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

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to the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome. Welcome to the show. It's Wednesday. Hey, hey, what day is it? Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. We're back again. Jason, what a wonderful intro to the show you just did.

Yeah. I have to share this. I don't know if you saw this. I am guessing you did. We got a little note and somebody said, somebody said they ignored. Well, first they decided that they only wanted to follow one of us for the entire year. On Twitter? I don't remember where this. They said it on Twitter. No, they wanted to follow on the show. Listen to the show. They wanted to ignore two of our advice and pick one.

And the way they picked was you have glasses. And they said, so they said I went with Poindexter Jason. There you go. And all I did was follow Jason's advice all year along and completely ignored Andy and Mike. Hashtag bookland title, I assume. He's in the championship. There you go. So that was really funny. I laughed at that. We're getting a lot of great stories and notes from people who are in their championship game or have had a really fun, exciting year. And so we're, you know, that's why we do this. It's a fun time of year.

It's high pressure, my friends. We know not everybody's in the championship game. No, of course. I'm not. I mean, I just lost that on a championship game by 2.9 points. Over at footclanleagues.com, we know 1112ths of you are not. Oh, wait, no, that would be 10 twelfths, which would be one sixth. One sixth. I mean, you're kind of there. 1112s can't win. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So, all right.

What are we doing today? We have mailbag, a playoff mailbag, a Thursday night preview. We've got Pump the Brakes, which, by the way, last week, we were dead on with the pump the brakes. We said, do not start a New England wide receiver. Do not start Marcus Mariotta. And Mike did a little double pump. And he said, more like a full throttle. You basically said, hey, don't pump the brakes. Don't not play. Drew Brees. You said two play Drew Brees.

You knew people out there would be pumping the brakes on him after he broke their hearts for nine quarters. And that came to fruition. So I'm very happy about the performance in playoff week of Pump the Break. So we're going to get into those in just a minute as well. It is the eighth day of Foot Clan over at join the foot.com. We're giving stuff away. Jason is our Santa Claus, as you might expect. Because I'm fat. No. You know what I found the other day? You're jolly, man. I found a white.

beard hair fully white beard hair in my beard and i wasn't happy about oh in your beard in my beard oh i've i've had a few in my i mean but it's just and then you know for a moment i looked at it right like i tweezered it out i tweezered out and i held it up in the light and i pictured myself with a fully white beard oh is santa claus no just as the days of my oh oldness come closer but here's here's the deal whenever i'm looking in the mirror you know you look a little bit older

The beard starts getting some gray hairs. The top of the head gets some gray hairs. I look. I'm like, you know who looks good? George Clooney. And that's an elder gentleman. You know what my wife would say? I just imagine myself turning into George. Anderson Cooper. Yeah. My wife is in love with Anderson Cooper. Except he doesn't look old. He just has gray hair. His face is that of a teenager. He had gray hair when he was 11. I was at the Saints game and the program. They handed it out. And Roman Harper, the safety who's been in it.

Lots of the, I mean, just like almost a gray head of hair. It's very, you know, it's defined. It's a defining. The wisdom that comes with that gray hair. It's really going to be great for fantasy football. All right. I don't know how we got on to that. But let's, uh, let's go ahead and jump into pump the brakes. How does that sound? Sounds pretty good. Oh, oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. Oh, Riley. Auto parts.

All right, pump the brakes. With O'Reilly Auto Parts, we've got three new names or three new situations. You want to pump the brakes on this week. It's Championship Week. I'm going to go first. Well, because it rhymes with Championship Week. It's Tyreek. The Freak. Oh. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. So you're pumping the brakes on the freak? I am pumping the brakes on the freak. I'm living a little bit dangerously. And here's why I'm living dangerously because it only takes. It only takes.

one touch for Tyreek Hill to go 68 yards for a touchdown. I get that. The fact that he's involved in special teams and has, you know, kick returns, you have the opportunity. And if you need a- Could happen. If you need a boom play, you know, one of those 17-point plays, then put Tyreek the freak in. But I am saying in the championship matchups, I'm not doing it. You know, you got guys who like Taylor Gabriel.

are low volume, super speed, where you've seen them be very productive in fantasy football. But this week, I mean, we're coming off of a week last week with Tyreek the freak that he only had one touch but was very fantasy relevant because of what he did with that. Coming up this week, he plays against Denver. Denver special teams.

is very good. Denver's defense is very good, very fast. I don't think that they are going to be surprised by Tyreek, and I think they have the athletes on their defense and in their special teams to be able to take good angles and run Tyreek down. The small volume with the really good defense scares me, and I'm staying away from Tyreek this week. It's not bad. You realize he dominated them. Do it again.

