Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, Mid-Season Game, TNF, News, Mailbag

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Welcome. I don't know why that commercial popped into my head. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Mike. Yes. What day is it? What day is it? Wednesday. Home day. Welcome to the show. It's a little different. Start, start to the show. Hope you're listening on a Wednesday. Yeah, that's true. Otherwise, that's just weird. Welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers back again.

Look, Mike and I at this point, we're just honored to be in the same building as the number one most accurate analyst in fantasy football this week. Jason Moore. Oh, gee, thanks, guys. I've always thought of you as kind of stupid. That makes a lot of sense. I say things backwards and my words don't come out right. This changes nothing. Idiot savant, right? Yes, I've always said it. Idiot savant.

I'm here for the comedy. You could stay for some rankings. Right. Yeah, you never have a problem putting the numbers in. So that's pretty good for our listeners. Welcome to the show today. We've got a great one. We have a new segment we're going to tell you about in just a minute. We also have our news and notes. We'll catch you up on everything going on in the fantasy world. And what else are we going to do? Mike's got a game for us? Yeah, prepared a mid. We're in the middle of the fantasy season. I don't want to alarm anybody. But we're about halfway done.

And so I just wanted to take a look at how people are some, some people are performing. Sure. I'm excited because I have absolutely no idea what it's going to be like. I think the listeners are excited because they have unanimously voted that they love the drop. Best drop of all time. I want to play a game. Shivers down my spine. You hate it. No, I'm coming around because I have to because I have no choice. Yes. We're going to preview the Thursday night game on the show today and we're also going to jump into the mailbag.

You know, I was thinking about this this week. I love the mailbag. I just really like being able to answer questions. You love the way it smells? Yeah, no, but direct from the listeners have as many questions as we can't. Because look, we get tens of thousands of questions a week. And we can't answer them all. We try. We answer as many as we can on Twitter. Definitely over on Join the Foot. Yeah, an extra episode over there. Through our website. But it's nice to have like some on the show where it's like, look, let's talk to the people.

For the people, with the people. I like to smell of burlap. Okay. So listen, we got a brand new segment. It's going to come every single Wednesday, right? Correct. So we're fresh off of week number six, heading into week seven. Brand new segment. Look, the people at O'Reilly Auto Parts reached out and they said they love the show. And one of the kind of neat things about this podcast is that, I mean, you know it. If your friend doesn't play fantasy football.

They have about five friends that do in different companies and things like that. So sometimes we have companies that just reach out and they're like, man, we love your show. And they reached out and they said, hey, we want to help support your podcast. We want to sponsor a segment. And so we have a brand new segment today from O'O O'O Riley. O'Reilly. Auto parts. What?

That was spectacular. Yeah. And terrifying at the same time. So we're going to start it off right now. We have Pump the Brakes. That's the name of the segment. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. And we're going to basically be bringing you three names. We've each selected three names or three situations, whatever it might be, where we're telling fantasy owners one of the most important things that they can possibly do, which is take a breath. Yeah.

Take a breath. Don't overreact. You know, don't, you hear that Eddie Lacey's missing some time. And so Nile Davis is in and you go spend all your fab on him. Whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. Pump the brakes on the Denver passing attack. This week. And, well, what's funny about this situation is you have Houston.

taken on the Denver Broncos normally when you up I'm playing we're playing Denver we got to pump the brakes on Houston I say you got to do that but you also got to pump the brakes for for the Denver passing attack Trevor Semyon is back look he had that monster game in Tampa Bay in the three full games he's played besides that one he's averaged 224 yards about half a touchdown in an interception Houston has a great passing defense I know they lost the DB

But I'm downgrading Sanders and Thomas a little bit. I'm still playing them. But just saying that if maybe you got these guys and in your flex, you're going to need to shoot for an upside play to make up some points because you're not going to, I don't think you're going to get the points that you would expect from Emmanuel and Demarius this week. What about the rest of the season? This is just a one week. This is a one week against Houston because Houston has a pretty solid passing defense. I'm going to tell listeners, fantasy players,

what you might be figuring out on your own at this point, but it's time to pump the brakes on Matt Forte. Yay. I was, you know, all offseason we said we had major concerns about Forte. He came out and he set the world on fire. Made us look a fool. He made us look foolish in week one and two. But listen to the carry count for Matt Forte over the last five weeks, the decline. 30, then 15, 14, 12, and then 9.

