Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 17 Matchups, Starts of the Week, News

ahead of time and then put the responsibility on the owners. Theirs was even worse, though, because this DeAngelo Williams was on this week, right? Yes. I mean, you expect stat corrections today. If I'm up by one point and I get stat corrected, I'm waiting until today when that's normal. But the one with the Yahoo and the Denard Robinson was over a week old, and they went back. Well, it wasn't really Yahoo, though. It was the NFL changed it. Right. And Yahoo maybe.

didn't apply it as soon as they could have. I mean, they applied it on Friday, I think, before the weekend games. But Friday was Christmas. So that's what got in the way for a lot of league owners. And they didn't do it in a way that automatically applied it like ESPN did. They said, hey, we don't want to mess with your team. You go mess with it. It was 13 yards of rushing yards for Denard Robinson. They got changed. So that stuff is no fun. I still say if he got 13 yards, he got 13 yards. I've been on the side where you change it because...

He did. I mean, it's the truth. But it doesn't make it feel any better. All right. Let's go ahead and get into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right. Not a lot of regular news. We have a lot of injury updates for you. This is the big one, though. The Redskins head coach Jay Gruden hinted his starters could be active but play limited snaps in week 17. I don't know if what we're going to see. I would guess what we're going to see is kind of like a fourth.

preseason game situation where maybe they want to get some reps out on the field. But you're talking about a driver or two. We've warned you about the Redskins this week because he said he needed to be smart with those players, make sure they don't get hurt. To be honest, I don't know what to expect from them other than the fact that the only guy that I think about playing is Jordan Reed because we saw what he could do in one quarter last week and tied in his harder. Yeah, if Jordan Reed is playing an entire half.

he's going to outperform your average waiver wire pickup replacement tight end. And so that is worth considering the problem here is we don't know that it's going to be a half or a drive. This is something where if it was my team, I would be on Twitter. Every second. Yeah, the whole morning leading up to starting a guy, I'd have another option. And then I'd look for somebody, one of the big reporters, to say, okay, Gruden said they're going a half, you know, and then I might roll him out there. Yeah, I don't think you can trust it. I mean,

If you're a Jordan Reed owner, I'm not sure what Zachert's ownership percentage is at right now. It's got to be climbing. But that's a guy with huge upside that I would grab. Doesn't have that risk. Yeah, I would rather. Yeah, if you've got someone good like Zach Ernst. But I'm saying if you're just grabbing at the bottom of the barrel for tight end and you have Reed who might give you a half, I'd probably still go. Would you play Will Ty or?

Ty has more upside, so I would stay with Ty. I probably would as well. Okay. The C.J. Spiller experiment ends on IR. I believe early in the year. Early. I said that there must be something extracurricular going on behind the scenes here. I think IR in this case stands for I regret. Yes. I regret signing C.J. Spiller. The Saints, it didn't work out.

That's all there is to it. Jason made some very inflammatory comments and insinuations about C.J. We won't repeat them, and if you remember them, then good for you being a loyal listener. I'm just saying. I think I might have been right here because he got shipped out to the IRS. Not good. And then the, you know, Dynasty Leagues, Dirt Cutter, offensive coordinator at Tampa, they want to keep Doug Martin around. Now,

Keeping Doug Martin is a lot more expensive now than it was a year ago. I think this is actually good news for this week because I've had listeners right in and say they're really worried because of his fumbles. You know, he had another fumble this last week and they're like, can I trust him? Charles Sims had such a great game. Who do I play? And you see the confidence that they want Doug Martin out there. They want him for the future. So I think you can be confident in Doug Martin this week. All right, let's run down the injuries. What's it going to pay me?

Are you in or out? In or out? Tyrod Taylor. I know he'll be out regardless of his start for my team. Out of your fantasy line? What's his health like? I believe he's going to be in. I haven't got, I guess. Yeah, his health, I don't think is a huge question mark. He should play this week. But like Andy said, out of the roster. Yeah, he was just limited shoulder should be okay. He was called out a little bit by the...

