Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Fantasy Forecast, Starts of the Week, News

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And we got Week 9 action coming at you. Mike, you look ready. I'm ready for Jeremy Hill, my friends. Is he coming? Now is the time. I've been waiting two months. Run to the Hills? We're finally going to finally get some Jeremy Hill action. You think some Thursday night Jeremy Hill action? I do. What do you expect him from the big guy? I expect huge numbers tonight, which is why everyone should start Giovanni Bernard. Yeah, well, I think you're right. I think Hills.

He's coming on. The Browns are a pretty good run, D though. It's starting to get cold outside. Sarcasm. Starting to get cold. With a dance, with an arm pumping dance. Yeah, he's got his fantasy football t-shirt on it. Well done. I think that's about out, by the way. I think the campaign for the fantasy footballer shirt is about like, are you just glancing at your... I was glancing to see how... The spray tin.

How ruined my spray tan was. Let me let everybody know the spray tan still heavily ruined. I don't know if you could see that on YouTube well. Well, you don't know how to get a spray tan. No, there are parts of my body that look just like, just look like I went mud bogging by myself naked and then didn't take a shower. That's what I look like. Just so the people out there know, we reached a goal on join thefoot.com with our community. And so one of the...

that catches, the reward for them, the punishment for us, was we had to go get sprayed in, and so we cataloged that adventure. And Jason, I mean, he went in with his glasses on, on accident. He forgot to put the hairnet on his head. Mistakes were made. And that was the best thing, because you could kind of hear him in the room. And all you heard was, mistakes were made.

And his hair was soaking wet. Well, thank you, Foot Clan, for making me do that. Hey, listen, we have a great show for you today. We got our news and notes segment. Get you caught up on all the latest happenings in the fantasy football world. We have our fantasy forecast. We're talking the first half of the games for this weekend. And we got our starts of the week, which is my favorite segment of the week. And I was, you know, I was three for four last week. Three home runs, one Matthew Stafford. And so...

We'll see how we do this week. I'm really excited about mine. I looked at your guys as briefly, and I liked them. So if you want to check us out on the web, you can do so at the fantasy footballers. Check us out on Twitter at the FFBallers. And listen, I got some breaking news. Oh, yeah. Oh, whoa. Breaking news. We've waited a long time for this. Yes. The Wheel of Water app is now on the app store. Yeah, the iOS app store. It is on the iOS app store. Go get it right now.

Absolutely. It will be. It's free. And you know, you hear us on the show every week. We make bets when, you know, you know, someone takes Amir Abdullah, the rest of the season. I take Joy of Bell. We make a bet. And the way we pay those bets out is we spin the wheel of water. Yes. And now you can spin it too. And please. We have, we're starting up the hashtag, hashtag wheel of water. Yeah.

record these things people we want to see them we will retweet them out so everyone all of the footclan can enjoy you embarrassing your friends with soggy bottoms you can just go to wheel of water.com oh yeah you can just go yeah you can go on the app store and search for it or you can just go to wheel of water dot com and it'll auto forward you right to the download it's free yeah it's fun we've been waiting for it to come out for a long time how many different ways can you water somebody on that out i think there's 20 plus i believe yeah so it's fun

We got our voiceover guy who reads them all out. We got pictures. Annie Oakley. Instructions on how to water one another. So it'll be awesome. Check it out. Wheel of Water.com. We're excited. All right, quick question of the day, guys. Listen to these numbers. These are the numbers, fantasy numbers, of opposing quarterbacks when they play Denver. Okay? Quarterbacks when they play Denver, 2.5, 7, 14, 20, 15.

18, 7. Who got the 20? It's Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah. And that's in... Of course it was. And that's in six point per touchdown leagues, right? Yes, that is correct. That's even higher... That's even higher scoring for quarterback. So the real question is this. Can you start any quarterback against the Broncos starting with this week?

And your luck, but moving forward to. There is only one quarterback that I believe you can play against him, and that is Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. How much of that name was right? 100%. He Googled. Oh, you look at it up. There you go. That's why he goes by Tom Brady. Edward Brady, that's just a different feel. Okay, so that game's coming up. Isn't that the 29th of November? It's a couple weeks. A couple weeks away. So you start Brady.

But Andrew Luck, do you run to the hills for the, if you have any other quarterback facing them? I got a tweet today and they said, do I start Johnny Mansell or Andrew Luck? And I said, congratulations, you found the one quarterback that I would not start ahead of Andrew Luck this week. Yeah, okay, that's fair. I did see Andrew Luck is completely healthy, according to all reports. That's great. Which means he's just stinking.

No excuses. So, okay, I just thought those numbers were kind of wild because, I mean, yeah, a couple of those were like Flacco in week one. But I mean, that 6.8, that was Aaron Rogers. But to answer, there are like, I'm playing, I'm playing Jay Cutler, I'm playing Tyrod Taylor, Matt Ryan, Derek Carr, all these guys I'm playing over Andrew Luck this week. Yeah, I don't blame you at all. So let's go ahead and get into the news and notes. News and notes from around the league.

