Week 16 Buy or Sell + Championship Week Q&A, Mike Poops Himself - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/23

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and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Wednesday, December 23rd. Oh, Christmas Eve Eve. Christmas Eve Eve. That's what it is. Yeah. The Eve of Christmas Eve. Yeah. Yeah. Mike is beaming in today. I'm looking across for me at the studio and like his in studio microphone is like down and kind of droopy. It's flaccid.

Yeah, it's flaccid and it's like sad. Oh, no. It looks like it retired. Like it ran out of gas. I think it's just missing you. I think Jake Riz just as lazy and left it like that. I thought maybe it was strategic because we got Mike's video in here. But no, no, no, no, it wasn't. We've got a good show for you today. We got some buy sell. We got some mailbag. Some news to talk about injuries. Oh, my. Could have a big.

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I will say this. I also put up a youth shirt this year. Oh. Which I saw. We are. We are. Yeah. It was the first of all the title shirts to be sold, believe it or not. And so we've got, which makes me excited because, like, I don't know, we've had our kids playing this year and it's been really fun. Yeah, that was really fun until Monday night when I sat with my son and we watched Juju.

not score 11 points. Yeah, your son was eliminated. How did he handle it? Not well. No? He did not handle it very well. The right tradition has already properly been passed down. What did he eat like a lot of food afterwards or what was the tradition? Oh, losing? Just no, no. Oh, lose. Who's in the legal record championship, you turd? No, I'm saying the.

The not handling the loss well. Oh, okay. Yeah. Did you? Yeah, I was going to say better or worse than Jason. Good question. Oh, better than Jason. Okay, yeah. All right. He didn't turn into a caveman. Oh, I just feel like there should be at this point in time. I mean, we have automation technology. Al Borland is one of the best. His house is filled with automation. We need the tilt button in the house. When you lose, there should be a button you push, and it automatically orders.

Too much food from postmates or Uber eats. Just like two guns that shoot ice cream at you? It's something like that. Yeah. Alexa, I'm tilting. I guess losing a fantasy football game and like the traditional breaking up with your boyfriend method of coping are very similar, right? I'm thinking of the gallons of ice cream. I guess I do that regardless of winning or losing. The gallons of ice cream can do a lot. It can be a celebration or a.

Okay, so you've got the shirts. We have a jam-pack Christmas Eve show tomorrow. It's a mini-Meggie. Mini-Meggie? Little mini-Megggy. But it will be an extended long special Christmas Eve edition. You don't want to miss it. Got some Christmassy stuff, and it'll be a long show. Yeah, it'll have every matchup in it. And we've got games on Friday and Saturday and Sunday. So, Merry Christmas to all, hopefully.

Twitter at the FF Ballers if you want to follow the show over there. Jason is at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. The website with the starts hit tool player profiles, some new team profiles and a lot of stuff to help you out. The Fantasy Footballers.com. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Mike with the rare three for three and buy your sell last week. He bought Kyler Murray as a top 10 quarterback.

which I did as well. Bought D'Andre Swift, 75 total yards. He hit 82. He just made it. Hit 82. And then Kareem Hunt sold Kareem Hunt as a top 20 running back. He ended up... Just a bit outside at Running Back. Oh, yeah, that's not top 20. That is not top 20. All right. Week 16, buy or sell, guys.

J.K. Dobbins against the New York football giants. Is he a top 12 running back this week? For context, the last three weeks, RB 16, RB 16, RB 18. I don't know why I would.

think he's a top 12 this week. I'm going to sell it. Yeah, I agree. I think that line is a little too high. You've got Dallas, Jacksonville, and Cleveland were the three matchups where he failed to crack top 12. He's been good. He's been someone that you're going to start, but I don't think that against the New York Giants is where he elevates to a top 12 guy. I will sell as well. Yeah, it's the problem with making it into the top 12 finishing there. Like up.

We've all got J.K. Dobbins ranked very high because you're playing J.K. Dobbins with confidence. But for him to crack that mark, he would have to, he would have to score twice. And with Gus Edwards and Lamar Jackson stealing touchdowns, I don't think he'll hit that. I would hedge against it. Let's go top 15. Let's just change the line. Top 15 J.K. Dobbins this week against the Giants. Opportunities have gone from 11 to 13 to 15 the last three weeks.

