Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, Wk 16 Playoff Questions, TNF Preview

Nice. Would you start Denver, Kansas City, San Diego, or L.A. for my defense. Oh, wow. Man. So Kansas City. So you got Denver and Kansas City. They play each other. And those are great, great defenses. 37.5 point overrunners, the lowest of the week. Then you have San Diego and L.A. who just have great matchups. I'm playing Kansas City. Really? Absolutely. I'm playing Kansas City at home in Arrowhead.

Cold weather. Sunday night game. Great defense. No confidence in Simeon to get it done. I'm playing Kansas. I'm going with the better overall defense over any matchups. I'm not, you know, San Diego at Cleveland. Okay. You want to do that? That's great. L.A. would be right in there. They're all good starts. These are honestly going to be four of my top.

six or eight. That's true. I don't think you can go wrong here. So you got to ask yourself, what do you need? Do you need safety or do you need, you know, super high upside? Because if you need a real big play, the super high upside, you're probably looking more towards San Diego and L.A. I feel like San Diego was safe. Well, the Browns, the Browns can't score points. They just, they cannot.

So even if your defense doesn't get you a ton of sacks, a ton of turtleovers, you know the Browns won't score. So you have this safe six to seven points guaranteed. I will say this. The fear might be that Denver's defense scores and hurts your defense. I think, and you know what's funny is, so you've kind of convinced me to go San Diego. And I think my favorite of these four is actually the L.A. Rams. Here's the deal with San Diego.

This is a tough question. The Browns over the last five matchups that they've played in have given up at least double digits to opposing defenses. San Diego. For five straight. So then stay in those flames. Joey Bosa. However, however, have a barbecue. Denver, the defense that faces Denver, double digits in four of the last five, including the last three, last three weeks, 10, 10, 10, 14.

Two fumble recoveries in each of the last two weeks, this interception. So giving up sacks. I'm going Kansas City. I'm sticking with it. And that's, it's defense versus matchup. And I think they're all good. Jason made the best point. He said they're probably four of the best six. Great question here from Nick and Chicago. Very interesting question. The semifinal to determine who I play in the championship ended up in a tie. No decimal scoring in this league. And our tie break is bench points. Okay. Okay.

for the championship week, isn't worth dropping all my handcuffs right before game time to pick up playing quarterbacks? Yeah. Or other players that should have a good baseline. What could go wrong with the strategy? Zero. Nothing. If it's not a keeper league. I've done it. Yeah, I've done it as well. If it's not a keeper league where you need those guys on your team for later and it is your championship week. Nothing is the week after. You'd be a fool not to max out your bench points the day of...

Great strategy, great thought. The only thing that I will say that could hurt you is if you drop a player that doesn't play until like Monday and your opponent could sign in play or something. So don't lose sight of the actuality of like when guys play. But overall, you should be okay doing that. Yeah. I think that's a strong play. And there's probably a lot of people out there listening that are in this situation. So I agree with, you know, look at the.

the Monday and the Sunday games. Make sure you're not dropping a playable asset, but do this. All right. Thursday night preview the New York football giants at 10 and 4 take on the Philadelphia Eagles, who are 5 and 9 now. They got off to that hot start, but it faded away. Let's talk storylines in this game. The Giants, we know. They've been very good this year, especially on defense, taking away weapons, strong up front.

I know we've already said we don't have confidence in a running option for Philadelphia. Do you have confidence in any option for Philadelphia? And does it maybe just boil down to Zach Ertz? I was going to say, I'm fine with Zach Ertz. That's about it. Yeah, I'm okay with Ertz as well. Giant's defense against the past has been very good in terms of not giving up touchdowns, low pass rating. Yeah, I would.

I talked about Jordan Matthews. I'm still okay playing him because he will get the volume. But I'm not going to play like Hayward, Darius Hayward Bay. Not Darius Hayward Bay. Dorio Green Beckham. I'm not, it's Ertz. It's Jordan Matthews. And if I'm picking a running back, it's still Ryan Matthews because the only thing I think you can hope for is the touchdown. And Ryan Matthews has been pretty solid with touchdown. He has.

Eight on the year. Yeah, and I'll throw out one other Philadelphia Eagle that I would be very happy to play. Nine. I stand corrected. He has nine touchdowns. And this guy might be, uh, he's a deep sleeper for that boom, boom. But Caleb Sturgis has been shockingly good this year. He is the sixth best kicker.

