Week 16 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Christmas Episode - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/24

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Oh, ho. Merry Christmas. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's Christmas time, everybody. Oh, ho, oh. The Christmas bear. Welcome in to the fantasy footballers podcast. Mike Wright, Andy Holloway with you.

It is Christmas Eve and week 16 probably bringing you. Who knows, man. Yeah. Who knows? It's going to be an interesting weekend. Looking forward to the break and the family time as well. Taking my son to his first football game on Christmas Day. And we are excited to get into the rest of the matchups. We got the Wheel of Shame.

I'm not spinning the wheel today. Jay Gris, are you spinning the, no, he's not spinning the wheel today. Yes. Would you like to, I know what you want to get off your chest right now, which is that you barely lost again. It's my second loss in the past few weeks, which those two losses combined, I think we're about three points. Yeah, that's great. Oh, just that is my.

That's my fantasy season. Look, every... But a loss is a loss. I was going to say, people say the difference between, like, glory and shame is just a point. Or sometimes not even a full point. We have news to get into, including some news that I am very displeased about. You're a big man for showing up for today's show after what we encountered.

Well, the truth is, is we are recording this very late on the 23rd because we have given Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve off to everybody. So we're going through the rest of the matchups and hopefully nothing too insane happens in the fantasy football world. But we'll just hope for a Christmas miracle. We will persevere and move forward. Put Clan Friday.

Each week we give an item away from pristineauction.com to a supporter of the show over at join the foot.com. So this Christmas, definitely a big thank you to everybody supporting the podcast at join the foot.com. And this week we're giving away a sign Nick Chubb jersey. And that goes to I am Groot over on Patreon. Now, thank you. Where are you at with like the need?

that Marvel, they went with Vin Diesel. Like, they took a big actor. Um, I don't know that you, would you call Vin A list? I mean, Fast and Fier's is very popular. So whatever. We'll go A list. Maybe B plus at the, at the worst. For the I am Groot. But you, you put Vin Diesel in the role of Groot where all he says is I am Groot. And it's like someone else out there, like a starving actor. Could have had that. Could have had their name on a Marvel.

credit and change their lives. And they're like, no, we need Vin Diesel. Well, and clearly they had to pay more money for Vin Diesel. Yes. And so what makes me laugh about that the most is the, you know, every time a movie premieres, all the actors from the movie get like late night talk show opportunities. So Vin Diesel is doing the tour. Like he's going around. Was he really? Yes, he gets interviewed on the basis of Groot, the acting job.

And I've always found that to be perplexing. I mean, I understand. He did a great job. Great job. He shows some depth, some character with the variations of I am Groot. But it's just such a funny thing to me to get such a big time celebrity to be your one phrase. It's a voice acting role, right? Which. Owen Wilson from cars. Okay. You play the whole movie. You do the voice. That's different.

Did you know that I believe that Vin Diesel was the Iron Giant? Sure. This is apparently a very secret cash flow opportunity for him. You remember the Iron Giant? Were you in on that as a kid? Barely. Oh, that's one of those cartoons that I was not in as a child, but a lot of grown men weep now when they watch that movie. So to be clear, are we taking something away from him with this role that he had? Maybe he's just the best Groot.

Possible. Do you think they tested a bunch of other B-plus list actors for this? I don't know. All right. Thank you for supporting the show. Nick Chubb Jersey going out this week. Head to prissynoxia.com. I am Groot. Put that on my demo. Ship that over to Disney, please. See, you've done some, you've done some voice. Yeah, I was available. This is what I was. This is a personal attack. This is all I was saying is I was available for the role of Groot. You know who else could have done it. That's not bad. His English is not very good. It's not bad.

News and Notes from Around the League, presented my sleeper. Hey, Brooks, was this giant ornament on my desk earlier today? Yes, sir. Oh, okay. Yeah, but you know who's new? Crampus. Crampus is new? He was there, too. Oh. See what I mean? What? We don't pay attention. What? Guys, this is all a big distraction. Dalvin Cook. A little quick on the trigger there, Al. Oh, he was ready. I'm surprised he's not playing the Hopkins celebration music. I would never.

Yes, he would. Yes, he would. Dalvin Cook's on the COVID list. He will not play. Not celebrating the man's illness. He may not play again in week 17. So he may be done. Who are the top three picks off the board this year? Who were they? Yeah. Christian McCaffrey. Okay, gone. Dalvin Cook. Gone. And who was three? I mean, Henry in some leagues, Zeke and others. Camara. Camara. So, yeah, this is cool. Madison's going to start. If you had Madison,

You're fine. You really are. You're mostly fine. Yep. And if you don't, like me, well, unfortunately for you, we want to punch you all in the face. Another league manager in our league of record, they drafted Madison late. And I believe they've held him the entire year. So benefiting from those spot appearances. But this is why we, you know, once you get to week.

eight week nine you start talking about you have to make sure you have your insurance running backs on your team and this is this is devastating this really sucks for fantasy football uh but alexander madison oh did you say alexander no i did not uh but mr madison yeah i mean

Hopefully he's okay because he just got activated from COVID. Yeah. And he was an unvaccinated, so he had to miss a certain amount of time. Hopefully he's good to go. Because if he's good to go. Smash play. Madison will turn into a league winning type of running back. Al, do you really feel good winning this way? Do you want to win this way? I want to win. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll see what happens. Don't worry. I have Jarrett Petterson. I mean.

