Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 14 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in, everybody. Welcome in. It is Monday, December 14th, and we are the fantasy footballers. That intro seemed just about right. We're very timely with our references. You know, our network of NFL stars to choose from for intros is so vast and wide that we can always choose somebody very appropriate. And they keep working out.

Fred Jackson. The depth chart assassin himself. What a ridiculous Sunday. What a ridiculous Sunday. I agree. It was raining outside here in Arizona, which is a rarity. Well, because it's not raining. Those are tears from heaven, my friend. For your team? Yeah.

That's what I said. I assume there were your tears out there, but I guess the world is mourning your loss. Clearly the world knows there was a mistake and a travesty that occurred yesterday. Yesterday played with the emotions of many fantasy football owners, that's for sure. So I couldn't the week prior to this last week have been the first week of playoffs. Because we talked last week, there was almost no injuries. You jinxed it. Last week. And now it's like, okay, it's playoffs.

This is really when it gets serious. Got to win. Win or I'm out. And it's like half of teams lost half their roster. And we're going to go through them all. I'm driving into work today through the tears from heaven. Right. And on my radio comes on some Batman 2 seal, kiss from a rose. So I crank it. I have a good cry. Get it all out of the system. So I'm ready for the show. Rose on. Yeah. Oh, it was very emotional.

Emotional drive through the rain where Arizona's cannot drive. What station were you listening to? 90s. 90s on Series XM. Yeah. So just so people understand, because they might be confused. Who did you lose to? I lost to Andy. Thank you. And if you're wondering, Mike, we saw the roster. How did you lose? And I'll give you the answer. Zero touchdowns. That's hard to do. Zero.

touchdowns from every single position in my active roster. Now, I made the mistake I had, I was decided between Kelsey and Jordan Reed, and I had actually, I was Kelsey all week, and then with all the weather things that were coming out about the game in Kansas City, but there was also supposed to be weather in Chicago. I had Jordan Reed in, and right before the lock, I switched and put Kelsey back in, which was a kick to the, to the Netherlands.

Fortunately, that did not cost me the game. But my logic was, well, if it's so bad in Kansas City, maybe they have to keep the passing short and get Kelsey more involved, which was not the case. You know, I hope people appreciate seeing the fallout of our own matches a little bit because I'm sure they mimic their own feelings. The Rawls injury will get to that. He's on my team. I won despite it somehow.

We'll go through them all, but I want to let people know what we're doing today. We're going through the stud muffins and the pooped in their big boy pants, breaking it all down, probably mostly reacting to what has taken place. There will be waiver wires. There will be the repercussions of these injuries, the impact of these injuries on different players, and we'll talk through that. And then we'll preview the Monday night game tonight, the dolphins and the giants, and we'll answer some mailbag questions. If you want to get a hold of the show, you can do so on Twitter at theFF ballers. Visit the website, the fantasy footballers.com.

I actually did a periscope this week, this weekend, out of nowhere, came on and answered listener questions for about an hour. That was a lot of fun. Because we're high tech. Well, it was cool. We're staying hip with the kids. Got a little intense. The questions were flying in furiously, but it was fun to do that before the big game, the big playoff game. So we'll try to do that as a show more often, answer some questions. All right, what do we want to talk about?

There's just so much to talk about. Do you want me to just go through the... Yeah, let's start with the bad news. All right. Well, let's get into it. Weekly rewind. All right, let's recap this guy. Thomas Rawls. Out for this season. Fractured ankle. Had Cleveland next week at home. You know what that feels like? He was on a monster tear. What was he? Six for 44 or so? I think he ended as a leading rusher despite one drive.

I mean, he was just destroying. So Thomas Rawls, the fallout, where do people turn? Are they signing somebody else? Yes. No, you keep going with Rawls. I mean, can they bridge the gap to Lynch with DeWan Harris or Fred Jackson, the Death Chart Assassin? Duane Harris and Fred Jackson actually out snapped DeWan Harris, but Harris had more touches. And now there's just the rumors.

through the Twitter sphere that they're going to try and get Lynch back. Yeah. So if he's on your waivers, pick him up. I saw no possible future where this would happen, where Lynch would be back before the playoffs. But we could be there. All right. We're keeping the funeral march going because Andy Dalton done and done in a terrible way for fantasy owners out after the first drive, I believe. And, uh...

And after a turnover, so he lost any points that he had. Yeah, point seven points in Arley. Brian Hartline, gone for the season, was having a huge day. Very good day. Had concussions to Eifert and Brian Hoyer. Yeah. So they're gone for now. And now we have to monitor Eifert, and he was already recovering from one, right? Well, he was, I don't know if it was actually concussion, but it was a stinger. Okay. I don't know if he was in protocol or not. Legerick Blunt. Hip. Hip injury. Not so hip for fantasy owners who started him.

No. Do we know anything else about that injury? Are we waiting for reports today? We've got to get reports. T.J. Yeldon. Me. Probably going to miss a week. Yeah, he was in and out, but I believe he did not finish the game, so it's... Probably. Vincent Jackson. Or did you have more to add to Yelden? Well, for Yelden. Dynard Robinson came in and tore it up. Tor it up. Yeah, so... Well, compared to... That's a tough thing, yes. Compared to what Yeldon had done...

