Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, Wk 15 Playoff Mailbag, TNF Preview

Bring out their inner troll. Everyone has an internet troll that lives down deep inside of them. Everyone has it. And this is an actual positive place where you can release it as well. It's true. Because, look, an internet troll brings out other things from people. And you're going to get engagement. Also, the incentive of, I've talked about this in my Money League, every week the highest points gets a small cash bonus. So everyone continues to play. Yeah. That's a great point.

All right, here's another voicemail question. What's going on, guys? It's Michael from Eastwood, South Carolina. I've got a quarterback question for you. I have Joe Flacco, Drew Brees, and Eli Manning. Who should I start this week? Appreciate it. Have a good one. Mike, you can take this one. Drew Brees. I'd play Breeze. I would as well. I don't want to go down in my playoffs with Joe Flacco. I don't either. And that offense was super frustrating to watch with all the checkdowns. Yeah.

Oh, the Flacco checkdown machine? Yeah. That game isn't close if they're depending on their offense. They're only close because they got two short fields back to back. I'm taking, I'm going for the fences, man. And there's, we know that Joe Flacco, of course, can have that game. But he has that game once a blue moon. Once every two years. And he already had it. Yeah. It's gone. Hugo, Hugo in Houston, Texas. I'm playing the fourth seed. Or he is the fourth seed facing the first seat.

He needs two of these wide receivers. Malcolm Mitchell, Julian Edelman, James and Crowder, and Doug Baldwin. Give me Dougie. That's a perfect example. For me, I'm taking Crowder and Dougie. I am too. Because it's a standard league, I would go with Crowder and Baldwin. If it was PPR, I would still be fine playing Edelman. I think that's fair. 15 targets convinces me that that's pretty fair. All right. Justin in Flint is Delaney Walker, good to go against the Chiefs.

They're 31st against the tight end in points allowed, and Arrowhead is notoriously hard to play there. So we talked about this. What about Germain Gresham, catching a touchdown at home? And then he says in all capitals, here's the other details he gives us. For a spot in the Super Bowl. Well, it's week 15. Yeah. We got it. I just like it. Serious business. Business business. I would likely play.

Delaney Walker. I would definitely play Delaney Walker. This last game against a very similar type of defense when they played the Denver Broncos. Delaney Walker caught a touchdown that was called the touchdown. And then on review, it was like an inch short. DeMarco Murray ran it in. And so you would have looked at this last game and gone, oh, great. But, you know, the game of inches, they say. I do like Big Gresh and more and more with that Michael Floyd news. True. I do too.

I do a lot. All right, here's a voicemail question. What's up, guys? Newly minted official footclan member. Oh, welcome to the show. Third year playing fantasy. First year, I'm an actual contender in no small part thanks to you guys. Thanks for the advice and entertainment. My name is Austin. I live in Brooklyn, New York. New York City. Here's my question. Do you think there's any project to playing fantasy?

offensively versus defensively. And what I mean is I have Dak Prescott and Andy Dalton. I planned on playing Dak Prescott this week. My opponent has AJ Green. Assuming he is one healthy, two active and three productive this week, do you think there's any merit in playing Andy Dalton to neutralize any potential touchdowns or points there? Looking forward to any thoughts.

And thanks a lot for the show. All right. Peace. Great question. Awesome question. And I'm going to go ahead and start it off and you guys share your thoughts. To me, I'd play Dalton over DAC anyway. Yes, I completely agree. But to the greater point of offense defense, if you're favored and AJ Green's one of his best players, I don't mind the defensive mindset there. For example.

I saw one question about Big Ben and Antonio Brown this week. If it's one of their best players and you can potentially neutralize their best player to a degree, right? I mean, yes, Antonio Brown can score more points than Big Ben. We saw it last week. I don't mind that kind of a defensive play because I do feel like you cap the potential devastating blow that that super player does. But I'm not going to let that override sensibility. But in this case,

I would have probably played Dalton over Dak anyway. Yes. Now you mix in the potential for Dalton to nullify one of his better players. I'm playing Dalton. Yeah, I don't really worry about it. It's just one of those things we look at the match and go, oh, well, he's got my number one target. I don't feel like you ever play defensive. Like you, Mike Wright doesn't, you don't really think that way. No, I'd play my, what I think are my best options. And meanwhile, on the other side, you have Dak Prescott against the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers defense is real.

