Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Trade/Cut + #FootClan Mailbag

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fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. It's Wednesday. That's W-I-N. That's W-I-N. It's Wednesday, yo.

Oh, you are a word smith. That's what I'm known for, really, is grammatical accuracy and incredible Shakespearean language. You know what we're doing right now? Whoa! Breaking news. You know that we have a news section. I know we do. This is the earliest breaking news we've ever had. When the news breaks, the news breaks, and I'm starting the show with the news that Dante Moncrief has a fractured shoulder blade, and he is out four to six weeks. Oh. Yep.

So we'll talk about the implications in the news segment, but we just got that news. Hot tip, pause the podcast, browse your waiver wire. If Philip Dorset is there, you grab them immediately. No, that's a really good point. Now, uh, and then waivers probably went through by the time you're listening to this. No, but that's what I'm saying. Waivers have run, so it's free for most people. No, you're right. So go pick up Dorset.

A lot of injury updates, though. You know, they moved to kind of the three wide receiver set this year. That wasn't what they did last year. Last year, they were the two tight-in, two wide receiver bases. That's a good point. More common. I wonder if Jack Doyle, having shown that he can do stuff, I wonder if they end up moving to a more common Philip Dorset along with Jack Doyle, Duane Allen, and T.Y Hilton. Yeah, I mean, I think it upgrades Allen a little bit.

as well. It's a tough situation. It's interesting, though. I mean, you look at a game like Miami last week. Do you know what the snap count was for those three wide receivers? What percentage of snaps do you think that Kenny Stills, Jarvis Landry, and Devante Parker had? If you had to guess. Well, unfortunately, I saw that Kenny Stills was like 98% snap count. Yeah. What do you think about the other two? Landry and Parker. Landry, if I just had to guess,

I would guess 100% or 98%. You do have to guess. Okay, so 98%. And then Parker, I would go 70%. And that's the surprise. 98, 94, 92. Wow. They were in three wide, almost the entirety of the game. All three of them out there, whether they were getting beat or not. They were losing badly. But you don't get to 92% by starting the game in two wide and then moving. I mean, that's the whole game. So kind of an impressive number. And target-wise, Parker had. And I only said that because you brought up

Indianapolis. Was that from our Snapcount article? It was from us. I haven't had a chance to look at that, but I'm telling you guys, make sure on Wednesdays. Oh, that's my favorite article the week. I just love that article. It's coming out. It's hot. That seems very self-promoting. Well, but we didn't write it. It's genuinely worth checking out. Yeah, Marcus Meaney wrote it, and he writes it every week, and it's out there on the website right now, the fancy footballers.com. I want to get into the quick question, guys, and I want to ask you this, because it's important.

And rarely, except for in the last two years, is there a circumstance quite like this? I guess with Seattle there was. This question comes in off of Twitter from Mike. He says, is any quarterback safe to start against the Denver defense? Is any quarterback safe to start against the Denver defense? What is your take? Is there anybody you would start against them? Yes. Who? Cam Newton. Okay. No, I mean, it is already done. And so we won't see that again this year. And he didn't play well.

He didn't play well, but he did all right for fantasy. I think he finished, I want to say like 10th that week, but the fact that he can get it done with his legs, he can get a rushing touchdown down near the goal line, and it's not just a passing game. Other than that, I don't feel confident starting any other quarterback. Now, if I've got an Aaron Rogers, you know, or a Carson Palmer, guys that are usually weekly starts, I would look to the waiver.

to see if there's a guy I love. Like this week, you know, you've got Matt Ryan's great matchup. He's available on the waivers. I would consider something like that situationally, but I would still probably play my studs. So I've done this scientifically where I actually pulled up their schedule. And I'm browsing through it, going through the matchup, seeing who I would actually be willing to play Week 10 at New Orleans. So it's Drew Brees at home. So I will still be comfortable starting that because Denver is on the road.

And then week 15 will be Thomas Brady, and I will gladly start Tom Brady against Denver. So looking at the numbers for last year, they, quarterback points against Denver was the lowest in the league. 12 was the average. 12 points again. This year, thus far, through two games, the average is 15.6. Obviously, you only have two games. One of them was Andrew Luck. One of them was Cam Newton. So you have two of kind of the higher upside guys, and they still kept them to 15 points. I would.

I would consider starting those two guys, you said, but if I had a better matchup, I'd go with that. Yeah, at least DeMarcus Ware is out for a couple weeks, and that changes things when your pass rush isn't able to... Quite as incredible. Yeah, isn't quite as good. There's a big difference. All right, let's do this. Once a week or so, we like to look at the reviews from iTunes and read one of them in Jason's special review voice.

