Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 17 Matchups, In-or-Out, Playoff Decisions

I think he's a good start. Zeke, I have down in my 40s in the ranks, so you may not have a better option. Maybe you do. And maybe you just want to ride him because you're benching everybody else, and at least he's going to be on the field for part of this game. Zeke is a guy, if he's in there for one drive, he could break a 67-yard screen pass. He could. I just, I'm not confident this week. Yeah, I want the guys who are going to be on the field more for me. So to me, that's I'm not playing.

guys from from dallas so do you start to think about players like bryce butler as a start in this game or no terence williams because of the fact that you won't see bryant on the field the entire game if i knew that it was going to be tony romo throwing the ball then i'd be okay playing them but from all reports it sounds like butt fumble mark sances will be the the predominance the worst nickname you could get he gave himself that you you take a look in the mirror

and say I butt fumbled, and this is my legacy. It's so fair, because it wasn't really his fault. What did he do? The butt was right there. I feel like he got pushed back into. No, he ran into it. Here's the thing. If Mark Sanchez had done something of note, he could have overcame the butt fumble. But the way that his career ended in New York, that was the legacy that he left. So that's who he is now.

Back to my point, I think that they're going to give Mark Sanchez the majority of the reps here, which is gross for pass catchers to me. I mean, he can be fine. Absolutely can be fine, but I'm just, I don't want to mess around with that. You're starting Jason Whitten? I was just going to say the one pass catcher that I think would be fine between whoever, you know, you put Tony in, you put butt fumble in, you got, you got, uh, DAC in there. I think they're all going to utilize Witten. So he's kind of one of those lower.

you know, lower end, tight-in ones, higher-end, tight-in two that could produce. Yeah. You could. I'm not excited about anyone in this game. Fedorowitz or Whitton? Fedorowitz. I love Michael. Oh, you guys stink, man. You guys. You put that one on Mike. I was there. Sorry. Browns and Steelers. Is there anyone from the Eagles that you actually want to play? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm moving on. That's why we got to push through, man. You have a lot of question marks at the running back position. You just brought up the, you guys both.

I saw you on Twitter. I saw you on Twitter talking to Brian Matthews. Because he can't help yourself. He's a great... Oh, come on. He's not. Look, he's injury-prone. He is injury-prone, and that hurts him.

But he is a very good running back on film and statistically per touch. And it's not just because he gets only goal line work. He's had time in his career where he's been the guy and he was great. He's been a top 12 running back before. And on a per touch basis at running back, the tweet that you're alluding to, I mean, most of his career, he's been top 10 in the league. Is Anton Smith a good running back?

not a good running back. Okay. He is a great weapon. So was he a good running back the year that he was per touch, one of the best players in the league? That's what he was a great weapon. The argument for me was not, if it was just one year, fine, then. No, and that's fair. But you're talking a career body of work. Anton Smith isn't a fair comparison to that, but you cannot, if you want to say Ryan Matthews has been a very productive fantasy running back when he plays, I totally am on board. But you have to factor in what.

makes him fall into these categories, which is he hasn't been consistently able to stay on the field at all. I would never, ever argue against that. Then that's a component of being a good running back, right? And you've seen a lack of confidence in him. You love Doug Martin. From different coaching staffs. You love Doug Martin. He can't stay on the football field. I love Doug Martin, and he can't stay on the football field. I don't make it my life mission.

to make Doug Martin my favorite player. Ryan Matthews were president. Yeah. So anyways, that's fair comparison. Ironically, Ryan Matthews is not playing. Yeah. He's out. So you have a cool story. A cool story. Darren Sproles, I don't think we know for sure his situation. The, the Cowboys have been very good against running backs. You're not sure. You know, I don't know if they're going to have their starters on defense either. Sprouls is like a borderline questionable.

