Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 15 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Championship Prep

Osweiler. Has there been a game this year where you're like, wow, good thing we had Osweiler. He just won the game. No. I can't think of one. There was one game where he came back at the end and had a decent drive. But the reason they had to come back was because he was so terrible. The previous three quarters. So if Tom Savage is back, DeAndre Hopkins, full force fantasy player again. Welcome back. So it'll be, we'll have stories of Footland titles from picking up Hopkins off the waiver. Possibly.

All right, I'm going to go with Tyler Lockett. Yeah. Tyler Lockett. He's back. He's a real boy. He's not Pinocchio anymore. Look, did you see? Did you see what Brandon Cook just did of the Cardinal Secondary? I did. Well, Tyler Lockett gets to face them next week. And you've got to imagine Doug Baldwin and Patrick Peterson will be locked up.

while Lockett is on the outside going ham. Look, the Cardinals are eliminated. It is a divisional game. They've got pride on the line. But this game's in Seattle. And Lockett has put up 24 fantasy points, then 7, then 24 over the last three weeks. And just plain looks his, looks like we expected Tyler Lockett to be in the beginning of the year. Yeah. Which is getting free, deep threat. Great hands. Great hands.

Good routes. Amy, he was coming on so much in the second half. We just hadn't seen it yet. But Tyler Lockett's my Raising Kane's Rising Star of the week. And I think you really need to think about grabbing him and playing him next week if your options aren't better. Yeah, my Rising, Raising Kane's Rising Star is, it was going to be Alshan Jeffrey hopping on that, you know, hey, these guys are back. However, it's got to be Ty Montgomery.

Ty Montgomery is, he has taken over the starting running back job. You can play him as a wide receiver or a running back in most leagues. I believe NFL moved him. NFL took their ball and went home after they finally had to concede that he's a running back. Well, fine. Now he's only a running back. But honestly, he is only a running back in real life. Ty Montgomery, he just went against a.

pretty good Chicago run defense. 16 for 162. My math isn't perfect, but I believe that's over 10 yards of carry. That is, that is a first down. Wait, wait, wait. 16 for 142? 162. Okay. Okay. That is a first down every time you give him the ball. He was running great. When you watch him, he looks great. He had two touchdowns. You know he's good at catching the ball because he's actually a wide receiver. It is weird to watch a number 88.

taking carries like just the it's like wait what is this number 88 taking carries he he's been great and guess who he plays this next week well he plays the great minnesota run defense right except the minnesota run defense is terrible right now and i'm not saying that they are middle of the pack i'm saying they're terrible before this week do you realize the previous three games before this week they had given up a ton

Frank Gore just ate their lunch. Frank, old man Frank Gore. Frank went. I wish Frank would eat my lunch this week. There was. I don't want to eat it. There was a stuffed tomato chickens. Yeah. There was a great stat about how long it had been before, since, you know, Frank Gore's been able to go over 100 yards. He goes over 100 yards. You also had.

I believe they were over 150 total team yards on the ground this week against Minnesota. Now Minnesota's playoff chances are gone. They're humiliated. That team is now going on the road. I think Ty Montgomery is a great start. Here's the bigger thing about Montgomery. And do not make the same error that I made for a clan. I got laxadaisical. This is a full-on confession. I got laxadaisical. I thought my roster, I'm good to go.

into the semifinals. I didn't really want to play Doug Martin, but I was like, I got a starting running back. I didn't even think to look for Ty Montgomery on my waiver wire. And he got picked up on Saturday. And I punched myself in the face. By your opponent. By my opponent. And I just was, I was in shock. How did I not think to look for him? He right now in ESPN. He is owned in...

under 58% of leagues. He is available. So everyone, there's a lot of people out there making the same exact mistake as I am. And you didn't look for Ty Montgomery despite the fact of him being named the starting running. Well, he wasn't named it, but you knew he was going to be the starting running back. Yeah. So it's pick him up. DeAndre Hopkins, Tyler Lockett, and the Fomonti are three Raising Keynes, Rising Stars of the week. Feed your holiday party with a Raising Cain's Tailgate this year.

They've got that 24-hour marinated, cooked-to-order chicken fingers. Oh, my goodness. We did that yesterday on the way to the game. My son and I. They make anyone's holiday holly jolly. And while you're there, don't forget to pick up a Raising Cain's gift card for the perfect gift. You get a $25 gift card and get a $5 bonus. That's a raising canes kind of jolly. All right, guys, we're going to fly through the poopers. Pooped in his big boy pants. Things I didn't think I'd be saying a few years ago for a job, for my job.

Fly through the poopers. Let me say this. Everybody's season right now, we're in the small bubble of just a couple games. And so when we talk about these players in the pooped in their big boy pants segment, I want you guys to give me the kind of ignore this or pay attention to it because you don't want to play them next week. So at the quarterbacks that we're talking about, look, we pump the brakes on Marcus Mariotta.

For good reason. The turbulence is over, in my opinion. You got Jacksonville next week, so don't forget about him. But the Denver, Kansas City back to back, that's done with. Hopefully he didn't play him. Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, and Sammy Biscuits. Tom Brady is by far the biggest disappointment of this bunch. Is he? Is he the biggest disappointment? Yes. No. No way. I think, well, he was against Denver.

I think a lot of people didn't play Tom Brady this week because of that match. They probably did. Yeah, they probably did. I think a lot of people still played him. If I had him, I probably still would have played him too. Yeah. Because I'm going to go down swinging with the Hall of Fame level quarterback. And it's just 1808 yards. That's where it's disappointing. I mean, he didn't even get you over 200 yards. Yeah. I mean, certainly he was, he was very bad. Aaron Rogers was super frustrating because he played. That's why he wasn't.

