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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in, welcome one at all to the show of shows. The fantasy footballers are back again. Here we are. What? What in the world is going on with your body? I'm just pumped, man. It's playoffs. It's time to get going. We got listener questions. We got a mailbag show today. We got pump the brakes. Oh, there's so much going on. So much going on. I'm excited. It's going to be a great show.

We're going to dive into so many different things. We've got some news and notes in the show today. Catch you up on some interesting topics. And then we're going to dive right into the listener mailbag. A lot of these questions are, even if you weren't the one that submitted them, they're going to be very relevant to you. Very pertinent. Because these are, you know, we're on Twitter every day at the F.F. Ballers. We're getting questions every day, and a lot of them sound the same. I had like six questions hit me this morning that I'll have Lederius Green's name in them.

It was Fedorowitz or green. It was Flina or green. It was tons of those. So we're going to dive headfirst into that. It's going to be great. Make sure you check out Mike on Periscope Sunday morning before the games. It's always great to get last minute questions in there as well. And check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers.com. That's how these questions get submitted for the show. And like Jason said, we have pumped the brakes on the show today as well. So it's going to be a good one.

What else do we have? We got some new articles up on the website, Snap Count Observation article. If you want to see how snaps are breaking down on certain teams right now, that's always a good insight. Maybe help you decide which of a couple guys to play. But otherwise, I think we're ready. You guys ready? I'm ready. I was made for this. Oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Ow! All right. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly. Mike, who you pumping the brakes on?

I am pumping the brakes on a man coming off of a bye week. Mr. Marcus Mariotta. Really? Now look, Mr. Auto Start. Yeah, he had fully turned into an auto start. He has been just tearing up the NFL. He's number four. I looked this morning. Rogers is number one. Breeze is number one tied with Rogers. Matt Ryan number three. Marcus Mariotta number four. Exactly. And that's my point. He has turned into an auto start, but Denver.

He's got the matchup with Denver. And to me, that's, you know, you have a guy like Tom Brady against Denver coming up. I'll probably still play Tom Brady against Denver. There are a couple of quarterbacks that you will say, okay, I will eat this matchup because the quarterback has been so great. Marcus Mario, to me, is not among that list. Zero touchdowns to Blake Borders last week. One to Alex Smith the previous week. Only two games this season have they given up multiple passing touchdown. Breeze.

And rivers. Like I said, there's some quarterbacks where you overlook the matchup because you know that they are so solid. And I'm talking, I would play Carson Palmer. I would play my stream of the week, Carson Wentzelvania. I would play Jason's stream of the week. Trevor Simeon. These are guys. Eli Manning? Yes, Eli Manning. Andy Dalton. Oh, yes. Derek Carr. Yes. And Derek Carr.

terrible matchup for Derek Carr against the Chiefs. He was 25 and 1 last time against him. He was a bismole against him for fantasy, but I would still start him over Marcus Mario, that's how concerned I am for him. This is the playoffs. And you're cutting your knees off if you start Marcus Mario, because your upside is very limited. It would take an otherworldly game that doesn't match up with what Denver's given up over the past, what, three years for Marioata to give you that type of game winning, fantasy winning performance. So I like that pump the brings.

Yeah, yeah, I think I think it's very good. I'll, uh, I'll hitch on next here. My, that's, that's, I can say, I can say anything. I can say anything I want. Yeah, uh, my pump the brakes this week is Rashad Jennings. Oh. Rashad Jennings has been, uh, very good for fantasy owners over the last month. I have been one such owner where I've been very pleased with his production three out of the last four weeks. He's been well into double digits this past week.

In a half point scoring, he basically had 15 fantasy points. That's great if I can get 15 fantasy points from, you know, kind of that running back who is not the star on my team. However, we need to be a little cautious here with how we think about Rashad Jennings because last week he had 15 fantasy points. He only had six carries in that game. It was Paul Perkins' career high. Yes.

Paul Perkins seemed to take over. Now, Rashad Jennings was effective, got a touchdown in the passing game, and so his fantasy output was okay. But this week we've seen kind of Paul Perkins is eating into his workload. Now they go up against Dallas. This is the playoffs. And Dallas, for fantasy purposes against running backs, they're the third best. They do not give up a lot of fantasy points to opposing running backs. So the combination of a bad matchup,

with a poor usage right now or a trend that doesn't look appealing. I'm not saying you can't start him. I think right now I have Rashad Jennings ranked as my RB 27. So you can if you have to, but this is the playoffs. And I sure hope I've got better than RB 27 in my lineup. And I've been playing him the last few weeks. I'm sitting them this week.

