Fantasy Football 2017 - Pump the Brakes, Playoff Mailbag, Rodgers Returns!

Weeks 14, 15, 16 over the last couple of years. It's been bad. It's been bad. However, it was, you know, it was a great tweet, really neat to look at, but it was very selective. It was like this year, week 15 was bad. This year, week 14 was bad. This year week 16. Yeah, but it's a, it's a playoff situation. Sure. And that's my point is it's not all of those weeks. It's not like the end of the year Brady gets bad. And as far as Brandon Cooks, you have two bad games in a row.

But, you know, the three right before it were fine. This week in Pittsburgh, it's going to be a high-scoring affair. I don't think you should binge. I play Brandon Cooks. And I'm not a big Brandon Cooks fan, but I'd play him. Matt in Japan. What? Bonjour. I was waiting for it, guys. You really let me down. This is the semifinals. I'm the underdog. I have Alan and Julio starting. So Keenan Allen, Julio Jones. Do I flex hill?

as in Tyreek? Or do I flex Crabtree? That's an easy one for me, actually. It is as well. It's Michael Crabtree. The Hill was almost my pump. Pump the brakes. He didn't really have a good week last week, so I would have been a tough pump over the hill. I'm calling him Chargers. Yeah, the Chargers have been really rough. Now, Hill can win you a week in a split second. I mean, he's... Yeah, that's why I didn't want to die in the playoffs. I think you can still play him, but yeah. I mean, Crabtree has a great matchup this week.

plays Dallas, and I don't think, now we don't have any information about Amari Cooper. Right. But with him leaving, you know. Actually, the latest report that I saw said that Amari Cooper has been very bad this year. So I think we have enough information to know that Amari Cooper is not a threat to Michael Crabtree being good. That's the latest report? Yeah.

Dr. James Andrews. Dr. James Andrews says Mari Cooper. I had him in my fantasy league and he stinks. I do have a bit of an update for you. Joe Mixon remains in the league's concussion protocol Wednesday. Oh, that's. Concussed nine days ago. And Gio Bernard got 85% of snaps in the last game. Gio Bernard is very well likely a guy that could have been cut in leagues that picked him up last week, assuming that Joe Mixon would be that. It's possible. That being said, he's a terrible.

play against Minnesota. Not a terrible play. A startable play. He has such a great floor because of the past catching. Yeah. So I would still play him if makes it turn. Yeah. I would certainly drop it like his hot. Oh, hey, Fuck Clan. Really important. This is a survey that is really important to the show. If you have an extra minute, do us a huge favor. We do this once a year. Please go to surveypod.net.

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Friday is 500. 500 episodes of this podcast. Who would have ever believed you? What have you learned over that time, Mike? Not much. I've learned that fantasy football is the most fun connecting community out there and that you need each other when the predictability goes out the window and bad beats are had. Mike's gone from what, man bun to...

What is this, man, fun? What do you got going on above your head here? My hair goes up. It's just a, you know, who's the guy from Parks and Rec that we were talking about? I got run over by Alexis. Ralphio. Ralphio. I was going to throw out Ralph Machio, but I knew that was very incorrect because that's the karate kid. Is there anything you could do in a fashion or hair sense that you would, you know, you do it and then you would be embarrassed by it? No, because I've had a mullet. Yeah.

recently i was going to say that wasn't that long ago jason have you learned anything over the last 498 episodes of this show uh other than what i just said if we're talking hair i learned that i am not capable of growing new hair it's going quickly you didn't know that before i'll say this by show 1,000 i will most likely have a shaved head almost for sure oh most certainly almost certainly i'll show 1,000 shaved hair shaved head i'll keep the beard

And I'll have to start working out. At that point, if you got a shaved head, you need to, you've got to have some muscles with it. What do they call the mustache that goes down? The foo man shoe? Oh, handlebar mustache. Well, no, not a handlebar, because the handlebar is the ones that curl, right? No, I always. I'm talking about like it goes down the side to your mouth. Like a biker. Yeah. What kind of goal can you set, Jason, that the foot clanking help us hit to where you will go bald on top with that mustache? Because that's what I want to see.

I want to see you looking like half firemen. One billion downloads. One billion. Where are we at right now? Like, 60 million? Not that close to it. 60 million? Not that close to it. So, yeah, we'll do something special for, like the Hulk Hogan. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. There's got to be a better name for that. I'm looking it up. Horseshoe. Brooks, what is that? I thought it was handled by. Is it a handlebar? No, no, I've confirmed it is the horseshoe mustache. There was a time in which I thought that the, uh,

Yeah, a handlebar is what I thought. Your handlebar is the curly edges. Yes. And I've always said that, you know, the adventurous one would do the scuba. Oh, a full scuba? A scuba is if you go down from the sideburns and you go around the top and bottom of the mouth as though you're, you know, you've got a scuba mouthpiece in. That sounds very hip. Mike, you should give that a go. I'll think about it.

This is the kind of stuff you're going to get here for the next 500 and two shows until we hit 1,000 and Jason is bald. That's what this countdown is going to be now. Yeah, maybe at that point I'll give that as a reason, because my wife won't let me shave my head yet, and I keep telling her I have no hair. She's like, no, I'll tell you when it's time. When we get to show 1,000, I'm going to say, hey, I said this a long time ago that I would do this to show 1,000, and there's no looking back. We'll just shave it on the air. Ooh, I like it. Will it be a somber moment, like where your wife?

walk up and just take you by the hand and say, it's time. Yes. And then hand you your Harry's razor. Yes. Yeah, that's what we'll do. Nice. Do you have to, like, if you're going from hair to bald, do you have to like, how do you get the tan to Matt? Never mind. Yeah, there is no tan. That's the one nice thing. When I lose my hair, it will be just as white as the rest. All right. All right. Well, we will catch you on tomorrow's show.

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