Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 16 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, #FootClanTitles

This bad. That's exactly Cam Newton's numbers. Malcolm Mitchell, I know, right? And Malcolm Mitchell was very disappointing. We disagreed on him and you were right. I will say this. You lost that bet too. Yes, I did. He's not going to be in the top 30. Thankfully, none of, none of these were for lunch. Why didn't they make these lunch bets? I swept them. Sorry, bro. We need to build in the sweeping of bets as the lunch bet. I like that. If you make two or more bets and you sweep them.

Let's do it retroactive. Ratified. Oh, you can't. I'm not retro. But I've ratified this. If you watch the game, Malcolm Mitchell, he got he got enough targets, I think, as far as the type of targets. He had two really deep downfield targets that were just, Tom Brady missed them a little bit. He was close to having a good game. But when you end with three for 29, he pooped your team and you're very disappointed. A lot of regret out there for people trusting the Houston offense and DeAndre Hopkins last week.

Larry Fitzgerald. I apologize. I really thought that Hopkins would be able to get it going. Only six targets after 17 last week. Larry Fitzgerald let people down the last couple weeks of the season. You don't get extra points for very difficult catches. Otherwise, he would have been in good shape. But some disappointing performances. Dantrell-Inman was targeted 10 times, but only had three catches on those 10 targets. You know, it looked like he was in line for that 5-6 reception game that he's been doing.

But it didn't come to fruition. And then, you know, Julio Jones, probably not what you wanted, four for 60 on seven targets. No, it's definitely not what you wanted. So at the tight end, Zachers let you down. That's probably the biggest name worth speaking of. You know what we didn't really mention? Hunter Henry. Was a congratulations to the city of Cleveland. Oh, my goodness. What a Christmas. They had a trifecta. They had a trifecta of.

Oh, yeah. My heart will go on. Did you see that? Yeah, I retweeted that one out. That was spectacular. That's good. I mean, you win your game, so you're not winless. That's great. But, oh, no, when you did that, you lost the first pick in the draft. Oh, San Francisco won. We're back to having the first pick in the draft. And we got rid of Robert Griffin. That was so good. All three of those things. If we want to muse for just a moment, I'm curious, and I know I guess where Mike stands, but I'm not sure where Jason stands.

At this time of year, you know, you have this discussion on what's best for your team, right? You lose losing a game, getting you a better draft pick versus winning a game. It is not as simple as it seems because I know Mike would just be like. Yeah, and we're referring specifically to the Browns where they were winless. Would you rather take a winless season on your record and guarantee you the number one pick or win a game?

and risk having that overall number one. That's a great question, and I'm getting that win. See, so am I. And that's, I did not think you were, I thought you were going to go very pragmatic there, Jason. But in general, I am pragmatic. I'm going to lose to get better picks. But there's something about history and wanting my name not in it as a loser. Yeah. Yeah, there is. And there's something else, too, even that, you know, the Cardinals winning that game against Seattle hurts their division mates, but doesn't help their draft position. You have a lot of implications like this. And it's like, I think about.

how coaches are evaluated. Coaches, your win-loss record, the way you perform, like it impacts you being kept as a coach next year. Here is the perfect way to get Mike on board here. Mike, in our league of record, last place, gets water to, you know, 12 times and then drafts wet. If you are out of the playoffs,

and you've got a bad team, where would be your perfect spot to finish in our league? Would you want that first pick? In our league, well, you can get the first pick without being wet technically in our league. In the situation where it was if you got wet at the last spot. If I'm wet, I get the first pick, but if, or I could be dry and have the second pick. Right. Well, yeah, I would take the second pick. And that's kind of the same situation. But the owners at the NFL draft don't have to draft wet. Not yet. My.

I'm working on it. My point is not an apples to apples comparison. There is a thing that says I'd rather just have a smidge less value so that I don't. Yeah. Or you're the Detroit Lions who are now in the playoffs. Remember when they went winless? Yeah, but I also remember them as the winless team. They're in the playoffs now. And they're ashamed for it. They're in the playoffs right now. They're in the playoffs right now. The coach? They're going to get beat.

Maybe. But they're in the playoffs. No, you're right. All right. The only news that I want to mention about tonight's game is that Darius Slay has not practiced and is not expected to play, which means good things for wide receivers on the Dallas side of the ball. This is my almost upset of the week. You know, the game means more to me. It means more to the lions. It means more to me than the Cowboys. Well, yeah, I messed that up. So the Lions, I think, can win this game, make it a close game.

So I'm excited for that. We're done on this show. We'll talk waivers. We'll get you ready for week 17. Very excited. Hopefully you had a great holiday. Thanks for tuning in. And thank you to everybody that leaves us reviews on iTunes. Really appreciate that. The support that you can give us just with a free review on iTunes. Helps the show out. Helps the show out. Go to fantasy jocks.com and get those trophies. The Codest Footballers. Yeah.

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