Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Sits of the Week, Stat Quiz, Week 11 Mailbag

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It's such a good wins. I hope everybody's waivers went through to their delight. Yeah, if you're listening to this, you might have signed, you know, who? Might have signed. Danny Amandola? Amandola. Might have got Kamar Aiken. It's too bad with Mike on vacation this week that he doesn't get banned from signing players. Yeah. Doesn't that make sense? If he's not here doing the work, why does he get assigned players in our league? No. Although that is good advice. When you go on vacation.

still do things with your league. We didn't give that advice. No, but now we are, I guess. Mike just gave that advice to the wonderful foot clan out there. Thank you, Mike, from Disneyland. It is Wednesday, November 18th. We are the fantasy footballers, and we welcome you into another great show. We got some new segments on today's show. We will be covering the mailbag with some listener questions, but we've also got some other...

segments that we're going to introduce, including our sits of the week. What? Yeah, I know. It's brand new. That sounds fantastic. Is that the voice of public opinion? The public wants sits of the week. That voice is kind of changing a little bit. And it has to always have a contrarian. You understand, it has to be, uh, but I thought Wednesday was only about mailbag. Yeah, well, now they're excited because we heard, we listened to our foot clan. They wanted more.

They wanted more things on Wednesday. More of us, less of Mike. Yeah, and so we got rid of them. All right, let's get into the show. You can follow us on Twitter at the FFFballers. Check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers.com. We'll have our rankings up today, and you'll be able to see who we like for Week 11 in the fantasy world. But I want to get to this. We've got a quick question for the day, and really it is a quiz. Okay, I've got three questions for you. I'm going to pretend to be a player, and you have to guess who I am.

And it's going to be very difficult for you because there are a lot of NFL players. But these point out some fantasy football stats that are kind of interesting and we can talk about them. And I have a feeling Mike will get them wrong. Yeah. Mike's, well, he's definitely not getting them right. Yeah. All right. So first one here. I have five or more receptions in every game. I have 50 or more yards in every game. But I only have one touchdown. Who am I?

Who am I, Jason? Do you have any theories? Let's see. I know I saw a stat the other day that T.Y. Hilton had been having a great year, but has not been in the end zone much. But I believe he had, I believe he had a two touchdown game. So, a lot of receptions. Demarius Thomas. Yes. Ah! One firm one. Was that? You didn't look that out? No. No, I haven't looked at any. Demarius Thomas.

Five or more in every game, 50 or more yards in every game, but only one touchdown. Do we expect that to get any better under Brock Osweiler? Yeah. What if I say, yeah? What if I say Brock Osweiler upgrade? What if I say it, Andy? Wow. You know, you did make this flat-out point, which is the only point to be made. He was leading the league. Peyton was leading the league in interceptions. Yeah.

There's opportunities lost on offense. Not good for – and the other point would be that when Brock came in, he heavily targeted Demarius Thomas. Short time without practice, we'll see how it goes. Interesting. You know, you come back. Isn't Brock Osweiler like seven feet tall? That is not quite accurate. He was – he's an Arizona state guy. So he was recruited by Gonzaga as a basketball player. Yeah. And so he's tall.

and athletic, and we'll see if that matters at all. He's six, seven. Yeah. That's a tall boy. Yeah. He's going to, I mean, who else sticks out above the wide receivers? Demeris Thomas. All right, next question. All right. Here we go. I am a running back, and I was drafted in the first four rounds of every fantasy draft. I have played in every game, yet I have not scored a touchdown this.

season. Oh, man. First four rounds. I was drafted in the first four rounds of every draft. I've played in every game, but I have not scored a touchdown in this season. Jay Stu has finally found his way into the end zone. Oh, he's in there. I know, I know. First four rounds. Well, so that probably means you're not somebody in the first round or two. Eddie Lacey stunk, but he's been in the end zone. So later on...

I like this because you're not even looking at a list of names. You're just staring into the sky somewhere. Staring somewhere up there. Yeah. All right. Whose face do you see up in the sky? I don't remember this guy getting in... Mufalsa. I don't remember him getting into the paint, but I'm sure it's happened. I'm going to go with Alfred Morris. Oh, it's a good guess, but no, no. His name is Melvin Gordon. Oh, I...

I not get that? How in the world did I not get that? I had been a Melvin Gordon owner in our League of Record for many weeks, and I watched him play well. How many times did he go into the end zone? Zero. I wonder if he finishes the year with a touchdown. I have to imagine he'd get in, but who knows? All right. All right. Last question for you. You've got one right. You've got one wrong. This is the tiebreaker. In PPR leagues, I'm the sixth ranked tight end ahead of players like Jordan Reed.

