Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 8 Matchups, The Daily Dose, & TNF Review

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Welcome to the show. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the fantasy footballers. Our normal host has metamorphosized into Patrick Tweederson. Hello, everybody. I don't know if that's coming through or not. Today's show, today's show is a special YouTube-friendly show as well as the Fantasy Sports Network. Hello, everybody. It is the day before Halloween, and we...

Are in costume. We couldn't hear our wonderful host because he was talking to a birdhead. Are we recording? You sounded like Bain. Hello? I guess I'm back now. Today will be your reckoning. Well, that costume didn't work. I'm going to have to save that one for tomorrow night with the kids.

which will probably be on for another five seconds, and then I'll take it off because that was suffocating. That seems really, like, hot. Yeah, but I looked amazing, right? You did. You look real good. Well, it's, it is me, Patrick Tweederson, along with Jason, uh, Jiu Jitsu, Jizu, Moore, and Marty McFly himself. Hey! Doc, Doc! Well, we have a good show for you today. Uh, Halloween is tomorrow. Are you guys excited to take the kids out?

Very excited. Oh, yeah. That's always fun. My kids are addicted to crack sugar. Well, you know, like father, like. Fair enough. I'm just looking forward to punishing them for doing something wrong so I can take their candy. It's the old dad trick. Yeah. You guys are going to bed early to them. Son. Son.

Your shoelaces are untied. You know what that means. Dad gets a snickers. We got a good show for you today. We've got the news and notes. We've got our in-and-out segment for essentially letting you know which guys we think are going to play this week and not play. Kind of important to play the ones that are in there. Yeah, the guys that sit, they just don't score any points. Not anymore. I hope you played Dan Lewis last night. I did. My goodness.

Yeah, we got our fantasy forecast, by the way. We have the second half of the games. We've got our daily dose with Mr. Chris Meaney, which everybody loves, our DFS segment. And, yeah, I mean, we can muse on that a little bit. On the Thursday game? Yeah. I mean, it was a massacre. Remember that eight-point line we were talking about? Yeah. And honestly, I thought the Miami defense played pretty well in the first half.

The Patriots are going undefeated. That's what you're saying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The Patriots are going undefeated. But the first half, I mean, the defense, aside from the one busted Grancowski touchdown, held them pretty decently. You had the safety, which was completely Ryan Tannehill's fault. I don't know how the entire unit is, like, the offensive line was all synced up together. And Ryan Tannehill is like, I'm going to change something.

I love the high-speed cameras that we have now that can catch the eyeballs of those quarterbacks when the snaps fly by them. Like we had Bradford have that happen. And then Tannenhill, it was like, ooh! Yeah, the surprise and fear. It was the Doc Brown. It was funny. So, yeah, we got a great show. Thanks for tuning in, enjoying our, you know, Halloween antics to start the show.

You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can find us on YouTube and check out those costumes we keep talking about. Subscribe. Subscribe on YouTube. The Fantasy Footballers.com is our home on the web. We actually just put up some like Fantasy Footballers logo shirts for the first time ever. People have always said, where do I get a shirt with your logo on it? And we've always been like, you can't. We don't want you to spread our podcast.

I don't remember saying it exactly like that. But we finally figured it out. So we put some up there. And actually, if you're a member of Jointhefoot.com, you get a discount on those logo shirts as well. You guys, we don't got a quick question. We've got another one-believable style. Oh, hit me. Ready? Hit me. Hit me. One-believable stat of the week. Hey, what's up, Klan? I just wanted to beam a stat down to you. That shows just how crazy year it's been at the quarterback position.

Through the first seven weeks of the season, 32 different quarterbacks have recorded at least one top 12 or QB1 performance. And even crazier than that, 27 different signal callers have put up at least one top six performance. Only two quarterbacks rank in the top 12 in every week they've played, Tom Brady and Andy Dalton. And Tom Brady continues. I think the most impressive thing about that stat was the top 27 different quarterbacks have finished in the top six. There's only 32 teams. That's bizarre, man.

And by bizarre, I mean, not really. You mean exactly what we've been saying since before the draft season. Well, even more, though. I think it's just, it's become more significant this year, even than in years past. I mean, I don't remember a year where you could start McCown and Hoyer and all these guys on this level, a Kirk Cousins, and get these kind of Tanna Hill last week.

Because the NFL has become so friendly to the passing game and to the offense, what happens is there becomes a disparity in the defenses. There are certain defenses that are more equipped because they have the few elite cornerbacks. And so, therefore, there are some defenses that are sieves. Seves? Sives. Thank you. That are sieves for that. And so that's why when we...