He's not disappointing to me because he was playing great. He was playing great. And he had two drives where he hit Devante Adams on wide open. To be fair, he hit him right in the hands. That is true. That's not where you want to hit Devante Adams. Devante Adams dropped those two touchdowns just.

brutal if you were an Aaron Roder, an Aaron Rogers owner. I am not worried about him in the slightest. He was playing great. And this week going up against Minnesota again, I think Minnesota is going to, it's going to be hard to get up for the game after you've, you know, lost everything. Are they eliminating? Who? Minnesota? Is it Minnesota just 500? I don't think they're eliminated. I don't think they're mathematically eliminated yet. No. No. No. Because the Cardinals just.

got mathematically eliminated yesterday. Sure, completely. Yeah, I mean, Minnesota is right now, I mean, they are the nine. So they're in terms of records. Yeah, so there are a couple spots out, and they get to play Green Bay. So if they beat Green Bay this week and Detroit manages to lose, could get interesting. Yep. Could get interesting. All right, not good, nothing good from Stafford. We talked about him. Yeah.

Some disappointing performances from Derek Carr, in my opinion. They won the game, but it wasn't really because of Carr. James Winston has not produced for playoff fantasy owners. He was, I mean, he was okay. It was the three interceptions, which two of those are really trash. I mean, it was one is the end of the half, just throwing up the Hail Mary, then one's the end of the game throwing it up. So that's unfortunate, but.

He was 247 with two touchdowns. He gets to go into the Super Dome. So I have, I like James moving into next week. Derek Carr gets to take on the Colts. I like him moving into next week. So I'm looking for some bounce back for a lot of these guys. All right. What are the headlines at running back for the pants poopers? I'm going to, I'm going to throw out Kenneth Farrow.

A lot of people picked him up and played him. I know he wasn't. He's not the big name. He's not the like, more of a, you don't have much of a choice. Sure, but I mean, look at all the Melvin. I played him this week because I was a Melvin Gordon owner. Yeah, exactly. I paid out the nose to get him. I grabbed him. I started him. And he really disappointed. I mean, the thing is, he got 15 carries and two receptions, but he did jocks squaw. Well, good news for him. If Melvin Gordon misses next week, Kenneth Farrell will be playing Cleveland.

All right, play Kenneth Farrow. My biggest disappointment of the week was Doug Martin. It's, I don't know what's going on with the running game in Tampa Bay. It is a disaster. What about with to Quiz Rogers being a healthy scratch? Yeah. I mean, it's, clearly the team has the faith that it's not all of Doug Martin's problem. But when you just hit, you have.

polar opposites playing in front of you in prime time where every time Ezekiel Elliott touches the ball, he gets at least four yards without even trying. Then you have Doug Martin, who the second he gets handed the ball, he's just getting crushed. So I would lean more that it's the offensive line for Tampa Base. I don't know if you can expect that really to improve. I have two guys I want to know if you guys think they have bounced back weeks in week 16. Thomas Rawls and Jay J.

severely disappointed fantasy owners this past week. Rawls was 21 for 34 against that Rams team. He's at home against Arizona. Jayae was 19 for 51. You kept expecting something to happen for him in that game and it didn't. Can you have confidence in either of those guys this week? I think you can have confidence in a Jai more than Rawls. Arizona's run D is still elite and Thomas Rawls is going to have a hard time running against them.

Jay Ajai Buffalo was the team that Jay Ajai came out against and had his 700-yard game. So I think, you know, look, Buffalo is going to have an axe to grind and want to, you know, definitely pay back. But Jay Ajai, I would have no problem starting him this week. I need to say something here. I know we're up against the clock a little bit getting through these names. Don't miss this in the bad stat line in Denver for the Patriots.

They won that game. Legerate Blunt scored again. He gets the headlines 15th touchdown, franchise record. Dionne Lewis had 18 carries. For 95 yards in this game, James White had three. It would be easy to miss what might have happened in that game with Dionne Lewis and to not think about him as a start for next week because he's been lost in the myriad of other names. Dionne Lewis might be a start next week against New York Jet.

I agree. Legerrett Blunt. He's had a heavy workload this year. They're heading into the playoffs. They've locked things up. D.L. Lewis needs to keep getting back in a game shape. I'm just saying I'm putting Lewis out there as an honorary rising star of the week. Because 18 for 95 is a great game. And it was a big difference between what him and James White received, Carrie Wise. Wide receivers that let you down. There are some big names on this list.

The biggest of all to me is Sammy Watkins against Cleveland. Makes no sense. One for 10. They did not need him. They didn't need him. They could run the ball, Tana clip, and around the goal line, the couple of throws that you did get, Charles Clay, it just was one of those games where you just didn't need it. You saw this last year with Kansas City at times where Mackling would have nothing because they just ran the ball. It stinks. I think he hurt a ton of people.

Even still. I mean, I was a big fan this week. You have to expect more than one for 10 from Sammy Watkins. Certainly. I think the guy that I'm most disappointed with was Devante Adams because of those two drops because everyone is playing Devante Adams right now. He's just a guy that scores so much. You have a hard time sitting him. And he had all those opportunities. He should have had four for 70 and two touchdowns, which would have put him at the top of the list. He was the consensus.

13. Yeah. And so him to come out. Not for us, though. I'm saying for all experts. To have the kind of opportunity he had to watch him just crap that away and finish with two for 25. Man, he let guys down. I think, you know, Amari Cooper, T.Y Hilton. Cooper. Yeah, Jason just grabbed the Devante Adams bobblehead in the office and stuffed it into a hole. There you go. That's where he belongs. Um, Amari Cooper. Look.