Jason Whitten and Martellus Bennett. Clue. I am also a Super Bowl champion. Who am I? Well, that I was with the PPR, I was thinking Delaney Walker, but the Super Bowl champion rules that out. All right, PPR, well, let's think Super Bowl champs. We got, oh, Gronk, right? Gronk won a Super Bowl. He is clearly up there. But he's not a sixth-ranked tight-in.

Zach Miller won a Super Bowl. Oh, he's not sixth. Not in PPR. Was Benjamin Watson with the new? Oh, your face says it's Benjamin Watson. I'm going with who is Benjamin Watson, PPR machine. All right. I win. Two of three. That is impressive. Benjamin Watson. You walked through that pretty well. Sometimes around the studio, when we have questions like that.

Jason works through this, you know, almost Sherlock-like detective process, and we don't really know what he's saying or what he's doing, but he gets there. So, yes, Benjamin Watson, the sixth-ranked tight-in right now in PPR formats ahead of some of those guys that we talked about. Didn't have a big week last week, but... Now, for the record, oh, my goodness, I think I might have gone 3-0. I wanted to see... I don't believe Alfred Morris has had a touchdown this year. Was he a top four, though? He had to have been top four rounds. Yeah, you're probably right.

So there we go. Two guys. All right. All right. That's pretty good. I'm glad you vetted yourself. You're three for three. Not bad. All right. Let's go ahead. We got some news and notes on the show today. News and notes from around the league. All right. We wanted to break a little bit of news that we got since yesterday's, since the show we actually recorded this morning. This one's being recorded at night before Wednesday morning. And first of all, shocker. Shocker. Breaking news.

Sarcasm filter. Is this the maximum? Christine Michaels been cut. Do you know what that means? Mike was wrong. No. It means the new.

Kristen Michael Watch is on. We get to see where he lands and becomes an amazing running back prospect. If he can be, you're probably right. Some running back is going to get... Are you telling me right now that Houston wouldn't rather have Christine Michael running back there than Alfred Blue? If he signs on any team that has a glimmer of hope, I will want to throw up at Mike. So the news is that Mike...

The mic's been cut, and so is Christensen. Yeah. That's why Mike's not here today. He's been cut. He's morning. All right. Brasad Perryman, on injured reserve, ending his delightful rookie season. You know, I actually grabbed him in a league, threw him on my IRA because I thought maybe the last four weeks he'd do something. He's going to get cut. Their season is over. Why risk it is the thought? T.J. Yeldin, we were talking a lot about Dinar Robinson yesterday because things did not look good for Yelden. The latest report that we have is that he has shed the walking boot, and his own claim is that he'll be fine for Thursday.

Yeah, that kind of makes me sad. I think he will play. I do, too. Well, he's been injured throughout the year and he's played, you know, very similar to his teammate, Alan Hurons. So, yeah, it made me sad because I was, we had talked at lunch that I was excited for the Denard Robinson prospect to see. That's irrelevant, probably. Yeah, yeah, it looks like Yeldon is likely to play. You can still, I mean, if you want to grab, if you're a Yelden owner and you want to grab Robinson as insurance because you need a running back, you could do that. Yeah. Just so you're safe on the Thursday night game.

All right, Ryan Matthews was not spotted on practice on the practice field Tuesday. You have to watch the reports today, the concussion. Yeah, he has not been cleared to practice. So, you know, this is worse than, say, where Latavius Murray was. He was essentially back at practice right away, even though he hadn't been cleared for the game. So not good news there. DeMarco Murray faces the Tampa Bay Bucks this week.

Yeah, that is. It's an okay matchup. The bucks have actually been pretty good against the run, but no Ryan Matthews in the mix, maybe. Yeah, definitely helps the carry volume of Murray. All right, so before we move on to our sits of the week, which Jason and I will debut, some guys that we want you to avoid if you're making decisions on your fantasy roster.

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basis of this. Yeah, they're worth owning. We're not saying drop any of these guys. We're saying, watch out. Watch out. Maybe sit them. All right. I'm going to kick it off. You do it. All right. My quarterback sit of the week is the opposite of staying in the flames. It is staying in the mud with Andy Dalton. And I'm sorry, Andy Dalton has Arizona in Arizona another prime time game for Andy Dalton, which he's not exactly known for performing in.

I don't want to disparage the man too much because it wasn't just on him on Monday night football. There were drops. There were fumbles. There were problems all throughout. But Andy Dalton had a bad game, and Arizona is not going to help them out at all. They haven't given up 30 fantasy points to any quarterback in the entire season. They have a ball hawking secondary, and you've got a team that will be at home in prime time, a very good defense. So I think Andy Dalton, I've heard from people, right, that have Drew Brees and Andy Dalton.