Mike's buying it. I will sell it. Jason, what are you doing? I'm going to stay with the sell. I like J.K. Dobbins. I think you can play J.K. Dobbins. But Mike illustrated the point. There's too many ways that the points can go to Lamar Jackson and Gus Edwards and not to J.K. Dobbins. Chris Carson against the Los Angeles Rams. Does he hit 80 total yards? Tough matchup. Yeah.

Tough matchup. He was at 1.10, 2 weeks ago, 98 yards, 2 weeks ago. Last week against Washington, 69 yards. Nice. I'm going to buy. I realize it's a very difficult matchup. Hard to run against the Rams. Right now they are number four on the season of fantasy points given up. But Chris Carson looked.

great last week. He really did. It's funny because he was very disappointing. He, you know, he only had 69 yards. He didn't get, but I don't think Carlos Hyde is going to be ripping off, you know, 60-yard touchdown runs, and that kind of stole some production. So I like Chris Carson. I'm a pretty hard sell here. I agree he looked good, but, you know, Hyde looked good too. Yeah. And the Rams are tough, so I'm going to sell. I am also going to sell that 80 total yards against the Rams. That's pretty high.

All right, Terry McLaurin. I think he's one of the hardest players to kind of get a gauge on right now and how you feel about him. A lot of start sick questions are revolving around, you know, Terry McLaren or Deontay Johnson for the upcoming week. Who's Terry's quarterback this week? Exactly. Nice point, Mike.

I mean, I'm asking because I don't know. No, neither do we. It's not Haskins. I believe him breaking protocol will. He could have a four-game suspension. Yeah, I mean, I don't expect it to be Haskins, but I don't know who it is. I don't think anybody is certain on that. However, regardless of who it is, you know, he's had decent games with everybody so far, right?

So the line here set by Brooks, Terry McLaurin versus Carolina, at least seven total receptions. So we're just looking at involvement. He's hit exactly seven receptions in half of his games this year. Obviously very talented. Not sure if we feel confident with Taylor Heineke or if Alex Smith comes back. It is really funny to look at his game log and see.

Seven games with seven receptions, exactly. That's wild. I'm going to sell, though. That's still a high line. I feel like getting seven receptions in a game is difficult, even though he's done it a lot. And if there is a Heineke situation here, you might need 20 targets to get seven receptions. I'm going to sell. Is the joke for Heineke, is it?

Hiney related or is it Hineken related? I did. It could be either, Mike. I wanted to make the want to touch the Hineke. Hineke. Well, we got there. We found out where it's a heinous. I wasn't going to say it, but then you set it up. So hot. So hot. To touch the hyniqui. I make no apologies. That was bad. Oh, that was great. I thought that was fantastic. All the people agree. Yes.

Wait a bit. What has happened since I've been out of the office? I'm telling you, this show is dissolving. You're welcome. Mike, are you buying or selling seven receptions? I'm going to buy it. I don't know who the quarterback is going to be. This is really going to be a, like, let me ask you guys this. Have you heard any news that Dwayne Haskins?

is not allowed to play because the possible punishment is an option. The team is allowed to do that. The report that we have today is that he could be fined a weak salary in face of four games, suspension for engaging in high-risk COVID-19 conduct. I mean, this is a really big moment here for Ron Rivera, who was brought in to clean up the culture of the Washington football team.

And let's say Alex Smith is not ready. And then Dwayne Haskins is there. You're fighting for the division. Are you going to sit down your best chance to win a division with two weeks left? That is a brutal call that I am very happy. I do not have to make. And just for the sake of competition, I will buy it. Okay. Sounds good. That was buy or sell brought to you by pristine auction. You can go to pristine auction.com.

Get a $10 credit towards your first purchase of some sweet autographed sports memorabilia. Time to do some news. News and notes from around the league. All right. NFL playoff scenarios. The headline, the message for fantasy players is that you're going to have all teams full go playing for something this week. Which is why it's the championship week. Because this.

Might not happen next week and week 17. That's right. The Chiefs can clench a first round buy. They can do it via winning. They can do it via Pittsburgh or Buffalo losing. But those games are simultaneous and they will not know. I mean, the difference here is the only one, only the number one seed gets a buy week. That's what changed things here. I imagine the scenarios are far different if two teams get a buy week.

And that's significant for fantasy players. It's good for fantasy players. I mean, we may see 17 weeks next week too. I mean, that's something we haven't talked about in a while. Next year. You know I say next week? Yeah. When next week is week 17. Oh, so you were right both ways. Incredible work. Yeah, but next year we could see an extension of the season where we'll be making fun of week 18 championship games, which I look forward to. Yeah, me too. But yeah, that's the headline.