Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 14 Matchups, Daily Dose, Mailbag

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome, welcome, everybody. It's Friday, December 11th. I'm hitting them with the twist right now. You're hitting them with the twist. Hey. No, that's the Cam. That's the Cam Newton. Oh, I've never seen a better twist than Cam Newton's twist. I don't even know what that means. I'm worried about it. Cam Newton's. Cam Newton's celebration is fired.

Is hot fire. Did you know I pulled off a... I did a little Cam Newton when I was on the flag football field. Oh, you didn't see it? No way. I missed it. Well, I mean, I did... You dabbing? No, no. I scrambled a little bit in the pocket, and I behind the back passed to our right guard who ran it for like 15 yards. And then I did...

The Cam Newton first down towards the bench. Double guns. Double guns. The double guns. And it felt great. It felt great. Yeah, the bucket. It is the bucket. Book it. Yeah, so we're basically the same player. Me and him. Pretty close. So welcome to the show. We are the fantasy footballers. And we are back here on Friday talking through the rest of the week 14 matchups. We've got your news and notes. All your injury reports. We have the Daily Dose segment.

Yeah, we're back. Chris Mini's back. After a couple weeks. It feels like. I think it was two. No, it's just one. No, the week before. No, he's right, because we had Thanksgiving. We had Thanksgiving. Oh. So dear, dear, dear, good friend of the show. We didn't mean to leave him off. Let's see what you did. Thanks. Thanks. All right, you want to follow the show? You can do so on Twitter at the FFF ballers. Check us out on YouTube on the Fantasy Sports Network. Check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers.com.

And we are fresh off of yet another Patreon mailbag show. We do an extra show every week for all of our supporters on join the foot.com. So we did that yesterday. That was a good time. Heard some good stories from people and their leagues and how they've come back from the dead to now rise in the playoff hunt. So let me get right into it right now because, Mike, you just got back from the Thursday night game.

In fact, one of the Foot Clan listeners captured a screenshot of a camera seeing you. Yes, I got spotted. Which is hilarious. Hilarious. And in that very moment of the game, I was furious with what was happening with the Cardinals. So it's a little bit low-res, but I'm sure if you could see my face, I'm just staring. I mean mugging the crap.

Out of that camera. Get it out of my face right now because I am not pleased with what is happening. Well, let me ask then. The quick question of the day was this. What fantasy owner is the happiest and saddest after last night's game? We're in the playoffs. A lot of players playing. I'll go with happiest. Okay. I think the happiest. Michael Floyd owners? That's what I was going to say.

If you are in the playoffs and you're, you know, you've got a good team, but you're looking at that last spot and you're going, who do I start? Do I put Floyd in there? Or even I would say John Brown owners, you're happy, you know, that he got that 65-yard touchdown. You know, you get a bonus. I would say people that started guys like that, the lower tier, questionable tier guys that had a great game. You're off to a good start with your playoffs. I'm going to go with the owners who were forced. They were pushed into a corner.

like Baby from Dirty Dancing. Okay. And nobody puts Baby in a corner. And the people who were forced to start Teddy Bridgewater last night, who had the best game of his career with, I think almost 350 yards, only one touchdown. Now, how many of those yards were on this stupid screen passes that Cardinals can't stop? It was all tied in screens. That's ridiculous. So who's the saddest owner from last night?

Saddest owner. And did the Adrian Peterson situation pretty much met expectation, did it not? Because we looked first drive, which this happens a lot. Scripted first drive, plays are, you know, running with anger. Four for 38 and a touchdown for Peterson on drive number one. Rest of the game, I believe 19 carries for 31 yards. Yeah, 1.6 a carry. There's that defense. And I will tell you this. That was just a stab in my gut.

As I'm watching that, because I just watched the Minnesota Vikings who were inept last week stormed down the field on the Cardinals, and I was very vocal in my reluctance and concern about Adrian Peterson. Apparently I was very, very wrong, but I was about half right. The touchdown saved his day. I was going to say there are some disappointed.

If anybody rolled out Stefan Diggs, you're disappointed. I don't know if you're doing that anymore. If anybody rolled out Larry Fitzgerald. Larry Fitzgerald owners are disappointed, especially if you're in a standard league, he got 41 total yards, no touchdown. If you're in a standard and you don't get points for those five catches, you are not off to the races. Right. And what was really frustrating was the, I'm the Larry Fitzgerald owner, so I may be skewed a little bit here.

But on the Michael Floyd... I believe you are. Yeah, but on the Michael Floyd touchdown, what is he doing over there? That pass was to Larry Fitzgerald. Of course it was. Of course it was. And then towards the end of the game, we were talking about this. Troy Nicholas, the tight end, thought, oh, that passes to me. No. There was a reason I had Larry Fitzgerald as far down my rankings as I did. And it had to do with one touchdown in seven weeks, now eight weeks. One touchdown in eight weeks.

