Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 2 Matchups, Daily Dose, #FootClan Friday

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Ballers. Ballers. To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. And Matt Forte scored again. Just now. Just now he ran into the end zone. Stop. Number nine.

Just put up his ninth touchdown, all people playing against 14. But Andy, this is going to be a low-scoring game. Oh, welcome to Thursday Night Football. Wow. Well, sorry. The Revenge edition. Sorry, everyone for saying it was going to be low-scoring. Goodness gracious. You know what was funny, though? I was thinking about this, and it was like, okay, I didn't think the bills could score, but they scored a ton, but I think on, like, three plays. Like, they had no offense except for, the Jets D was so good. Apparently, this is how you beat him.

You just throw it past their defense. Right. If you can get it past their D. Yeah, then you're good. In the air. Exactly. You're set. That's back-to-back burns on Mr. Derel Rivas. 68 points. Is that correct? Total? Yeah. Oh, I don't have the final for me. Something like that. It was unbelievable. Do you want to know what Daryl Rivas is? He's Alcatraz.

At one point in time, you did not want to go there. Now it's like a vacation. You go, you go for, when you're on vacation, you go check it out. You're like, this is awesome. You throw luau parties there? I saw that tweet. Somebody said, luau on Revis Island, all the wide receivers are invited. Oof. But, yeah, we're going to jump into the fantasy implications of last night's game. And the quick question today, very excited. I want to remind everybody that on Sunday, Mike's going to be jumping into a periscope as he does.

Every Sunday morning. Getting you ready with your last minute questions. Because you got to have a small dose of fantasy footballers right before the game start. And so Mike's in there. I think 7,000 people joined him on Periscope this past week. Yeah, join. Come Periscope with me. Come Periscope. Him and Revis will be there. And it'll be a luau. It'll be fun. All right. What else do we got going on today? The rest of the matchups, the breakdowns today. Very excited about that. Catch you up on the injury news.

End notes and let you know what's going on for this weekend. The almost injury news. As a Brandon Marshall owner, I freaked out. I thought it was the end. I freaked out. I thought it was the end. So did he. So did he. So did he. So very excited about today's show. We also have the daily dose with Chris Meaney, our DFS segment towards the end of the show today where he breaks down some of the big.

What do you think are value picks, ideal picks for some of those big tournaments? Yeah, we just talked about getting in fan duel. And if you're new, you're going to get picks, expert picks on this episode. Yeah, we do that every Friday. Every Friday with Chris Meaney. And we're introducing something else today. I was going to say. Foot Clan Friday. Stay tuned. So we'll let you know what that's about. Going to be very fun. Yeah, giving away a Foot Clan shirt, right? So let's get into the Marshall Miracle. What are the takeaways from last night's game? I...

Jason was out. He had some engagement, so he watched the game later. But we all talk on Slack. And so when Marshall went down and the way he went down, I kind of freaked out because, I mean, I just traded for him. I just traded Julio Jones. And see, people thought I traded Julio straight up for Brana Marshall. No, no, no. I made a big trade. I got C.J. Anderson and Brana Marshall. I traded Julio and some other pieces.

And I'm like, okay, I kind of got rid of that bum ankle of Julio, not that it's really going to bother him. I got rid of that worry. And then the face mask dragged down, Brandon Marshall owners freak out, Twitter goes bananas. It went into full slow motion for me. I'm on the couch. And I just, the doors start playing in the back of my head. This is the end. Oh, yeah. My only friend. Yeah. I thought it was, I thought we were done.

I thought it was good by Marshall. He came out today, said he thought he was done, thought he was going to be fishing. I mean, he just thought it was over. And he's at the age of if he blows out his knee. Yeah, that's like a year later than Jordy Nelson. He's going to be a good commentator. All right. So Brandon Marshall, the news is, if you didn't watch the game, Brandon Marshall went out with a knee injury, said he lost feeling in his knee, went back to the locker room, and then all of a sudden appeared in the huddle. I mean, it was like nobody, I got tweets.

from different sources and alerts that said, questionable to return at the exact same moment, he joined the huddle again. With new shoes. Did you notice that he changed? Yeah, those are. Did they make them change the bright yellows? He had these neon highlighter shoes, which were awesome because it was just, I could glimpse, where's Brandon Marshall? There he is. I know, I know. And so it got to the second half. I'm like, I freaked out. Where's Marshall? Yeah. So he came back in. He had an okay game.

They, uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick. He went over a Honda. Yeah, he went over. Almost three of them did. Quincy and Nunewa. Who? Bowling out. Man. Balling out. Looks way better than last year. Loved him last year. He'll, he'll be on our Tuesday show for sure. Yeah. And, um, I thought he was going to, it started to look like he was going to be the biggest waiver claim by far. Yeah. Because Marshall was out. But Marshall came back and, um, played okay. Matt Forte.