I think that they are legitimate. They are a playoff. They're in the playoffs right now. Their defense is playing spectacular. I think they win this week. Over the Cowboys? Yeah, because it would not shock me. I do. We saw what, look, we've seen some cracks. Jason's shaking his head. You can shake your head all you want. Everyone keeps shaking their head at Tampa Bay. Waterbed. The loudest water bed of all time. That was emphatic. I thought you were going to play your Andy's almost upset already. I apologize for the loudness.

of that because i'll i'll water bet you yeah sure i had the if i get to pick dallas on just a who wins yeah that's a water bet heads up great yeah i just got a free victory so for fantasy my bravado costs me a lot for fantasy football i would play dalton against the steelers over decking against the bucks i will say this i'm a little closer than you guys i don't just look at these two we haven't finalized all of our research

I could see DAC being ahead in my rankings in Dalton. They're going to be near each other. That I can guarantee. When it comes to playing defense, the way that I look at it, is I look at the rest of the team. And I say, you know, take those guys out because basically it neutralizes. You know, it's going to say, okay, I'm going to take these players out of the game. So if that's like his best player and the rest of your lineup is better than the rest of his lineup, then I love neutralizing that. Well, you...

Okay. I was just going to say like Dalton can have a great game without Green. Green cannot have a great game without Dalton. Right. Yeah. So I feel like you're neutralizing. You're neutralizing Green because if Green has a monster game. Yeah. I'm just saying. Yep. Sure. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. I agree. All right. Jay and Tacoma. A few weeks ago, I thought I was sitting pretty with my quarterback options. Now I have to choose which one will throw less interceptions than the other one. Okay. Philip Rivers or Russell Wilson. Russell interception. Yeah. I'd.

I'd lean Russell Wilson in that. That was an outlier game. Yeah. That was an outlier. I'd play Russell. I would too. I would as well. He's in a league with minus three points per interception. What? Oh. Who? That was not a good game last week for Russell Wilson. Does Blake Bortle's average negative on the air? What is that? Playoff question from JNDC. Should I drop Marvin Jones for a Robbie Anderson or an inman in a PPR? I would drop him for inman.

wanted to find a way to pump the brakes on Dantrell-Inman, and it isn't there. It's not there. Inman is getting volume. He's scored in three straight games. He had six catches. I would draw Marvin Jones for Dantrell-A-Mond. Okay. So you would, so waiver-wire style, Robbie Anderson, Inman are there. You're grabbing Inman? Yes, and I'm grabbing him over Marvin Jones. Sure. I think that both of those guys are more valuable than Marvin Jones as of this minute.

We don't know how the finger is going to affect Matthew Stafford. But it's not going to make him better. Yeah. And when you're also... No, no, it's not. The thing is, I mean, the move is moot unless Dantrell-Iman is going directly into your starting lineup. I completely... We have two weeks. There's no more... I'm going to watch Steve Inman... Stas for Week 18. That is a really, really good point because I've actually had a lot of emails this week where it's like, should I...

Should I grab this guy and drop this guy? You really have to look at, are you playing them this week? Or next week. Yeah, or next week. Yeah, I mean, that's all you can do, right? Yes, you don't care about stashes at this point very much unless it's a handcuff. And stashes of steaks. Must that's it. Inman has a, I can't recall who he plays next week. Oakland. Yeah, we've liked the Chargers playoff matchup, so I would grab Inman. Schnauzberries tastes like schnazberries is the name of this.

Listener in Tulsa, Oklahoma wants to know Alshan or Crowder. Crowder. Oh, man. Crowder. Yeah, I'm, I take, I'm going to still lean with Crowder. I want to get Alshund in my lineup, though. I noticed. I don't blame you there, but, you know, it's a 51 point over or under. You get to wait for that Monday night football game. It's pronounced Crowder.

