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

For sure, if given the opportunity. Yeah, as long as it's not in the snow. I don't think he's going to do in the snow. All right, Jess in Sacramento has Aaron Rogers as the only QB and has the Seahawks defense. Should they stream the Seahawks DST this week? That is a pickle. That is tough. You hate having your defense take a shot every time your quarterback performs. Seattle's two and a half point favorites in Green Bay. You're, you are capping your upside, right?

Because if Aaron Rogers has a really good game, that means your defense sucks. And if your defense scores a lot and has a really good game, that means your quarterback probably didn't do as well. To me, this is depending on who you can stream. Right. Because if you don't have a really good other option to stream, you're better off just taking the defense that's going to give you some sacks on Aaron Rogers. That's probably not going to give up, you know, 30 plus points. And Earl Thomas is gone.

I like Aaron Rogers here. That doesn't matters a lot. I like Aaron Rogers. I'm not really afraid of this matchup. He's number one. The question to me is whether or not there's a defense that you can go pick up, you know, like the Lions. I love the Lions defense this week. They're available on almost all waivers. I would rather play the Lions with Aaron Rogers. I'm not playing the Lions over Seattle in general.

But if I've got Aaron Rogers and I don't want to cap my upside, I would be happy to do that. All right. Jess in Mission Vejo. So many Jesses. Yeah. Back to back jesses. Standard League. Do I start Blunt versus Baltimore's number one ranked run D. Or Brandon Marshall versus San Francisco's mess of a pasty. Standard League? I'm going to play blunt. Oh, man. I can tell you right now.

The hardest player that I'm coming to terms with in my rankings as I've been looking at this week is Brandon Marshall. I just, I want to tell you that you can cut the guy, but I often make him my decision as to who I'm starting and all these questions. Here's the problem. Ravens are number two against the run, fantasy points given up. And to me, this is not, this is just a touchdown factor. This is something I think New England can overcome against them.

The last five games, they haven't given up a touchdown to running backs, but they have given up 12, 12 and a half, 20, 20, and 16 fantasy points. So they are giving up points and carries. It's just, you know, to me, Blunt is just safer. I don't know what in the world. I don't know if Robbie Anderson's going to get 37 targets in this game. You do. I do know that he will. Yes, he will. But we could be wrong. All deep. We could be wrong. Marshall could, you know, get his in four catches. Yeah, I play.

What is your call, Jay? I think I do go blunt here. With utmost confidence. Well, the problem with me is. So much. Blunt to me is an RB2 this week. I don't see him as a must start. He's an RB2. Brandon Marshall is the problem. And I don't trust Bryce Petty. He's just got such a juicy matchup against San Francisco that you know Brandon Marshall could exploit it.

I don't trust Price Petty, and so I'm going Lagart Blunt unhappily. Yeah. All right. Playoff quarterback question from Johnny and Philly. Playoffs are here. I took your advice and I stashed James Winston about eight weeks ago. Do we give that advice eight weeks ago? We did. I did. Wow. However, I have Andrew Luck as my QB1. Should I be playing James Winston because of the great matchups or stay in the flames and play luck? Thank you for your help.

For context, Andrew Luck is taking on Houston's defense. I will say this. Winston has New Orleans. My James Winston's stash was not for Andrew Luck owners. However, I mean, you got them. It's all right. You're keeping them away from your opponent. That's fine. It's still Andrew Luck. Yes. I'm still going to, I'm going to play in the playoffs. I'm playing my best guy.

And that's Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck had protection this last week. I mean, I know the Jets didn't show up, but they do have a good D-line. They didn't get through to him quite as often as we've seen. Houston, we don't know if Jadavia and Clownie will actually be there in the game. Games in Indianapolis. T. Y. Hilton is a Texan destroyer. I'm saying historically, if you go back and look at his numbers against Houston. That's the name of his boat. The Texan destroyer.

