Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 11 Matchups, In-or-Out, #FootClan Friday

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Welcome back. Welcome one and welcome all. You're all welcome here. The fantasy footballers, Andy and Jason back again. This is our final day of full verification status. Mike is, I believe, on his way back with his family and will join us on Monday. I believe he will also Periscope on Sunday morning. If you're missing the beard,

That is where you will find him on Twitter, periscoping with some Sunday morning last minute questions. In fairness, we both have beards. They're just not quite as epic. Yeah, I guess we do. We got baby beards. Yeah, we'll call them baby beards. When you're next to Mike, it just doesn't seem fair to call them beards. Fair. It's true. Now, you were saying you believe the beard trend.

We'll eventually. Oh, no, not eventually, quickly. We'll quickly go away. I look around. Much like the, what, the mid-90s goatee? Exactly. Everyone had a goatee. Now a goatee would just look ridiculous. How dare you? So the 70s, you had the mustache or maybe that was the 80s. I don't remember. That's what the next rotation needs to be. I want to go mustache before I go. Well, the nice thing is if it goes from beard to mustache, you're already done. Right. You just shave all butt. Okay. All right.

Anyways, how's fantasy football going, Andy? I'll tell you how fantasy football went last night for everyone listening. It sucked. It just was, it wasn't the worst, right? I don't think anybody completely just terrorized, crapped your team. Kobe Flaner got his touchdown. Well, yeah. Michael Thomas got some garbage time work where you're disappointed with both of them, but at least they scored. But nobody.

Nobody performed up to expectations. I think you would have been happy with Tim Hightower, would you not? Yeah, you might be right in that. If you had to start Tim Hightower. Tim Hightower ended up with, yeah, he was 12 for 69 on the ground and 8 for 57 through the air. So about 17, 18 fantasy points. He was probably, you know, Ingram got knocked out with a concussion. Drew Brees didn't play very well. Drew Brees started the game off with two interceptions, very undrew Brees like.

Yeah, but this just goes to show, it reminds me of last year with a couple of the defenses, Houston. This team is not the same defense they were before the buy. This is the third straight game in which Carolina's defense has played well. Now you do lose Luke Keekely. That was what I was going to bring up. Which was so incredibly sad, seeing him weeping on the field. He was playing so good last night. I mean, I can't even believe how.

Good he was last night. He was on every play. It doesn't matter if it was down the field, in the back field, left, right. He was everywhere. Mostly disappointments. And their defense, they lost not just Keekley, but they lost Mario Addison. They lost Leonard Johnson. So maybe it reverts. But last night they were there, you weren't happy with Benjamin or Olson or Sneed or Cooks. I mean, it was rough. It was a rough, rough day. Almost as rough as my Christmas season and how it got started out.

Oh, that's... Yeah. My white... I know some of you out there will just mock me for this, but we like our Christmas, okay? Oh, yeah. And so when Halloween's over, we've got three little kids. We like to get the tree up. We like to get in the Christmas season. I went out, and I purchased two of those light projectors that... Which are awesome. Which are really cool, and they project green and red, you know, like snow on the house, and I got those all installed and hooked up and bought, like...

Extension cables. And they go like in the front of your yard and shine towards your house. Yeah, they were stolen yesterday right out of my front yard. You got a good two and a half days of you set of those. Merry Christmas to me. So I'm not buying another set. So if you're listening. Give them back. And you stole Andy's lasers. Just put them on the doorstep. Don't steal my lasers. Yeah. All right. We have a great show for you today. We have the rest of the fantasy forecast. We have in and out on the show today.

Probably get into a little bit of mailbag. Give Jason a chance to lay down the mailbag drop. And we also have Put Clan Friday. Every Friday we give away a $50 gift card to shopballers.com and we give it away to somebody who is supporting the show over at Jointhefoot.com. Today's winner is Captain Sink. Captain Sink.

You may not know that name, but it is a very familiar name over at jointhefoot.com and our fantasy community. Congratulations. Congratulations to Captain Sink. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We've been tweeting out all of the playoff primer pictures, so like the best and worst wide receiver matchups in each position. And you can find all of that on our Twitter, make it really easy for you to reference. You know what that helps with? What does it help with? Traits.

Really helps with some of these end-of-season trade decisions that you have. We've had a lot of the trade questions come in. I realize something else. Once you get to week 11, those trade requests questions on Twitter, they start to have words like desperate in them. Yeah. Because everything's heavier right now. You've got to get that Foot Clan title. Yeah, you have to, you can't win the Foot Clan title if you don't make the playoffs. Got to get wins if you are not clinched right now. Yeah. So, all right. Let's get into the news.

News and notes from around the league. So Jordan Howard came out to clarify the injury. You know, he played and in practice yesterday. He said it was an Achilles injury a little bit. He says he's good, so start him. Yeah, if he's practicing. If you were going to start him, start him. Yeah, I think if I don't know why you were not going to start him. He should be started this week. Percy Harvin. He's going to play. Expected to be a full, not just play, but start.

He's going to be an integral part of slowing that offense down. Yeah, he's going to be on a snap count. So is he worth a flyer? I don't think so. I will say this. There's no team that I have that I would be willing to grab him. I don't think adding Percy Harvin and starting him ahead of Justin Hunter hurts your team. No. So you're saying for real life for the bills. Yeah, well, for Tyra Taylor. Sure. But no, for fantasy, I don't think Percy Harvin is relevant.