All right, I want to start with Keenan Allen because we didn't have a chance to kind of talk through that injury on the show yet because it kind of broke after we had done some recording. So Keenan Allen's gone. I mean, just he came quick. I think he was on pace for 134 catches, almost 1,500 yards. He's set in the league on fire and ended his season on a great catch in the end zone. It also escalated very quickly where the news was it broke.

He's going to miss a week. Keenan Allen might have a kidney injury. Right. Then five minutes later, Keenan Allen on season-ending IR. It really sucks for, of course, Keenan Allen. And I think Philip Rivers does take a slight hit. We did talk on the Tuesday show about the Waver Wire. Who are you picking up to replace him, luckily? And it was Stevie Johnson then.

It is Stevie Johnson now. I think Stevie gets a huge bump because I believe that he slides into that Keenan Allen possession role, which is a big role right now for San Diego because they cannot run the ball. Well, yeah, that's true. That's true. I was surprised 18 carries from Melvin Gordon last week, only 54 yards out of it. But...

Antonio Gates has to benefit from this, doesn't he? Of course. Doesn't he have to climb way up your list in terms of, like, rest of season tight ends? We already know the schedule's pretty good for Philip Rivers. I think he was already enough where I'm not sure that he climbs over anybody that he was already behind. Well, we talked on the show. You guys, we said barnage. We'd take barnage rest of season over Gates. I don't think I would do that anymore. I believe you said that. And here's the problem. Mike and I did. Yeah, but here's what, for the barnage factor, something that we need to consider now.

Johnny Football is clearly he's playing tonight and do the Browns, yeah, get your Bengals defense in the lineup people. Do the Browns move, because the season is now lost for the Browns, especially with the loss tonight. I think that's immense that their season is lost. Do the Browns go back to Josh McCown to just salvage a couple wins?

Or do they try and see what they have in Johnny football that do they need to take a quarterback next year in the draft? I think it's going to depend on Johnny Mansell's play. The decision will be made for them in a sense, right? If he comes out and stinks, they're not going to say...

He's our starter going forward. We've got to see and lose. I just don't think that'll happen. If he comes out and plays well, then they'll have the opportunity to publicly make that decision. So it's really going to come down to that. And honestly, is he going to play well on a Thursday night game against the Bengals? My point more was that Gary Barnage was invisible when Johnny Football was on the field. Gary Garbage, those first two weeks. It's a tough read. He's really, he's emerged. Gary has been working at the offense more, too. So it, but.

Quarterbacks play very differently. Some target the tight end, some do not. So there could be some Gary Barn is concerned if Johnny Football ends up being the starter. I completely agree. So let's go ahead and talk about Ryan Fitzpatrick. I said my stream of the week was the Jets quarterback. Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to give it a go. Yep. He was seen practicing, throwing the ball. They said he's going to play. He's got that torn ligament, but he's going to start. So are we much more confident with our Jets? Yeah.

Yeah, even a one-handed Ryan Fitzpatrick called Trust Over Gino Smith. A two-handed Gino Smith. Yeah. All right, so some guys that mispractice. Let's talk about him. Willie Sneed mispractice, T.Y. Hilton, Brandon Marshall. What's the story there? Well, the T.Y. Hilton one, I think, is the most concerning one where he had an MRI on his foot. We're not exactly sure how severe the injury is yet, but it is an absolute situation that needs to be monitored.

You might get the benefit of monitoring it this week because you probably weren't going to play him. Against Denver? If you had a better option, I'd be playing anybody. Yeah, this is a blessing in disguise. It was kind of like how last week I was very much...

not playing Hilton because of Norman, and I would do the same again this week because of the Broncos. Okay. So what about Marshall? We don't really know what's going on. All I've heard is sore toe, sore ankle, but he's sitting out. So we still have to watch this. Does anybody benefit in a big way? I mean, Decker. If Marshall is out? Yeah. Oh, yes. Just Decker. Okay. What's the last guy I mentioned there? The need for Sneed? That one's a little bit disconcerting because nobody knew he was injured.

There was no play where it seemed like he came up injured, but then he completely missed practice not on a sit and get extra rest type of thing for a rookie. So that's just one to monitor as the week goes on and see if he practices Thursday, Friday. He did play 87% of the snaps, so maybe they were just giving him a rest day. But like Jason said, we're not sure yet. All right, we didn't talk Pep Hamilton's firing. Gone, offensive coordinator of Indianapolis.

He was a longtime coordinator of Andrew Luck all the way back to Stanford. He took the fall. I don't know if he should have taken the fall for that kind of play, but he took the fall. So now Rob Chudzinski, Chudzinski comes into, you remember he was a head coach for the Browns. Yeah. So do you expect Emmys there any projections fantasy-wise for this offense? I expect everything to be exactly the same. Okay. Yeah.