Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 11 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

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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. Happy Thursday, everybody. How are you doing, Jason? Pretty good. Pretty good. We got some starts of the week today. It's true. That's not all we have. We've got your boom-boom kicker of the week. You're darn right. We do.

It's everybody's favorite segment, including mine. I tell you, I just... Has it grown on you? I just love kickers. They are so important. I know who it won't be. It won't be Blair Walsh. No. No. And maybe surprisingly, it's also not going to be Forbath. No? No. Okay.

I'm not letting you know who it is. Is that how we're going to do the boom boom this week? It's a process of elimination. Yeah. Are you just going to say it was not for 30 kickers? That's what I should do. I should never put it in our show docs. I should just surprise every time with my boom boom kicker. That's fine with me because it's kind of here's a little tip. I don't even look at it. There you go. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. I'm Andy Holloway. I'm joined by Jason Moore. And Mike, the fantasy hitman is away.

again i miss him uh i hope lazy i hope that the listeners miss him as well because you know every one of us brings something to the show but but well you know you host mike brings the man bun and the and the and the beard and the unverification sure i bring the poor grammar yeah all have we bring something yeah yeah but it has we all had different reasons we flunked out of school apparently that being said um

Man, has it been such a great week without him. I mean, just incredible. Just the best. Oh, well, we miss you, Mike. As you can tell. Yes, today we have the fantasy forecast getting into the week 11 matchups are starts of the week. Jason does have his boom boom kicker segment. We've got some news for you. And a reminder that we're giving away some sweet autographed gear. So if you have not taken the time to go and enter for free,

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And we are on the Fantasy Sports Network. Don't forget we're also on YouTube. You can subscribe. You can watch the show. Jason's wearing a very bright red Fantasy Reaper shirt. Yes, I am. Paying homage to the... To you. To me. Which is weird. Thank you. And kind of grossing me out. Okay, good. And check out our fantasy community at Jointhefoot.com where we like to hang out. We've got an extra episode this afternoon.

over at join the foot.com. Do we have time today to get to mailbag? Probably not, do we? We probably don't. If we do, I will do the mailbag drop, but I said it yesterday, I mean it. On today's footcast over on Join the Foot, you are doing the Mailbag drop. Which is great, because I have, if you've been around, you know that I have a range that doesn't exist. Like, it's not, I don't just sound bad in a certain pitch and range. It's non-existent. There is an omission.

from my vocal cords that was removed. It's so great. Memes have been made about you. In fact, Brooks, why don't we get those tweeted out today? All right. All right. Look, this is a fantasy football show. Let's get into the quick question. All right. The quick question comes in off of Twitter today. And the question is this. How many players are you willing to have from one team on your roster? So, for example, we talked on the, and by the way, if you haven't listened yesterday, we had the playoff.

Primer, the schedule, the matchups for teams in the playoffs. One of those teams that has a really nice playoff slate is Tampa Bay. So are you comfortable with a rolling James Winston and Mike Evans and Doug Martin? Because they play the Saints two times in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, I personally would not love that. Am I willing? Yes, I think you can win with the three pack of them if you have to. But that wouldn't be my desire.

Because you know that you're capped a little bit. You know, when Doug Martin goes and gets his... They cannot all score in every play. Right. When, you know, it's okay to have the quarterback wide receiver or even the quarterback running back combo in the case of someone that's going to be a pass catching running back. But you are capping your total upside. And in the playoffs, that matters. What you're saying if you have Winston and Evans and Doug Martin...

for two games is that you're assuming that those six opportunities are all going to go well in the playoffs, and that's probably not going to happen. Well, I will agree in part with what you're saying. Traditionally, I have won with multiplayer's stacks from really good teams. Dallas, Clark, Reggie Wayne, Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rogers.

Eddie Lacey and Jordy Nelson from a couple years ago. Absolutely. You got Peyton. Tom Brady, Rob Grunckel, Garrett Blunt, or Edelman. Peyton Manning on the Denver Broncos. Sure, Demarius Thomas, and I think at that time, who was it in the backfield? No Sean Moreno? Oh, yeah. He was good. So, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are not that caliber of offense. Correct. And that's, that's my point is that you are handing over the keys to your playoff run. Is there?

