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

80 and 2 against Denver, but I do see Walker. You don't see him going Texas Ranger? No, Walker, Texas Ranger. The puns are out of control today. Dad jokes. I love it. Yeah, so that's all I had to say. All right. Doug in Texas, in a Keeper League, should teams that don't make the playoffs be able to grab guys off of waivers or free agency? Yes.

100%. The game has not ended. But what if I want them? Yeah, that's the whole thing. Well, you're not actually competing. Well, too bad. Let me ask you a different question. Because in our league, we have consolation brackets for the 4-5 seed. You could get wet if you're the worst team in the league. There are things that happen sometimes for after the playoffs. We're also a keeper league. So, of course, you keep waivers open for everyone. But.

Let's say there is absolutely nothing that you are even able to play for. It is not a keeper league. You can't, you're not even in a consolation bracket. Your season is over. Why at that point would you allow it other than their only goal at all would just be to be a jerk to whoever's still in the playoffs? Because it's a, it's because it's an even playing field for the whole season. You don't have.

You know, it seems strange to me to have a competition on waivers for 10 to 12 weeks and then now four teams get to compete on waivers. No, I think that's a good answer because I, I'm in agreement. That was more devil's adversary. And I wanted to see if we actually had a good reason for the. Well, and in the, in my money league, you have, we have a top points of the week always gets a prize. So there's an, there's incentive for everybody.

to keep playing. That's cool. If your team is just trash and you're out of the playoffs weeks ago, you still keep playing because you can get a small price every week. And since we're on this topic, I'm just saying, if there is nothing to play for in the league you're in, like when you're out, there's no consolation bracket, there's no prizes, no punishments, there's no nothing. Fix that. Yeah, make up for next season. Here's a crazy question. Would you be in favor of a league that awards five fab dollars for the highest points per week?

heck yeah that's awesome no no giving kind of i'm not rewarding yeah i'm not making the strong stronger because you'd be making it's not giving them cash is giving them like an advantage in the yes yeah this is outside of the game that's that's a that's a good point that it does make the strong stronger i just kind of unlimited fan my team is so good

Just popped into my head. It's fun. I like the train of thought, though. All right. Last question. Stephen St. Petersburg, Florida. Lots of wide receiver two and three options on waivers all season. Is it a viable strategy to take one early wide receiver, then lots of running backs, and then blow off all else until late in the draft? Is that a takeaway from this season? Great question, Steve. It's a great question to lead us into some of the offseason discussion, too. Look, if you listen to us before the season.

I did not buy into the super amazing wide receiver draft them all early. I am a running back guy. One of our tips that we've given the last two years, even this year while it was so running back heavy, or I'm sorry, wide receiver heavy, is at the end of the draft, we will never have more wide receivers than running backs on our roster. You really don't need more than four. Four is like that. If you're playing in a three wide receiver, it's a little bit different. Sure.

But, yeah, I mean, four is pretty much what I have on almost all of my roster. Sometimes I would be fine even with three. However, to speak to your specific strategy of one early and then waiting, I probably won't do that. And the reason why is because at the draft, and this is probably a little too early to talk about, the goal here is that you know more than the other people, that you've got a couple really good targets. And so while you might, if you look at the end of the year,

One stud, absolute home run at wide receiver, and then you've got studs at running back. You're going to be fine because you could stream that second wide receiver. But you can, I mean, look at this year, T.Y. Hilton. It's a perfect example. You could get him in the fourth round. He's the number six wide receiver right now. Right. So you could have got him in the fourth round. You just, you've got to play round by round strategy. We don't like locking yourself into any specific. That's true. But just some context, James and Crowder, Michael Thomas.

Davonis, Devante Adams, Terrell Pryor, Tyrell Williams. These are all guys near the top of the wide receiver, you know, top 24 list that were obviously not those frontline guys that you could get. Even Larry Fitzgerald. I mean, Larry Fitzgerald is, he's right behind T. Boy Hilton. Almost always. Just missed again. Almost always on my rosters. There's like seven running backs and four wide receivers. Yeah.

So, all right, we're going to, I forgot, we got to preview the Thursday night football game. See, it's easy to forget. But see, I margin. I left some margin in my time here, Mike. We've got time to talk about it. All right, the 10 and 2 Oakland Raiders head to Arrowhead in Kansas City and take on the Chiefs who are 9 and 3, 46.5 point over under. Chiefs are favored by three points at home. I can't wait to play in this game.

I'm going to be playing. I'm going to start right end, defensive end for a play. No, I can't wait to watch this game. It's going to be 23 degrees outside, clear night. The car is in drive this year. Yeah, it is. Latavius Murray is on fire right now. I can't see any question about starting car or Murray. I see questions about starting car. I do. I definitely do. I think in this.

very cold weather game for a very important game for Kansas City at home. You said under 20 degrees. It's 23. No, I said in the 20s. I'm just saying for the passing game. Check the tape. The passing game, I don't, you know, when it comes to over under, it doesn't mean I'm taking the under. It just means I think that your Spencer Ware.

and your Latavius Murray might be better plays than your Tyree Kill, Jeremy Macklin. Than the passing game. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm not telling you to sit Crabtree or Cooper. Those guys are just great targets with targets. The Chiefs are an interesting defense. And obviously getting Justin Houston back, the play of Eric Berry has been great. But they've been scoring, okay? That's been the big thing about them. They've had touchdowns in three of their last four games.

They still gave up, you know, 28, 27 points. I just think that Oakland's going to be able to do enough to make this game not a complete devastation for Derek Carr. Sure. And the breakdown here that I want to kind of just point out, I'm not benching Michael Crabtree, but you're going to have to adjust, I think, the expectations for Crabtree over the season. You know, it's Crabtree is just a target monster.

And we had the question earlier that said, not from today, but earlier last week. So why does Derek Carr hate Amari Cooper? I think Derek Carr might love Amari Cooper this particular week. With Crabtree, he should see a lot of Marcus Peters in this matchup. And Peters is a very solid cornerback. So if I have Crabtree, I'm still going to play him. But maybe I adjust my flex to a guy that I know is a little more nitro.

My favorite play in this game is Ware, by the way. I think Ware is my favorite start of this. All right. Raiders defense, giving up 1.3 rushing touchdowns per game, the positive regression of Ware last week. Ware is a solid start. I completely agree. I still think even though everything I said with Jeremy Mac coming back, still also very happy to have Travis Kelsey. Sure. But going back to what you were saying, Mike, you think Marcus Peters will be on Crabtree, not on Cooper? Yes. He will see, I think Crabtree will see more Peters than.

Cooper. I think that makes Cooper a decent play if you're right, but that's hard to know. Um, wide receiver wise, if you're having to pick one to start for Kansas City, Macklin, Tyreek, the freak or Wilson, Wilson had a monster week last week. Wow. On a fake punt. Yeah. That's, that's not a, um, no, you can count on that. Mackler, Tyreek. Tyreek. Yeah, I, I think I lean towards Tyreek as well because he has the upside for that 80 yard.

touchdown play, that single play that will get it done for you. When Macklin was healthy this year, you know, he played in seven or eight games. I think he had three double digit games. He was around in his time when he was healthy. He was around wide receiver 50 or so. Yeah. I mean, not inspiring. No, thank you. It should be a very entertaining game. I'm excited. I'm a big Raider fan this year. Blackjack Del Rio. I'm enjoying that. And I'm a big Chiefs fan too because I feel like they've gotten it done.

on the back of a really great coach and a lot of discipline. Who do you think wins the game? Sounds like Sophie's choice right here. Who do you think wins the game? I think Kansas City wins a game. Yeah, I got them too. All right.

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