Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Hey, everybody. It is Monday morning, November 16th, and we are the fantasy footballers, and by we, I mean, Jason and myself. No, Mike. It's... Where is he, by the way? Is he just late? I wish he was late.

No, he is terrorizing my heart. He is in Disneyland. In California, A. Having fun with the family. Staying at the Grand Californian. It's a two-man show today. Two-man. And he is on a family trip. He's got the kids and the family and the grandparents and the brothers and the sisters and the Mickey Mouse and the Churros and the... It's the whole big deal. It's the whole big deal. So much so that he's gone all week.

Do you want to know what's nice about him being gone all week? Oh. I mean, one of the many, many things, of course. But we might not, we, I don't think we can get paid out on our terrible water bet while he's gone. We got to wait until he's back. Absolutely. So there was that. So that is mind-blowing. And apparently everybody that listens to the show was acutely aware of what was taking place. We took a water bet from the listeners or a listener.

That just came out and said, hey, I will bet all three of you that the Lions will upset the Packers in Lambo. And if he loses, he gets three waters. If we lose, we get a water each. Mike accepted that bet on behalf of us without talking to us. And we were like, yes, good, you should because there's zero chance. It was nine, I believe, and I don't have the number exact. I believe it's been since 1991 since the Lions won a game in Lambo Field.

This didn't, I didn't see this coming at all. This is why people who bet in Vegas cry a lot. I mean, just unbelievable. So yes, we are due the most improbable of waterings that I think I've ever remembered. A well-deserved cup of water in the face. Mike should take all three. I completely agree. He volunteered for us. And then he leaves and goes to Disneyland. Mike, you get all three of the waters. Splash Mountain. That's what we'll call it.

So we got a good show for you today. Jason and I are holding down the fort. We got our fantasy rewind. We're going to go through the stud muffins and the pooped in his big boy pants section. We've got the Monday night football preview. We've got the mailbag. And if you want to get a hold of the show, you can do so on Twitter at the FFFallers. You can check out our website, the fantasy footballers.com. You can visit our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com. And we're everywhere else to. We're on YouTube. We're on the Fantasy Sports Network, Facebook.

I think we're on Snapchat or something, and Mike does that. Mike does that stuff. All right, I've got a quick question about defenses, but I've got to tell you, here's one of the frustrating things about kickers and defenses. I spent, this is our league of record. This is the league I'm trying to come back from one and four on, and I think I'm going to get by this week. Maybe undeservedly I'm going to get by. I'm going to be six and four, so I'll have a nice winning street going on. But my opponent had no kicker in defense.

All week, and he was just waiting to sign one. I had, you know, the Rams at home against Cutler, and I had Brandon McManus, you know, the number two kicker of the year, and he just signed anybody off of waivers. Off of waivers, kicker in defense. He outscored me 17 to 1 with his kicker in defense, so I'm still going to get by, but it's frustrating. It's frustrating because...

The honest truth is defense is the hardest to predict of anything because the most improbable plays can happen on defense. You could have a defense that is great and gets three interceptions and returns nothing, where your opponent's defense is terrible and gets a touchdown and outscores your defense. Yeah, and sometimes it's not even the defense's fault. You know, it's the offense. It's Carson Palmer kicking the ball way up in the air after he fumbles it. Right.

And the truth is, if you want a league that has more predictable defensive scoring, it has to be one with special teams yardage because those numbers are actually more predictable from team to team than it is to not have those. But yeah, that was frustrating. But let's get to the quick question of the day. Speaking of defenses, people are paying attention to defenses for the sake of...

Playoff schedules, rest of season schedules. Who do you sign early? I prescribe signing a defense extremely early and holding them on your bench. Maybe two of them. Yes, two defenses. Because at this point in time, you're positioning, right? Mm-hmm. And so I wanted to mention a couple. Who are some surprise rest-of-season defenses people should go grab right now preparing for the playoffs? Do you have one?

Yeah, yeah, I've got one that I've been targeting in all of my leagues. Sometimes you can have them added in in a trade. In several of my leagues, I've seen them on the waivers from week to week, and that would be the New England Patriots. The Patriots are a pretty good defense. They're definitely not one of the top defenses, but they are, you know, top half. They're not a bottom type, a bottom feeder type of team. And here's why they've had a lot of offensive injuries lately. I think that's going to...

change the game plan slightly to where they're not putting up games that are, you know, 50 to 40 at the end of the game. But the real main reason is because in their playoff schedule, in weeks 14, 15, and 16, they play the Houston Texans, the Tennessee Titans, and the New York Jets. Those are games that are going to be very...

good opportunities for defensive scores. And if they don't happen, they shouldn't be high-scoring offenses against them. So I really like the playoff schedule for the Patriots. All right. My defense that I think people need to grab, I actually had a claim on them last week that got overridden by some of my other signings. But the Chiefs, okay? The Chiefs have an incredible pass rush. They've got two of the next...