That's why when we pick the quarterback to play, we're looking at very often. We're looking more at the bad defense than the quality of the quarterback. Look, here is a secret that I don't think everybody knows. I know what the secret is. The secret is there's not a bad NFL quarterback. Not one quarterback in the NFL is a bad quarterback. They are all capable of throwing great touchdown passes, every single one of them. So you want them against a bad quarterback.

defense. And you could stream them and have fantasy success. I have a quick question. Somewhere E.J. Manuel's going, yeah. Yeah. A quick question. You believe in me. No, I don't. Are shirts with the logo, are they short-sieved? Oh. I thought that your top secret was going to be something related to the fact that most teams run through the air now.

Yeah, running on air. Because I'm loving the amount of Bill Belichick running through the air pictures that have shown up on our Twitter. All right, let's get into the news and notes for today. News and notes from around the league. All righty, pretty bad news. Cameron Wake, down with the Achilles last night. Cameron Wake was kind of featured on our mailbag show. Coincidence? He was?

Well, we talked about him with our good friend of the show, Chris Harris. We were talking about- I mean, this is just sad. It's sad, and we got two Achilles injuries in the last, you know, week and a half, week, I guess. But brutal, brutal loss for the dolphins. Yeah, just a terrible night overall for the dolphins. Let's see. What else I want to mention here? Adrian Peterson did not practice for a second straight day on Thursday. What's the expectation with him?

I think he's still going to play. I would assume so. That's the assessment. I'm trying to see if there's any big news here. That is not injury related. Ciesel Shorts is out. Nasty. Which broke earlier. Nasty Nate. As we... Yeah, what do you think about Nate Washington? As we talked about Robert Woods last week, Nasty Nate is in that category. The...

Clearly the opportunity is not as great because he's not the number one. Deunter Hopkins is still the number one in the offense. But nasty Nate's been getting nasty targets weekly. And so I think he's only been back for one week. But through every game he's played, he's had a decent amount of targets. So moving forward, if you're like, oh, crap, I need a wide receiver. Nate Washington, man, he's probably on your wire. He is almost certainly on your wire.

Yeah, no, he's a great pickup. He might have got picked up this week. When you go, when you get two touchdowns, you probably got picked up in waivers, or at least you might have. So basically, we're going to walk through here, each position. I'm going to give you the name. You guys let me know if you think they're playing this week. Maybe give me a sentence about how they're doing or let me know what you know about their situation if it's kind of up in the air. So let's go ahead and do that. Okay, I can't help but ask Mike the question first, though.

If it's McFly. So Marcus Mariotto, what's the expectation? In or out. So it's the knee injury, and he's been practicing. I think he's in. Jason? I believe he is foolishly in. Josh McCown. Oh, he's going to play because he's a tough guy. He really is tough.

I believe that. So you're in as well? I am in as well. All right, Big Ben, in or out? Oh, it's a good day to be an Antonio Brown owner when Ben Rathesberger returns. He's in. All right. Running backs. Let's go through these. Carlos Hyde. If you can call what he's been doing in, then that's what he's going to keep doing. Ouch, low blow, but definitely in. All right. James Starks. In. Yep. It wasn't sounding good earlier, but I think he's in. That's bad news for Eddie Lacey owners, I think. Joey Randall.

Joseph Randall. Out. Yeah, Joseph Randall out this week and probably out in a few weeks. All right, I got a bunch of wide receivers for you. Manuel Sanders. In. In. Steve Smith. Steve Smith, if you didn't know, he tweaked his knee in practice, but he's going to be in. He's a tough guy in. John Brown. I'm saying out. He, if he's in, he's going to be limited. They're not going to put him on all the deep passes, but.

That's a tough call. What do you think, Mike? I think he's going to be out with the Cardinals by week coming up. So Michael Floyd. Michael Floyd. Eric Decker. In. In. Always. If Eric Decker doesn't have something torn, I'm always going to say he's in. Devonty Adams. In. In. Des Bryant. This is the big one. I'm still not convinced. I'm going to say out. I'm going to say in.

But if he's in, I've heard different opinions here. If he's in, he's Des Bryant. You have to play him. I agree. But I disagree. You guys both think that? I don't agree with that. Yeah, I'm... Here's the deal. Like, there's not... There's not very many guys on... Nate Washington. Nate Washington? Or Des Bryant. Ooh. I feel like you still have to play Desbrite. Mike Evans. Or Debs Bryant. Oh, Mike Evans is the top guy this week. But...

Nate Washington is a good example. I think if we're at that tier, I would roll with the upside of Des. But it's a bad matchup, too. They're playing Seattle. In or out, Vincent Jackson. Out. Out. In or out, Anquan Bolden. I think he's in. He's tough. All right. And then the only tight end of note to kind of monitor, well, two of them. Antonio Gates? Out. Out. And then Austin Safarian Jenkins. I think he's out. Out.