You guys ready for Byron Marshall? Yes, they may be starting a guy. Allegedly Byron Marshall is going to be getting some work here. And why not? Why not? You're playing for nothing. Darren Sproles is older. Byron. Marshall's 22 years old. The guy I like. You could be on your roster next year. The guy I like the most on the Eagles. Is that your new start of the week, Mike? Byron Marshall. Are you switching over to Byron Marshall? Sure. The guy that I like the most for the Eagles was my start of the week who led us all down last week.

in Zach Ertz. And I think that people are going to overreact on his week last week. Dallas is not good against the tight end, despite the fact that they have a pretty decent defense. And he's really the only weapon left for the Eagles right now, it seems. So I am 100% fine starting Zacherts. Can we move on to the Browns and Steelers? Yes, we can. All right. The Steelers are six point favorites with none of their players set to start. Is that still true?

That had to have been an early week line. I'll look it out. Go find out the current line of that game. It's probably higher. Steelers are nine-point favorites. Oh, what is it? It looks like Pittsburgh, they are six-point favorites. Still six-point favorites. All right. We don't need no Bain-Rothersburg-11 Bell, Antonio Brown to be favorites. This is the Landry-Jones-D-Will, Eli-Rogers, Sammy Coach Show. Dee Will, Jason's start of the week, totally worth a play.

The question I think some people might have two quarterback leagues or even one quarterback leaves. Can you stream Landry Jones against this Browns 31st rank run D, 21st rank past D? Also the Browns. Yeah, I think you can.

I think you probably can too. You certainly can in a two quarterback league. When you compare him to some of the other guys that have come in, for me, I would play Landry Jones ahead of your Matt Barclays, your Matt Moore's. There's people looking at that. If you were running with Derek Carr or Mariotta, and your waiver wire has just been scrapped, it's just barren. I mean, Landry Jones, you talked about those guys. Landry Jones, Matt Moore, Narls Barkley.

Matt Barkley. And I don't, you would go with Landry, I would assume. I think I would. Because you hate those other guys. Yeah, because they're terrible. The problem is that Antonio Brown is gone. So that does, I mean, look, he still needs weapons to throw against. Thankfully, I think you at Rogers. See, I like Kobe Hamilton. The matchup against the Browns really heals a lot of problems. Yeah.

Kobe Hamilton's had a reception in seven straight weeks. He's scored this year. He's actually been, like if Antonio Brand and Sammy Coates are off the field, it's going to be Kobe Hamilton lining up with Eli Rogers. If you need one of those, I'm going to call them Ramsey's Bardens of the past. Yeah. If you need one of those spots start, oh, okay, you don't know this guy's out there. You could probably do worse. Spot start a guy who've never even heard his name. Yeah. Glory. Week 17. Somebody could Kobe Hamilton and some DFS.

Yeah. Just saying. Sure. All right. That's going to be RG3 and Kessler on the other side. It sounded the last I had heard, Laderius Green was trending towards he would be out or is out of the concussion protocol. I cannot recall. But I play. Yeah, I don't know if he plays. But so I was just going to throw out. Jesse James is also, he's a touchdown guy. If you're looking at for me, Jason Whitten or Jesse James.

I'll play Jesse James. I'll go whiter. Um, Isaiah Crowell, Terrell Pryor. Are you starting those two? I'm fine with, uh, well, I'm fine with Crowell. Not prior. Prior. Prior. Prior. You burn bright, man. What's the status of Duke Johnson? He got hurt last week. Let me look that up because if he's, if he's out, then, you know, even if he's not out, I'm still good with Crowell. Well, right. I'm, I'm good with him either way, but I'm just saying more. Pryor's probably good for four or five catches this game for.

Four or five yards? Well, four for, four for 20. Yeah, I'm not playing. All right. All right. Duke Johnson was back in practice. I'd play Kobe Hamilton. I'd play Kobe Hamilton over Terrell Pryor. Really? I think I would. Ugh, that's a glory play. I don't think I would. Okay, so what are you expecting from Torel Pryor? Um, Torel Pryor, honestly, I, you know, I, I would guess a four for 50 type of game. He is last three games, one for three, four for 19, three for 36. Now he's in Pittsburgh.