Jacob Tammy underwent season-ending surgery, which means Austin Hooper. Yeah, Hooper is, I think. He's a low-end, low-end tight-in one, maybe? Yeah, I think he'll have weeks where he finishes as a tight-end one. You've seen over many years, Matt Ryan used the tight end. You've seen it this year with Jacob Tammy, who, let's be honest, he's not that talented. He's just the guy in that role.

Just knows what he's doing. Right. Yeah. And there's something to be said for that. He knew what he was doing more than Austin Hooper did. But Austin Hooper is a talented pass catching tight end. Hooper and Henry going to take the league by storm over the next few years. They very well could because they have kind of the perfect situation of the past catching ability mixed with the right system to fall into. And it looks like, you know, the old studs are leaving. Antonio Gates won't last forever. Did you see?

The news. Draft Kings and Fandul have merged. Oh, is it a done deal? They have agreed to merge. Wow. That's very interesting. It's a different landscape for daily fantasy sports right now. Apparently they don't want to be competing and spending millions and millions of dollars against one another. That's probably smart, probably for the best. I hope it works out well for them and that everything can get regulated right. I think this should make draft the number two.

DFS, right? If not, they're right there. Yeah, this merger won't complete until the second half of 2017. So until that happens, because they have to go through all that regulatory stuff, they'll operate independently. But I just thought that was interesting news. It's in the fantasy sphere. We should mention it. Let's go ahead and talk about injuries. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out?

All right, I'm going to put you through the gauntlet. You don't have Mike next to you, Jason, so I'm going to need your help here. All right. In or out, Andy Dalton. In? Yeah, in or out, DeMarco Murray. DeMarco Murray will play. Wide receiver-wise, let's go through a few of these guys. Tom Montgomery. Return to a full practice Thursday. He should be good to go, but I'm not loving him as a player. Randall Cobb, those worried about Randall Cobb.

Yeah, he was limited, but he should be fine. He's been limited and started the last few. He said he'll be fine for something. How about a couple guys that missed last week? Jeremy McLan did Sean Jackson? Those are. I don't think Macklin plays. Going to be more interesting. I agree with you. I think Macklin is out this week. And if he is out, I know you do. And I would agree. If he is out, I think Tyree Kill.

is a pretty good play. Deshawn Jackson, on the other hand, he practiced a little bit, and if he's practicing a little bit, I think he'll be in the game. You're not going to start him, but maybe it bumps down a guy like Jameson Crowder a little bit. Larry Fitzgerald. Oh, there's no chance in the world he's missing the Minnesota game. Plus, he returned to a full practice. That makes it easy. All right, Jordan Matthews? He returned to practice Thursday. I expect he's questionable right now. I think he will play. How about the former phenom?

Who hasn't done it in a while, Will Fuller. And what is he rest of the season? Because it's not exciting with Brock. Yeah, I mean, Brock started the first two weeks with a little bit of confidence and looked like, you know, he can get enough of the job done. And I think that confidence has waned. You know, the quarterback position is a mental position. As much as it is physical, you need an arm to be able to throw the deep ball. But you've seen in the past when quarterbacks lose their confidence, Matt Schaubb.

As soon as Jake DeLone. Exactly. As soon as that mind starts turning on you telling you maybe you're not good enough. You are not good enough. And so I don't like Will Fuller much rest of season. He returned to practice. I think he'll play. I wouldn't start him. Does Victor Cruz come back this week? Victor Cruz practice on Thursday. So I would say yeah. All right. A few tied in names, Grankowski.

Gronk is out. It was already said earlier that he's going to miss at least one week. He's not practiced all week. Don't start him. Have a different plan. Jimmy Graham this week? Jimmy Graham return to practice Thursday. I expect he will play. Against Philadelphia, how do you like Graham in that matchup? Against Philadelphia, I don't love Graham all that much. I think Philly is pretty good against the tight end. However, Jimmy Graham is a key part of that offense. I'm expecting, you know, five for 58. You're kind of, you're probably starting.

You're probably starting him because I'm not going to pick a waiver guy up and take two roster spots away. And I'm not going to drop Jimmy Graham. All right. Zach Ertz? He didn't practice Thursday. And he says he's confident he will play this week. I am not confident he will play this week. I would say he's a 50-50 to me. All right. Let's go ahead and get into the rest of the week 11 matchups. Fantasy forecast.

It's getting to that time of year where the weather is important to pay attention to. And so along with our game day alerts, which we provide over at jointhefoot.com, we also have an article that goes up on the website, the fantasy footballers.com every Sunday morning written by one of our writers. Eric, it is an overview for the weather circumstances for the morning. Well done article gives you really the fantasy implications and what matters because sometimes.

Weather matters. Sometimes it doesn't. You don't want to be tricked. Sometimes it's just a tiebreaker for you and your decision-making process. In fact, we should bring up because someone had pointed it out that the Cleveland Brown game with the Steelers going to Cleveland, it's going to be pretty chilly, 30 degrees. It's not until you get into the 20s that you see scores really start to dip, but there is a chance of snow. So, you know, if it's a tiebreaker, if you're close between two guys, maybe that.