Uh, so it's, uh, maybe you're judging the, the future off of a, of a bad past year, whatever, but I'm leaning with Andrew Luck and T. Yilton have big games. All right. Um, Cameron and Buffalo, New York. Which New York. Uh, city. New York City. Okay. I thought, I thought, I was just going to get that from you. Well, you got to say the city part in order to have that. I mean, that's good. It's good. It's my fault, guys. Buffalo. Buffalo.

Question on. Albany. Missed the boat in Malcolm Mitchell. A Texas Destroyer? Yeah. Missed the boat. Miss T. Wise boat. Best upside wide receiver three play this week from these guys. All right. Marvin Jones. Travis Benjamin. Tyler Boyd. Oh, no. Interesting. Tyler Boyd for me. Marvin Jones, the health and everything is just he.

The health plus non-production puts me off of Marvin Jones. And Tyler Boyd. Cleveland. Tyler Boyd with Cleveland, maybe a couple of those touchdowns will go his way. Yes. The matchup is great. Benjamin, he had that almost out for the season. Knee injury. Got a bad drop last week, too. Wow, I'm not going to hold. Everyone gets a bad drop every once in a while, but I would still go with Tyler Boyd against the Browns. Yeah, I think I would as well. All right.

Um, we answered the weather question, so I'm going to skip this one. They were asking how much does weather affect the games? I will say this. We'll give you weather updates for the matchups tomorrow and Friday when we go through the matchups. We'll let you know what they're projecting and give you some resources to find out on Sunday morning. We have a weather article that comes out on Sunday morning. Yep. Last minute kicker switches or defense switches. You know, sometimes if a game is going to be, you know,

A snowball. Grab one of those defenses because not a lot's going to happen. All right. This question comes from Ty Cody, or maybe Ty and Cody, in Kentucky. Kentucky. Hey, F.F. Ballers, in my league, our commissioner traded away his whole team to the second best team in the league in order to beat mine. What? The sad thing is no one is taking my side because they blame it on my team. I have the entire first round.

who I traded for legitimately on my roster. I'm so confused by this question. What? This is complete and utter nonsense. I'm so confused. If you're in a league where everyone is okay with the commissioner trading his second best team to your opponent. His team's so good. Because your team is good, you need a new league, bra. I mean, that is.

I mean, that's just stupid. That's nonsensical. That is collusion. That is league-wide collusion. Yes. I mean, I had a someone. Here's what you do, though. Just throwing out of that team this week. And you laugh at their face. And you dropped the mic. I had a listener tweet at me, said, check this out. Of course, it's the commissioner. He had played inman this past weekend.

And there was a screenshot of it with Inman in the game. All of a sudden Tyrault Williams magically made his way into the lineup because that's what he meant to do. I was like, are you got to be kidding me? No, no, no, no, no. Why are people doing this? No, no, no, no. If I could do the I meant to do thing, Colin Kaepernick might not have been hay dropped. Yeah, there's just, no, no, no, it's so ridiculous what commissioners are doing out there and it makes me upset.

It makes me sad in my heart and my soul. Let me read this next question because it'll help lead into the answer. Garrett in Alberta, Canada. Just wondering the best place to get into a... Bonjour. To get into a Keeper League with Foot Clan members. Here are you guys talking about the leagues all the time wondering how to get involved. Footclanleagues.com is kind of a forum for all of our Jointhefoot.com supporters. So if you sign up at Jointhefoot.com, then you'll have access.

to the Footclanleagues.com. That way, you know that everybody that has access to that is a legitimate, you know. If somebody's supporting this show, they listen and they know enough about fantasy football to be committed. Like, I don't, we don't play in money leagues. Like, I know a ton of people do. Like, we don't play. I have one. Yeah, I have one, but it's, our main league is not a money league. Correct. And, but we have often talked about the fact that even having some investment in the league just kind of.