Is that a sound as intimidating on your end as it did it coming out of my mouth? No. Jared Patterson. This guy is real heavy on the T's sounds. Yeah. Yeah, still no. All right. Taysam Hill, Trevor Simeon on the COVID list. Suddenly the Dolphins defense on Monday night looks amazing. Quarterback, Ian Book, will be starting for the New Orleans Saints. I'll be honest. I didn't know that person existed before this news.

They scored nine points with Tastom Hill last week. The Dolphins defense has been great. They won. They won. And then Alvin Camara was awful. So what are your expectations for Alvin Camara in this game against the good Dolphins defense? Hope he touches the ball 20 times. Yeah. James Connor game time decision. Hasn't been practicing. Thankfully, he's Saturday. So you'll, you don't have to make a.

Terrible Sunday decision. Optimism around Tyree Kill and Travis Kelsey clearing COVID protocols. Okay. Okay. So we'll, I mean, if they're in, they're in. Yes. And if they're out, you cry, and then you have to play somebody other than Kelsey, which will be a far inferior option. Correct. DJ Moore, game time decision. Okay. Is there any chance you are messing with Robbie Anderson if he's the last man standing? I'd consider it. Ramandre Stevenson, on Thursday didn't practice.

I'll have to pay attention to that report today. Amy and Harris looks like he'll be back and you can go from there. Buffalo has been struggling against the run. And then Brandon Cooks was placed on the COVID reserve list. I think we mentioned this earlier in the week. But it does take the, you know, he's their main weapon. He's the one kind of viable above average. He's the best above average weapon they have. Sure. And maybe the only. So Davis Mills is going to have a harder time without him. I'm hopeful long term for Nico Collins.

Join thefoot.com. You'll get the Injury Blitz podcast, the game day alerts, week 16. Mike, you're going to be live again, aren't you? I will. I will be here on Sunday, giving you my best. Yeah. Today's news and notes, brought to you by Sleeper. Let's get back into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. We covered the Browns, Packers, Colts, Cardinals, the Christmas games on yesterday's episode. Yes, if you have a member.

of the Browns Packers, Colts, Cardinals, aka Christmas Football.com. Please remove them from your flex. Sunday games, we covered the Lions, Falcons, Ravens, Bengals, Rams, Vikings, Bill, Patriots, Jags, Jets, Giants, Eagles yesterday. Seven games left. Also have our fantasy face-off lineups to reveal to you today. But let's begin with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 10 and 4, taking on the Carolina Panthers 5 and 9. The D.K. Sportsbook line have...

The Buccaneers, 10-point favorites on the road against the tripping down the cliff Carolina Panthers. The over-under is 44 points. The book is not concerned about Chris Godwin being out and Mike Evans possibly not playing. The Carolina Panthers, the statements that came out this week, Matt Ruhl said Cam Newton will start and have a major role. But Sam Darnold will play at some point. Huh. So.

Thoughts on Matt Rule right now? Matt Rule is. Maybe Joe Brady wasn't the problem. Matt, well, yeah, that's possible, but it's more than possible that the quarterback position is just the big problem here. It is the most important position in all of professional sports, professional team sports. And Matt Rule does not have an answer. And this is, I get not having the answer, but.

The way that he has handled the last few weeks of like talking about how multiple quarterbacks are going to play, it's just it doesn't inspire confidence in your decision-making ability. I mean, like going in and out, go out. You just just go the, like Coach Meyer, put Cam Newton out there. And when the team fails, you just lump all of the blame onto Cam Newton. He's there for that at this point.

Chuba Hubbard only had nine opportunities last week. He was the running back 50. He's not an option here. No. Amir Abdul is not really an option either. DJ Moore is a game time decision. If you start, you know, if he's active, you're going to be afraid of a re-injury and you're going to have some rotating quarterback situation. I think we did it. I think we got to the first 100% don't play anybody game. That's wild. Yeah. I mean, would you agree?

They're two and nine in their last 11 games. Yeah. I mean, if DJ Moore is active, I think he's still up. He's a still flex play. Do they play each other twice over the last three weeks, these two teams? Yeah, they play in week 18. Oh, gosh. The slide's going to continue. So you have a, you have Tom Brady, and then you have a world of question marks around this because Evans didn't practice Thursday. A.B. supposed to be back.