Two of three games at home during the playoffs, and that's San Diego, Baltimore, Cleveland, okay? So that's not exactly the gauntlet. They have been ascending after an awful stretch. They had two games where they were negative, okay? And we're talking weeks ago. They've been in double digits, I think, four out of five weeks, something around there. They had a huge week this weekend, obviously, dismantling the injured Peyton Manning. And, you know, before they played their playoff schedule, they still have...

you know, Buffalo, San Diego, winnable games. And so I think the Chiefs in the next six weeks are actually a really, really good pickup. I'm going to be looking at them again this week. Yeah, absolutely. We talked weeks ago about the secondary of the Chiefs being a team you wanted to find a quarterback against. But that's not true at all anymore. You know, that was in the very beginning of the year. They have figured out their secondary. That was their whole defensive issue.

Their front line is amazing. Their secondary is solid now. So I really like that pick. So those are a couple options for you guys out there to snag if you need a defense. Let's go ahead and get into the news. Weekly Rewind. All righty. Let's kick it off with what Jason just mentioned, some injury concerns again for the Patriots. Julian Edelman.

goes out with a broken foot. This is the same injury from my understanding that does Bryant suffered. So, surgery today for Edelman. Hope is maybe he returns to the playoffs, but basically he just retired from the fantasy season. Right. For our purposes, this is a season-ending injury. This is something where, unless you're in one of those wacky leagues that actually plays fantasy football through the playoffs, which don't be in one of those. It's ridiculous.

unless you're doing daily fantasy, then, yeah, he's gone. And now with Dionne Lewis gone, the two short, yardage, pass-catching, run-through-the-air type of players, now I think this really turns a heat up on Danny Amandola. Hopefully last week we had said, go sign Danny Amandola as a hope stash. Now, we didn't think Edelman was going to get injured.

But that was because when Dionne Lewis was out previously, he had big weeks. So he hopefully was already stashed. I'm sure on the waiver show tomorrow, he will be one of the main guys claimed. Yeah, it's an interesting thing because the offense is obviously going to, you know, you can't lose two of your go-to guys.

and expect the exact same thing from an offense. At the same time, you can't expect the Patriots not to make some sort of adjustment that impresses you or does something to make somebody else relevant. I have to believe Almodola is the guy that gets a spike, but also that they may have to trust James White more than they do right now. Because James White was on the field for 28 snaps. Legerat Blunt was on for 38. White didn't get very much action. Two touches. Yeah, two touches. He did make an important third down catch.

I just think you're going to have to either start trusting him or trust somebody else. Lafell should move up in my mind because he still was targeted quite a bit in this game. So it's not good news for the Patriots offense, but they're going to have to adjust. And if you're an Edelman owner, well, sorry. Sorry. Go get Amandola. He's not going to be Edelman. No, but they're going to have to lean on him. Yep. All right. So what's going on with Johnny Manzel? Mike Petten said that next week Manzo might start again.

Well, I doubt he starts us next week because they're on buy. However, the next start, yeah, yeah. The next game. It's too early to tell, but he said that it was his best game as a starter, which it probably was. That's, you know, it's not too hard to get there. That's, yeah, I'm not saying much. Yeah, so it's right now it's a wait and see pretty irrelevant because of the bye week, but next week we'll come in and, you know, I think on our show this last week, we were pretty confident that.

McCown was going to get the start. We were. The last we talked on the show, we thought that it was McCown. Yeah, so make sure you're following us on Twitter for those last second updates. Yep. All right. So last night, if you watched the Monday Night game, that was a fun game. Oh, it was a fun game. Just asked Drew Stanton. Yeah. If you haven't seen the clip of Drew Stanton's, why does Celebration on Earth, you need to go to our Twitter page?

You could not be disappointed by taking a second, take a break, and find the image of that Drew Stanton celebration. It is the best celebration I have ever seen. Yeah, it was really entertaining. We didn't even get the kick at the end of it. Well, it's out there. I mean, it's been tweeted everywhere by everybody. You could watch it for an hour. You could just watch it on a loop for an hour. And in minute 40, you know, as a Cardinal fan, I watched it on a loop for an hour. It was great. I tried to do it myself.

Pulled a hammy. I did do it after the game was over. Yeah. I definitely did. There was the side punches. Oh, yeah. Those are the ones that. I did a whole commentary over it for my wife. Yeah. It's delightful. The rousy. Yeah. All right. We won't talk about that. You don't want to talk about. Routy. Wow. Upset. Yeah. I like it. Incredible. I'm a big home fan, so there you go. Yeah, there you go. So the Philadelphia Daily News reports Sam Bradford. He went out in this game midway through. He was having a pretty good game.

suffered a grade 2 AC joint sprain in his non-throwing shoulder. Do we know anything more about his prognosis? And obviously, Sanchez is the guy that stepped in and threw the end zone interception. Yeah, we know that nothing is, you know, the x-rays came back negative, which is good. It's not anything broken, not the throwing shoulder. We'll have to wait and see in practice whether or not he's going to be the guy or whether Sanchez gets in there. Either way, I don't know that you're excited about...