Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - The Footies: 2015 Awards Show, Playoff Challenge, DFS w/Chris Meaney

I mean, you're probably going to be in contests where you have, you know, highly owned guys if you're going in head-to-heads and 50-50s and whatnot. In tournament plays, I guess, maybe you try to be a little bit contrary and you try to fade guys. But that's the really, the only big difference is I think you just have to try to play who you think. And you don't try to get too cute. You just go out there and you play the people that you think are just going to be good. All right. So who are you targeting from the quarterback arena?

Uh, the quarterback position, uh, you know what, I'm going to fade Big Ben this week. Uh, you know, twice this year I thought that Pittsburgh and Cincinnati would be in shootouts and now the first time Pittsburgh played Cincy. Big Ben was coming off an injury. And I guess the second time it was Andy Dalton who got hurt and it doesn't really was, wasn't the shootout that we all thought. And really Big Ben has 21 fandal points and two starts against Cincy. So I'm kind of trying to stay away from him. I like Kirk Cousins. I like him a lot. Um, it's funny to say, but I mean,

You know, ever since they got Deshaun Jackson back, I believe there's six and three. Ever since you like that, quote, they're seven and three. Kirk Cousins is much better quarterback at home. And you know what? There's only two quarterbacks been better than him over the past four weeks. And Russell Wilson's one of them who's also going another guy that I'm considering as well. So just those two guys I'm considering. I like Kirk Cousins because...

I just like the options. The offense is rolling right now. I mean, he's been great. Highest completion percentage in the NFL. He's got Jordan Reed, who I think is a must play at the tight end position this week. He'd just consider him like a wide receiver, in my opinion. So I like him, and I like Jordan Reed. And I'm also, like I said, I'm also willing to go Russell Wilson. This is kind of where it all started from him when he played Minnesota in Minnesota. He had 34 fando points, followed up with 32, 26, 20, and then 21. He's just been lights out. I like that connection with Doug Baldwin.

I think my play really is Kirk Cousins, and a lot of talk around the office is that, oh, well, you know, everyone's leaning Cousins. I'm going to go Rogers. Well, again, you don't need to go too cute. You don't need to try to be too contrarian. I mean, Aaron Rogers, I believe his yards per play is like 30th in the NFL per throw. Like, he just, it hasn't been good for Aaron Rogers. He's just not been great. Bling Gabbard has been better than him over the past six, seven weeks. Oh. It's not. It's crazy. I know.

I know, but I mean, it's not all on Rogers. Obviously, Rogers is a stud. The offensive line is not helping him out. He has no time to throw the ball. You know, James Jones seems to be the only one catching the ball there. DeMonte Adams is not the guy. Many people thought he was. And, you know, Randall Cobb is not getting time open in space. It's just not working out. So I like the Washington play. I think it's going to be a high-scoring game.

I tend to agree with the philosophy of that will be the highest scoring game of the week. So what are you doing with running backs? Do you have any thoughts on, like, are you taking the gamble on Marshaun if he's back? Is he a full play for you? Yeah, you know what? I think in a head-to-head or a cash, I have issues starting Lynch because of the uncertainty.

But, you know, Lynch, everyone knows this. This guy probably could have played the past couple weeks, but they didn't really need him to. And would anybody be shocked if he came into this football game and he had 15, 20 carries and he was just a beast? I wouldn't be shocked with that. But, again, some uncertainty with him. And even throughout all the running backs is, this is the week where you want to pay up for the past catchers. You want to get those wide receivers. Antonio Brown, I mentioned fading Ben, but it's still.

They're probably going to throw the ball a lot if there's no DeAngelian. So Antonio Brown there is a nice play. $9,500 is going to really put a staple, a dent into your cash. But for running backs, you can really not, you can spend down on these guys. Adrian Peterson, he hasn't had a game really since the Atlanta Falcons in November. You know, one time earlier when he played Seattle, chance her to stack the box. Like, he had eight carries. He did nothing in that game. So I...