The coaching staff, who they had said they think that he needs to be the type of quarterback who can put the game on his back, maybe a motivation type situation. So who knows for Taylor moving forward this week, how he will respond to that criticism? And who knows a little bit long-term with Tyler Taylor? Yeah, I think that's more what it is. Enter out Brian Hoyer.

In? He's been cleared. I think he's in, and I think he's a good play this week. I was going to say the same thing. I would have no problem streaming Hoyer this week. In or out, A.J. McCarran? What do you think is going to happen there? I think he's in. I'm pretty sure he's in. It's his non-throwing arm. Am I correct in that? Correct. Yes, it's his non-throat. I would expect him. Yeah, I would expect him. Yeah, he'll be in. Interout Johnny Mansell. Concussion. Added late. I would not expect him to play.

getting a concussion that late. I'm going to say in. You're going to say in? Man, this is one of those 50-50s. I'm going to watch the news and see. Now, if he's out, Andy, do you change your almost upset of the week? Yes. Okay. Yeah, Austin Davis. Come on. Austin Davis. Doesn't do it for me. Austin Davis. Running backs. Matt Forte in or out. He's been limited. The Bears said they hope he can go. I think he'll be in, but honestly, would not shock me at all if they just say,

You go, go sit down, Forte. We're going to let Langford go. Do you think they'll go Eric Weddle on him? No, not full Eric Weddell. I agree with your take yesterday, Mike, on the Forte Langford future situation, what you're going to see this week. If I'm a Forte owner, there are plenty of guys that I'm willing to start over Forte. I mean, I don't have him super late where I'm starting, you know, the...

the Cameron honors pains, but I'm starting Langford over Forte this week. Now, it's interesting in San Diego, the situation of, I mean, normally to be a good dad, a good father, you know, there's consequences and costs, and it's usually time and missing things. The consequence for Eric Weddell to be a good dad was $10,000 charged by San Diego to stay out at halftime and watch his daughter perform in the halftime performance. Shame on you, San Diego.

Plenty of free agents won't go there, so. Shame on you. And like I said, I don't know how, I feel like this is the... I believe you mean Los Angeles. This is the end of a bad road for Weddell and the Chargers. So I don't know what's taken place before then, so I'm not going to completely vilify the charges off of one. I will kind of pronounced public moves. That's why there's three of us. It doesn't look good, though. We can say, balance out. Yeah, we can say, oh, we're not going to throw them under the bus and yet throw them under the bus.

He's just been a great player, and there's a way that you can let a great player go with class. And I agree finding him for watching his daughter perform at halftime and then putting him on IR against his will and telling him there's no spot on a plane. It's probably not the best way to go about it. What was hilarious, I don't remember who tweeted it. But the reason he was fined is because they want all players in the locker room so they can make halftime adjustments that could go to victory. And they said, if your halftime adjustments were so good, you wouldn't have four wins.

Yeah. So what are you adjusting? Well, clearly he's moved on too because he made the decision to do that. All right. Jonathan Stewart, in or out. Out. Big salad. Sean Drone. Move to IRR. He's gone. He flopped lightly in the breeze. He browned. Salad only lasts so long. Lettuce only lasts so long. That's a very good point. Sure, you can, you know. Should have seen it coming. We should have seen it coming. Can't leave that out. Matt Jones.

I think, I imagine he will be out. I don't think it matters because nobody's going to start him considering the status, the status of, well, I was going to say the state, the status of the Washington starters. You don't know who to start there. It doesn't even bother me how he said that because it's got all the letters in it and it was the right word. Thank you. All right, Marshawn Lynch. He's already out. All right. Wide receiver wise, Ted Ginn. He's not practicing the team is hopeful.

That he will play. My feeling is he will play. In or out, Jason. Yeah, I think he'll be in the game. I have much less confidence with him sitting out and being injured as a start this week. Alan Hurons, in or out. Doesn't matter if he practices. He plays. Is that an end? That's an end. Danny Amidola and Julian Edelman. They're limited in practice. I would not expect them. So I'd say out for both. Stentimis. Stevie Johnson.