The fantasy points over the last four weeks have been 8, 6, 8, and 3. You can find that from Matt Asiata's grandma. So, Bilal Pal, last week, 72% snap count. It's time to say it out loud. Matt Forte is not the RB1 or the RB2 you expected. Now you have a team that's going to be turning to Gino Smith, does not have Eric Decker, looked terribly.

against the Cardinals. I mean, the offense could not get it together. You can't lean on forte if you're stacking the box against him making Gino Smith throw. I think if you can trade him at all for anything of value, I think it's time to ship them out. So I'm pumping the brakes, and it's a full stop. It's a full stop. Oh, all right, Jason. All right. So my, my pump the brakes is not going to make many people happy because we, you know, he's been a favorite of this show this season. We've had.

segments he was even on and we're big fans here of the woke one christ and michael but i am saying whoa hold your horses pump the brakes because look this week he plays the arizona run defense at home arizona we have seen through the course of these six weeks their defense is coming together they're starting to gel in the words of steve kime their general manager

I think Chris and Michael's not having a good week this week. Go to next week. Carolina off a buy. That's a difficult week. Go to the next week. Their buy week. So these next three weeks aren't going to be that great for him. And then probably, you know, maybe around that time a month from now, Thomas Rawls is coming back. You and I certainly believe in Rawls. I think when Rawls comes back, you know, both of these guys are going to have their value.

eaten away at. So for me, Kristen Michael is a guy I'm pumping the brakes on, a guy that if I had, I would be seeing if I could get top value for. He's still, you know, a good running back in a running offense. And he has value. I think you can start him. I'm just saying pump the brakes. Sure. Or if you could find top value for him, I would do it. All right. So the Denver passing attack, Matt Forte and the woke one himself.

Pumping the brakes. That was the first, the inaugural, Pump the Bakes segment with O'Reilly Auto Parts, Better Parts, Better Prices every single day. Every day. We thank them for supporting this show. So let's go ahead and jump into the news. News and Notes from Around the League. All right, big news this morning. Big Ben Rothesburg could miss four to six weeks after having surgery. This is not the one or two week hope that we had for Big Ben. This is not good for...

any of the fantasy pass catchers in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I mean, this is what happens when, you know, we project before a surgery what the normal outcome is. He had the surgery and then expectations changed. That's never a good sign. That means that more was found during the surgery or that the surgery was more than what was expected at the very least. And so you certainly are.

a little worried if you're Antonio Brown's owner. Would you be willing to trade Antonio Brown for a David Johnson or a cross for a Julio or someone like that? Yep. Mike's grimacing. It's hard because in our league, we're a keeper, a three-keeper league, but in a straight-up redraft, I'm willing to do that. Yeah, the one piece of hope.

that I'm holding on to right now is if you look back on Antonio Brown's game blog last year, you had most of the Michael Vic was the initial guy who came in. Then Landry Jones eventually took over. You did have the game against Kansas City with Landry where Antonio Brown was six for 124. So it's not impossible, but I feel like the very biased side. So I'm going to let you, I'm sticking with your two opinion, but I'm not trading him yet. He's still the best.

wide receiver in football. And so I think he's going to have his games. But what you do to me is you cut off that the monster game upside that you used to have with Big Ben. Where Big Ben, look, it's the little things. It's at the line of scrimmage, the hand signal to Antonio Brown when it looks like there's a safety that's, you know, moving off of him or he's one-on-one on the outside and they take the shot. Those are the things. His pump fake. I mean, there's things that Antonio Brown's game is built on, uh,

being a technician, a great wide receiver. He's not, he's not 6.5. Mike Evans. I mean, he's 5.10. So. Yeah. And you're going to want to, you know, Pittsburgh, they have enough in the running game to not put Landry Jones out on an island either. So unless they're great deficits, I don't think you're going to see Antonio Brown explode. So that's, that's the unfortunate news about Big Ben. You know, at this point, if you're a fantasy owner, do you drop Big Ben? Just let him go.

Unless you have an IR. I mean, certainly I'm not holding Big Ben for the next four to six weeks taking up a bench spot. I'll say this. Confirm this news before I'm going to drop Big Ben. I mean, we sure, sure. These are initial reports. This, yeah, but this is from, uh, I know it was Chris Morton. Chris Martin. I know it was Chris Martin. I know it's very, very reliable source just saying, you don't have to drop him today. All right. Another, uh, extension on an injury.

Packers expect Eddie Lacey to miss several weeks. You have practice squad running back Don Jackson, Don Jackson and Ty Montgomery right now. And then you signed Nile Davis yesterday. Trade for him. What's that? They traded for Nile Davis. Oh, I'm sorry. They traded for Nile Davis. To me, the biggest beneficiary is Ty Montgomery. Time Montgomery had eight receptions out of the backfield last week. I don't, I think you're talking, you know.