I don't expect him to have a good game this time around either. It's going to be tough for him. You go down the list. I mentioned DeAngel Williams. Probably not going to play as of Wednesday in a walking boot. Still, Marshawn Lynch, you mentioned him. Hard to trust. Jeremy Hill. Pittsburgh's Dee's actually been pretty good. I like Geo a little bit better than him. I think if I'm going to go back, so I like Charkandric West. I like maybe, hopefully he gets back to getting those 15 to 20 touches he got before he got hurt. I think they were just kind of easing it off a little bit. But again, Spencer, where is going to be sprinkled into this game?

I think Eddie Lacey might be an okay play, but again, another question mark. But of all the teams that are going, Washington is by far the worst against the run. I believe they're like 12th worst against the run, and everybody else is, you know, not too bad. I mean, if you're that bad against the run, you most likely don't make the playoffs. So Eddie Lacey could be an okay, okay play in that. So I'm going to go West and Lacey. I'm just going to spend up on other positions wide receivers. Gio Bernard is actually not too bad either.

He can catch them balls, get 0.5 for a reception, so that's okay. All right, how about this for a contrarian play? Let's say DeAngelo Williams sits. As of the last I heard, he's still in a walking boot. Fitzgerald to sunk. Are you willing at all to throw him into your DFS lineup? And we saw him get 12 carries against Cleveland, only at 24 yards, but the volume is there. So I think he could be a good play again.

When I'm playing in cash, in smaller contests, 50-50s, I want to try to play somebody safe, somebody I feel like is going to get a lot of play and going to be okay. So I don't know if it's Gerald will be that guy, but certainly in a big tournament play, I'm definitely willing to roll the dice on him. I mean, why not? And we saw against Cincinnati, the two games against Cincinnati, Daniel Williams had really, really good games. They were able to run the ball against him, so he could be a sneaky little play.

All right, so the defense that you're going with this week, let me hear it. It's Kansas City. I love Seattle, too. I do like Seattle, but I honestly think Seattle is going to be, like, heavily, heavily owned. So I want to try to be a little bit different there. I know Seattle, when they played Minnesota, they had 13 fandle points, and I believe Bridgewater may have had two fancy points against him. So he really, really struggled, so I can understand why there. But, I mean, the Chiefs have just been so consistent. Like, just list off the fandle points from 16-8.

21, 14, 17, had the down week, surprisingly against the bills when we had five. But before that, 2019, 14, 12. These guys have had double-digit fantasy points in like seven of the last 10 games. So I like them a lot, and I just, I'm not buying into Houston. I'm just really not buying into that whole situation. I just, the chiefs have been making plays. So I'm willing to roll them out. But if you want to go a little bit cheaper, I'm in a contest right now where I have the Steelers V in there at $4,500.

It's just a little bit of a cheap play. I just really wanted to spend up on Brown, Baldwin, and Macklin. I like those three wide receivers the most this week. All right. And the last question, Meena, who are your Super Bowl teams and who is the Super Bowl winner? Oh, wow, yeah. I like, it's tough. It really is tough. Honestly, I'm going to go.

I'm going to go with the Steelers, man. I really think the Steelers are going to get it done. I like them a lot. The AFC is really a crapshoot to me. It honestly is. Casey, I'm not buying in Houston. I had all my money on New England around week six, and ever since I did that, all guys are dropping like flies. The offensive line is not great, but it is a positive that New England will not play Pittsburgh. If it works out that way, Pittsburgh traveled to Denver. So I like the Steelers. I like that offense. I think they can make things happen, but everybody in the AFC is pretty flawed.

And you know what? I'm rolling the Seahawks out there. I think a third straight year of them going back. I know Arizona wasn't really playing for anything last week, but I think it was really just from a confident standpoint for Seattle to go into Arizona and lay the beat down on them. And they've just been playing fantastic football ever since Jimmy Graham went down, which is a little bit of a surprise. But ever since he went down, they've been really good. But I mean, listen, Carolina, Arizona, Seattle, I think all those teams are better than anybody in the ASC right now.

Certainly Carolina, it's hard to count them out. All they've got to do is win two home games, and they're right there. But I like Seattle. I think it's going to be the Seahawks that go again. All right. We really appreciate the time. Good friend of the show, Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network. And we'll try and catch up with you again next week, Chris. Yeah, guys, it's been awesome. Thanks so much. Maybe one little sneaky play at tight end. Heath Miller. If you don't want to spend on Jordan Reed, I just noticed that I know the Bengals only give one touchdown at tight ends this year.