pushes people to legitimacy a little bit. That's what you get with the investment of people in the Foot Clan leagues because there are people that are committed to the show and to, you know, everybody that played in them this year loved it. Yeah. And what's really neat is you get in there. You can just go to join thefoot.com, stay with us all offseason and start joining leagues early. I mean, like people start putting them together in February. Go to join thefoot.com and do that. And you get access to not just...

you know, joining random keeper leagues with people around the country. People set up local leagues on the forums. They set up like, okay, anybody in Ohio that we want to play together. So that's what we've been trying to facilitate is, you know, the game is more than the score. It's how, it's the people you play with. You've got to enjoy what you're doing. Comaery and the fun. Or as opposed to league-wide collusion. That makes you want to pull your hair out. But your team's good. Your team's good. So we're cool with it. As long as you lose. Weird. People.

Weird. All right. Matthew Hunter in Canton, New York. I'm a local patron. Local. Oh, sorry. I'm a loyal patron of $5 a month. Appreciate that, Matthew. So a foot clan member. I own Winston Evans and Bray. Ooh. In a full PPR league. Should I start them all going forward through the playoffs or alternative? Am I absolutely insane? You are not absolutely insane.

I don't know that I love going full Tampa Bay. You never go full Tampa Bay. I'm not, it's not crazy because the schedule is so good. You have the Saints. The Dallas. And you have the Cowboys who they are beatable. You can put some points on them. I got a question for you. Would you rather start those three? Or what if you replace Bray with Doug Martin? Would you feel more comfortable with Winston Evans Martin or Winston Evan Bray? Ooh.

If I'm starting them through the run, probably bray in the sense that Dallas is very good against running backs, but they've been susceptible to tight ends. You're saying if you're starting them through all three weeks. The Saints have been better against the run lately. But, you, I'm okay with it. I'm running, you know, the Winston Martin stack currently. So it's- I don't have a problem with it. Yeah, I don't have a problem with it. I'm not, it's not crazy. I'll say that.

The odds of Evans are Brate receiving the end zone targets from Winston are so high. Would you, would you pivot if possible? I mean, today was waivers. He's probably picked up. But would, would you pivot from Brate to Laderie's Green just to diversify a little bit? Yes, I would. Yep. Jason, would you? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine doing that. Here's the thing. Let me give the counter argument. Mike just played on Monday night, lost by 0.1 points. Thanks, Andy.

I'm just reminding you. Part of the problem was in that game. All right, too, I Hilton. He put a big yardage numbers. But, you know, here and there, a game comes along. Dwayne Allen catches three touchdowns. Moncrief catches the fourth. Hilton doesn't get any of them. What if it's, you know, Shepard and Martin for the two touchdowns for Tampa? Your team's buried because Winston doesn't throw any and you have no receiving touchdown. Sure. That's the thing that does happen. Yeah, no, I get the argument. And I would say this. Green is a good enough.

counterpart he's about the only guy that would be waiver like i wouldn't i wouldn't do fedorowitz but green i would i would diversify with him would you wear a fedorowitz oh of course like in the winter a nice red fedorowitz yeah would you spencer wear a i feel like they must sell fedorwitz is in russia no they have the they have i know but they have the big fuzzy hats i don't know what they're called though the fedorwitz's uh we are uneducated no we're not very smart uh

Do I play Ladarius Green over Delaney Walker? Ooh. Blaney has a terrible matchup. Ladarius is looking like a beast. That's his commentary. That's a really good question. Now, I don't think Delaney Walker has as terrible a matchup as you think. I mean, I get that saying that it's Denver. Denver has been one of the best defenses over the last several years, but they are completely middle of the pack against tight ends for fantasy. Right now they're 14th.

With that, I think coming off the buy, healthy, they're going to need Delaney Walker in this game. And I still lean Walker as well. It's a half point league. Walker has shown a propensity for putting up big games. If he was just a Fedorowitz type of performer, I'd be going green. But Walker has put up those touchdown games. I will say this. I don't see Walker. I think green actually has the higher upside play because I don't see Walker going, you know,