All right. My Pump the Brakes is going to be a guy that scored in three of the last four weeks. And if you're chasing a wide receiver start, I say you do not chase Bashad Perryman right now. He was the number 13 wide receiver last week. But what you have to realize is this is on very limited total catches. I think when people are looking at Baltimore and seeing this New England game, they know they want to start somebody. Maybe Baltimore is coming back. They're fighting in a higher scoring affair. I'd start. Here's the headline for me. I would start Steve Smith.

Mike Wallace and Dennis Pittah had of Rashad Perryman. I think Pitta and Pitta, even in the flex. The one hip quitter? Yeah, I just don't. I don't like a guy that is delivering all of his fantasy value on one or two catches a week. He's only had three catches in the last two weeks. It just so happens that two of them are touchdowns. And so too scary for me, the numbers look better than the player does. It doesn't mean he can't go Ted Ginn on me. I mean, two weeks ago, I pumped the brakes on Ted Ginn. He caught a bomb after Earl Thomas went out. It happens.

But you're playing with fire with that. So, actually, that was this past week. But that is my pump the brakes. We got Mariota, Perryman, Jennings. That was pumped the brakes with O'Reilly Auto parts, better parts, better prices every day. Let's jump into some of the news. News and notes from around the league. Well, we get to play it again. I'm so happy. Joyick Bell has re-signed with another team. And this, this sound, this audio that you hear, this is actually.

This is retro. This is this the original cut. This is the original copy from when because he's back with the lions. So yeah, Joyc Bell is re-signed with the Lions who had cut. Justin Forsat. I think this is a sign that they're slightly concerned about Dwayne Washington. Yeah. No, you're right because his injury. But Joyick Bell's back irrelevant for fantasy, but fun for, uh, music drops. Colin Kaepernick will be the starter for week 14. Uh-oh. I'm going to say it.

I said, I told you guys yesterday that I was going to say this on today's show. Don't do it. I know you told us. You warned us. I tried to get insurance against it. I know, but I'm going to say this. I think Colin Kaepernick is a decent play this week. And I know, Andy, you disagree vehemently. And I want to say it this way. Okay, this is the reality because we can't, we can't make bold claims in playoff weeks. We need to be as accurate as we can.

My worry is that because how bad Colin Kaepernick was this last week, people are going to overreact, and they're going to say, well, he's a bum. You can't play him. You can't play him over anyone out there. The Jets have not shown up. Their defense, their whole team right now looks like a team that has quit on the season. And that's the matchup this week. Colin Kaepernick has named the starter, and so I just worry that people are going to overreact too much. I will say this. He is as risky.

as any quarterback out there. The risk might not be worth the reward because the risk is he has a bad first quarter and he gets pulled. And so obviously if he had a bad first quarter, he's not scoring fantasy points for you there. And if he's pulled, he's not scoring fantasy points the rest of the game. So here's the team that I would say has a chance to start Colin Kaepernick. And really only in this situation. But if you're that last seed the guy in the playoffs and you're matched up against the first seed, and that team's just flat better than yours.

And you need a monster play and you don't have a good quarterback. That's why you're the last seed. Then Colin Kaepernick's upside here, I think, is far greater than Tyrod Taylor. Sometimes far greater than probably Alex Smith. I mean, I've got Colin Kaepernick right now one spot ahead of Marcus Mariotta. Put it that way. Yeah. Look, sometimes you put the nitro boosts in the car. Right. Exactly. And sometimes your car goes way fast with everybody.

Sometimes it explodes. Yes. That is exactly. This is putting nitro boost in your fantasy lineup. Not always the best idea. If you can like rub some Vaseline over your eyes and forget what you saw last week about Colin Kaepernick. It burns. And you see the previous performances and you tell me that he's going to start. There's a reason we said pick him out for the playoffs originally. It's these matchups. I can't do it. I cannot do it.

Sure. But I don't, your analysis is correct. If you hate, if you hate dropped them, that's fine. If I hate, yeah, there are other options. It's not just your eyes. I mean, your face went full on, uh, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Melt, you're going to have to pick your face up off the ground and put it back together. No, and I'm not letting him tear my face off again. All right. Jeremy Macklin is expected to play. He was a full participant in practice on Tuesday.

Boo. Is that a boo for Tyree Kill owners? That's a boo for Tyree Kill owners. Sorry, Maclin. It's good for the Smith stream. Yes, it is good for Alex Smith. I think it's bad for Tyree Kill a little. He's not the guy that I think affects the most. I think it's Zeus. Zeus, Wall Maclin has been out, has been the best tied in in the league. Three of four games over 100 yards. The hope. And weren't you telling me in Alex Smith's career? In Alex Smith's career, there has, how many times?

has a pass catcher had three consecutive games over 100 yards. And the answer is Travis Kelsey just did it. Yeah, that's the first and only time. And so I think he does take a slight step back. The hope is that this newfound offensive weapon kind of stays that way. I do not think in this Thursday matchup that you can bet on the kind of prototypical Kansas City chief.