Is there a team that's mediocre? Is there any team this year that is that caliber of often? Yeah, New England. Really? Yes. I would happily play Blunt, Grankowski and Brady. In fact, if you went back and looked at that stack when they played together, I'm sure you would have been very happy. Sure, sure. I can't see a situation where you're not. I guess I was thinking wide receiver and there's no wide receiver that I absolutely trust. But if you're going tight in, running back, then yeah. I'm trying to think of another team here. I mean.

Is New Orleans in that category? Probably not. No? Not with the... I don't think there's another team that's in the category where I... There are acceptable areas. Oh, I know one. Well, Dak. Dak, Zeke, and Des? Yeah. They're close. Plus, they have nice nicknames. That's true. It's very easy to say. Spencer Ware and Travis Kelsey? No. No. No, but I think that's it. I think you got the Patriots. Okay. And the Patriots, again, we talked about this yesterday. They don't have the best.

playoff schedule. So, you know, divide up your assets, put your eggs in multiple baskets, and play the right matchups, listen through the playoffs and win your league. Bring home a hashtag footland title. I can't wait. Can't wait to see those foot clan titles. All right. Before we get into the news, I want to remind you there are articles up on the website, the fantasy footballers.com, including.

Some of the reiterations of this matchup show starts of the week. Our quarterback one primer is going to be up there. Jason, I need you to share the ridiculous waiver wire story that took place this morning in our dynasty league where, obviously, it's very rare to have any players available on the waiver wire. So why don't you share this spectacular tale of glory? Yeah, well...

this is this is no good sometimes people think that all my grammatical mistakes that i just make it up for the sake of the show is not true it's not my brain just works a different way than yours yeah don't judge me um however uh it it has bled into other areas of life so i go into our dynasty league our main

uh fantasy footballers dynasty league and i have aaron rogers i don't love his playoff schedule and you know i don't have anybody behind him if he gets injured i'm just kind of done yada yada yada yada yada so i thought you know robert griffin is out there he's back to practice i see him on the waivers and i think he's definitely worth you know a 24 man roster i'm going to pick him up and so i make a claim that that's robert

Griffin the third. Robert Griffin the third from your Cleveland Browns. Okay. And so I go and I pick him up. I make a $10 waiver bid. I look this morning to see if I got him. And I see that Robert Griffin was picked up for $0 to another team. And I go, what? I made a $10 bid. I go back and I look at my team and I am the proud new owner of Ryan Griffin.

Ryan Griffin, who I paid $10 FAB dollars for. So not only can you not speak, you can't read. Is that what we're learning? Dyslexia is a hard thing, my friends. Ryan Griffin, can you start? Have you petitioned the league to start him at quarterback? I've actually made a trade this morning and already dropped them. Okay. So Ryan Griffin is not Robert Griffin. No, he is not. Okay. Let's move on to the news. News and notes from around the league.

I'm really entertained by that. So thank you very much. I got Matthew Stafford. And it's always great to know the thought of you being flabbergasted. Oh, a travesty. Something has come up against me. No, that was just on you. All right. Really, really good news, everybody. Oh, stop it. The Packers have claimed Kristen Michael. I wish we had a phone call tape of Mike just.

gleefully doing cartwheels. It's just too funny. A lot of people want to know, what do you do with Kristen Michael now? I would immediately, you know, O'Reilly's pump the break on Kristen Michael signing personally. Chris and Michael went to Washington. Chris and Michael went to Dallas. Chris and Michael has had several stints now with, you know, Seattle. He is a talented physical player, but every team.

It's like a bad movie that teams can't stop renting. I mean, it's just... He has left every team wanting. He has not done what the coaches want everywhere he's gone and he's disappointed. You know what this was? This was John... Don Jackson went on IR yesterday. That's right. Okay. James Starks is the guy to own there. I have no depth and I don't blame them at all for picking him up as a depth move. Minnesota had a claim on him. Green Bay had the higher waiver priority. Truth.

So, you know, look, in a Dynasty League, I think Kristen Michael maybe Eddie Lacey signs somewhere else next year and they keep Kristen Michael and get him more involved in the offense. But I think he's going to be a little bit slower to pick up the offense. We saw them bring in Nile Davis, who's an athletic physical freak as well. How did that work out for them? Yeah, don't freak out. Yeah. And don't waste your waiver priority, which is the question I was asked a lot yesterday on Twitter. Right.