Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Fantasy Football Questions

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Marty! That's pretty good. You think we weren't going to do something? Well, you know, it's Wednesday. It's October 21st, 2015. It's also known as the future. Yeah, we're officially in the future. In it's a beautiful future, filled with hoverboards and...

Starting running backs named Christine Michael. Ooh, I like that. Welcome to this show. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. I would trade the only show I started with. What? Back to the future. I would trade Christa Michael for a pair of Nikes that lace up by themselves. I would, too. I would trade it for the Almanac. I'm just going to throw that one out there. I'd like to know all of the. If you look into the Almanac, I mean, what do you see?

for the rest of this season with Christine Michael. Oh, that's a very good question. Exact stat lines, please. I see, I actually see a mediocre opening game because the Giants have a pretty decent running defense, which is surprising to, I think, all of us, that they are a legitimately decent running defense. But I like Michael as an RB2, at least moving forward. Way to think fourth dimensionally, Mike.

You got it. Good job. We got a good show. We got the mailbag show today. We're answering a bunch of listener questions on the show today. The fuck clan. Yes. And we got to get this over with because two-thirds of the fantasy footballers are going to an epic. Oh, yeah. An epic. Yes. Back to the future marathon at the movie theater. Yes.

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Look back into the almanac. With so many mouths to feed in Cincinnati, is A.J. Green still a top seven wide receiver. Absolutely. He is. I know there's a lot of mouths to feed, but there have been the same mouths to feed for the season, and he's been just fine. He had one poor game, and I think you're going to have that. You're going to have that from every top receiver. There's not going to be a receiver this year that does not have a poor game. So, yes, I think A.J. Green is still a top seven.

And the thing about AJ Green, he's only had that one explosive game, which you'd like more big explosion games at your wide receiver 1. However, why he's a great one is you know he's going to consistently put up points. And on the year right now in standard, he's 11. So he's still a wide receiver 1. And like we said, he had a 77-yard touchdown taken back. That too. I mean, he's too elite in his talent level.

and the Red Rocket is getting it done. Eventually, AJ Green will get his, and he is a fantastic plug-and-play guy for your lineup. He's also a good guy to target because I see a lot of lineups that have AJ Green with another good wide receiver just because they were able to be drafted that way. AJ Green was kind of... Somebody went two wide receivers at the end of the first round or something. Exactly. And so now, after a bad game, they feel that they can give him up and get something else of value. So a decent target.

I agree. So we, I know I promised a new segment that is getting pushed back a little bit, but we'll debut that either tomorrow or on Friday. So we're just, this is a mailbag show. We're going straight through week number seven coming up. Hopefully your team is doing well. If not, you're still in it. Keep fighting. And we're going to help you out right now on the show. So you guys ready to get into the mailbag? Hold on. Yes.

Mailbag. It takes everything in me not to just like play constant sound effects and clips from Back to the Future all day because it's just got a special place in my childhood and adulthood. A special place in both. In my heart. Yeah. And I've got, you know, this die cast DeLorean sitting right here on our desk every day reminding me. True story.

Both Jason and I did not get paid for a month, so Andy could buy the DeLorean. True story. True story. But it's really nice because when you turn the wheel, the tires move. Yeah, that was worth it. Yeah, it has a working flux capacitor. All right, Riaz wants to know James Starks or Carlos Williams rest of the season. Who would you rather have?

James Starks, I believe he has every bit as high and upside, but he doesn't require Eddie Lacey to be injured, so give me James Starks for sure. Completely agree. It's interesting because Carlos Williams, I was looking at this today, every game he's played, he's been double digits the entire year. He's obviously... Because he scores every game. Yes, yes, but I mean, I'll take it. Yeah, I'm not downgrading that. Shady obviously has the injury issues. I'm curious to see how this actually shakes out the rest of the season. I think it will be very close, production-wise.