But in two games, Heath Miller has 20 catches against the Bengals this year. So just a sneaky little play at 10 in each game. That's a hot take, Chris. Very nice. That's hot. It could work out. Who knows. Good luck to everybody. And thanks so much, guys, for having you on. Yeah, thanks, Chris. All right, cheers. As always, amazing, great insight from our friend, our dearest friend, Chris Meaney, who drops DFS.

Nuggets of knowledge almost every week on the show. We love it. It's been great all year long. We've heard nothing but amazing feedback. So we keep bringing her back. Maybe Heath Miller will be the Gary Barnage that he brought to our attention after week one. That's what I'm saying. You get Gary Barnage right before the breakout. You get on this show every week. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. Nobody knew that name. Yeah. And then they did. He won some people some cash. Like his mom.

Forgot. Right. Like, Larry, Larry Barnage, get over here. Oh, yeah, Gary. Yeah, that's what it was. All right, hey, let me ask you guys this. Before we get, before we close the show out, I do want to mention a couple things. One, if you're a listener out there, you've enjoyed the show this year, there's some ways that you can help us out. You can go on to the website, the fancy footballers.com. You can submit questions to us on there. You can also connect with us.

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I do want to get your guys' thoughts on the playoff matchups. Simply, who do you think is going to win these games? I want it on record. I want it recorded. We're going against the spread or just winners? We'll just pick winners. We'll just pick winners. I'm going to go with Washington, taking the game over Green Bay. An interesting thing with the spreads of all four games, Washington, they opened as the favorite. It has switched. All four road teams.

are favored. Wow. Which is ridiculous. Not all four teams on the road are going to win this week. And I've told these guys, Washington reminds me very much of the 2008 Cardinals. It's a team that you didn't find very special. They started heating up in the second half of the year. They were very bad on the road, but they were great at home.

2008 Cardinals. I'm taking Washington as well. So I believe Washington's going to win. I have a water bet with you guys on this because I'm going to take the team with the better record against better opponents with the better quarterback. And that would be the Green Bay Packers. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. Let's go ahead and grab the other NFC game then. The Seahawks head to Minnesota to take on the Vikings. Seahawks have Marchdown-Linchback. The Vikings are fresh off a division title. They play well at home. Good defense. However.

They are not favored in this game. Seattle's playing well. So who do you have in this one, Mike? I'm still going to go with Seattle, as they are my Super Bowl pick we were talking about on Tuesday's show. But I think this is going to be a tougher matchup for Seattle. And is crazy or maybe as strange as this sounds, because if they lose or out of the playoffs, yeah. But if Seattle wins this game, then I'm very confident that they will make it to the Super Bowl.

I'm going to take Seattle on this matchup. Very close game. I agree. Yeah, very close. I picked Minnesota against the spread, but I do think Seattle. Five points. Yeah, I do think Seattle squeaks out a close victory, and I will take them as well. All right, AFC picks. Pittsburgh goes to Cincinnati and takes on the Bengals. I'm going to start this one off. I'm actually going to take Cincinnati. Oh, I thought I was going to be on an island here, but I am absolutely taking Cincinnati. I think without DeAngelo Williams, without.

The home field advantage. On the road. Big Ben hasn't been good on the road. And the fact that Andy Dalton is going to play into... It's going to play into a game flow that makes this an ugly, defensive, home field, cold weather game. We've talked about Big Ben on the road. That's what I think's going to happen. And I'm going to go with the Steelers because I believe for the Bengals to win, they will have to make zero mistakes. I think the Steelers, because of their offense, they can...

make a few. They can have a couple fumbles or interceptions and overcome that by scoring more points where the Bengals just can't do that. All right. The last matchup, Kansas City goes to Houston to take on the Texans. Kansas City's favorite in this game, I'm taking Kansas City. I'm going to go with Kansas City as well. A couple quick notes. Alex Smith does have some playoff experience, which I believe in that. I believe that helps a player out.