The downfield balls are all going to a healthy John Brown, a healthy Michael Floyd. Larry has to make his money on 8 to 10 catch type games, and it just didn't kind of materialize for him there. No, no, it did not in this week. All right, I do want to, before we get into the news and notes, I want to remind everybody, we haven't mentioned it on the show for a while, but if you have an iPhone, go grab the waterwheel app. Make some bets with your friends. Or an iPad. Or an iPad.

That's correct. And yes, we know Android users would like it too, and we're going to get there. But right now, I just want to remind everybody, go get the Waterwheel app. It's free. It's really fun. We put it out there just so that you can make bets with your friends and then pay it out by dousing each other with water and then filming it and putting it on Twitter and everybody can laugh. And it makes fantasy football better, which is the whole point of the show. The wheel of.

Water! Nobody got in that with me. Thanks, guys. Oh, no, we didn't. I considered it. News and notes from around the league. So first word, first word, you're hoping. Second word, you're desperate. Third word, you're alone. Third word. Yeah. Third word was, do I bail out of this? Right, right. Do you start? You know what? I carried it by myself. Finish strong.

I carried it alone. Yeah. What's up in the news? All right. Gary Barnage, we talked about the contract extension. Did we? I thought we did. I don't remember talking about. Yeah, we did. We broke the news. I think that was on our special Patreon show. I think we broke the news. I think we broke it on here when we talked about the fact the Foot Clan member had a picture with him and approved the nickname. Did we not? Eh, you might be right. I don't remember. So many shows. But let's just say it again. Barnage signed. He's with Cleveland. Honestly, this is what I call. I mean. Good for you, Gary Barnage.

There you go. Good for you. All right. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. All right. Chicago Tribune reports Bears wide receiver Kevin White will not be activated from the reserve PUP list. This is the smart move. John Fox. He got us again with his injury reports. Not that it was going to infect fantasy owners very much. All right. We didn't talk about it yesterday. We're getting into that game today. But Rob Gronkowski was seen at practice. Bulkie brace on the knee.

Sinta shiver up my spine as a, okay, is he going to go? Is he not going to go? What are we thinking about Gronkowski right now? And I know he'll be in the injury section, but this is a little bit more worthy of a discussion because it affects everybody in fantasy football who has Rob Gronkowski. If Gronk plays, you play him, and I don't expect him to play this at all. I do not expect him to play. And the difficult thing about this is if you don't have Scott Chandler,

Or one of those later tied ends, who are the Patriots playing? I can't recall. The Texans are Ryan Griffin. So, yeah, if you don't have Griffin or a guy, you could maybe go with the Thai fighter on with the Giants or Jordan. You can play Jordan Cameron. So I've got a question for you. The point that you're making is you can't wait for him. Yeah, you can't wait to see if he's there. If you are the owner right now of ASJ.

Right? He's got a good matchup, a good solid play this week. And it looks like Gronk really might play, but you're curious by that time. Would you drop ASJ and pick up a Griffin or a tie who are... To play the risk? To play the risk of being able to... I would do it with tie. Yeah. I would do it with tie. Okay. Now, here's a catch if you're a Gronkowski owner and the ASJ owner, because ASJ looks like he has a lot of upside as a villain. Yeah, Austin Svary and Jenkins.

Next week, so we don't think Gronko play. I really don't. It doesn't make sense. But this is a good sign for him maybe playing next week. And if they somehow lost to Houston, that's three in a row, they got to win the game. Next week, though, on Thursday night, Buccaneers play on Thursday. Which means, if you're trending and trying to figure out grong, you've got Austin Tavarian Jenkins on Thursday you have to decide on. Hey, Andy, can I ask you a painful? Can I ask you a question? You're a gronk owner. Who'd you pick up as you're tied in?

Austin Safarian Jenkins. And if you win this week, who you got to play next week? I don't know. It's me. Oh, who do I have to play? Yeah. See, I was looking at the more... You're going to fill in it. I was looking at the more broad context of fantasy football about who I'm going to play. But you were focusing on the tunnel vision. Okay, let's go ahead and what else do we got? The Browns are working towards signing Travis Benjamin to a contract extension that would help that offense. It's all browns all the time here. I was going to say, what is this going on here? All right, let's moving on.

All right, in or out, Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson. As of now, they're both expected to play, but monitor their Friday practice situation. I still have C.J. Anderson has my sit of the week, so I'm not. Yeah, coming out that ankle injury. And Hillman has a foot injury. Yeah, yeah. The reports are ambiguous as ever from Kubiak saying basically expects guys to practice, but then Joanne Thompson could start. So if one guy's alone.

Or close to alone, I'm happy starting them in that match. Be very ready on Sunday to make a change if you're a Broncos running back owner. Enter out Carlos Williams. I think he'll be out. Yeah, looking that way. Inter out Chris Thompson. The good news is Chris Thompson. I don't know if you heard us talking about his tear yesterday. He has a tear. They've successfully stitched him back together. He's whole again.

A bad magic accident is what I understand. He has not practiced at all this week, so I would be doubtful that they can Frankenstein him together enough to play. Don't trust those street magicians. This is the type of analysis you get on the show. All right, Brandon Cook's big news yesterday. This is borderline just breaking concussion during practice this week.