And we really appreciate. Yeah, practice, please. And really, that's not, the tone isn't normally the issue with you. No, it's the ability to read. It's normally the pronunciation. So we're going to do that right now. We appreciate the reviews on iTunes and the way you support the show. So here we go. Reviewosaurus regs. This one comes in from Maddie Word up. And he says, making fantasy football better than it already is. That's the title. He says, thankful to have been paired up on the golf course with a random stranger.

David, who told me that if I play fantasy, there's only one thing I need to check out to guarantee to make my season better, and that was the fantasy footballers. Immediately subscribed and couldn't be happier about it. Everyone seems to be a fantasy analyst these days, but these guys are the real deal, super genuine, informative, and truly out to make every week a W for your squad. Can't wait to be around for the long haul with these guys. Hashtag, keep pounding?

Founding. I believe that's there's a team. That's a team motto of some sort. Well, keep pounding out there, everybody. Hey, I would just like to say I made it all the way through. Yes. I read. And I think David deserves a thank you as well as Maddie. Maddie word up. Yes. This is the key here. We try to convince you to tell your league mates about us, but we're delusional about the reality of that situation. But if you're on a golf course with a random stranger, it's perfect.

That's a perfect situation. I've come up with two rules for the Foot Clan. We were talking about Fight Club the other day. And so here, rule number one, you don't talk about the Foot Clan. Rule number two, disregard rule number one. And please tell your friends and family about the Foot Clan. All right. Thank you for that review. We appreciate it. And, you know, we definitely do try to make your fantasy year more fun and...

Uh, more victories. Yeah. Withstanding victory. Those genuinely, uh, they go, they go together a lot. All right. Follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. Check out the website, the fancy footballers.com and get involved with the community of fantasy footballers listeners at join the foot.com. So we're going to jump into a very full jam-packed overflowing with mostly bad news news section. News and notes from around the league. All right.

Look, I'm going to hit the big news first. We just talked about Dante Moncrief, four to six week injury. Blah. Not good. Very unfortunate for Moncrief. It seems as though, as is often the case with Mike's breakouts, they just don't get an opportunity to try. Speaking of which, Amir Abdullah placed on IR. Foot injury. Also with the update of...

Pick up Philip Dorset. There is a chance that Dwayne Washington passed through your waivers unclaimed, so I would grab him immediately. His role will increase. Yeah. Riddick isn't really between the tackles guy at all. I mean, they're going to give him some opportunities there, but you're talking about single digits, in my opinion. And so Dwayne Washington, Zach Zinner is going to probably be active. He'll be activated. I don't think he'll be. Now, did you hear the more important news? Yes, I did. I was going to say. Also the least important news. Joick Bell.

was working out. Yes, the Foot Clan was very excited to let us know on Twitter about Joyke Bell. So he did he did a workout? Yeah, he went down there and worked out with him. Did you have you guys, did you guys watch the workout? No, they actually had the. I don't watch those. Wait, they actually, they got footage of the workout. Yeah, did you, did you hear? Joyc Bell ran the 40. I don't know if our list. Part of the workout. Well, he ran the 40. The audio of that is unbelievable. I was like, is this guy, this guy's running the 40. Listen to this. Let me see if I can pull it up.

He's rumbling and stumbling down the yard. Hold on. It's almost over. He's still going. It takes about 7.8 seconds. Oh, Joyke Bell. We missed you. We did miss you. Welcome back. Almost. Hey, this is great. He's almost back. It's so good that he has not signed because you know what that means? That means that if he signs, we get to talk about Joyke Bell one more time. Yeah. All right. So realistically...

Theoretic, I think, gets about 10% more volume in that offense. That's my real belief. He's great, though. I mean, he's the most trusted. He's a pass blocking guy, and he's a third down guy. I believe he will just be very active, and I love him. I believe he gets more than a 10% bump. And the reason why is because who they are either going to bring in, whether they elevate Dwayne Washington, or whether it's Zach Zinner, or whether it's Joyke Bell.

the ability as a pass catcher is not there. And Amir Abdul was still very involved in the passing game. And so I believe that what we're going to see now is maybe Riddick stays the same on the ground. It doesn't have any increase in rushing attempts. But I think that his passing volume will actually increase. So if I'm in a PPR league, how do you not think that Theo Riddick is going to be at least a locked and loaded RB2? Yeah, he'll be a monster in PPR.

All right, let's talk about the other huge story this morning. Adrian Peterson is going to be out for a while. And likely the remainder of the year, he needs full, the latest report that we can give you is that he needs a full meniscus repair. Originally I thought maybe they fixed it a little bit and he's back in three to four weeks. It's three to four months, maybe up to six months. That was minimum. Three to four months, minimum. Minimum. Minimum.