Obviously, if there's a major injury, one guy's going to run away. But very interesting. I agree with you. I would take Starks, but... If you were the shady owner, you'd rather have Carlos Williams right now? Definitely. And what I will say is this. This week, either gone through this morning or if you're wherever just go through later, Starks is gone. He'll be picked up.

Williams will hit waiver wires or he's on waiver wires. And so from a perspective of getting a valued guy, I still think Williams is worth owning. 100%. And he's on a lot of waiver wires. So, all right, let's ask the same question here. A couple different guys, though. Rest of the season, oh, I think we all know the answer to this one. Arian Foster or Lamar Miller. This question's from Milad. Foster. Arrian Foster for sure. But what the... Going away.

Yeah, and I completely agree. It's going away. The only concern for me for Foster is he, almost all of his production right now is coming through the air. And I guess that's not a concern, but just it's strange that he can't get it going on the ground. And as long as he stays involved in the passing game, he's going to be a tremendous running back asset, especially in a point per catch league of some kind.

But that still is a strange thing to be watching for Foster moving forward. We saw in hard knocks in the offseason during training camp before Arian went down when Hoyer was kind of the starter. Bill O'Brien saying, hey, if you're in doubt, just get it to Foster. If you don't know what to do, get it to foster. And so I think that's not going to go away. Yeah, and the one thing to note, he's had two big time games.

but hasn't scored rushing touchdowns in them either. So even if these production and yardage isn't super high on the ground, you're still going to mix in some of those goal line opportunities for him. What's great about him is he's got that Lev Bell aspect, because he's doing so much in the air, if he gets you just 40 on the ground, but then 40 through the air, that's...

He's given you a good day. Yeah, he scored last week through the air. All right, Cole S. in Fort Collins wants to know, would you give up Jeremy Hill to get Eddie Lacey? This is a great question. Really great question. Personally, I would not. The reason that I would not is because the next schedule coming up here is really bad. First of all, Eddie Lacey's on a buy, and then he comes back to a bad matchup where you don't know for sure whether it's going to be Eddie Lacey or James Starks.

wins matter. And if you want to get to the playoffs, you've got to be putting up the points. The next two weeks, I expect Jeremy Hill to definitely outperform Eddie Lacey for those reasons. And so going long term, there's a lot of question marks on both guys. But I expect Hill to be pretty much okay. I don't think Hill is going to be relegated to that number two position for the rest of the season. Yeah, I think it's going to continue like it is in Cincinnati. But I agree with Jason that if you are, if you're looking at the schedule,

These games, they look like Jeremy Hill games. Okay, so let me ask you caveat, Mike. You're 5 and 1. You're 6 in 0. Do you do this trade because you're looking long term with Lacey? Because I feel like you asked me long term, I'd rather have Lacey rolling out there during the last four or five weeks of the season than I would Hill. Maybe, but I'm sticking with Hill, though, because of Lacey.

just it maybe it's all the injury and he heals up over the by week but he's done nothing i mean hill sure people are very upset with hill but hill has had had two monster games and last week a good game so what are their numbers compared comparatively on the year because lacy still had some double-digit games to start the year i'm just curious my uh jay you looking at right now yeah right now jeremy hill uh jeremy hill's averaging

11 and a half per game and is the 19th ranked running back. I can look and see Lacey. Lacey's not 19th, that's for sure. Yeah, no, he's had a, not a good run. He's averaging 8.4 and he's 36. Yeah, they are pretty close. They're both on by this week. So I don't want to highlight Eddie Lacey's buy and not, you know, not Jeremy Hill's, but Jeremy Hill comes back to what looks to be a very good schedule.

All right, so you guys would not do it. I would do it. I would trade for Lacey. Wes in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City. No. Would you do this trade? No, what you do is you're, Oklahoma. Oklahoma. I don't know the rest of the way. Yeah, nobody does. It's do the womp. It's where the bambon, do the wamp. Oklahoma, where they do the wamp. I think it's something about the wind. When the wind, blowing through the trees. They rump in the wind. Is there trees in Oklahoma? It's very flat. Yeah.