Throughout the season, Denard Robinson had a pretty good game. And we've seen that Robinson can do that in somebody's absence. He can come in and he scored a couple touchdowns, I think, and played very well. Hold on. I'm pulling up what he did. Okay. Yeah, the bad news about losing, you know, all these running backs is you have running backs that are on your playoff roster that go down. The good news is there will be a lot of people to pick up to play in a pinch. So I'm in a... 14 for 75 with a touchdown.

Yeah. And a 12-yard catch. I mean, that's... The only thing I'm wondering about that is just the matchup. I mean, the game was out of hand. The game was over. But yes, you are correct. And he's shown it. All right. Greg Olson and Jonathan Stewart both left early in that game. Olson went down right before halftime. Oh, that did not look good. It didn't look good, but then he was up on the sideline running around. Just didn't go back in because they didn't need to. Same thing with Stewart. Stewart hurt his foot. Yeah. The reports right now are that he's fine. But you have to wonder if the wear and tear is going to...

to arrive for him and if they're going to give him some time off for the playoffs. Speaking of. Not that I have a choice of Stewart as a quick aside of how my morning started. And you know, you're watching, got all these games on in Red Zone and they always cut to big plays. First cut was Jonathan Stewart's 40-yard run or so. Which you're saying this because he was on my team. Yeah, it followed up by a touchdown. And then I flip on the Steelers. I'm like, okay, Antonio Brown.

Or we're red zone. We got to catch down at the two. It is a... And that's how my day went. Well, you know, it's an up and down thing. People need to know that even the beard experiences pain. Yeah, it's... So, Vincent Jackson went out. We're not sure if this is a reaggravation of the knee injury he had before. If it is, he'll probably miss more time. Is this a bump up for anybody or just a negative for the offense? Because we didn't see... Evans' targets.

Yeah, Evans Targets. We didn't see Austin Safarian Jenkins benefit from it in this game. Everything played out to where I thought it would with Austin Safarian Jenkins, the game flow, then passing, except for the part where he produced. That part didn't play out as well. The opportunity sure was there. It was. So Andy Dalton, how does that injury impact the skill position players of Cincinnati? Everything. Everything is terrible. You have to downgrade.

I mean, you had Marvin Jones, who was kind of a flex, fringe guy. There's no way I'm starting him. AJ Green, I suppose you're starting him because we at least saw the touchdown, but we've seen Des Bryant with subpar quarterback play and what can happen. So for now you've got to start him because we saw something happen. It could be a bump up for Jeremy Hill. I mean, you have to. Yeah, it could be. Well, I'm just saying if there's one guy that I look at and I go, hey,

You know, this could be good news for, or at least not bad news. If you're the Bengals, you have to focus now on what you need to be to be a winning team. And that's a defensive, move the ball, keep the clock, you know, going, slow the game down, run the ball type of game. And that's Jeremy Hills and that's playoff football and that's cold weather football. So it's a good time for that's come through, although he did stink this last game. Well, they all, the running back stink because there was a.

Game flow. The Bengals just were past crazy for, they were playing behind the entire game. And unfortunately for the Bengals next week at San Francisco, which on the surface, you're like, oh, San Francisco is bad. They've been better, especially at home. San Francisco has been a decent defense. Where were they this week? They were in Cleveland. How, how the running backs in Cleveland do against San Francisco this week?

Crowell ran like crazy. We've talked about San Francisco on the road versus San Francisco at home is a completely different team. And then week 16 at Denver. So not the best situation for a quarterback who has no experience to come into. Well, you got three variables that work against you there. You got platoon between the two, so you don't know how that's going to shake out. You got a new quarterback and a new offensive situation. Then you're going on the road there. So.

Yes, the potential's there. I agree with Jason actually a lot because if you want to manage the game and you want to manage AJ McCarran, you need to have a running game and you need to force feed that running game. Yeah, and I agree with the, I agree they get the biggest bump. Ifert, Eiffert will still be Eifert, but he needs touchdowns. And so if they can't get into the red zone, then Eifford will struggle.

All right, anything else we want to talk about out of the injury fallout other than a heartfelt sadness and apology to everybody? You know there were owners that tweeted us that it was the Dalton Rawls. If you had Dalton Rawls, both those guys, at least with Jonathan Stewart, he had a great first half. Yeah, fantasy etiquette on injuries. Yeah, that's what I said. Give me a break, football players. If you're going to go down, fracture your ankle in the fourth. Yeah, thank you. This is fantasy football. Do you not understand how that works? Well, a guy in our league had.

Eifert and Dalton. And we just were feeling so bad. And he might still win. He has a chance to win. He has a chance to win. All right. Let's go ahead and move on. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right. Before we get to the stud muffins, we want to give a big thanks to the sponsor of today's show makes our show possible. Pokerstars.net. I grew up. I love playing poker. Love getting together with my friends and having a nice casual time. You can play.