Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Bad Beats, Week 14 Waivers, Streams of the Week

Put up 302 against him a couple weeks ago. 300 yards last week to Palmer. Over the last month, Washington has been very, very beatable. And I'm, and you got Jordan Matthews should be back. Ryan Matthews, for whatever little play he gets, he still helps the team. I think Carson and Wentz is, and if you're digging at the bottom of ownership percentages, I think he's a solid play. Here's, push comes to shove time, right? You've got.

different quarterbacks that have been signed for the playoffs, maybe that you want two, right? You want to stream a guy so Wince is in there. Do you play Wins this week in that matchup? You play Rivers against Carolina. Oh, I'll play Rivers. Dude, Rivers is going to go out great. Okay. How about, do you play that Wince matchup or do you play Eli Manning against Dallas? I'll play Wins. Okay. I'm not going to trust Eli in a division game when this is on the line. Eli has been. Wins? Oof.

Or Alex Smith against Oakland. For the record, I would play Eli. Okay. All right. Oakland at home. Who was this name you threw out? Alex Smith. It depends on what my team needs. I'll say that. If you feel like- Your team needs 14 points, Alex Smith. Yes. Yeah. Well, if you need that safe, just floor, then I would go with Alex Smith. My streaming quarterback option of the week was the number five overall quarterback last week, surprisingly, in a dominating performance against Philadelphia.

Andy Dalton with 333 and 2 last week. It really impressed me. I did not expect the game to go the way it did. Now you go into Cleveland. I could stop talking. I could stop talking there. But if you want to remember, last time he played Cleveland, he was 308 with two touchdowns. Look, the baseline seems great for Andy Dalton to me in this matchup. Maybe he doesn't go 3.30 and 3. But I think he's going to give you over 250 and 2.

And I think it's going to make him awfully safe for this matchup. I really like him. He's about 59% owned. Here's what I love about Andy Dalton right now for that pick. In fact, I went to make him my pick and you're like, oh, sorry, already had him. Jeremy Hill, as Mike alluded to earlier, does not look completely healthy. Now, Jeremy Hill feasted on the Browns last time. But if his ankle is really bothering him and he's not able to just do that feasting, I think we're all.

All in agreement. I hate when my ankle hurts and I can't feast. When I can't do the feasting? I think we're all in agreement that the Bengals are going to put up points against the Browns. What was the word you used earlier? Eradicate? Obliviate. Obliviate the Brown. Eviserate.

They're going to score enough points. And if Jeremy Hill can't get it done on the ground and Geo isn't there, it has to be Dalton. And even without A.J. Green against the Browns, I like that. My stream of the week this week is I'm going to throw out James Winston. I realize he's owned in more leagues. But we've talked about him for the last month. He is a reminder. Hopefully you already grabbed him in preparation for this New Orleans game. Hopefully you're part of that 70%. But he is still available in 30% of leagues. So we have to say it because...

Truth be told, all these other options, I'm going to start Winston. That's the guy I'm going to start. However, I assume if you need a pickup still, I'm going to assume he's taken, and I'm going to go deep in the well. And I'm going to go with Trevor Simeon. Trevor Simeon, we saw that Paxon Lynch is not ready. He is not ready to lead that team. Denver now is in a position where they need wins.

They need Trevor Simium to come back. They need him to be good. And if you look at the last three weeks before he missed this past game, he had over 250 yards in all three of them. One of those was 368 and three touchdowns. He had multi-touchdowns in all three of them. And those, you know, one of those, 368 and three was against Kansas City Chiefs. What? I mean, he's been okay, is my point. This week, he's playing against the Tennessee Titans.

And the Tennessee Titans, I mean, they had a decent defense at the beginning of the year. It scares me a little that they're coming off of buy. But their last, I mean, they give up here. Let me just read back their previous few games. Points given up to the quarterback position. 28, 25, 35, 25, 29, 37. You put all those things. That sounds pretty safe to me. Yeah, you put those things together. And I think that Trevor Simeon is, if you got to go deep in the well,

He's going to be okay. All right. We're going to get into the mailbag for a few questions here before we're in the show. Mailbag. You got a question for the show. Go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the questions button or you can submit a voicemail question. I have a quick question. 302-464 TFFB. How do with my loss by point one, how do I make the hurt go away? It's not possible. But, but, but I recommend a mechanism.

to help. It's called the hashtag hate drop. Oh, yes, we did recommend this. And if you have Colin Kaepernick on your team and you wake up this morning, you need to make a little bit of that pain go away. Click that drop button. What if I have no one to blame? Drop them right out of the way. But myself. Yeah, and if you're out of the playoffs, what I would recommend doing is something, you know, more humiliating. Drop Capernick, but don't just drop them. You know, pick up, uh,

Pick up Tim Tebow. Over Cap, I'm saying? Yeah. You've been replaced, Cap. That'll teach him. That'll teach him. All right, we're going to start in the mailbag with a voicemail question. Here we go. Maybe. Let's see. Here we go. Hey, guys. It's Brian from Seattle. Thanks for everything all season. You are the best. The first question quickly, since you touched on it a little bit yesterday, but just like Jason, I gave up.

a ton, and I'd trade for Greg Olson, like five weeks ago, and he's fully transformed into a bona fide weekly barf, and I guess I'm hoping I'd get Laderius Green. So if I do, should I straight up drop Olson going into the playoff? I mean, it's almost, I feel like I'd be setting a trap for my opponent. He'd be irresistibly barky, so I don't know, guys, can I drop him? And secondly, what the heck is wrong with the Buffalo defense?