All he had was 30 carries for 100 yards. My goodness. And three touchdowns. Yeah. He's getting the ball. And that's the thing is last year, if you listened, we loved Chris Ivory early in the season because we saw how the Jets wanted to play. The problem was Chris Ivory, even though he's still got a ton of workload. He's not on the field to catch those passes. He's not there on third downs. That's not his ability. But they bring him Matt Forte. And he's in pretty much the whole game. He was, I mean,

I didn't see anything special out of him. He has great vision, always has. Consistent. But when you get the ball 30 times and you got a great offensive line and you got a team that's throwing the ball fine. I mean, that's fantastic. And thankfully, I mean, I know we weren't high on him. We have, you know, we weren't high on him pre-draft. For a season long. For season long. Thankfully, this week, I think Mike, you had him as the number three running back overall. I had him six this week. I don't know where you had him, Jason, but eight. We liked him this week.

I think we owe an apology for kind of thinking he couldn't do this in the preseason because we were not on board. We were on board with Bilal Powell getting paid that money. He's getting paid a lot of money to sit on a bench. Yeah, he had almost no carries. So, I mean, where do you go from here? Is Matt Forte a top 10 back rest of season? I was going to just, I was just going to ask. Keep or sell or are you trying to buy him? I think that, I think he'll be hard to buy. Yeah.

And if I had him, I'd keep him. So you, okay, you're not going to sell high? I'm not selling high on Matt Forte. Yeah, I think I'm going to ride the train. Look, how do you stop that offense? If they have three, two or three wide receivers that are just as dominant as they, I mean, did you see Brandon Marshall's drop, by the way. Oh, he dropped it twice. Yeah. He, like, grabbed it, dropped it. Then he caught it again and dropped it again. Same play. You had 126 yards for Decker, 101 for Marshall, 90-something for Ununwa.

And then you had forte in the mix. And look, Ryan Fitzpatrick had a great 374-yard game. He only had one touchdown because of Forte. But I don't remember Ryan Fitzpatrick throwing the ball less than 20 yards. It was bombing. Every single time he dropped back. I would do it too. I would do it too. All I have to do is throw those like deep sideline throws and my guys go up and get it. It's incredible. So great game for the Jets. I think I said it yesterday. I think the bills are one of the worst teams in football. I just don't think they can get it done. Yeah.

So it's unfortunate. Rex Ryan will be out of his out of a job. Rob Ryan will be out of a job. Have to talk about the fact that Sammy Watkins was not able to finish that game. He did play most of the game. 76% of snaps. Yeah. By the end, he was done while the game was still on the line and they could have used him big time at the end. He was not able to get in there. That is very concerning. He's got to be shut down for a while.

We're going to jump into the news. Before we do that, look, it's our job to equip you for a great fantasy football year. One of the ways you can do that is head over to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. It's where you can submit questions to the show where you can engage with our community. You can also find articles. There's a new article out today called Who is Tyrell Williams. Who? So if you don't know who Tyrell Williams is, I picked them up in my league yesterday.

I'd like to take, I'd like to see what happens. He had about nine fantasy points last week. He's going to step into two wide receiver sets with Philip Rivers this week. Very excited about it. You have, we have a QB primer that went up yesterday, different articles every single day. We got the starts of the week for the DFS on the website as well. And, hey, I think we've got to, we got to do a little congratulations. Jason can't do it for himself. Well, he sure can, but we're not going to let him. Yeah, so I'll step in. Jason.

An official congratulations on the Fantasy Pro's Accuracy Challenge. Jason was number two. Number two out of all the experts. Number two. We pride ourselves on being accurate here. That's one of the pillars, right? Entertaining. Let me ask you this. High quality inaccurate. Let me ask you this, Jason. Yeah. Why couldn't you be number one? Yeah. Oh. Did you? I'll tell you why I can be number one. You pick up your silver medal? No, I'll tell you why I couldn't be number one. First loser.

Adrian Peterson and Todd Gurley. That's why I could be number one. But there are 100 plus experts on there, and Jason got number two this week. So very exciting, very cool. Good job. Thanks. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers as well. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right, we have a ton of matchups to get into, so I'm going to fly through it. Maybe. Todd Bowles said maybe. No, Todd Bold.

Bull. Stop. Stop. Todd Wallows. You threw me off. Todd Blowell's. Maybe. Said Marshall suffered a slight knee sprain. Maybe. Maybe he suffered a slight knee sprain. So he's okay. Matt Forte is on pace for 472 touches. Also, Matt Forte is on pace for death. No, no, he's not.