The past six weeks, the dolphins are 28th against fantasy quarterbacks. Miami won 2117 last time these guys played. LaShawn McCoy, we talked about him yesterday.

Is this his final game in a bill's uniform? I don't think so. I don't believe them that they're going to keep him around. Yeah, I think he's going to be back. But coming into this season prior to the off the field stuff, he was one of those guys that was very down on because the offense, the offensive line, his age is. And I mean, can you trust him? Can you play him this week? No, no, no, no, no, certainly not. Not after last week's in top of that, a bunch of the season where him actually being healthy, ready to go and the volume disappearing.

I mean, Miami's been bad against the running backs. Yeah, it's a juicy matchup, but I, it's tough to play shady this week. Well, the overrunners low. Robert Foster, he'd be a glory play, I think, with 84% of offensive snaps in three straight games. That's a wide receiver for the bills if you didn't know that. Yeah, and that'll be, I wonder if Xavier and Howard is going to be back this week. I doubt it. 20 targets for Foster. See, the thing is, is the number ones are going up against Jay Jones on a routine basis.

That's the way that they're lining up against the bills. So again, I think Robert Foster is interesting. But last week, Foster and McKinsey did not pan out for fancy owners. Nor did Josh Allen. Kind of threw some, well, yeah. It's better than Brady. The Dolphins did, uh, I'm sorry, the Patriots, uh, shut down the bills, even though the Patriots offense wasn't very good. But other thoughts in this game, do you, do you start Kaelin Belange or Kenyon Drake? Uh, I don't want to start. Pass. Yeah, I'm not starting. I don't know if there's a single player that I would.

Start, like genuinely on both sides of the ball. There's not one player that I would want to start. This is a low-scoring game. You want to flush this game? Under, yes. It's under 30 degrees. It's cold weather. Do we have a flush? I don't think we have a flush. I'm writing it down right now. Oh, we've got to get a flush. I bet we have a flush. I bet if you go back to the history of this show. You can't trust either quarterback. You can't trust either running back. I think you can play Josh Allen.

Sure, you can throw them in there, but do you want to after last year? I searched to see what we have at home, no? Yeah, look, what did you say? 677? That's how many shows of the fantasy footballers, and if you think we have pulled out a toilet sound effect before, then you don't know this show. Then you don't know. There were two things that came up on my search for toilet. One was that sound effect. The other one was Levine Toilolo.

and they're both the same thing oh man all right the five can we can we move on let's officially next game the five and ten lion it keeps going that's a long they take on the six eight and one no remnants there packers um we only use efficient toilet flushes though that that's water saving uh they take on the packers packers are eight point favorites a 45 point over under

Aaron Rogers' first half didn't look like his second half, but his second half was masterful. 442 and two and two touchdowns on the ground last week. This week we have them as the consensus QB3 in week 17. And look, in a way, this is kind of the perfect matchup for week 17 fantasy owners because you don't have, you don't have playoff berths on the line for potential.