Because I have Denver, but I'm too scared to play them against New England in week 15 for my playoffs. So I picked up Buffalo because they have Cleveland, but can I even start them against the Browns? So, yeah, you just let me know. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Well, first of all, great. Great questions. Great questions. Great insight. And I almost asked the Olson Green question in our tight-in segment. So I want to answer that. Yeah, no, that's great. And I can tell you firsthand.

I've got a lot of experience with this. So what are your guys' thoughts? Well, first, I'd play Buffalo over Denver. Yes, it's Cleveland does not have the offensive firepower that the Oakland Raiders do. I mean, Buffalo was able to shut them down for a half, but then you saw a playoff team emerge. Yes. The Cleveland Browns do, cannot do that. No, and the risk is too high with Denver and New England, I feel like. Yep. So I'm good. In terms of the Green Olson situation,

I'm playing Lederius Green. Definitely starting green over Olson. You say you might set a trap for your opponent. You also might set a trap for your future mental health. Because if you do drop Olson, like Jason wants to drop Joyke Bell, and I signed Joyke Bell and played him against him in the first round of the playoffs and knocked him out because of Joyke Bell. It was the worst. How long did you have to go to counseling for that?

12 years. 12 years. Yeah. So I would not recommend dropping Greg Olson, but I understand why. After Carolina's by, which was in week seven from week eight through week 13, Greg Olson, the mighty one, who was so great weeks one through seven, is your tight end number 19. In that time period? In that time period since week eight, he is tight in 19. You know who's one spot behind him? La Darius Green.

who did not play most of those games. However, what is incredible and mind-blowing is that on the season, despite the fact that since week eight, Greg Olson has been the 19th best, I guess you can kind of say, tight-in, he is still the number one tight-in in fantasy football on the season. That's how dominating he was for those first seven games. Deceiving is the word you meant.

That's how deeply deceiving and dominating. So I don't think you can drop him because if he comes out and is back, you want that option on your team. All right. Adam in Lafayette, Louisiana. He's in a full point PPR league, has to decide between Alan Robinson at home against Minnesota or staying in the flames with Malcolm Mitchell at home against Baltimore. He left the Rolls-Royce parked in his garage this week like an idiot, as he said. His words not mine.

But he still managed to get into the playoffs. Thanks to you guys, I download the show daily. Keep him coming. So Alan Robinson at home, Malcolm Mitchell at home. That's really tough. The Baltimore secondary is strong. I like Malcolm Mitchell moving forward. It's a quarterback decision for me. Yeah. Because both defenses are good. Minnesota needs a win bad. Yep. Baltimore needs a, you know, I just think.

I would go with Malcolm Mitchell. I would certainly go with Malcolm Mitchell. The question of whether Brandon Marshall or Alan Robinson are dropable for him, the answer is yes. You got to, oh, am I on a different question? You sure are. Oh, well, there's another question. Let me read it, because this also factors in. We'll just play in both. This is from Michael and Phoenix. That's right. Is Brandon Marshall or Alan Robinson dropable for Malcolm Mitchell? And for me, you've got to win this week.

Brandon Marshall, you can't start him this week. There's just almost no situation where you can start Brandon Marshall with Bryce Petty. I mean, do you? I don't know what just happened. That was interesting. I mean, would you guys start Brandon Marshall this week? No. I wouldn't start Alan Robinson. Alan Robinson also has Minnesota, then Houston the next week. So which one do you drop for Malcolm Mitchell if you needed to? Or do you not?

Andy, you haven't waited? I would, Andy's heart is probably heavy. Probably Marshall. It's just really hard to say these names out loud. If you just showed me stat lines and told me to point at the one or situations, it's just really, really tough for me to say, I'm going to go with Marshall because at least Bortles and Robinson are going to stay paired together for the rest of the year. Marshall's just, I mean, there's no reason for them to.

to do anything with him. And it stinks because there's a good matchup for the Jets this week. It's really tough. I don't know. I think I would, man, that's brutal. I'm going to, yeah, I just play Mitchell and I'll drop Marshall. I will say this. Because of this week, I would drop Alan Robinson. I would play Brandon Marshall over Alan Robinson this week because the chance at Bryce Petty, you saw him throw a bunch of deep balls if he gets one against San Francisco. You've swayed me.

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