Oh, he's tougher. Coming off that groin injuries, finally practicing. He got back at practice last week and still didn't play. So it seems like kind of that Austin Saffarian Jenkins move. I'm going to say he doesn't play. I'm going to say out as well. Marcus Colston? I think he'll play. We'll see. In? Yeah, I'm going to go with In on him. Kendall Wright, in or out? I'm going to say out. Man, poor Kendall Wright has had a beat-up, beat-up year. No real reason to get him back out there. He's a pretty good player. Just keep him healthy. Richard Matthews.

He still has that rib injury. I imagine that he's going to sit. I think he's going to be in. You think he's going to play? I'm going to say out. Kenny Stills is limited as well, by the way. So this is going to be a good week for Devante Parker. I'm going to go out as they, even if he's healthy and can play. This is a situation where I think the team will want to watch and get Parker some reps. All right. Zach Miller at the tied-in position. He didn't practice. They're hoping that he's ready to go. I think he'll be in.

Yeah, I agree. I think he'll be in. Tyler Eifert. He's back. Yes. He's been cleared. In. Tyler Eifert. People need them. Time for 40 yards in the touchdown. I agree. I think it's nice for owners we saw McCarran Target, the other Tyler last week, to limited success. Fake Tyler. Yeah, fake Tyler. So do our starts of the week?

Oh, yes, yes. We are going to get into our starts a week. Before we do that, I want to remind everybody that you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, and you can click the little shirts button at the top. And if you want to commemorate your championship, we have a new shirt up, the Foot Clan title t-shirt. So if you want that trophy t-shirt, it is on the website to celebrate a very, very good year. We'll help remind all of your friends every time you wear it.

That you are the champion. Yes, foot clan title. So, all right, we are going to do the starts of the week, and then we'll get into the remainder of the matchups for this week. So let's do it. Starts of the week. All right, let's do it. I'll go ahead and kick it off. Please, if you guys don't mind. Please do. I mind.

But I'm going to let you do it anyways. Thank you. Well, my start of the week at the quarterback position is none other than Eli Manning. Well, he couldn't have looked worse last week, but this week he gets O'Dell Beckham Jr. back. He faces a Philadelphia defense that I would have started him against regardless of the coaching situation. And now you're just throwing another variable. The team is kind of in shambles.

and the defense has not been good. So I like Eli Manning to bounce back in a big way against Philadelphia and come out and light it up. Yeah, I like Eli Manning a lot this week for every reason you just said, especially coming off of bad games. People don't want to start him. I'm going to go with a guy based on a game. And that's Drew Breeze. Dr. Breeze, Atlanta has statistically a good passing defense. They've had some low-scoring games.

But Vegas has this game as a super high-scoring game. It's the last game of the year. I think this is going to be a game where you just have offenses putting points on the board, left and right. I want pieces of that. Drew Breeze. Willie Sneed seems healthy. Brandon Cooks has been on fire. You've got good tight ends there. So give me Breeze this week. And I will take the yin to your yang. I hear it. And I will go with Matt Ryan. The over under, like Jason said, is just

Too delicious to sit Matt Ryan down. We've seen the Saints allow multiple touchdowns in games of four touchdowns. We remember the Saints versus the Giants. It's just happening weekly against the Saints defense. Two traditionally prolific fantasy quarterbacks facing off in a meaningless game. Yeah. To finish the year on a high note. Plus the small caveat of maybe.

The Falcons with nothing to play for, maybe they force feed Julio Jones for that catch record. It's very good for a quarterback's production to force feed Julio Jones. They should have figured that out earlier. You know, Matt Ryan has fallen. We were looking today, the roster in the MFL 10 I won. I had two quarterbacks. They were Andy Dalton and Matt Ryan. And then the surprise of that was that I took Matt Ryan in the seventh and Andy Dalton in the 15th. I was like, Matt Ryan has been. Yeah, he was.