Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 11 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

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Today. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Happy Friday. You keep waiting. The week. The week is almost here. It is November 20th, and it is Double Stuff himself, Jason Moore and myself, Andy Holloway here again. We're the fantasy footballers. Mike is out.

But this is the last day without Mike. So all of you who are going through beard withdrawals, which I understand is a severe issue. Yeah. You know what someone sent me was they sent me the Instagram with the Disney Man Bun Instagram account.

And they're expecting, they expected Mike to come through there. So Mike is, they haven't captured him yet. But somewhere Mike is wearing a Disney Man Bunn. I did not know that that was a thing. I did find out. Yeah, it's just pictures of guys with Man Buns at Disneyland. For real? That's all it is. That's a real thing. That's amazing. I did find out that you can purchase.

A clip-in man bun at your color tone. As a group-on. Yes. So you can group on a man bun. So that's some free advertising for clip-on man buns. But they need it. Yeah. So, hey, we've got a jam-pack show. I think this one's just going to go over. So, you know, I'm so sorry out there. You're going to have to listen to more of us today. Yeah.

And we've got news and notes. We've got all your injury reports. We've got nine games to go over in the matchup section for our fantasy forecast. We got the Daily Dose with Fantasy Sports Network's Chris Meaney on the show today. We got some mailbag, and I'm sure we'll muse on something ridiculous as well. Oh, well, if, you know, we need like a camera with audio just going, you know, Big Brother style in our studio at all times. We do? I think people would have been really entertained at our...

screaming and yelling match over, over, uh, what, Gus Bradley last night? Gus Bradley, yes. Yeah. I disagree. We disagree. It's just, you're not in a good position to argue. I'm in a very good position to argue that Gus Bradley. Because you lost the argument by, by the, by what happened in real life. So the whole debate is Jason thinks that Gus Bradley is a bad coach. Is it, okay, that's not what you said.

No, that is exactly what I said. You said. Well, yes. Bad coaches do those things. That's what they do. They make bad choices. Because he didn't kick, or he didn't go for it on fourth and inches. He kicked a field goal to go up six. Not only that, but also because he ran the ball with Denard Robinson. Okay, let's focus here, though. My whole point, the whole big argument in screaming match was the fact that Jaguars won. They did what, they did what he hoped they do, which is to stop them from scoring a touchdown at the end of the game. And they won.

Based on his call, I get that. Quick question of the day. Here it is. Quick question of the day says, no, I got it for you, Andy. Has any coach ever made bad decisions and won a game? Yes. Okay. All right, cool. Yeah. Except for this decision worked out, which by default makes it a good decision in some sense of the word. Okay. So you're just going to ignore the running Denard Robinson five or six times on...

inside of the 10. I think Gus Bradley is a motivator, an optimist, a perfect coach for the Jaguars, and not a tactician. And I think he's made some bad decisions. And I have no problem admitting he made a bad decision. I will not say kicking the field goals a bad decision because they won the game by stopping the touchdown. All right. Well. All right. We'll get into more of that. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Hey, and there is a little button at the top of the page that says shirts. And we just came out with a new shirt. We came out with one that is called...

Wow. That was his high as well. That was impressive. And it is a, uh, it is a Foot Clan Awakens shirt. So you can kind of figure that one out. But if you want one of those, grab it. I know a lot of people were sad they missed out on the Back to the Future shirts. So we threw one up for, uh, the Foot Clan Awakens. Yeah. So who doesn't love Star Wars. Yeah. There you go. So you can follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers. You can visit us on join thefoot.com. Join our fantasy football community on there.

where we are always on there. We're always talking. It's fun. We had an exclusive show that we record every week that goes on there, and that happens... That's pretty fun yesterday. Yeah, it was. Yeah, I liked it. Anyway. All right, quick question of the day. It deals with the game last night, and we'll talk about that, I'm sure. Two of the last four games, Blake Bortles has had under 200 yards. He hasn't had three touchdowns since week six. He's only got...

He only had one TD last night, and it was a gift because Rashad Green, who we talked about on the show, ran a punt back to the five-yard line and gave Julius Thomas a touchdown. Can fantasy owners actually trust Bortles as their playoff quarterback? For context, his playoff schedules Indianapolis, Atlanta, and New Orleans. The answer, I believe, is absolutely yes. I think that you can trust him. You saw in the game last night, I realize, and I'm not going to.

you know, unequivocally, he had a bad fantasy game. You know, he threw one pick and one touchdown that's never going to get it done from a fantasy perspective. But he played well last night. He had, you know, almost 250 yards. He was, he was marching down the field. Every time they got inside the tent, Gus Bradley made very calls. And they didn't throw the, you know, they didn't throw any, any red zone passes that.

could have scored touchdowns. But that's not what they always do necessarily. And I do believe because of the matchups, especially week 16 with the New Orleans Saints, I believe that you can trust him for that match. Problem is you got to get there. You got to get the week 16. Well, I'm not saying that you start him from here on out. He is still a streamer. I'm saying that you will put him in the lineup on week 16. There's a large amount of people that have moved from Bortles the streamer to Bortles the starter every week. That's a great point.