If you can see the face I'm making. Can you hear it through the speakers? The face I'm making just scored more fantasy points than trail price. I'm actually starting this face. But I guess if somebody's going to do it, it's going to be him. Let's talk about a fun game. All right. Monopoly. Yes. Saints and Falcons. Falcons seven point favorites. 56 and a half point. The line has moved up. Oh, yeah. That has to be, wait, higher than this?

The line was 56. Now it's 56 and a half. It just keeps moving up. That's the highest of the year. The highest of the year. We! At least we have one good game in week 17. Hopefully you have Saints and Falcons on your team. Seven point favorites the Falcons are. They're motivated to get that number two spot, which means a buy. If you remember the first Saints of Falcons game, there was about 2,000 points scored in that game. Bizarrely.

Julio Jones disappeared and Brandon Cooks. You remember that game where the two main starters just disappeared? It was the Devonta Freeman Tavin Coleman Show. And I expect Devonta Freeman to just be a complete beast here this week. But I've moved everyone up. And I think the sneakiest guy that I really like this week, he was almost my start of the week is Willie Sneed. He's been good over the last few weeks. And he's going to be...

playing the role that I think really hurts the Falcons. So I really like Willie Sneed this week. He did not play in that previous Saints Falcons game. Okay. Interesting. I have Michael Thomas is my number six ranked number sixth. That's new. My sixth ranked wide receiver this week. Really like Michael Thomas. I don't know what it is about Brandon Cooks. I can never, I never feel confident predicting his big game. But you have to start him.

But you have to start him. I know what it is about him. It's the fact that he just disappears every third game. He's completely does nothing. Interesting. Matt Ryan's the number three in the NFL in passing yardage. Do you know what his rank is in terms of pass attempts? I do because I'm looking at it. All right. What is it? 18th. Yeah. This was tweeted out from the Atlanta Falcons with also the hashtag Matt VP, which I like that. I like that hashtag.

I like it. Who wins MVP, by the way? Oh, man. It's a great question. Is it Ezekiel Elliott? I don't think it's going to be Zeke or DAC because I think they're going to split votes. Whenever you see something like that, like people who want to give it to someone on the Cowboys, they're going to split. Some people are going to go Zeke. Some people are going to go DAC. So I think it's Brady? To me, it's Brady or Matt Ryan. And sports leagues, I mean, they.

sometimes you kind of get tired of somebody who they're just too good all the time. That's how it feels. And he missed four games. Yeah. And he's not. Yeah. And Brady missed four games. Yeah. So I, I think it's going to be Matt Ryan. I think it'll be Matt Ryan. You got a lot of people that want, they don't want to go to Brady. And so they go to someone like a Derek Carr. Except Derek Carr broke. And those are now going to swing over to Matt Ryan. You say Derek Carr broke? Yes, I did because he did. I mean, that's just.

Accurate. Start of the week is in this game. Mark Ingram's from the start of the week. Certainly love that over under for that prognostication. You have Freeman and Coleman, Ingram and High Tower. I would start three, fours of those running backs. I'd sit High Tower myself. That's fair. What else do you want to talk about from this game? It's not like you're sitting Ryan or Breeze. You're actually very happy in Week 17 that you have one of those guys that are playing a meaningful game. A meaningful game. I feel like.

because of the garbage that's out there this week, you can start, you can put out literally any player. If you wanted to put out Kobe Fleener or Brandon or Brandon Coleman, if you wanted to put those guys out over, you know, your Terrell Pryor type of guy you don't know, I would rather be in a game with a quarterback where it's like, I think there's going to be four or five touchdown scored. Let me get a chance. You know, you're starting.

Julio, but I mean, Sunu or Gabriel or both will have a good game. Right. Well, what's crazy is. Or Hardy or Justin Hardy. That previous game that I alluded to where there were so many points scored, there was only one in a half point PPR scoring, only one wide receiver or tight in that scored more than five fantasy points for the Falcons. Can you believe that? That's nuts. And I believe it was Justin Hardy.