That's what I'm saying. Try, try again, Tyreek. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not doubting this pump the brakes. Just, just saying we. DeAndre, would you start DeAndre Hopkins over Tyree Kill? I sure would, especially now that, uh, you got a little, getting savage over there. Seven out of Tyreek Hill's last 10 games, he's been double digits. The games he has not. It's been four, eight, and nine.

But the volume was there. Here's the thing. When Jeremy Hill was going. What about Jeremy Maclin though? Or Jeremy Maclin. His best game of the years against Denver. Yes. Zero receptions last week is the key point here. Zero. Zero. Zero receptions. What I love when I'm looking at the finishes of last, you know, the best wide receiver on the week because he actually was because he had the big play. He's number 10 in standard was zero receptions. Yeah.

A wide receiver. All right. I'm pumping the brakes on the number two and number four quarterback from last week. All right. Which was Matt Moore and Carson Palmer. Now both of those. Matt Moore. Now both of those quarterbacks travel on the road in Buffalo for the Dolphins, which I've already made my opinions of that game. Someone asked me to pick all the games yesterday and I am taking Buffalo in that game.

Travels to Buffalo. Cardinals travel to Seattle. And I think these guys are both coming down to Earth in a very, very hard way. I'm steering clear of either of them as Week 16 options. So I'm saying don't buy in. Even if Mike tells you who likes Matt Moore. I do. 12 completions last week. Four of them happened to be touchdowns that's not happening again on that efficiency level. It is a Mirage. Matt Moore. Yeah, my pump the brakes was almost Jarvis Landry. So there you go.

Fair enough. I'm going to double. I'm going double trouble here because I'm doing a preemptive. Pump the brakes. I want people to hear this for 2017. From Mike of all people. Yes. I have received many tweets, many, many tweets. I will never draft Jordan Reed again. I get it. At the biggest time you needed him and he failed you. To be fair, he really shouldn't have even been on the field.

But look at this, Foot Clan, because Jordan Reed is getting the, he's getting the press because he was the Monday night game. Travis Kelsey and a half point PPR, 5.6, Jimmy Graham, 3.7. Tyler Eifert, 1.4. Antonio Gates, 1.6. He wasn't the only elite level tight end to let people down. In healthy games, he's averaging almost 14 points a game. It's great for a tight end. So I'm just saying, don't do this.

He killed me in the playoffs, so I'm never drafting him again. Can I have a follow-up question? Sure. What are you doing with him this week? Jay Gruden has already come out and said he's playing. You punt. You punt him far away. Yeah. It's not happening. I mean, we saw, we saw him on the field. Every time he just gets grazed, it hurts because his injury is severe. So this can be a pump and go. It's a pump. Sure. It's a pump right now. You slam on these brakes with Jordan Reed. You get out of the car. You let him get his offseason tune up.

Yes. Let him get healthy. But so, but to be relevant for this week, Jimmy Graham, I'm sticking with a tight end. Arizona is number one against the tight ends. The reemergence of Tyler Lockett, the healthy LCL has coincided directly with the decline of Jimmy Graham, as well as Luke Wilson, also being on the field. Jimmy Graham, I believe it's four of the last six weeks is not even a top 10 tight end. His numbers have plummeted. He was fantastic.

to start the year when Seattle really needed him, but their other weapons are getting healthier. Plus the terrible matchup against Arizona. I'm looking for a different option to Jimmy Graham, if at all possible. All right. So you heard it. Tyreek the freak, Matt Moore and Carson Palmer and Jimmy Graham are pumped the brakes for this week. So those were, well, you also mentioned, don't forget.

read next year. Don't take your bitterness out on him. Yes. His performance is elite when he actually is healthy. So that was pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts, better prices, better parts, better service. Every day. Every day. Every day. All right. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. I'm jumping in here with the very first bit of very important news. Fookland. We got a two toot here around the studio. Last week, Jason.

My esteemed colleague was the number one fantasy analyst on the week according to the fantasy pros accuracy tracking. Andy was number two. Andy said that's not good enough. No. Andy said number two is not good enough. So Andy has finished number one this week. Good job, man. Congratulations. I was very jealous of Jason. First two weeks of the playoffs. We got the number one spot. Yeah. That's great. Because that means loving it. Even with all of the variables and things that go right and wrong.

I feel like we're leading people the right way. So that's what matters. Dante Moncrief returned to Colts practice on Tuesday. Enough confidence in the Moncrief to start him in your fantasy championship game. I have a really tough decision coming up for my dynasty championship here. I have Moncrief. I would like to play him because my other option is Jordan Matthews. That's a Thursday night game against the Giants. So I'm going to be up against it here. Hopefully we see some, you know,

Full practices today and tomorrow for Dante Moncrief, maybe give me the confidence to slip. Here's a question for you. If you decided against Jordan Matthew.