All right. Next question. Will in New Hampshire. I have Melvin Gordon. So I picked up Farrow. In my flex, I can either start him or Gurley. Or take a shot with DeAndre Hopkins or Moncrief. What do you guys think? Give me those names. Farrow, Gurley, Hopkins, Moncrief. Who would you start in your flex? I almost pump the brakes on Todd Gurley.

I did too. I almost did as well. For this week. I mean, I don't love the matchup going into Seattle. I think Farrow is going to disappoint people, though, too. I really do. Because he's not that great. I think all four of these players are going to disappoint. Who was the third one? Hopkins. Hopkins. Yeah. Pronounce with an Hopkins. Pronounce with a. Yeah. I think. Oh, man. I'll say this. Eileen Farrow. I lean Farrow as well, but I would have a very hard time losing with Todd Gurley on my bench if he does well.

If this was my team, I would put Farrell in. I just feel bad telling other people to do that because of the emotional baggage that will come if you're wrong on that one. Todd Gurley plays Thursday in Seattle. Yeah, no thanks. In case you're. Without a head coach. Case you're wondering. Which could be better. I mean, can it be worse? Right. It's got to be better. You just lost the worst coach in the history of life. Yeah, he's terrible. My dad follows the NFL.

My dad follows the NFL, but not like, you know, not like we do. I get in the car. We're going to lunch yesterday, and he goes, man, he was such a bad coach. He's talking about Jeff Fisher. My dad, I didn't even know you, like, followed it. And he goes, he was just so bad. You guys have seen that stat going around on Twitter. The Billy Belichick one? Yeah. What is it? Bill Belichick can go old 16 for how many years? For six years and he'd still have a better winning percentage of Jeff Fisher. Oh, my gosh. Well.

It took everything in us to not be... Was there a question? Yeah, it's called Pharaoh or Gurley. If it was my team, I would start Pharaoh. I think Pharaoh's the right play. You're right. I don't like any of those. He's the king of Egypt. Oh, man. Well done. Please have a good game, Pharaoh. Very. Yeah, please have a good game for the sake of... Wow, I don't know why. Walk like an Egyptian, man. Yeah. Don't worry. I'm on it.

All right. Reset. Spencer in Rockford, Illinois. Secured the buy last week with, I'm sorry, secured the buy this year with David Johnson. Nice. Devanta Freeman and Doug Martin leading the way. My only issue is that wide receiver. And after last week's performances from Cooks and Moncrief, do I dare start Al-Shan over either one of them? If so, which one? Mike, finally you have a chance to put him in your lineup. Yeah, I would likely start him over Moncrief. As would I.

I mean, there's no, sorry, there's been no updates yet on the injury to Moncrief. The shoulder. Is it shoulder again? I thought it was a hamstring. No, you're right. No, it's hamstring. I was thinking of the first injury. He was knocked out with the hamstring. We need an update on him. So, I mean, your decision could be made. Plus, he's playing Minnesota in Minnesota. It's not a great matchup anyways. I would, I go outshun there. We did it. We finally got him in. And I concur. I still can't believe that.

Eddie Lacey doing P90X's news. NFL player works out. Headline news. It'd be headline news if we did it. Oh, man. That would take... See, that's called doing something you're not supposed to do. Right. Wait. Someone help us live longer. Next. Dante in Dolores, Colorado. Dolores. Would you guys go with Dak or Tyrod Taylor, who has the more upside this week? Tyrod.

Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I would go tie rod as well. Against Cleveland. But he wants to know upside of Watkins or Crabtree. Oh, that's an interesting question. Oh, man. Are you okay? I just made a weird sound. I'm on, I'm on Watkins. I'm on Watkins this week. I told you last week, Andy, that I would be on Watkins that last week because I agreed that the snap percentage should have been there if it wasn't for the cold weather. So you're all over Watkins. I, yeah, I'm climbing on. I'm on Watkins this week. Now, I would go, I would double up.

This is in Buffalo, so the weather could be very similar. Yes. I'm going to look into that. Yeah. If the weather turns for the worst, then I would go with Crabtree. What stinks is, I mean, the larger historical data says if people are playing in snow, it's fine. We still have. Look at all the paranoia last week for Green Bay. And it did not come to fruition. But when we've seen weather this year, it's been destroying fantasy lives. But.