And going up against the New York Giants who are 26th. Oh my gosh. Giving up kicker points. Hey, it's championship weeks. Jason's talking kickers. I know. It's great. He used to hate them. I still hate kickers. You can't. Look. You cannot take kickers out of your leagues if you're the boom, boom champion of the world. I took kickers out of our listener league and I'm in the championship because we got none of that nonsense. I asked this question, I think last week. And it's Trey Burton.

The other tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles, last three weeks, nine targets, 10 targets, six targets. He did basically nothing against Baltimore, but we know Baltimore is notoriously great, and they have a great defense against tight ends. Burton's getting targets. Stay away. Stay as far away as you possibly can. It's a championship week, Mike. You've got it. I understand the risk involved, but you don't get points for targets. He's only had two fancy points, seven, and then 10, and then.

Two last week. Stay far away. Just like, I mean, I could pick literally 10 tight ends at random that I'd rather start of a burden. All right. Let's spend the rest of the show with me just talking down, Treber. On the other side. Yeah. Jennings Perkins. Gosh, I can't have very much confidence. If I have to pick one of those guys, I'm going O'Dow Beckham. That's my decision. Love Beckham. I mean, Eagle's defense allows big plays. They've given up a...

almost the most amount of like more than 20 yard plays of any secondary 11% of catches are more than 20 yards. Yeah, getting, getting honestly. What are you laughing at? Jason. He's just, he got me good with that. Getting actually over to the running backs. I don't think you could trust for Sean Jennings. He's had 15 touches and 18 touches on the ground the last two weeks. That's trustworthy numbers. I mean, that's like getting it done. If my running back has 15 or 18 carries, I love that.

And he has, in those two games, had 45 yards and 38 yards. Ew. Put a fantasy. Ew. Nothings. And Philadelphia's defense is okay. So to me, I don't like the ups. What's the upside of her shot? Well, look, I mean, Paul Perkins had more yards last week on 11 carries. He had 15 carries the week before. I don't want either of them. Yeah. I don't. You remember Perkins restaurants? Did you guys ever eat at the old Perkins restaurant? Of course. Really? Of course.

I remember them. I didn't eat there because I'm like under 80. You did? Yeah, that's fair. I didn't go there by myself. Sure. Your great grandparents took me there. They took me to Lubies. Oh, yeah. Cocos. They took me to Cocoes. Sure. All right. I, I haven't. Is Swinson's a place? Swenson's is a nice place. Was that nationwide? I don't think. I don't know how many of these places were. Sizzler? Sizzler is nationwide. Shisler still exists, apparently.

Do yourself a favor. Look up the old Sizzler commercials on YouTube. Oh, man. Yes. Buffet was the ticket. Yes. Sizzler had some fantastic commercials. We were eating buffet and sleeping on futons in the 90s. That's what we were doing. We needed futeons because we were going to buffet. That's right. It was a crazy. You had to elevate. You like, man, I got to sit down. Well, I got to lay down. I think we've hit the bingo for the 90s references at this point. You know, Beckham.

If you have to pick another wide out, Shepherd is the play for me, obviously. Eli, you have any confidence playing Eli Manning? I'm okay. I'm not happy, but I'm okay with it. He'll probably be somewhere around quarterback 15. Yeah, I was going to say 12 to 15. But you always have that upside. I think I've seen something like in the last four or five games, O'Dell Beckham is accounting for over 40% of Eli's yards.

But this is a game where he could go Hammond. And I agree with you, Andy. Sterling Shepard is somewhat in play here. Yeah. He's the clear number two option. He's had a touchdown in two of the last three weeks. So if you need another deeper league option, Sterling Shepard. So asking for a friend, confidence, confidence boost for a good close personal friend of mine, if you are starting James Winston and your opponent starting Eli Manning in a championship match, you should feel good about that?

I think so. In your face, Brian. All right. So much for the friend. All right. We're off to Perkins, but before we do that, we want to thank 54 Club for sponsoring us today. Look, if you want to stand out from the crowd, not blend in, if you don't have time to shop, you hate shopping, and you want somebody else to make you look good. Trust 54 Club, not Rashad Jennings. Trust.

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