Bortals is not in every week's starter. He is a guy that is a matchup dependent. You know, week 15 against Atlanta, the week before that championship week, I absolutely would not play him. Atlanta has a really nice cover three defense that I don't think Bortals is going to deal with. Well, I mean, you just have to play those matchups, but I'll play him in week 16 for sure over most options. Okay. All right. Let me see. I'm going to check something here. Hold on a second.

Delaney Walker had a good game last night. Your start of the week was over 100 yards. Yeah, I have to bring him up first because I was getting ridiculous amounts of grief over Doriel Greenbeckham because right before the game, I said, hey, I'm rolling him out there. And so some people rolled him out there with me. And, you know, I can take my lumps, right? Like Doriel Green Beckham didn't have a good game. This was a product of game flow for a large proportion of it because they just wanted to waste the clock out because they had a lead until the last three minutes of the game.

The stats on wide receivers getting targets and catches were ridiculous. There were five total catches by Tennessee's wide receivers. Three of them were Doyle Green Beckham, only two in the second half, both to Green Beckham. But Delaney Walker was the beneficiary of all the passing targets. McCluster had some before he got hurt. It just didn't pan out, but somebody sent me a tweet and they said, Andy, you screwed me. I played Doriel Green Beckham ahead of Devante Adams.

Whoops. Why did you do that? I did not tell you to do that. Dorio Greenbeckham, I had him in my rankings as a wide receiver 3 flex play. That does not mean you go start him ahead of Adams necessarily. So it didn't pan out. It was a risk. I had to flex him over Aiken. I don't like Aiken's matchup. Had to flex him over Marvin Jones. That was probably a mistake. So it is what it is. The passing offense needed to be down to start targeting outside wide receivers, apparently. Can I just say I'm.

I am personally happy you started Doyle Greenbeckham. Why is that? Leave it at that. Does you want me to lose? Absolutely. All right. Let's go ahead and talk about what's going on in the fantasy football world. News and notes from around the league. All right. Let's go ahead and shoot through these as fast as we can. We got a lot to cover on today's show. Darren McFadden, we talked about the group. Actually, we didn't.

There was a news report that came out that he had a groin injury, but everything that's being talked about now is that there's no real issue that they were keeping him fresh. So still something to monitor, but I think McFadden is fine. We talked about this, though, a little bit. Is there anybody that you'd handcuff him with? I don't think there is, because Rod Smith or Turbin or somebody else. Nope. A lot of people asking, should I pick up Turbin, you know, the inevitable DMC injury? And I just don't think that there is a handcuff there. In useless news, we'll bring up for Mike's sake, Christine Michael.

was signed by the Redskins Practice Squad. So if you want to send Mike a Redskins Practice Squad jersey of Christine Michael, you can, and we'll make him wear it. And then Denver Broncos running back, Ronnie Hillman will remain the starter in week 11 against the Bears, so you can roll him out there, I think. The Bears. As a flex play? Yeah. All right. And then Alshon Jeffrey, out of practice again on Thursday. What are you hearing, Jason?

You know, I'm hearing not the best things for this week. You've got a guy who had limited participation on Wednesday and then was downgraded to out on Thursday. So there's either one of two things, right? Maybe they're resting him. But I don't think that you give him rest by just saying take it all off. If you're giving him a little rest, you have him be a limited participant. He's dealing with a couple different injuries. The shoulder is the concern right now. But the matchup.

the weather, the injury. You got a triple stack against Alshan Jeffrey this week. You saw that same exact thing happen last week, and I think you finished with about three fantasy points. So I'm not high on Alshan Jeffrey at all this week. Would you start Stevie Johnson ahead of Alshan Jeffrey? I absolutely would start Stevie Johnson ahead of my own man crush, Al Sean Jeffrey, who I love. But I think this week, yeah. That is pretty cool.

Not for Jeffrey owners, but for Stevie Johnson confidence. I'm confident in Stevie and that offense because they are, what did you just look up before? They're the highest yardage passing offense. Exactly right. They lead the league with 344 yards. No Keenan Allen, no Malcolm Floyd. Yeah.

They've got to go somewhere. All right. Let's go ahead and go through the injuries here. You tell me if you think these guys. Okay. One other piece of news because it actually affects my start of the week. You know, it came out. Darius Slay is going to be shadowing Cooper, Amari Cooper, who was my start of the week. I'm going to shift in the same game for the same reasons all across the board. But we've seen certain games where Cooper has the game and certain games where Crabtree has the game. I think it's going to be Crabtree this week. So Michael Crabtree is now my official. So you're making a switch.

Yeah. I mean, we do this all the time. New information. Exactly. All right. Let's go ahead and see who's in and out. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out? All right. Quarterbacks, are you in or out? Tony Romo. He's back. Yeah, he's in. He's my start of the week. All right. Matt Forte. He's going to be out. He is a limited participant in practice, but I don't think they have any reason to rush him back with rookie Langford stealing the show. He's out. Marshaun Lynch?